[Convert Logo to Embroidery texture look]

We need to convert logo into different kinds of 2D and 3D embroidery texture look. Like straight stitch, satin stitch and fill stitch.

Are there any way this is possible to do in Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo?

[Split Publisher document]

Hi, 

when we make a new Publisher document, containing 4 pages, page 2 and 3 are hooked together. 

1. Is there a way to split these two pages
2. Is there a way to open a new publisher document w/o merging 2 documents?

 

[Colours and Comparing Colours - Feature suggestion]

I've found two things, which I previously has used a lot, which are missing or more difficult in Affinity Designer;

1. There should be easier to read the colour you have selected.
Now I have to select the colour and click on the "Fill" colour to see the name. That's one unnecessary click. 

2. There should be a way to compare colours.
Sometimes I would like to find a PMS colour which is similar to another colour.
2a. Affinity Designer should be able to suggest a similar colour
2b. There should be a way to compare two colours; when I pick a colour there should be a visual representation of that colour beside the colour I'm selecting to find a similar one, to have a side by side comparison. 

 

[Change colour of pixel brush stroke]

Hi, 

I've made a master pixel brush stroke in a selected colour, which I've duplicated into several copies. I would like to change colours on the duplicated copies. 

After reading and testing for a while I was able to change the colour of one the duplicates by pressing "adjustment" > "recolour..." and it was recoloured to the brush colour which had been selected.
I thought I've found how to proceed, so I selected a new colour, and made a new "recolour...", but affinity change the stroke to the same colour as of my first "recolour...." even though a new colour was selected?

So, now I'm stuck again. How do I change colour of a pixel brush stroke?
(Is it just me or is affinity a little bit unintuitive (or illogical) in the way processes are put together?

Using 1.8.5.703

[Fixed cut size]

Thank you, it solved one issue. 

But, I'm experiencing that the size is not relative to the size of the photo. Which will force me to adjust the size of the crop manually, which again will make the size of the products, in each photo, appear differently (if I'm not lucky with my manual adjustments). So, is there a way to make the fixed resample crop relative to the size of the photo?

(When shooting product photos the position of the product, the distance between the camera and the product, and the zoom is fixed. Which will make the size of the product, in each image, relative to the size of the image, more or less similar.)

[Fixed cut size]

I searched for "Resample mode" but didn't find anything with that phrase. 

[Fixed cut size]

Thank you. Yes, cropping, but not batch jobs. 

I would like to see the possibility to set a fixed crop size instead of entering them manually each time. 

After a product photo shoot you have  bunch of images you would like to crop. Entering the crop size manually take too much time.... 

[Fixed cut size]

Hi, 
I'm having a lot of images which need to be cut in same size. Is there a way to make the cut size fixed i affinity photo? 

[Open vectorized PDF as curves]

Sounds good 👍 

[Open/import PDF text as curves]

It's very common to receive a text based design manual. Opening it w/o proper font installed will make the manual unuseful in the design process. 

Opening PDF documents in Affinity Design should prompt for importing text as fonts or curves.

[Open vectorized PDF as curves]

6 minutes ago, haakoo said:

affinity programs don't vectorize on opening/importing

Ok, that was the answer I was afraid of. 

It's normally to get font based design manuals. And it's not normal to have all fonts installed. Opening/importing text as curves option should be added. 

Anyway, thank you for your clarification.

[Open vectorized PDF as curves]

Yes you're misunderstanding. 

When opening a vectorized PDF in Designer, w/o having the proper font, the content will turn out wrong. This is a problem if you have a logo template which you need to use.
If you instead had the option to import the text as "curve" (in addition to text) the design would have maintained in it's original form.

I'm used to have both options; import text as "text or curve"

[Open vectorized PDF as curves]

I'm missing the option to convert text to curves when opening vectorized PDF

Am I missing it or is it lacking? 

[Guideline Manger show wrong vertical numbers +, Bug?]

Okay, thank you for you feedback. 

1.

Quote

Document Setup shows the sum of dimensions of all artboards + gap between them. [...] This is by design.

I would question if that is the best and most intuitive set up..

2. FYI: spread origin was already set to 0/0. Re-typing didn't make any change. So, maybe a bug. 

[Guideline Manger show wrong vertical numbers +, Bug?]

I'm using Designer 1.8.3.641
made a custom landscape page with pixels as document units and added a few artboards

Possible Bug #1
Dimensions on ruler shows 1525x1080px. Dimensions in Document Setup shows 4997,4x1080px

Possible Bug #2
When adding guidelines on artboard #1 numbers on rulers corresponds with numbers in guideline manager. Everything is as expected.
But, when adding guidelines on artboard #2 numbers on rulers are as for artboard #1 and okay, and horizontal guidelines are as expected, but the vertical guideline manger shows totally different numbers; 
-1735px is 0px

Do I do something wrong or is it a bug?

[Open an image in Photo from Designer]

Is there a way to open and edit an image in photo, directly from designer?

[how to add a new page in designer/]

10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

If you are using Designer try using the Artboard tool to create the 'pages' you want to work on as you progress.

Thank you! 👍

[how to add a new page in designer/]

I would just like to chime in here, as a "tester" coming from CorelDraw too. 

As a designer I use pages as a scrap book; when designing a new theme, logo or similar I start working with ideas, then I 'm used to open a new page to work more on some of the ideas, then a new page to work more on even less ideas, and so on. Then i may use one page for keeping fonts which I find relevant for the project, another few pages for icons, etc. A typical logo workflow will contain at least 10 page with different parts of the process to the final product. With Affinity it seems like I have to open a new document for each step in the process, which will make it really messy, in my world at least.