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  1. 5 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:

    no but you could post it in the feature request section of the forums.

    Will do, thanks!

    5 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

    Then use the new Move Data Entry feature to make lots of evenly-spaced duplicates (or use Power Duplicate). Then lock the text frames and with Show Text Flow turned on you'll have a bunch of nice guides. Because they're locked you won't be able to click into them by mistake and they won't interfere with anything.

    This is what i was using right now (or even using regular line tool instead of textbox), the only drawbacks is i cannot hide it quickly along with other guides, because it's an "actual objects". and in my case, I'm not using it for creating a lot (>105) guides, another drawbacks is i also have activate the snap to object when i want to use that "guides", so i usually create an actual guide and snap it to those textbox/line afterwards.

    One of my usage is to create some horizontal gutter guides, as affinity doesn't have a separate gutter value for columns and rows.

    Anyway, thanks for the suggestions!

  2. Is there something changed with how boolean add works in v2? i've got different result from what i usually get from v1 (AFAIK even in Illustrator and other software that i've used, the boolean add behaviour is the same as v1).

    It makes creating a flowing cursive text (think of coca cola logo) harder and longer because i need to use shape builder if i want to get the usual (and correct) result.

    i only tested it on add mode, don't know if other mode affected too. 

    image.thumb.png.e46fd5c1547c9e6f0a5f2046f97823ce.png

    image.thumb.png.8f7fa47fc42f354e6b0a2d4bece144db.png

    In v2, the overlapping edge is not combined, but become a separated like what you get from boolean divide (except it combined into single layer/object)

  3. This is a simple example of the bugs, i'm using this setup a lot for my photo editing/compositing masking works in v1, and now all of them is broken in when loaded in v2.

    Original mask:

    image.thumb.png.e5b771ffc019e3854d67c91ffb350514.png

     

    Results in v1:

    image.thumb.png.e81ecfc3caac48684e5b7af4666aec9a.png

     

    Results in v2:

    image.thumb.png.ba26c7cc44ea6e7a6e4480b7ae75e479.png

     

    As you can see in the example, the mask layer is disappear/inactive when adding adjustment layer (or live filter, eg. adding minimum blur to shrink the mask) to a mask. Disabling the adjustment layer/live filter reveals the mask again.

    And this is the sample document in case anyone want to test it in v1 or v2.

    mask_bugs.afphoto

  4. 55 minutes ago, Callum said:

    Please could you try using the advice in the following forum post to try linking Affinity to the Steel Series engine?

    the alias exe file i mentioned in the first point is the file mentioned in that post, i've got "file cannot by accessed by the system"  when i selected this file.

    I guess i'll just wait for the regular MSI/exe installer then.

    as for the second question, it didn't get triggered anymore, i forgot that after a windows update, the dialog app setting is sometimes get reset, so after i define the my default tiff app, the dialogue box didn't show up anymore.

    thanks.

  5. 3 hours ago, Grant Robertson said:

    Fortunately, almost every piece of software that generates .PDF output makes these easy to do. One simply has to bother to select the correct options.

    And fortunately, Serif have Affinity Publisher, so the PDF should be good if the software itself is good.

     

    3 hours ago, Grant Robertson said:

    Now, a good manual, in general, is actually very difficult to write and organize. As a skilled technical writer, I am dismayed to see that almost every software company, and almost every book publisher seems to have simply settled for what "looks like" a well-formatted document, rather that an actually well-written one. "Ink in the shape of a document," if you will.

    I agree with this, and by looking at the manual they published, i would know that if it is a really good "user manual", or only a developer "feature documentation".

    sometimes i really hate it if i read some "user manual" that feel like it just a documentation that didn't help at all but labeled as user manual😞.

    most of the open-source software i used have tendency to write like a developer documentation rather than aimed at user (and i can understand why). But if it is a paid product, a good user manual is a must IMO.

      

    2 hours ago, dcr said:

    True, but sometimes it can be difficult to learn what you need to know when you don't know what you don't know and there's no helpful guide to get you to understand what you don't know so that you can figure out what you don't know so you can research it and learn it.

    I remember the first time i try learn about electronic music gear, it is a steep learning curve but fortunately most of the gear i bought/used have a beautiful, detailed and well-structured (printed) user manual that i can refer to anytime i need it, and only ask/find someone more knowledgeable (internet is still rare back in the day) whenever i don't know about something that i can't find the answer on the manual.

     

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said:

    Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed.

    We've had a meeting this morning and decided to offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long.

    Thanks for your feedback!

    great news! thx! now i'm convinced for upgrading to V2

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