Nazario
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Its shows up in non separated mode but not in separated! I cant work with non separated as I like to drag and drop for speedy workflow.
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Erm... I have 1.8.4 and I too don't have the Stock Panel?! Spent ages looking and searched net to see if its me being a div but its simply not there?!
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7 minutes ago, R C-R said:
@Dan C, since this is now in the correct forum & the question is about restoring the factory default values, it occurs to me that I have no idea how to do that with either Affinity iPad app. I searched the builtin help on "Reset" but that resulted in nothing useful.
So is it even possible to do this?
It will probably require an uninstall and reinstall of the app.
Hola Marcelo, creo que tendrás que reinstalar la aplicación.
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Unfortunately we've had to continue subscribing to Adobe as we cant use Affinity for same reasons.
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Ah yes. Now I remember, illustrator required it at some point when it stagnated and MacOS kept moving forward. Yes let’s not go down that route haha.
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14 minutes ago, anon2 said:
No way would I install Java, LOL.
Is Java the one Apple blocked by default a while back?
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PDFStudio which is cross platform apparently manages to do what's required (never used it so cant confirm) and that is based on Java. Just putting it out there. When it comes to the technicalities of coding I don't really know. Im more interested in the user experience being a user (well not quite yet unfortunately).
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To use Publisher I need Passthrough and the render needs to be accurate as graphics need to be aligned with and overlaid the PDFs. With an image with the wrong fonts showing its impossible to achieve this and so years after purchasing Publisher I'm STILL unable to use it. It's beyond frustrating.
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Thanks Walt but I'm meaning about on screen not in the export. I just think without an actual accurate image on screen the Passthrough implementation is a confusing mess that is more hassle than its worth to use, sadly.
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I get what you're saying but when a PDF is set to interpret what does it do?
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It shouldn't be interpreted it should be passed through hence the name. Either way an accurately rendered image of a PDF would be nice.
Unless its me misunderstanding something and witnessing a bug but a PDF set to pass through looks exactly the same as a PDF set to Interpret i.e. the fonts are not honoured.
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Hi Jon, I found out after starting this thread that the way you are displaying passthrough PDFs is to interpret them, which if you ask me is just plain daft and not to mention highly confusing. So i never got to the stage of exporting as I have no confidence in what i see on screen. If a user can't trust what they see on screen they aren't going to use the software im afraid.
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Im on about the ink dropper in the 'swatches' pane that works completely differently to the one in the toolbar in your example.
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Totally agree on that.
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37 minutes ago, F+C said:
Sigh - so true.
Affinity Publisher is like that friend who is a really good person, who you'd like to hang out with more but keeps on doing dumb things. BUT it's also so much cheaper than the other program so I guess you get what you pay for.I've given up trying to use it for production tasks and stick with CS. Perhaps in v2 these issues will be fixed but I fear as the team is apparently made up of non-production industry types this will continue to be a consumer level product (which isn't bad - it's just not a pro-level application)
How long has It been out? 2 years? In that time I am still yet to produce ANYTHING with Publisher! As you quite rightly say its just not a professional option.
I like your analogy as its very true. There are so many illogical decisions across the suite. The most obvious solution to a simple action is right there in front of you but for some reason Serif come up with a convoluted illogical way of doing things that just adds confusion, extra clicks and frustration.
The single most annoying one being the transform window. Instead of being logical and tabbing from X to Y when inputting coordinates. It tabs X to Width to Y to Height!
Another being the colour dropper tool that you have to needlessly click on the inkwell next to the dropper after you've already selected a colour to 'actually' select the colour!
Theres loads more and I do moan about them a lot on here, mainly because of the frustrations, but I really want Affinity to get it right with efficiency and intuitiveness of the UI so this suite can be the best it can be. My criticisms are not with malice just purely constructive but they are, unfortunately, many.
Regarding the 'non-production industry' team, im not sure how true that is but I had my suspicions when in the Publisher announcement keynote the guy creating a brochure in the demo used PNG images! Did anyone else from a print background cringe at that?
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I keep banging my head against the wall with Publisher! I really do.
I keep TRYING to use it, not like it, simply use it but at every step there is an issue that stops me. The latest issue Ive discovered as other clearly already have is that we cant change the colour of guides!! Im using guides because of another issue I found yesterday in that the origin point is relative to a spread and not the page you are working on. So I thought id make better use of guides to save me having top manually calculate positions on a right hand page. So I start a new project, cyan background, Drag a guide.... Close Publisher.
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Thanks Old Bruce. Personally I think that should happen automatically as you select an element on a particular page. The origin should be relevant to the page not the spread for consistency. As it stands you are working with two sets of figures instead of one for layout purposes.
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I don't use Publisher enough to know if this is a bug or by design but...
On a 148x210mm (A5) double page spread, objects on the right hand page 8mm in from the left edge (centre of spread) have properties of 156mm from DPS left edge and not 8mm from the left edge of the right hand page it sits on. Should it not show 8mm in the 'X' transform window?
If you have items that are placed throughout a publication that sit 8mm from the left edge of a page be it right or left hand page would it not be best showing 8mm instead of 8mm for left hand page and 156mm for right hand pages? I.e. the elements transform information should respect the page they reside on instead of forcing the user to manually calculate 'width of left hand page plus Xmm equals...' for placing anything on the right hand page.
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On 9/18/2020 at 5:52 PM, AdamW said:
Hi @Dazmondo77 - You will still get the interpreted preview in the document in Affinity, we may end up watermarking it or something to make this more obvious, but when re-exported to PDF does it look correct?
If Passthrough is only going to show the interpreted version on screen then its going to be pretty pointless adding Passthrough (which is definitely needed). How would one align artwork with an interpreted image on screen? It would be impossible without constantly exporting, checking the output, nudging the PDF this way and that, reexporting, rechecking, move the PDF again etc.
We need to see on screen what we are working with! Whether it's a flattened preview or layered whatever, It needs to be accurate and not a preview that looks like its been captured from a camera made out of Lego.
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Actually I cant get ANY PDFs to import without problems! Most crash to desktop but ones that do open and set to pass through still don't honour fonts etc.
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The attached PDF instantly crashes Publisher to desktop. Crash report attached too.
Can we get a true leading in the character studio?
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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I just realised this myself last night. I found myself constantly changing 12pt type with default 12pt leading to 14 pt leading so the type is displayed with a semblance of how it would be set manually by a professional in the real world.
One of the first lessons you learn when you study typography is always set leading at least 2pt above the type size for legibility reasons. If you are purposely going for a style where legibility is not the priority then obviously set it accordingly. But as a default for legibility no less than 2pt. Typefaces and fonts are generally but not always designed with this in mind.
Over compact leading leads to heavy looking boxes of type, the visual weight of which will break a design quite easily while also making type hard to read. The same is true of too wide leading. This can lead to text being read as individual lines and the story feeling broken and hard to follow as you have to consciously try harder to follow each line.
I too work similar to kanihoncho whereby you try to get a feel of the design first before you start creating styles. This is why i have an issue with how the current colour palettes work whereby its implementation requires you to set your colours first before you even start anything (as they are not added automatically) which is impossible if you are 'creating' because creating is by its very nature making something from nothing. You can't choose colours from nothing to start your project but I digress.