VectorCat

After I convert my shape to curves, I can still move it as a unit using the object tool. Can someone explain the idea behind needing to convert to curves, please? Thank you!

Can anyone kindly summarize how this would be done? I'm trying to make tick marks around a circle, much like the minute marks on an analogue clock. thank you! NM..found the tutorial showing me what I didn't know!

Ah..ok..one bit I didn't add was to ask whether this can be done non-destructively? I remember one of the big things about AD is the non-destructive modifications such as booleans..if I"m remembering correctly?

You achieved the exact result I'm after but I am not sure just how you did it..studying your clip..thank you for taking time to produce and post it, Callum!

working on an "info-graphic" for weather. Imagine a cloud shape, stroke-only; no fill. Behind it the sun, peeking out. Solid yellow fill circle. How would you clip out the part of the sun which is "inside" the cloud's stroke? I can get only the part of the sun that's inside the cloud's stroke to show, hiding what's outside the cloud's stroke, but not the other way.. I'm positive there's a way..I'll keep working at it. Thanks for any clues! vcat

Have other designers and illustrators using AD found that they can pretty much stay "in the tool" and not go to Pixelmator or Affinity Photo for raster elements? Is it possible to do it all, or most of it all right within AD? I've been away from AD for awhile, and the new video clip I saw this morning on facebook blew my socks off all over again. wowza!

What I mean is that if I use things like shadows in InDesign, before long, the computer is on its knees, trying constantly to draw the shadows, or what have you. Is it the same in AD, that if I have more and more items with shadows, or gaussian blur, etc, the CPU will work harder and harder to draw it all? And I don't mean just in the creating of the shadow, blur, etc, but after they've been created, do they still make heavy CPU demands? Thank you

I get the crop tool, and I get making an image larger, but I don't see how to keep my crop size while scaling the image it contains. I'm sure this is extremely simple..can anyone share the method? Thank you! vcat Never mind...discovered the answer! For those with the same question, I scaled my image to the desired size, then adjusted the cropping to it's desired size. With the crop tool selected, you can scoot the image around inside the crop area.

what's the trick to joining paths, especially with a straight line from the end of one path to the end of the other path? How's it done?

Hate to even ask this question, but I have several files, wholly created in Affinity, which I need to be able to open and work on in Adobe Illustrator (CS 6, Mac)...layers 'n' all. Is the best way to choose Export > EPS? Thank you for any clues!

I think I've had one other program that could do this.. Let's say you have a group with several layers..can this all be collapsed onto 1 layer so that it's easier to activate and move/manipulate the group without accidentally selecting one of the component layers? thanks!

I appreciate your helping out...there are *so* many terms which are similar to each other..I should have done a better job initially of describing what I was seeing/not seeing! Cheers! vcat

Yep, that was it. Thank you, VIPStephan!! Huge help...I guess I'd adjusted the background color not zoomed out enough to see all of the rammifications.

I don't mean "artboards" the way Illustrator has them. I mean the area delineating the live document area from the surrounding area..it provides a visual boundary of the "page" being worked on.

Seems I've butted up against this before. I have live text in a text box and it takes a huge amount of fiddling around to get an I-bar in there so I can edit the text. Can someone please outline the steps for doing this? thank you!

I can't see the bounds of my art board unless I drag an item too far (then it disappears) my document is one white area, aside from the artwork I have on it...I'm looking for a setting that governs artboard visibility but not seeing anything.. any clues? Thank you!

Yes, thank you for this!

Could have sworn this was working..I have a pile of files either created in or saved out as AD files, but all I see in the finder are the generic dog-eared icons, and no quickview when I press the space bar with one of them selected. Anyone know what up? Thanks!

O M G I am fairly blown away! That is *NICE* I think with that tool alone, you have fairly spanked the daylights out of the rest of the vector app world.

AD has better tools for this than any other vector app I've used so far..all the usual suspects including the venerable Inkscape. Is it too far out there to enable adjusting corner radius on *any* shape, and not just ones that are created by shape tools in the program? So, let's say I make a shape by dropping points on the canvas and I decide that rather than pointy corners, I want all corners to have say a 6px radius? Where this could deliver mind-bending time saving would be in the case of a very complex shape with many corners, the alternative being the old-school insertion of more points for each, adjust their curves, rinse and repeat for x-number of corners. Wow. Is this too much of an ask?

"too soon?"

Here is what I mean..you're going to export something 500 px square...that is your final size. You have elements which, in your art, go "outside" of that 500 x 500 area. you might move them around, getting the art the way you like, but in any case, must those elements be masked so that when you export slice, you just get 500x500, and not the dimensions with the elements that go outside taken into account? hope this isn't too confusing..thanks! Edit: upon fiddling with this, I realized the that crop tool will work on not just placed images, but any object or group, which pretty well solves my issue. Actually, it doesn't! Visually it crops, but AD still adds the total pixels covered by all the pieces, so..I guess my original question still applies! OK..seems the Slice tool, while in Export Persona, is the tool I needed. I thought I'd never need the Slice tool, but...here I am.. ;-)

I think these are on the road map but until they arrive, anyone work out a way to get this look? I'm re-creating a bit of artwork I created in another software..and lost the original file (rats!) but came pretty close in AD. The fills are not exactly the same..wondering if anyone has wrangled this same type of issue, and whether successful, how you did it? Thank you vcat

Why would this be? If I make a tile set: tile.jpg, tile@2x.jpg, tile@3x.jpg, then change the source and re-export the tiles to the same location, why am I not prompted/asked whether I want to save over the existing files?

..as before? Now that 1.2 is out, and the betas reflect the latest fixes and improvements, we should be using them?