MartinMHC
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@R C-R from my use of Designer 2.21 today, re: "Isn't that in effect what the Move Tool selector offers?" No, the move tool allows EITHER group or object selection but NOT BOTH .
Auto select seems to not select groups, in my usage, maybe because objects vastly out numbers groups in the document I've been working on so the program decides I don't want to ever select groups, but either way, it is what it is ..."How would a 'both' option determine if you wanted to select groups or objects in them?" I have no idea how this works! 🤣😂🤣
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On 12/4/2022 at 9:51 PM, loukash said:
Designer v2 has a new option in the Move tool context toolbar: Select Item in Group
Make sure it is inactive.
affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_move.html
Per version 2.2.1 The Move tool has a drop down selector for canvas selecting either objects or groups, but not both.
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There are some utterly bizarre changes implemented in V2. As stated above, this change is deeply frustrating when working with many objects and a few groups, I can't select the groups, or I can select the groups but then can't select the objects. Why the flying fudge can't I select both or either?
And @R C-R saying that this was requested by some users, that's fine, but any modern developer should implement optin-optout ability for anything like this, so that I as a user can then turn this new feature off if desired.
This is another fking hassle.
Sorry I'm stressed as something that was previously easy to do has become tedious with this - along with other - "updates" to Affinity Designer V2. -
4 minutes ago, joe_l said:
If you can live with only the font fucxedcapslatin.otf, you can search the web for it. Seems to be a working version.
And bingo. Got it.
The client had given me a source otf font face that was ~63Kb . Searching online I found the same font with a ~101Kb face which appears to be an updated version. Using this seems to resolve the artefact issue. Thanks for the pointers.
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Yes, @joe_l I have tested this by changing the font on the layer and I can't recreate the issue. It does seem specific to this font. Exampled; 2b is the Fucxed latin and 2c is the Franklin Gothic Medium font.
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@joe_l I can't disagree. The font has been supplied by the client and appears to be their own font. However, the font installs and works correctly on my system and the issue _appears_ to be the font being used as/in an Artistic text rather than a Framed text . I don't know enough about fonts to judge this fonts usability but even so, it appears absolutely fine on saves and raw images / afdesign files but has issues outputting to PDF.
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This issue is also occuring on other files using Artistic Text. Please see attached a seperate but identical incident.
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Further to last please find the isolated layer on it's own file. This file's PDF export still causes the same artefacts.
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@Callum
I have exported, and I have noted that the type of PDF makes a difference.
All PDF exports are 300 dpi and area = whole document.
Issue occures on: PDF (for print) / PDF (press ready) / PDF (digital - both) / PDF (for export) / PDF/X (all)
Issue does NOT occur on PDF (flattened).
After checking each layer the issue is caused by the Green "Artistic" text layer. All other text is "Framed".
I will find out how to send you the file on the forum... -
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This exact same issue occurs to me on all Affinity products v1.10.5 minimum.
Is there a scope that Affinity can release a patch for this as it seems to be that the OS updates that cause this are increasing.... -
I have an image file that I have worked on in Affinity Designer and I export it to a PDF using raster DPI = 300 and none of the checkboxes ticked.
The PDF export always has dark marks on it that do not exist on the original image / designer file,
following my previous similar query about JPEG artefacts on Affinity PhotoAnd the advice here to turn off Hardware Acceleration support, which I have now done on Affinity Designer but I can't stop these artefacts being generated on PDF. There are no elements on the image layers that these artefacts seem to correlate with.
How can I improve the export to remove unwanted artefacts?
IN DESIGNER:
IN PDF VIEWER (Adobe) but also tried other viewers as well.
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2 minutes ago, GarryP said:
This sounds like you are double-clicking on the thumbnail of the layer in the Layers Panel rather than double-clicking on the layer on the canvas. (This is expected behaviour for double-clicking on the thumbnail of the layer.)
Try single-clicking at a position on the canvas which is ‘over’ a non-transparent area of the group instead; that should select the group first, as mentioned in the Help.
Also, as mentioned by thedivclass above, if you have a child layer selected then you can use the menu “Select → Select Parent” to select the group (if the group is the immediate parent layer of that layer).
No, this is what happens when double clicking on the child on the image itself.
