iconoclast
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Hi Mephphi73!
You can selcect it by clicking on the layer of the text. And you can lock a selected layer with the lock-icon on the upper right side of the layer panel.
Edit: But I'm not sure if this is what you wanted to know. Seems that you want to hide text in a document, right? I don't think that this will work.
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Have you ever used another vector graphics software? They all work almost similar. You can draw lines and figures by setting key points with the pen tool first. These points will be connected automatically with a pathline. This is not a line that gives image informations to your image. It's just a sort of scaffold for your drawing. To give it image informations, you have to give it a stroke with a width and a colour. And you can manipulate the form of the path by dragging handles outoff the key points (Beziér Curves). To do that, hold the Shift key to drag a double handle or the Alt key for a single handle. Without holding a key you can move the points. To fill a form with colour, you should close it by clicking the last point on the first one or by using the second of the Action buttons in the tool settings bar.
You can even use the predefined forms (rectangle, ellipse...) to draw, because you can even form them like other pathes. You just have to rightclick on them and click on "Convert to Curves", so it will have key points that can be manipulated. And you can combine forms by overlapping them, selecting both or even three or four and using one of the Buttons Add, Subtract, Intersect... in the tool settings bar.
Vector graphics are not like raster graphics. Raster graphics are based on pixels. They are Rasters of, for example, 3000x4000 pixels. Each pixel has just one colour. It's a kind of mosaic. In vector graphics the image datas are based on vectors. That are things like points in a coordinate system, angles, curvatures, gradients from a certain starting point to a certain end point and so on. Vector Graphics are also displayed in pixels on your monitor, but they don't consist of pixels. Because of this they can be scaled without any loss of quality.
But, by the way, you're right, to create vector graphics is a little less intuitive. You have to understand the principle first. Then it will work easily.
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3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Mmmmm....
Never had the option to have more than one, but in English the singular already has an extra 's' in the mouse (chocolate mousse) so maybe that is taken care of?
Yes, but remember: every consonant has its calories (or joules? Damn, if this crazy little austrian would have been more successful, everyone would talk german today, and it would be much easier for me, kidding around with you - if we would have survived!).
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Hi thatGuy!
Verry good hint! I asked for that feature some weaks ago and didn't get an answer like this. Maybe a new feature in Photo 1.9? Anyway, it's cool! Thanx for your reply!
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Hi!
I think you want to rotate only the canvas-preview, not the image itself, like in Photoshop with the Rotate-Tool or in GIMP witH Shift+middle mouse-key and dragging with the mouse, right? In Affinity Photo, you can do this only with the according functions in the View-Menu, and only in 15°-steps. But you can create shortkeys for it. I choosed < (for "rotate left") and > (for "rotate right") for that. And to reset the rotation I use Strg+Shift+<. That is not as quick and free as in GIMP, but it is better than to change the tool and break your workflow, like in Photoshop, I think. It works pretty good. You can do it with just the left hand.
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Hi Walt!
Yes, that could be a good workaround to handle that problem. But not the best. I think publisher should have such a feature. I don't understand why it should only offer alignment for english quotation marks. In fact there are several signs and letters one may want to align in a more ästhetic or individual way, everytime he needs it. And it would not be verry convenient to create templates for each case.
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Hi everyone!
According to a question for support, I made in this forum some days ago (without any reply), I have a suggestion for future versions of Publisher. Because I'am german, I set the standard quotation marks to be replaced by the german ones. But it seems that the optical alignment is only preset to the english quotation marks and will not effect on the german ones. This only can be solved indiviually for each new document, as far as I can see. It is not possible to add the german quotation marks and other signs to the optical alignment list permanently. I think, that opportunity should be implemented for the future, because it always causes some work to do this settings for every project you work on again.
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Hi!
Today I had a problem with the optical alignment of german quotation marks in a certain document. After a lot of fiddling around, it finally worked. But if I try to do the same in other documents, it seems like I will always have to do the whole workaround again. Is it possible to add letters and signs to the optical alignment permanently? Quotation marks, for example, are a thing I use verry often. And of course I always use the german ones, because I work with german text the most times. So it would be verry helpfull if I could configure this permanently. If there isn't an option for this, it would be a suggestion for the future, I think.
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Hi Rickray!
Looks good, but I miss Bernie's shadow. And I'm afraid, it will not really work to place one there, because he is lighted form a different direction than the wall he is sitting on. That's a general problem for creating collages. You always need photos that fit to each other in lighting and perspective. Sorry, you released Bernie verry well and clean from his source photo - good work - but the lighting is a problem.
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I found out something new about the problem. It has to do with the accuracy I placed the circles I subtracted. If the center points of this circles are placed exactly on the corners, there will be no problems with the Corner Tool. If the center points are placed just a little bit inside the rectangle, there will be one or two additional nodes after subtraction, that result from the circles, that are based each on four nodes. These nodes impede the Corner Tool. Seems that it is logical behaviour and not a bug.
Hope you understand what I mean. My english is verry bad. If not, just ask.
Edit: To make the nodes usable for the Corner Tool, it can be helpfull to rotate the circles a bit before subraction.
I attached four images that illustrate what I mean. On the second one, you can see the additional nodes, taht result from the circle. On the fourth one I rotated the circle, so that the nodes don't disturb.
