David.P
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Yes, it is awfully distracting, and I can't believe that this nuisance can't be completely switched off? There are people who are sufficiently proficient to know where their objects end. Come on! -
Handles don't even snap to the GRID? Seriously? Not even to guides and other objects...?
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This: ...seems to snap only the outer boundaries of shapes to pixels, but not the adjustment nodes of the shape.
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I'm trying to draw shapes over a (greatly enlarged) pixel image: Is there a way to make the shapes snap to the boundaries of the pixels?
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Sorry I have no idea what you are doing there. Couldn't you just give me a word or link what this procedure is called (clipping?), so that I can look it up somewhere? This is btw. what my PDF editor (!) can do in about one microsecond (parts manually pulled apart afterwards):
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Maybe because none of you guys has shown me how to do it...?
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So is there only Adobe Illustrator, or how can I do this in Inkscape, for example?
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Even my PDF editor can cut off objects of any kind and complexity at the page border in a split second. Why would this not be possible in a vector graphics program, of all things?
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I'm still not seeing how you guys did this. Also, I need to use the cut-up stuff as a graphics object in other programs later, so it really should be cut not hidden. Should there really be no proper way to simply cut vector stuff? Inkscape's Eraser comes pretty close.
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Sorry I don't understand how you do this. Does this even cut the object -- or only hide parts of it? I'd prefer to actually cut it.
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This I keep trying, but it wouldn't even offer me the clipping operations?
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I got a rather complex vector shape here, consisting of dozens of (partially) overlapping sub-shapes with different fill colors. How can I cut through the entire object along a line, or alternatively cut a portion out of the object? I have tried it in Designer and Inksc*pe, but the Boolean operations don't work the way I'd expect in both programs. I have attached an example file. How can I slice this object, say, diagonally into two halves? Scales.afdesign
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Wow, thanks for this link! This is an incredibly easy and fast way of vectorizing bitmaps (i.e. rasterizing, but using vectors) -- particularly ones that are hard to autotrace.
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Interestingly, one can create seamless vector fills very well in PowerPoint of all things, see attachment. Unfortunately however, these are rasterized with some coarse 200dpi when printed or exported to PDF. PowerPoint Shape with WMF Vector Fill.zip
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While we wait for Affinity to finally introduce a vector pattern fill feature, attached are a few hatches that can be used to fill shapes or enclosed areas, particularly using Inkscape. These are true tiled hatches, consisting of one line segment and it's bounding rectangle only, which then are tiled to fill any area. Sadly, Affinity Designer doesn't even seem to support such (externally created) vector fill patterns. The issue of seamless vector fills seems to be a bit tricky, as it also has been planned for years in the SVG standard, but still hasn't been implemented. Inkscape Vector Crosshatch Template.svg
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Thanks very much. For some reason, now I can't seem to reproduce the problem with these shapes anymore at the moment. I'll report back as soon as I find out more, or when I come across such 'funny' shapes again.
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There are two vector shapes in the attached file that behave strangely during further processing. I can't figure out why though. If these shapes are exported e.g. as SVG and then imported and further processed in PowerPoint, then PowerPoint converts them to bitmaps sooner or later, at the latest when printing from PowerPoint to PDF. This always happens with these two shapes, whereas all other vector shapes are never converted to bitmaps even when printing them to PDF from PowerPoint Do any of you know what strange special property these two shapes have so that this always happens? 'strange' shapes.afdesign
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Probably because it is dead-easy to implement DXF import and export, since DXF is a plain text file containing nothing but number coordinates for lines, circles and such. You could open a DXF file with Notepad, read those plain text measurements and start drawing your DXF with a ruler on plain paper basically right away.
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Live Paint Bucket equivalent
David.P replied to bruised_blood's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on iPad
Live paint bucket (and vector fill) URGENTLY needed! Inkscape sort of has both, but lacks too many other things- 51 replies
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While we are waiting for a vector fill function to appear in Affinity Designer, does any of you guys have a tip on how to get as close as possible to that ingenious function of PhotoLine: ...i.e. a fill bucket that fills areas of bitmaps with vector fills (!) and creates a new vector layer for this purpose -- totally brilliant. I am aware that probably no other program can do this at the moment, therefore I'm looking for a simple tool that can fill unicolored (say, empty white) areas of bitmaps with bitmap hatch lines, whereby this bitmap hatching however must be renderable with variable width, and with high resolution. Thus, it is not sufficient if the hatch lines are 1 pixel wide, as is the case with most bitmap editors. In other words, how do I fill a uni-colored area of a bitmap with a high-resolution, scalable bitmap hatch -- ideally with variable line width, variable angle, and variable spacing? Thanks for any ideas on which graphics/bitmap editor can do this!
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Thanks, that sounds like potential good news Dominik
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Whoa Dominik, that sounds as if there actually is a workaround for vector pattern fills in Designer. Thank you, I shall try this when I need a vector pattern fill the next time. Best regards David
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This looks great and indeed is a vector pattern fill. However it goes totally over my head how this guy did it (see his video attached below). Thankful for any explanation, David Pattern_test.mov
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yes yes yes! The possibility to import CAD drawings into Affinity Designer without creating zillions of polyline points from perfect Bezier curves and circles is an absolute dream feature. I currently use an ancient version of Visio (2003) which has the amazing ability to do exactly that, i.e. remove 99% of the polyline points and converting everything back to pure Bezier perfection. Affinity Product Managers, please get moving!
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Thank you guys, will check and report back
