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Below I've posted a video from Anar Foundation YT channel. Child portrait and text changes according to observer's viewing angle and height. Does anyone what technique this is called and how they're made?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zoCDyQSH0o&t=69s
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I hope you are well?
For a long time I always wanted to know how to do it easier.
Unfortunately, I have not figured it out.
I hope there is a professional here who can give me a hint.
I have an object, let's say a teddy bear, it is transparent and only the lines of the teddy bear are drawn in black.
Now I want to selec... |
I am learning to use Krita, and I would like to have the contextual help turned on. This is sometimes called "hints", or "balloon help", and consists in small notes, containing some written help and/or descriptions, that pop-up next to a button, or other elements of the User Interface, when the mouse hovers on them.
Is... |
In Adobe Photoshop there is a layer style named Stroke. You can set its Position to Inside.
Is there a way to use an alpha-channel multiplier instead of a solid color? I'd like to make the layer edge (say, 7 pixels) semi-transparent with a given level of opacity (say, 80%):
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I want to make a GIF and I need to merge text with all layers. If there is a more efficient way to do this instead of:
Dublicate Text Layer
Merge Down
and repeat if it's not the last layer
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The question is, in a laser / digital printer / press, if I print at 1200dpi do I consume more toner compared to 600dpi?
Time consumption and processing resources like memory and cpu of the raster unit will be more, but regarding the toner:
To me it should be roughly the same because the amount of dot used is bigger bu... |
At scale, how can I recolor shapes based on the image they're covering? For example, if you had a picture of a map, and you wanted to recolor a bunch of stars laid over top of it.
If you only had a few shapes like this, you could just do it by hand, but this quickly breaks down when you have a few thousand shapes. Is ... |
For instance, if a publication is published as "NLB Membership Buyer & Resource Guide" and instead it is being promoted as "NLB Membership Guide" should there be a reason in the publication why it is being called "NLB Membership Guide," rather than the full name? Or should the publication be renamed to "NLB Membership ... |
I have a photo where I want to replace the head, I cut the head from another photo, how can I integrate this head to not see that it is photoshop work. I am in the design a complete zero.
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So I've been creating a sign pack for a game I play and ran into a very odd issue.
What I've been doing is create a bunch of shapes in Illustrator and export them as SVG. Then importing them to PhotoShop for assembling them and from PS I've been exporting them as a transparent PNG. Now the issue is that when I put the ... |
I have this business card that I just found from my grandfather who practiced as a pediatrician in Cuba in the 1950s and early 1960s.
I'd love to know the font as he's passed and it would be fun to recreate or include in my own work.
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I want to make a Motion Graphics promotional reel for uploading on YouTube and I like to make something with a retro aesthetic.
I think to use old videogame sprite sheets to make backgrounds and scenarios and I have doubts about legal troubles.
I think copy and paste literally a scenario (i.e, of Megaman X of SNES) cou... |
I recently bought a professional color laser printer (>1.5k$), but until now I worked only with black and white lines and text (100% black).
I'm now moving to colored prints, what've found is something lot different from the inkjet I was used. The light colors are a mess of grain and lot of times there's also other art... |
I was wondering if anyone can explain what tech or application as well as technique I can use to re-create the style of the background in the image below.
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I use Photoshop -> File -> Automate -> Contact Sheet II to create a photo grid collage. The vertical spaces are much larger than the horizontal spaces:
How can I make the vertical spaces to be of the same length as the horizontal spaces, when creating a photo grid collage with Contact Sheet II in Photoshop?
Contact S... |
I've added a rectangle (step 1), placed an embedded image (step 2) and created a clipping mask (step 3). How can I resize the embedded image (in the example below, the image with the flag)? I use Photoshop 23.5.1.
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
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I'm quite new to Figma and just learning how to use it. I've copied a template and I'm messing around with it a bit to learn what different elements do.
