Quote from: Slappy on December 11, 2021, 08:20:43 PM
So, will we have to push clients to use Pantone Connect instead? I'm really not sure how designers or providers can use the Adobe products without integrated Pantone support.

Another question. How are freelance graphic designers like me who are on a budget gonna be able to afford it?

Well the job fell through.
They wanted someone experienced in Illustrator but they wanted that person to have experience in creating pie charts etc with some understanding of the data.
Oh well!

I hope someone give me an idea of what a proficient AI user is and does.

I received a message on Twitter from a company looking to see if I am still looking for some part-time work.
They need a "proficient AI user" to make research charts "using their templates, data and style guide."

I'm afraid that is outside my experience and/or skills.

I found this article on how to copy your Pantone libraries and save them, then hope that one can import them back in.

https://www.fespa.com/en/news-media/blog/adobe-removing-pantone-colour-books-from-the-next-release-of-adobe-cc

Quote from: Skryber on October 21, 2021, 02:07:35 PM
Continuum Bold?

YES! Thanks Skryber! That is it!
Thanks!

Hey guys! I just received a job to design a "First Aid" tshirt.
I swear I seen this font before but I can't remember what it is.
See image attached.

Does anyone know what font this might be?
I have tried Photoshop's Match Font and Whats the Font website and not go.
-Joe

I was able to download a pdf of the user guide for the lastest Quark (2021).
I guess there is some sort of preflight in QXP. Still going through the user guide.

BUT I was shocked to find that latest version can convert InDesign files to Quark!
But the catch is is that you need InDesign installed.

During the last three months during my unemployment to freelance graphic designer (still working on getting clients), I have been redesigning off and on this printing guide from the old print shop (with my former boss permission) that we designed back in 2007. I am trying to update some of the ancient information in it as well as update the out-of-date images.

So I am working on a small section Preflighting which tells readers where they can find preflighting in various applications. I have InDesign and MS Publisher included, Pagemaker definitely has to go (can't believe anyone uses that anymore), and plan to add Affinity Publisher since it now has preflighting. My problem is I can't simply find anything pertaining to QuarkXPress preflighting except Markzware. I have not used QXP for I don't know how many years. Does QuarkXPress have a built in preflight feature like InDesign? If it does, can someone tell me where I can tell readers where to find it. Personally, I would just drop QXP from the list but I guess there are still QXP users out there.

Thank you to any one can help me with this.

Quote from: zox on February 07, 2021, 03:09:40 PM
This is first time I am trying PUblisher (I've had Designer since beta days) and big news is that allows "passthrough" for placed PDF's.
That was kind of let down since it was "re-frying" your PDFs and screwing embedded fonts, not it can pass PDF intact through.
I downloaded trial and will be testing it for 90 days, thanks to new offer but I am already inclining to pay.

What I see in the future will be challenge of Adobe fonts, but we'll cross that bridge.

Now, if someone can come up with Acrobat replacement, that would be really something that would be something...

I think they should hook up with Google Fonts just like they did with Unsplash, Pixabay, and Pexels.

Affinity Publisher 1.9 is out!

While there is several new features and improvements, two things pop out: Package and Data Merge.

The Package feature is finally here and I tried it. Thumbs up!
It package fonts and images just like InDesign.
Interesting is that when you open the folder with the package files, it saves a copy of the Affinity Publisher (.afpub) as a package document (.afpackage) which you can open in Affinity Publisher.
And my understanding is just like InDesign, Publisher loads the fonts temporary while working on the document.
So this is a huge step! I believe more people, especially those that want to dump Adobe, will flock to AP.

Then there is Data Merge!
Was kinda surprised that this feature came around sooner, but don't get excited. I already found a problem with it.
When importing a mailing list with empty fields for envelopes, there is no place to tell it to skip the empty field like you can in InDesign.
So you end up with a AP document that has blank address lines. So you have to go through and delete the blank lines.
Kinda disappointed but hope that Serif fix that soon or maybe I am missing something. Maybe there is a work around.

But I do believe more people will start to use Affinity Publisher over time.
-Joe

Here is my article on Canva that I shared on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-canva-human-factor-joe-frazee

I plan to post an article on pdfs made from Canva to my Linkedin this week (possibly tomorrow at earliest).
Getting sick of these Canva pdfs and figure I put my two cents in.

I will try to remember to post a link to the article.

Quote from: Joe on March 03, 2020, 06:24:27 PM

Quote from: Syphon on March 03, 2020, 04:53:03 PM
Here is the link to my Linkedin review of the new Affinity Publisher 1.8 update that allows users to import InDesign IDML files into AP.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/affinity-publisher-18-now-opens-indesign-idml-files-could-joe-frazee

Nice review.

Thanks Joe!

Just in case anyone needs to know.
You can open pdfs with Affinity Publisher and it turns them into documents for editing.
So if you have a pdf of the file, you can use that for converting to a editable AP document. Just need to reconnect the text boxes etc

Here is the link to my Linkedin review of the new Affinity Publisher 1.8 update that allows users to import InDesign IDML files into AP.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/affinity-publisher-18-now-opens-indesign-idml-files-could-joe-frazee