texts: How to change font in the entire SVG file when editing in Inkscape?

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I have opened an SVG file in Inkscape after haven't changing it for 1-2 years (the file is stored in a git repository and now I have to perform some changes) and suddenly wrong font is used to render it -

While my font should be serif and in fact when I open the SVG file in text editor I see:

<text
     id="text3683"
     y="220.98315"
     x="7.3200684"
     style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;font-family:Monospace;-inkscape-font-specification:Monospace;text-align:center;text-anchor:middle;fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none"
     xml:space="preserve">

when I open the SVG file in Inkscape 0.92.3, a sans serif font is being used:

So I make sure that the layer (called "Squares") is not locked and try to change the font, but this setting is not applied:

Below is my exported (1-2 years ago) PNG file, please help me to get "back in time", i.e. to change the font in the entire SVG document using Inkscape back to the font shown below:


texts: how to vectorize camera taken product photos?

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I am a photographer with good knowledge of photoshop & illustrator. This time i have a task from my boss who needs high quality computer generated photos of our company products. he is not satisfied with camera result and needs something more lively and 3d like. I have basic understanding of vector based objects but i do not know how to achieve images like this:

Can somebody explain to me how can we draw images like this, and which tools are needed for that. I am also unsure whether these images are vectorized from camera taken photos.


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I'm trying to create some templates to use for my videos,
I want to create an animated text composed by 3 words (Left Center Right). The animation will look like that:

 Left Right                  Left Center Right
                ----->
   Center

Basically I have 2 words and then a third one came up, splits the 2 words and puts in the middle of them.

My problem is that I don't know how to get the position of the edges of the center text (the length of the text can change), in such a way that I can use them for spacing left and right form the text in center.

I want to do this in such a way that in Premiere I have only to write the text and not go i AE and change evry time the position of words.

Thanks for help.


texts: Illustrator: How to make the arrow keys move in smaller increments?

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Here's me trying to fine tune something in Illustrator with the arrow keys.

That's a single increment.
Trying to click & drag is futile, because the object won't actually start to move until you drag it a certain distance away from it's origin, and it lacks precision.

Which is frustrating because even basic, free software packages have mastered this.
Here's me trimming the screenshots (above) with Apple's Preview; the basic image/document viewer that comes with every copy of macOS.

As you can see, the arrow keys can be used to increment one pixel at a time. Just for clarity, or in case it's hard for some of you to see, here it is again, super close up @ 3,000:1 magnification.

I realise that the former is a scalable vector graphic, and the latter is a raster image, but still. I can't get the new (pink/purple/violet/magenta/what even is this colour?) line to snap to the black line, and I can't seem to position it manually, with any kind of real precision. I don't know what the smallest quantum, incremental unit of a vector is, but that's the kind of precision I'm looking for.


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I need to batch resize multiple images and thats really easy in Photoshop insert a folder and get a output in anther folder.

But i need this to output multiple images of all the images inside the folder is there a way to do this at once?

This is what i want:


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I am working with a client who has sent me images taken with cell phones, most of them at 72 dpi, and wants them enlarged for a full-scale 24" x 60" print to canvas. The printer is telling me even with the LightRoom adjustments I have made, the quality is poor and pixelated. Is there any magic I can perform to make these pictures work?

Signed, Desperate and out of time.


texts: How to access Arabic BEH initial form, from a font that places the glyph in a non-conventional place unicode slot

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(I'm new to both Arabic, and doing things related to Unicode, so I might be overlooking some glaring detail.)

So, I'm using the SIL font Lateef, and want to access the BEH initial form glyph, in HTML. (Because, in MSA, "with/through" is translated to the prefix ﺑِ, so I want to include it in initial form to make clear that it is a prefix, and not a word on itself.)

The BEH initial form glyph has Unicode code U+FE91. However, Lateef does not include the glyph at this 'location' (not entirely sure what to call it), and instead includes the glyph at U+1016F ("Greek Acrophonic Carystian Five Hundred"), and then uses a substitution table to use it. (The substitution table usage is logical, but I don't get why Lateef puts the glyph in this weird place.)

As my app definitively uses Lateef, included as a webfont, I decided to then just reference it as U+1016F in javascript (\u{1016F}) or HTML (&#x1016f; or &#65903;) --- ugly, I know, because non-semantic, but I couldn't decide upon a better way. However, even though the element in question was indeed using Lateef as font, Chrome displayed the "Greek Acrophonic Carystian Five Hundred" instead:

My questions then, are:

How come Chrome displays the "Greek Acrophonic Carystian Five Hundred" glyph, when the HTML element is clearly using Lateef, and the unicode character is correctly referenced, and Lateef indeed includes the BEH initial form glyph at U+1016F?
Is it at all possible, to display Lateef's initial BEH? (Other than editing the font to include the glyph at the correct location, as well.)
Is this an error/misunderstanding on my part, or an actual weirdness on behalf of Chrome, Ubuntu/Chrome, Unicode, or HTML?


texts: To use Myriad pro on website, but light or other?

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Sorry for my english and for my question.. (I don't know more about font)

I would like to change the font on my website. I like "san francisco font" but is impossible to use it.
Other option is MYRIAD PRO..
i like light version but i dont' know which are difference between only "Myriad pro", light and extra light..

And i don't know the better option for my website (where there are pages with long article)..

Can you help me?

Thanks!


texts: How to make this wave pattern infinite (both ends should attach seamlessly)?

texts: I need to make this specific wave (A) pattern infinite for a website. I'm trying to get it together, change the anchor points and I'm not having success. How can I do it in the simplest way?


texts: How to remove background from a complex figure?

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I want to remove the background from this cartoon image :-

.

I have made outline with the bezier tool.
But when i am filling the color in it, it is not filling the whole image.:-

and that's why when i am doing the clipping it is not doing to the whole of the image.

Thank you.


texts: copy animation setup from one slide to an entire presentation

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I've inherited from a colleague a huge slide deck, but he doesn't use animation on any slides.

I'd like to do a one-click conversion of the slide deck to incorporate a very simple animation scheme.

I understand how to use the animation painter to copy the animation effects from one slide to a single other slide. But in spite of what Microsoft blithely says in this url, it's not a trivial matter to copy the same scheme 100 times to each slide individually. It's very hard to believe that Powerpoint is so primitive that it doesn't provide a one-click option, but there's nothing about it on the web.

One possible approach would be:

set up a template in which my preferred animation scheme is applied
to every bullet point list by default
open a new presentation
import the old unanimated presentation into the new one
then hopefully the imported presentation would have the templated
animation characteristics.

I've no idea if

I can set up a template as proposed
my inheritance idea would work

Could anybody advise please?


texts: inDesign: how to import several images from the same Photoshop document while conserving their relative size?

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After slicing my Photoshop document into parts with images and text, I want to import these parts (as images) into my inDesign document. But I want the font used in these parts to conserve the same size across all of the parts. In other words, I want to keep the same size relative to each other just as in original Photoshop document.

How to do that?


texts: How do you change just one fill in the appearance of many objects in Illustrator?

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TLDR; I can't seem to drag a fill from the swatches to replace one of two fills defined in an appearance.  How do you do this?
When I update an appearance with multiple fills, it updates both fills even if nothing has changed on the other, (like dragging an updated appearance over an object that has an older version like the appearance).
This is problematic because I have one fill with a Texture and another fill with a Gradient.   I don't want the gradients to have to change, (and therefore have to update all of the objects whose gradients reset).
Is there a good way to manage separating textures and gradients, maybe with the appearance feature, in a way that let's me update / change them separately?


texts: Structured pattern, random elements in Illustrator

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I'm trying to make a subtle background out of a collection of symbols, arranged in randomly order in multiple roughly structured rows.

A bit like:

The Symbol Sprayer Tool is close to what I need, but it distributes only a single symbol in a circular area rather than along a line.

How can I create something like this?


texts: Fill anomaly ofter joining paths in illustrator

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I created this image building a gear tooth and then rotated it around the centre.  The path looks good until I try to fill it and as you can see I have an annoying join across teeth.

Can anyone give me any pointers on how to eliminate this??

fill is brown, stroke is blue


texts: How to go about creating 54 individual post cards that create a map when all put together?

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I need to create 54 individual post cards/ brochure cards that all have different graphic designs on them. When they are all laid out they need to create a map of the world. For instance, one of the 54 cards will have just a small section of the world (maybe a country) and then when placed with the others it creates an image.

I have photoshop and illustrator but have never used them before. Willing to learn. Just need to know if this is doable.


texts: Laser cutting vector image - bitmap created two lines when I need one on border of counties

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I'm working on a custom design of the outline of some counties in kentucky and it's engraving each county with individual borders instead of as a single line. I know I could manually trace between the counties, but that's going to be a day of work. After creating a trace bitmap in inkscape, it appears to be one line, but after converting to a plt and opening in lasercut 5.3 table, the lines are separated.

Does anyone know how I could merge the two lines into one instead of two separate borders with just a click of a button?

I'm using inkscape, illustrator, and lasercut 5.3 table.

Any help is greatly appreciated!


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I'm creating a HTML email Signature for a client..

My first version was created using full sized images and style="width: X" in the HTML code, which worked great on my Mac.. However, Outlook didn't like this and the images showed up at full size.

My second version was made using images that I created at the right size. i.e. Twitter logo that I created in AI was 25px X 25px. The images all show up perfectly on Outlook.. However, the quality then doesn't look great.

Can someone suggest how I can make an image small, but the quality high? I've tried amending the DPI, but that makes the image size larger again..


texts: Why does the composition/frame of a design looks distorted sometimes?

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Sometimes, when I work on some designs, the everything looks fine except the overall frame (I don't know how should I describe it).

For example, see these 2 designs:

And here is how I see them overall, respectively:

I don't think it's just with me. Something must be there, because it happens sometimes, not every time.

