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I've been re-learning InDesign (currently on MacOS Ventura 13.3.1) and created a test publication at 203 mm x 280mm using a real-life publication of that size as a guideline.
I'm using InDesign 17.4.
So far I've got two headers:
Parent Page A - "YOUR LOCAL NEWS MAGAZINE" "TO ADVERTISE PHONE 555-000-0000"
Parent Page B ... |
I have a photo I am trying to restore and it's badly faded, but also has splotchy stains on it, like it got wet in streaks while up against the glass of a frame. The faded part I can handle (more or less), but the splotchy stains, yuck. When I restore color to the image the stains turn purple (kind of cool... but not r... |
I have been looking for a way to make object ends sharp but can't find a decent method. So far I have discovered that I can make sharp ends on lines with strokes.
This is the object I want to use it on
This is what I want to apply on those circles
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I have a series of gifs with a delay of 0.02 secs, I want to change the delay to 2-2-1:
0.02
0.02
0.01
where every 3rd frame is 0.01 secs
I know I can edit specific frames
gifsicle -b original.gif -d50 "#0" "#1" -d100 "#2" "#3"
But not sure how to step through every 3rd frame to make it 0.01 secs
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Import to Blender .svg file created by Inkscape 1.22 for Macintosh Ventura OS -> Blender says it’s empty.
I've followed all the guidance given so far, namely, within Inkscape drag the .png source file into a blank Inkscape window, followed by:
Path -> Trace Bitmap
Then, Save As which produces a .svg file on my desktop
... |
I am working with a UV printer which requires my white colour on Photoshop to be on a spot channel. What is the correct way to convert a text layer into a spot channel? It seems that to make it spot, it becomes a selection which means I can no longer change the text.
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I need to join two lines but not by the ends but by the middle or by a middle and the end. I was looking around but I don't find how to do this
Somebody can help me?
Thanks
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In the new photoshop (May 2023) desktop app, in quick mask mode, drawing a gradient just ads a new gradient in the layers panel. How do I get a gradient on the quick mask channel?
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Looking to create a interactive PDF with Indesign making parent tabs and sub tabs while going to their page on the Indesign document. I have found different burger menu or navigation tab examples, but they only show one row/column.
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In InDesign: I originally have 3 documents that uses the same image references and have the same layout, but now the images are updated with different file names and locations.
I have updated one of the 3 documents.
Is there a hack/process/trick to apply the links from the updated document to the other two?
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I have a rasterized icon. As you can see, portions of it are blue. I also have an svg of this same icon but it is a compound shape and those individual pieces are not isolated; it is all black. So if i change the color, it changes the entire icon to that color. Is there an easy way to go about separating those pieces s... |
I'm trying to format a keyword(s) that comes after specific string. For example, I want to bold the words, "happy", "sad", and "angry", but only if they are preceded by "be" or "become". This is an example of what I expect to be bolded:
I am happy, but I will be angry soon. Though she is sad now, she will become happy... |
I've drawn a square, and I've use the "Round Corners" effect to give that square... well, round corners. Thing like a modern day app icon.
The problem is, I want to now manipulate this shape. But I can't because it's technically still a square with an applied effect. I want to render the round corners so it's actual po... |
I wanted to get a sanity check on the topic of logo design. I am a product designer and have done some client work in the past including the creation of some logos. I don't specialize in logo design but need your opinion on a certain matter.
Some background:
I am working at a startup and I am the only designer. Before ... |
I am trying to make minor edits to an existing PDF that I have imported into Inkscape, but am having issues with the rendering of the text from the PDF.
Letters that are combined in certain, such as 'i' disappear so 'fi' becomes 'f '.
Certain sections of text become random cases. This I can correct manually by changin... |
We have an old corporate PowerPoint template that we would like to innovate. The old template includes colors (the theme terminology calls these "Accents") that we are changing as well.
The old template has been in use for over a decade and there are countless slides built using it. When I would simply paste old slides... |
I have an image that's an application icon for a webapp. It's a pretty simple layout. The background is a rounded rectangle with a light grey to grey gradient.
