DesignStationYT
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Sample file, where you can see the result of the stroke before being expanded, and the glitch that occurs once it is.
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At first I thought this was related to the new phased stroke feature, but I've had this happen with that on and off. Either way, where I've used a stroke that consists of dots, the first dot in the stroke is malformed when outlined or in an exported PDF. I did not have this issue in the prior version of Designer 2.
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On 3/10/2023 at 11:22 AM, ,,, said:
@DesignStationYT: set the output to 'New layer with mask' to get the same result as the preview
@,,,You're right, that does seem to get the result I was hoping for! Thanks for that!
@Callum I'll send a PM with my test file so that you can test it for yourself.
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I created a selection and then used the Refine tool to turn the selection into a mask and fine-tune the selection. The preview looks great.
But once I hit apply to create the mask, I get this:Frustrating when the preview showed exactly what I wanted! Has anyone else run into this or found a workaround?
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@CallumFor sure! I've sent a DM with a download link to grab it. Thank you!
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I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this and how they've resolved it, but I've been working on a project with PSDs provided by a photographer that include a number of layer effects. I worked on an initial phase of this project in Affinity Photo 1, and now am working in Affinity Photo 2—and I've noted that HSL adjustments with masks, recolour adjustments, etc all seem to experience issues.
This is how the image should appear:
This is how the PSD opens in AP2:
Meanwhile, this is how AP1 opens it:
There are some minor issues in the AP1 result, but by and large it's very close to how it's intended to appear in Photoshop. But it seems like AP2 reverses masks and just generally confuses things. I've tried saving the PSD as an afphoto file from AP1, but it looks like same in AP2 as the PSD file.
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I've noted a strange behaviour when trying to update a table with new content copy/pasted from Excel. For example, if I select the content I wish to copy in Excel...
...and then paste that into the cells I wish to update/replace in Publisher...There often seems to be one cell of blank content that carries over and replaces the first column of the next row. So in this case, that removes the content that was in row 13 (which is a single cell with all columns merged).
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One thing I miss was that in Designer v1, when you had a raster element selected, would show you the image's resolution at its current size. I'm not sure if it was purposely removed, if this is a bug, or if there's a preference somewhere to bring it back. Anyone else notice this?
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7 hours ago, EmT said:
Could you provide an example file where this occurs?
Does your artboard contain an adjustment layer?
I think you may have identified the issue. Yes, there are adjustments in there—which wasn't an issue with Designer v1. The way I often do these is group background elements and then duplicate and rasterize the duplicate... that way there's no risk of transparency issues or the like in the output. If I delete the (hidden) unrasterized group that I keep if I need to come back and adjust the file, keeping only a rasterized background element, it looks like the bleed works.
Again, not an issue in Designer v1, or if you open as spreads in Publisher v2. Example file attached.
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Hi there,
Over the years of using Designer v1, I got accustomed to setting up multiple related items as artboards in a single Designer file—all of the print ads or posters for a particular campaign, for example. Although I found the bleed display bug frustrating as others did, at least any exported PDFs always displayed the bleed as they should. It looks like in v2 this no longer works—I've tried several times to export PDFs from artboards which have bleed active, and would have worked in v1, that do not work in v2.
Thankfully there is a workaround... if I open the Designer file in Publisher and convert to spreads, I can export a PDF that includes bleed. But it would be extremely helpful to have the bug in Designer fixed so I can just use my usual Export persona workflow again!
Thank you!
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51 minutes ago, MikeTO said:
I can duplicate the problem if I change my timezone to Yukon time. Yukon uses Mountain Standard Time year round now and macOS seems to understand this but Affinity is saving with PST when it should be MST.
Not entirely correct. We no longer observe daylight savings changes here, so during the winter months we're equivalent to Mountain Time and in the summer months we're equivalent to Pacific Time.
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20 minutes ago, thomaso said:
If you save an .afpub now, does Affinity display the correct time in the Field Panel as last "Saved" time?
No, that's an hour behind too. And interestingly it shows PST – which is not a time zone I'm in or that my system is set to.
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Time zone is set to Yukon Standard Time.
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This is a pretty minor bug, but a strange one. I've noticed that when I output a PDF from Publisher with all marks on and the date and time is included on the PDF, the time included is an hour behind the system time.
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On 2/11/2022 at 7:09 PM, Old Bruce said:
I am unfamiliar with the Typeface application but a frequent and common problem with fonts is the presence of earlier versions along with later versions of fonts. One of you could have two versions of one or both fonts causing this.