I'm confused as to what this squiggly N shaped element is called, and how it works (for example, if if I wanted to change the word "Food" to "Meal", is that possible a... |
Can any help me shed some light on why I cant seem to us a single variable from a CSV file and link it to multiple text string objects?
I've made a video showing you exactly what I'm doing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TX4TrC8glI
So I make text objects and select them both...
I then go to the variables panel and... |
I have pasted some gaussian blurs that i created in another illustrator file to this file, but for some reason the colours are very blurred and only bright when i select them with my mouse - how do i get them to be the regular brightness that they are when selected? Photos included below (first one is when selected, se... |
Someone would have already used a code with power shell to extract the x and y positions in text file of different circles of the same illustrator file ? I tried with different codes found on this website but they don't work on power shell
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trying to "blur" people on background like this:
example:
but can't find tutorials for such effect.
Could you please suggest some tutorials for this?
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I created a quadrilateral using the straight lines tool and another two dashed lines to have four quadrilaterals. I want to assign four different colors to each of them.
How can I do that?
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I wanted to render a Scribus .sla file to .pdf and got a warning .pdf embedded. The reason was that I placed a .pdf graphic in an image frame instead of importing it as vector file.
An internet search revealed that .pdf graphics are in fact pixelated if imported as images (or when selecting wrong option); therefore the... |
I wonder how to efficiently create a photo collage in Photoshop that isn't a plain grid. Currently I follow this tutorial:
Create a rectangle
Insert an image via File>Place Embedded
Layer>Create Clipping Mask
Move and resize the image within the rectangle.
Then repeat for each new image to add in the photo collage, a... |
we produced a magazine with 136 pages and send for printing. But the number of pages is too much for simple binding. In order to make content readable we would need to add some space on the pages format - we think. But is this the solution, or what would we need to do?
Thank you
Stephan
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I have come across the below drawing.
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I found such a script. But it works on all open files and takes a lot of time. How do I do it to only one current tab.
var doc = activeDocument;
for(var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++)
for(var j = 0; j < app.documents[i].textFrames.length; j++){
var str = app.documents[i].textFrames[j].contents... |
I'm trying to greyscale an image in Gimp 2.10.12. I can't access the grey scale palette to greyscale the image.
Can anyone explain how I can greyscale in this version of Gimp?
Thanks.
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From Photoshop, I exported a 3D LUT as a file with the .cube extension. In the export dialog, I chose grid points=8. The resulting .cube file has 512 data points. To index into the LUT for a given (r,g,b) value, I hash each of r,g, and b into [1,8] then multiply the three resulting values:
index = rHash * gHash * bHash... |
I am looking to make my portfolio for college but a lot of the pngs and images I use are from picsart or images from the internet? Could I use them? I'm unsure how to credit things from picsart, I'm not a digital artist so how would I use images?
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I noticed that the perspective distort transform tool doesn't work on a raster image in illustrator, only vector? I know there is the perspective grid you can use, but its a bit of a hassle when it's just a little detail just e.g a logo on a van.
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In Illustrator, I have hundreds of objects and layers in one file, how can I quickly locate and focus objects in the artboard from layers selected in the Layer Panel?
I know one slower way is to use the right most section of the layer to select the object and then looking for transform widget in the artboard:
But when... |
In Inkscape 1.2 settings, I can select a checkerboard background for my document (as before). If I deselect that, it will instead be gray (which is new). How do I get white?
I have tried different themes, but regardless of which team I choose, there is no white background.
(I was trying to add the tag inkscape-1.2, but... |
How are you?
I'm a grad student and I need to do a mathmatical and physical model a quadcopter robotic system . I've found a web site with a picture that looks like a lot to what I have to do: I have to take a picture of the robotic system i've built (it's not that in the picture but is similar) and draw and show all t... |
I use Picture Collage Maker Pro and would like to display a line at the center of the canvas. In Photoshop 23.5.1, I use View -> Guide -> New Guide Layout:
How can I display a line at the center of the canvas in Picture Collage Maker Pro?
