Hilltop
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Hilltop reacted to Mark Ingram in DXF Files
I've mentioned this a few times now, but Designer was released 5 years go, and since then we have continually added new features and bug fixes, for free. I understand that in this thread, people are disappointed about the lack of DXF support, and in other feature request threads you'll find other disappointed users. However, we have to balance our work loads and prioritise features over other ones. That doesn't mean we aren't listening, it just means we're busy. When Designer shipped it didn't support Artboards, Symbols, Assets, Arrow Heads, Multi-Fills & Multi-Strokes, etc. And these were all requests that came from users (you can find the old feature request threads on these if you search).
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Hilltop reacted to walt.farrell in Default starting dictionary
That would be nice.
In the meantime, there is a workaround.
Designer works the same way as Publisher in this area: The Text Style named Base inherits your User Interface language as its default Spelling Language. And all the other paragraph styles inherit from Base.
However, you can change that. Just look in the Text Styles studio panel, double-click on Base, and change the Spelling Language to Catalan if you have its dictionary installed:
Then:
Click OK to saved the modified Base style. Click on the hamburger menu for the Text styles studio panel, and choose Save Styles as Default:
After that, all your paragraph styles should default to Catalan. You will need to specify a paragraph style for your text (e.g., Body), as any text without a style will be assumed to be Spanish. But all of the styles will inherit from Base, so they'll all start out as Catalan instead of starting out as Spanish; you won't need to keep changing them.
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Hilltop reacted to Ben in Allow objects to snap to their “ghost”, initial position during drag operations
Just to be clear - our bounds are not just rectangles. If you have investigated our advance grids system, you'll see that bounds are the limits of an object with respect to the axes of the current grid. We only present a rectangle for ease of common transformations. You'll notice that can become a parallelogram when transformed or selecting an object with shear. Snapping during translation always conforms to the current grid axes, and not the visible selection box.
As far as your WYSIWYG issues go - I think I'm loosing your actual point in the avalanche of too many words. How about some concise and short examples of what you mean? I also don't understand your objection to being able to see the immediate effect of tools. This to me is far better than outlined changes with delayed real updates. Too much visual clutter beyond what is needed is often a fine balancing act. It also depends heavily on what discipline you are in when using the tools. For technical drawing, lots of information might be useful. For free illustration, not so much.
Believe it or not, some of us on the development team here also have some qualifications and experience, and from a wide range of disciplines. I think cumulatively it will be running well into centuries. Opinions on usability are affected by user experience and knowledge. We have to make our tools to accommodate all levels of expertise - not just those who consider themselves elite in the field. Our choices aren't driven by coding considerations first - but limitations of interface and hardware are always going to have to be a consideration.
I'm also afraid that after explaining everything, that silver bullet real world example of what you are asking for is the only thing that is going to motivate us to put work into this. I think I've shown that there is only one specific use case that we are not covering, but I am not convinced of the weight of need for this use case without real evidence. You claimed it is "critical", so you must require it frequently enough that a real example should be easy enough to find?? Beyond this, all the very verbose philosophising is really leading nowhere. This applies to all requests - give an actual example with use case, and we can make some sense of it. And keep it concise - all the excessive noise, personal claims and soap-boxing in these threads is distracting from any relevant point that might be hidden in there.
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Hilltop reacted to firstdefence in Gold coloured text
I'll rattle a tutorial off tomorrow as I have some spare time. But in the meantime...
This shows the underlying gradient.
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Hilltop reacted to Alfred in afphoto studio stock
‘Unclip Canvas’ produced the desired result when I tried it here, but that was specifically with a smaller new document. (Unclipping seemed more logical, given that the image starts out being clipped to the canvas, but I suppose ‘Clip Canvas’ is meant to clip the canvas to the image rather than t’other way around.)
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Hilltop got a reaction from fde101 in Pattern Tile Creation and Fill
With the picture frame selected, select the Fill Tool and, in the Context Toolbar select 'Bitmap' from the dropdown menu, select the image you want to use as a fill and adjust the placement handles in the picture frame until you have achieved the fill you're after.
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Hilltop got a reaction from ashaapple in Shape not closing properly with pen tool (I'm new to all of this!)
Make sure you select the Node Tool when moving through the history of firstdefence's design file.
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Hilltop reacted to nodeus in Data Driven Color Schemes (Affinity palette)
This set is based on schemes from https://carto.com/carto-colors/
Download palette: Data Driven Color Schemes.afpalette
Download AD sample: data driven color schemes.afdesign
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Hilltop reacted to Friksel in Please make the resource manager dockable/embeddable like studiopanels
Having the resource manager just floating around somewhere is causing it to be in the way all the time. Having to open and close it isn't ideal either.
Please make the resource manager panel dockable and embeddable as a tab in the studio area, like studio panels do. So we can arrange them within the studio panels/tabs. (If there are people really like it to be floating around as it is, they can still take it out of the studio area let it float.)
I also wonder why it isn't a studio-panel and so be available in the studio menu.
