Glyphs
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Is there some file we could save in the meantime? Like a plist which would only contain preferences and interface settings?
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But a duplicate would avoid the 'no brush at all' part, right? That would also avoid the need to lock the original, although I see that it would complicate updating the original if you wanted that to affect the favorite as well.
Maybe for now a workaround would be to use duplicates & rename them with a prefix or suffix to indicate which category (or artist or whatever) they came from? That might be easier than trying to identify them visually or resort to an info button....
But a duplicate would avoid the 'no brush at all' part, right? That would also avoid the need to lock the original, although I see that it would complicate updating the original if you wanted that to affect the favorite as well.
Maybe for now a workaround would be to use duplicates & rename them with a prefix or suffix to indicate which category (or artist or whatever) they came from? That might be easier than trying to identify them visually or resort to an info button....
Yes, that's what I'm doing right now. A Favorite Category would simplify things.
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Could you give us a way to keep all the brushes in their respective categories, and to put the most used brushes in a Favorites category. If I am using frequently a specific brush from a specific artist, I would like to remember the category it comes from. If I just put the brush in a custom category, it disappears from its original one. The only way I have to do this is to duplicate a brush and put it in a custom category, but it would be easier to just right-click it and put it in a special Favorites Category without duplicating it. Ideally, there should also be an indication of the original category the brush belongs to in an Info button next to the brush, in its Help Tip, or in its Edit pane (with an option to lock the original and duplicate it if we edit it).
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If the brush gets added to a special Favorites Category, how would you know which 'parent' category it came from?
I could try to recognize it visually, at best. If the brush is here, it would be better than no brush at all. Ideally, it would be a lot better to have an indication of the folder it comes from in an Info button or the Edit pane (with an option to lock the original and duplicate it if we edit it).
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What would be the practical value in an alias-like function for this?
To keep all the brushes in their respective categories, and the most used brushes in a Favorites category. If I am using frequently a specific brush from a specific artist, I would like to remember that it comes from his category. If I just put the brush in a new category, it disappears from the previous one. The only other way to do this is to duplicate the brush and put it in a custom category, but it would be easier to just right-click it and put it in a special Favorites Category.
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Yes, but is it possible to keep the brush in its category and put it in a Favorite Category without duplicating it? Like an Alias?
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Is there a way to create a Favorites folder in the Brushes Pane, where we could put Brushes without having to duplicate it?
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Is there a way to import or convert Sketchbook Pro brushes for use in Affinity Designer or Photo?
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Ah, that's the one thing I forgot! Turn on Use Precise Clipping in Preferences > Performance.
That will help a lot (but not eliminate) the issue. It should clear that last line completely.
Yes! It works! Thanks!
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Glyphs:
Really? The last file? named "....... III.afdesign". I'd actually like to see that can you post a screen grab?
That's the only one where a gap, I believe, is impossible. The crop shape is on top of a fill with the same color. So there is no gap.
But for the others, yes. It's an issue when abutting shapes (as I mentioned in post #4).
You can avoid it by having a color fill under the "gap" (as I think I did in III). You can also try and compensate with stroke settings (just not inside), but that starts to get "messy".
Other than that, I think the answer you will find is that this is an inherent problem across all vector graphic programs...... but we're working on improving it. Take that as you will...It's been mentioned many many many times on the forums.
jer:
Glad you getting something out of it. I'm learning myself working through it :) .
Yeah, the crop difference, in particular, between the two apps has been the subject of several "hot" topics :D .
Keep pushin' pixels!
Of course I can post a screen grab :) If I couldn't, I wouldn't write it. That said, I reread post 4 like you told me, and it looks exactly like what you explained. Sorry for the trouble, and thank you very much for the files and the tutorial :)
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This is why I asked if you're in AD or AP.
In AD you can crop individual objects. This is what I've been doing all along (...did you open any of the .afdesign files I posted? It's up to you to determine how you want to group items. Your "ideal" method mentioned above is absolutely doable, except for the fact that (imho) you need a crop on both groups to avoid the double up on shadows.... which is the whole problem in the first place.)
In AP, yes, cropping is is global. But that really doesn't matter. Clipping/masking does the exact same thing..... but much much better. It's infinitely more flexible and powerful.
