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Jens D. R.

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  1. Click the little ! icon and allow download. Worked for me. Cheers Jens
  2. Thank you, I will check it out. If the download works I will try the install on the weekend. Cheers Jens
  3. "NO" has been pressed and commented that the link did not work! 😊
  4. Have you thought about an update using opencore to run Catalina? I have no Idea how that works but someone posted that he has an old mac running a new OS using opencore. Perhaps that is a solution. Cheers Jens
  5. Catalina is not the problem to come by - I can still update my mac to Catalina. I need Sierra - to run it in parallels. But thank you for helping!
  6. The Macworld links to Sierra, El Capitan & Yosemite do not work. I am downloading High Sierra right now.
  7. When I bought the mac V1, after my PC died, I checked the requirements and there were 3 updates between my OS and the minimum requirement. I thought I was on the safe side. I bought V2 without checking the requirements and downloaded it to see it not working. I dug into Serifs site to find them and the shock hit me. Running a small one-man-business means holding on to your money and thinking at least twice before you invest. That is one of the reasons why I never got CC and Affinity seemed the solution. I looked into all of these great proposals of using a virtual machine or a dual boot… The thing is I could update my mac to Catalina – that‘s the newest OS without OpenCore. Then I could install parallels… But alas Apple has taken away the option of downloading old OS versions. Without an ISO there is no way for me to use my old software after an upgrade, so I am stuck. I need CS6 for my work, so unless there is a way to get Sierra I am done. My other fear is that when Serif releases the next major update – there will be another significant jump in OS-versions. There is no workaround for me… Apple and Adobe probably don’t want anyone using old software or old OS versions – makes for bad sales.
  8. I read the FAQ... So if any OS older than Catalina is not supported anymore, why disable the option of buying V1? Just asking, because not everyone can go and buy new hardware. Isn't the required version on windows up to win11, too? Many poeple would need to buy new PCs to run win11 because of MS requirements. I am really angry and disapointed - I have to stop writing now... 😡
  9. Same here. I need CS6 because Affinity does not cover everything I need and I have a lot of old Files - specifically in InDesign. None of the features I wanted are in the upgrade and my system is no longer supported - sad. That kills it for me - was a nice experiment. Cheers Jens
  10. Hi, I have created a #Zine for #Zinequest - #Kickstarter. This is my first campaign. I used Affinity Designer for all of the illustrations (including the maps) - no special brushes, just the basic pen-tool. All of the textures were created or edited with Affinity Photo and the layout is in Affinity Publisher. The watercolour painting is not done with Affinity - I have yet to understand the brushes and such - especially how they work in the world of offset printing. I hope you will take a look at my campaign on Kickstarter -
  11. Wow. That is truly a let down. I still have to create the brushes I need. Perhaps I should use my old CS6 Illustrator from the get-go to avoid having blurry brushes like the example given above and needing to recreate them eventually. This is exactly why I posed the question to begin with. To make the image files smaller (bytes not resolution) it would be great if any of the Affinity products actually used and understood bitmap/line-art images - just ones and zeros. Then a brush would never feather and become blurry. Sadly serif decided that bitmap/line-art images are out of date and not needed any more. "High-Resolution Greyscale images will do fine, just make them transparent png-files." I have 2 catalogues (over 200 pages) that I frequently need to update for customers, full of line-art images of technical instructions, diagrams and electrical circuits which date back to the beginning of 2000. I would have loved to export (idml-file format) the catalogues so as to use publisher but I would have to reimport the images to make it work. There are up to 10 images per page which adds up to somewhere close to 2000 images to rework and reimport. So I still use my CS6 InDesign for that. Sorry for the tangent but I feel line-art/bitmap images have their value yet and especially when it comes to these "vector"-brushes. I will probably do some experimenting on the weekend with the brushes and figure out if I can make it work. Until the next update. Cheers Jens
  12. Yes a vector fill would be wonderful. As in choosing a symbol like the bitmap-option in the fill menu. +1 Vector fill option
  13. Thank you for the reply, but it does not answer my question. The thread is about making the images as small as possible, which I do not want. I need it for actual printing. The tutorials is nice - it explains how to create brushes but lacks any information about image sizes for creating brushes.
  14. That is great. I am not a big twitter user myself and I was afraid to ask professional brush makers because they might think I am their competition and thus would not answer.
  15. Wow, I thought this would be an easy question, that I was just too inept to find the answer by myself. So apparently no one knows how many pixels long (length) or wide (thickness) an image for a brush can be. I thought at least some one from the staff would know this. This is very frustrating because the only other option is to start experimenting. I thought it would be somewhere in the help/documentation: https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Painting/create_custombrushes.html But sadly no help there. Shouldn't this information be part of the documentation? Cheers Jens P. S. I am still not giving up hope that some one from the staff knows this and can provide an answer.
  16. Hi, I have been searching for information on the max resolution for creating vector brushes. Or maybe there is a resolution that is optimal? To specify I need to make brushes that will be printable on a printing press without any pixelation effects. I have used a workaround in the past be vectorising the result in inkscape and re-imporing into designer. Inscape because it has an auto-trace-function. this is very time consuming when you are creating complex work that you have to be able to take apart into different layers. So, I have decided to try creating my own custom "vector"-brushes to speed up the work. In order to get everything optimized I hunted around for all the facts I need to create optimal brushes off of the bat. But I had no luck in finding out about resolution constraints - specifically max resolution possible and if there is no cap, at which point does it become software breaking? The Affinity Help ends on "open file" - lol. Cheers Jens
  17. My Bad, I got that mixed up - I am a bit caught up in my work switching back and forth between products. Sorry I was back in Designer again.
  18. Ok, I am now using the brush tool in Designer - works well - I should have done that from the beginning. But in Photo I always use the pencil - I prefer the control over the brush. In Photo there is also the pencil icon... Maybe one day it will get upgraded in Photo at least. Thank you for your input. Cheers Jens
  19. I actually use the pencil tool, not the brush/vectorbrush. So I was asking about the pencil tool, which always displays a pencil icon. I would prefer a crosshair or a circle the size of the selected brush.
  20. Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to have the pencil tool display size or crosshair instead of the pencil icon. The icon often obscures in such a way that I need to estimate where I am drawing. This results in quite a few redraws or adjusting the line after the fact. I could not find any way to change the display of the tool in use - a pointer would be fine. Thanks Jens
  21. I had the same question. It turns out when changing a standard brush to be elliptical you need to adjust at least 2 settings. Change the shape to 50%, which will actually half the pixels, then set the rotation to 25% which will make it exactly horizontal. If you use a different shape, i.e. not exactly halved in height, you will need to set the rotation accordingly because the rotation is bound to the size factor. The 3rd setting is the distance - it needs to be set at the lowest setting or the brush will be dotted. It should have been easier. Cheers Jens
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