So what's the basic reason of it? And what things one should keep in mind while designing so that such things do not happen?


texts: Finding Measurements before Designing Vehicle Stickers or Decals?

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I'm to design decals that include logos and company information when I've only available clue is the Car Models (2013 Toyota Tundra and 2007 Ford e150 Cargo Van) for which the designs are intended. The problem is that I can't find that out how to measure the actual artwork on the printed surface hence the car body parts.

I'm not a professional designer but I'd like to know if I were a pro designer what necessary steps I would have taken before attempting the design on either Photoshop or Illustrator? I mean how should a designer know the actual sizing or measurements of the resulting artwork when the only info delivered is a vehicle name and its model?


texts: How to add element to artboard without moving it in Figma?

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While working with Figma, I often end up with elements that are in the right place, but not inside the artboard they are supposed to be in.

Is there an easy trick to put the element into the underlying artboard without moving it?


texts: Vintage/Stamped text effect in Illustrator

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I really like the look of this image but can't figure out how to replicate it:

I understand that rounded corners were used, and then texture within the letters, but how do you get the roughened edges? My attempts at zig zag or roughen don't make the same effect.


texts: Does resolution matter even for vectors?

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In InDesign, I used the preflight panel to mark pics with resolution lesser than 300dpi to light up as errors.

In the process, it also selected some vectors. Does it mean that vectors' resolution also needs to be taken care of?


texts: How can I use just Roboto font with SVG's?

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I am using Adobe Illustator to make some SVGs.  I need the font-family to be ONLY roboto for the web. However every time I save it shows other roboto fonts like Roboto-Regular and Roboto-Light.  I tried installing the roboto web font from google fonts and restarted illustrator.

Here is an example of code:

<text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 977.2227 293.7242)" display="inline" fill="#B3B3B3"
font-family="'Roboto-Regular'" font-size="19.1122">SVG</text>

<text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 977.2227 339.6242)" display="inline" fill="#099AE2"
font-family="'Roboto-Light'" font-size="20.2365">Test</text>

The simple solution is to just find and replace in my text editor however as I am going to be doing this in a lot in the future I would like to figure out the cause/real solution to make it just roboto.

I have been searching for answers all day and haven't been successful.  I am sure this is simple and any step in the right direction is very much appreciated.

Font URL on website is:

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A400%2C300%2C100%2C500%2C700%2C500italic%2C400italic%2C300italic%2C100italic%2C700italic


texts: Blue underline on highlighted letters in Indesign. What does it mean?

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So in Indesign CC they've added a "feature" I havent seen before, when I highlight certain single letters in a text box I get a blue highlight (shown below) and I get a popup box with a bunch of different glyphs to replace the letter with. Unfortunately I cant show the popup box since screenshots wont capture it.

Can anyone explain what this feature does and how to turn it off?


texts: Color Management and Photoshop Color Profiles - Web Nightmare

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Possible Duplicate:
  Choosing colors that work well on projectors
  Photoshop “Save For Web” Color Shift problem

Hey guys I'm having a really tough(since yesterday) time figuring out why my output in PS "Save for Web" is always in monitor RGB. This is really a nightmare for me (a beginner) for I'm trying to apply a job as front-end designer.

This is my second time to post question regarding this topic. And this one is more specific than the previous one. I don't really know my exact problem why my output in PS Save for web is always like this:

After saving to web/device, the output is drastically changed from this:

My PS Current Color Setting is:

Even if I play the color RGB in sRBG, Adobe RGB, and my Monitor RGB or ticked(Convert to sRGB, the output is always i monitor Color like this:

Until I came up with this site (How to Fix Color Profile - "proof colors" - Conflict In Photoshop). But the PS used in this site is CS2/3. Im using CS5. I did not yet uninstalled one of the color profiles because im afraid to mess out my display.

My Color Management Setting is:

Is there a conflict with my color management that causes my photoshop result even not "Save for Web/Devices" monitor color.

My Image Configuration is:

Im really desperate to find a fix to this problem so that I uploaded these images. I would like to apologize if this page loads slower.

By HTML output is very dull colored. And Im not satisfied by it. So I really need a help of a pro who can help me fix this.

My laptop is ASUS K45VD.

I just bought this laptop month ago.

MY OS is Windows 8.

Your reply regarding in this matter will be greatly appreciated.


texts: Cut out background that contains shades of paper folds

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I have picture on creasy paper. I need to have just drawing without brown paper that contains shades of paper folds. What strategy I can apply in this case. I know I can use quick selection toll and select each detail , but I think there should be more smart way by cutting out brown color with all folds. But how to achieve it?

UPD

I did

 Increase the saturation of the red and green, and decrease it on yellow (brown).

Then make a new layer with a bright color, for example bright blue 0, 0, 255. put the blue layer on the bottom, your original photolayer on top with blendingmode "saturation"

And got:

You should now see a gray background and your drawing in bright blue

Not shure I have it.

Then edit colors again, increase the brightness of blue and reduce that of green and red.

Where I can set brightness of selected colors? Image->adjustment->Brightness/Contrast not have selection according to colors.


texts: Creating a shaded/imprinted effect in Adobe Illustrator

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I've been trying to work out how to create a similar indentation effect in Illustrator. I'm fine with creating the shapes, rotating them around a circle (Rotate > 360/12 > copy)...

...but I'm struggling with creating the illusion of depth.

I've been experimenting with drop shadow, strokes, opacity and bevel/extrude but am missing the right combination of effects to replicate this light highlighting and dark shadowing. What are the tool options for this effect?


texts: How to sample actual color of an area in illustrator?

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When I place a few objects one over another, each with different colors and transparencies, so that they all overlap somewhere, how would I measure the color on this overlapping area? Similar to the way the eyedropper in photoshop would just give me the color of the pixel he is hovering.

Is this possible without ridiculous detours?
All I could imagine is making a screenshot pasting it and measuring from there - but this kind of the definition of a ridiculous detour...


texts: How to fill color in this bottle using Photoshop?

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I want to fill "ink" (color) into this empty ink bottle using Photoshop?

Please let me know the steps.

Thanks!


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My stroke is bleeding, and I was wondering how to clean up dirty stroke corners.

I'm creating a simple envelope for a newsletter (rectangle and triangle), but the triangle stroke is bleeding over. Aligning the stroke to the inside or outside doesn't allow me to match the corners how I want.

What is the best way to resolve this issue?

The image on the left is a triangle over a rectangle, and the right is a rectangle and two lines that don't match.


texts: InDesign: how can I fix pagination so linked text threads are in order again?

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I'm fairly new to InDesign for complex documents (in a past life I used it for magazine layout, but I'm now typesetting a 300 page book using it) and have probably made a rookie error.

My main body text Master Page uses a Primary Text Frame which was linked across the spread. I pasted 90,000 words into it and it automatically reflowed as expected, adding all the pages I needed. So far, so good.

I then did some rearranging, moving pages around (the text is a collection of interviews, which I wanted in a different order). This too seemed fine. I also inserted page breaks at the end of each interview so there was a clean break between each item.

One page has gone a little weird: the page break came at the very end of a page, meaning the following page is now blank. If I delete that blank page, the page which takes its place isn't the next one in the pagination, but the next one that was originally there before I re-ordered pages. The same thing happens if I use the arrow keys and try to navigate down onto the blank page: I jump from p149 to p63, not p150.

This effectively means I have a blank page I can't delete. Is there any hope for me here, or will I have to manually re-set all the text? Rearranging the pages wasn't the quickest job in the world and I'd sooner not do it again.

If there's a better way to group each individual item and move them around without manually dragging pages around the spread, though, I'm all ears...


texts: Why do we still use points as a measurement of type size?

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I'm in the UK, which uses metric units for pretty much everything now except road distances and beer (obviously best kept apart).

Page sizes have been metric here and in most of the rest of the world for many years.

Can anyone suggest any reasons why printed type is still always measured in points, e.g 11pt (= 11/72 inch) rather than say millimetres?

In counterpoint, does anyone use anything else?

Edit: Obviously points have worked fine for centuries. But there would seem to be significant advantages measuring type in the same metric units as you measure the page it's placed on, especially if setting up a grid.

Edit: Wikipedia has a page on metric typographic units, and there's a bit more context on use in Germany and Japan on the main typographic unit page.


texts: Where can I post a job listing to outsource a graphic design project?

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I'm on the stage of hiring a graphic designer for my Android app and I was thinking that it will be a better idea to hire the right person for this task. I know about websites as elance, odesk, etc that have sections for graphical design jobs.

Are there any other sites on which to post a graphical designer job?


texts: Trying to export PDF from Illustrator, but gradient (Black to Transparent) not printing Transparent

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Using - Illustrator CS5

I have created an image which has a shadow behind it. This shadow is a shape with a gradient applied that is black to transparent.

I have saved this Adobe Illustrator file out as a PDF file and printed it.
However when I print it out the tranparent part of the shadow has ended up printing out light grey instead of clear?

Any idea why this is the case?


texts: How can you size exported art for use in Google Presentations without having to resize?

texts: How can I determine the exact size to export art for use in slides of Google Presentations without having to re-size once I bring them in to Presentation? I would like to create the original art at the same size as what I will use in Google Presentation so that I don't have to duplicate my efforts. I went into page setup and set the ration to 16:9, if you drop down to custom size the window will show you your current size in whatever measurement - say inches, which equals 10" w x 5.625" H. So I then set my document size in Coreldraw to that size with the hope that designing in that size in Coreldraw would yield an exact fit in Google Presentation without the need to resize - Keeping it simple. That did not work. Images were too large and required resizing. What am I missing?


texts: How to find rasterised elements in a vector converted from Illustrator16 to EPS 10

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In a way to meet the Shutterstock guidelines I need to convert my Illustrator ai vector files to EPS 10 format. This conversion can create rasterised elements in an EPS10 files. Shutterstock does not accept vector files which contain raster elements, so the question is -

How can I know if the converted file has any raster elements and how can I treat the issue if there are raster elements.

