Ogma Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Just trying out AD... Have been drawing maps for twenty years in FreeHand. As now on OSX 10, no FreeHand :( . Can't get on with Illustrator and hate the idea of paying Adobe every month so thought I would have a play. So attached my first quick draft. Really like AD, very quick to pick up. Somethings that did not jump out at me, a quick look on YouTube and job done. So far, only a couple of items missing that are essential to allow me to migrate fully: Text on a path. Essential for road names going around a curve especially if inside the text is inside the path. Dotted lines - wanted the footpaths to be dotted but no joy. Otherwise looking good and reading the forums, these items are on the roadmap - thanks AD Couple of things notice that are an issue but not deal breakers (unless I missed it): Only single page documents allowed. Fonts, quite a few of my fonts such as Zapf Dingbats, WebDings and FontAwesome not rendering - just getting square text boxes. Anyway - looking good Serif Suitably impressed 000, MattP, pmeinertz and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hey, that looks great Ogma! :) If you wanted to give the latest beta a whirl, you should find that there's dashed lines now :) The other things will come in time - we're typing as quickly as we can and we're obviously very motivated! :) Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmeinertz Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I am so much missing Freehand. It was perfect, but now with AD it looks like we can be ahppy again. Your map looks good. It would be a pain to do that i Illustartor. I never really got used to Illustrators way of making and adjusting curves. AD's way is very intuitive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogma Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Thanks MattP Happy yo take a whirl on the beta. Where can I find it please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogma Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 don't worry, found it on the forum :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Is that Anglesea? Nice map! Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogma Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Is that Anglesea? Nice map! Well spotted Peter It is, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ronniemcbride Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Ogma, Very nice nice. You could make your own stroke brush to make the dotted line your looking for. You can also use this technique to make train tracks or any other repeat path item. Checkout this video Ogma, MattP and 000 3 Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 9, 2015 Nice video, Ronnie! :D ronniemcbride 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Fonts, quite a few of my fonts such as Zapf Dingbats, WebDings and FontAwesome not rendering - just getting square text boxes. For which characters? Zapf Dingbats does not have A-Z, a-z or 0-9, for example. Does it render the first arrow symbol in Special Characters, U+2192, '→' ? Some apps switch to a different font for unsupported characters. We don't do that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogma Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Ogma, Very nice nice. You could make your own stroke brush to make the dotted line your looking for. You can also use this technique to make train tracks or any other repeat path item. Checkout this video Thanks Ronnie This will help a great deal - top vid - cheers O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogma Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 For which characters? Zapf Dingbats does not have A-Z, a-z or 0-9, for example. Does it render the first arrow symbol in Special Characters, U+2192, '→' ? Some apps switch to a different font for unsupported characters. We don't do that yet. Hi Dave AD is on my Mac at home - will check tonight - thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniemcbride Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Nice video, Ronnie! :D Thanks Matt! Thanks Ronnie This will help a great deal - top vid - cheers O You are are welcome. I thought it would. Thanks! :) Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogma Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 For which characters? Zapf Dingbats does not have A-Z, a-z or 0-9, for example. Does it render the first arrow symbol in Special Characters, U+2192, '→' ? Some apps switch to a different font for unsupported characters. We don't do that yet. Hi Dave Looks like my issue my end, even LibreOffice struggling with them. Thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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