When I export this image as an .svg, everything looks right EXCEPT the gradient looks like it's rotated 180°. It also looks a little darker. Any ideas what's go... |
I need to create an image in a format that can be burned on wood with a heat-pen. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with some functionality (free preferably online or in a own software) which can convert an image into a dotted image, where each dot is proportional in size to its position in the depth of the image. ... |
I am learning to create fonts in Kannada language. I made a image in "fontstruct" and exported to further modify in inkscape, as fontstruct does not support Kannada language.
I need to connect a thin line between two thick vertical lines (see image), like in "O" in the Times New Roman font or the font here - https://ww... |
How can I keep the width of a line the same when I resize it from the textbox in toolbar to a number that I need?
the lock icon does nothing in this case. This is very annoying :(
So I got this line with W = 15
As soon as I change the W, the H or width changes too (W from 15 to 100 in this case):
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I use photoshop 24.30 release . I cannot finf anywhere how to show last brushes used in photoshop . There is no preset panel any more `//
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I've been searching (on mobile) for a good user guide / tutorial on using XTags, I've got the manuals provided by Em Software but I was hoping for something more up-to-date and with visuals as well.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
(I'm absolutely new to indesign / xtags )
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Im trying to make a BMW logo. I have a white text label with 'BMW' as the text value and Im creating a 3D layer from "New 3D excrusion from selected layer"
Everything seems to function in 3D panel except for the spot lights and point lights. Specifically, I shine these lights on my BMW text and it is not lighting up at... |
I'm setting up an InDesign workflow that relies on dynamic import (links) of XML files. Say I will have many repeated <item> tags, each containing a substructure of text and tags for styling. All this content will flow in a main text frame, but I want to be able to extract some item or other and place it in a specific ... |
I've noticed that different SVG icon sets use different aspect ratios for the canvas (the viewBox on SVG).
Font Awesome seems to use: 7:8. (source)
Entypo use 5:4. (source)
Typicons and Bootstrap use 1:1. (source and source)
Is there any good reason to chose one over the other? What impact will it have when using it ... |
I want to draw a box around a group of vertices and then have them be selected. The "Direct Selection" tool can do this, but only if you start your click outside of a object. If you start your click inside of an object, it acts like the "Selection" tool and drags the clicked object.
I've tried searching for a hotkey ... |
I see this nowadays a lot. It's not just the picture being sharpened, but they added shadows too. In this NBA example, I am sure there couldn't be just one light bulb in the entire arena casting one shadow for each object. What software do people usually use to create this effect, Premiere Pro, Photoshop or something e... |
I am exporting articles from InDesign to XML to import it on our website.
Now I want to import the images. I put it in a tag in InDesign called "IMG". The standard output without XSL looks like this:
<Artikelbild href="file:///K:/customer/flyer/banana.jpg"></Artikelbild>
I need it like this:
<Artikelbild>banana.jpg</A... |
My website gives a user their IP address. It is very common for a user to copy their IP so they can paste it into an email or game or who knows what. On the mobile version, I want to make it so you can just touch the IP and it will prompt you to copy it. This seems like a good idea so I'll probably do it to the desktop... |
My goal is to batch process multiple PSD wall art mockups, replacing the smart objects within each mockup with several image files.
I modified someone’s script for my wall art mockup. My aims to automate this process by iterating through a list of image files and replacing the smart objects in the mockups accordingly. ... |
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved. The culprit was Acrobat DC Pro. I started noticing other issues when using the program. Did an uninstall/reinstall, and the colors are now printing perfectly.
Thank you to all who offered assistance.
When creating a design in Photoshop and saving as a PNG, the colors print as disp... |
I'm working on a low poly face in Inkscape 1.2.2.
But when I use the Voronoi diagram (Delaunay triangulation) I got this ugly result :
There are no duplicate dots.
How can I make this cleaner ?
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I'm trying to convert an image to a pixel art vector. I want the output to be Only with horizontal and vertical segments "―" "|" (no "╱"). I tried to use several online tools and the best solution for the moment is potrace.
