Andreas Scherer
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It might also be useful that apps check for external changes and either pop up an indication ad hoc or warn when trying to save the file and suggest to save over or separate.
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4 minutes ago, loukash said:
There are benefits in having deeply nested groups, be it just for various workarounds like "safely locking" objects, or working around some current and yet-to-be-fixed adjustment or live filter layer bugs.
Or multiple FX like Outline. (Be careful not to un-group, though.)
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4 hours ago, AmyR said:
easy to identify punch hole markings
Use a dotted curve as usual (Affinity V2 is better with its distribution settings; my example comes from V1). Then expand the curve (Layer menu) and swap the fill and outline colors of the "bullets" to make "holes". If need be, the single "curves" layer can be separated into individual elements.
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17 hours ago, fde101 said:
You should be able to bulk convert them using the free ImageMagick utility.
CMIIW, not necessarily with all versions/installations. Here on macOS 13.6.3, imagemagick: stable 7.1.1-25 (bottled) (installed from Homebrew) does not magick identify -list format neither (A)IFF nor ILBM.
Also ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 on Kubuntu 22.04 does not show these for convert display -list format.
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4 hours ago, anto said:
reporting bugs and suggesting for improvements is one thing
I/we have started using Affinity in 2020, and since then I reported several issues in the “stable” versions of the suite and in some “betas”. I must say that I have experienced a quite satisfying rate of “successes” with my bug reports in the past three years. The output by Serif does feel a bit weird at times, but they are a small shop after all.
Just my two cents.
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From a quick glance after the upgrade to version 2.3, I can confirm that this issue is fixed. Thanks!
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4 hours ago, David Simmer said:
Because of not being able to see what I am doing on the higher resolution display, I need to use the lower resolution settings.
My eyesight has also degraded, so I use my WQHD-Monitor at FullHD only, but otherwise I activate the Screen Magnifier of MacOS, i.e., Ctrl+MouseWheel. This helps quite well.
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2 hours ago, fromatoz said:
nesting doesn't change the shape.
In case that you want a changed shape, you can use the boolean operator "overlap".
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1 hour ago, deepblue said:
I'm looking for the circle with the Greek pattern as a vector file.
Can you also create this with Affinity Designer?Sure, just not with a brush. As a geometric object, it can be created usong the Pen Tool.
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Create your own brush and use it as outline of a circle. Here's a video tutorial:
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40 minutes ago, Andreas Scherer said:
I can confirm these by practical example.
I used the non-commercial package of the Brill font directly from Brill.com and the Monterchi font for personal/non-commercial use from DaFont.com. (The latter installs as Monterchi Trial.)
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22 hours ago, tariq said:
- "joining up letters"
- putting letters inside another - eg the Monterchi font which can place the second letter inside the first capital
- full support to letter decorations (accents) for multi-language (Latin script) support - eg Brill Latin
I can confirm these by practical example. The Glyph Browser in APub is your friend.
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Mac Mini M1 2020 with MacOS Ventura 13.6.1
Affinity 1.10.8
Maybe it is just me, so bear with me. While scrolling in the Document View with the up/down gesture on a Magic Mouse works just as with a third-party mouse with physical scroll wheel, the same is not the case with numeric fields, e.g., in the Transformation panel. With a physical scroll wheel I can hover over such fields and increase/decrease the value by rolling the wheel. With a Magic Mouse, the scrolling gesture does not change the values. Is this normal or a user error?
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45 minutes ago, itgeek8088 said:
Where is the CSS styling and how do I access it? I would like to learn more.
SVG is a form of XML, so the file content is in "plain text", accessible with your favorite text editor (i.e. Vim).
CSS styling is defined in the
<style>...</style>
group at the start of the SVG file, just as @Palatino shows above. The problem in this particular SVG file is to detect the final styling of the various tags, due to the cascading (that's the 'C' in 'CSS'), i.e. overriding, definitions. The last value for stroke-width for a particular tag takes effect. (In the original SVG file, the stroke-width for, e.g., .st7 is overwritten several times.)
Most of what I learned about HTML, CSS, ..., XML, SVG came from the SelfHTML site (in German). However, there are tons of other sources for self-study.
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29 minutes ago, Palatino said:
(if it is an error at all).
It is. Affinity acknowledges only limited CSS styling in SVG.
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On 9/13/2021 at 1:02 PM, Sean P said:
We don't currently support CSS styling within an SVG
That seems to be not quite correct. At least in this situation, CSS styling works. AD just doesn't grok more tricky CSS that other apps (and W3C) accept.
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2 hours ago, Palatino said:
The svg file is corrupt
I think the W3C server was temporarily too busy to service your request.
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Obviously, AD (1.10.8 on MacOS Ventura 13.6.1 here) doesn't grok this styling:
.st3,.st4,.st5,.st6,.st7{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:.09449;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10}
i.e., the comma-separated list of common style tags. If you fully expand the CSS instructions to
.st3{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:.09449;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10} .st4{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:.23622;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10} .st5{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:.28346;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10} .st6{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:.33071;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10} .st7{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:.37795;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10}then the map looks great in full detail.
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For more than just a few code snippets, I'd suggest some form of Literate Programming (obviously not in APub). Here's an extended collection of C and Pascal programs. 🙂
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On 10/24/2023 at 5:05 PM, NathanC said:
any page >1 does not recognise the expression.
It's the same with APub 1.10.6. And variables are ignored in AD (also 1.10.6) as soon as one uses Artboards.
PS: This is on MacOS 13.6.1 Ventura, btw.
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27 minutes ago, v_kyr said:
For the distributed systems project stuff I usually tend/have to deal with
I totally understand that this can easily require more than 8GB RAM/250GB storage.
What I don't understand is why you are blaming APub to break the wall, when it – at least from the info above – requires only a fraction of your other main app?
23 hours ago, Chris Sutton said:I edit and publish books for local and upcoming authors - budget is a concern.
I stick with my observation that the OP with the task at hand will most likely not require more than a base configuration on any current Mx-Mac.
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1 hour ago, v_kyr said:
an Affinity app, together with an Jetbrains dev IDE
Nice comparison: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/prerequisites.html vs https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Appendix/system_requirements.html?title=System requirements 🙃
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