George86 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 (edited) Hello, I want to bulk create circles around several objects, is it possible with Publisher or Designer please? So I can get icons like these -> Perhaps by using grid somehow? (if there is possibility to place objects and graphics on the intersection point?) But then how to save them as separate objects? 🤔 Thank you for help! Edited June 21, 2023 by George86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Data merge using svg originals Generate then Export all pages to pngs Dead quick Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Would be a nobrainer if the Affinity suite would have scripting! - Though there are several other ways to do so via other batch/shell or python scripting methods etc. For example via using ImageMagick ... + = Creating a 512 x 512 transparent tomato colored circle here ... > convert -size 512x512 canvas:transparent -fill tomato -draw "circle 256,256 256,0" circle.png Having some 512x512px inner.png run icon drawing, which we would like then to place as a 256x256px one centered into the circle.png and then also scale the whole down into a resulting image of 64x64 px ...---> > convert circle.png inner.png -gravity Center -geometry 256x256+30+5 -composite -resize 64x64 output.png The output.png result will be ... Now in order to bulk generate several of these at once, we just have to write some batch/shell/python script which contains the series or IM convert command calls. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Using e.g. FontAwesome and Unichar formula to produce symbol glyphs in an Excel sheet and then fetching them with Data Merge (below 1,001 icons, with a colored ellipse in the background of a Data Merge layout cell) is not too bad, either: Each icon is conveniently grouped, but background and stroke color and style could easily be changed en masse by using the Select Same > Fill Color command. As symbols are still glyphs of a font, their size and coloring could be changed equally easily by using the Select Object > Frame Text command. [The example is a variation of file-based image merge shown above by @David in Яuislip which uses a sizing picture frame as a container of merge instead of a text frame. If the images are initially placed files, it would be easy to make them linked and then create a file list by using in-built features of the file system, e.g. in Windows by using Copy as Path command for files selected in File Explorer.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George86 Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 Wow great help guys, thank you all! Also these icons (changed or even unchanged) can be used in various project as well as commercial ones or on website without the need of giving credits, correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 As for license related to FontAwesome Free, please check https://fontawesome.com/license/free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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