Medm
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5 minutes ago, thomaso said:
Ah, what happens if you don't ESC before pressing this button? To me on mac in V1 it works well without ESC, – was it changed in V2?
yes I'm working with V2 (and concerning the little things of routine work I miss the improvements — I have to make an extra post one day for that...)
Without pressing ESC the standards will be applied to the position in the text, to one word for example or to nothing.
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My suggestion for aff
42 minutes ago, thomaso said:What disturbs you is meant to be a feature to make a currently used style getting auto-used for further objects, too. Yes, it can be useful but doesn't have to. You can use the "Synchronize" button to make the style of an existing, previous frame becoming the defaults for frames that get created next.
If I want to use the attributes of an object further I copy and adjust it. I have generally more work with restoring "defaults" than with using settings on...
My suggestion for Affinity would be that I have at least the option in the Program Preferences to switch this "last-use-conservation" off.
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18 minutes ago, GarryP said:
’ve found it better to only format the text with the Text Styles
Yes, no question about this (but I need a basic style to begin with).
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31 minutes ago, thomaso said:
No, interestingly, you can also use this button to revert a current style to its default values with the Text tool and the text cursor placed somewhere in the frame. It resets all paragraphs, not just the one with the cursor - so it behaves as if the Move tool were currently selected.
No, I have to hit ESC first (selecting the move-tool is not necessary, you are right). And the "Revert to defaults" button only works with saved default not with synchronised ones...
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Margins of the textframe and a connection to a defined Style like "Paragraph" (as it works with "Revert to defaults" — so I'm fine with it)
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My problem with assets is that if I change something in a textstyle I have to redefine all assets using it or get copys of the (unchanged) textstyle using the assets.
I think working with styles is my workaround, but the question remains, why are there defaults if they don't work like defaults (I choose a tool and it provides me default attributes).
Thank you!
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Thank you, but to do this, I have to choose Move tool first, don't I? Every time I want to use a default I have to do something, right? So I could do the same with styles or, thank you Garry, Assets. I'm asking a question of workFLOW...
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While working with textframes, every new textframe uses the attributes I have used last, and no defaults, neither "synchronised" nor factory settings. Do I miss the concept of defaults? How can I use defaults on textframes?
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Thank you, Lee, for the quick reply. (By me, you can delete this thread. German users may find the tag "textstyle" useful in the linked one;)
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I appreciate the possibility of importing textstyles. But there's an odd behaviour when pasting material containing textstyles identical to existing ones: Even if I copy and paste text material from the same document from which I have imported the styles before, Publisher creates duplicates of the styles (Style-a 1, Style-a 2...). Is this normal behaviour or do I overlook something? Missing the function to replace styles when deleting them (?), cleaning up the styles is tedious work...
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Thank you, this way it works!
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Hello, it seems, clipping of bitmaps doesn't work. Every time I'm parenting/'childing' a bitmap under a vector form I get the form, filled or not, but the image vanishes (is empty).
Thank you! (I'm Adobe-CC-user and bought the software for this feature because I got sick of Photoshop paths, maybe this is a hint.)
Textframes and defaults
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Okay, I think I've got the general idea now: I select a tool, than I check how it is set by previous usage, and then I can decide to utilize defaults by clicking "Revert" BEFORE using the tool
Documentation is not very specific about this: "When you create new objects, their appearance is initially determined by the default settings for the particular object you are creating."