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I have the attached arrow/circle icon. Currently the arrow is white and the circles background is transparent. I instead want to make the circle solid white with the arrow being transparent.
I have no idea how to do this though or where to start.
Any help appreciated. I've also added the SVG code.
<svg xmlns="http://w... |
One of my recurrent problems in CorelDraw and Illustrator is that to make two distinct nodes looks exactly same as each other like mirror image. I know that one can draw in CorelDraw using symmetry option but my problem is a little technical. For example in the following
I want two nodes C and D to have same slope (i.... |
I am rendering SVGs on a website. There is an SVG I want to use for buttons, but the SVG is a complex design and the website needs to be responsive. Simply scaling the SVG with the viewport can't solve this problem: it distorts the SVG.
Hopefully this illustrates the type of thing I'd like to do, though in reality, my ... |
Can anyone recommend a good way to reduce clipart without it getting too blurry?
I'm currently using Photoshop Elements (but am not opposed to using something else) to reduce purchased clipart. I am making things for my granddaughter's dollhouse, which is 1:12 scale. So something that is 1' in real life is 1" in her d... |
I have an HP latex 335 large format printer and utilise SAI software for the rip etc.
I have a client who requires a print that matches there Pantone.
My question is I have discovered the colour mapping function within SAI which allows you to print a sample with cmyk variations which you than use to compare to your spe... |
I use Picture Collage Maker Pro on Windows 10 to make a collage. I have an image in the collage, which I'd like to replace with another image. In Photoshop 23.5.1, I would right-click on the image in the layer section, then Replace Contents:
How can I replace an image with another image in Picture Collage Maker Pro?
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I created a design for our project and was going to place our stacked logo in between two colours that splits the logo into two, is that bad logo practice? For some information, the logo is like this:
This is how it will look like on the design (cropped):
Answer is much appreciated as I have no contact with the logo ... |
I have a collage with >20 pictures in Picture Collage Maker Pro on Windows 10. How can I apply the same frame style to all the pictures of my collage at once? I don't want to have to do it for each picture manually.
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Goal:
Compare one color selected with eyedropper tool to foreground color (white).
If foreground color (f7f7f7) is close to white (ffffff) then run code...
I want to find/convert selected color to nearest web color.
If I turn on Only web colors in Color picker, then foreground color (f7f7f7)= white.
With a javascript t... |
Using a batch Photomerge workflow (per this question I asked a few years ago), I sometimes get the following error, which hangs the entire process and requires redoing the entire batch:
When I asked the previous question, I was running Photoshop CS6 and have since upgraded to CC 2019, so I assume the save functionalit... |
Inkscape has a nice handy feature of converting an object to guides.
However, I have this path (or object), which can't be converted to guides properly, and I have no clue on why. Can you please help me understanding this?
When I convert this to guides, I got this result:
I expect having at least 3 more lines, just a... |
I'm trying to experiment with a thing. I have a laser printer that have both PCL and PS capabilities, however the image rendition is kinda poor, the print is very noisy.
I've seen some better printers out of there that are a bit upper level and use Fiery RIP. Fiery has tons of small options in order to control various ... |
I am trying to make this perspective grid match the angle of the long side of this van. Is there a way in which I can flip the grid horizontally so the angle goes in the opposite direction? Then I can manipulate the grid from that.
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Have a new job where I am having to create "in situ" design i.e a quick mock-up of logos on vans or shop decals. I find myself fiddling quite a lot with perspective distort tool in illustrator or even trying to use and get familiar with the perspective grid tool in illustrator. Just wondering if there are any standard ... |
I've created this brick pattern in Adobe Illustrator using Object > Repeat > Grid.
I want to tell Illustrator that I'm done using the grid/repeat tool, and that I'd like to be able to edit each brick as if I had created them by hand.
How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance!
