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Topic: Trying to find a .afpub file

I am trying to find an Affinity Publisher source file on my computer.

Basically, in the My Attachments part of the Serif Affinity forum I have found a png file made in 2019 and it says that I made it using Affinity Publisher. So i would have made it as a vector image and exported a png file.

I don't tend to delete files and I think that it would have been on this present computer, though i am not congruently certain if that.

But what I am wnting to do is to search the whole of the computer for all .afpub files.

I tried searching for .afpub but it just started the Affinity Publisher program.

Early on files went into various folders.

Is there a way to do that to search through all folders on the computer pleasr?

William

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Re: Trying to find a .afpub file

If you only have a C drive look in the upper right of file explorer if you type in *.afpub it should pick up any files with that type name.  it works for me on both my C and E drives.  Cheers Vicki

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Re: Trying to find a .afpub file

Thank you.

William

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Re: Trying to find a .afpub file

Good morning William was it successful in finding your file?  Vicki

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Re: Trying to find a .afpub file

Good morning Vicki

Well, the search worked, but I could not find the file.

You might perhaps like the backstory.

I was looking through the attachments that I have added to the Affinity forum.

Originally I only had Affinity Publisher, I got Affinity Designer later when it was half price and I got Affinity Photo at the same time at half price.

I did not use Affinity Designer much for some time.

As best I remember, what got me into using Affinity Designer was finding that I could get hardcopy prints in the form of custom greetings cards in one-off quantities.

So, at the time of producing the image I seek I was using Affinity Publisher to try producing some art.

Since I found about getting the custom greetings cards I have produced prints of various designs, some new and some by using images that I had uploaded to the web from computers that have snce broken down.

I tend to get best results when I produce something structured mathematically rather than free drawn. I enjoy producing art illustrative of some concept.

Here is a link to the post that contains the image of which I am searching for the source.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … ent=491021

I used the designs for the tote bag in a story. The story is linked from the thread.

Here is a link to a thread about producing artwork for the greetings cards that I mentioned.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … ngs-cards/

Thank you again for your help.

William

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William wrote:

Well, the search worked, but I could not find the file.

In what sense can the search be said to have “worked” if it didn’t result in your finding the file, William? https://punster.me/images/unsure.gif

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William wrote:

Well, the search worked, but I could not find the file.

In what sense can the search be said to have “worked” if it didn’t result in your finding the file, William? https://punster.me/images/unsure.gif

Simply that the method for locating all .afpub files on my computer that Vicki kindly told me about, worked.

None of those files, as far as i can tell, contains the source code of the graphic that I seek.

Please consider:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … ent=491044

Do you by any chance still have on your computer the file that was attached to that post that I deleted please?

The reason I ask is because that file for the obverse of the tote bag could be copied and the copy converted to display the reverse of the tote bag by altering the copy in WordPad. Then I could make a converted to curves version.

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William wrote:

Do you by any chance still have on your computer the file that was attached to that post that I deleted please?

I don’t think so. Can’t you use the other SVG files that you attached to later posts in the thread?

William wrote:

The reason I ask is because that file for the obverse of the tote bag could be copied and the copy converted to display the reverse of the tote bag by altering the copy in WordPad.

I’m afraid I don’t understand why you need to use WordPad. What can you do there that you can’t do in AD or APub?

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

Do you by any chance still have on your computer the file that was attached to that post that I deleted please?

I don’t think so. Can’t you use the other SVG files that you attached to later posts in the thread?

William wrote:

The reason I ask is because that file for the obverse of the tote bag could be copied and the copy converted to display the reverse of the tote bag by altering the copy in WordPad.

I’m afraid I don’t understand why you need to use WordPad. What can you do there that you can’t do in AD or APub?

I am seeking the svg graphic of the picture of the lady with the tote bag where the design of the symbol on the tote bag is expressed in a text call to a font.

I may need to start again with drawing a lady.

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When I need to do basic low level text editing I tend to use WordPad.

When I produce HTML files for the web I use WordPad.

WordPad is much underrated by many people. I know it is very basic, but years ago it was the only way for me to access beyond plane zero in a font. Also it is a good way to export files in UTF-16 format.

Also, as WordPad is bundled with Windows it is widely accessible, so chosen for the following format.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/T … tences.pdf

William

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William wrote:

I may need to start again with drawing a lady.

You can save yourself a lot of work by downloading your ‘lady with a_tote_bag_blue_dress’ SVG file from the linked thread.

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Re: Trying to find a .afpub file

Yes, thanks, I might then just need to add the reverse view bag at the correct size and draw her left hand anew.

William

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I’ve taken the liberty of simplifying the structure and naming the layers. I’ll leave the ‘reverse view’ amendments to you!

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Thank you.

I have saved it as

lady_with_a_tote_bag_blue_dress_mod_Alfred.svg

so as not to overwrite the original.

I have not opened it yet.

What is the "simplifying" please?

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William wrote:

Thank you.

You’re welcome.

William wrote:

I have saved it as

lady_with_a_tote_bag_blue_dress_mod_Alfred.svg

so as not to overwrite the original.

I have not opened it yet.

It’s probably helpful for you to be able to distinguish between your original and my version, but you wouldn’t actually have overwritten the original. The file name for the latter (‘lady with a_tote_bag_blue_dress.svg’) is subtly different from the name of the file that I attached (‘lady_with_a_tote_bag_blue_dress.svg’)

William wrote:

What is the "simplifying" please?

There was an unnecessary top-level ‘Layer’ layer which I removed, and there was a large amount of duplication of the dress shape that I replaced with a small shape for the forearm of the sleeve.  There was also a great deal of grouping of single objects, so I performed an ‘Ungroup All’ but the Affinity apps’ SVG export procedure put some of it back again.

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