Here is my progress :
Does someone know how can I achieve that ?
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I have a dynamic symbol and I want to change its fill color. Tutorials online show it being very easy: select the symbol, select a fill.
I found another question here where it wasn't working for the person, and the answer was to use a very specific black: dynamic symbols color change
I tried using the correct black, b... |
thanks in advance for any assistance regarding this issue
i am not scripting guy
i copied this script from somewhere i don't remember
var document = app.activeDocument;
var TextFrame = activeDocument.selection;
TextFrames = activeDocument.selection;
TextFrame.contents = "Hello friends, how are you.";
problem is
i need ... |
Occasionally, I see the initialism CRF used in the context of creating animated GIFs. Within the context of computer graphics and image compression, how do people define the term CRF?
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I'm trying to use emojis in Inkskape, but struggling to export them as their intended colorized objects. Inkscape shows them as black/white outlines, but the SVGs view correctly in a browser. Likely because the browser is showing the rendered font emoji.
Is there a way to get Inkscape to to properly export the emoji as... |
I believe it is a known best practice when working on small Figma files to have all Master components on a separate page or frame. There are a number of benefits to this, which I won't go into here, and if you don't want to go to the trouble of publishing a Library (for smaller, one-off projects), it's a good practice,... |
I'm building a e-commerce site as part of a project and to make it more catchy, wanted to add a dark mode to my site. And, also I'm open to suggestions on the colors used for light theme built currently.
Here are my site's screenshots loaded onto imgur as there are multiple images. (Note: SMH, Imgur says that you shoul... |
Whenever I try to implement an image change, I see the effect in preview but then the appearance of the image goes back to what it was. The change doesn't take effect. For example, I may increase the contrast with the curve adjustment tool but the change doesn't take effect.
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It's from a Casio electronic toy from the mid-nineties and I've been searching everywhere without any luck. If anyone has an idea of the name or why I can find it I'd be very grateful! Thanks in advance
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I'm working on creating an action with line extensions in a project, where I need to extend both ends of a line by a predetermined length. However, I'm encountering an issue where recording the action while extending the line does not produce the desired result.
Here's the step-by-step process I'm following:
Select th... |
Does there exist a font for all 149,186 characters in Unicode such that every character, or symbol, in the font has the same width as any other character?
It is very difficult to write python scripts in a mixture of English and georgian script without using a font where every letter has the same width as all other lett... |
So I've built this wonderful neon glow, and the best way to make it look realistic is to build up a bunch of layers like this as shown in my appearance tab. At least every video and tutorial that I've watched on making neon lines show it using this method. Either way, it look absolutely beautiful. The problem is I need... |
I have a PNG with transparent background. I want to draw a rectangle over it (the dashed rectangle) and then fill it with some color because for my text, I need to add a rectangle over some areas to show that they are part of a module.
I first tried to fill the rectangle and adjust the alpha, but as you can see it cove... |
Running Adobe InDesign 18.3 via Creative Cloud 5.10.0 in MacOS Ventura 13.4.
Once a file is closed in InDesign a new window opens with a 'welcome' salutation and displaying links to recent files, templates, etc. How can this 'welcome' screen be disabled or turned off? I have looked in preferences for a checkbox to togg... |
In Photoshop, I would like to have text within a shape, which displays the dimensions of the shape in mm.
I would like it to automatically adjust itself when I change the size of the shape.
Is this even possible? I don't know much about macros, and google doesn't understand my question (it thinks i want the size of the... |
Please provide me with a solution if someone has about why this is happening in Photoshop 2022.
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I am new to Photoshop and was trying to make an image cutout. I used a pen tool to make the selection around the image.
What I did is I gave a feather of 2px after making the selection.
Now that the image cutout is not looking that much good.
So I want to remove the feather I gave.
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I understand its gonna be a longshot in what im asking, however, is there any method that is going to remove the product background + add a banner overlay in an extremely easy method? It doesnt have to look good. Thank you!
