[Designer v1 vs 2: Assets are missing?]

You can export the iOS 12 assets from V1 and import them in V2.

[Can I run V1 and V2 software side by side?]

Affinity V2 is/are separate from V1 and can be used side-by-side.

[Affinity V2.0]

45 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Those who want to throw more money at us

What about the purchase code we received for the recent survey? How long will it be valid? No merch (T's, workbooks) to buy at this time! 😉

[Typos in the Affinity Publisher Workbook, edition 1.0, German translation]

Page 303: “EINFÜHRUNG” has a double-G.

[Copy/Paste error in Designer Workbook (German)]

On page 362, two entries in the table have excess text:

• BegrenzungenFarben & Verläufe
• HilfslinienSymbole

that should be deleted.

[Arranging layers]

Place a picture frame on the master page and a text frame with the page number on top. Then you can populate the picture frame on each page with individual images.

[APub Checklist: Missing glyph (⌘) in Font]

On 8/26/2022 at 7:23 PM, LibreTraining said:

It is also in the System Font, and the glyph is larger so it may fit better.

This seems to be ambiguous. Google claims that SF Pro is the system font for macOS, but my Mini doesn't have this. Then Google claims that Big Sur has Helvetica Neue as system font, but this doesn't have the symbol; the error reappears. I'll stick with Apple Symbols.

Edit: Lucida Grande also works fine (even at identical font size).

[APub Checklist: Missing glyph (⌘) in Font]

On 8/26/2022 at 5:59 PM, Old Bruce said:

you could make a Paragraph Style

That would be overkill for the small text at hand. Instead, I simply select the five symbols and change the font.

[APub Checklist: Missing glyph (⌘) in Font]

Thanks, I use Apple Symbol with a slightly larger size (30pt vs 24pt) to match the text font.

[APub Checklist: Missing glyph (⌘) in Font]

Inserting the ⌘ symbol from the Emoji&Symbols menue doesn't play well with the APub checklist. Each occurrence of ⌘ is marked in red.

How do I get rid of this error message in preflight?

[Text on path issue]

On 2/28/2020 at 1:08 PM, walt.farrell said:

Using the Text Frame panel you can set the frame's fill and stroke separately from the text's fill and stroke.

The APub manual for text on a path should mention this extended functionality more prominently. There is a short sentence in paragraph ”To create path text“ (without a link to the Text Frame panel), but the AD/APh text about the discarded original object (which it is not in APub) comes much earlier in this page.

[How can I make the inside of an ellipse transparent while keeping the text around it black?]

It appears that AD and APh automatically make the form transparent when you add text on the path. However, APub retains the fill colour of the form.

So, in order to achieve the desired effect in APub, you could start with an ellipse (form tool in the left column; click on the little triangle to choose from predefined forms). Create it with the mouse to your liking (you can change its size later). Choose “no filling” for its body colour.

Now switch to the art text tool and click on the ellipse (slightly outside or inside; cursor shows ”T with wave”). In the tool bar set your choice of text colour. Then type your text.

See also this discussion

I do agree that APub's behaviour should match AD and APh in this respect.

[Spread in IDML template contains two pages, but is recognized by AP as one page only]

Saal Digital seems to request spreads: »Es ist wichtig, dass wir im PDF jede Doppelseite als eine Seite erhalten.«

Blurb requires individual pages: »Wählen Sie für Ihre Seiten die Option Bereich: Alle Seiten.«

[Wie speichert ihr eure Daten von der RAW angefangen?]

Um deine allgemeine Frage aus dem Thread-Titel zu beantworten:

• Jede meiner Kameras bekommt eigene SD-Karten, die ich – auch wenn sie voll sind – nicht wiederverwende, sondern in Kartenboxen archiviere
• Mit den Sony-Kameras habe ich für jedes »Thema« einen eigenen Ordner auf der Memorycard angelegt; mit den Lumix-Kameras mache ich täglich einen »Number Reset« (erst neuere Lumix-Kameras haben eine etwas komfortablere Speicherverwaltung, wo man zwischen den Ordnern wechseln kann)
• Mit dem Programm »unison« übertrage ich die (neuen) Daten von der Speicherkarte auf den Linux-Laptop, wo für jede Kamera und jede Speicherkarte eigene Unterordner angelegt sind
• Als »Einstiegspunkt« pflege ich eine HTML-Seite, wo Kamera, Karte, Datum und Themen der Unterordner beschrieben sind
• Das Bildarchiv des Laptops wird auf mindestens zwei externen SSD-Platten gesichert
• JPEG-Bilder von den Sony-Kameras bearbeite ich in Gimp, selten in APh
• RAW-Bilder von den Lumix-Kameras bearbeite ich in Rawtherapee; die exportierten JPEG-Bilder und die Sidecar-Dateien landen vom Laptop auf den externen SSD-Platten, nicht jedoch auf den SD-Karten in den Kameras
• Projekte in AD und APub, die Bildmaterial aus dem Gesamtarchiv benötigen, erhalten einen »Material«-Unterordner mit Kopien; »Nachbelichtungen« – also neue/veränderte Sidecar-Dateien und exportierte JPEG-Dateien – werden im Gesamtarchiv einsortiert

Soviel zum Thema »umständlich«. 🙄🤔

[Need dmg!]

2 hours ago, Glady77 said:

Hey! How can I download installation that I bought from App Store.

https://support.omnigroup.com/reinstall-mas-purchase/

[Deleted Artboard does not reduce file size]

Sorry for the delay, I was afk.

@GarryP: The AD document does not contain snapshots nor do I save the history with it. Unfortunately, I can neither share the original AD document nor the bitmap file (which is, in fact, a jpeg file, not png).

