pdussart Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 Sir, In order to produce stickers, in am in touch with a German Publishing company. In order to get stickers cut around my design, a layer with the compulsory name "Cut_KC" must be created. I will be the path for the machines to cut around the design. The VolltonFarbe / Solid colour must be also called "Cut_KC" It seems that Affinity Photo (latest production version on Windows) gets rid of the underscore. So my PDF files are rejected by the printing company. It costs 80 EUR to ask this supplier to fix the problem,..... It seems that the Colour Channels are not properly named (no underscore) This might be the naming issue in the file generated by Affinity ? Please advise See attachments Regards, Philippe Colour_name_bug.afphoto Colour_name_bug_message.afphoto Quote
Joachim_L Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 For me it works. See image. Maybe I am wrong, but the areas of the spot colour (Sonderfarbe) have to be vector not pixel. You can do this with the pen tool. Or if you have ADesigner too, switch to ADesigner in APhoto and do it with a vector brush tool. At this point I am stuck. Is it possible to convert a selection to a shape? Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
pdussart Posted February 23, 2020 Author Posted February 23, 2020 Joachim, Thank you. My layer name and the colour name are OK, with the _ underscore. But the channel name not (see the screen pictures). I have checked and rechecked my design and still get the problem with the automatic tool of the printing company. I will check with their staff,probably at cost. Regards, Philippe Quote
Joachim_L Posted February 23, 2020 Posted February 23, 2020 Your CUT_KC is a pixel layer not a vector layer which is the problem here in my opinion. If not we have to see the afphoto file. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
carl123 Posted February 23, 2020 Posted February 23, 2020 On 2/21/2020 at 8:44 AM, pdussart said: It seems that the Colour Channels are not properly named (no underscore) If you use 2 underscores in the layer name the Colour Channels will then "correctly" show 1 underscore. Not sure if that is of any use or if you can devise a workaround via the above method in what you want to do. Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
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