Patrick Connor

Please can you all stop giving @Bit Disappointed critique on his feedback/posts. That is not helpful and is distracting from the thread. Stop 🛑

Feedback/Usability wise,
it would be nice to have an option to easily create a border with some text around the QR-Code.
Here is an example of such a result;
Of course the user could create such things manually but it is time consuming.

Please can you all stop giving @Bit Disappointed critique on his feedback/posts. That is not helpful and is distracting from the thread. Stop 🛑

Please can you all stop giving @Bit Disappointed critique on his feedback/posts. That is not helpful and is distracting from the thread. Stop 🛑

Custom vector drawing for guitar. For hydro dip or skin wrap.

 
 

 
 

Hi,
I've just downloaded and installed the latest beta, it appears to have resolved the artefacts issue (hardware acceleration on and reverted to 16Bit).
I'll keep playing and let you know if anything else weird happens.
thanks again for your efforts

This version worked with 5 of my NEF files (hardware acceleration confirmed ON).  Great result.  Thanks

The Font Manager reports a font as missing if I change an axis. Using a named preset is okay, but changing an axis to an arbitrary value will result in the font being shown as missing in the Font Manager.

On MacOS it works well. So bug is only in version for Windows.

Good call! This can still be a good spot for discussion on all these ideas for the future. I'll be checking it out and giving feedback on the proper forum (if there's something not really working great, or something).
While on the subject of suggestions, I'll just leave something else out here: would it be possible, at some point and if the Variable OpenType spec allowed for it, to have this panel hook into discrete values for these axes, specified by the type designer(s) and coded into the font file itself, include some sort of “snap to discrete values” toggle, and have those values appropriately previewed under the slider instead of the default 20 “steps”/21 ticks?
I know this sounds very counter-intuitive to the spirit of variable fonts, because, yes, they're great because you can fine-tune stuff, we all know that, but that's just one of its advantages. You see, as a type designer specialised in modular and geometric fonts, I work a lot with grids and stackable geometric models, à lá Josef Albers' Kombinationsschrift „3“, and would also very much benefit from distributing a single variable file instead of a bunch of different combinations like in Frutiger's Univers scheme…
This is the kind of stuff I'd love to see being added to the Variable OpenType spec, and being adopted and supported by software purveyors. Having vector UI elements to complement the axes' names would be a nice-to-have, but this would be a functional game-changer, and could even help undecided/beginner designers in other contexts… These “fixed”, traditional values could – if they don't already – also exist in traditional fonts and serve as pointers for traditional weights, and those designers might start out by picking one of them and then fine-tune them afterwards, after some test print runs or gathering user feedback on digital prototypes.
This would effectively make Variable OpenType the default go-to font format, even for fonts designed with separate, non-interpolation-friendly masters… If a piece of software was presented with one such font file, boom, the “snap to discrete values” would be turned on by default and greyed-out. Even old typefaces could be repackaged as “variable” with zero updates and still be more practical and neat to use.
As for my particular use case, and as the spec and its industry support stand, I'll have to produce and distribute instruction manuals with the recommended axis values to ensure fonts snap to their corresponding geometric grids. If the guys at FontFont managed to do that for the über-complex Chartwell and its myriad of OT Stylistic Sets, I guess I can make it, too.