*The banner is always the same and wont change
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Suppose I have these control points in Inkscape
I want to draw two curves, one is a quadratic bezier curve, the other is a cubic bezier curve.
We know they are:
q=(1-t)^2 * p0 + 2 * t * (1-t) * p1 + t^2 * p2
c=(1-t)^3 * p0 + 3 * t * (1-t)^2 * p1 + 3 * (1-t) * t^2 * p2 + t^3 p3
I used the Inkscape bezier tool, but the ... |
I want my documents to be able to be printed on A4 (210×297 mm) as well on Letter (8.5×11 inches) paper. (The "documents" are TIFF files with raster text on them. This is important to me. Being in Europe, I can send such a file to my friend in US, and he would be able to print it on Letter instead of A4, without any tr... |
What may be some effective dynamic QR code generators for digital or printing projects? I learned there may be two types of QR codes: static or dynamic to help understand the audience that is viewing the work.
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I want to color a picture realisticly but, since i am quite new to photoshop, i have no clue how i cloud achive this.
The goal is to paint the given sculpture in a realistic way but only to a certain amount beginning at the tip of its trunk.
[
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I’m trying to split up pie slices that I've cut from a circle to have a sort of stacked version similar to what you'd get from stacked bar graph, but each slice is a separate stack.
I can't figure out how to get accurate sizes of the stacks. For example, in the image provided, I’m looking to get a 60%,18%,13%,9% mix of... |
I'm looking forward to make this exact textured glass effect over any image, in Photoshop and Affinity both. My search returned different type of textured glass effects made by distortion filter. But I need exactly this one in example and this should be achievable in both Photoshop and Affinity.
The effect basically di... |
I am using Command + Shift + Alt + D to get Transform each on some items I want rotated by 180 degrees.
When the dialog is open, the items move away for some reason, though they have not been moved yet by me. See before & after:
If I hit OK to close the dialog box, they remain rotated but moved away (which I don't n... |
I have these low-fi prototypes, which I've drawn with pen on computer paper. After scanning them, though, the computer paper is not quite #FFFFFF
Is there a quick way to make the background as close to white as possible in Photoshop? Without selecting each individual area around the pen lines and brightening them 1 by... |
I'm looking for the correct terms to use when I'm going to request the printing of a poster for a white wall and I just want to have enough information for communicate to the designer/lithography company1.
Image
Links
source and original link
source
source
In my own words, these posters looks like vi... |
I have a layer that uses Addition mode since it made the nicest desired effect. When I duplicate it, it makes it even nicer. But when I merge the layers, it looks different as if the Addition mode disappears. I would basically want to flatten only those 2 layers to give me that final same effect on top of the other lay... |
https://vistria.com/
this site has the effect I am talking about
It's a watercolor illustration image and has a white dotted pattern on its ending and fewer dots on the center
I want to know how to make this effect.
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I have made several dozen very intricate original India ink drawings on heavy draft quality paper. On scanning, for refinement in Photoshop, a multitude of artifacts and pixellation show when zooming in along most boundaries. Also, not all curves are uniform, and require some slight correction.
Goals:
1st: To smooth a... |
I want to keep the cell size locked in my indesign table so I don't accidentally select the lines when trying to select an individual cell. The cells are so small that I have to zoom in very tight for the mouse courser to change to the type tool to select the cell for filling.
The reason why I need such small cells is ... |
I have to design a business card for my company.
The logos are in PNG format, the business card is going to be 90mm by 50mm and the logos are about 400px × 400px. I'm using cmyk colors to print the business card.
Would these logos cause a problem in terms of them getting blurried out and pixelated when printed? Or mayb... |
How To Pin Two Object in Cinema 4D r19 version, in cinema 4d r19 the pin material tag is not available. How to pin a object and texture without using pin material tag.
Thanks.
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I would like to add the drop shadow filter to my toolbar for quick access.
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I am not sure whether this post would be better suited for the Home Improvement stack exchange.