The solutions presented all seem like workarounds. Maybe a possible solution is as mentioned to select the child and press a key to move up to the parent but that's the closest solution so far. -
In Affinity Designer 1.10.5 I have a group of many objects (all curves) as a ,well, group. When I click on the individual objects, the curve rather than the group are selected. I want to select the group as a complete group rather than the object as an individual element.
I have read the help topic here ( https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/group.html?title=Grouping objects ) , which states:To select objects (or groups) in a group:
- Double-click on the object. If the object itself is in a group, the group will be selected first—double-clicking again will select the object.
But this does not happen. When double clicking on the object in the group the object becomes focused and zooms to fill the screen. I want to automatically select the whole group when clicking on a child element.
I have also tried locking all child elements in the group and this sort of almost does what I need, in that the child curves are not selectable but it also excludes them from passing the focus of [double] clicking on to the parent group, so I can only select the group from the layers tab.
How can selecting only the parent group when selecting a child element be done? Thanks. -
2 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:
It shouldn't but alas it is
Well I've updated and done that, so will see if this issue disappears. Thanks.
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4 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:
Disable HA in the preferences>performance
Is that a standard solution to this issue? I never knew! thanks.
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Affinity Photo Version 1.10.5
I work a lot with JPEG and PNG images. When exporting these images using File > Export and saving them as JPEG or PNG files I will quite often (1/30 times) later discover that the exported image (when re-loaded) has artefacts that were not on the original and not visually apparent at time of export.
The artefacts are always square or rectangular and usually wide letterbox sizes. The Artefacts are quite large relative to the image size. ~ 100 x 10 px for example on a 1000x1000px image. Artefacts are mid-tone gray or sometimes transparant and appear to maybe be caused by overlay windows (possibly even the export modal window) seeming to make Affinity "forget" part of the underlying image underneath the export window. I have found today that the artefact was caused by the "flatten image" command from the menu (image was an edited JPEG to be saved as-is).
This is more common with large images (3k+ px width or height) and very furstrating. Once an artefact is seen, it's very hard to then keep exporting the same image until there are no artefacts on the export. Usually requiring 5+ exports. If the Artefact is not seen in time, then the source of the exported JPG image will need to be reopened and rebuilt (cos, you know, JPEGs are flat).
Interested to know how to establish the cause of this issue. DXDiag attached herewith and most recent image this has happened to. I have edited/captioned the image to highlight the problem.
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20 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
@MartinMHC: You can get a 10-day free trial of Publisher from https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/ (scroll to the bottom of the page, and click Free Trial under the correct OS). That would let you import the IDML files you have now (not INDD), and you could save them as .afpub or .afdesign or .afphoto (and Designer/Photo can open any of those).
Well that did the trick, thank you, although it's only a short term solution (10 days!) . Of note; once the document is opened within Affinity Publisher, each page can be opened again and edited in Affinity Designer or Photo from the Publisher main menu, so it seems straightforward for other Affinity products to be able to import IDML documents. Hopefully this import ability can be added in an update.
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@Pšenda I understand IDML are multi layered documents and PDF are flat. Therefore if that's so, PDF is not an ideal solution.
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I have Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but I apparently need Affinity Publisher to open these file types. I have been given these file types and need to simply import them to convert them to .afdesign . How can I import these files without needing to pay for Publisher as I can't afford it (£50!!) purely for converting file formats.
Is there an Addon for Designer that can do this? Is there any other way that I can open these file types in Affinity Designer? -
@Ron P. Awesome, many thanks for clarifying that. I will be aware of this going forwards! Thanks again!
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3 hours ago, Ron P. said:
So you might try checking the Lock Children box on the Context Toolbar.
Yes this looks like the sort of thing that might have happened. I can't see the Lock Children option anywhere, and I had looked previously and had de-selected these sort of things when loooking around before posting the query.
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18 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
Try using the Move tool. The arrow, shortcut on Mac is "v" most likely the same with Windows.
Sorry to clarify, the usual method of moving pasted objects is to use the move tool, yes. That is the tool selected when this screenshot is taken.
Strangely, I wrote this post before closing the image, and then reopening the .afphoto image just now, the layer moves and behaves as expected; in the previous session I had been doing a LOT of copy/paste and multi-layer construction work on the image (not sure if that would have factored into it)
Group selection Problem in Affinity Designer V2
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@R C-R default doesn't select groups. That's the issue, that I can select objects OR groups but I can never select EITHER.