I use gradient tool in a source ai file.


texts: Eye Marks in Packaging - Technical Question

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I am a packaging Graphic Designer. I normally worked in packaging for homewares and some food but now working in beauty.

I have looked at all our different components and cannot figure out some details about eye marks. My understanding of eye marks are that they tell the machine where to cut or crimp the product. If this is correct should the eye mark hit the edge of the product? or should the eye mark hit the lower edge of the crimp? also does the eye mark height have anything to do with the size of the crimp? All the products I looked at were not consistent. See images below:

Any more technical info in regards to specifications and placement of eye marks would be great.

Thanks,


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problem 1: how do I draw/generate a line between 2 objects that touches these objects both perfectly in 1 point?

problem 2: how do I move an object horizontally/vertically until it touches another specific object in 1 point?


texts: Save as two formats automatically {Inkscape}

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Is it possible to make inkscape save two formats not just one at a time?

Preferably without appearing where to save the file every time, because I would predefine it, and without appearing portable document format, when I save it as pdf.

The filename would be called based on the biggest number in the predefined folder +1.

All of this with a shortcut.. Is it tangible?

So I would click a shorcut (like ctrl + f) and it would save the file automatically in the predefined folder in an svg and a pdf format without any pop-up, popping out, as 2.svg and 2.pdf.

It would be called 2 because there would be already 0.svg and 0.pdf and 1.svg and 1.pdf.


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Can anyone ID this font? It is giving me fits even though I feel like its on the tip of my tongue:

I've tried both http://www.whatfontis.com and What the Font

Edit: this is from an HVAC Contractors website. They have a low resolution logo issued to me for some work they've asked me to do but cannot provide me a vector/high-res version so I must recreate it.

Here is the full logo:


texts: where can I find fonts scanned from books?

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I'm sure this has to exists but I can't find it.

I'm looking for fonts scanned from books, comic books or magazines.
I want them not to be perfect, with some grain from the books paper, etc; but it should be subtle, I don't want a grungy font.

Any ideas ?

Thanks !


texts: Simplifying documents with many clipped paths

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I want to create an object with a background composed of many paths.
I have a single black path that I use as a clipping mask overtop of a bed of many many small paths.
Applying the mask works exactly as I expected, and everything looks good, however a lot of the paths that were clipped out are still present, and the document is fairly large because it it, and dragging the new object around is extremely slow. Is there any way to maybe apply the mask in a more destructive manner so that the resulting object is less complicated?
in the image, all of the small flowers that I am using as a background are paths, and the single black silhouette is as well. I apply the clip with Object > Clip > Set and then I get the black flower with the small flowers as a fill, which is what I want, however the ones that should be clipped away entirely are still present, and slowing things down. The second photo shows this with one of the non-visible paths selected.


texts: SVG stroke-dashadjust polyfill. Trying to get SVG dotted stroke to align dots at the ends

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W3C SVG Strokes introduces stroke-dashadjust but no browser implements it yet.

Adobe Illustrator's stroke panel has a button for this feature – its tooltip reads Aligns dashes to corners and path ends, adjusting lengths to fit

When you set it and export SVG what it does is take your initial settings, say 0pt dash, 5pt gap and tweak them, outputting a stroke-dasharray attribute like 0,4.9121.

I wanted to use this for connecting text with plots on charts, before support for this new attribute arrives in browsers. My use case only involved straight lines (so not worrying about paths with corners yet): connecting label text with bars in a bar chart.

More details:
Proposals/Stroke dash adjustment - SVG


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I hope that this is the correct forum to be asking this question. I am trying to figure out what verbiage one would use to describe the packaging that Apple uses for many of its products. Specifically the sheen and texture. I have included an image for clarification of exactly which type of box surfacing I am talking about.

I know that it of course would not be described simply as gloss, or matte, but instead would have a more complex description, and maybe even have a scientifically quantifiable measure of texture and gloss? And there any articles you know of on the subject that would help?

This is obviously not my field, so any help or pointers in how to phrase descriptions of texture would be appreciated!


texts: Is there a symbol for the concept of "other"?

texts: I'm creating a list of locations/objects, separated into categories. I'd like an "other" category, but I'm struggling to come up with an icon for it. Has someone ever created a generic "other" symbol? Googling this topic is surprisingly difficult.


texts: Why does JPEG make fonts and typography blurry?

texts: Which step in data compression / transformation makes it blurry? Is it the undersampling, the discrete cosinus transformation? quantization? or the rounding after quantization?


texts: Is it true that stroked open path in Photoshop is impossible?

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I need to use a Pen tool for drawing connected lines, like in Illustrator. But Photoshop always closes the path. Are there certain settings to avoid this?

Why 'What You See' is not What You Get' in Photoshop? :(


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I'm looking to make something along this type of line design, but every time I try, it ends up looking very bad: messy instead of designery, uneven coverage, etc etc. I typically go for very geometric shapes (the two big design projects I'm currently working on are literally based on squares and hexagons), and I'm at a loss how to make tangled lines look good. I know about Bezier curves, obviously, and line smoothing, but that doesn't seem to be helping as much as I would like.

Are there any scripts out there that might help me? Or would you have any other suggestions on how to tackle this?

(FYI, I use CorelDRAW, sometimes with a graphics tablet, but if I absolutely need to, I can install Photoshop and give that a try)


texts: Size and transparency differences when saving PNG by different methods

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I'm exporting PSD layers to PNGs for a game's texture atlases.

When I'm doing Copy -> New File (RGB 8-bit) -> Save As PNG, the resulting PNG is quite heavy and Finder shows white background instead of transparent.

But when I'm using Export Layers to Files (24-bit PNG), the resulting PNG is 70-95% smaller.

I don't need any compression by Photoshop - my texture creating software can do it well by itself. But I'd like to export layers by script instead of saving them manually.

What makes Saved As PNG that heavy? Do exported images lose any color information or are reduced in quality?
Why is transparency different?


texts: Pen tool jumping and not drawing accurately

texts: When I try to use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator to draw around individual shapes in detail the pen jumps away from where I have selected, as if it is restricted. For example see the image below, if I click where the star is, the pen tool lands beside it rather than on it. I need this for precise outlines, is there a way to configure it or the likes?


texts: How do I use the pen tool for just one anchor point?

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It is quite hard to explain in words so I will show screenshots of what i would like.

This is a screenshot of what happens when I drag with the pen tool.

This is what I would like to happen.

Is there a shortcut to drag out only the first handle?


texts: Working to create large prints dpi and size?

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I need to create a 11400mm X 3300mm size print in photoshop.
What settings can I use that won't completely slow down my computer?
For example I tried to create a doc 11400mm X 3300mm @ 300dpi but it was way too large to work with.

Could I create a new doc in PS at 114mm X 33mm @ 300 dpi that the printer will resize to 11400 X 3300 and it would still look good printed?

ps I have to work with Photos and not vectors

Sorry if this is a stupid question :)


texts: How can I easily preview my illustrator document on my iPad?

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I am designing screens for an app for iPad. I would like to easily preview my artboards on my iPad.

My method to do that is:

export the .ai document to a .pdf document
copy the .pdf file to my "books" in iTunes
then, open this new .pdf file with the books app on my iPad

Is there a more clever way than what I an doing right now?

EDIT: The resason I want to preview is to compare 2 ou more screens. A good point in the process I use in that with a swipe I can compare two artboards.


texts: Anti aliasing for skewed typography in PS

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The white rectangle that contains the typography is a Smart Object that was skewed with Edit > Transform > Perspective.

The problem is that when the it's skewed and then resized (smaller) the text begin to look pixelate and it doesn't work very well, especially for letter with the oval, like e, r, etc.

Is there a way to make the text more sharp? I've already tried to change to Crisp, Sharp, Strong and Smooth but the result is the same.

EDIT:

Here the same Smart Object resized at two different sizes.


texts: Indesign: Paragraph styles and line aka rules

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How do you change stroke thickness of rules within the same paragraph of your paragraph styles section?

I noticed extra rules were created below text, how do you get rid of the extra ones in paragraph styles?


texts: What font is being used for the Apple Watch?

texts: Did Apple create an entirely new typeface for the Apple Watch? Did they customize something existing? To me it looks like it was inspired by DIN and given a very tall x-height, but I see influence from Roboto in there as well.


texts: What unique benefits does the EPS format provide?

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Reading this excellent question regarding logo export formats, and it made me want to ask a question that was a little bit more narrowly focused than that one.

I know when to use a GIF and when to use a JPG, how to optimize certain raster images for certain scenarios. But I feel like the only reason I ever use EPS is because "that's what you're supposed to do," which isn't really a good reason.

So, what is the purpose of an EPS format? What does it do that AI, PDF, and SVG formats do not?

In my experience, non-technical people don't need EPS files, they need JPEGs and GIFs and maybe PDFs. Other designers will almost certainly be able to handle an AI file, and can definitely handle a PDF. For the Web, SVG and PDF make more sense.

The printing realm is one where I'm really not that experienced, so I can't speak to that.

Is this a legacy thing? A compatibility thing? Something for the Quark crowd? Or is there a real benefit that EPS brings that other formats can't do? Would anyone in the audience be hurting if he or she could no longer export to EPS?