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There’s a tool that I’d really like to have, and AFAIK it does not exist at all. When drawing textures freehand one typically wants them to be seamless. How I’d go about that is having larger image than the texture being drawn. Let the texture be a square in the middle of it. If any pixels change before the left edge o... |
I have a fairly blurry image, which supposed to be easily redrawn:
However, when I choose trace from menu, it gets me very complicated results, and I wish to avoid freehanded redrawing.
Here is my result with auto-trace:
Middle circle is not needed, as it's a perfect circle, it's easy to redraw.
But how could I redra... |
I have these two objects:
I wish to do Division on them, so first, based on a tutorial I first combined them:
Then I have put a larger rectangle behind them:
Then with everything selected I did the Division, but it is working pretty strange:
I would expect a correct circle here, like this:
Both the circle and the ... |
I work as a typesetter in a scanlation team therefore i work with text in photoshop A LOT. Recently, i had to reinstall PS due to resetting Windows. I got the same version i used before (and had no problems with!), and i stumbled upon this issue. Whenever i add a text layer (pasting it using typertools), punctuation sy... |
Am working in perspective warp in photoshop but cannot see the grid plane that is usually visible. The corners are showing but far off from the grid created which is weird. Am wondering if there is a preference that needs to be turned on or could also potentially be the machine I'm using at work does not have the capa... |
Is there script which allows me to set and use one path operation and switch it to another?
I need to use "combine shapes", later I need to use "subtract front shape". So I need to switch them. But how?
Recorded action, scrip listener = no results.
There is some info about path operations in:
Photoshop Scripting Refern... |
I have 30 JPG files which need to be printed as a book. Each JPG file contains 2 pages (left page and right page). I'd like to quickly browse these images and see where the middle line will show up once they're printed. How can I add a line at the center of multiple images at the same time? I'm open to use any program.... |
I use Picture Collage Maker Pro on Windows 10. I have 2 pictures in my collage. How can make picture 2 to be of same width as picture 1 while keeping picture 2's proportions (i.e., proportionally resize picture 2)?
I tried selecting picture 1 and picture 2, then right click, Make Same Size -> Width, but that doesn't ke... |
I have several images opened in Photoshop 23.5.1 on Windows 10. I used View -> Guide -> New Guide:
How can I display this same guide to all my images currently opened in Photoshop, and not just 1 image?
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I am trying to create an icon in Ai. But the problem I am facing is...
I want to give a rounded stroke.
Any idea how would I achieve this?
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I would like to create a vector of text, code to be exact. I do have quite a bit of code to use and don't want to color it all (brackets and all) by hand.
Do you know a way of doing it? A plugin maybe?
I tried print screen -> tracing, but that effects in bad quality.
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I'm working on dental software and I have an SVG for each square below (each square represents a tooth).
I'm trying to understand/find a way to create separate groups for each part of the SVG, similar to how the green part of the square is hilighted in green, to indicate a filling will be placed in that portion of t... |
I have a Brother hl-L8250CDN laser colour printer on a macbook pro. I mainly print with InDesign and Photoshop. I want to print pure yellow or pure cyan or pure magenta. Is there a way to do this?
I've seen other posts from people who have inkjet printers wanting to achieve the same thing: Printing Pure Cyan from Epson... |
How can I create a saturation mask in Photoshop within the LAB colour mode?
In default RGB you can use the filter HSB/HSL to create an image with a saturation channel, but it is not available in LAB.
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My team and I recently worked on a project to reduce the electricity consumption of our company's operations. Our biggest success is that we managed to divide by 3 the consumption of a system and obtained similar gains on others.
I'm looking for a way to visualize these gains. I was thinking of doing a bar chart, but u... |
I used "Resize Page to Selection" in Inkscape, but now want to reset my page dimensions and position to where it was originally. I can select A4 again, which gives me the right size, but page is now in the wrong position. The top-left is where the original select was made, and the page extends from there.
