Andreas Scherer
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This request is extremely vague. 😉
With Affinity Photo 1.10.6, I can open and develop a RW2 file from my Panasonic Lumix GX7 quite well. (Although in general, I prefer to work with Rawtherapee for this.)
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For your information: Affinity Designer and Photo 1.10.6 show the same misbehaviour with the HSL colour wheel for the border colour, while Publisher 1.10.6 works fine.
So it appears to be a legacy bug.
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Mac mini M1
macOS Ventura 13.5.2
Affinity Designer and Photo 2.2.0
While dragging the mouse in either colour wheel on the guides panel, the guides and borders become invisible. After chosing a colour and releasing the left mouse button, the guides and borders reappear with the changed colour(s).
In Affinity Publisher 2.2.0, the colour change is visible while dragging the colour wheel.
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With the Huion Inspiroy H950P, you have to install the dedicated driver, but then pressure control works nicely.
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On 9/7/2023 at 3:21 PM, Andreas Scherer said:
- you make a selection of your design and note the width and height
If for whatever reason your design is rotated by 90 degrees, you have to flip the width and height values in the SVG file, or else they'll mismatch the viewbox values.
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On 9/6/2023 at 10:44 AM, Andreas Scherer said:
The exported PDF is exactly 10cm by 10cm in size.
While I intuitively prefer to use SVG files for import into Trotec JobControl, a test today showed that PDF files get messed up in that software: All text labels – exported from AD as font-independent curves – were virtually misplaced all over the graphic (and beyond).
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On 9/6/2023 at 10:44 AM, Andreas Scherer said:
Let's hope that it also works in Trotec JobControl.
It works perfectly. Just make sure that
- you make a selection of your design and note the width and height
- you export only the selection to SVG
- you change the width and height values from "100%" to their absolute values in the SVG file before you import it in Trotec JobControl
I use red (RGB 255,0,0) lines with width 0.2pt to cut, e.g., wood sheets.
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On 3/28/2023 at 8:59 PM, Mark H. said:
The best option is to edit the file in a text editor after export.
Yep, I'm glad I checked my exported SVG in Inkscape (both on Linux and on Mac) and noticed the scaling factor of about 1.4 to 1.6 (I'm using different resolutions on the same WQHD monitor). After replacing width=100% with width=100mm (and height as well), my SVG looks fine in Inkscape. Let's hope that it also works in Trotec JobControl.
Too bad that SVG export from AD is broken. The exported PDF is exactly 10cm by 10cm in size.
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1 hour ago, annamilano said:
With Affinity 2.1.1 and macOS Ventura 13.5. it's fixed!
I might or might not be willing to upgrade to macOS 13.5 just yet. In macOS 13.4.1, the Dock functionality of Affinity is still broken.
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Just checking: https://www.carreg.co.uk/carreg-news/the-secrets-on-the-italian-job-personalised-number-plates/
All three Minis seem to have had grilled headlights.
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Detailed analysis from another thread:
- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184618-document-wont-open-load/&do=findComment&comment=1074712
- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184618-document-wont-open-load/&do=findComment&comment=1074869
- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184618-document-wont-open-load/&do=findComment&comment=1075699
- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184618-document-wont-open-load/&do=findComment&comment=1077256
- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184618-document-wont-open-load/&do=findComment&comment=1078313
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In Inkscape you'd interpolate two curves:
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After converting the font characters to curves, you can create the wiggly effect (part 3) and the curving (sic!) effect (part 4) with the Node Tool. The fifth effect combining the 'L' and the 'A' can be done with the Pen Tool and the Pressure tab in the Stroke panel. Nothing really fancy about her designs.
PS: The rounded edges can be created with the Corner Tool.
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On 4/22/2023 at 10:19 PM, Andreas Scherer said:
- Affinity V1 still doesn't open projects the usual way, only with "File/Open..."
Minor correction: I still wasn't able to configure this particular Mac Mini with macOS 12.6.5 Monterey so that Affinity V1 opens project files in the "Downloads" directory either from the Dock or from the Finder by double-clicking or via "Open with...".
However, there seems to be some problem in the communication between Affinity and macOS: In the context menue of the AD icon in Dock all recently opened projects are (correctly) listed. Inside AD, only projects outside of "Downloads" (and maybe other system-specific directories) are listed in the "Recently opened..." list. Also, projects outside of "Downloads" can be opened in AD V1 by double-click.
Also AD V2.0.4 adds only those projects in the "Recently opened..." panel that reside outside of "Downloads".
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On 4/18/2023 at 11:04 AM, Andreas Scherer said:
At home I have Affinity 2.0.4 and 2.1beta installed
Uninstalling all nine apps and deleting ''~/Library/Application Support/Affinity*'' and re-installing Affinity 1.10.6 and 2.0.4 changed things only slightly:
- Affinity V1 still doesn't open projects the usual way, only with "File/Open..."
- Affinity V2 adds opened projects to the "Recent..." panel again.
Question: What else must I delete to purge Affinity completely? After the re-installation
- the "Light" theme was on, icon size was large, etc.
- all "Assets" were gone, but APub templates still existed
- V1 did not ask for License credentials (yet)
so I did not restart afresh.
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18 minutes ago, davidlower8 said:
But the last update on Mac could be the key as I updated it in the last week or so.
That's my main suspicion. Something changed "behind the curtains".
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Could this be related to my recent observations?
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On 1/1/2023 at 3:59 PM, David in Mississippi said:
One of the biggest problems in all design programs (including Affinity) is FONT OVERLOAD.
Inkscape 1.3 is testing a new approach.
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For those who like curly braces: https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/13125/for-loop-to-make-a-spiral.html
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On 4/15/2023 at 10:33 AM, Andreas Scherer said:
Maybe it's Affinity after all and not macOS.
At work on more or less identical Mac Mini M1, AD opens all projects as expected from the Dock and from the Finder. There are two major differences:
- At work, all projects are not in the Downloads directory
- At home I have Affinity 2.0.4 and 2.1beta installed
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1 hour ago, firstdefence said:
I use a complement of apps to do what I want
very slowly adding new features, such as cross reference in publisher
I use Rawtherapee for my photography needs (without DAM). And TeX simply is the non-plus-ultra for technical texts (including long-time archival format in plain text), although I would be hard pressed to suggest TeX for desktop (i.e., console) publishing. 🤓
Lumix S5ii raw files request
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Have you tried using Lightroom CC for Android, which seems to support Lumix S5 mark 2 already (untested)?