Turn Digital Sewing Patterns Into Multi Page PDF Documents Using Affinity Designer

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LEARN DIGITAL SEWING PATTERN MAKING ON AFFINITY DESIGNER:
Today I'm going to be showing you how to get your digital sewing patterns onto a multipage PDF document. It will ensure that when you print them at home on an A4 standard size printer, they stick together perfectly and don't affect your pattern in anyway.
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@phoenix2549 Месяц назад

Adding my voice to this chorus of people thanking you for your tutorial which is incredibly clear, thorough, and pleasant! Not an easy combo, but you nailed it, and it was exactly what I needed to find. Saving it for next time, since i surely won't remember it all! 😅

@asheryl1966 Месяц назад

Thanks so much for this video. I made a pattern for a water bottle holder that needed to be printed on 4 pieces of paper and had no idea if there was any way to do that after creating the design with Affinity. Your instructions were perfect and I was able to do what I needed to do.

@BlackFoxLeather 2 года назад

Woah, that was a fast video release. Now I'm really excited to learn what you know! I didn't know that about the A4 size and the bleeding you mention. That was great. And the video wasn't too long at all. Well done 👍 can't wait to see more. I'll just have to transfer the knowledge to leatherwork because I don't currently wear dresses 😂.

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

I'm glad you found it helpful, I'm going to upload a simple bag tutorial from start to finish in the next few days. 😊

@BlackFoxLeather 2 года назад

@@taylerfaye Awesome 😎 Excited to see what you come up with.

@TheDanielCota Год назад

You are awesome! Great Tutorial. I am doing leather patterns and this works great for that also!

@taylerfaye Год назад

Thanks for stopping by, I'm glad the tutorial was helpful!

@BreeSewHood 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this tutoria!!! It has help me navigate Affinity Designer 2 (IPad) so easily !! I was able to turn my paper patterns into pdf’s !! This video/your channel will forever be a treasure 🤞🏾🔥

@taylerfaye 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for your lovely comment ☺️

@GABEAUTY73 Месяц назад

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH ❤❤❤❤.. NOW I CAN CREATE MY ALL OVER AUTOMATICALLY SLICE T SHIRT TEMPLATE FOR REUSE 🎉🎉🎉

@ZombiieLoveQuadCreations 8 месяцев назад

This is an incredible tutorial. Thank you for sharing. I’ve been using affinity to create projector patterns for myself of patterns I’ve purchased, but this opens a whole new world for my own patterns! Thank you again 😊

@taylerfaye 8 месяцев назад

You're welcome. ☺️ I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Good luck in all your sewing endeavours!

@glendasam36 2 года назад

This video came right on time for me. Thanks for sharing!

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Glad it helped you out, and thanks for watching! Feel free to let me know if there's any more specific things you would like to see. 😊

@kimberlyschultz304 8 месяцев назад

This tutorial is the absolute best! Thank you so much for taking the time and leaving it up so I could stumble on it to learn. I was able to digitize my drafted pattern pieces and print them. Thank you Thank you!!!

@taylerfaye 7 месяцев назад

You are more than welcome 😊 thanks so much for taking the time to comment.

@christinewesthead3260 7 месяцев назад

Excellent tutorial. Thank you for working all this out for us and sharing the video. I am making a pattern for the Knit Radar on a Knitmaster 700 knitting machine, which will take A4 sheets sidways on and taped together. This is going to save me heaps of money as their pre-printed paper patterns cost a fortune. I have been drawing my patterns by hand, but this way means I can use Affinity Designer. Well chuffed!

@taylerfaye 7 месяцев назад

You are welcome, I'm glad it helped 😊 Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

@sandeeppawar8413 4 месяца назад

This was a great tutorial. Thanks so much. Very clear and to the point. Perfect ❤

@juliamt7511 2 года назад

Great series' tutorials! Thank you so much!

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

You're most welcome and thank you for the support!

@aj6187 4 месяца назад

Girl, you're a hero👌🏻👌🏻

@elism4057 2 года назад

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo, qui me sera vraiment très utile. J’espère en voir beaucoup d’autres.