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Thanks for that, MEB!
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Hi MEB!
I already deleted the file, but I created a new one. This one surprisingly only has three corners that can be manipulated with the Corner Tool - three of eight! I attached the file with its history, so that you can follow the steps I made. Hope that helps anyway.
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Hi!
As you can see in the attached images, I created a rectangle and wanted to make some sort of label form outoff it. So I created four circles, placed it on the corners of the rectangle and subtracted it. Ater that, I used the Corner Tool to round the corners. But this last step only worked for some corners. Not for all. It seems that some of the corners had become converted to curve points, while others didn't. So these edges could only be formed by using the Node Tool.
I tested it in different ways. At first I subtracted every circle, one after the other. Then I added the circles together before I subtracted it and at last I added two at a time and subtracted every pair after each other. As result I got different numbers of edges that were converted to curve points on different places. But it didn't word well in any of this cases.
In the first attached sample the lower left corners don't work. The selected one is somehow blocked, the other one is a curve point. In the other sample three corners are curve points, as you can see.
Windows 10, Designer 1.8.5.703
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I miss rotable guidelines too. It would be helpful in many cases. Especially for perspective drawing with 3 vanishing points. But also for many other things. In for example Inkscape you have the opportunity to rotate guidelines freely. It makes many things much easier. Of course you can use pathes as a sort of guidelines, but that causes more work and makes your layerstack much more confusing.
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Hi Sean, thanx for your reply!
Yes, it should be fixed, I think. But for the meantime I found two ways to manage the problem. The first is to create a style from the gradient and to reapply it to the shape if it got lost after subtraction.
The second one is to create the shape, duplicate it, drag it onto the other (to the right of the preview-image), move it, and then create the shape you want to subtract and subtract it form the first shape. This is a little more complicated, but it works.
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Hi!
I'm actually trying to create own brushes in Designer. That works easy and fine so far, but how can I make a custom brush to be able to adapt the colour from the colour picker as other brushes do? I know, different programs do it in a different way. In ArtRage for example, you have to make the brushes in clean red, so they will take the colours from the colour-picker correctly relating to the colour wheel and even the grey axis. But in Designer, with red brushes this only works with the hue, not with the lightness of the colour. The same with neutral grey brushes - even in greyscale colourspace. They will just paint with clean full saturized colours. It's not possible to paint with lighter or darker tones. In the brushes panel the standard-brushes show up as white strokes, but if I create white brushes, they will only paint white and can't take any colour or another greyscale. Black brushes only paint black. How can I make them take the colour I want for painting?
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A moment ago, I found this bug-report in this forum:
In fact also my problem seems to accord to the original position of the object in wich I created the gradient. It doesn't happen if I subtract an object from it if it is still in its original position.
So it seems to be a known issue that might be fixed in one of the next updates, I hope.
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Hi!
There is one thing I don't understand. I created a rectangle and filled it with a gradient to let it look like a tube. After that I duplicated it, tranformed the duplicate a bit and changed the colours of its gradient to a rusty brown. Then I used the Transparency-Tool to blend the duplicate over the blue tube (I duplicated this one as a sample). After that, I wanted to crop the tube at the top by substracting an ellipse from it. As I did this, its gradient got lost (this happened to both: the original and the duplicate). But it still shows up correctly in the Gradient-Menu on the upper left of the GUI, if the rectangle is selected. And in fact there is also a nearly invisible gradient in the graphic, that gives it a little dark shade on the left. But this is nothing I defined in the Gradient-Menu, and it is not what is shown up there. Is this a bug?
I know that I can store the gradient as a style and reapply it to my tube, so it is no bigger problem. But I'm a little bit confused about it.
Edit: For better understanding, I added a designer-file with history called "Designer-Bug".
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Hi!
Some minutes ago, I bought Tobias Saul's Vintage Font Pack in the Affinity Store. Unfortunatly I installed the truetype-version of the Royal Signage, and not the opentype-version, as I wanted. Now I can't delete it to fix that mistake. Whenever I try to, I get the message that it is opened in the system. Even no programs are running. I already made a restart of Windows, but that didn't help. I tried to delete it from the registry, but it doesn't show up there, even it shows up in the font-menus of my programs and in the font-folder under C:\Users\myName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts. What can I do to fix this problem?
My system is Windows 10.
Edit: Argh, seems I was to quick again. Just a minute ago I found the solution. The font also was listed in Window's main font-folder (C:\Windows\Fonts). It worked to delete it there.
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Hi!
As I actually found out, it would be a fine thing if there would be an opportunity to save the adjustions you use in a certain project with it. This could be solved in different ways, I think. In know a solution from my painting program ArtRage, that has a feature called the "Toolbox", in wich you can store all your tool-presets, colours, reference images and so on in a seperate file, that you can load with your certain project or any other you want. That is often verry helpfull.
Publisher/Lock Background Image in PDF
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Hm, if the background is the text as an image, and you want to have the text copyable, why don't you delete the background-text-image and make the active text layer visible, so that it can be copied in the PDF? I don't understand the point of this whole thing. I think, it will not work to copy text from a PDF if you make the text-layer invisible, because in this case the text will not be in the PDF. But maybe I'm wrong.
Is this a kind of 007-project?