However, If file exporting/importing into my cutting software worked better, I could print and use registration marks there. Printing registration marks is pretty crucial. Yes, I do mean text to path, sorry about that. I want you to succeed in the very worst way and can't wait until I can delete Ai off my system. I'll check back from time to time and see how your progressing. I'm still happy that I bought their program and I hope that they can keep up the good work. Affinity Designer will become a novelty program on my computer and is not ready to replace Ai anytime soon. Unfortunately, until Serif can design their software to have better industry standard exporting capabilities and the inclusion of the items I listed above, I am forced to go back to Adobe Illustrator. These are all very basic features that a program needs in order to be used for any type of serious work. It is missing Text to curve, printing registration marks, converting raster to vector and expanding embedded objects (svg and eps).
Well, after fighting with Affinity Designer and trying to export a document as EPS and then importing that file into my cutting software for my vinyl cutter, it is pretty clear that there are some MAJOR incompatibility issues. It is truly an amazing program guys! Keep up the awesome work that you do! It is almost as if AD was designed for the sign industry! It is so close but falls just a little short in the export capabilities at the moment. The embedded graphic layer(clip art) is the one that is giving me the headache unless I take the steps that I outlined above and convert the vector image into curves. It would be nice to click on the export persona and select the layers with the common colors and then simply click on a send to button and have those layers sent to the CutStudio software or any other vinyl cutting software that a person might have. This is also where I am hoping that a plug-in could be created to eliminate the entire export process. Sometimes a project will only have two vinyl colors to export(black and red) but other projects may have more colors in the vinyl sign production. Then after I save that file, I deselect those layers and reselect the other layers with a different color. So what I am doing is staying in the draw persona and turning on only those layers that have the same color and exporting them as a eps file. Right now, it appears that you can only export one layer at a time and not multiple layers. It is my hope that I can someday click on the export persona and select multiple layers and export only those layers to the vinyl cutter software. It is this graphic layer where I am having the issue. As an example, I have a document with 4 layers (two different vinyl colors), A black layer, a red layer, a text layer and a graphic layer. I'm not sure what you mean by embedded documents unless you are referring to embedded graphics then the answer is yes.
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