How do I rese... |
I need a double sided banner placed on a storefront window.
Preferably a static window cling, but if that's not possible, a sticker paper.
I am not looking for a mirrored design. There is text printed on it, which needs to be read from both sides, so a transparent print is not going to work.
Is there a way to print suc... |
In Photoshop 23.5.1 on Windows 10, when using View -> Guide -> New Guide, the default parameters are:
Instead, I'd like:
How can I set some default parameters in the guide in Photoshop?
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I need to print a document that renders to a web browser on a wide format printer (Canon TA-20). The document is long and narrow. I need to print multiple copies at once side-by-side (see simplified image below).
Is there a way to do this without altering the HTML to render each element of the highly complex document m... |
(Although 'opinion' certainly may be in play here, there seem to be some consistent best practices about color usage on the web, and this question is about how to handle the scenario where violations of those best practices are inescapable).
The web app im building has to use a corporate color scheme. As for corporate ... |
I'm essentially seeking a "crash course" or explanation in any web building changes over the past few years - best practices, new methods, new pitfalls, etc.
It's been a number of years since I built out a full web site.
Most of the time, I'll construct a home page and secondary page, then that's passed off to a clien... |
I have an SVG that's meant to be a responsive web button:
After some trial and error, I've noticed it doesn't look great at extreme widths: the vertical borders get thinner and thicker as the viewport shrinks and grows, respectively. I thought I could solve this with border-image-slice, but as you can see in that link... |
So I'm trying to make my text shorter (less height), but transforming it won't do since it would warp the curvature of the text as well.
Example:
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I am able to perform reveal the background image just like is explained in this post. However, I can still see some of the foreground image. Instead of completely hiding the foreground and revealing the background it seems as if I'm just changing the opacity. The opacities are all at their default 100% so why is the ba... |
Can anyone help me identify the font used for 'Cinderella'. I can't seem to place it. Thanks!
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I have a 60-page (i.e., 30-sheet) book (to be more specific, a photobook). I'd like to create a video showing the book with its pages turning one by one (e.g., ~10 sec per sheet or so, then turning to the next sheet). How can I create such a video?
One could serve the book as an interactive webpage where readers can fl... |
I have a 60-page (i.e., 30-sheet) book (to be more specific, a photobook), in JPG format.
I'd like to serve the book as an interactive webpage where readers can flip pages, with some page flipping effect. How can I create such an interactive book?
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I need to take a full RGB image, and turn it into image that is optimized for a specific 512 color palette that I already have(I've been hired to make graphics for a Sega Mega Drive game). I can't use GIMP, because that for some reason has hard limit of 256 colors on palettization.
I do not actually care about image be... |
I am early in my experience with creating digital art. I've found a lot of Photoshop brushes that help me get the look and feel that I want for specific design elements, as well as brushes for grass, trees, and hair.
Can I create a Photoshop brush for something like landscape design? For example, a set of brushes that ... |
Created a clipping mask using a smart object. I was wondering if I wanted to add or subtract to the clipping mask would I have to rasterise it first?
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am learing Illustrator and this is in learing purpose. I try to draw one product in vector. Almost done but am not shure how to make this rounded shadows to be like on photo?
Check screenshot.
On left side is my work. Maybie this is not good apporch for professionals but am beginer.
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I would like to resize my layer without having to click the Transform Controls (the resize handles on the corners)
When using the move tool, once you do click the transform control, you can resize and reposition the layer by typing in values into X, Y, Width, and Height in toolbar.
How can I access that resize toolbar ... |
While setting headings for a book I ran into a typesetting issue where I would love to get some hints and different point of views from the creative folks out there.
I am setting a "book" that has the following TOC. Note that each major heading 1 has one heading 2 and each of the heading 2s have 2x heading 3.
1 Duis... |
Searching for name of effect
I want to design posters and I have stumbled upon this effect often, but I don't know what it is called. Thus I haven't been able to look for tutorials.