I am looking for sequences of info graphics for how to fold clothes, illustrating both of the following:
all the different steps required in folding, including configurations of the body positions during folding and presenc... |
In Gimp, I frequently fall into this trap where I've already done a very complicated selection and then realize that the Feather edges Radius was not set to the desired value yet and then I end up needing to do the complex selection again after adjusting the radius. In this simple example, I had the Feather edges Radiu... |
I'd like to know if there is a way to delete or modify the color swatches that show up under character style options > character color. Even better would be if I could connect these swatches to a CC Library.
Thank you.
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I'm working on a report in InDesign that's going to be printed. The brand's guidelines has an off-white (0,0,0,4) as one of their main colours and a greyish black as another one of their colours (0,0,0,90).
I've designed one page which has their black (0,0,0,90) background with white body copy on top. Am I right in thi... |
I'm in love with this pattern. Multiple gradients with a sort of CRT monitor-come-print control strip pattern, that also works in gradient.
https://www.hingston.net/work/soph-x-hingston-studio/
Can anyone suggest ways this sort of effect can be recreated – I'm less interested in the text and crosshair layers but would ... |
I want to reset the zoom tool, I don't want the rectangle to show.
I press Ctrl+space bar for the shortcut but instead of just dragging, the rectangle is showing up. How to fix this?
Before the tool was working correct.
Thanks
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I sometimes manually introduce a hyphen in a long word to split it across two lines. I do this when I justify a paragraph to keep the automatic spacing between words small.
Example without hyphen:
Example with hyphen:
In the last example the spacing of the first line is much smaller than in the first example and look... |
I see illustrations like this and wonder how to create something like this (see the example below). What tool should I use? Is there a lesson on how to create one?
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Hello I'm creating a business card
Size 90mm by 50mm
It's going to be printed by offset printing
And I am using CMYK color system for the colors, the color of the icons for example the values are like this:
C 93%
M 28%
Y 65%
K 11%
But I downloaded a vector file as shown in image, format EPS, what should I do to it befo... |
I'm using mac OS.
First I saved the svg to pdf. I got a single page pdf which is needed form me.
But later I edited it a bit, added somthing, the convertied pdf became 2 pages.
Does anyone know how to prevent multiple pages, and why this happens?
How can I get a singel page pdf?
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I tryed exposing for 10 minutes and my design doesn’t wash out. I used Emulsion for beginners. And I used a uv light and stand from Amazon.
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I'm currently a UX designer doing a favor for a loved one. They have a logo, I'll attach below, but I'm having trouble with the steps to convert this drawn image into a vector in illustator.
I haven't used illustrator since college (I work mostly in Figma), so what would seem simple enough is turning out to be much har... |
What is the 60 30 10 color rule for website?
How to choose the best color scheme for your website?
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Hi I am trying an image for website and mobile banner, for website it is going good but for mobile the image seems little incomplete.
I want to make the baby face complete for mobile view (portrait view)
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I want to match the rotation degree of the grey box to the angle of the black shape so it's neatly aligned. Both are vectors, but the black part is part of an (flattened) icon.
How do I achieve this in Figma (through plugins or natively)?
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I discovered that there are tracking dots printed on my paper called Machine Identification Code (MIC), also known as printer steganography, yellow dots, tracking dots or secret dots. These dots are interfering with my Minc Foil Applicator which foils everything that is toner printed. And since these dots get included ... |
In this multi-leveled hypaethral building model there is a problem that the columns of the second floor aren't directly situated on the columns of the first floor.
How to support the columns of the second floor while preserving the reduction in floor vicinity apparent in this model (the third floor is smaller than the... |
Lets say I have a texture that I want to make tillable/seamless:
What I normally do is cut it in half, move the halves to opposite sides, overlap them a fair bit so that the repeating but irregular pattern somewhat matches a few times. It leaves a seam:
But then I can use Photoshop’s Edit → Auto Blend Layers function... |
Photoshop
How to mirror a layer with a given shape e.g. a little cloud
about a diagonal path or like?
there is a path, that consists of a simple line, it is tilted 5 degree from vertical and I'd like use this path as mirroring axis
but the point is the mirroring with a tilted axis so if the path should be replaced with... |
I use a Linux machine as my daily driver for web development, and I would like to create Lottie animations.