Here's a list of some of the bugs which have been fixed in beta build 2.5.0.2402, since 2.4.2 (2371)
Please reply in this forum only to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas forum.
(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 
User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Select options in Photo Persona are offset based on bleed AF-1973 Cut and pasting Anchors creates a new Anchor, breaking Cross References to the original Anchor or Paragraph AF-1911 SVG rectangle with width="100%" height="100%" is imported incorrectly as 1x1 AF-1899 Eight digit SVG hex values not being parsed correctly AF-2152 Exporting to PDF with Tagging enabled fails when a text object is visually cropped with a vector mask, inside a group that is visually cropped with a vector mask AF-2112 Resource manager: OpenAsset image status shows as "Pending"  User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Paragraph > Spacing > Leading can be set to a negative value  Selections in Publisher's Photo Persona are offset based on bleed [AF-1973] (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS) 
Blur Tool: blur effect quite subtle if Metal compute acceleration is enabled AF-2268 Text Styles Panel not displaying decorations correctly with CMYK values  Text Style Editor: Shouldn't each Stylistic Set be a On/Off/No Change value rather than a number  Text Style Editor: Caps to Small Caps/Petite Caps shows as Normal Caps in Style Settings  Text Style Editor: Stylistic Sets and Character Variants are not capped to the font max  Text Style Editor: Deleting a Shear or Scale value will set it to 'No Change' but doesn't remove the value from the style  Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options  Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font'  Text Style Editor: Initial Words end characters cannot be set to 'No Change' after modifying Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font' Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options AutoCorrect - Capitalise first letter of sentences issue AF-2340 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Running headers and paragraph style that is used in more than one paragraph in a row AF-1940 Hyperlink panel displays the same/first anchor for all if multiple are setup AF-1647 Find & Replace- Searching for words with an Anchor/note/index marker inserted will fail to find the word with 'match whole word' enabled AF-1928 Text styles panel doesn't show the text stroke outline unless you've also set the fill colour on MacOS AF-2186 Editing a TOC heading and updating TOC creates a new anchor incorrectly AF-1912 Develop Persona- Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C Lens profile not identified in the lens panel AF-2132 Importing a multi level list into Pub with various text styles AF-1832 HEIC files with transparency import with a solid black fill in place of the transparency  Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona AF-2119 Table Format's text style appears blank if the original style has been renamed  [macOS/Win] Resource Manager panel doesn't update automatically  New Stack with images using 'bottom right' metadata orientation are stacked upside down AF-996 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Linked multi-page PDF files default to Page 1 when re-loading the document, changing passthrough policy subsequently causes an app crash AF-2662 Importing IDML and flowing text to new frame applies text scaling unexpectedly  [AF-1342] Flowing Story text is scaled unexpectedly after changing the documents DPI  [AF-1288] (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows 
LAB/Greyscale values are showing with decimals AF-2327 Edit Text Style dialog does not always fit on screen & cannot be resized, hiding OK / Cancel options AF-2351 When inserting a Cross-Reference the Search from start files is not active AF-1747 Email Hyperlinks with multiple email addresses (CC & BCC) fail to validate / export AF-1736 Brush Previews are drawn within the Colour Picker Loupe when using the ALT modifier with Brush Tools Clear User Data dialog does not fit on screen for smaller displays AF-2217 Undesired Colour Conversion when using 'Performed by Printer' AF-1633 Buttons disappearing from preflight panel AF-2643 Menu Edit > Fill...: pressing Enter to validate choice/close dialog no longer works AF-2232 Text Style Editor: Outline stroke style doesn't have the ability to set 'No change'. Text Style Editor: Scrollers on Alternates page have a different max value on macOS than Windows [Japanese] Multiple panels show clipping [Spanish] Multiple panels show clipping Edit Text Style: There is a red dot bleeding through under Outline Export Persona: you can lose the Variable and Description fields in the Token flyout Publisher When export to PDF the UI progress bar freezes but the PDF is exported Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer  Edit > Copy Merged is incorrect for Portuguese AF-2188 Difficulty dragging a layer to the top of the stack  AF-2144 Grid and Axis manager always uses 3 decimal point values when adjusting using slider, regardless of UI setting AF-2450 Mouse Scrolling the Angle field in FX does not visually update changes on canvas when cursor is over the Angle value itself AF-2121 Overprint Swatches when Show as List enabled do not visually clip the ellipse used to denote the Overprint state AF-1323 Pressing Esc whilst dragging on Transform panel controls causes the controls to start reacting to mouseover Colour Studio in Slider view offers 16bit / Percentage options for HSL and LAB incorrectly AF-2424 Changing Colour Studio view from Sliders changes colour mode settings applied in Slider view AF-2423 Can't print multiple artboards with bleed AF-2358 Export Palette option is not greyed out in Swatches Studio menu with a Pantone Palette selected New Document dialog: No X to close documents in List View Overprint is not enabled when creating a Global Colour, and disables when edited 'Search' fields do not offer a right click context menu 'New from Clipboard' fails with SVG code on the clipboard AF-854 Stroke Well in Colour Studio cannot be clicked in the centre of the icon AF-2070 Layers Panel- Shift selecting multiple layers after using the Select > Select Bottom/Top command does not function AF-1820 Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer Select all layers keyboard shortcut not set by default  Cannot reapply the highlighted text style to multiple paragraphs (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS 
Placing any multiple page PDF and setting duplicate to display a different page will always show page 1 when saved and reopened AF-1726 'Characters Including Spaces' only shows as 'Characters' in the Status bar AF-1958 Colour modes in Colour Studio Slider view incorrectly share display settings, causing incorrect colour values to be shown AF-2421 Edit Text Style - Position & Transform baseline jumps to negative value AF-1691 Procedural Texture- 'rgbtoi' function canvas rendering inconsistent with metal enabled AF-1963 Text Style Editor: Setting Outline Stroke style to No Change doesn't appear to fully revert the values Layers Release option in context menu becomes greyed out when you have more than 30 objects selected Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu AF-1666 MS Word doc with page range index references aren't supported AF-1618 CMYK Color sliders in colour chooser inconsistent AF-657 Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip' Trash Can icon on Anchor Panel is too small on macOS Document Setup missing from File menu in Pixel Persona AF-839
  (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad 
Appearance > Options > Colour Wheel causes a crash  Korean Text does not get input/combined correctly on iPadOS AF-1268 Layers Studio menu missing 'Release' and 'Mask to Below' commands AF-1919 Top ruler is missing when stage manager is active  AF-1338 White flash shows on loading the in-app iPad help     Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu   pop-up dialogs from adjustments do not turn translucent when dragging the slider AF-595 Resource Manager Details page doesn't update automatically   Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip'     iPad edit / document menus conflict with brush settings     CMD+S shortcut doesn't work on the magic keyboard with Zhuyin input AF-669 Able to set negative values on Corner Tool slider 
  If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not report it again. More fixes will be made during the 2.5 beta cycle.

