casterle
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11 hours ago, DrZigZag said:
That's a damn good question? As A longtime affinity designer, photo, publisher user I have supported throughout the life of these three programs since the beginning, and this how we are treated by Serif. "You got money you can buy the program again, that sounds like a paid subscription to me". So every new version 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 we have to re-buy the whole software is that the new subscription plan that you guys are offering. I'm NOT looking for a "Affinity V2 Universal License" subscription plan. But as a long time user upgrade price please? Yes this sounds like a "TAX" just like in adobe, Serif is this this is where you gonna go now. PAY 2 PLAY? 🥵🥶🤢
Seriously?
You claim you have 'supported' these programs since the beginning. What have you paid them since that beginning, years ago? Nothing. It seems you think 'using' and 'supporting' mean the same thing. Affinity, on the other hand, has supported you with many free and significant updates.
Can't you understand that supporting the Affinity products includes giving them a few bucks every few years so they can continue improving these great programs?
If you don't want the new features, then pay nothing and keep using version 1.x. Which, by the way, isn't possible with subscriptions. Perhaps you don't understand how subscriptions work?
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+1.
Stable-diffusion is apparently available in Blender and Kitra, and I've seen mention of a PS plug-in that's available as well. I've been playing with Automatic1111's Gradio WebUI (https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui), and there are others as well.
Integrating something like this in AP/AD would be quite useful, especially if we could point to a stable-diffusion that's already installed. Pointing to a local installation would also allow us to migrate to a different fork as things evolve.
It seems this approach would save a lot of work for Serif as others would be maintaining the UI, but it also may be confusing for new SD users.
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On 7/20/2022 at 4:59 PM, R C-R said:
As best as I can tell, for the Mac versions*.affshortcuts files are in XML format, but do not have an xml file extension. It might take some work to extract a simple list of shortcuts from this because for instance, the entry for the Select > Select All menu item (by default CMD + A) is as follows:
<string>selectAll:</string>
<dict>
<key>$class</key>
<dict>
<key>CF$UID</key>
<integer>13</integer>
</dict>
<key>com.seriflabs.KeyEquivalentData.Action</key>
<dict>
<key>CF$UID</key>
<integer>556</integer>
</dict>
<key>com.seriflabs.KeyEquivalentData.FuncEnum</key>
<integer>9223372036854775807</integer>
<key>com.seriflabs.KeyEquivalentData.Key</key>
<dict>
<key>CF$UID</key>
<integer>20</integer>
</dict>
<key>com.seriflabs.KeyEquivalentData.Modifier</key>
<integer>1048576</integer>
<key>com.seriflabs.KeyEquivalentData.ToolID</key>
<integer>9223372036854775807</integer>
</dict>Many of the shortcut name strings are not quite the same as they appear in menus or the preferences, so you would have to remove things like "do" or "show" for some of them to match.
I've noticed that as well. I used to have an editor that would let me extract fields and order them in columns, but that was in a previous life.
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On 7/25/2022 at 1:19 AM, Leigh said:
Sorry for the delay in replying @casterle - are you trying to print to PDF or XPS at all?
No, just a regular print to my printer, which is on my LAN if that helps.
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On 7/15/2022 at 5:44 PM, R C-R said:
Good to know, but unfortunately there are no equivalent xml files for the Mac versions.
I'm not sure if this is the same on Macs, but on Windows when you save your shortcuts to a file, the .afshort file is a zipped archive containing the XML files.
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1 hour ago, Lem3 said:
For Windows, there is Users > username > AppData > Roaming > Affinity > Photo > 1.0 > Workspaces > Photo > Shortcuts.xml
I created a new shortcut for Open Folder in Explorer (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-X) and found this stanza was added to that file:
<Item type="Command" command="Serif.Affinity.Commands.OpenFolderInExplorerCommand, Serif.Affinity, Version=1.10.5.1342, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" key="X" modifierKeys="Alt, Control, Shift" />
It's left as an exercise for the user to extract that into a more user friendly format.
Thank you! Just what I was looking for.
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I've changed a few of my shortcuts and added many others to accommodate using a MIDI controller with Affinity products. Is there any way to list all of my shortcut keys in one place?
Failing that, is there a way to convert the stored settings files to something readable so I can extract them myself?
It would be great if the configurations were saved/savable in JSON or XML format...
Scrolling through all of the various pages to remind myself of my assignments is painful!
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5 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
In this case part of the problem is that the circles are grouped. Most of the problem is that some of them are not currently snapping candidates.
Turn on Show Snapping candidates, you will see that some of the circles are snapping candidates and others are not. This is because those that are candidates have been selected more recently than those that are not candidates.
Set snapping candidates to 4 make five objects note how the last 4 are outlined in purple. select the one not outlined in purple, It should now be outlined and number two is not outlined.
