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Dangerous

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  1. I have used some auto-trace programs and online tools. At best the results are poor (IMHO).
    Even with very basic line or shape drawings I find that there are 10 or more times the nodes I would create by manually tracing. Usable but messy to edit the resulting curves. I would not expect Serif to add auto-trace as a feature.

    What I would like to see added is the reverse of one feature that is already in AP & AD. We can convert a curve to a selection but how about the ability to convert selection(s) to curve(s). Is this an option? Has it been consider/attempted and written off as a 'no go'?

     

  2. On 9/20/2023 at 2:26 PM, meyer.wil said:

    I had not found all the settings, but the key item seems to be setting Controller to Pressure. Thanks!

    I can't find the force pressure setting and I have a Huion Kanvas 13 tablet & pen. The pen works just like a mouse (no pressure sensitivity)  but outside of Affinity the pressure works. Tried various setting and windowsink both on & off and there is no way I can get pen pressure to work. 

    @NathanC can you help?

     

     

  3. 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

    A screenshot showing what you want to accomplish would help in understanding what you're asking for.

    My guess is that something in the Paragraph panel should help, assuming all the lines are in the same paragraph. You'll find settings for Left Indent and First Line Indent there:

    image.png.33d22391af305d31ac4005b4fab91ce7.png

     

     

    To appear like this

     

     image.png.f73d4bf61d9c009b31b3f52e95d756df.png

     

    Problem with indent is it moves the start of line 1 to the right, I need it to the left as above.

     

  4. 26 minutes ago, Return said:

    Did you place a pdf file?
    If so open it first in publisher and tick the group text option.
    Save as afpub file and place that file to have textframes intact.
    You can convert artistictext to textframes(v2 only) but it will still be solo layers.

    Yes it was a PDF file I downloaded for the equipment manufactures site long ago, I couldn't use the group text option as there are lots of artistic text that have to be separate despite being close the get grouped in to text frames. No I din not know you could convert to text frames but thought there should be that option (I could not find it despite looking many times, lol).

    Here is a Blue Peter badge for you as well.
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  5. On 3/21/2020 at 10:49 AM, walt.farrell said:

    You're welcome.

    I have linked frames many times so I know how to do it but I have a problem with single lines of text in boxes that I want in a single text box. There would be a lot of cutting & pasting, deleting etc. Is there a way to merge multiple text boxes in to one other than linking them resizing the 1st and deleting the rest?

    If not how do I get the blue/red link arrow on a single line text box as it just isn't working.

     

    Ooops, just realised it is artistic text, can it be converted to a text box?

     

     

  6. Thanks for the replies. This is not an approach I would take, it is to simplify a task for someone at present is struggling to learn Affinity and usually make a mess resizing objects. I keep telling them you can't change a rectangular image to a square image & keep all the scene and have it look right but they keep trying. I know they would have stretched these to fit and said 'but it now looks awful', one day they will stop trying to run faster than Usain Bolt and learn to walk first.

    Yes I ended up doing the unhide, export, hide & repeat 129 times, lol. Wasn't as bad as I had expected. Don't think I'll be doing it again as I don't need it and they will just have to learn Affinity from 'the bottom up'.
     

  7. Hi, can anyone help. I have a document set to 5000 x 5000 pixels. These are to be exported at that size despite the 'image' taking up less of the area. 
    By this I mean the image is (for example) 2000px by 1500px but needs to be on a transparent background 5000px by 5000px. I can do this using FILE - EXPORT and selecting png format but as I have 130 layers and want each layer as a png in its own right I would need to repeat the export 130 having only one layer visible each time.

    I have tried the export persona but  although it exports all 130 layers as an individual png the size default to the image bounding box size of 2000 by 1500. I can't find a way to export the doc. size unless I manually set every single slice size & position.

    Is what I want possible?

  8. I was asked to solve an issue for someone which was cased by an embedded image witch consisted of a small image on a large background. This had been added to a document (AD) as an embedded image. The person wanted all the empty area deleted as much of it was off canvas. I double clicked to edit in another tab, select the group of layers and made an artboard from the selection. Closing the tab back to the main doc, repositioned the smaller edit to the correct position. I was asked to change a couple of things so double click again, switch to the embedded image tab and I could not edit or even select the layer. Turning them off didn't work either, they remained visible. Is this a bug or the way it supposed to work?