Hi @Affinityconfusesme, @Alfred, @Bobby Henderson, @Bryan Rieger, @kenmcd, @MikeTO, @ronnyb
As you can see I have split these posts about the forthcoming Variable Fonts support made in this thread off into the Beta Members area. The original post by Ash will be repurposed to discuss the implementation of Variable Font support, and the talk here about other implementations (and OT discussion on Colour Fonts) would have got in the way of discussing the actual implementation and any bugs found.
The new build 2.5.0.2415 including this feature will be made available soon, and can discussed here
 

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

Hi @Affinityconfusesme, @Alfred, @Bobby Henderson, @Bryan Rieger, @kenmcd, @MikeTO, @ronnyb
As you can see I have split these posts about the forthcoming Variable Fonts support made in this thread off into the Beta Members area. The original post by Ash will be repurposed to discuss the implementation of Variable Font support, and the talk here about other implementations (and OT discussion on Colour Fonts) would have got in the way of discussing the actual implementation and any bugs found.
The new build 2.5.0.2415 including this feature will be made available soon, and can discussed here
 

The earlier posts made in this thread before the feature was made available can now be found here

Now downloaded and installed Photo 2.5 Beta and no sign of the artefacts when loading Raw file.  Thanks Guys.

note, 26 April 2022

The Font Collection control isn't wide enough now to hold the standard name "All Fonts" even at the default UI size. Also the Font Style control is narrower now making it less useful.
I understand why - the new variants button and larger colour samples - but it seems a bit less nice and this is such an important panel.
2.4 vs. 2.5
 

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

Here's a list of the bugs which have been fixed in the beta build 2.5.0 (2415)
(fixes since the initial beta 2.5.0.2371)
Please reply in this forum to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other bugs & issues forum.
Changes/Bugs affecting all platforms
"=" expression with Transform Objects Separately enabled is failing in Publisher [AF-2809] Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Clicking with the Line Width Tool inserts a 0% pressure point [AF-2769] Line Width Tool: using the Layer > Transform commands while the Line Width Tool is active leaves the pressure points misplaced (in their original position before transform)  [AF-2768] Cannot use Line Width Tool in Designer Persona in Publisher when more than 1 page is present [AF-2766] Crash opening package and installing a variable font  Hide / Show Others is not in Publisher's Layer Menu [AF-2083] Export persona > Document name and Document filename are empty for newly saved documents [AF-1496] Changing the Grid settings in the Develop Persona drastically reduces the image exposure [AF-1166] Bugs affecting Windows
View transform is broken when one app hands off to the other  Menu item Text>Show Typography  Typography Panel should be listed under Windows >  Typography Panel height cannot be adjusted  Can't adjust the values in Transform panel using 'click + drag' gesture on the field label for 2 node straight open curves [AF-2213] Colour flyout slightly clipped on Windows  Swatch names are not truncated  'Font Style' and 'Font Traits' language inconsistency between studio panels (mac fix to follow) AF-804 Bugs affecting macOS
Incorrect lens being detected, Panasonic instead of Sony  [AF-2822] Vertical Ruler is being rendered on top of the document tabs area when more than one document is open [AF-2796] Old Typography dialog (replaced by Panel) remains visible on upgrade from 2.4.2 to 2.5.0  Ruler Units are completely off/no longer start at 0 on macOS [AF-2760] Menu item Text>Show Typography  Typography Panel should be listed under Windows > Text  Text Style Editor: Unable to use 'Reset End characters' button when the field has focus on macOS  Typography Panel: Hide irrelevant features checkbox is missing padding on the left hand margin [AF-2477] Bugs affecting iPad
Thumbnail generation is delayed when using iPadOS 17, also affects menu for Live Doc [AF-466]

