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dcortesi

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  1. Thank you @R C-R, yes OMG there are tabs! Tiny font, pale gray, just along the top edge of the ruler. Well, that solves my issue.

    Thanks also, @Old Bruce, for the cmd-grave or ctrl-tab shortcut. I've spent 5 minutes looking through the keyboard shortcuts in preferences and I don't see this in any of the groups, nor mentioned in the help. I guess from what you say it is an OS GUI convention. Well, TIL.

  2. Well, they are probably drop-dead easy for some but puzzle me.

    A.Photo on MacOS Desktop, 27in iMac. Also, I've checked the built-in help.

    1. How to move between open documents? Say I have used File>Open three times for different documents. The only way I have found to move from one to another (e.g. to copy from one and paste to another) is to go through File>Open Recent. Is that it? 

    2. Related, how to know what documents are open? I'm always surprised when I do save, close, and up pops another document that I haven't closed yet. Is there a visual way to know how many documents are currently open and their names, and saved/modified status, without having to close them one by one?

    3. With multiple documents open, is there a way to display more than one e.g. tiled or overlapping?

     

  3. I would like to make a grid of straight lines as a single object that I could then stroke. The grid would have 7 verticals and 22 horizontal lines.

    I select the pen tool. I set the Mode to Line mode and also select Add New Curve to Selected Object mode -- thinking this will allow me to make multiple lines in one object. But when I draw (or paste) a second line, AffPhoto makes a new Curve layer. If I continue I will end up with 29 Curve layers, which will make Stroking a bit tedious.

    How can I create a grid of discontinuous lines as a single "curve" object? Or can I at all?

    Thanks for your help!

  4. OK, @loukash has it right. The Aff.Photo help file is woefully lacking information on this, including the key fact that you have to set the Document Size to the target image dimensions before you go to the Print dialog. (I had supposed that the Print dialog would figure out what I wanted itself, but no.)

    To do tiled printing, you must use Document>Resize Document to set the document dimensions to the desired print size of the image.

    First, while the Resize Document dialog contains the actual pixel dimensions of the image, work out the aspect ratio of the final image. For example, I have a panorama that is originally 8559x1441, a ratio of 5.939:1. I would like to end up with a printed panorama that is 8 inches tall, and therefore, (5.939*8) 47.9 inches wide.

    In Resize Document I set the units to inches, and the dimensions to 47.9 x 8, and tick Resample.

    Set the DPI to as near to what your printer does as possible, probably 400 (which is the maximum allowed in the dialog).

    Click Resize. The pixel layer is now resized. This is a change of the actual document. If you save it, it will have this size on disk. So, either don't save it, or save it as a different name, or Edit>Undo the change before saving.

    Now you can go to the Print dialog. Under Range and Scale, set Range: entire document; Fit type: scale 100%; Orientation (as appropriate -- Automatic did NOT choose landscape for an image that was 6x as wide as it was tall).

    Under Document Layout choose Model: Tiled. The preview should now show an appropriate number of tiled images, and you can scroll through them. 

    Select PDF:Open in Preview (on a Mac) and you should shortly have the printed page-tiles to inspect in Preview.

    Thanks again @loukash

     

  5. So you are saying, give up on the feature of tiled printing? But it is a documented feature, I'm looking at it in the Affinity Help. Surely they thought it worked?

    I'm wondering (since you mention A0 and A4) if the problem is the paper size I'm setting. Should I be setting the target size instead of the physical size? Since the Help says "Tiled: your page can be printed to a large format (e.g., posters, banners, etc.)" maybe I should be telling it the size I want to achieve? But then how would it know the available paper (the "tile") size?  And in any case, a picture with an aspect ratio of 1:6 fits on no standard stationery. What I expected to achieve was 6 letter-size tiles adding up to a 66-inch wide banner.

    p.s. I don't understand what you mean by "overlap" and I've no interest in having white space.

