[Alignment handles are displaced]

A sample file where the issue occurs for me.

Alignment handles test file.afpub

[Alignment handles are displaced]

Activating Alignment handles either randomly not showing, or is displaced to the right. See video. This happens is persisting after restart, new documents. It is also an issue when using Designer via Studio link. It is working as intended in Designer when working in that program (not using the studio link feature).

 

[Using alignment handles in Isometric mode crashes Designer ver.2]

Here you go.

I just started a new A4 document - no special profile or what so ever.

[Using alignment handles in Isometric mode crashes Designer ver.2]

When working in an isometric grid using alignment handles to align objects to each other crashes the app. 

[Feature request ODF support and Google Sheet as linked Service]

Returning to this topic of ODF import in Publisher.

And since there is now the option for Dropbox as linked service, it would be nice to add Google as Linked Service and be able to use Google Spreadsheets as data merge file

 

 

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

A lot of respect to the Affinity team for listening to customer feedback and deciding to accommodate their users on this issue!

I also found it very annoying with the new installer method and exe-aliases not being accessible from certain 3rd party apps (Photo Mechanic and a Huion Keypad device software) but I could definitely get by with a few seconds delay or extra navigation.

But really: the price/performance ratio of the entire suite is just ridiculous! 

Cheers and gratitude for Affinity for making high quality software at an incredible good price point, and a company structure and policy that actually engages with their users quirks and gripes!

[Affinity Photo v2 .exe file location]

I experience the same problem. I cannot "Edit with" in Photo Mechanic Plus, I get the error: "The system cannot access the file".  Have not tried the Capture One.

It seems there is a workaround, but that is really not user friendly/oriented. Fingers crossed that Affinity solves this.

Other than that, cheers and congrats on the new suite. Price/performance is fantastic.

[Updating the Table of Contents is producing strange results]

It's a long video, but it's very thorough about creating TOC 

 

[Designer - Adaptive Gradient Fills???]

You could use the Layer FX Inner glow and tamper with the blend mode to make it work.

[Switching preview source in Data merge with multiple files and pages, changes page viewer]

3 minutes ago, Dan C said:

Many thanks for providing this for me! I've been able to replicate this issue here and therefore I'm logging it with our developers now.

In the meantime, if you open your document and then navigate to Select > Deselect, then use File > Save As and save the file to a new name or location.

Restart the Affinity app and reopen this newly saved file - does this issue still occur for you please?

Yes it does.

[Switching preview source in Data merge with multiple files and pages, changes page viewer]

I have uploaded the apub and xlsx file.

[Switching preview source in Data merge with multiple files and pages, changes page viewer]

1 minute ago, Dan C said:

Hi @erchdk,

Thanks for your report!

I've created a document similar to yours, with multiple pages and one dataset added multiple times through the Data Merge manager - when changing the preview record, this continues to display page 1 for me, and does not show the same behaviour as shown in your recording.

Therefore I'd like to request a copy of your .afpub file & the .xlsx file to try testing this here. Can you please upload this to the below link for me?

https://www.dropbox.com/request/KbYhHpyMp0We9LiRgx86

Once uploaded, please reply here to let me know. Many thanks in advance

Ok. Do you require all the linked image files as well? This is a protoype/developing a card game, so a little reluctant to share all this, if you understand?

[Switching preview source in Data merge with multiple files and pages, changes page viewer]

The bug is as seen in the video.

I have a publisher document with three pages. I have imported the same data merge file three times, and defined different data ranges for each source to each page. It works absolutely fine and correct as I want during "generate".

The bug is as follows. If I am viewing page 1 in the document, and change the preview source for page 1, the data merge preview changes correctly on page 1, but then all of a sudden the page view jumps to the last page in the document. Not ideal...

I am using the latest Publisher on Win10

[Can you assign keyboard shortcut for "Transform separately" and "Show alignment handles"?]

