When the wind blows This is a .pdf, will download.
When the wind blows This is a .pdf, will download.
I have enjoyed using Affinity Designer and it’s sister products Affinity Photo and the beta Affinity Publisher, but the lack of a trace function in Designer is a serious drawback. Compared to CorelDraw (£599) or the endless cost (and irritation) of Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer (£50) is fantastic value for money and there are no …
A trip through the rain to Basically Wooden in Devon to collect many laser-cut toy boats, ready for packaging and hopefully for some sales. Sue and Andrew at Basically Wooden design, laser-cut and assemble fine objects for the gaming world, and some other items. They have just made a new dice tower, really lovely. They …
I just got the latest upgrade/bug fix for Affinity Publisher beta – still free. I haven’t found any bugs and I am enjoying using it. It has excellent file export choices including .pdf. I found colour printout to be very good as well; although the colours of my Xerox laser can be a little over-saturated …
Working on a steampunk design for a helicopter, I have struggled the last few days to get a look that will translate to plywood. The devil really is in the detail. My plywood laser-cut toys are plain and unadorned but steampunk is not about clean lines. I spent a while this morning drawing this window in …
Printing documents that are larger than A4 can be a pain. I find Windows to be way behind the mac in this respect, and most of the cheaper apps don’t have printer dialogue boxes that can handle this. So third party apps would seem to be the way, but are there any? I tried Wrapcandy …
Lots more time with Affinity Designer and Photo, checking and re-checking files and also making visual instruction sheets.
I have been using Affinity Designer (AD) to make instruction sheets for my plywood construction toys – a process which often seems more painstaking than designing the things themselves. These are vector files – raster files become huge and slow – and were originally created in Illustrator using the 3D function. But they original won’t …
I have been using Affinity Designer (AD) to correct and amend five files – plywood model boats and helicopter, which means opening the Adobe Illustrator .ai file, working on it then ‘Exporting‘ it in .svg format, AD can only Save in it’s own format, .afdesign. This is a weakness in the AD setup and doesn’t …