  6. MacOS 10.14/Mojave, Affinity Photo 1.9.2. Can't make tiled printing work.

     I have a panorama, 1450px by 8500px, so about 1:6. I thought I would try printing it tiled, assuming it would end up as about 6 Letter sheets. File>Print.  Range:Entire Doc, Fit:Fit to Printable, Orientation:Landscape. So far so good (pic1).

    Document Layout, Mode:Tiled. Preview shows it plans to do 30 tiles, with apparently a wide white left border. Ignoring "Fit to Printable" well ok maybe that makes sense. Try "Shrink to Printable" no change.

    Back to Range&Scale, set Fit Type:Scaled and scale:15% (arbitrary choice). Now the preview shows it will print 3 pages (not unreasonable) consisting of small blue squares on a white ground. 

    There is some kind of bug here, is it only in the preview of a tiled print? I print to PDF and open in Preview. Nope, the print dialog preview was accurate, there's my tiled print, 3 blue squares (pic4).

    Suggestions welcome!

     

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  7. @bigsub you are to be congratulated: you are seeing all the settings the Epson printer driver has. I have been TRYING to get those options to show up in the Affinity Print dialog and they do not. They used to do, but then I updated the Epson driver and they went away. So the answer is, some Epson printer drivers pass all that along and Affinity displays it, while some driver versions only pass the minimum: type of paper, feed from cassette or rear tray, print quality low-medium-high, and that's all.

     

  8. Still plugging away on these issues. Regarding info panel display units, I stumbled on the following in the help under Rulers,

     

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    To change document units:

    Do one of the following:

    • With either the View Tool or Zoom Tool selected, choose a unit of measurement from the pop-up menu on the context toolbar.

    And that does it: select the View (hand icon) tool, there is a units pop-up on the context toolbar, setting it to pixel makes the info panel display in pixels.

    Reason I didn't find it when searching Help on "unit" was, it was in the Ruler topic, which I skipped over because, hey, this is about the Info panel, not Rulers.

  9. However, regarding unit of measure in the info panel, the preference pane you show does not seem applicable. Currently I have three documents open, in two of them, X/Y and W/H are shown in px, while in the third, it insists on showing X/Y (i.e. move cursor position) in pt  and W/H in px. Changing the two preference buttons doesn't make any difference.

    Actually I am a bit confused about the W/H values anyway. They do not vary with the object selected, so they aren't showing me the width and height of the thing with a blue rectangle. If I drag a rectangle with the move cursor or the selection tool they reflect that. I wonder what they reflect other times...

  10. Sorry for the simple questions; longtime PS user settling in to Affinity Photo and having some problems with the user interface.

    One, how do I control the units displayed in the info panel? I swear, it was showing both X/Y and W/H in pixels, then suddenly in some documents it is showing X/Y in px but W/H in pt. Other documents it shows everything in pts, no pxs. I've looked in the help/info panel and help/options, can't find anything.

    Two, I have from PS, over-learned zooming using space+command, space+option keys. These keys don't always work in Affinity, producing error beeps if I press that key combo when the move cursor is over gray space (off canvas?). Any way to make space+command-click work with the cursor anywhere in the window? Correction- it only makes error beeps if I press option or command first and space second. If my fingers mash the space-bar first and then hit option/command, the zoom icon appears. So the question is, can Affinity learn to accept Option/Command-space as equal to Space-Option?

    Three, I took a large document and with the crop tool (mode: absolute size) made a narrow vertical strip to use on the spine of a book cover. After the crop, when I click on the visible strip I get a big blue outline the size of the original image, with no tool handles, but little x's where tool handles should be. If I select-all, then only the cropped image strip is selected, and it has x's where tool handles oughta be, and the big blue rectangle remains but has no x's. The Document>Document Size and >Canvas Size dialogs reflect the size of the cropped strip, not the original doc. How do I get the cropped strip to be the complete document with proper tool handles?

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