Thanks for swift reply. Too bad... They are really cool tools that I use on and off all the time. Would be nice with customizable shortcuts.

[Can you assign keyboard shortcut for "Transform separately" and "Show alignment handles"?]

I've looked and searched the forum but could not find an answers. Is is possible to assign your own keyboard shortcut to the above mentioned functions? 

[Can anyone tell me how to make the background on this page white instead of dark gray while keeping the black text? I have both AP and AD so I can use either app. See attached.]

Use the threshold layer adjustment. I think that is the easiest.

[convert colour negative film to postive]

There are some plugins that do what you want, but they are unfortunately not working with AP. Negative Lab Pro is for Lightroom and Color Perfect is for Photoshop. The last I did try to install and run as a "third party plug" for AP but did not work. I find that Darktable does a fairly good job for inverting a negative without to much adjustment - nice if you have a lot of negatives.

Inverting in AP to get a good result is much more cumbersome....  Of all the methods I have seen on Youtube I think this gives the best and most consistent result.. But requires some work. 

 

[Different colors in Affinty Photo and windows viewer]

I get that in windows picture viewer as well. As far as I know, it's the windows viewer is not color controlled. Very strange.... If you open the image file in a browser, it usually resembles the AP colors.

[Isometric mode in Affinity Photo and Publisher ? i can put grid but i cannot select plane.]

If you have the all three applications, the studio link option is the solution if you are working in Publisher. Start in Publisher, switch to Designer Persona for the isometric work, and switch back when you need the Publisher tools. From Photo I am not sure how to solve that issue.

[Drag opposite handles of a node simultaneously]

Look at the bottom of the interface - gives al the options with shift, ctrl, alt, drag, right/left click.

[Product Mockups for Photo]

I have not found any free mockup that works without a little adjustment. But it's not that difficult remaking the mockups you import. It's a one time effort. Place the content and apply the perspective adjustment in the layer tool. This is a non destructive workflow, so you can replace the imported content as you wish, as long as it's same dimensions.

[Shapes - What are their "key points" in snapping in Designer]

8 hours ago, gary danang said:

Hi Anyone 

Is there a list of the key snapping points of an object are ?

For Example - is the radius of a curve or the centre of a circle a "Key Point"  of a shape in Designer?

The HELP online manual is not very helpful.. I want to snap to the centre of a circle

thx

I find that point transform tool is a hidden gem. It really gives some features I can not find in other tools. Here it snaps center of a circle to a curve.

[Inner shadows, drop shadow FX on text objects renders in a different color space?]

4 minutes ago, Pauls said:

the only thing I can see is that they dont want any profiles in the PDF and we always have the CMYK profile - although I would then expect that you would always get the warning. I think you may have to reach out to the company for some feedback

Thanks for investigating. Although I think the different results and feedback is puzzling. As written this is just for testing, and we are very soon going to have a cooperation with the prepress team, so I will eventually get to know what might be going on.

[Inner shadows, drop shadow FX on text objects renders in a different color space?]

Just now, Pauls said:

at first look it does appear to be cmyk only - which website and or PDF spec are you working to ?

As written above I export to PDF default press ready settings. I am testing layout, colors etc. on www.makemygame.com. They have a service where you can upload art work for different types of games. Mind that this is not the normal way of producing games, it's' for small production run prototypes but I am using it as we are preparing for a normal prodction and wanted to check a few things.

[Inner shadows, drop shadow FX on text objects renders in a different color space?]

14 minutes ago, Pauls said:

could be worth uploading the PDF you create and we can check that

Yes. Here is the two PDFs. File names self explanatory. I am in the process of preparing files for a card game, and using the manufacturers website for testing/pre fligthing. It's the file with inner shadow FX that gives me an error with RGB artwork. The pure text file goes through with no issues. And as described above, the only difference is the Inner Shadow FX on the text.

Pure text.pdf Text with inner shadow fx.pdf