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uburoibob

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  1. Then I reckon we'll have to agree to disagree. To me, a workaround is something that happens until a workaround is no longer needed. We could go down this road parsing every word in the English language. Personally, I'd rather spend my time lobbying for the workaround to be no longer needed.
  2. I guess it comes down to our definitions of “workaround” . I go with this - all three imply that a workaround is necessary when there is a problem, not as a long term solution: workaround wûrk′ə-round″ noun A method or process of dealing with a problem. A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of laws, regulations, or constraints. A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows the user to continue working until a better solution can be provided; a kluge. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
  3. In general, when I encounter something that needs a workaround, I look for a way to fix it so that one doesn't need to work around it. Isn't that how we evolve? Of course I will use workarounds as I retire from the Adobe community (no longer making money with it, as I am retired, but still do pro-bono work). Anyway, the term "workaround" implies there's an issue that should be corrected. Hopefully Serif will take notice and come up with a way to make it something that doesn't need to be worked around.
  4. Yep. The “it’s always been this way and we’ve learned to deal with it so you should too” argument isn’t a particularly great one, nor one that helps in any way.
  5. I should have? Guess I am not THAT experienced here. I felt I gave as much info as needed in the feature request. But I was legitimately thanking you for including the link to the thread as it's good to see the others who would appreciate this feature, as well as the three people who didn't quite get why we'd need it. Hopefully they will be able to incorporate this fix at some point in the near future.
  6. A user-definable size. When you are used to the industry-standards (Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator) you are used to working in a much smaller pasteboard, so you aren't always ending up in no-man's land. I can see how some users might like the huge field. But most users I've spoken with in the industry find it off-putting and would prefer to work in a space they have more control over. So, I am asking simply if they can possibly make the size of the background/pasteboard user-definable.
  7. Thank you for posting that thread. It killed the horse, reincarnated the horse, killed it again, and then beat it ad nauseam. Bottom line - let the USER decide how much pasteboard they need. That way, ALL existing users aren't impacted. And all new users get a more familiar, less awkward working environment, depending upon where they are coming from.
  8. Thank you. Yes, it CAN be useful. And it can be cumbersome. Depends on the job. That's why a user-adjustable option would be ideal.
  9. Try working in Photoshop on a Mac with an Apple mouse and you can answer your own irrelevant questions. More to the point, YOU understanding isn’t my primary concern, as it seems there’s difficulty in making that happen. And to your point, if I remove my hand from my input device, WTF good is using the program at all? SO, I suggest this. Don’t worry about this. The fix won’t affect you in the least. So, just go about your happy life and I’ll do what I can to try and fix issues you seemingly can’t understand. Deal?
  10. Thanks. Essentially, without the CLIP CANVAS command, you can do the same thing in Photoshop, or quickly resize the canvas and doc, but without the giant pasteboard area. The background can be zoomed out as far as you like to see the image frame, but when zoomed in, you don't have that giant surround to have to deal with. Honestly, a user-definable background would be the perfect solution. In the meantime, I will collect the various remedies (workarounds) that users have offered. Hopefully one day we won't need to work around...
  11. Also, in Affinity Photo, there seems to be no use for that gigantic background. You can't use it to store stuff, because anything that's off the doc disappears at the edge of the doc. Or am I missing something here? Both zoomed out and CMD-0 (which, by the way, does the same thing Photoshop does without the gigantic sea of nothing).
  12. Thank you. I agree - it’s not the mouse or how people are scrolling. It’s the gigantic pasteboard.
  13. No. The Apple Mouse works perfectly for everything else I use. Only one other app had the issue of being too sensitive for Apple’s mouse, about five years ago, and that was Helix Edit - a program for controlling Line6’s Helix guitar processor. Fortunately, they fixed it right away. Hope Affinity fixes this issue soon by allowing users to choose the size of the pasteboard so they can work as they like, rather than as you like. Then we can all be happy.
  14. And again I ask, for the umpteenth time, what is wrong with allowing each user to set the pasteboard/background size so they can work as they like instead of as you like?
  15. Possibly. But…Seems to me letting the user decide the size of their work area is the most elegant, intuitive, and useful solution. Why wouldn’t it be?
  16. All I am asking for is a mechanism for adjusting the size of the background/pasteboard, so it can be made less vast for users that have no use for it. I appreciate you taking the time to explain why you need it. In the other programs referenced, one can do the same thing - it simply goes off screen. You can pull it back down, resize etc. For those of us used to it, it’s far more efficient, and I can see that for those used to having an island in a large pasteboard, because you are used to it, you find it useful. I am suggesting Affinity offering a way to adjust that giant area to reduce or enlarge it.
  17. No, it's not about zooming and scrolling. But thanks for telling me that's what you think I think...
  18. Thanks for the workaround. Personally, I don't need that kind of space (as I, myself, am advocating adjustability so I might reduce the offered space). Perhaps, if they provide a mechanism for adjusting the pasteboard size one day, the need to increase the bleed to work, and then reset it before kicking out final PDFs would be eliminated. My initial point was - why so much space before the first page but not the same amount between pages? I posit that for ME, that huge space at the top is a throughput hinderance, and I'd like a way to reduce it (and others might want to increase it). Flexibility in the user interface is the only point I am trying to make in the least threatening way possible. Some of these folks are a tough audience.
  19. I believe, if you check back, you referenced "most of us" first, and several times. I was just using your technique. Sorry if it bothers you. Again, I ask you, what would be the problem with increased flexibility to accommodate the widest range of users?
  20. Again, I’ve explained why I don’t like having to do extra keystrokes and other cumbersome things to work around it. For catalog work, where we are producing hundreds of pages per month, it’s simply an imposition that makes the workflow more difficult. And again I ask - what difference is it to you if there’s a way to adjust it to make the majority of potential users happy? YOU can always have it just the way it is. OR, dare I say it, might find your workflow throughput is made more efficient without that gulf at the top. And another thing reiterated but not answered - if there’s at the top of the first page for whatever reason, then why is the spacing between the pages so tight? No room on top of page 2 or any subsequent page for anything for the pasteboard. In general, I think we both want to make sure our point is understood. Mine is for more flexibility. I am still not sure I understand yours.
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