tnwalkinghorse Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 So, what I am trying to do is place lines inside a box (or irregular shape). I would like to trim everything outside the shape, AND also leave a small gap between the lines and the stroke on the inside of the box. Is this possible in Affinity Publisher? Thanks! Quote
mpowell Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 3 hours ago, tnwalkinghorse said: So, what I am trying to do is place lines inside a box (or irregular shape). I would like to trim everything outside the shape, AND also leave a small gap between the lines and the stroke on the inside of the box. Is this possible in Affinity Publisher? Thanks! One way to do this is to mask the image inside the shape. Here's a demo pic shown below. Quote
firstdefence Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 I did this in Affinity Designer but the method is just the same in Affinity Publisher I just wanted to use Outline view mode for a visual explanation. Publisher Roger C 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
GarryP Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 The original request was for Publisher but, for extra information, this can also be done in Designer with just one “bounding box” by using more than one Stroke (each set to align to the Inside of the layer) in the Appearance Panel (Publisher doesn’t have an Appearance Panel, yet). This makes it easier to change the corners of the box as required, see attached GIF. Roger C 1 Quote
firstdefence Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 23 minutes ago, GarryP said: The original request was for Publisher Yes, I know Garry, I used Affinity Designer so that I could use the Outline view to show the components, I refrained from using the appliance panel and it's options to avoid confusion with the lack of that feature in Affinity Publisher, well in directly at least unless the OP has more than just Affinity Publisher. Either way gets the job done eh! Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
GarryP Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 I read that your solution could be also used in Publisher and I thought that was clear. I just wanted to give people another possible solution if they had Designer. Doesn’t hurt to have more possibilities. Quote
h_d Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 FWIW if you have both applications you can construct the shape in Designer (two strokes, grouped rules masked by the rounded rectangle), and then copy & paste the whole thing into Publisher. It's still resizable, but as far as I can see you can't change the shape of the corners. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
tnwalkinghorse Posted December 29, 2019 Author Posted December 29, 2019 18 hours ago, mpowell said: One way to do this is to mask the image inside the shape. Here's a demo pic shown below. So what I am doing is creating a table (for the lines) - Converting to curves - Drawing a box on top with a no fill background. That is the point where I am stuck. How do I "mask the image inside the shape"? That is the step I am stuck on. Everything seems to disappear when I mask. Spend hours trying to figure this out. I know what a mask is and I use it all the time in photoshop....but not sure how this all works in Publisher. Thanks again! Quote
mpowell Posted December 29, 2019 Posted December 29, 2019 I found a video tutorial that talks about masking an image inside a shape. Difference between masking & clipping Quote
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