I need to draw my shapes and use timeline / keyframing / tween tools. It can be using a full-fledged tool for the purpose, or by exporting from another graphics program such as Inkscape.
I have done some research... |
I want to draw a voltage spike and ringing. It normally looks like this (the red path):
I know I would most likely need to start by drawing a base line and then use the nodes to adjust it.
So I selected some nodes in the line and used the " make selected nodes smooth"... but it is utterly difficult to adjust it to lo... |
"New Swatch" is greyed out in Illustrator, but I'd like to use a color. Why is it greyed out?
My document color settings are RGB. Those are the only color settings I know about that might explain this feature.
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I'm drawing a shape in Illustrator with multiple sides. I'm trying to make side of the shape 10px wide.
How can I force each side of the shape to be 10px thick? Do I have to use a 10px wide shape as a guide?
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So, i have black and white graphics like this. I want to select everything within drawn square border precisely. In general border can be any shape, it's just a single color closed line loop. So, how can i achieve this?
I tried:
Square selection. I cant aim at the corners of the rectangle with my mouse precisely enou... |
I have following script that split image contents to specific layer:
// photoshopscripts.wordpress.com
////////////////////////////////////
// Split to Layers 1.0 //
// 2012, David Jensen //
// //
// With help from //
// pfaffenbichler and xbytor... |
I have no programming knowledge of JavaScript and following script created by ActionToJavascript:
Main Script
(i can't put here because my script is very long)
Now i want to put following subscripts to above script.
line 82: color_range_2_rectangular_selectionn.jsx
line 391: spl2lay.jsx
line 466: remv_color_range_selec... |
My question is can I refer and learn AutoCAD such that I can teach it to some engineering students, while I'm not a Engineering graduate?
I mean, I'm a Mathematics graduate, who has a good knowledge in computer science though. So, I feel that I can easily learn AutoCAD. But I'm not sure whether I'll be able to give goo... |
I tried to figure these things myself, but with no luck yet. Maybe because I'm a foreigner and a complexity of terminology mixes with a complexity of English.
And so the question. It consists of four parts.
What is the difference between typography (I know what typography is) and editorial design?
and between editori... |
I'm doing some QA work on the LibreOffice free software office suite w.r.t. vertical alignment behavior in some scenarios.
To illustrate a point, and perhaps to test a theory, I need to use two fonts which are identical, or very close to identical, and specifically with the same basic metrics (median, x-height etc.) - ... |
I wanted to use the Unicode characters:
U+2229 Intersection
U+222A Union
They are next to each other in the Unicode table.
Here's how they look on Stack Exchange:
∩∪
And here's what they look like in Arial 48pt in Microsoft Word (with 230% zoom):
It gets different, but not better IMHO, when I switch to Calibri:
Eve... |
Tldr; Help me identify elements/qualities in "I" that makes it seem belonged to this set
Greetings
I am a design enthusiast, and to understand typefaces, I started 36 days of type.
Objective
The theme/objective is to create a bulky font, (heavy shapes with consistent thin flourishes.)
Process / Problem
While early... |
How do you convert a complex design of shapes into a single path?
I have this design made from individual overlapping paths:
that I want to etch using a CNC machine. The machine can read an SVG file, but it doesn't do any complex boolean CSG logic. It simply follows the paths in the file. So if I give it the file gene... |
This began as a simple question but got confusing the more I thought about it. I hope somebody here can help me get it sorted.
I was preparing an image texture that was to serve a purpose similar to an albedo map, in that I wanted to preserve the hue but not the luminosity values. Each of the RGB channels was to be rep... |
Hi I wanna plot a curve in inkscape:
I need to add measures of the axis,
for x axis, [0, 0.5, 1]
for y axix, [0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1]
But I didn' find any place to add them.
Anyone knows how to do that?
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