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I am new in Photoshop CS6. I have a sample picture and i want to draw a picture same like this

 I dont know how many tools are used to draw this. Please suggest me which tools are used to draw like this image?


texts: I am a graphic designer and I wanna buy a Pantone colour guide book, the pair one for coated and uncoated colours which compares the Pantone color with its CMYK version?Any advise which pait is the best? Thanks!


texts: ghostscript creates sRGB not CMYK PDF file

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Problem
Following recommendations from a variety of discussion (see below), I have attempted to use ghostscript to convert a PDF file in an sRGB colorspace (generated by Inkscape) into a PDF/X-1a file, in a CMYK colorspace.
The command I have used is the following:
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dPDFA -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
  -sDefaultCMYKProfile=/usr/share/color/icc/colord/SWOP_TR005_coated_5.icc \
  -sOutputICCProfile=/usr/share/color/icc/colord/SWOP_TR005_coated_5.icc \
  -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \
  -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \
  -sColorConversionStrategyForImages=CMYK \
  -dRenderIntent=3 -dDeviceGrayToK=true \
  -dOverrideICC -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 \
  -o cmyk.pdf rgb.pdf

Some of these switches may be unnecessary. Mostly, I am ignorant of their function, but have copied them from various sources in an attempt to find some solution to the application consistently generating files with sRGB output, rather than CMYK, as desired.
The sRGB color profile in the output   is confirmed by ImageMagick, as follows:
$ identify -verbose cmyk.pdf
Image: cmyk.pdf
  Format: PDF (Portable Document Format)
  Mime type: application/pdf
  Class: DirectClass
  Geometry: 72x72+0+0
  Resolution: 72x72
  Print size: 1x1
  Units: Undefined
  Colorspace: sRGB
  Type: PaletteAlpha
  Base type: Undefined
  Endianess: Undefined
  Depth: 16/8-bit
<full content truncated>

Note that ghostcript is version 9.50, and is running under Linux Mint 20.0.
What might be a better usage of the application, to produce CMYK output?
References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3418268
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1659147
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31591554


texts: How can I write roman numbers in the program inkscape? Do I have to use the glyph-mode somehow or how is it done? Strangely, manually putting in the Unicode for example for the 'I' , U+2160 does not work and give me an 'I' in the text on my drawings.


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trying to work with an AI file in after effects. I noticed that all my sub layers within AI are invisible within AE. I can see all my top layers but nothing nested within them. IE I have a group of layers with various vector elements that together make a windmill but in AE all I can see is the windmill with no individual parts accessible.

Is there a way to get to these layers without ripping all my sub layers out of their groups in AI before importing to AE?  Thanks!


texts: Free font similar to Quattrocento, with italics

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I'm a fan of Impallari Type's Quattrocentro. It has a certain classic elegance that I like, and it is very readable on screens. Unfortunately it lacks italic variants, making it difficult to use in many places. What free fonts might capture what I like about Quattrocento, but offer me proper italics in addition to a bold?

The use case is for the web site for a small event I help host. Any expenses are entirely out of my pocket, so I'd prefer free, but I could probably justify a modest one-time price.

These are the elements of Quattrocento I've failed to find a reasonable match for:

Relatively high x-height.
Relatively wide characters
Relatively light weight.
Modest differences in stroke width. ("Old-style" serif, perhaps?)
A certain "swooshiness" that evokes calligraphy for me. The tail on the "y" really captures this for me.


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I'm experiencing a problem with image pattern brushes that I use to decorate certain complex surfaces:
I'm creating it from a psd grayscale with 4 Pantones file.
When I apply it to a straight line it's fine but if I apply it to a circle, a washed lighter color appears instead as you can see in the image below...

Does anyone have a solution to avoid this problem ?


texts: Problems altering font icon set in Fontlab

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I found a nice social icon set as font: http://www.tajfa.com/projects/rondo/

What I now want is to remove the circular borders around them, but when I open them with Fontlab Studio 5 I only see a blank set. Is there a way to remove it or do you know of alternative sets?


texts: Free animated gifs for web: loading and progress bars/spinners

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Where is the best place to find free animated gifs?

I have tried googling 'free animated gifs' but the sites that come up offer just useless gifs such as balloons or something in that direction. I'm looking for web design gifs such as a loading bar etc.


texts: Is there an option to apply "shear" as an effect on a layer?

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I would like to implement the rules to make an isometric drawing on a layer instead of an object.
The rules are the following:

Scale the width times 0.866
Shear by +/- 30° around the vertical axis
Rotate by +/- 60° (for the top only)

I am using Adobe Illustrator (CC 2021)
Step 1 and 3 can be applied on a layer using the Transform effect, however I don't find any solution for the shear effect. I tried Free Transform. That does not work, it is not precise enough.
Best
Philipp


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SlavaSoft Paint Express is an image editor that I try to use for re-shaping one of my Android app's assets. It takes in a .png file, auto-convertit to .bmp (it can't work with PNG format), I do the reshaping, then save the .bmp file. Re-opening the file in SlavaSoft reveals the image file exactly how I have saved it, however, opening the same file in Photoshop, ABitmapEditor or attempting to convert it to .png via zamzar.com all produce the same erroneous output - they do not show the alpha channel.

Tried using the reshaped asset inside my Android app and the same - no alpha channel. What is going on here ? how come SlavaSoft sees the alpha channel while other tools do not ?

Thank you


texts: Sketch: Vector does not preserve color and transparency when exporting as SVG

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When I export as SVG from Sketch, the transparency and colors do not appear as intended.

What is going on here? SVG is on Sketch homepage.


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I have been trying to create a favicon for my website for sometime and I cannot get it to be crisp. It is a simple Favicon. This is the best I could make it,

The W will not be crisp. Is this favicon good enough for web standards? How can I improve it?


texts: How can I allow a GIF to play in PowerPoint Normal mode?

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I have a problem that the gif picture is not playing in normal mode, I know that this is normal, it would be playing only in presentation mode. I just want to check if there is any trick to make it work even in Normal mode.

Below screenshot shows the picture (gif) is not playing in normal mode:


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Is there a way to force an SVG to force paths to be a polygon primitive? Paths currently have an issue rendering in the software I need them, and since I don't need any features a path would afford me I'd like them all to be polygons.
I am aware illustrator does this by default, but once a line has a curve in it it is marked as a path and will never be exported as a polygon despite not having any curves, and being a closed contiguous shape. I would like a way to

The path in question below only uses a single M and multiple Line To(L)/Horizontal Line To(H) in its pathdata, so there are no bezier curves to justify it being a path.

M439.83,367.33l52.33-1l3.5-32.67h346.21l10.38,74.58h22.25l3.5-12.38h42.25l-4.88,22.88h33.13v3.13h13.25l17.33,79.96l-2.83,12.42h-9.33l21.25,107.67h7.58l14.67,72l-3.75,10.75H892.21l0.25,3.25l-2.33,10.54H461.08l-1.67-11.63l10.5-108.58h-57.25l-2.08-11.75l14.58-107.17H418l-2.33-12.83l6.75-44.08h10.33L439.83,367.33z

https://betravis.github.io/shape-tools/path-to-polygon/
is a solution but I'd like something I can do automate or at the very least do locally for quality of life reasons.

Converting the points to corners with the direct selection tool will NOT work, the line will still be exported as a path.


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I wonder if there is any automated way of doing animations like on https://www.dropbox.com/

An image is really a set of frames that is cyckled through with javascript. What I would like to know is if there is an easy way to make each frame in Illustrator. I can of course do each frame manually but it is a very time consuming process.


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I'm using Affinity Designer (excellent program).

Maybe I'm silly, but I can't find this anywhere: is there a hotkey for toggling the snapping?  Sometimes it's useful for just one operation, and I don't want to mouse over and click the button.

Thanks!


texts: How to change the size of transparent background in Gimp?

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The following image cuts when used as a logo here. I want to increase the size of the transparent background so it fits in properly without the underneath cut, as shown here. Using Gimp 2.8, how can I accomplish this?

Any help is apprecited :)


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I am looking for alternatives to hand-lettering a Comic. One attractive alternative would be building a custom font. (I'll be asking about details on that in a separate question.)

However, I would like add variation to the characters in order to make it feel more natural. Meaning that a character would have to have several, subtly differing definitions. Which definition to use would be determined randomly.

Does any current mainstream font format support this?

If not, what methods exist to produce digital text with such variations?

Or is this simply insane for building the first custom font?


texts: Best practice for InDesign document translation?

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What are the best practice for translating documents in InDesign?

I guess there is some mechanism for import-export XML like Illustrator Variables to translate without using installed Indesign?

I'm thinking about this workflow:

export InDesign data into XML
translate texts inside XML
import XML into InDesign
correct translated pages


texts: Image as background for every artboard in the same file

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I'm currently designing mockups for an application, and every one of these screens has the same image background.

I was wondering if it's possible to, instead of copying the file on every artboard and thus increasing the .ai file size exponentially, there is a way to embed the file once, and then use it as some sort of background property for every artboard in the same .ai file.

Thanks in advance! I'm hoping it'll help reduce the file size of my mockups.


texts: Is there a way to do calculations when entering values in a field while using free transform in Photoshop?

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When I enter values in free transform mode, there is a bunch of forms that indicate position of the object (x, y, etc...) I found that I can't add, subtract or multiply values in this form. It's very frustrating.

Is it impossible to do calculations in these forms? Or am I missing something?


texts: Why is the quality of GIF animation from Photoshop so much better than Flash CS?

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When I create an animation and export it from Flash CS directly, the quality makes it heartbreaking to look at.

Even if I export it to a png sequence with good quality, and import it to Flash CS then export it, the result is also disappointing.

But if I try Photoshop with the png sequence, I find the result so amazing.

Why is there so much difference with default export settings?


texts: "A symbol definition cannot contain a linked image"

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Trying to create a symbol in Illustrator CS6, a pop-up says A symbol definition cannot contain a linked image.

I have two questions:

Why? I mean, what's the motivation for not allowing this? (I'm a programmer, but cannot understand what prevents allowing this)
How can I workaround this? I have to do a collage, so it's very nice to have symbols - saves disk & memory space.


texts: Subpixel antialiasing for fonts rendered to an image?

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As I understand it, producing an image with fonts that are subpixel antialiased is nonsense because once the font is rendered to an image (clarification: bitmap image), the subpixels will turn into full pixels (how could the image preserve the subpixel-ness of the font rendering?)

