Patrick Connor

Balling,
 
Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums,  :)
 
Technically you are correct, but there is a widespread acceptance of the term DPI as being understood to mean PPI.
 
This thread covers this quite well, as does this and this and this and this, so you see you are not alone in asking and we do consider all user requests, so thank you.

Congrats @MattP and the rest of the team you guys knocked this release out of the park! Symbols, Constraints and Asset Management are huge productivity boosters, thanks for all the hard work. The website and videos and tutorials all look great. Hats off to the entire company, you guys are making the future  very exciting. Can't wait for Affinity Publisher Beta, and Designer and Photo (and Publisher) on iOS. Still holding off on that iPad Pro until you guys release the software, lol... I want the latest and shiniest hardware for Affinity :D Cheers !!!
 

My starting point for this is the OpenType specification, which specifies which features should be on by default. For init it says, "In recommended usage, this feature triggers substitutions that are required for correct display of the given script. It should be applied by default in the appropriate contexts, as determined by script-specific processing. Control of the feature should not generally be exposed to the user." I read this as saying it is not one of the contextual alternates; it is not a cosmetic feature that the user can choose to have on or off. It is required to be on for scripts like Arabic to appear correct.
 
Admittedly this is coloured by mention of "appropriate contexts". I take this to mean the app is responsible for detecting the starts of lines, and for disabling the feature appropriately. It also mentions "script-specific". The OpenType format allows different tables for different scripts, so I feel that if the font designer does not want the init feature in Latin, they will simply leave it out of the Latin tables, and the app doesn't need to do anything special beyond identifying the script and using the appropriate table.
 
A further complication is that Affinity doesn't currently let you specific the script explicitly. The Character panel has a single language, which is primarily used for spell checking, and the OpenType script and language are deduced from that. In future I think we should add more languages and scripts to that section, so that for example you could set the language to None for spell checking and still have German hyphenation rules and OpenType ligatures.
 
Looking at Adobe apps, it seems to me they don't follow the specification at all. They don't provide any way to set the OpenType script either. I suspect they added UI for init in lieu of that, and they made it default to off for the sake of Latin scripts. It also seems some font designers have been mislead by Adobe, and have started treating init as an optional feature. The OpenType specification for init says it was revised in 2016, presumably to clarify the intent, but it's too late now. We have come across fonts like this before, which is why I added UI to switch init off as a workaround for them. It's one of those time where we must choose between following Adobe or doing what is correct. I am loath to switch it off by default globally, but I will look into whether we can have it on by default for Arabic, and off by default for Latin scripts.

Hi MEB,
 
It seems it just took quite a while to come through. Affinity is on my whitelist so I was pretty sure it wasn't being blocked or going in spam. It took a good 10 minutes to come through though.
 
Thanks for your quick response though :)

I thought you had repeatedly said it had been answered categorically. What would you do with another categorical answer? ;)
 
Light UI will be released, like all our features, when it's ready.

The Grade UI kit offer will also be available for the Windows 1.5 release, though the download is exactly the same files, so if you have it for Mac then you have it for Windows already.

It's a bigger job than it looks, and it's not on the roadmap. The 1.X roadmap is there to stop users having to read everything else to know what's going in.
If think you can tell I'm not going to commit to any timeline, sorry.

Hi Tekikou,
As far as i can see this is working as designed. What's going on is that the X, Y coordinates of the objects are not integer values. If you go to Affinity Designer Preferences, User Interface section and change the number to 6 in the Points field (Decimal Places for Unit Type section), you will be able to see them in the input field in the Transform panel (Affinity is actually more precise than that but for UI/display purposes we only display six decimal places). When you "revalidate" the values clicking in the input field and pressing Enter you are actually discarding them (despite them not being visible due to the preference mentioned), rounding to the whole value (integer). The slight changes you see on the canvas are the visual result of that rounding.
If you enable snapping (Snap to grid - for a pt based grid) when positioning/drawig the elements you can prevent this.

