SamSteele
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Worked like a charm. Thank you! 😊 Here's the composite. Not quite finished, the eggs could use a "base", but working on it. © 2023 Rick Strong. Ottawa.
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Photo V1, WIn 7. If I try to copy a transparent image from one AFF photo file to another Photo file (in Photo V1), the copied image gets stuck in the upper LH corner on the second file's image. I.E. the image copied in cannot be moved around or made smaller. Turning off/on the lock image on either file doesn't help. What's the trick?
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29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
V2 supports that with the Measure Tool. But the measurement cannot be made part of the document. You need to add it to the document yourself, after the Measure Tool reveals what it is.
Reasonable, I suppose, Walt, that you have to add the text yourself. This type of program never puts automated text in the best place, anyway. "Best" from a designer's point of view.
I don't use V2. I want nothing to do with WIN 10. It's not a question of money but of productivity. I hate learning new GUIs. If I was churlish, i'd suggest that maybe AFF received a "subsidy" from MS like COREL did, but more likely it was just easier to design afresh. Too bad. We helped make the company successful. Adobe used to be backward compatible.
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The point I was making is that the programmers have already figured out how to draw a curved line on the screen, or on a printout (even if it is a Bézier curve) so they must have all the figures/data/numbers available to calculate the length of that curved line. Once they have that final number, it can be displayed.
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Too bad about Affinity no longer operating in WIN 7 OS. Thousands of people (if not millions) still use it because it works! WIN 10 is a dog. The "improvements" made it worse. No doubt 11 will be worse still. And also too bad that AFF is letting MS lead them around on a chain. Aff could drop like a stone, like Corel did.
Why do software people keep improving things until they are unusable? Ego, I suppose.
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I suggest you get a decent size stand-alone monitor to go with your new computer and calibration software. A drawing pad is handy, too. You might also consider an external drive for backup to your backup.
Sam
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I have a label of text, graphics and a photo composed in Publisher. I can group them all and I want to proportionally reduce the dimensions of the group to fit a smaller container.
When I reduce the dimensions by moving the corner marker, the graphics and the photo get smaller, but the text does not.
Any suggestions?TIA.
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A tape measure tool that would show the length of a curved or variously curving line would be so nice to have. If only I had a computer, I could calculate it very quickly. Let's see: if the radius is this, and the angle of the segment is this, the distance along the circumference should be...........
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6 hours ago, Eddie Aguirre said:
I wanted to reach out to let you guys know that we've released IDMarkz SE for Windows.
We released IDMarkz for macOS just over two years ago. Since that initial release, we've been getting requests for a Windows version. It's taken longer than expected, but I'm happy to announce that we now have a Windows application. The Windows and macOS products do differ [IDMarkz for macOS vs. IDMarkz SE for Windows], but they both serve the same purpose, moving InDesign files (INDD) to other applications, including Affinity Publisher.
Use Promo Code IDMSE for 15% off through January 2022
Disclaimer:
I'm a software engineer at Markzware, the company behind IDMarkz.If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.
Too bad it only works with WIN 10 & 11. A lot of us avoided 10 like the plague (a classic example of how trying to make something better made it worse) and stayed with WIN 7. I shudder at the thought of v. 11. People who adhere to Jobism please refrain from commenting. I hear your company makes telephones now.
Nice to see the promo code discount, though.
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Sounds good Eddie. Thanks for the heads up. 😉
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2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
All you needed to do was create the en_CA folder in C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries and put the files in it. Your AdditionalDictionaries folder was not needed.
Also, you won't need to install en_US, as it's supplied with the program (though in a different location).
Would that the initial instructions were as clear!
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Joachim_L wrote: You can try to install the attached files packed in a ZIP. How to install look at ...
Thank you very much Joachim. 👍😄 This eventually worked for me after messing around for a couple of hours. The trick is to create 2 subfolders under the Dictionary folder: call the first "my Dictionaries" or something, and under that create another subfolder with the locale name xx_XX.
For me this is: C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\AdditionalDictionaries\en_CA. The actual en_CA files are in the en_CA folder.
In Edit > Preferences > Tools (no document open) I chose my AdditionalDictionaries folder.
This gave me access to the en_CA files in the en_CA subfolder. Now Publisher doesn't flag Canadian English spellings in an imported document as errors when spell-check or pre-flight is invoked. I believe that if I also installed more dictionary files, say en_US, they would be in their own en_US folder under the same AdditionalDictionaries folder. I only add the results of my efforts in the hope they will make it easier for some other poor sod to add a dictionary.Thanks again, Joachim!
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Publisher really needs a Canadian English dictionary. Millions of documents are typed in MS Word which has such a dictionary and is widely used in Canada to avoid US spellings of neighbour, colour, honour, etc. (I notice this app uses a US dictionary so those words were flagged.)