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Thanks so much for watching!

@handiann 5 месяцев назад

Great video thank you and I thought I'd followed it exactly, but I must be a complete dunce - If I move my pattern piece layer above the artboard layer, it covers all the alignment shapes. I can't figure out how to arrange the layers so it works like yours.

@cheekysurfergirl 2 года назад

Another great video xox

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Thanks so much for your support, I really appreciate it!

@rondianderson4402 2 года назад

Great video, Tayler!

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Thanks so much Rondi, I appreciate that.

@debbiemankelow6996 6 месяцев назад

Great tutorial. Thank you! Do you have any advice for printing out on US letter and how that would work? I create patterns in A4 but I know my potential customers in the US use US letter size to print.

@zerbinette2033 Год назад

Amazing tutorial ! Thank you so much for your time. You are a great instructor. Can I ask you : at the end of your video, after saving it as pdf, when you opened your pattern with Adobe, the border didn't show. It appeared on the final printed pattern only. When I buy a pdf pattern online and just open it on the computer, even before printing it, I can see the box and the border around. What's your take on it ? Thanks a lot for your help !

@serialcouseuses 5 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot for this great vidéo that helped me so much ! Just one question about a problem than I cannot fix, maybe you will be able to help me. I am working on multisize patterns. The problem is that when I export the document with the different pages and layers, I end up with layers for each A4 page and not for the whole document. So the person who would like to display only one size must uncheck all the sizes page by page, which becomes complicated when you have 12 sizes on 20 pages ! Did you find a solution to fix this problem ? Thanks again for your work

@joannemaker1747 Год назад

Thanks for taking the time to post this video! So informative :)

@taylerfaye Год назад

Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!

@OurFaiTira 9 месяцев назад

Hi thanks for this its a great video - one quick question. The outside lines did not print where I had placed a pattern piece overt them (from one artboard to another) how do I fix that? I'm using Affinity designer 2

@cath1657 11 месяцев назад

Very good video. I see some PDF's with both A4 and US letter print options within the same PDF. Do you know how that is done and if you do, can you possibly make a video to teach us, learn as we go types? I don't know if you do this, but I highly recommend placing an inch and cm test square(s) for scale checking the printout, to the first page of your final layout before exporting.

@asheryl1966 Месяц назад

I followed your instructions yesterday and was so happy because I was able to print out my large pattern on 5 pieces of paper but I decided to change my pattern slightly today and now when I print it up, it's not set very evenly on the 4 pieces of paper. I'm thinking it has something to do with how I placed my pattern on 4 artboards and I can't figure out how to fix it. I don't have individual pattern pieces. It's one 16 1/2" by 12 1/2". I copied it 4 times and pasted it 4 times. How do you determine where you should paste it?

@Mony2489 2 года назад

This was awesome! Thank You so much for your hard work and effort

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@martjassir 11 месяцев назад

THANKS A BILLION !!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

@JoannaNahum 10 месяцев назад

Hi, thanks for your informative video. Can you do pattern grading using affinity design? If so do you have a video about how to do this?

@lilldrieb Год назад

That's wonderful thank you sooo much... I love the way you show your knowledge it's easy and straightforward . Thank you very much. Now I do have a question please.. I have done my pattern, put all the pieces into a PDF and it's all looking good .. Note I would like to add some text into that PDF to explain how to sew the pattern. Is it possible ? It do I have to make 2 different PDF. Thanks for your answer. Cheers and take care

@taylerfaye Год назад

Hi Lilliane, yes this is possible. I personally would do this on a separate PDF but it's personal preference. Just make the PDF document in the same way and instead of adding pattern pieces, add text using the text tool and write it in a chronological order. Hope that makes sense! Thanks so much for watching.

@lilldrieb Год назад

@@taylerfaye thank you for your prompt response... I'll try but maybe I will do in 2 separate ones if too complicated lol. Going to check all your other videos now...

@alicein_wonderland1589 5 месяцев назад

I have been looking for this kind way for long time. As others say, you are a genious and this video is a treasure. BTW, can we print out the pages directly from Afinity designer to a printer we own, without exporting to PDF?