Hi Youngner,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
You have to click the small arrow in the Healing Brush Tool to have access to it. See screenshot below.
 

Thanks Manroe, sorry I missed the subtlety of this report being specific to that control.

The plan is that Affinity Photo will be kept 'in sync' with a simultaneous Photo 1.4.4 that can read Affinity Designer 1.5 files. Then when Affinity Photo 1.5 is ready to release there will probably be an equivalent simultaneous Designer 1.5.1 release to keep everything in sync again regarding supported features and files.
 
 
Bear with us, we are tweaking one or two things behind the scenes... When it's ready it will prompt.
 

Hi, I can't find your crash report in our database, is there any chance you can attach it to this thread? It should be in the following location:
 
%APPDATA%\Affinity\Designer\1.0 (Beta)\CrashReports\
 
(I'm assuming you're using version 1.5.0.21?)

Hi guys,
 
At first I would like to excuse for my English. It's not good enough to write too much. ;)
But I have an idea, and I would love if You'll think about it.
 
Lately I designed something like that:
periodic_table.zip
 
(Iif you like it, you can take it and use it. It's public domain. But it didn't have lately discovered elements 113, 115, 117, 118. I'll update it soon. ;))
 
As the name says it's a periodic table. It consist of 118 elements, and each element consist of 5 layers. For one language. Without the legend. I have 3 languages. English, Polish and Latin. So I have almost 1800 layers.
 
Working with such amount of layers is a pain in the ass. You have to scroll a lot, select hundreds of layers and change their properties. 
So, I have an idea. What if you could assign a tag to the layer? And then search the layers by this tags? And then select all searched layers and change the thickness of a border. Or size of a font. Or whatever you need.
I think it'll be a great improvement in working with multi layered documents. 
 
There's no other graphic software on the market that allows this level of layer management. If you implement it, don't forget to patent it and charge Adobe for using this idea. And send me some money for the invention. ;)
 
I hope You like this idea, and You'll think about it. :)
 
Cheers!
EDi

Please see here my latest version

The plan is that Affinity Photo will be kept 'in sync' with a simultaneous Photo 1.4.4 that can read Affinity Designer 1.5 files. Then when Affinity Photo 1.5 is ready to release there will probably be an equivalent simultaneous Designer 1.5.1 release to keep everything in sync again regarding supported features and files.
 
 
Bear with us, we are tweaking one or two things behind the scenes... When it's ready it will prompt.
 

The plan is that Affinity Photo will be kept 'in sync' with a simultaneous Photo 1.4.4 that can read Affinity Designer 1.5 files. Then when Affinity Photo 1.5 is ready to release there will probably be an equivalent simultaneous Designer 1.5.1 release to keep everything in sync again regarding supported features and files.
 
 
Bear with us, we are tweaking one or two things behind the scenes... When it's ready it will prompt.
 

Hello Waltl,
Hold Shift to constrain your selection, and hold Ctrl/Cmd to scale it from the center.

Vocês são os melhores, se depender de mim, affinity designer será uma potencia no Brasil

Hi all, these two problems have now been fixed as part of build 21.

Just installed the latest build and the issue is fixed! Cheers guys!

Clandestine,
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.
 
Thanks for the report, this is happening for all users, and will be resolved in the next beta.