However, I can almost reproduce the effect with the simplified outline file circles.afdesign (518 KB) and the jpeg file wall.jpg (487 KB). When I place wall.jpg on each of the circles as a bitmap filling, the AD file becomes more than 50 MB in size. Undoing the overlays (cmd+z) restores the original file size (half a MB). Deleting the overlayed objects and recreating the non-overlayed circles and saving as a new file results in a file size of 5.1 MB.

@Callum: Copy/pasting the 7 artboards into a new file results in an almost restored file size of 988 KB, so it seems to be purged of the overlay information. Thanks for the hint.

 

circles.afdesign

[Deleted Artboard does not reduce file size]

In my case this does not work. File size with Artboard 8: “41 MB”. Delete Artboard 8 and “Save As” gives file size “39.4 MB”.

[Deleted Artboard does not reduce file size]

I am working on a single AD project with currently 7 artboards with sketches of forms and curves (linked as symbols). Its file size is reported in macOS Finder as “939 KB”.

Now I am adding an 8th artboard with a similar sketch and use a 1200px x 1200px png image to add as “bitmap” fill of the individual curves (about a dozen objects). This increases the file size to “40.9 MB”.

Even after deleting the 8th artboard and saving the file (and closing AD) the file size stays at the humungus value.

Is there a way – other than pulling from backup – to purge the AD file of the intermediate stuff completely?

[Backup/version control]

Side note: For the time being, it seems I'm one Affinity user who hasn't encountered file corruption with any of the three apps (versions 1.8.4 to 1.10.5) on any of the Mac Minis in use. Fingers crossed! 🤓

For quite some time I've been using single Affinity Designer project files with multiple artboards, but I've tried the “history” feature just today. Obviously, its interface is far from being comparable to a “version control system” (maybe the “snapshot panel” can be of help). Provided that the internal document structure is in one form or another “text-based” (XML?), it would be a nice (but major) extension to have a genuine “VCS panel“ with tagging and branching etc.

[Backup/version control]

On 6/3/2022 at 1:43 PM, Paul Mc said:

Is anyone out there successfully using version control with Affinity products? Is there any other strategy to consider other than using a well defined folder/file naming scheme?

Have you tried to save your work history – with branches – within your document(s)?

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Panels/historyPanel.html?title=History panel

This allows to keep a lot of the changes "active" without bloating disk usage.

As @walt.farrell points out, placing large binary blobs into a VCS like Git does work, but takes up a lot of disk space. From a "hacker's" point-of-view, I'd try to keep the major work history within the project document and only place significant milestones, e.g., a customer delivery, under external version control (most likely with Git), where you can mark them with tags.

[Katze]

Die Katze aus den Vektorformen ist eine Vektorform. Leider sieht sie bei mir nicht so verspielt wie im Handbuch aus:

[Opinions on Mac M1 for graphic artists …?]

17 hours ago, Cooner said:

I was hoping to hear from any folks who are using an M1-based Mac

See, e.g., my recent post in a parallel thread.

[How do you create a open path ?]

11 minutes ago, JamieT said:

it’s not in the Affinity help when you search for “break”.

The search item “Open Path” leads to “About lines, curves and shapes” and that to the “Node tool” with ample information. 😉

[Apple Hardware Purchasing Advice]

On 3/17/2022 at 7:34 PM, Mark Oehlschlager said:

Assume pushing the Affinity Suite apps as hard as possible.

Have you at any time exceeded the capacities of your 2012 iMac? Are you planning to do so in the foreseeable future?

In mid-2020 I started with the full Affinity 1.8.4 suite on a late-2014 Mac Mini with 8GB RAM and 256 GB HDD running macOS Catalina, which I bought used for 301€.

After all the hype around the M1 processor, I replaced this machine last year with the smallest (!) M1 Mac Mini — 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, macOS Big Sur —, which cost less than 600€ (and sold the old Mac Mini for 150€). The Mac Mini shares an Asus PB258Q monitor (245€ pre-owned), a Perixx keyboard and a CSL vertical mouse — both USB wired —, and a Wacom Intuos Pro S tablet with an Acer Travelmate X349 laptop running K/Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS with 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD (absolutely no issues running Gimp, Inkscape, Rawtherapee, w.h.y.).

The M1 Mac Mini is much faster than the 2014 Mac Mini: instead of dozens of seconds, cold start to login takes less than 20 seconds, the Affinity apps start in 3–5 seconds (without loading a project file), everything works absolutely smoothly. Compared to the 2017 Linux laptop I notice about double performance when compiling a non-trivial multipart C/TeX project (and compared to the 2014 Mac Mini the same terminal script runs three times faster on the M1 machine).

[Toggle tools with keyboard shortcuts – bug or feature?]

At first glance, there's a significant difference between Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo: In Designer, the Pen tool (P) and the Node tool (A) have two different shortcut keys, while in Photo both are mapped to (P) by default. (Affinity Publisher seems to side with Designer in this respect.)

Playing with the shortcut keys I find an interesting “feature” when I try to toggle between tools by pressing the same key(s) repeatedly:

All three Affinity programs seem to “remember” the origin tool and jump back to it with the shortcut key of the target tool. For example, you can  toggle from the Move tool to the Pen tool with (P) and back with a second (P). Likewise, you can toggle from the Pen tool to the Move tool with (V) and also back with (V).

In Affinity Designer and Publisher this is also true for the pairs Move—Node and Pen—Node when pressing the (A) shortcut key repeatedly.

Of course, if you toggle into a group of related tools, you won't jump back to the origin tool. For example, in Affinity Photo, shortcut key (P) jumps from the Move to either the Pen or the Node tool, but not back to the Move tool.

 I couldn't find a description of this feature in the online help, so my question is: Is this behaviour of the Affinity programs intended?