Or more likely in my opinion is that there is a series of overrides applied. Are you both using exactly the same applied Paragraph and Character Styles? Meaning no overrides being present in either machine. Use the Text > Reapply Text styles to remove any and all overrides.
Thanks for the assist here! After a whole lot of digging and attempts at tracking down the issue, it turns out that my employee was using an older version of Nunito and Montserrat, and that version changes between her original downloads and the current downloadable versions have affected the letter spacing. Although it seemed like Typeface was clearing its Google downloads, it wasn't—so it took a manual clearing of those to trigger the new versions being downloaded.
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I've run into an issue and I'm struggling to track down exactly why. My employee is using an identical version of Publisher (1.10.4) on almost an identical version of macOS (I'm on 12.2.1 and she's on 12.2), using the same version of Typeface (3.5.0) and we've both re-downloaded the Google Font library through that app. And yet, we get vastly different text rendering, so when I open her files using these fonts (Nunito Sans and Montserrat) I get a very different result than she does.
I've tried opening the Publisher file on my laptop (same versions of everything as my desktop) and get the same broken results... and I'm at a loss as to why. I can't tell if it's an OS issue, a Publisher issue, a font issue—but I can't spot any reason to indicate which (given we're using the same version of the fonts as well), nor whether the issue is with my employee's side of things or mine.
I'm including a screenshot from her PDF (which is as it appears in Publisher on her computer) and how it loads when I look.
Has anyone seen something like this? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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On 2/5/2021 at 11:00 AM, MEB said:
Hi @Nodsatcher,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to Affinity Preferences, Tools section and untick Enable canvas rotation with command+scroll wheel.Ohhh, so glad we can turn this off. I've been accidentally rotating files non-stop since the 1.9 updates and it's been driving me nuts!
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1 hour ago, garrettm30 said:
Could you let us know whether the document you are working with started as a Publisher document or as an imported PDF, IDML, etc?
Started as a Publisher document.
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I've been running into this issue with Publisher 1.8.3 (on macOS 10.15.6). In the attached screenshot, the first URL is truncated after the /402/ and the second is truncated after the /pdf/ and the second line isn't an active link in either case. Unfortunately the document I'm working on contains a lot of multi-line URLs, so this is a pretty significant issue for me.
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Anyone else running into an issue when they're working with text (in a frame or otherwise) where the Edit menu flashes every time you delete something? It's driving me a little crazy. I'm seeing this behaviour in Publisher too, both since the 1.8 update. It looks like 'Delete' was added to the Edit menu, so it's 'selected/highlighted' every time you hit the delete key while working with text.
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Hi Jon — I don't recall copying anything out of a table and trying to insert that into frame text. What I did do was format content from the Word file and create a new table (which is off to the side in the version of the document I sent you) that I was going to move into place after getting rid of that character. The table itself was built by duplicating a different one from elsewhere in the document and then I typed in the content rather than copying/pasting from elsewhere. Anyway, I've uploaded the Word file (named Review Copy - Air North Domestic Tariff 2019 v4.0 Jul 15 2019 (no pictures) For Marketing.docx) so you can see if that helps shed any light on things. My thanks to you and the other developers for looking into this!
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3 hours ago, Jon P said:
I've not had any luck getting rid of it either, and can't reproduce it from scratch here so am intrigued as to where it came from. It does sound like pasting it in from Word could have been the cause, are you sure you can't reproduce it from scratch by pasting in the same text it originated from?
Either way I've logged it as it is for the developers to look into further.
Thanks
Hi Jon — I really appreciate you digging into it! In the end, the only way around the issue that I could find was to create a new document, copy everything prior to the character, paste that into the new document, and then do the same with everything following the character. A bit of a kludge of a way to solve it, but at least I don't have to try and do battle with that character anymore. The interesting thing is that I had to re-download the Word file from my client after they made a few edits, and there is content in that space pasted into their Word file from a webpage now that may have been present and then removed prior to sending it to me. Perhaps that was somehow the issue? Some sort of HTML-related content? Anyway, I can upload the Word file to that Dropbox location if that in any way might help track down the issue (or perhaps not at all... maybe this is just a one-off bit of weirdness that no-one else will have to try to deal with!).
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7 hours ago, Jon P said:
If you'd like to upload the document here it will only be available internally and I can take a look.
Thanks
Great! I've uploaded it. The page you're looking for is on page 16—though that may change depending on how the fonts render.
But once I hit apply to create the mask, I get this:
Frustrating when the preview showed exactly what I wanted! Has anyone else run into this or found a workaround?
Stroke Expand Issue in 2.1.0
in V2 Bugs found on macOS
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Just to bump, this bug appears to still be present in today's 2.2 release of Designer.