    Video shows the process I took. Seams like it only happens if I add an artboard!

  9. 4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

    McAfee updates their virus signatures frequently, as do other AV vendors. They have probably recently added a bad signature to their list, and are now incorrectly claiming that some valid programs contain that virus.

    I contacted chat, she said to exclude the file name. I mean I have to download it, exclude it, download it again, run it, ok the report 'McAfee Framework Host must be closed' notice, ok it when it returns a 2nd time and do that for all 3 programs. She rang and said we got disconnected, I said no I ended the chat after that stupid 'fix'. I don't think she was impressed but she did then offer a more acceptable way to deal with it. 

    Now just waiting for a reply. lol.

     

  10. The MSI install worked fine this time (2.1.1. unlike 2.1.0) but this time McAfee Total Protection identified it as a threat and quarantined the file. I have managed to copy them to a different drive before they were quarantined and was also able to copy them back to the user download library  but on install Affinity reports that McAfee Framework Host must be closed and clicking ok the install continues, repeats the notice and after clicking ok again continues and installs correctly.

    I am also raising this issue with McAfee.

  11. 3 hours ago, Serif Info Bot said:

    The issue "When being offered an update in the EXE version, occasionally the app auto-downloads the MSIX version, rather than navigating to the Updates page with the download options" (REF: MSIX-37) has been fixed by the developers in build "2.1.0.1799".

    This fix is in the current customer release.
    If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us

    I will do but we need another update to test it with, can we have one soon? lol.

  12. 16 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

    I'm pretty sure that won't work. Let's see if my steps and video are sufficient, before you muck around with your system :)

    Now I don't know if this is significant but I 'UPDATED' to the msi exe version as soon as it was available to me and I still have that file available rather than downloading from serif. I can send it to you if you wanted to retry with that!

     

  13. 29 minutes ago, Dan C said:

    Hi @Dangerous,

    Thanks for your post! Just to let you know I have moved this from the Feedback section of the forums to the Bug section - as I would not expect the app to automatically download the MSIX version from this update prompt.

    As Walt has mentioned above, if you use the About > Check for updates option within the app, this prompts you to Download the latest version - which opens a link to the Windows Affinity Store update page in your browser, where you can select the EXE version.

    However I'm not able to replicate the behaviour reported when launching the 2.0.4 app and selecting the 'Download' option in the dialog that appears. This performs the same action as above and takes me to the Affinity Store site Update page, where I can manually choose to download the EXE update.

    Can you (or perhaps Walt) please confirm the exact steps that you're taking when this automatic download of the MSIX update occurs? As unfortunately I'm not seeing this on my end currently.

    Many thanks in advance :)

    I would be willing to help carry out the test if I thought I could do it without messing up my system. If you think installing the 2.0.4 exe version on to my D drive while keeping 2.1.0 on the C drive would not cause a problem.

    I can confirm that I had been away from home for a few days when I heard the update went live. On Friday 19th probably around 13:30 UK time I went on to do the update. I opened APhoto and it said an update was available and I was offered two options 1: Update 2: Cancel. I clicked update and immediately it started the msix download. I let it download and checked and it was the msix version. I deleted it, closed AP, Opened AP and got the same notice box, clicked update and again immediate download of the msix, I clicked cancel to cancel the download. I went HELP - CHECK FOR UPDATE and got the same options and clicking update again immediately downloaded the msix so I cancelled it.

    My next move was HELP - MY ACCOUNT and from the hamburger menu GO TO MY ACCOUNT and selected V" LICENCES & DOWNLOADS - VIEW LICENCES and scrolled to LOOKING FOR WINDOWS MSI VERSIONS?  and downloaded the 3 msi exe files.

    After updating AP I started AD, got the notification, selected update and again immediate download of the msix so cancelled and manually installed the exe. I didn't bother trying with APhoto and just updated from the downloaded exe.

    At no time was I taken to the msi download page, I had to go there from MY ACCOUNT

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    The above is the specs of my system, fully updated just prior to updating Affinity. Display adaptor is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4meg. I hope I have provided all the info you need.
     

  14. 24 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

    Just out of curiosity, would you mind trying an experiment?

    1. With the MSI version of one of the applications running, open Task Manager.
    2. Expand the process entry for the application.
    3. Right-click on the second line (should be the application name) and choose Open File Location.
    4. Provide a screenshot of the top of the File Explorer window (showing the location bar).

     

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