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  1. ziplock9000
    So there's still no quick and easy way to do this?
  2. ziplock9000
    I see thanks for getting to the bottom of this terrible issue.. So not only does everything have to be integers, but it has to be integers in a unit scale I'm not even using for my design! Crazy. I'm a Senior Software Engineer by trade who's worked on game engines which often use vectors internally in 2D and 3D. These fractional issues for alignment have been a solved problem for decades. The actual design render works perfectly in AD. It's just simply not good enough. I should not have to move objects around that are mathematically perfectly touching for the export to behave correctly. Converting from MM to any other unit does not change this. Thanks for finding the issue.
  3. ziplock9000
    I've boiled it down to two objects that still do this. They have integer dimensions in MM. Document is integer in mm. Line between objects.afdesign
  4. ziplock9000
    If the current ruler tool simply left a permanent curve + text on the drawing it would satisfy 99% of the needs of the people here and would be easy to do. Nothing more needs to be done. Obviously this would be a checkbox.
  5. ziplock9000
    I'm having this issue too with just about every design where there are objects placed (and snapped) next to others. It looks fine in the application when editing, but when I export (and the export window itself) I get lines between objects. V2.4.2
  6. ziplock9000
    I currently have a use for notes too (text frames are not a good solution)
  7. ziplock9000
    I have this issue with the latest AD as of Feb 2024
  8. ziplock9000
    How do I convert curves to a shape. I'm not asking how to fill the shape, but make the actual lines of the shape itself a filled object. Basically the same as this post that was archived for pre V2.0 of AD Thanks.
  9. ziplock9000
    Yes it is strange. The algorithm itself for tracing will be fairly short in C/C++ code that will almost completely be platform agnostic as it's just manipulating data and not a lot of system specific APIs. This can with very minor (if any) tweaks be used inside the codebases for Windows, iPad and MacOS versions of Affinity Designer. If for some reason the mac versions are Objective-C, the conversion to/from C will be extremely minimal. I do this all of the time, it's less than a day's work for a single developer.
  10. ziplock9000
    Ok I follow you now. Thanks Anyway to both of you. This is cleared up now. Thanks.
  11. ziplock9000
    TGA is a very common raster format and it doesn't work. It forces me to save as afphoto when I click save, even with no changes. It doesn't work with the save dialog though. It forces me to save as afphoto when I click save, even with no changes.
  12. ziplock9000
    I've just checked this with Photo 2.x (which I just upgraded to from 1.x) and it works as you've both said. I tried it with a TGA and when I hit save the only option is afphoto format? So I assume some formats do work, others don't? As a side note 99% of what I use is PNGs anyway, so this ain't an issue and essentially makes this now a very minor edge case.
  13. ziplock9000
    I use the suite mostly for game development and in that there's often times where something like a PNG needs to be opened, very quickly edited and then saved in-place over the top. The whole process can often last <10 seconds with Photoshop and basically 99% of image editing tools over the last 30+ years. With Affinity Photo, this extremely quick process is doubled in duration or more due to having to export the image rather than just being able to click save without ANY thought. Because this process is something that can happen 1000's or more times during the production of a game, this extra red-tape becomes annoying VERY quickly to the point that this simple thing can (and does) force us to use other tools. Has V2.x fixed this issue or is there a workflow change workaround? PS. Again I would like to stress this extra step DOES make a huge difference to workflow and causes issues even if to someone who's use case does not need to make these small but extremely frequent changes can't perceive it.
  14. ziplock9000
    As the title says. UPDATE: I meant right-click edit for file types other than .afxxxx like bmp, png, etc
  15. ziplock9000
    So this was never actually properly implemented after 8 years?. If you hold ALT while moving a node (which you have to to move one side independently of the other), the snapping doesn't work. It only works if you move both nodes.
  16. ziplock9000
    I'm having this exact same issue with 1.10.6.1655 I can't change the size of existing slices I can make new slices The slices are checked I can can the size and rotation of graphics even though I'm in Export Persona This has happened before, it's as if AD gets stuck in a certain mode, restarting does not always help. 3 years later and I'm guessing this will never get fixed now as V1 has will not get any further fixes. But what happened after the video was passed on back in 2020? @Sean P
  17. ziplock9000
    Can you confirm any fixes for this will never come to version 1 of the software, even though hardware acceleration was actually part of that version?
  18. ziplock9000
    I have a feeling Serif wont use another API that works just fine on AMD cards that competitors already use either. Remember, competing products work just fine. Serif have just chosen to use the API that has poor performance. Seemingly even with V2.x of the suite The issue is mostly with them not AMD who provide a valid, working API. Again, let me repeat: Competing products work fine.
  19. ziplock9000
    That's grand and certainly in the right direction, but not confirmation of the situation with such a limited set of data points. For that we'd need a bigger data set and multiple combinations of graphics cards, driver and OS versions. A couple of data point is not 'confirmation' What ever problems AMD has had, the industry has found a way to work on their products just fine with GPU acceleration with a plethora of products from video editing, streaming and of course vector and bitmap design, while affinity notably hasn't. The problem is very much in Affinity's court when those other competing products work fine.
  20. ziplock9000
    I see a theory not confirmation from minimal testing. That would come from lot more testing and comments from serif themselves. We've been fooled before. Even if it DID work, it should have worked in version 1 as it was part of the product features that were sold to us a long time ago now.
  21. ziplock9000
    What's worse is they took away some features from V1.x of Designer and blamed the reason on other companies, just for the feature to magically come back for V2 of the product. I've been signing the praises of these products to a lot of people over the years, now I wont be.
  22. ziplock9000
    So they have done the bait and switch and screwed over users of version 1 who have supported this product from the start. I thought it smelled fishy and didn't add up all of the excuses and blame they were putting on AMD Remember this is NOT a new feature, it was part of version 1. They have pulled it because they want to make it a selling point for v2. Serif, you've went from hero to zero with this terrible move.
  23. ziplock9000
    It's more than just a nice to have really. Graphics apps have had this basic functionality for over 3 decades.
  24. ziplock9000
    Exactly, we shouldn't have to duplicate, then go into a special point mode, then have to move the mouse back and forth 10 times to make sure it's -100% scale, then flip it. That's even when it does work, because as others have said it often does not.
  25. ziplock9000
    That's what I have, 5700XT Red Devil and I've had no issue with the many games I've played over the last ~2 year or with any GPU accelerated applications (of which I use a lot as a game developer). Affinity Designer is the ONLY software that has issues for me unfortunately.
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