Jpburns Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Something useful in Illustrator is the ability to select curves in a document and "Release to Layers" the individual curves, creating a new layer for each curve. That way you could maintain the names of curves as layer names, and conceivably get them to export to other vendor's (Illustrator) software. For instance, I'm working with an imported SVG file that has all of the curves helpfully named (a map of Georgia with all 250-some counties as curves) and I can't export it in a way that will maintain those names. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I'm not sure I understand what you're after. Each curve in Designer is already on a layer. If you have a set of curves that's been combined into a single (Curves) layer, then you can separate them to individual layers again using Layer > Geometry > Divide. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpburns Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 I'm saying, if you're trying to export those layers, say to an .EPS or .PDF, the curve names do not make the trip. They're just named <path> when you open them in, say, Illustrator. I haven't tested it enough, but my thought is if you could kick out each of those curves to their own layer, optimally named the same as the source curve, it would be much more useful if you need to make some sort of round trip to other programs. Illustrator lets you do this (except you still lose the curve name...) by using the command "Release to Layers." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Jpburns said: Illustrator lets you do this (except you still lose the curve name...) by using the command "Release to Layers." If Illustrator is also not keeping the curve names, then what is the difference between "Release to Layers" and Affinity's "Divide"? It sounds like both create the layers, and neither keeps the names. (I do not have Illustrator, so I cannot check myself.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpburns Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 I thought this was the place to recommend new features. That’s what I’m doing. Not looking to be told it can’t be done. Looking for someone to say “that’d be useful.” thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 It is the place to do that, and I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm trying to understand exactly what it is you need (and that's something that the Serif staff will need to understand, too.) If all you're saying is that you'd like to be able to use Layer > Geometry > Divide against a (Curves) object that has been given a name, and have each of the resulting (Curve) layers retain that name, then that is a clear suggestion. But so far, I'm not sure that's what you're saying. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpburns Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 Don’t think divide us what I want. It’s a single path (curve). A series of them. In my test case, 250-some. They’re all named. Want to export them and maintain their names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 7 minutes ago, Jpburns said: Don’t think divide us what I want. It’s a single path (curve). A series of them. In my test case, 250-some. They’re all named. Want to export them and maintain their names. In that case, it would help to have a sample document (.afdesign) to demonstrate what you're looking at and what you want. It could be a simpler one than your 250-some case, but one that demonstrates the issue. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpburns Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 test case.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I just tried with your file and the SVG (for export) default setting and having the Just one layer chosen gives me working named set of layers. But I am not sure if this is what you want. test case.svg Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpburns Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 I guess the answer is to export as SVG, except I got error messages when trying to open the more complicated file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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