Destiny Rose Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 Hi all,..quick question. I just subscribed to freepix for graphics for a few of my projects and I've had strange things happening. A few EPs files only had an image and no layers and files like the one I attached, has like 6 different backgrounds but in one file. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to use them individually. Any ideas. I've noticed they list a lot of seamless pattern backgrounds like this. Note, I tried to attach the eps file but it won't let me. Also, if these files were created in AI and they are just not opening up correctly in Affinity, is there a another way I can open them up and do some of the initial editing? I tried Gimp and it was a no go. Quote
Destiny Rose Posted October 20, 2020 Author Posted October 20, 2020 This is a screen shot. I see lots of layers on this one, but I need to know how to get each of these seamless patterns in a full size like 12x12 Quote
firstdefence Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 This is a very messy eps and the reason is because they have “grouped” the shapes instead of creating layers and because they will assume you have an Adobe product to open it. so in the original file, the layer structure is... Layer Group Group Group (lots of shapes forming a seamless pattern) path Group Group lGroup (lots of shapes forming a seamless pattern) path Group etc... A more compatible file would be this file structure as a PDF... Layer Group Group (lots of shapes forming a seamless pattern) Path Layer Group Group (lots of shapes forming a seamless pattern) Path Layer Group Group (lots of shapes forming a seamless pattern) Path Layer etc... I changed the file to reflect the latter file structure in Adobe Illustrator, I created layers and added each group and path layer to it’s own top level layer, this keeps each of the patterns in a self contained layer when Affinity opens the PDF. Short of changing the file structure and exporting to PDF, it’s trying to sift through the patterns and manually grouping them. This is the modified file as PDF: 170 [Converted].pdf 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
Destiny Rose Posted October 20, 2020 Author Posted October 20, 2020 Thanks for this. The only problem with doing this, is I won't be able to have the large size I need. How do I deal with sloppy files like this with Affinity or is there no way. Quote
firstdefence Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 It’s a case of sifting through the layers and finding all the components of a particular pattern and then grouping them to further sort through those groups. As it is the way in some instances the pattern components have been interpreted as a block of colour in the form of an image i.e raster and a curves clipping mask to define the shape i.e a vector. This is inefficent and really the curves can be used as the shape and a fill used to add the colour, the raster colour block can be deleted. So by example, this... Is the same as this… the difference is the image layer above is not necessary as the colour is supplied by a fill applied to the curves shape making the layer above redundant. Unfortunately doing this for every component is not practical 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
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