Given that I can't remember why I disabled Snapping Candidates, I'm going to give them a try again. I'll keep in mind that the candidates are available based on selection history.
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12 hours ago, lacerto said:
I agree: if the nodes are at 9 points of bounding boxes (which are at square angles), just using the Move tool should be enough. If they are not, nodes need to be revealed somehow to make snapping easier (even if it did work without showing the nodes), so in that scenario changing to another tool is often needed. In Affinity Designer, you can use the Transform Point Tool with the appropriate snapping option turned on to snap to any of the exposed points whether rotated or not, also when they are buried within groups -- but you cannot snap then to the middle point of the circle!
It could ideally be as simple as it is in CorelDRAW, where you can snap to any point while having nodes exposed, even if snapping to objects is not turned on (why else would you even want to have all nodes exposed, if not for something like this). You can use the Move tool (Pick tool in Corel) to do that, as well, but then the nodes are not exposed.
Thanks for more insight on this.
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4 hours ago, Pšenda said:
The problem is if the circle groups are encapsulated in another group (Controls). If this grouping is canceled, snapping works on all circles.
Agreed. But having to remove objects from a group to snap guides to them is unexpected and should be unnecessary.
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5 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
Try turning on Show Snapping Candidates and snap to those.
Aside: When I see things like circles rotated 90 degrees I am always curious as to how the document was made.
I have Show Snapping Candidates disabled because something else - I don't remember what - was working improperly/unexpectedly with it enabled.
As far as the rotated circles I have no idea. I found the original template file on the 'Net long ago, probably as an SVG.
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10 hours ago, Dan C said:
Hi @casterle,
Thanks for your report & screen recording/file provided, this is certainly appreciated!
I can confirm I'm able to replicate this here, interestingly I find when slowing moving the vertical guide through the objects, I too am able to get it to snap for some of your shapes, but not all -
Therefore I'm logging this with our developers now for further investigation, as if the horizontal guides can snap to these points, I would expect the vertical ones to also.
I hope this helps!
Thank you!
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13 hours ago, lacerto said:
It seems you need to use the Node Tool or Point Transform Tool along with their respective point snapping options turned on, AND have the objects of interest selected, to be able to snap on points of those objects.
Note that generic snapping does not need to be turned on, at all, and that without tool specific snapping options turned on snapping does not happen, whether the objects are selected and nodes exposed; and that snapping does not happen, even if tool specific snapping options are turned on, unless the objects of interest are selected.
As for general snapping (with the Move Tool), the Snapping needs to be enabled and bounding box and midpoint snapping turned on, AND, all objects need to be ungrouped [otherwise snapping happens more or less vaguely, objects pre-selected or not].
A simple thing made complex.
I replied to @JimmyJack above that I couldn't get snapping to work using the Node tool. I then turned on 'Align to nodes of selected curves' and with the Controls group selected I was able to snap properly. Snapping did not work with either the Artboard or Encoders group selected.
That seems to be the key, but I believe I should be able to snap to grouped objects using the Move tool.
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16 hours ago, JimmyJack said:
It seems to work on just some of the interior object when I try.
Nevertheless.
Without a real good reason why. Try it with the group selected instead.
Also, with the individual object selected like in the vid, try it with the Node Tool active instead of the Move tool.Great post btw.!! Screen grab + video + a file. 💪
I'm unable to get it to work on any of the circles myself. Perhaps you have steadier hands than me? 🙂
Following your suggestion, using the Node tool, I've tried with the Controls group selected, the Encoders group selected and the Artboard selected. No joy!
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On 7/7/2022 at 2:58 PM, JimmyJack said:
Seems like this thread has become two questions:
1) the main title question. Making two shapes match edges exactly?
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2) how to correctly draw a 2D version of a perspective cone.Answers:
1) Among the other answers (which are fine and important to know), you can try this and possibly avoid a lot of work.
The old (actually not that old) "drag and hold to match edges exactly" trick. Just gotta make sure you have the same number of nodes.2) Ellipses are circles in perspective. There's no need (and imho it's actually unwanted) to manipulate the oval to simulate perspective... unless you're going for some kind of Dali persistence of time oval 😉. It's all about where the side walls hit the ellipse boundary. Technically they'll never hit the ellipses' exact full width side nodes.... that would mean zero perspective.
Thank you - that's impressive!
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On 7/7/2022 at 3:11 AM, Ron P. said:
Is this what you're trying to do?
It seems the bottom (cone) curve was a little messed up at the left and right points. I corrected those. Then moved the nodes for the top elliptical curve to better match the bottom cone. I then moved the elliptical curve below the cone in the layer stack. Done the same with the hidden curve gradient fill. It helps hide some things that hard to get perfect.
I would recommend watching some tutorials about using the Isometric Grids, if your wanting to do this sort of things. Have a look at YouTube Channel by ArtistWright.
