Hilltop
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7 hours ago, Ralf_Maeder said:
When working with the Glyph browser, selecting a letter, changing it with the glyph browser, then deselecting it and selecting another letter, it happens to me often that the Glyph browser won't show any letters at all. When this happens, I have to close the application and start it once more. I suppose some issue either with the font, with Affinity, or some issue with my Windows 10 system. The font is a commercial one.
I don't see that behavior in my setup but it might be something for the devs to look into.
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4 hours ago, Ralf_Maeder said:
After having changed a letter with the glyph browser and deselecting the text, then selecting it once more, the glyph browser stays empty, as if it is not updating or having another trouble with the font. Performance of the Affinity application suddenly may decrease and even freeze for more than 30 seconds.
Also another permanent issue is that the glyph browser does not display the whole character if, like in this case, the glyph is much larger than the normal letter, making the selection of the correct glyph a trial and error endevour.
As far as your first point is concerned, I don't quite get what you mean by 'the glyph browser stays empty".
With regards to the glyph browser not showing the complete character when it is too large, I notice this as well. Indeed, trying to get the right glyph is quite a hit and miss in those cases.
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2 hours ago, StuartRc said:
It has taken some time to complete because of all the new seamless patterns!...but I can use them elsewhere..as they are vector..and evolved a few new techniques!
A few new techniques, as in, not part of the manual or other user guides?
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11 hours ago, v_kyr said:
The ruler assets shared here ...
... are all vector based and do have a printed on centimeters or inch scale (some also do contain both cm + inch scales together printed on). The default ruler sizes and thus their shown scales, should nearly match the Affinity ruler measurements, which means they could be used to measure when placed into Affinity docs, as far as their default size is kept and they are not resized from their initial size.
Note that all rulers are just a bunch of grouped together vector parts (curves and text) ...
... thus they can be modified in colorings and the like.
The set of rulers contains some straight rulers ...
... a few triangles smaller and bigger sized ...
.. and some simple protactors.
Wow, these look beautiful and are very detailed and adjustable! Great presentation, too. Thank you so much!
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2 hours ago, John Rostron said:
I have put together a set of macros to change the dpi of an image without changing the pixel dimensions. The set comprises macros to change the dpi to 72, 96, 144, 180, 192, 300 and 400dpi.
Very useful. Thank you for sharing these!
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2 hours ago, Fixx said:
That is available only in english keyboards, I think.
You could assign custom keyboard shortcuts. Go to Edit/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts, select 'Photo' and, in the drop-down window underneath, one of the brush tools. When ticking 'Apply to all', all brush tools will respond to that keyboard shortcut.
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45 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:
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The second row is user-customizable, so it is quite possible to fill that space entirely with extra buttons.
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I think the greatest potential improvement here would be to make the studios accessible by toolbar buttons, as currently most or all of the studios do not have optional toolbar icons. That seems like "low-hanging fruit" in terms of improvements: easy to do (I suppose) and by default left out of the way for users who do not want them. If I had the option, I would add a couple studios to the toolbar if I had the option. I keep my most-used studios docked on the left or right, but a few of the occasional studios aren't out all the time, and a quick click to show a studio in the toolbar is one click and two drags less than finding the same item in the Studio submenu.
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I might not have been clear enough. I don't mean that all panels should be open and docked at the same time but that they could be opened as needed by clicking buttons or the like.
I included the screenshot that was part of the thread you referred to and indicated all the free space on the user's small screen. Of course, not all of it can be used as I suggest but just to give an idea of the vacant real estate at the top of the UI.
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+1!
I also like direct access to the many panels and there is so much empty space for these.
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Great improvements! I really like the New Document and Preflight Panels! Thank you!
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7 hours ago, mswift said:
Also I have a couple of PDF tutorials that might help here, I will add more over time.
Thank you for the tuts and the templates. Very nice work!
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Does this help?
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On 3/29/2017 at 1:16 PM, Glyphs said:
Could you give us a way to save interface layouts, with customized toolbars and palettes layouts?
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I recently reinstalled the three Affinity apps after upgrading my hardware, including an SSD. That was easy enough. However, I still have to customize the interfaces -- which, including the various personas, I all gave similar layouts where possible -- because I haven't found the time (or inspiration) to go through all the many steps again. This despite the fact that I made screenshots of the setups before upgrading my hardware. Complicating the process is also having to import all the assets, brushes, LUTs, macros, palettes, styles -- some of them for all three apps and sometimes one by one -- all over again.
The net effect is that I tend to avoid using the the Affinity apps even though I really like them.
To make this process more user friendly, I could imagine a centralized facility that, while customizing the UI for one app, allows these settings to be also applied to the other apps where it concerns shared features and tools. Of course, such facility would also allow us to save these settings as presets, as well as contain a centralized app asset manager for the brushes, assets etc.
The way Affinity conceived this 'suite' is brilliant but without integrating the manner in which the various apps can be customized and their assets be managed, it's sometimes too much of a pain.
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Haven't been able to look at it yet but it seems quite useful. Thank you for sharing!
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On 2/18/2020 at 5:51 PM, Anand Kumar said:
yes! thank for suggesting. i was thinking about that too and disabled it.
Good decision to make your freebies available without registration -- it may also lead to more traffic. Thank you for the templates. Minimalist, as you say, but very nice and clean!
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1 hour ago, jweitzel said:
From my software development projects I know: Ask 10 users for functions, and you will get at least 15 answers and endless discussions.
Johannes, you are one of those '10' users. 😉
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+ 1
And the ability to save them for possible reinstall or to port them to newer version.
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1 hour ago, StuartRc said:
I can see your point I do build some weird stuff!
"Weird" is definitely not the word I'd use for your creations. Better is "wonderful!"
I wasn't aware that they're so adjustable and hadn't even thought of those as seamless textures. They might come in handy after all.....
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