I could not find a definitive source to confirm or invalidate my understand.

Clarification: I want to deploy images with text in them to the web. So it's not about a mockup or anything.


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There are one square and two horizontal lines.
I need this lines to be arranged in the square dividing it into three equal parts.

Is it possible to do it without messing with pixels?
How can I align lines in the square? And how can I crop them to the width of the square?

From this:

To this (not perfect):


texts: Gaussian Blur Overlay (iOs/osTV style) Effect with Indesign CS6?

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i'm looking for a way to perform this effect with inDesign but without Photoshop. Does anybody know how?
I tried many option but seem there is no way.
The only think maybe can work is the "insert HTML" object option.
Anybody know how to do it?
Thanks in advantage!


texts: What fonts are similar to Candara, but available on Google Docs?

texts: I've got several documents using Candara that I'd like to shift from Microsoft Word to Google Docs for collaboration; which font is going to be the closest match when using Google?


texts: How do I fill a shape with many small icons in Photoshop?

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I'm looking for something similar to this

or this

I basically have several smaller icons and I want to position them into a shape.

Is there a way photoshop can position them automatically or will I have to manually copy and resize them myself?


texts: Is there a way to align bullet point indent in InDesign paragraph styles?

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I've come across this quite a few times now. Whilst working on a long document with several areas with bullet points, it's obviously more efficient to style the bullet points using Paragraph Styles. However since I can't predict how much space each bullet point will have or how long each bullet point is then I often come across this problem:

As you can see the second line aligns itself to the bullet point rather than the content of the bullet point. I've tried to use first line indent, left indent, tab position but this does everything but what I'm trying to achieve. See the following screenshots

There seems to be no obvious option here to achieve what I'm aiming for. Have I overlooked something?


texts: What to do when finishing a logo that was started by another artist?

texts: I have a client who had a design they had done by another artist and wants me to finish up the logo using what they designed, im just worried legally if i can use what they did or what i need to get from the artist before making changes. Any suggestions?


texts: How to create this circular effect in Photoshop?

texts: I would like to replicate this effect in Photoshop or Illustrator, with a preference for Photoshop. So far, I have been unsuccessful. Any help will be greatly appreciated.


texts: How to make 3.42m x 1.75m size pdf file with 300 dpi?

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I'm working to make big size pdf file for printing.
3.42m x 1.75m (300 dpi)
Printing company need 300dpi file.
I tried it in Indesign and Photoshop, but failed.
Please help me.
Regards.


texts: Fallback web fonts for unicode circles (●◐○)

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To display a rating on a web page, I would like to use unicode circles, for example: ●●●◐○
This uses the following code points from the geometric shapes unicode block:
● U+25CF (BLACK CIRCLE)
◐ U+25D0 (CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK)
○ U+25CB (WHITE CIRCLE)
However, the result obviously depends on the available fonts.
Some fonts do not support all code points, some have non-uniform sizes and/or positions for the symbols, and some fonts show the "CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK" without a border. See e.g. preview on google fonts.
My question is this:
Is there a single font that is available by default on Windows, iOS, Android, and common Linux distributions, that meets the following requirements?

supports these three code points (●◐○)
circles have uniform size
half circle has a border

If not, what would be the proper fallback fonts to use for each of these platforms?
Note: I can also do this using e.g. svg images, but using unicode characters is much more convenient.


texts: InDesign: how to remove everything between square brackets

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I have a script to find all textframes in a document, and do a regular expression to remove (if contains) all text inside square brackets.

For example the text frame might contain:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit [test] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit [test2]"

i have written the following script to find all textframes content then replace them using regex, but only does 1 per text frame and doesnt apply to all

If i run the below script, it gets rid of [test] but not [test2]

var myFrames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;

for (var i = 0; i<myFrames.length; i++) {
   var myFrame = myFrames[i];
   var string = myFrame.contents;
   var string2 = string.replace(/ *\[[^\]]*]/, '');
   myFrame.contents = string2;
}


texts: Which interpolation do I use in this situation?

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I'm not well versed at all in using things like Photoshop or GIMP, so just putting that out there. I figured this would be a good place to ask. I apologize in advance if I say anything dumb.

Anyway, I've tried searching which interpolation may be the best for this situation but I'm just not finding anything that leads me to believe a certain interpolation would be best. I'm downscaling images in GIMP to really small sizes (102x96 to be exact), changing them to 256 colors, and I'm having trouble deciding which interpolation would be best for this size. I'm downscaling images for a retro game that I'm modifying. As you would guess, at 102x96 the images get quite pixelated. I'm not really trying to retain the most pixelated look possible, because I think most images in the game have a slight blurred look to them. I guess I want to know what the best interpolation for the image size that I'm downscaling to is? It's just that I'm driving myself crazy comparing the 4 interpolation options GIMP has (Cubic, Sinc, Linear, and Nearest Neighbor). I keep finding that there's different things about the images that I don't like, and I can't seem to find a consistent interpolation that I like without second guessing myself.

Also, let me note that I have looked at Difference between None, Linear, Cubic and Sinc(Lanczos3) interpolation in image scaling?, but in my situation I still can't seem to come to a decision. Is it really a case-by-case basis and I can't settle on using any singular interpolation? If I'm downscaling to this size and changing it to 256 colors, what interpolation do you guys think is best at retaining details in the image?

I'm terribly sorry if this post is a mess. Again, I'm not knowledgeable at all in this arena, despite researching a lot about this stuff.


texts: Cannot change multiple objects to the same absolute value in Illustrator 23.0.3

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Example:

I'm trying to edit the rightmost column of squares (below) so they all have the same x value.

However when I try to edit their values as a group selection, it does not alter their values to the new position.

Without doing this manually, what's the best way to convert multiple different values to the same absolute value in Illustrator?


texts: Creating a mandala - Why is my ellipse not aligned perfectly symmetrically with guides

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A bit puzzled today, I am following this tutorial on creating a Mandala in Illustrator which uses the principles of locked layers and Transform Copies, it's been generally working great, however I notice some strange misalignments and I am unable to achieve 100% mathematical accuracy.

The ellipse is not sliced on an angle perfectly on the right like it is on the left. The ellipse is aligned horizontally and the Align To is set to Artboard.

Any ideas what's going on here?

This then starts to create a bigger knock on effect as it transforms around the guides.

My angle is 60° and my Copies is 5 as corresponding in the video.


texts: Difference between Shape Groups and normal Groups in Sketch?

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I noticed that there are two different types of grouping/nesting in Sketch, one is a Shape Group and other is a normal Group denoted by a folder.

What's the difference? And how do I create a Shape Group? I've only encountered them by importing SVGs exported by Illustrator.


texts: reducing file size of animated gif web banner

texts: I need to create a 728x180 animated banner for web ad,it has to be specifically weigh 40K, i used photos in creating the banner.  How can i reduce the weight without losing quality of the entire thing? right now it is 100+ kb and i can't do anything without destroying the quality.


texts: How to list the fonts used in an adobe illustrator (AI) file, on linux?

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I would like to list font names used inside an Adobe Illustrator (CS4 or CS5 I don't remember) file, on my Fedora linux desktop.

Is it possible ? I tried to open it with Inkscape but I fail to see where the information is.


texts: How to change the stroke of a single edge in a shape?

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Let me start by saying that I'm a complete ignorant when it comes to Figma, I'm trying to learn the basics in order to draw a couple of very elementary shapes for my research paper.
Is it possible to modify the stroke of a single edge in a rectangle drawn with the rectangle tool in Figma to make it dashed for example?
I don't want to change all the 4 segments of the rectangle, just one of them. If I keep them separated (not in a single vector network) then I cannot "fill" the inside of the rectangle with colour. If I flatten 3 solid vectors and a dashed one then all of them becomes dashed.


texts: How can I extract and magnify video frames?

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I am hoping this is the right area to post this. I have 1080p trail camera footage of someone stealing equipment. The truck plates are a little too far away in the video to clearly make out the numbers.

I was just taking screenshots of the video using print screen, or using the snippet tool to get them into GIMP. I think the quality got degraded from doing that. I am trying to magnify the video frames but I don't think this method will work.

I originally used GIMP and a open source application called smartDeblur to see if I could get it. I was using GIMP to increase the scale without losing quality but it was too distorted the bigger it got to make anything out.

Does GIMP have any sort of video to image capture I can use?  Is doing the snippet or screen shot of a video indeed losing image quality from what was originally on the frame?


texts: InDesign best practice for headings in separate columns

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I'm wondering if there is a better way to set up this type of layout where the headings are in the left column, and the body copy is in the right column. Currently I am using a separate text box for the headings, but as the text reflows, there is a lot of manual re-adjusting to the position of the text boxes.

I tried using First Line Indent and keeping everything in one box, but then headings get messed up when they extend to the next line.
Any editorial pros out there want to share some tips?


texts: How to print HQ vinyl self-adhesive stickers

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I'm doing some research and was wondering if you can help :)

I'm trying to figure it out how to print (and obviously cut) vinyl stickers for cards with the size of a standard debit/credit card. I need the stickers to be durable (strongly adhesive to the plastic) and for the print/ink not to wear out easy; waterproof would be a nice feature as well.

I've read that one can achieve all the things above by using a good inkjet printer with Papilio Inkjet waterproof vinyl. Is it true? Moreover is there a similar solution for laser printers?

As for the cutting, what kind of equipment I would need to achieve nice round edges?

I have a small graphic design business, specializing in 3D CGI and video effects but it's not going very well :( Recently a friend of mine who's working for a huge company told me that he can get me a contract for printing stickers for the employees' security cards (photo of the person and some text), which are the size of a debit card. Unfortunately I have no experience with these things so any help will be much appreciated.


texts: Inkscape: How to evenly distribute lines within a rectangle?

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I'm new to Inkscape.

I want to align/uniformly distribute vertical lines within a rectangle. So that the space between the lines is all the same distance.