@taylerfaye 5 месяцев назад

Haven't tried that myself as of yet but there may be a way. Unfortunately I've had to put a hold on affinity until my daughter starts nursery in September. I'm going to put out a video soon asking for requests on what people want to see so I can certainly add that to my list. Thanks for watching 😁

@alicein_wonderland1589 5 месяцев назад

@@taylerfaye Thank you for your response. I checked the affinity forrum and some say "tile print" or the like in affinity publisher. I wonder a large image made by Designer can be used in Publisher to print out by setting "tile with 1cm-overlap" mode or the like. I look forward to watching your new videos for future! Thanks again.

@patterncuttacornwall 2 года назад

Hi this is great I've been trying to workout where I went wrong and you just helped me out so much. Would you mind me asking if your happy to supply the host provider where you sell your patterns please? I've been wanting do some free patterns for years but I couldnt workout how to do this

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Hi Krissie, thanks alot for watching and I'm glad that my video helped you out! I sell my patterns on etsy and on my own website hosted by webflow.

@mkminson6384 2 года назад

Great video! I'm wondering what file types can you import into affinity?

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Thank you for watching, here's a list of files that you can import into affinity designer. affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Appendix/fileformat.html?title=Import%20and%20export%20file%20formats Does this link work? I've pasted it directly from the list on their website but now when I click on it, it's a broken link. Let me know if it doesn't work and I can just list the compatibile import files.

@JuanPerez-iu9vk Год назад

Thank you

@graemebrumfitt6668 Год назад

Hi Tayler, First off great tutorial, I've been trying to print multi pages but having mixed results! Q if I may, how do you keep your background black, when I make an artboard it turns white?! I'm digging artboards now, never used them untill I watched your vid😁 You probably know this now, but here goes anyway! If you shift click or left click n drag each of your top row artboards then ctrl-j it will paste the lot. Last bit, do you have your artboards saved as presets? "Thanks for sharing, Graeme Brumfitt" TFS, GB :)

@teresaperez174 2 года назад

thank u so much

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Thanks for watching 😊

@taniellebonnie5354 2 года назад

Hello! Thank you for the great informational video! I’ve been able to follow everything except copy and pasting my pattern to the art boards. It seems no matter how I cut and paste… it’s just completely invisible. I noticed there is a description of (pixel) next to my pattern, maybe that’s why it won’t paste to the art board? I imported my pattern as a PNG from Procreate with no background so it’s just the pattern lines with no color filling. Please help if you can. Thank you!!

@taniellebonnie5354 2 года назад

I figured it out! I was trying to paste on artboard1 and the system wasn’t working. So I pasted it “generally” in the general area…. And it worked? Now that I’m looking at it again… I’m actually not sure why it worked… 😬 but it did! Hopefully I can repeat these steps and keep getting results 🙏😂

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

@@taniellebonnie5354 hi there, I'm glad you figured it out! I was going to suggest copy and pasting it into the background and not an art board so it sounds like you have done the right thing. Thanks so much for watching.

@taniellebonnie5354 2 года назад

Thanks! But! I ran into another problem I thought you should know. My printer was cutting off the top and bottom diamonds. Therefor leaving a small portion of the pattern lost. I searched all around for answers and decided to try this tutorial again from the beginning. My problem was in the “properties” tab, my computer has ‘letter’ sized paper as a default when I needed it to be selected to “A4” to fit the proper formatting. Thanks again for the video! I’m totally technologically disadvantaged and need the babiest of baby steps 😂 Without you I would be 100% lost at this. THANK YOU!!

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

@@taniellebonnie5354 that's a good tip, I will remember that if anyone encounters the same problem. Glad you figured it out in the end! Thanks again for the support, I appreciate it and I'm glad you are finding the videos helpful.

@juliademott Год назад

I'm trying to move my image from one specific artboard to just show on the 'top' of all of the ones that the pattern covers, if that makes sense. Basically around min 12:50, i am working in US photoshop. similar tools but doesn't look quite the same. the image/pattern moves to different art boards but can't become it's own layer for some reason.

