VectorCat

that all matches what I do, minus the cloud part. so, I'm going to have to confirm that my art files are in the Files app, each file at a time?

If a file in the "tiles" preview section of these apps has been Saved from the hamburger menu on each file, has that file been written to the Files app? I'm about to reformat the iPad but before I do so, I need to make absolutely sure that I have all of my files backed up and can manupulate them individually on my back up on my Mac. I need file-level control; the "all or nothing" iTunes backup is inadequate for this goal. Before I zero out the iPad, I need to make certain that I have all of my files backed up in such a way that I have the files as individual files and not locked away in a mass iTunes back up. Thank you!

thank you for the suggestions...going with an inside-aligned stroke.

File attached. I placed an image, gave it a stroke of 1pt. placed another, also gave 1pt stroke, but its stroke appears to be significantly larger than the other, 1-pt stroked placed image. Any clues as to why this is happening? I've messed with the settings of the second image, can't get it to have the same weight stroke despite what the numeric value for stroke says. Thank you for any clues! placed image stroke problem.afdesign

And, per request, the file in question is attached here. Test PDF for Affinity Photo.afphoto

My apologies…I hadn’t noticed the extent to which PDF elements are put each to a layer; the rectangle’s stroke is a separate layer from the fill; I was thinking in Designer terms where an object has both attributes. My bad.

So..here’s my experience with that on an M1 Mini with 8GB of RAM… I chose the option to Link, and was presented with a Dialogue box…I believe that I “pointed” Publisher to the parent folder where all of the sub-folders of images to be linked reside. Hit OK. Nothing visual happened*, so I assumed it was a fail. After some internal grousing, I decided to manually re-link the 60 images using Resource Manager, only to find that all of the images said, “Linked.” So, if I’m reading it correctly, the 60 images were de-embedded and linked in less than a blink of an eye. ”Gobsmacked” seems an appropriate word… *meaning, no visual feedback indicating success, failure, or progress

I'm working in Mac Publisher on a document built in iPad Designer. I got a warning about having a lot of embedded images and would I like to save size by linking them instead. I OK'd that, thinking it would automagically know where all the pics are.. I'm apprehensive that I'll have to do a brute-force 'manual' relinking of some 60 images - arranged in 5 or 6 sub-folders because that's how I wanted to group them. Embedded images bring along no information about their identity and location once embedded? Thank you for any wisdom on this.

I created this star in the Designer persona of Publisher. I meant to apply the gradient but not any transparency. It's cool that you can do this with a gradient fill, but I don't see where the transparency was set! I'd appreciate if anyone can tell me..prbly one of those "if it was a snake it would have bit me" things. star with unwanted transparency.afpub

in iPad Photo, I have Opened a PDF created on the same iPad in Pages. It’s a simple, 1-page PDF I created to learn what Photo can do with PDFs opened in it. In the screen capture, it shows an active object. I can change the. object’s fill color, but not its stroke. Granted, both Color circles in the color picker are circles, as opposed to a Circle (for Fill) and a Ring (for stroke). Is there a way to alter just the stroke? Thank you for any clues.

Thank you. What hid the magenta line was "Show Margins" - your suggestion got me looking under Guides - thank you. IIRC, this item needs to be turned off again and again..easy enough. Walt - in the document in question in Publisher, the margin was not set to visible. Must be a quirk of opening in iPad Designer? Thank you!

I've just packaged several AFPUB documents for use on iPad. I can open them in iPad Designer, but I can not get rid of or hide the magenta document margin. In Publisher it was set to hide, but even when I turn off all layers in Designer, that margin line is still visible. Can it be either deleted or hidden? Thank you!

Ahh…that’s clear enough, yes. Thank you, Walt. My workflow in this case is this: I open PDFs often, not to edit them, but to create PNG from them for purposes of placing them in newsletters or other types of documents - which are then PDFd for distribution. If I want to edit PDFs, I have Acrobat Pro or whatever it’s called - I haven’t used Publisher for that purpose because client is Adobe-based (yeah..I know..) and I don’t want to have any manner of hitches or 3-eyed lizard babies. I bring Affinity tools into the mix because I greatly prefer them over their adobe counterparts, and if the end goal is raster, it seems harmless enough. Will have to re-visit on the Mac, but I’m pretty sure I’ve checked the option, words to the effect: favor fidelity over editability - consistent with the above-described use case. Thank you greatly for all of this..good learning experience.

So…here’s the part that gets me..I’ve been under the impression that PDF - portable document format - meant that the end user need have only a PDF reader in order to open, view and enjoy all of the wonders of the original document PDF’d. Including fonts…that adobe had invented some technology that contained all the metrics of the fonts used in the document so that the PDF + Reader could properly draw them on the screen without the end user having the fonts used in the document’s creation on their device. This seems not the case. So, PDF…portable, with conditions?

it’s beginning to feel as though the definition of a smart node is that it is a node that is smart. somewhat tautological…but maybe the smart node is a node that uses the “tension” of neighboring nodes to inform its own tension? There is something similar in the 3D modeling realm…the splines or nurbs or whatever, influence each other. Can help lend a more organic feel to the shapes you build.

Here is what Publisher Font Manager shows regarding the same PDF

Here is a screenshot of the missing fonts warning I get opening that pdf in photo. *I can use the tool to instruct photo to use Open Sans Bold as the "substitute" font, since I have the Open Sans family on my Mac. When I do that, there is no difference between what Affinity displays and the PDF itself, shown in a Preview.

Just got home. Re-traced my steps exactly and I could not reproduce the issue. No hard restart since morning and now. So sorry...It seems like a good thing to have captured. Next time I'll try to remember to take a screen video of weirdnesses.

Thank you all for the help. I can deal with the questions several have asked after I get home. Hopefully, they’ll help in this analysis. cheers!

Yes, it is the exact same Open Sans on the machine that made the PDF and on my machine with Affinity Photo and Adobe Photoshop. I am using Font Book to manage fonts; Open Sans is listed by Font Book as being loaded / active on my Mac. Thank you!

I am sorry but I can not; proprietary information. I can tell you that the font it claimed was missing is loaded on my system: Open Sans. I use it all the time for this client's work. Were it not for the sensitive nature of this client's information, I'd happily share it with you.

Affinity Photo will open PDFs, but often will throw errors about "missing fonts," whereas Photoshop will simply correctly open the PDF - fonts and all. Is this something which could be fixed in Affinity Photo?

....so in other words, size the illustration for one form of media, and use variable-width borders (of whatever nature and appearance) to fill in the empty space on the other. Kinda what I was thinking, yeah.. I haven't explored the ISO paper sizes, but just the regular ones don't have the same aspect ratio as 1080p video.

Not much in the help file except that they exist..Why are smart nodes “smart?” Thank you

I’m working with an oak leaf. made a selection to paint inside, then wanted to invert same selection to erase outside of it. Long press, chose Invert Selection, and got a square selection - not in the shape of the leaf and in a completely different part of the illustration. Is this normal behavior / some kind of help?