For example, if I have a 300x400 pixel rectangle and 4 lines, I want to distribute them with same distance inside the rectangle, but I couldn't do. Instead, they were aligning with each other. I put my output below.


texts: Replicating the Foreground/Background Jitter from Photoshop in Corel Painter

texts: I was recently introduced to a set of Photoshop brushes that cleverly use the Foreground/Background Jitter (jittering between the foreground and background colors) to create a fur texture quickly. I've been trying some ways to do this in Corel, but the closest I've managed so far requires making a new custom gradient every time I switch colors. Does anyone know if there's some similar capability in Painter that I am missing?


texts: Select compound paths under a path but keep edges

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Background: I've created a word cloud, and I'd like to clip it to a predefined path. The problem is that words on the edge are getting trimmed halfway, I'd like to keep the whole word.
The question is: How can I select whole objects under a path the whole object, I've already tried the pathfinder tool and the clipping mask, but they both "cut" the word.
What am I missing ?


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So, I'm trying this tutorial and everything works fine, except point 5. http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/globe-tutorial/

I create a mesh with "Envelope Distort" selected with my mesh tool a nod and tried to color the Mesh point... but it doesnt work, I dont why or how but... dont know, I'm out of ideas. Edit contents is just to change the color of the rectangle, not the mesh points... so, how?


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Can anyone tell me which is the best software for Designing a clothing company Tag?

Also any preferred/standard size (if any) or special requirements for designing a tag?


texts: Illustrator Adjusting the shape of a brushed path using paintbrush yields unpredictable behaviors

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I have a question regarding adjusting the shape of an existing brushed path using paintbrush tool.

I created a brushed path using Paintbrush tool. After selecting the created path, I used paintbrush tool to adjust its shape.
Here is when the unpredictable behaviors come in.

Sometimes it adjusts the existing path from where you start dragging. Sometimes it extends the path instead.

What controls the behavior?

The video should clarify my problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHCV2fsNUFc


texts: (Illustrator) Limiting the Transparency Grid to artboards only

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I know the artboard in Illustrator is transparent by default, but it's shown as white. Or a different color, if you set it up to simulate colored paper.

However, I'm not sure if it's possible to set it up as a transparency grid.

I know I can activate the transparency grid by hitting CTRL+SHIFT+D, but my issue with that is that about 80% of my screen will then be filled up with a transparency grid:   Which kind of hurts my eyes.

I'd like to be able to limit it to just my artboard, similar to how Photoshop allows you to view a transparent artboard.

So only have the transparency grid appear in the confines of that square you see in the picture above.


texts: Rectangle border into 4 equal pieces Illustator

texts: I want to cut this rectangle border shape(Picture below) into 4 pieces without affecting the gradient color but cannot figure out how. I have tried pathfinder tool, scissors tool, removing anchors. Does anyone have any idea how?


texts:
The graphics designer I am working with has given me the 3 options for delivering the graphics for the iOS app.

I want the delivered files to suit the following criteria:

Good quality (Ex: for retina display) that is also resizable
Lossless conversion as much as possible
Easy to produce PNGs of different sizes (for retina and non retina) for someone  who is not well versed in creating graphics (a developer like myself)
Easy for any other designer to tweak if needed in the future.
Optional requirement: Editable using either Photoshop or Illustrator ( as those are the only 2 programs I currently own)

The formats are:

Illustrator file
an EPS generated from Photoshop
an embedded smart layer within Photoshop

Which of these formats would fit the bill based on the above criteria. Any feedback highly appreciated.

Thanks!


texts: Can't select paths from PDF file in Illustrator

texts:
I need to work with this file for a school project I have.

Currently I am trying to make roads. I saw that the roads in the original image will work fine with what I am working on, so I am tried coping them, but then found out Illustrator won't select the path.

When I click with the select on a path, it ends up selecting the entire image.

At first I though that was because the image was grouped, but there is no option to ungroup it. Using the direct select tool is a no go as well, since I would have to manually select every anchor in a road and at that point, I might as well just trace it.

I would really love an answer as to how I can select a whole path with out selecting the rest of the image. Or at the very least, an explanation as to why this is.


texts:
Could you please give me some advice and various methods to do this work?
Basically I would like to fill the sheet with lines like a notebook.
The problem is that when I reach the end of the sheet the lines break up and the program create a new page to head.

Problem 1   (see the img to undersand)
Problem 2 (see the img to undersand)

When I try to delete the space on the 2nd page the lines are automatically deleted and lose the correct spacing
When I add the line to make the spaces exact then it add another page

I'm really upset,
How could I solve this mistery?
Thanks for all ideas ✨


texts: How can I convert an object from one-point to two-point perspective?

texts:
Assume I have a one-point perspective drawing of a room, and I've drawn a rectangular box off to the side, on the ground - the front plane is facing the viewer (all angles on this plane are 90°), and the other visible sides (right side, and top) are angled back based on their relation to the vanishing point. So it's a rectangular room, the viewer is standing in the middle facing the back wall, and there's a box along the left wall.

Now assume that I want to leave that box where it is, but rotate it 30° or 45°. It now moves into two-point perspective.

What I'm wondering is, how do I choose the two points for that perspective if I want to select a specific angle of rotation (i.e. I want to rotate the box exactly 30° from the viewer, instead of visually "eh, close enough")? I'm assuming they would be on the same horizon line as the vanishing point for the one-point perspective.

I understand the basics of drawing in 2 point perspective, but just picking random angles in the context of an existing 1pp room makes the object feel like it's "floating" - plus it doesn't really give any kind of control over exact angles.


texts: How to remove an object from a photo in GIMP?

texts:
I'm new with GIMP (2.10.8). I have this photo:

In this image you can see my finger and I tried to remove it with Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel, I get this result...

I then tried to fill the area with the same colour surrounding it, but every time the Color Picker Tool gives me different brown shades, not the exact colour...

How do I properly fill this area?


texts: Add a layer on top of all the others to specifically add transparency in GIMP

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I have hundreds of layers on an image. I would like to add a layer especially dedicated on transparency - so that I can add transparency to the areas of the image, without modifying the other layers. How could I do that without flattening the other layers ?

Here is the beautifully drawn example :

I have multiple layers

I would like to add one layer on the top to determine what areas are transparent (the white part should be transparent)

I cannot merge the other layers, and adding the same layer mask to all the layers is not possible.


texts: Losing Transparency when placing an item in illustrator

texts:
I've never had this problem before. I'm saving my images in Photoshop with no background. But when I place them into Illustrator they have a white background. I've tried it as a Tiff, Png, PSD, and EPS file. I've even tried placing files that I have used on other projects and they have a background.

I have figured out that it is something to do with this AI file only, as I've opened a new AI file and placed the same images without a problem. So I'm thinking my customer checked some box somewhere and I can not find. Help Please!!

Also, when I show the Transparency grid it shows the items as a transparent background, but still cuts out what's behind it.


texts: What is the correct bleed number for A4 and A5 documents in InDesign CS6?

texts: I face a great challenge in knowing what exactly bleed should I use in my document with A4 and another in A5. Actually, this will help me to guide printers on what should they suppose to crop.


texts: How to draw icebergs like the following image?

texts: I want to draw some icebergs in Gimp or Photoshop. In Gimp I tried Path Tool, and then I tried to fill in the colors with Bucket Fill, but this gave me a very bad result. So my question is if anyone can help me, either in Photoshop or Gimp, to get started?


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this is a newbie question. I'm not a designer but I would learn something.
Look this image:

Well, I would recreate this image (without the pattern background, it doesn't matter).
The point is that I want resize the image without quality loss. So if possibile, I would the same quality at, for example, 150x40 and the same at 1500x400. Probably for a web designer this is absolutely easy but for me not.

Can you give me some tips for doing that? For this, is it better to work in Photoshop or Illustrator? Thank you!


texts:
Take this image for example:

How would you tackle the task of continuing the curve (left shape) till it joins with the second shape in a 'more precise' way than taking the pen and guessing the angle/curvature?

I usually end up redrawing from the last straight anchor points:


texts: Single word/phrase for "unindent and unalign"?

texts:
In the image, "dolor sit" line is "indented" and "aligned". If you pull that line all the way to the first column, it would be "unindented and unaligned". What would be a single word/phase for the action of "unindenting and unaligning" something?
That is, I'm looking for a word/phrase that means "the action of undoing indentation and alignment". I feel like just "unindent" or "dedent" doesn't cut it, because it is also aligned, not just indented.


texts: Efficient Way to Insert Repetitive Page Images Consistently in a Large InDesign Doc?

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Hi Graphic Design People,

I am trying to put together a comic book to print, whose pages I have saved as flattened tif (of course I have the layered files too in case I need to modify anything).

It's very long, close to 300 pages. I looked at many vids and tuts about how to place images, but the best suggestion I seemed to find was to Click and Drag with the Load Gun.

Clicking and Dragging with the Load Gun hundreds of times is not only time consuming, I am also concerned about the slight differences of where each page gets Loaded onto the InDesign document when you do it manually like that.

It seems like there must be a simple way to do this generic task, but I have not discovered it. Any advice?

Thank you so much,
Angie


texts: SVG files render differently in browsers - typography

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I have a problem with svg backgrounds that render differently in browsers.In Chrome the letters are correctly gill sans light and two words are bold. That's not the case in Firefox. How do I fix this, so it looks like in Chrome across all browsers?

Also - they appear FPS-heavy even though the files are under 1kb. Why is this?

site: http://www.teamgenerous.com

Browsers: newest versions

Thank you


texts: How can I number copies of Photoshop layers?

texts:
In this video a girl has copied an image several times. When I do the same the following happens:

"image" (copy 2)
"image" (copy 1)
"image" (source)

How can I number the layers without the copy-addition like in the video?

"image 2"
"image 1"
"image" (source)

I'm using Photoshop CC 2015.5.0 on Windows 10.


