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skmwrp

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  1. Seeing this thread started in 2019, and nothings changed, I'm sorry to say you are looking far forward into the future.
  2. Thanks. We tried to get this to work, but nothing's changed. Then it stuck us. We don't get the ability to see full-scale previews on the iPad (which is what we used for some time). (Of course, you can pinch to zoom on an iPad.) Still, wish they would add the ability to rip off a tab into a separate window in non-Seperate Mode. Life would then be wonderful!
  3. As far as we can tell, you can put them on two different monitors only when you're in Separated windowing mode. Otherwise, the new View just becomes another tab that you can't rip away. Unless we're doing something wrong. (Which would be wonderful if that's the case and we are, in fact, wrong.)
  4. Actually, just answered our own question concerning two copies, since we also have AP on the same machine and thus can open the same file. There appears to be no way to refresh the AP version, so it doesn't update. We did find that we can "open" the files using macOS's Quick View, which does update when we save the file. Only problem there is that the preview of Affinity files are so small. Does anyone know of a way to change the size of the Quick View? If we resize the window, the image just shrinks back when it updates. Thanks again.
  5. It comes down to much preferring non-separated windowing while using AD on the Mac (because the separated toolbars are hinkey as heck, causing issues). But what we also want to see a full view of our document on another display while working on a zoomed-in version on our pen displays, because the Navigator's resolution is just too lousy for our work. Tried making a copy of the AD app and opening it with the original running, so we could open the same document, but it said we had two copies running, so, "No." Would be wonderful to have the ability to separate off a view from the tabs when in non-separated mode (like just rip it off as you can Safari); or a Navigator with better resolution. Is there away way to get this to work now, though? Thanks.
  6. Thanks, but as far as I can tell, doing New View in non-Separated Mode just puts it into another, non-separable tab. The Navigator panel was a great idea. Only now I understand why there's the other thread about the Navigator view being so low-res with that shading box.
  7. I have two monitors, one being a pen display, which is somewhat small. I'd like to be able to put the file I'm working on on the pen display, zoomed in to work, while I have a second view showing the full file on the bigger display. Is there a way to do this without using Separated Mode, which puts my tools in odd places that float over the file? Thanks.
  8. Searched and can't find answer… Is there a way to turn off the pencil icon when using the Pencil Tool in AD Mac, Design Mode? Instead using crosshairs or circle? I think it's the cause of a perceived parallax issue with my pen display. (Well, I'd like to check anyway.) The Brush Tool just shows a circle for the size. Thanks.
  9. Yes. The point being, it's been over a year and eight months since it was logged. We're fortunate that we work almost exclusively in vector. Never understood why Pixel Brush is made the primary brush. Personally, we've yet to meet anyone who uses it other than getting through it to get to the paint brush. Maybe we live sheltered lives.
  10. Well, that doesn't seem to mean much. We cleared the Pixel Brush shortcut and it still gets selected when we hit B. So we changed it to L, which made the B go to the real brush, but as stated above, as soon as we quit out and restart Designer, the Pixel Brush shortcut is reset in the preferences and B now sends us to the Pixel Brush again. Worse, we have the Use SHIFT Key to Cycle Through Tools turned on to keep from having to check if we've jumped to some other tool when we press the shortcut, so B will put us on the Pixel Brush and then not let us get to the REAL brush. So, no plans to fix this? Ever?
  11. More steps than what we should have to do. Why can't AD send the native AD file from the Share menu item in the app itself, and why should we have to save it to the iPad and then go to the Files app to share it back? When are Serif going to fix this? It's 2021, ferchristsake!
  12. But I want it to hide. I want all of the UI to hide when I'm not using it. Which it didn't. But when I don't want it to hide, like just after creating a new layer, it does. But it does seem to be fixed in AD 1.10. Too bad there's still no key command to Hide/Unhide the UI, rather than make me hit that little target. Or to Deselect. Or Delete. Or Undo. Or Redo.
  13. Designer for iPad 1.10.5. Easily repeatable. Go to the Color panel, set the background fill to one color and the stroke to a different color. Bring the stroke color to front. Select the Vector Brush and set the stroke color by using the controller. It will update the color for the stroke in the Color panel. Paint: Fine. Go to Color panel and select (bring to front) the background color. Go back to Brush. Color in Brush controller still displays the color set for stroke in the Color panel. Paint: Uses the color in front in the Color panel (the color seen at the top right), not the color selected in the Brush controller, which still shows the original color. How it should work: Vector Brush should use color selected in the controller, regardless of what's set in the color panel when the fill color is in front. Or else update the controller's color.
  14. You're asking for more than what they should be working on now. If MS Word did all the things you mention, it'd be amazing, but Microsoft doesn't need to be working on that now. Serif — which makes a great product in my opinion — just need to fix the things that are broke, then add new features for the 2.0 release. If they make us pay for fixing the broken shortcut keys on the iPad, we'd be pissed.
  15. Ha! I remember Quirk being something like $1,000 back in the 90s. And my spouse used it as their standard word processor. (I wasn't paying for it.)
  16. Personally, I don't think that's true. Not these days. But it depends on what you do. I ink comics, which is much easier on an iPad because of the simple ability to rotate with your fingers. And I use vector, not raster.
  17. Personally, as a professional, I wish they would fix the more fundamental issues of concerning productivity, like finally making the Deselect keyboard short work on the iPad as well as actually having shortcuts for Delete, Hide/Show UI, Undo/Redo. Stopping to fix an errant changes in a line because you didn't know it was selected, or hitting those tiny little targets, just brings the creative workflow to a halt. This is the stuff that annoys us every time and makes us wonder if there's anything better. New functionality should be held off (which, to their credit, they did this last release) until the stuff that should be working is actually working. They keep promising, though.
  18. Doing vector inking and when we're zoomed in, there's something of a delay to the stroke being drawn where it flashes in a pixelated outline, then it draws. Using iPad Air 4 with iOS 14.7.1. Will post video as soon as we can
  19. It'd be no different than Save & Duplicate currently on the iPad. They have them set as Cmd-S/Cmd-J, but we mapped it to + and 7 on our keypad and they work. Only Deselect is having a problem. It doesn't work with any key combination.
  20. Thanks, we already have them showing but, personally, I don't actually use them. Maybe I should try, because my two-finger-taps have been driving me crazy lately. Still would prefer to rest my thumb on an Undo key, though. We use small numpads and remap the AD commands to that, and I have more than six buttons waiting patiently to be useful.
  21. Thanks, we already use what we can. It's the missing & broken stuff that's slowing us down: Undo (two-finger-tap response seems to be iffy), Redo (three-finger-tap is hard when you're holding an Apple Pencil and wearing an artist glove while the other hand is resting on a keyboard), Deselect (don't know how many times we've changed something that was selected somewhere on the zoomed-in screen), Brush Resize, Close Window, Hide UI (because it keeps reappearing when you pop open a studio to select something and then stays when you close the studio, and hitting that little target in the top right is a pain).
  22. Thanks, but this is a no-rush sort of thing with us. We were just wondering if there was something we were missing, like a Refresh menu item. Keyboard shortcuts on AD iPad is what we have on our hopin'n'prayin' list. That would massively increase our productivity.
  23. Hello, Here's the scenario: Have an AD file on iCloud Drive opened on Mac. Go to work on it on iPad and save the changes back to iCloud. Right now, to get the file open on the Mac to show these changes, we close it and then open it again. Is there an easier, quicker, shortcut way to accomplish this? Because we do this like a hundred times a day. (Well, okay, dozens.) Thanks.
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