I am not talking about the colors or the ripped paper but the way the image has been transformed into dots of either of the two colors.
I ... |
I sometimes update the underlying file outside Photoshop:
Existing guides in Photoshop are then lost by default. How can I keep the existing guides when the underlying file is updated in Photoshop?
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This is a working script which do the same job as it would if you hit tab File>Export>Quick Export As (PNG/JPG).
There are 4 artboards and 7 layers in document. I need export 4 arboards.
Result: all 4 artboards are exported as PNG into folder. Code export works like all in one.
No loop is needed (for var i=0...,i++) ... |
I'm working on something containing compound paths with text inside them akin to this example:
I want to try out a few different fonts, styles and sizes for this text, but it appears that with every change I make to the text, I need to re-outline it and recreate the compound path. This process is rather laborious and ... |
I have recently discovered Pitch and on their website https://pitch.com they are using a lot of 3D assets blended into the 2D slide designs. I've seen this style of corporate design at several other brands before, but as I am still quite new to 3D design, I do not really know what to even search for to be able to repro... |
With some fonts in InDesign (in this case, HEX Franklin), the PDFs that are exported show weird rendering issues (see screenshot). I tried reading up on this, but couldn't find a clear answer as to why this is happening, or what to do about it. InDesign itself displays the type correctly.
My findings so far
This seem... |
I'm in the process of printing a book. I would like to use lay-flat binding. What are the following two types of lay-flat binding called?
Lay-flat binding type 1:
Lay-flat binding type 2
Please ignore the paper types (glossy in the example of lay-flat binding type 1, and matte in the example of lay-flat binding typ... |
I'm working with a couple of different images/files simultaneously, switching in between them. Using a grid for measurements is fairly important (or at the very least extremely useful). However, to adjust the grid, I always have to go open Edit->Preference->Grid and remember the measurements (which for now is done by j... |
I want to create a PDF for a customer in which each page has a different shape than a quadrangle. It should be a PDF-file without a background (also no grid or no white background). In the end each site should look like a PNG file but it has to be a multiple paged PDF.
I tried a view things but nothing really worked. I... |
I have been watching a tutorial using the pen tool to create an illustration. What I have for the most part done is create paths that overlap and then using the shape builder tool get rid of the overlapping path. Sometimes I find using the shapebuilder tool creates a lot of extra points.
The method in the tutorial is t... |
I've been on a search for a while now but I can't figure out the term for this design element. I'm not even really sure what to look up. I tried going through terms associated with typography but no dice. You find it used a lot in vintage texts like newspaper ads and wanted posters where identical symbols would be used... |
I created a dxf from a group of layers in QGIS, and brought this into AutoCad 2023 and saved as a DWG. Every layer shows black on the model view but is red under layer properties. When I try to change the colour of the layers they remain black. Am I missing something obvious?
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I haven't used ExtendScript for a while. Now I got a new laptop and just updated to the latest indesign-version CC2023. I wanted to debug an indesign-script so I had to set ExtendScript up again. I noticed there is a new version and my launch.json didn't work anymore.
I updated the launch.json to
"version": "0.2.0",
"c... |
Using the latest version of Inkscape in Windows 10, I am trying to copy vector geometry from my drawing out into a powerpoint presentation. I have accepted that no technology exists yet to exchange vector data between applications (horrifyingly), but even with the rasterised image, my arrow headed lines have all arrowh... |
When copying geometry from Inkscape for pasting into a word processor, how or where is the rasterisation done and where is the resolution set?
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So I'm designing an Odia font based on old letterpress types from early 1900s. Matching Latin isnt exactly necessary but would be nice to have. Those old books used a variety of Latin types but I believe this one is keeping well with the classic looks. Another requirement is font should ideally be OFL licensed so I ca... |
How were images even prepared for printing before Adobe? What was the printing process? I really seem to be missing what they were doing between the Gutenberg press and the Adobe software when it comes to images...
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