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I'm trying to investigate existing designs that solve this problem:

We have three major contexts inside our application, let's call them Build, Analyze, Configure. These contexts are bound to a particular selection from a list of items, and that list of items is intended to be "globally available". How might I represent the visual hierarchy such that the main contexts are both tied to the globally available selected item, but also the context of the main page?

I realize this is not entirely clear from text alone, so here is a picture to illustrate my problem:

** edited to add information **

To give some examples of the data available in these different views...

The sidebar contains a list of Tests where each test has a name, date, and statistics: [ name, date_created, number_a, number_b, ... number_n ]. The sidebar only shows a small summary representation of a test, but the full realization of that test is contained inside the main page context. This includes complex equations and statistical configurations associated with that item. Again, clicking on a test summary found in the sidebar will populate the main context with that test's full representation. How can I visualize "these contextual tabs belong to a single Test and the test they belong to is selected"?


texts: What paper should I use to create normal flyer bleeds from a laser printer?

texts:
I know it has to be a bit larger, but can I get quality laser print paper to go in a commodity printer?  (I have a bizhub C360.)

If so, what size should I get?


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I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC. I have a background that I want to convert it into a triangle shaped pattern for example, check the tiles on this picture

I have found a tutorial on how to do it but did not get it right, see this

This is what I've made, as you can see.. pattern is not clear. How do I make the pattern clear like in the first picture.


texts: Limiting a textile pattern to Pantone colours

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When working in Photoshop to design a textile pattern using Pantone C colours, how do I ensure that the colour palate is limited to Pantone even after blending colours to achieve gradients and watercolour effects?
I'm starting with this:
In an attempt to produce something like this - or as near as possible:


texts: How to get those help borders in illustrator?

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Not sure how I should call this but I'm following a tutorial and in there he has this green help lines that indicate your selected object is at the same heigth over the overlapping object behind it, it used to be enabled but somehow it stopped showing after a while.

How do I enable this green help lines?

Here's a picture showing the green help lines: sorry for the bad quality


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I am new to illustrator and I find the 2017 version extremely hard to use and it makes me very stressed! I am making a logo for my team, and I have found a picture I would want to clip. So far I've followed a tutorial that helps me clip out this section of an image. It follows as:

Open picture
File > Document setup
Edit Artboards
Adjust to pic size (outline)
Use pen tool to size out shape
Make pixel perfect
Make clipping mask

However, when I get to step 7, this shows up

It doesn't allow me to clip. Can someone help?


texts: Illustrator layers to keynote presentation

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(I'm using AI CC and Keynote 6)

Often I would have a complex diagram that I would like to show part by part animated in my presentation. Nothing fancy that would require after effects, just appearing in a sequence. I use Illustrator to make those diagrams and I can easily separate them such that the sequence I want to show are arranged in layers.

But my final presentation is in Apple keynote. What is the best way to import them?

In the past, I have exported each build as png. But this is quite labor intensive, and aligning them in keynote over multiple pages could be a pain. I could try to write an illustrator script, but that seems to be more work than I am willing to put in...

Any suggestions?


texts: Change default alignment type-on-a-path on Illustrator

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I have to name some lines in a mathematical plot and using the type on the path tool seems to be the perfect choice, however for some reason Illustrator draws the values backwards. Check the picture:

As you can see, the 1000 line is aligned "backwards", and my interest is to align it as the 900 value. Now I can do that dragging the handlers, or using the Type on a Path tool Options, but is there a way to change the default alignment as it is very difficult to do each one individually as there are around 200 lines.


texts: Is it possible to print designs with huge resolution?

texts:
I have a question what that nobody seems to know the answer to.

I have to make small stickers with ingredients lists (100mmx50mm), i know i should use illustrator but all i have is photoshop.

The Printing company told me that they were unable to print my stickers (300ppi) because when they zoomed in 1200% or more, the images got pixelated, and that was why one order of stickers had "hairy" letters.

I was suprised because it seems like a weird issue, so i started to increase the dpi of the images, so they would look better in 1200% zoom (and why would you have to zoom in that much as the sticker is so small itself).

So i made a design for a magazine, afterwards they told me that they did't want the pdf file but jpg file of the design, when i compressed the picture and saved it had a bad quality so i increased the resolution to 500, they called me back and told me that 300 is the maximum for printing.

I have read about this but can't find an answer on how to resolve this issue, okay, magazines are max 300 but what about the stickers? Is 300 ppi max for printing or can files with bigger ppi also be printed (let's say 1000ppi)? I know the question is stupid but this is the situation i'm in. And no, i can't use illustrator.

What I meant by making the stickers, was that i have to create them with photoshop, I am talking about stickers containing the ingredients list behind on product packages, black and white. Very small size and font, but still readable.


texts: Finding the distance between two guides in Photoshop

texts: Is there any way, aside from looking at the rulers and measuring by eyesight, to find the precise distance between one guide line and another?


texts: Change start of threaded text path in Illustrator

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I created a series of semi-circle paths in Illustrator and linked them together using the Threaded Text function. Using the Type on a Path options, I was able to flip the direction of the text to the order I'd like. But I would like to flip the order of the path, all together. Right now, the type begins at the outside of the circle and works its way inwards. I want the type to start on the inside of the circle and work its way outwards. How would I accomplish this?

Here's what my path looks like:

Again, I want the type to start at the top of the rings, not at the bottom.

Thanks!


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In Adobe Photoshop (I'm currently using CS5), is it possible to remove the cyan-coloured guide lines? I'm talking about the ones added by View > Guides.. > [horizontal/vertical guide choice].

I can't find it anywhere on Google nor this site!


texts: Create same effect in Illustrator as Carhartt image below

texts: I've tried using the roughen tool in illustrator but not really getting the results I'm looking for. Any advice would be much appreciated.


texts:
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document.  Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this.  So the gray background is perfect.  Basically I just want to highlight certain text.  But I can't figure out how to highlight text or have certain text within a text frame have a different background.

I know I can anchor a text frame inline within a text frame.  But then I have to size it just right, which is a real pain when I'm constantly changing the text too.

UPDATE: is there really no way to highlight text in InDesign?  Seems crazy.  By the way, I'm using the latest InDesign CS5.5.


texts: CSS: Fade input image on focus is too dark

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How can I simply make the background fade a bit while typing WITHOUT affecting the text opacity?. Without fading if you type over the top of the image it is hard to read. The reason I have not faded the image is I want it to looks strong, and then fade when typing.

Css:

.search-block #s {
    background: #FFF url(../folder/images/logo.png) no-repeat top center;
    background-size: contain;
    width: 300px;
    color: #000;
    opacity: 1;
    background-position: right 50px top;
}
.search-block #s:focus {
    color:#000;
    //opacity: 0.5; //if this is set the field fades like i want but is dark and not white like i want
}
.search-block .search-button {
    background: #2F2F2F;
    opacity: 1;
    border-right: none;
}

HTML:

<div class="search-block">
    <form method="get" id="searchform" action="...">
        <button class="search-button" type="submit" value="..."></button>
        <input type="text" id="s" name="s" value="..."  />
    </form>
</div>

Edit a varient of @Hynes solution:

I didn't add in the transitions here just to show base css that got it working perfectly:

.search-block {
    display: block;
    position: relative;
}
.search-block:after {
  background: #FFF url(../folder/images/logo.png) no-repeat top center;
  background-size: contain;
  background-position: right 50px top;
  color: #000;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: -1;
  content: "";
}
.search-block #s {
    background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);
    width: 300px;
    color: #000;
    opacity: 1;
}
.search-block:hover #s {
    background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
    color: #000;
}
.search-block #s:focus {
    background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8);
    color: #000;
}
.search-block .search-button {
    background: #2F2F2F;
    opacity: 1;
    border-right: none;
}
.search-block:hover .search-button{
    color: #FFF;
    opacity: 1;
}

Here is the fiddle to the original solution: Fiddle


texts: When I try to select an object to move, I'm getting the "rotation" selection instead...until I zoom in 75%...I can now finally select the center point to move the object. This is a big pain, is there a way to increase the center point or sensitivity so I'm not having to zoom in so close?


texts: What is the best tool to make animations for iOS games?

texts: What is the easiest tool and way to make moving animations that can be used in iOS games? If there are tutorials, I can also learn. I also want it to be vector or retina. Something like hd. Thanks.


texts: How to create transparent border around text on Illustrator?

texts: I created the following on Photoshop. I wanted to see if the same can be done on Illustrator (just the typography). I tried clipping masks, but the opposite of what I want is happening i.e. the circle at the center is including the John and Jane text within it, instead of excluding. TIA]1


texts: Show (or list) things on page/document that use given style (paragraph, character, object, table or cell) in InDesign?

texts:
I have quite dense styling hierarchy and would like to ensure that stuff that uses those styles is set up correctly and I didn't mix something up on accident.

In Office Word there is "Select all" functionality when You right-click given style which allows You to do just that - select all text that uses given character or paragraph style.

I am looking for similar in InDesign, especially for Tables, Cells and Paragraphs/Characters.


texts: What typeface to use based on personality traits?

texts:
I want to make my own online resumé website, so that I could show it to future employers. I'm currently working on choosing typefaces based on personal traits I want to portray which are: dynamic,professional,trustable and innovative.
I also would like to know which typeface characteristics should I look into to achieve the aforementioned traits. I know that for example to portray a friendly and warm feeling I should look for rounded typefaces with open counters,but except that I don't know much more about looking into characteristics to get to the results I look for.


texts: How can I keep my background layer always locked?

texts:
The Background Layer is locked.
I duplicated the file to Background Copy.
Go to chop the Background Copy.
The locked background changes and no longer is locked.

Please help me reset my settings where the background layer stays locked at all times?


texts: What requirements are there for a valid US postcard?

texts:
When designing postcards meant to be sent with the US Postal Service, what requirements to we need to keep in mind when working on the design?

