MartinMHC
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MartinMHC reacted to Old Bruce in Group selection Problem in Affinity Designer V2
Set it up so Auto select is checked and use the Default setting. One click will select the group, a double click will select the object you do the double click on (or group if you have several objects and groups grouped).
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MartinMHC got a reaction from Westerwälder in Group selection Problem in Affinity Designer V2
@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.
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MartinMHC reacted to zzbrufador in Group selection Problem in Affinity Designer V2
Such an unnecessary option, only makes a confusion.
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MartinMHC got a reaction from jAffinitySerif in Affinity Photo 1.7 font stroke width
After upgrading to Affinity Photo 1.7 I can now no longer find where or how to set the stroke width of font elements.
I create a font and write a text and i have found I can use the alternative colour on the colour palette to make a stroke colour on the font, but I can not find any way of editing the width of this stroke. This previously used to be an option from the Font sub menu bar.
Where has it gone?
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MartinMHC got a reaction from jAffinitySerif in Affinity Photo 1.7 font stroke width
I have since found it -- looking under the character menu ("a") from the font menubar gives a selection of sub-headings, one of which is "decoration" within which the text stroke colour and width are editable.
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MartinMHC reacted to IOIO in How to select parent Group when clicking on an object
@MartinMHC I was facing the exact same problem and just found the solution after a wasted hour of trying around and searching the web.
There is a rather hidden option that only appears when you have selected a layer or group. So select something and then toggle the tiny button marked on my attached screenshot. After that, selecting groups and layers works like expected. 🤜
Edit: I'm already on Affinity v2 and it might look a bit different in v1. But I'm pretty sure it's also there.
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MartinMHC got a reaction from thegary in FONT search crashes Designer PC
Yes I am reading and doing that now. Thank you.
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MartinMHC reacted to kenmcd in Affinity Designer v1.10.5 Artefacts when exporting to PDF
The fonts are kind of a mess.
Lots of outline issues which appear to have been improved with newer versions.
I found 3 versions - v1.004, v1.050, and v1.500.
v1.004 says it was made with Fontself Maker - which explains the mess.
Lots of messy outlines, odd character sizes, bad spacing, etc.
v1.050 did improve the outlines, and fixed some oddities.
But v1.050 did show some small artifacts when I tested with your first test doc.
v1.500 was clearly improved by someone who has some experience.
Letter spacing was improved, character sizes harmonized, kerning improved, the outlines were simplified and cleaned-up some more.
These artifacts seem to appear when text is given a stroke/outline - and the font is either really messy/broken outlines, or it is just a bit unusual with really tightly spaced nodes.
But, glad you got it working.
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MartinMHC reacted to joe_l in Affinity Designer v1.10.5 Artefacts when exporting to PDF
If you can live with only the font fucxedcapslatin.otf, you can search the web for it. Seems to be a working version.
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MartinMHC got a reaction from joe_l in Affinity Designer v1.10.5 Artefacts when exporting to PDF
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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MartinMHC got a reaction from Dan C in How to select parent Group when clicking on an object
Thank you both. I will check this out tomorrow and try to create a video.
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MartinMHC reacted to GarryP in How to select parent Group when clicking on an object
I can’t remember this ever happening for me.
Is it possible for you to record a video of this happening?
(I don’t know if there is a preference setting for this sort of thing which I have forgotten about.)
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MartinMHC reacted to Dan C in How to select parent Group when clicking on an object
Hi @MartinMHC,
This is slightly incorrect - and I'll be sure to raise this with our documentation team - when selecting a Group of objects on the canvas directly with the Move Tool, a single click will select the group layer & a double click will at first select the group, then the object within.
This happens for me when double clicking on the Group thumbnail in the Layers Studio, and this is expected behaviour.
As suggested above, are you able to provide a screen recording of the steps you're taking currently please?
If you're unsure how to take a screen recording, please check out our FAQ linked below -
Many thanks in advance
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MartinMHC reacted to walt.farrell in How to open / import IDML or INDD files
@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).
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MartinMHC reacted to Ron P. in How to resize a pixel layer inside a group
Sadly I can not locate in the Affinity Photo Help an entry describing this. So here's a screenshot.
It allows you move, resize, contents (images, shapes, ect) inside a group. In the screen shot I have clipped (nested) the image inside a rectangle. The rectangle and image are grouped. On the right end of the Context toolbar is the Lock Children option.
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MartinMHC reacted to carl123 in How to fill with a picked colour
Sounds like you are working with an "image" layer and not a "pixel" layer
Select the layer in the Layers panel then Layer > Rasterise from the menus
Then try the procedure again
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MartinMHC got a reaction from walt.farrell in Affinity Photo how to recover a failed image from auto-save
Walt, many thanks for the help -- I found the autosave in the AppData folder tree and have recovered to a point close to when I'd saved. Many thanks!
Full path:
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MartinMHC reacted to walt.farrell in Affinity Photo how to recover a failed image from auto-save
If there is an Autosave file for:
An unsaved file (that is, a file that has never been saved, and has no name), then when you restart Photo it will ask if you'd like to recover it. A file that has been saved previously, then when you next try to Open that file Photo will tell you there's a recovery file and ask if you'd like to recover it. If neither of those is happening, then it is likely that no recovery file exists. For example, as part of the Save operation you did, Photo may have already deleted the autosave file.
However, if any files exist you will find them in
If there are .autosave files there, you can try the following:
Make a copy of the file Change the extension from .autosave to .afphoto Open the file