Hi @Affinityconfusesme, @Alfred, @Bobby Henderson, @Bryan Rieger, @kenmcd, @MikeTO, @ronnyb
As you can see I have split these posts about the forthcoming Variable Fonts support made in this thread off into the Beta Members area. The original post by Ash will be repurposed to discuss the implementation of Variable Font support, and the talk here about other implementations (and OT discussion on Colour Fonts) would have got in the way of discussing the actual implementation and any bugs found.
The new build 2.5.0.2415 including this feature will be made available soon, and can discussed here
 

Here's a list of the bugs which have been fixed in the beta build 2.5.0 (2415)
(fixes since the initial beta 2.5.0.2371)
Please reply in this forum to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other bugs & issues forum.
Changes/Bugs affecting all platforms
"=" expression with Transform Objects Separately enabled is failing in Publisher [AF-2809] Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Clicking with the Line Width Tool inserts a 0% pressure point [AF-2769] Line Width Tool: using the Layer > Transform commands while the Line Width Tool is active leaves the pressure points misplaced (in their original position before transform)  [AF-2768] Cannot use Line Width Tool in Designer Persona in Publisher when more than 1 page is present [AF-2766] Crash opening package and installing a variable font  Hide / Show Others is not in Publisher's Layer Menu [AF-2083] Export persona > Document name and Document filename are empty for newly saved documents [AF-1496] Changing the Grid settings in the Develop Persona drastically reduces the image exposure [AF-1166] Bugs affecting Windows
View transform is broken when one app hands off to the other  Menu item Text>Show Typography  Typography Panel should be listed under Windows >  Typography Panel height cannot be adjusted  Can't adjust the values in Transform panel using 'click + drag' gesture on the field label for 2 node straight open curves [AF-2213] Colour flyout slightly clipped on Windows  Swatch names are not truncated  'Font Style' and 'Font Traits' language inconsistency between studio panels (mac fix to follow) AF-804 Bugs affecting macOS
Incorrect lens being detected, Panasonic instead of Sony  [AF-2822] Vertical Ruler is being rendered on top of the document tabs area when more than one document is open [AF-2796] Old Typography dialog (replaced by Panel) remains visible on upgrade from 2.4.2 to 2.5.0  Ruler Units are completely off/no longer start at 0 on macOS [AF-2760] Menu item Text>Show Typography  Typography Panel should be listed under Windows > Text  Text Style Editor: Unable to use 'Reset End characters' button when the field has focus on macOS  Typography Panel: Hide irrelevant features checkbox is missing padding on the left hand margin [AF-2477] Bugs affecting iPad
Thumbnail generation is delayed when using iPadOS 17, also affects menu for Live Doc [AF-466]

Hi @anto,
I reported that as well here yesterday...

Hi @Affinityconfusesme, @Alfred, @Bobby Henderson, @Bryan Rieger, @kenmcd, @MikeTO, @ronnyb
As you can see I have split these posts about the forthcoming Variable Fonts support made in this thread off into the Beta Members area. The original post by Ash will be repurposed to discuss the implementation of Variable Font support, and the talk here about other implementations (and OT discussion on Colour Fonts) would have got in the way of discussing the actual implementation and any bugs found.
The new build 2.5.0.2415 including this feature will be made available soon, and can discussed here
 

Hi @Affinityconfusesme, @Alfred, @Bobby Henderson, @Bryan Rieger, @kenmcd, @MikeTO, @ronnyb
As you can see I have split these posts about the forthcoming Variable Fonts support made in this thread off into the Beta Members area. The original post by Ash will be repurposed to discuss the implementation of Variable Font support, and the talk here about other implementations (and OT discussion on Colour Fonts) would have got in the way of discussing the actual implementation and any bugs found.
The new build 2.5.0.2415 including this feature will be made available soon, and can discussed here