[Selecting items inside an empty shape also selects the shape.]

1 hour ago, Bit Arts said:

In order for the object to be selected when the selection does not completely surround the object, you need to enable "Select object when intersects with the selection marquee", but note that this will select the object without fill as well. So that's not really what you're looking for.

I always have this turned on, right from when I started using Affinity a few years ago - you're right, this isn't the problem I'm experiencing.

[Selecting items inside an empty shape also selects the shape.]

Thanks for listening! I've attached a screen recording. 

Sorry for using the incorrect terminology - I realise the term "inside" was maybe a bit confusing. What I mean is that when I have two shapes, the outer square with NO fill, and the inner circle, and if I go to drag the inner circle shape, it also selects the outer square, even though I'm not intersecting the square's stroke with the cursor.

This behaviour only started happening in version 2 I believe, it wasn't an issue in the previous version.

I'm using Mac OS Sonoma, with a mouse, and Designer 2.3.1.

Thank you!

[Selecting items inside an empty shape also selects the shape.]

Sorry for bringing this up again, but it's really frustrating me - every time I select anything, no matter how small, inside a larger shape that has NO fill, the larger shape is also selected. I am not intersecting the stroke of the larger shape.

Is this a bug or expected behaviour? It didn't used to do this in the V1 versions.

[Strange box appearing around text on a certain font]

Never mind - I found some weird things checked ON in the Typography window: "Word Position Forms"

 

 

Is there any way to set these as off by default? It's a real problem having to turn them off on every instance of this font.

[Strange box appearing around text on a certain font]

Hello, I'm having an issue with a specific font (Pangram's Neue Montreal Mono) showing a strange box around it in Affinity. 

This only happens with this font on uppercase characters, and it only happens in Affinity Designer & Publisher. This behaviour is not exhibited in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

There doesn't appear to be anything set as a stroke (which would show around the individual characters anyway).

Any ideas where I can look to get rid of it?

Thanks!

 

[Affinity window is not visible as it appears on disconnected secondary monitor and can't be moved to primary]

Did you try going to Window > "Move to _____"

I just had the same issue, used that command and it brought my window back on screen.

[Selecting items inside an empty shape also selects the shape.]

13 hours ago, GarryP said:

Sounds like you have “Select object when intersects with selection marquee” set to ON in Settings / Tools.
(Since the marquee selection is within the boundary of the outer layer it also intersects it, and it is therefore selected.)

I did used to have this setting selected in the previous version, but it didn't used to select the "empty" shape unless I also intersected the stroke.

[Selecting items inside an empty shape also selects the shape.]

I don't believe this used to happen in v1x of Designer, but now whenever I try to drag to select multiple objects inside of a shape that has no fill colour, the shape is also selected which is terribly annoying. However small my selection marquee is, it always selects the empty shape. Is there a setting I need to turn on or off?

In the below example the black rectangle has a stroke but no fill, if I drag to select the items inside the shape, then the shape itself is also selected. This didn't used to happen in the v1 versions of Designer.

Thanks!

[Crop picture without changing (cropping) the canvas size.]

On 4/23/2022 at 7:05 AM, walt.farrell said:

The Crop Tool in Affinity Photo operates on the complete canvas/document.

The Crop Tool in Affinity Designer works like you want; it is for cropping objects or layers.

You can do the same kind of cropping in Affinity Photo by using the Rectangle Tool. For example, given this document:

I can draw a Rectangle with a Fill (any color):

And then I can drag the Rectangle layer in the Layers panel down onto the thumbnail of the Image layer:

 

And the Image layer is now cropped.

There are other alternatives, too.

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but seriously this is so frustrating. Why should I have to jump through hoops to achieve something so basic as cropping an element (in my case a photo) on a canvas instead of just cropping the whole canvas?!

[Variable fonts support]

I can't believe that in the 2.0 update (which I paid for), variable fonts are still not supported 🤯

[File with artboards shows correct preview, but opens with different images embedded]

22 minutes ago, loukash said:

A known bug apparently to be fixed in upcoming v2.0.4: 

 

Thank you! I didn't see this post. Luckily I still have v1 on my system so all is not lost

[File with artboards shows correct preview, but opens with different images embedded]

I just found out that the file opens correctly in Affinity Designer v1, but in v2 it opens with the wrong images in place. Very strange.

[File with artboards shows correct preview, but opens with different images embedded]

Pulling my hair out with this one because I'm about to hand over a file to my colleague while I'm overseas for a month, and I've just discovered that what the Finder preview of this specific file is, and what actually opens is different. Affinity has replaced all the embedded images with something else 🥵

Any ideas on how I can get the images that are actually showing in the preview to show up in the actual file?!

I have attached images - as you can see the QuickLook preview in Finder shows the correct images on the artboards, but when I open the file, a standard image that Affinity has chosen from somewhere has replaced most of my embedded images!!!

[Maintain typographic stylistic options across all new text boxes?]

32 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Your best bet might be to create a character style for each font set up the way you like and then choose Save Styles as Default from the Text Style panel's menu. That way the style will be available in all future documents you create.

Cheers

Nice idea, thank you, I'll give it a try!

[Maintain typographic stylistic options across all new text boxes?]

Hello, I'm just wondering if it's possible to have Designer (or Publisher) maintain my OpenType stylistic choices across all new text boxes created across the program, or do you have to set your preferred options on each document?

It looks like Designer maintains stylistic sets across all new text boxes created in each individual document, but is there any way to set a default for the font so it does the same thing in every new document?

Thank you!

 

[Tables not allowing vertical alignment - only staying as align to the top]

Adding further to this - table formats seem broken too. Previously I was able to select the entire empty table immediately after creating it and change fonts/formatting and text size, but now it only works on filled-in cells.

[Tables not allowing vertical alignment - only staying as align to the top]

Thanks for the suggestion - I did find a "workaround" thanks to you - but not because of baseline grid. 

The vertical alignment dropdown on the toolbar is not working, however when I opened the Studio Table, I am able to select vertical alignment in there and it's working.

Selecting any alignment in the toolbar dropdown does nothing.

Thanks again!

[Tables not allowing vertical alignment - only staying as align to the top]

I'm unable to get any table to align its contents to the middle (or bottom, or anything other than the top) of cells. Latest version of Publisher.

Is this a known bug?

Thanks.

[Change transparency background darkness]

I work with transparent backgrounds a lot, but I am unable to find a way to change the darkness of the transparency background pattern. This makes it very difficult to work with white text and logos. Is this a feature that is coming soon?

Thank you!

[Copying data into tables]

The only way I got this to work was by copying the table data into TextEdit as Plain Text, then copy and paste from there. This method worked correctly for me.

[Copying data into tables]

Sorry for bringing up an old topic - but this is frustrating me no end. I have a big spreadsheet that I am trying to transfer into a table in Designer/Publisher. Copying and pasting the table data results in all the fields being placed into the one cell. Nothing seems to work!

[Any plans for PDF form editing?]

This is the one feature that is missing for me that would allow me to ditch Adobe completely. Currently it's time consuming to have to design my form in Designer, save as PDF, then create the form in Acrobat. 

Not to mention that if one of the team wants something on the form adjusted, I have to go through the whole process in Acrobat again.

Please add fillable elements in Publisher or Designer soon!