Which areas are we free to use for designs, and which areas need to be left blank or filled in with specific details, in order for the postal service to be able to process and manage?

And second, what sizes of postcard are acceptable in US mail?


texts: InDesign: how to prepare book for perfect binding

texts: I am designing a perfect bound book, I understand that the pages will all be single, so they can easily be in different paper (colour, weight etc), but I can't figure out how I can tell the printer which page will go where, should I send separate pdfs and then tell them the exact order?


texts: Obtaining this effect in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: How can I obtain this vector effect in Illustrator? Is there a name for this kind of effect? Please, help!


texts:
Is there any way to distribute spacing equally in every object?

Is there any option to do? I want 2MM spacing in every geometrical shape.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
In Gimp (2.8.10) when I use the Select by Color tool it frequently selects bits of color physically distant from the area I'm trying to select.  For example I'm trying to select the color of a shirt on a person wearing shorts and it select parts of their legs as well as the shirt.  Messing with the threshold helps but does not usually solve the problem.

Primarily my question is what techniques are there to select by color effectively?  For example, is it possible to first select a general rough region with a lasso or other tool and then do a select by color only within that region?


texts: How to create and manipulate a slinky style spring

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Background

Im writing a book on music theory and I need to create some diagrams and illustrations to explain some key points. Im currently writing a section about sound waves and I would like to explain how they work by visualising them with illustrations of a slinky spring

For anyone unfamiliar a slinky is a toy thats pretty much a giant coil of wire

Ref: link

Its also important for me to mention that any software suggestion should free if possible, so something like GIMP or Inkscape

An example of the type of images I would like to create

Ref: link

My attempt so far

The closest I could get was (dont laugh) using shapes in publisher however this made manipulation of the spring near impossible

This is also my first post here so please let me know if anything needs changing or clarifying


texts: Please provide some feedback for Logo Critique

texts:
This is a logo for a pathology society.
Parameters are: Symmetry. Science Colors, Blues & Greens. Connected circles representing diversity, connection, synergy.
I have an entire brief and hundreds of versions if needed.


texts: How to force the 3D extrusion to accept changes to the smart object?

texts: I have a simple smart object which was converted to 3D by extrusion. I edited the underlying smart object with Edit Source and saved it. However, the 3D "version" does not represent those changes - how can I make sure they get carried over?


texts: Can you recommend design inspiration for business graphics/presentations?

texts:
I recently landed my first freelance job, redesigning a pretty ugly Keynote presentation deck (see example slide attached). I would like to see beautiful contemporary presentations/design styles for inspiration... are there any good galleries online you could recommend?

I can definitely improve upon their efforts, but I really want to blow them away with a coherent, contemporary, professional job. I think seeing examples of great design (not only presentation templates, but great ways to present graphics) would help.

Thanks for your time guys.


texts: cutting one object with another using illustrator

texts:
I want to cut an object using second object how can I acheive it?

In the above image you can see 2 objects one is circle having 2px stroke and no fill, second is rectangle having white fill but no stroke. I want to cut circle based on rectangle to make it something like this

Using your solutions I am getting object like this one


texts: How can I connect in Illustrator two circle's tangent with another curve (or circle section)?

texts:
I am trying to connect these two circles in purple with curves (in red) with some kind of an arc but i just can't find a way of doing this perfectly, with accuracy and without a plugin, i just can try to fit them as good as i can but i need these connections to be super precise and snapped if possible. Thanks a lot!:
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texts: How to control variable width of line in Illustrator

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I want to make specific part of a path wider.
Width tool (cs5) gives me unwanted results on the rest of the path.
Brushes do not offer control for bulge positions on long swirly paths.
Even calligraphy brushes. (I do not want "ribbons").

How people digitally make SPECIFIC lines for calligraphic fonts and swooshes?
How to get from this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/calligraphuck/12846010874/

to this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/calligraphuck/7483957036/

?

Thank you.

(Fastest and easy way is to use predefined brushes, but I want full control)

Update - width tool is insufficient because I get this:

 Line got narrower left from the point I inserted to reset width of that part of the path. How can I make it stay 10 points?


texts: I'm trying to create a similar effect to this photo. With a blue and red overlay, but i cant seem to get more or less the same effect. i've tried to make a photo black and white and then apply the gradient overlay and make it multiply, but it does not really match at all. Any ideas to how this has been created?


texts:
I am mainly a coder but have to do design mockups from time to time.  For this I have Fireworks CS5 which is great because I know how to use it and can just chop up various supplied media into a layout.

However, the fonts look awful.  It's not a case of enabling anti-aliasing as I have experimented with those settings.

When the google web font is rendered by JS in the browser it looks crisp and clear and much better than in my mockups.

The only way I can get this same clarity in my mockups is to create text twice the size I want it in separate image and then export back to my mockup at 50% size.  I have tried doubling the dpi canvas settings but that doesn't work.

Is this just the way I have to do things or am I missing a simple trick?

I realize that there is probably better software on the market but it's hard to justify paying hundreds of bucks out on new software when the one I've got generally meets all my needs.

Any advice appreciated, thanks.


texts: What is the name of this type design? (royal, classy, luxury)

texts: I am trying to find on internet that kind of type designs, but I do not know what is the terminology of this type. It should be barocco art, old classical ornaments, luxury? How exactly it is called in design?


texts: How can I increase the quality of my VRay render in rhino?

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I have tried rendering an image several times in VRay using the denoiser and setting the render output to very high but I still keep getting a pixilated image. I have run renders before that have been much higher quality and I can’t remember doing anything differently. Any ideas what could be the issue?

The first picture is of my Asset Editor and the settings I used, the second is the resulting render.


texts: Converting a full colour vector to a single outline vector

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Im looking to convert a full colour vector image into pretty much a line drawing with no fill. I use illustrator CS6. I have tried the Edit> Edit Colours> Recolour Artwork. However, when I'm done it still fills in the drawings where a colours were filled previously. deleting the colours inside isnt possible as the vector image was created through a live trace.

Any help regarding this would be appreciated.


texts: Convert parallel paths into one in Inkscape

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I have an img that it is a black line. I try to convert to vector: Inkscape > Path > Trace Bitmap. Even the img is just a  fine line, it makes two vector lines: one for the outside border of the original shape and another for the inside border.

If I select the shape with the arrow it seems just one line. But if I select with the Edit path tool seems like two parallel lines.

Do you know how to make the vector conversion with just one line? Or perhaps, is there a way to make the two lines into one, later?

The shape is very complex, but as an example, I show you a simple circle. It has two lines and I need just one:


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I'm looking for a free software (maybe even open-source) which can handle similar effect to Paragraph Shading in InDesign - which is working magnificent.

InDesign example:

Heading 2 is based on Heading 1 and only Font Size is changed. This is what I'm after.

Affinity Publisher example:

Publisher is not to shabby. It has Decoration option which is great to the point when Font Size change. It's passable though.

What else I've tried:

Scribus - not even close. There is highlight without any padding/inset.
InkScape - no options.
Gimp - as above.
Krita - as above.
LibreOffice Writer/Draw - Writer has nice hackish solution by adding borders with the same color as highlight with inset. BUT. Adding images, page backgrounds and cropping them in Writer is pure nightmare. Worth mentioning is a fact that this do not work in Text Frame but it works ok in... Shape. So it's a no go. Draw dosen't have this options.
Google Slides - yes, I've tried it.

I've also checked Gravit, Canva, Vectr and gazillion more different apps. I'm stunned that such simple option is so hard to achieve. Even in CSS it's not straightforward.

Am I missing something obvious in here?


texts: Illustrator: Grain Effect makes round objects pixelated

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I would like to apply an effect to the whole artboard (all elements), so that the colors don't look too monotone.

It should look like this (found it here):

I think this effect is called Grain. So I selected all elements in my artboard and went Effect > Texture > Grain.

Now I have two problems:

(1) Round objects look pixelated

This is how it looks in Illustrator:

When I export it, it looks better, but still more pixelated than without the grain effect:

(2) The file size increases enormously

Without the grain effect the picture with circle and rectangle has 7KB. With the effect 326KB.

Question:

How can I solve these two problems? Should I export it without an effect, and apply it in another program? And is this effect even called grain?

Summarized: What should I do to get the same effect like in the referenced picture, while keeping a "small" export size and having smooth round objects?


texts: convert opacity to solid color in inkscape

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Creating a document in publisher I want to get all my pictures in vector format.

I've created one using inkscape and the only common format for publisher & inkscape is ehanced metafile (*.emf).
The problem is metafile does not support opacity

I found this solution but it uses illustrator
Illustrator: Getting solid color values from transparency?

so I looked for flattening transparency for inkscape but this is the only clue I got:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/951816 and no update since...

any idea how to do it?


texts: What (sans-serif) font should I use for an OS X application?

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Currently working on an application, which will be released on Multiple platforms, targeting OS X and Windows devices first, followed by iOS release. The current focus is on the OS X version, which will be released first.

During the design process, I have opted for Myriad Pro. Which suits the application in various areas very well. i.e. Titles, Labels, Menu Texts etc.

After some research though I have released it is not shipped with Macs or other OS.

I am currently working on OS X Lion and have no access to Avenir, however, I had the chance to try Helvetica and H. Neue, which looks fine but does not fit as well as Myriad Pro.

What fonts should I try to use?
What would be your suggestions as experienced designers on the
subject?

Thank you


texts: How to recreate PDF bookmarks after I modify the source file ?

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I chose Apple Pages to create a PDF manual with bookmarks (TOC in the sidebar for navigation). But as it cannot create those bookmarks, I must create them in another app such as Acrobat. The problem is that I can't import the PDF back in Pages to do modifications while keeping the bookmarks and even if I could, as soon as I would add or remove a page, all bookmarks for the following pages would be wrong.

So is there a tool that could for example generate those bookmarks from a list of text lines and page numbers ?