Common Feature Requests index  
Below is a list of common requested features for which there is already a thread created. Please avoid to create new ones if your request/feedback fits in one of those threads. We consider all requests no matter if they are common (and listed here) or not. The intend of this list is to avoid unnecessary thread duplicates. If you need to create a new one, please add just ONE request per thread. There is NOT a vote system in place.  Adding +1 to those topics will NOT affect their priority nor imply their implementation. That’s mostly dependent on time and development goals and constraints. Thanks.
--- NEW FEATURES
(Affinity PHOTO) Stitching / Panoramas  Already available in Affinity Photo 1.4 (Affinity PHOTO) HDR (32 bit) Already available in Affinity Photo 1.5 (Affinity PHOTO) OpenEXR (import/export) Already available in Affinity Photo 1.5. (Affinity PHOTO) Focus Stacking Already available in Affinity Photo 1.5 (Affinity DESIGNER) Tracing Tool/Persona
  INTERFACE (BOTH APPS) Lighter UI / contrast issues - Already available in Affinity Designer and Photo 1.6 (BOTH APPS) User Interface Icons / Customization (BOTH APPS) Progress bar/visual feedback on file loading/saving
  GENERAL FUNCIONALITY   (BOTH APPS) Option to turn tool toggling off (that is turning off the function that makes affinity return to the previous used tool when you press a tool shortcut twice) (BOTH APPS) Remember last used folder used for each type of action (open, save etc). (BOTH APPS) Custom shortcuts - Already available in Affinity Designer and Photo 1.4 (BOTH APPS) Sticky Settings (remember tools settings) - It's being implemented/work in progress in 1.5/1.6 versions. (Affinity PHOTO) Macros / Actions - Already available in Affinity Photo 1.6;  still being expanded/improved (Affinity PHOTO) Crop to Selection (BOTH APPS) Hide object's bounding box - already implemented (Affinity PHOTO) Hide selection's marching ants (pixel selections) Already available in Affinity Photo 1.5 (BOTH APPS) Layers panel: toggle to automatically scroll to/display the selected layer + shortcut Already available in Designer and Photo 1.5 (Preferences) (BOTH APPS) Support to RTL (right-to-left) Languages (Arabic, Hebrew etc) (BOTH APPS) Change rulers origin point / relative origin point (BOTH APPS) Allow guide creation from all tools (BOTH APPS) Lock Guides (BOTH APPS) Align/distribute to Key Object - Already available in Designer and Photo 1.6 (BOTH APPS) Image/file linking (BOTH APPS) Select objects by attributes (same fill, stroke, font etc) (BOTH APPS) Center text vertically inside text frame - Already available in Designer and Photo 1.6 (BOTH APPS) Transform nodes (scale, rotate etc) - Already available in Designer and Photo 1.6 (Affinity PHOTO) Crop & Resize (single step) (BOTH APPS) Ability to export/save to the same folder as the source (opened file) (BOTH APPS) Rotate & Scale objects using the Rotation Centre as reference point - Already available in Designer 1.6 Beta (Affinity DESIGNER) Option to flip the order of artboards on export (PDF)
  TOOLS (Affinity DESIGNER) Vector Eraser (2) (Affinity DESIGNER) Vector Patterns (Affinity DESIGNER) Feathering (Affinity DESIGNER) Simplify paths / Line Smoothing (Affinity DESIGNER) Measure Tool Already implemented in Designer 1.5 (Affinity DESIGNER) Arrowheads Already added to the roadmap. Coming in a future update. (BOTH APPS) Background Blur Layer Effect (FX) (BOTH APPS) Color picker improvements Already implemented in Designer and Photo1.5. (BOTH APPS) Noise/Grain (Affinity PHOTO) Freehand Selection Tool more similar to PS Lasso

  FILE  FORMATS SUPPORT (BOTH APPS) Export PSD text as native text (BOTH APPS) Layered TIFF Already available in Affinity Photo/Designer 1.5 (BOTH APPS) EXIF/metadata on Export Already available in Affinity Designer and Photo 1.4 (BOTH APPS) DXF/DWG  

"You know, for kids!"
 

Here's a PDF made using the image from the PDF, the type converted to curves. The image is grayscale, the Pantone is correct. It's a two-color job.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/npknrm4mjl90b31/efram%20ph5%2018x24.pdf?dl=0
 
I'm downloading the AD ZIP package now. I do need to run to the office and meet with a customer and so I'll be gone a couple hours. In the meantime, please inspect the PDF at the link and you can decide whether I should re-run it with the new ZIP contents.
 
Mike

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