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CURIOUS PRICING
Martin S Taylor replied to E9B6's topic in Customer Service, Accounts and Purchasing
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CURIOUS PRICING
Martin S Taylor replied to E9B6's topic in Customer Service, Accounts and Purchasing
Seems straightforward enough to me: if you buy in Jersey, the price is £89.99; if you buy in mainland UK, the price is £74.99 + VAT. Serif can charge what they like in different countries. If you prefer your extra £15 to go to Serif, buy it in Jersey; if you prefer the £15 to go to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, buy in the mainland. Martin -
Martin S Taylor reacted to a post in a topic: Scanning errors in Affinity Photo
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Certainly you need a driver, but I'm pretty sure there's a driver for Canon printers built into the MacOS. I never installed anything from Canon onto my Mac – I just plugged in the printer-scanner and it works (except with Affinity, which is why we're here). You certainly don't need Canon's tools for scanning – Apple's work just as well, though you can use Canon's if you prefer them. I don't understand what you mean here. MST
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Martin S Taylor started following Reveal in Finder from document title bar , Scanning errors in Affinity Photo , 15 Reasons Why I stopped using Affinity Photo and 2 others
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For some reason they used the control key for this in Affinity Photo. The option key works as you described. Yes, it does. But one of the huge strengths of Macintosh has always been consistency between applications. For example, in 1980, to Quit a program sometimes it was Quit, sometimes it was Exit, or Stop, or Leave, or QQuit.... Apple put an end to that by saying it had to be 'Quit'. Similarly, all programs use Cmnd-X for Cut, Cmnd-V for Paste, etc. This consistency is worth maintaining, and I, too, would prefer it if Affinity marquees used the same keys as every other Mac program, sc. hold Shift to add to a marquee, Command to subtract from it. MST
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Martin S Taylor reacted to a post in a topic: Reveal in Finder from document title bar
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What's the protocol here for saying "I agree"? Do I say "Me too"? Or "+1"? Or post a graphic of a thumbs up? Whatever, I strongly agree with WestSlopeGuide. Please allow right-clicking on the title of the document to reveal the current file in the Finder. Consistency across all Mac apps is (well, used to be) one of the biggest advantages of using Macs, and we really should do all we can to maintain it. Martin S Taylor
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Adding handles
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Thanks, haakoo. We knew all this. The problem is that moving the line segment repositions the handles at both ends of the line segment, and that's not what we want. anon2 has shown how to do it. -
Adding handles
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Yes, I'm sorry, you're right, of course. I forgot to hold down the option key. I find it a bit weird that the pen tool works in such a totally different way if a node is selected. I still think it would be more intuitive to have this function devolved to the Node Tool (isn't this exactly the kind of task that the Node Tool is for?), but you've at least shown me how it's possible to do what I need to do. And between us, I think we've corrected a lot of misapprehensions on the part of others in this thread. Cheers, Martin -
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Adding handles
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Yes, and thank you anon2. That, at least, is a way to do it. But you first have to use the Node Tool (to select the node), then go the Pen Tool, then possibly reverse the direction of the curve (is there an easy way to see which way round the curve goes?) then opt-drag out the selected node, then (very likely) go back to the Node Tool to make some fine adjustments. The other awkwardness is that if the node currently has no handles, you have to add two handles and then delete one of them, which seems a bit ridiculous. I'd simply like a way of using the Node Tool to add one handle, and since opt-drag doesn't currently do anything different from ordinary dragging, it's available for this purpose. -
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Adding handles
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Let's give this one more shot, shall we? Have a look at this diagram: I want a second handle which extends from point A, so that the line C will bulge upwards some more. I don't want to move point A, point B, or any of the handles you can see in the diagram at the moment. (Please don't anybody tell me that's not what I want. I do want it. That should be enough.) If I click on A with either the Node Tool or the Pen Tool, with or without modifier keys held down, I either smooth A (which I don't want) or move A or its existing handle. If I drag the line at point C (which, I think, is what Alfred is suggesting) it will disturb the handles at B. Again, I don't want this. All I'm asking for is that I can use the Node Tool together with an unused modifier key (eg. option-drag) in order to 'pull out' a second extended handle from point A. Point A will then be a sharp node with two handles: the existing handle (which will not be moved by my proposal) and a new handle which will affect the shape of curve C but will not affect the handles at B. I hope this is all clear – people seem to be making such heavy weather of it. -
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Adding handles
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
We're almost there, aren't we? The problem with your solution is that it disturbs the handle(s) at the other end of the curve-segment. Again, I don't want to do this. -
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Adding handles
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Exactly. I'd like one, please. Hokusai seems to agree with me. I don't understand what you mean. I want a new handle which I can move, so that I can alter the appearance of the curve on one side of the node. I don't want to alter the appearance of the curve on the other side of the node, so I want the original, visible, handle to stay where it is.