Paul Bravery
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Hi Al Catullo,
There is a Customer Beta of Affinity Designer.
Maybe this will solve your problem?
Please let us know if it does.
Paul.
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Great work on the Photo (Beta) fix, guys!
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Hi Al Catullo,
Are you able to upload the imported file for me to look at?
It can be deleted later.
Paul.
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In Photoshop, the character palette can be integrated into the sidebar, where it takes up much less screen space. In Photo, the free-standing character palette takes up quite a bit of space, and thus has to be moved around when it gets in the way—especially when working on a laptop. Is there a way to dock the character palette in the sidebar à la Photoshop? Attached is a snapshot of Affinity Photo's character palette at minimum size compared to the Photoshop character palette. The size difference is huge, and the Affinity Photo character palette doesn't even include line spacing (leading) controls.
Hi alansky,
The short answer is no.
Maybe you could add it to Feature Requests on the forum.
I guess it's a matter of what you are used to & how much change you like.
I found that you can toggle the palette on & off by clicking its tab at the top, in the tool bar:
Paul.
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Hi all,
I had an interesting conversation with an Apple Certified IT guy who administers our Macs.
He said that Apple will deliberately alter things in a Beta Update just to see how much gets broken & then fix the breakage in the next update!
Can this be confirmed here?
Paul.
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Hi Bond,
I concur!
Paul.
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Hi forquare,
Thanks for the heads up, I haven't received that update yet!
Paul.
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Thanks, Dave, good news!
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Hi Johalenn,
That sounds promising, can you post the link to that OnOne thread?
Thanks
Paul.
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Hi galilio,
I've just installed & updated El Capitan to the latest version (15A225f), on an external hard drive for testing Affinity.
What version of El Capitan Beta are you using?
The version I have seems to behave itself regarding creating new & opening existing files in Affinity Designer.
Screen shots below:
If you need to update the Beta, maybe the problem will go away?
Paul.
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Hi jjsgrl,
It's in the feature roadmap but is not implemented yet: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10410-common-feature-requests-index/
Paul.
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Hi galilio,
Hopefully you have a Time Machine backup & can restore your Mac to Yosemite.
That is the best solution in the mean time.
Paul.
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You're very welcome, bail, sorry I was slow to respond on the second round - I'm dealing with a redundancy notice received yesterday & my focus is on finding another Mac Op/Designer job!
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High risk manoeuvre to run a Beta version OS on a mission critical Mac!
You can expect things to break…
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Hi revelmo2,
I can't seem to replicate the problem.
The nearest I had to this problem was on my work Mac, where the file Photoshop file I was saving was visible in the preview column in Finder.
Saving it to the Desktop & then dragging to the folder I wanted was my only option.
Sorry I can't be more help.
Paul.
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Hi revelmo2,
I've had similar issues with Photoshop on my work Mac, it may be an OS problem.
I have Affinity at home, so will see if it happens to me in about 2-3 hours from now.
Paul.
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Affinity Photo is excellent ( the InPainting brush is better than excellent) and I am close to leaving Photoshop CC in November when my contract expires.
One thing I am having trouble with in Affinity is resizing images. For my photo society I need to end up with images 1400 wide and 1050 pixels high, both landscape and portrait format. I have tried time after time to achieve this in Affinity. Clearly I am being slow here but really need help!
In Photoshop current easy procedure is:
Landscape: Image: Image Size, Check the resample and constrain boxes and reduce image width to 1400 pixels.
Image, Canvas Size, uncheck relative box, select the canvas colour to black, and set the height to 1050 pixels
Portrait Image: Image, Image size, Check the resample and constrain proportions boxes and reduce the image height to 1050 pixels
Image, Canvas size, uncheck the Relative box, select the canvas colour to black, and set the width to 1400 pixels
I would be very grateful if someone could provide me with the steps I need to do in Affinity Photo to replicate this end result?
Bail
Hi Bail,
Welcome to the forum.
The keyboard shortcuts to achieve the results you are asking about are the same as in Photoshop.
These screen shots show the steps I took, the only difference was that I needed to add a pixel layer under the image & fill that with black:
1. Resize the document.
2. Resize Canvas, then add a pixel layer & fill with black.
This is the exported JPEG result:
Hope this helps.
Paul.
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Hi Kishkumen,
Welcome to the forum. :D
Here is a link to a video tutorial about snapping for ceating and editing objects that may be of use to you: https://vimeo.com/112710952
Hope this helps.
Paul.
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Hi jokanaan,
Welcome to the forum. :D
Could you upload the PDF you imported, for us to look at?
Affinity Designer is not exactly like Illustrator - PDF files tend to come in as one layer, with all the objects on sublayers and the order of the sublayers appear to be random.
Paul.
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Hi ianrk,
I also purchased Affinity Photo at the 20% discount.
The discounted price is displayed during the promo, so a further 20% discount does not apply!
The price you paid is 20% off the current price, as clarified by Apple.
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Hi Marc,
The URL is via Google search.
Perhaps you need to be on the site that has the image.
You can easily change the default app for opening .afdesign files, using Get Info by right clicking on the file. However, this will make .afphoto files open in Affinity Designer!
The best option for now is to right click the file & choose Open With.
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I've seen similar complaints regarding Gimp, it also has to export to different file formats instead of in the save dialog.
I guess it can confuse those from an Adobe experience.
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Hi jJlDNlgJnvIREYDW,
Have you tried the Grab utility that comes with your Mac?
I use it when I want a perfectly cropped image of an application window:
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Can the character palette be docked in the sidebar?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Hi alansky,
Other than the ui preference, how are you finding AP?
Paul.