Dazmondo77

I never thought to try that - I'll give it a go👍

Yeah right! Here's a grab of photopea Puppet warp compared to Affinity Deform - basically the same thing?!?!?!?!?! Screen Grab 2024-04-23 at 5.27.49 pm.mov

I disagree ---- I think it should be removed until it's finished and gets a proper mesh and point rotation, then it will be not just nice, but great

The Deform filter is terrible and nothing like puppet warp - if you regularly use puppet warp in PS to recompose limbs and body positions, Deform is ULTRA frustrating and quickly turns whatever you're working on into a deformed blob as you need a mesh o be able to convincing poses the nearest thing is Photopea Puppet Warp which works great but doesn't yet have the ability to rotate a limb point - once Deform gets a mesh and point rotation it will be usable but this may never happen

I've had this problem when artwork goes for 12" vinyl LP release, and for some reason on all LP artwork I've done upto yet, the print service providers state they need the maximum ink density to be below 260% ??? and that is using three different production plants (2 uk 1 Germany) I never found out why only 260% but anyway, my way of dealing with this is to use blend ranges and find the darkest black on your artwork in Pub Photo persona by using the info panel and placing the sample location targets in roughly the darkest area then I'd usually make the artwork container background a bright green so you can see how blend range adjustment effects your background, then when you're happy, change the green to a rich black (I usually go for a C20 M20 Y20 K100) and tweak to your liking while keeping an eye on the info panel sample markers you can also Shift CMD V copy the blend range adjustment throughout any other flagged artwork --- not sure I've explained very clearly so I've done a screen grab Screen Grab 2024-04-22 at 6.04.04 pm.mov

I was thinking the same thing ☹️

Had a play around and it's GREAT Got it set with the same shortcut as pencil N (which is now a pleasure to use)so holding down N temporarily lets you alter line width so can now work really quickly and sort out line widths as I'm drawing ---- loving it I'm getting the same artefact bugs on thicker line widths and the line width tool not working on additional pages but for first beta really impressed

PUPPET WARP could have saved me loads of time today

bbrother -- pretty much nailed it. Off the top of my head I'd also add a printable slug area, proper separation preview and a shortcut to view thumbnails of all open documents similar to how it used to work in V1 (see screen grab vid) if you have 20 documents open, it's a total pain in the arse to find what you want by either control tabbing or clicking through all your document tabs. Also the ability to print CMYK vector work direct to a rip that expects CMYK, without Affinity first rasterising at 300dpi and converting to RGB, leaving the rip to convert back to CMYK and ballsing up all your colours Screen Grab 2024-04-12 at 2.16.20 pm.mov

Sad news ----- I wonder how many users will stick with affinity when it requires a subscription? A lot of us have been here before, I remember eagerly awaiting CS7 and getting a kick in the nads, although I still do occasionally use CS5 so I suppose Affinity 2 is gonna be the end of my journey, maybe we'll get another year before the canva subscription becomes the only way forward. Now the search goes on for a replacement = NO SUBSCRIPTION

Exactly👍

First thing I did when they went missing I do wish the favourites Heart was sticky though 🤔

Sorry forgot to mention I first drew a vector clipping path then dragged the bag of almonds inside the path

blend ranges usually works for me - see vid Screen Grab 2024-02-02 at 4.36.03 pm.mov

+1 for muti page spreads

Thanks for clearing that up Sean P - a great addition to Pub. Hopefully, there'll be improvements such as colouring states and highlighting the whole state, similar to layers, renaming and maybe the most obvious, double click to activate 👍 Damn! I'll just have to move PDF's over to my Mojave mac so I can check in Acrobat pro 9 which is a total PITA -- such a shame that PDF Toolbox is so expensive - I remember Quark did a special bundle deal a few years ago that included PDF Toolbox for a special price - shame there's no other options☹️

Great to have Layer States directly available in Pub persona but I'm having problems with update not working as expected. I have had problems with drop shadows showing pink boxes when viewing a PDF/X-4 in Packzview, switching off advanced features when creating a PDF gets rid of the pink boxes but there's a slight difference in transparency where the drop shadow sits, my workaround is to duplicate the text with the drop shadow and place inside the background group which displays the problem and click off fill knocks out shadow and set fill opacity to zero in layer FX, and switch layer FX off on the original text layer (both layers are set up as custom fields for easy future updates) then duplicate the problem group and rasterise, then set up layer states, first by setting separate layer tag colours, Blue for Raster and Red for editable, in the queries section, then create a captured state for each, which works great but if I then make an edit to the editable group then duplicate and rasterise and set to blue, the queries section behaves as expected but the update button doesn't work in the captured states section, currently the solution is to delete the captured states then add new captured states which then works as expected. If this is by design what is the point of the update button? See vid capture Screen Grab 2024-01-11 at 4.20.38 pm.mov

BRILLIANT! This is gonna save so much wasted time 👍

+1

Just rasterised the circles and they now view correct in Packzview although now colour profile info doesn't show up so looks like a Packzview bug?!?! - PDF toolbox would be the obvious choice for checking PDF's but it's so darn expensive at over £600

Your struggle highlights this massive problem small agencies / freelancers / self employed graphic designers have if they choose to break away from Adobe - checking separations, spot colours, profiles, etc are a crucial part of the process of getting a job out of the door so if you are on PC you have the option of getting an old copy of Acrobat pro (pre subscription) or apply for a free Packzview serial, although, you'll need an online portfolio with at least a few packaging examples to land a serial - if you're Mac based and are running Affinity 2, you can no longer run 32bit apps so you'll need either Packzview or a pre- Catalina Mac / Partition to run a pre subscription version of Acrobat - I'd always hoped we'd get an Affinity output / checkup persona which I've been waffling on about since around 2016 but I don't think checking PDF's is a current priority - there's hundreds of PDF apps knocking about, why can't at least one of these apps add these crucial features?

The pdfs you uploaded all show the correct CMYK profile but there seems to be pink boxes in place of the circles in your design which should reproduce correctly if you rasterise them before PDF-ing (I usually rasterise duplicates) better still recreate vector circles which will print a lot cleaner and leave you the option to scale up if the band decide to put out the release on vinyl or need posters, base drum art, backdrop etc. Also noticed that the photo of the band has a maximum ink density of 326% which some music duplication companies, auto workflows will flag, I usually try to keep it below 300%, and for vinyl, 260%

That was my guess, as I've not had access to a pc for around 10 years 👍

For mac based designers who's work is destined for print, Packzview is pretty much essential for getting a job out the door, and I'm one of the lucky ones who very occasionally have done a spot of packaging design which features somewhere on my web portfolio, but such a shame that self employed / freelancers can't get a Packzview request approved without a back catalog of packaging design - there is a gap in the market waiting for an app suitable for PDF print ready compliance, although I have a mojave MBP that also still runs Affinity 1 and CS5 Acrobat pro 9 if I have any concerns - the only other option that that doesn't have a £1000+ annual subscription is callas pdfToolbox Desktop which is £625. Am I right in thinking that PC's running 64bit can still run 32bit apps? If so an old version of Acrobat is still usable. I can't believe there's nothing else available to check PDF's. I was kinda hoping that serif would step in and some point and maybe add a Print ready checkup persona so you could check separations, Ink density and PDF/X compliance before sending a job off to the printers - I would also be handy to be able to print proper CMYK to postscript devices.

I reported this bug in July