In this particular case cropping works (in AD) because the shape situation is very simple. Drawing a rectangle as a clip does the same thing (and is just as fast). But.... when using the crop tool you're limited by the rectangular format. With masking you can do just about anything.
Sorry about it, I did look at the files, but I confused clipping and masking. Clipping both groups works, and the shadows look right, but a fine line is still visible at the position where both clipping forms meet. It is visible in your latest file too. Is there a way to get rid of this?
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Yes, the clipped shape is visible on the canvas, but it does look pretty simple to do:) Actually I don't think the method I need exist yet. I believe the simplest way to do this would be to create the first group with the two forms, then duplicate it and switch the positions of the forms, then use some kind of "crop layer" tool to just crop the top group like you would the document. This way, everything would be editable very quickly. For now, there is a crop tool to crop the whole document, but not individual parts or layers (at least I think so. If it already exists, I must have missed it).
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Are you in AP or AD? (in both sases though, to answer your question.... it can be done all in the same document)
BUT....In AP I'd just use a clipping shape......(since there aren't any layers, and cropping is a very different tool as in AD)
Come to think of it.... That's probably easier in AD too :D .
Screen Shot 2017-01-22 at 1.37.30 PM.pngNo cropping, no "layers"
I am using both, but I tend to use AD for vector shapes. When I first tested this kind of design, I only used two duplicates groups and a mask. It was the fastest way I could find to do this, but as a result, the shadows were less intense in the mask part than in the other part, since I erased a set of shapes with shadows. Is there a way to work as fast (or even faster) with a clipping shape without erasing shadows?
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You can do that too! :)
And yes, the crop needs to be applied to a Layer containing the shape. Cropping the shape itself will not crop the drop shadow. (be careful of abutting two shapes though (cropped or not). You run the risk of a thin line bleeding through where they meet. You can see it a tiny bit in my screen capture....)
Can I do that in the same document, or do I have to crop the document, then place it in a new document containing the same shapes?
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Thanks! The shadows seem to work better. It would be simpler if we could just used some kind of "cropped layers", but it doesn't seem possible yet.
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I have created this design using two groups of moon layers. Each group contains two layered moons with a shadow effect. I duplicated the first group, inverted the two moons' placement in the top group, then applied a mask on it to obtain this overlapped forms design. But the shadows are wrong in the masked part, because the shadows' intensities of each layer are automatically added (the masked part now displays only one set of shadows instead of two). Is there a way to do this with effects completing each other instead of being added?
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I am typing it in lowercase, but with the Comicraft and Blambot fonts I am using, the text often looks uppercase even when it's in lowercase, so every time I am trying to type a text in lowercase, there's always some uppercase character creeping in, especially at the beginning of a phrase, or with names. I always need to check the text afterwards. The faster way to check the text at this time is to cut and paste it into a BBEdit Text file, put it in lowercase if need be, check the "i"s, then paste the corrected text in the balloon. I could also change the font to a more classical font in the balloon, correct it, then change it back again to the previous font, but the first method is faster for me because I'm not using menu items to do it (that said, having a font manager integrated to the Affinity Apps could simplify this process)
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Hi,
I am using Affinity Designer to letter comics, and I think there's (at least) one function missing that could spare us a lot of work: Many hand-lettering fonts have to be used in lower case, so first, I would need an option that would put text in lower case. If this option could be expanded to all the text in a document (or in every selected documents when you add scripting to your apps), that would be great, but that's not all: when you letter comics, every character has to be in lower case save one: the capital "i" which has to be "
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Ah, talked too soon. Actually, the problem is happening in some files and not others. In some of my file, I have to constrain objects with text so that the text stays at the same place when it is put back down, and the size of the object is double that of the original. And in others, I just have to put the objects in the pane, and put it back, and everything works. Any idea about what could cause this difference?
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Wow, never mind! I just downloaded the latest update, and I don't even have to add constraints to anything! Never saw something that simple! I just drag the object or group in the pane to add it, and when I put it back in the document, it's exactly the same! Thanks guys!
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I am trying to test the Assets pane in Affinity Designer, to put an identical object in different files. I have created a group of forms with text inside one form, have added constraints to the group, so that the text stays at the same place when put in the Assets pane, then added it to the Assets pane. When I drag this new asset back in the document, its size is double that of the original, and I can't seem to find a way to change it. Is there a way to create assets of the exact same size as the original?
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