Thank you. You're right, the cone was totally messed up at the upper corners. I couldn't figure out how to get the 'loop' effect out of the Bezier curve - so I gave up in frustration. @iconoclast suggested using geometry which is what I was looking for!
I've subscribed to ArtistWright's YouTube channel.
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On 7/7/2022 at 1:29 AM, iconoclast said:
Ah okay, I think I understand. In that case I would place both shapes as you need them, duplicate the oval, place its layer on top of the cone layer and Subtract it from the cone. Subtract is the second button of the Geometry options (on the right side of the context bar of the Move and Node tool.
It is often much easier and more precisely to do such things by cutting or extending them with duplicates of one of the shapes.
Thank you! That gave me the exact results I was looking for. I'm fairly new to vector graphics and forgot all about the geometric functions.
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On 7/7/2022 at 1:29 AM, GarryP said:
I think the problem you are having is that you are trying to express a 3D design in 2D.
The ellipse won’t ‘fit’ the ‘cone’ because its 2D shape won’t fit inside the 2D shape of the ‘cone’.
What I think you need to do is manually apply ‘perspective’ by manipulating the ellipse.
See attached video for a crudely-done example (guide is used to make the manipulation a bit easier).This method results in the oval overlapping the cone, hiding it's straight top. What I'm after is making the cone's top (or bottom in your example) exactly match the curve of the oval.
@iconoclast suggested using geometry, which produced the exact results I was looking for!
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AD 1.10.5.1342 on Windows 11.
I can snap horizontal guides to grouped circles works fine. Snapping vertical guides, not so much.
Here's my snapping settings:
And here's the video. Note that after I move the circles out of the group to the artboard I can snap vertical guides to the circles:
I've attached the AD file so you can give it a try.Thanks for your help once again!
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Win11 x64 PC with Ryzen 9 3950X, RTX 2080, 64GB RAM, 3 Monitors (AD was running on a BenQ W271), XP-Pen Deco 03Tablet.
This has happened a couple of times over the last few days. I don't recall what happened to cause the program to close silently until today, when I had time to report the issue. In every case I was able to reopen AD and continue without the issue recurring.
Today it happened when I tried to print a document (attached). AD closed when I sent the file to the printer. I had the Artboard with the cone and oval selected, and used the app to manage color. After the crash, I reopened the project and printed the same graphic without issues.
I zipped up the 'CrashReports' folder and attached it.
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1 hour ago, iconoclast said:
Hm, I'm not sure if I exactly understand what you want to do. Do you want to set the shapes exactly side by side or do you want to set the cone on the oval like a hat..? The first thing should work with the Snap-function if you set it to "Snap to Object" (or so - my desktop computer is off at the moment, so I can't look for the right name). You could also do it with the Transform panel, by entering exact values for the positions, width and height of the shapes. Or you could use guidelines and/or a grid. You can also let the shapes snap to grids and guidelines.
The second solution should work by placing the shapes manually first and then, to align them exactly to the horizontal middle of each other, with the Align-function (six small buttons to align to the horizontal left, middle or right and the vertical left, middle or right). You should find it somewhere in the tool bar of the Move Tool. But both shapes have to be selected to align them.
Sorry, it is late here in Germany, and I have to go to bed. Will be back tomorrow.
Do you have a way to look at the file? If so, what I want to do will be clear - I need to move the cone up (no problem with that!), and change it's upper curve to match the curvature of the oval precisely. In other words, I need to shape the bottom of the oval and the top of the cone to exactly match.
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3 minutes ago, iconoclast said:
Hi casterle!
Did you try the Snap-function? You find it on top middle of the GUI, below the menu bar.
Thanks. The bottom curve of the oval and the top curve of the cone differ. I've tried using the node tool, but after an hour or so of frustration I turned to the forum for help.
If I understand your suggestion (using the magnet), I don't know how to use it to accomplish my goal.
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I've been practicing with shapes and have a problem I can't solve.
The attached file contains an oval and a cone. I want to make the cone 'attach' to the oval such that there are no gaps between the two. I can't seem to get the job done.
I've fairly new to vector graphics so I'm probably missing something obvious...
As always, thanks for your insight.
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On 7/3/2022 at 6:11 AM, Customer Feedback said:
I discovered this feature way too late, and I can't believe it's not enabled by default.
And what a chore to enable it on a lot of objects afterwards.
Enable by default for crying out loud.
According to the help section quoted by 'R C-R' above, it's enabled on Mac. Either the docs are wrong, or it's a bug in the Windows version.
Please, for the love of God, enable this by default on Windows! Better yet, make it an option in preferences.
Affinity is joining the Canva family. RIP ?
in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
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It seems that Canva has cash. As long as the Affinity Suite survives using the current pricing model, this could be a win-win. Canva gets access to loads of sorely-needed features and Affinity has more resources to evolve our favorite products.