marcNOR

Well, I am a long time user of most other software out there, but I do not do subscribe to software, which means the horrible Illustrator is out the door, the ok CorelDraw is now out, and the fantastic and much loved Canvas X is now out, but sadly a simple offset is pretty bread and butter stuff in the other software ive owned. I can ofcourse still use my CorelDraw and CanvasX perpetual licences, but I liked Afphoto so much and the price is acceptable for messing around with, that I am happy to give Serif some more cash, and I see this suite has potential to be class leading if it develops a bit more. Ofcourse, a workaround is ok on a single simple object, but what for example if I have to alpha mask a tree with an offset of 0.1mm on the inside...that would be hell using this method.

After some more testing...it seems that if I draw a perfect square then I get no crash, but if i draw a polygon, then crash. Desktop_2020_02.27_-_23_44.52_02.mp4

Here is a screen capture video of the problem, you can see as soon as I press Add I am dumped back to the desktop! Desktop_2020_02.27_-_23_24_19_01.mp4

strange, because I can reproduce it every time!

First Day user today, checking out the basic functions Glaring omission is a proper path offset tool with total precision - I cant work without this so at present AFdesigner is useless to me, but im very impressed with the program so far, Layer Effect Offset is nice but no substitute unless there is a way to convert it accurately into a real object Also, even though my document is im mm, the layer outline works in px, which is no good, and I cant set negative values either Now lets suppose I find a workaround using real strokes and the expand stroke tool - Now I am stuck because I just want a single solid outer stroke, which at present means I have to manually delete all the inner stroke nodes and paths. - Some kind of decompose curves tool is desperately needed. (Edit) • I found that you can set many dialogs to work in mm in the preferences (instead of px), with custom precision decimal places • I created a negative offset path by setting the stroke on the inside • I used the expand stroke menuitem to create an offset copy of the object • and that I can select a single node on the inner/outer ring of the new object, CTRL+A to select all the connected nodes, and press delete • thus allowing me a slighly convoluted workaround for creating a precise offset path as a seperate object. Would still prefer a simple Create Outline tool for all this - but it is possible!

First day user of designer today. First thing I did was set my document to mm. I need every dialog to be set in mm too, not pixels, points or whatever, including strokes, radius, character and paragraph toolbars.etc Likewise if im working in pixels, every dialog should be in pixels too.

New Document Use Grid and snapping for this Pen Tool - Use line mode Draw a Polygon (ie square) where each line is on a new layer - draw the 2 horizontal lines first, then the 2 verticals Ensure the end points of the lines are coincident (by using snap to grid) Select All the lines try to use the add tool DEATH!