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Hilltop reacted to shushustorm in Studio layout: Save and load
Hey everyone!
Please consider including saving and loading the studio layout to and from file (windows, toolbar content, tools position and content) for Designer, Photo and Publisher.
This would speed up things when
- using the software on multiple Macs
- having the layout set back by an update (e.g. 1.7)
- going from a beta version to the store version
It took me about 45 minutes to setup the UI for Affinity Publisher, including Designer and Photo persona, on two Macs.
Also, I think the Designer and Photo personas of Publisher should read the UI layout of Designer and Photo.
Best wishes,
Shu
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Hilltop reacted to R C-R in Retouching - Healing Brush Painting Modes and Gray Layers
FWIW, creating the 50% grey overlay pixel layer looked like a good candidate for a macro so I created one that seems to work fine for that in Affinity Photo 1.7.1.
It makes no attempt to place the pixel layer at any specific position in the layers stack, so that might need to be adjusted after using it, depending on the structure of the layers & the desired effect. To make that a bit easier, the last step in the macro names the layer "Grey overlay."
If you want to use it, note that it is an "afmacro" & not an "afmacros" file, so to add it, it must first be imported into the Macro panel with a document open (not into the Library panel), & from there added to the Library category of your choice.
Add grey overlay.afmacro
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Hilltop got a reaction from Paul Mudditt in Mud’s Macros - Expand Stroke
Nice discovery and execution!
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Hilltop reacted to Paul Mudditt in Mud’s Macros - Expand Stroke
Thanks Walt, I had a fair idea it would likely work because of the common core engine, it also offers a method to enhance all three packages with macro actions too.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Silver06 in APublisher - how to centre table on page vertically
Turn on snapping (use the magnet icon on the menu bar and select the appropriate options by clicking the little triangle next to it) and with the Move Tool move the table until you see the vertical green line (horizontal center) and/or the horizontal red line (vertical center). These lines extend beyond the page's edges to distinguish them from the shorter snapping lines of other objects that you might have already placed on your page.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Chris B in Refine button missing in APhoto (Windows)
Thanks, Chris, I'd like a feature party....
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Hilltop reacted to Chris B in Refine button missing in APhoto (Windows)
Hey Hilltop,
As Walt says, it is still missing from Windows but I've given it a nudge. This is now technically a bug as the apps should have feature party (where applicable).
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Hilltop got a reaction from Chris B in Refine button missing in APhoto (Windows)
In the Windows version of APhoto the Refine button is missing from the context toolbar for the Flood Selection Tool. It's there for the other selection tools.
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Hilltop reacted to walt.farrell in Distribute objects along path
It may not solve all the requirements expressed in this topic, but it does seem to be possible to place objects along a path, as mentioned a few weeks ago:
Basically, you make a path and convert it to a text path (Layer > Convert to Text Path). You then copy an object, select the Artistic Text Tool and click on the Text Path, and paste.
Here's a simple example:
objects-on-path.afdesign
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Hilltop got a reaction from R C-R in Its posible to colaps the panels???
To be clear, I'm on Windows 10. Double-clicking collapses panel.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Gnobelix in Refine button missing in APhoto (Windows)
In the Windows version of APhoto the Refine button is missing from the context toolbar for the Flood Selection Tool. It's there for the other selection tools.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Move Along People in Refine button missing in APhoto (Windows)
In the Windows version of APhoto the Refine button is missing from the context toolbar for the Flood Selection Tool. It's there for the other selection tools.
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Hilltop got a reaction from carl123 in Refine button missing in APhoto (Windows)
In the Windows version of APhoto the Refine button is missing from the context toolbar for the Flood Selection Tool. It's there for the other selection tools.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Move Along People in Its posible to colaps the panels???
You can collapse panels by double-clicking on the panel's header.
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Hilltop reacted to PixelPest in Fail: Boolean Divide Shapes With Tangents
When there´s not the slightest overlapping no "cutting" will happen.
Here´s to an easier more robust/reliable way:
And here´s a quicker way with 2 squares:
1. draw square
2. double and round corners - bake corners
3. select both and call Boolean subtract then Divide right after - 4 corner parts:
Cheers
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Hilltop reacted to R C-R in Pencil Effect Macro
This Sketch effect.afmacro is my attempt to convert the technique demonstrated in the Affinity Revolution Transform any Photo into a Pencil Drawing (Affinity Photo Tutorial) into a useful Affinity Photo macro. These are the steps I came up with:
Since the first step selects the top layer regardless of its name or type, for best results it should be the only layer in the document & a pixel layer. The macro does not alter this layer so if you don't like the effect you can delete the layers it creates. The two user adjustments adjust the radius of the Gaussian blur & the Black Level of the Levels Adjustment layer. They can be tweaked after the macro is applied in the usual way. Adding some saturation back to the HSL "_desaturate" layer creates a colored pencil effect.
A couple of 'before & after' examples of what you can expect:
Comments, criticisms, & questions welcomed.