@taylerfaye Год назад

Hi Julia, i'm afraid I have never used US Photoshop so I'm not sure I can help you. I hope you figure it out!

@mandelish 5 месяцев назад

I am using the free software Valentina to create patterns but it is getting on my nerves lately and I am consider buying Affinity Designer. Would you know how these two compare? I don't want to buy something which is the same.

@taylerfaye 5 месяцев назад

Hi Harry, unfortunately I've never used Valentina before, so I can't comment on their similarities. Affinity is currently having a spring sale though, so now is the time to buy if you are considering it.

@Mony2489 2 года назад

If I am printing on letter size paper, would I choose letter size instead of A4 for my art board and still take away 2cm on the width and length?

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Yep, exactly the same rules apply!

@destanynicely7278 Год назад

So when I upload my pattern that has different size layers, and export it to pdf, the layers are there but I have to go to each page and click the sizes I don’t want, instead of having to just click once. What am I doing wrong?

@serialcouseuses 5 месяцев назад

I have exactly the same problem :-( Did you find a solution to merge the layers to have only one box to uncheck to select sizes you don't want on all pages ?

@neelampatelofficial Год назад

Love this! Thank you - Is Affinity Designer a one time cost or monthly/annually?

@taylerfaye Год назад

Thanks for watching! It's a one time payment, that's why I use it!

@neelampatelofficial Год назад

@@taylerfaye Amazing! Thank you

@patterncuttacornwall 2 года назад

Hi so I draft flat patterns using pan and pattern paper but to try this digitally I still can't workout how to make sure the arm hole curves are in the correct position/true to life. The straight lines I get but getting the curves right is baffling me. How do you overcome this please?

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

Hi again, unfortunately I'm not sure I can really help with that as I my patterns come from digital blocks so the sleeves already fit in and I just edit the standard blocks to the designs that I want, then print and test them. Might be worth checking out some tutorials for Adobe and trying to translate them to affinity. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

@maymorejonhablemosdereales3541 2 года назад

Hi, can you share the application Info? Because when looking at the app Store comes so many with a different name

@taylerfaye 2 года назад

It's called Affinity Designer, it has the same blue symbol as I have in my thumbnail. I have it on my ipad and I just searched affinity designer, so it should come up. Hope that helps.

@MsBomba1972 Год назад

Hi Tayler - I have created artboards in AD and drew my bag pattern piece that displayed over four (4) artboards, subsequently the page diamonds I have are now not visible nor printing to enable the A4 sheets to be taped together properly without removing the integrity of the pattern piece measurements. Any advice on what I should do to fix it would be much appreciated - New Bag pattern designer here @KPM Designs

@taylerfaye Год назад

Hi Katly, did you ensure that the artboards were initially sized smaller than A4 like I mentioned at the start of the video? If you did then I would say the problem is when you print and you will have to mess around with settings until you get it right. Can be frustrating I know but something in the printing process will be incorrect, like scale or margins.

@MsBomba1972 Год назад

@@taylerfaye yes I did, I’ll mess around with printer settings thanks for responding love your videos 😊

@MsBomba1972 Год назад

Hi Tayler, now I have a few other issues, could I possibly email you the file to look at - its my toiletries bag set pattern I created but will be offering to my customers for free - I have watched and watched your videos but I am lost as to why this is not happening for me.

@taylerfaye Год назад

Yes you can send it to me, my email address is taylerdressmaker@gmail.com although it's late here so I won't be able to look at it until tomorrow.

@MsBomba1972 Год назад

@@taylerfaye thank you 😊

@elizabethussery9847 Год назад

Do these measurements also work for US letter?

@taylerfaye Год назад

No this is for A4 but just use the US letter size to start (Google if unsure) and reduce each side in the same manner explained in the video.

@elizabethussery9847 Год назад

@@taylerfaye mine doesn’t seem to be lining up correctly. Whenever I print it at actual size it gets cut off. It says my actual scale is 102% so I don’t know what to do this with me using US letter sizes with taking 2 cm off.