Clauboldia Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I outlined the words "Die Vision" with color "white", opacity 100% and radius 50 px. Then I exported it to pdf. When I open it with an pdf viewer it shows a grey border around the outline.' How can I get rid of the grey border?' Thank you for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted September 22, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 22, 2020 Hi Clauboldia, Welcome to the forums If possible could you provide the file in question so I can look into this further with you C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Clauboldia said: How can I get rid of the grey border? If you have the stroke set "Align to Inside" you possibly run into a known/reported issue with this setting. As a workaround you can try "Align to Center". – Or adjust the Coverage Map (Layer Panel > cog icon) to refine the antialiasing (which unfortunately will also influence the items inside of the stroke's edge and make them slightly jaggy): Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) neither worked "align to center" nor changing the coverage map to the setting you suggested. What to do now? Edited September 23, 2020 by Clauboldia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) 23 hours ago, Callum said: Hi Clauboldia, Welcome to the forums If possible could you provide the file in question so I can look into this further with you C Hi Callum Here is the file. Hope you find the answer. help.afdesign Edited September 23, 2020 by Clauboldia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, Clauboldia said: Here is the file. When I click on that link I get an error: Sorry, there is a problem We could not locate the item you are trying to view. Error code: 2S328/1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 The link to your file is noted as "Unavailable" and the download creates an according message, possibly it hasn't uploaded entirely or correctly. Could you press "Edit" under your message –> then delete the link by clicking the red "Delete" under you text –> and try a new upload + paste into your text? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, R C-R said: When I click on that link I get an error: Sorry, there is a problem We could not locate the item you are trying to view. Error code: 2S328/1 sorry, should work now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thomaso Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 The the text occurs a bit weird to me by its assigned properties. Besides it appears to be placed as Text on curve ('Path on Shape') for no reason ... ... it has a blue stroke assigned. If I set this stroke color to "None" then a black stroke appears. The white stroke appears to be created with an effect, not as stroke assigned to the text. Instead this complex setting could you simply place a text frame on the gray rectangle and assign strokes as wanted, e.g. a thin blue stroke + a wider white one? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, haakoo said: It did work for me and it seems you used fx for the outline,these will be rasterised and can have antialiasing after export. You could have done your work with just plain vector objects to obscure the parts you don't want. Or use masking/clipping to exclude/include parts thank you for your reply. how did you export it? maybe I can change these settings. what do you mean with plain vector objects? One more extra white object? If it was just one file it ok to do that extra work. But I have more than 50 files. And there are always changes in the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 By the way: There occurs noise in the blue text stroke. This also will force rasterisation on PDF export. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 33 minutes ago, thomaso said: The the text occurs a bit weird to me by its assigned properties. Besides it appears to be placed as Text on curve ('Path on Shape') for no reason ... ... it has a blue stroke assigned. If I set this stroke color to "None" then a black stroke appears. The white stroke appears to be created with an effect, not as stroke assigned to the text. Thank you for your reply and hint. I did it with the "path" because I have more than 50 files with the rectangle and a title. This helps me not to move the text vertically by accident. I do not know why the color changes to black, when the stroke is set to "none". maybe another bug. Yes, I did the white outline with an effect. Because I do not like to have to change always two objects when I change the words of the title. For one file it would work with two objects and different stroke sizes would work, but I have more than 50 files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 23 minutes ago, thomaso said: By the way: There occurs noise in the blue text stroke. This also will force rasterisation on PDF export. Thank you for the hint. I was unaware that the stroke was a brush. Mistake by beginner. I changed it. So, at least I know now that each time I force rasterisation I can't use a pdf export. For me, that is a bug. Because I need pdf for beamer presentations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 26 minutes ago, haakoo said: Antialiasing is a part that needs some work to work right in the apps and has no setting to adjust. I would always use vector objects for this. You wrote that it worked for you. With which settings did you export it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Clauboldia said: I did it with the "path" because I have more than 50 files with the rectangle and a title. This helps me not to move the text vertically by accident. I do not know why the color changes to black, when the stroke is set to "none". maybe another bug. Yes, I did the white outline with an effect. Because I do not like to have to change always two objects when I change the words of the title. For one file it would work with two objects and different stroke sizes would work, but I have more than 50 files. The way the objects are setup appears too complex to me and therefore would not simplify my personal workflow. Instead I would just place the text as single frame + assign a stroke to "Die" in text fill color. To exclude the text from the gray frame I'd simply use a separate shape, e.g. a rectangle (or, for more visual perfection, with curved edges at left / right to follow the shapes of the first /last character). To ensure text movement being limited to horizontally only you can activate snapping + press the Shift key while moving. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Clauboldia Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, haakoo said: Of course you can but it will be displayed as an image instead of vector That's why I suggested you do this in vector in the first place to make sure it shows crisp when enlarged. You wrote that it worked for you. With which settings did you export it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thomaso Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 @Clauboldia, if you use Acrobat as PDF viewer then you could try if its Rendering options, respectively for "hairlines" (dünne Linien), would avoid their occurrence. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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