Many Canadian English words are spelled the same way in UK English, and my preference is set to UK English, so why doesn't Publisher at least accept the same spelling? Oh no. The Affinity people have rigidly required that I go through every word in a submitted MS Word document that has words with the proper spelling to ensure that all spellings are tagged as UK English and not Canadian English. How very colonial. God help the poor French Québecer who doesn't write Parisian French!
I've said before that AFF Publisher is not a productivity tool. Once again I am confirmed.
Please, either create a Canadian English Dictionary or make the UK English dictionary accept Canadian spellings that are identical. Otherwise, your spelling checker AND your preflight app are untrustworthy.
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Designer is all vectors/numbers anyway so it shouldn't be that difficult. The heavy lifting has already been done for the screen.
- ra.skill and Aftemplate
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34 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Thanks! That explains why I was getting different results on my Mac with the different apps -- I never really paid any attention to the CMYK hamburger 8 bit/percent options until you mentioned this.
For CMYK, I would not mind if they always show percentage values & the top sliders always show 8 bit values. For RGB, I would like to see the top sliders show 8, 16 (or 32?) bit values depending on the document's color format. I would also like to see the percentage fields accept & display fractional values at whatever decimal precision the bit depth of the format permits.
To be honest, I went back to my document where this occurred and I don't know how I got there. However, I'm glad to see the phenomenon has been given a good airing. I'm not sure if 4C print shops (or digital printers) can reproduce individual inks to 1 or more decimal places (i.e 34% magenta ink, yes, but not 34.2% or 34.25% magenta ink). Some printer will tell us, I'm sure. Always listen to your printer!
Cheers.
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2 hours ago, iconoclast said:
Hi SamSteele!
The sliders on top have 256 possible values per channel (0-255 - like in RGB), the other ones on the right use percentage terms (0-100%).
I have never seen CMYK sec'd as other than 0—100%. The 0—255 sliders are fake—and distracting—as far as I'm concerned. Some computer nerd fooling around??
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Win 7 Publisher V. 1.10.0.1127
Why does the colour chooser give me TWO sets of values for one CMYK colour? (BTW, colour is spelled with a "u" in my version of the program). And, there is no "Help" entry no matter which way I spell colour. The red circled values are the ones recorded with the swatch panel.
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Win 7, Photo 1.10.0.1127
Vignetting seems to be missing from my New Live Filter Layer line-up. Where could it be?
TIA
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OK. Pricey at over $400, but if one was still in the business...
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28 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Isn't Alfred's link (above) to their website?
I had found Viva's website. The "it" I was referring to (always tricky, that word) was a specific reference to importing INDD files directly. I agree with MikeW's assessment: "Their website mostly sucks as regards of pertinent and/or easy to find information." Love 'em or hate 'em, that's one thing Adobe was good at: documentation.
FWIW, I want to know the price of something before I enter into a buying sequence.
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1 hour ago, MikeW said:
I hope your doubts have been satisfied. But if Alfred's link doesn't satisfy you, I would be happy to take a new screen shot...
Sorry, and no offense taken to your skepticism. I do normally include the title bar in screen shots and I should have above. But do note, I do have the ability and capability to fake a screen shot...(;^)
While VD can open .indd and .idml, and can export back via .idml, VD is not a panacea of disparate application workflows. I am a firm believer that where/when possible, one should use the same application (and even same version of said application) as the client expects in return.
I have used VD for some years/versions because of clients that use it and expect finished VD files in return, not as a means around using ID. VD does have some niceties, but operates a bit different than I am use to with my more typical QXP/ID work and always takes a bit of time for me to get in a flow working with it.
I have never heard of VivaDesign before and there are precious few reviews of it, but I will accept what you say and let others comment pro or con. I don't want to download yet another software program simply to see if it does something new. I would rather read it's features in the official documentation and so far I haven't come across it on their website.
Of course you could fake a screen shot, so could I but we don't do that here. I'm sure you will agree, some screenshots are more informative than others.
Cheers!
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20 minutes ago, Wosven said:
That's a little bit rude, Mike know enough that we don't doubt when he explains something.
Just check the site:
http://www.viva.de/en/solutions/publishing-workflows-processes-production-types
No, It's not rude, just honest. What you have snipped only proves that VivaDesign supports IDML inputs or outputs, not INDD. See green box above.
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5 hours ago, MikeW said:
Viva Designer gained the ability to open .indd files early in the version 10 cycle. Export is still .idml.
Sorry, but this doesn't do it for me. Do you have any screen grabs with the name VivaDesign on them?
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I absolutely agree! I have an XLS (spreadsheet) chart that was changed and now I have to re-place it and resize it to fit the overprinted text.
A real PITA.