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Typographical Quotes «guillemets» for Switzerland
Fixx replied to Ben71's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher on Desktop
is it possible to use autocorrect feature set in preferences to deal this? -
1 bit TIFF/Bitmap support please
Fixx replied to Chris L's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo on Desktop
Not around but since...! -
how can i stop the rotation of the page
Fixx replied to macalienx's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
Doesn't View>Reset Rotation work? -
Mind you, Publisher has trouble doing comic content for print in the old right way. It cannot really handle 1200 dpi 1-bit bitmaps. If handling comic as 300 dpi RGB/CMYK art is enough then Publisher can do press ready material.
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If the book is image heavy maybe it should not be reflowable but fixed layout. Jutoh imports styles quite nicely from Word, but I am not at all sure it is possible to use them and override old formatting by adjusting style. I tried to this because I want to keep local italics and thus using clear all local formatting is no go. Have to study more..
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Import favorites fonts
Fixx replied to Sarvadzo's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
Oh so. It is probably some setting file, maybe someone knows more? I am quite sure there is no mechanism to save and load such sets in Affinity. -
32 bit vs 16bit, HDR merge
Fixx replied to Jan Barta's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
It is due rounding errors. When curve tool assigns new values to pixels they are approximated to nearest pixel brightness level. Normal RGB has only 256 of those so there is not too much to choose from. Maybe "dynamic range" is not the right term as it relates to ends of range (blacks and whites) and usually curve adjusts mid pixels (though if you manipulate end of the curve it certainly affects range ends). Severe problems show as banding as there are less colours available. That said, even in normal 8-bit / channel RGB edits should be biggish this to show and with 16-bit images there should be nothing to worry about. -
photomechanic and afphoto files
Fixx replied to Jan N's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
Not really broken but does not plain exist. Serif has told they are not going to open Affinity file format for third parties so PM is not going to be able to read file contents. Instead they should be able to read preview image which while at the moment is a bit lowres but very helpful anyway. Reading preview needs some code but should not be too complicated. Edit: sorry. I read this wrong ways. From PM > AP it should work. -
Import favorites fonts
Fixx replied to Sarvadzo's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
I do not now if there is any migration assistant app available for windows but at least you can just plain copy the fonts and install them to a new machine. Folder location is probably C:\Windows\Fonts. -
1bit / bitmap mode colour format?
Fixx replied to Clyde's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo on Desktop
OK, it may be more flexible but it is not expected behaviour. Hmmm... what? I meant that it is weird to use ppi as base for document size when obviously physical size is the more meaningful one. This opens up all kind of problems as I cannot be sure if pasted vector element is of right size or if its size has been re-interpreted based on its assumed ppi. It is not even consistent – I created a A5 document @150 dpi in Photo and in Publisher and placed those to Publisher page. One created in Photo was 50% size of the Publisher created one... -
As soon as you install it. Foorumilta löytyy kyllä ohjeet sanakirjojen asennukseen. Voikko ei toimi mutta hunspell toimii. Sanakirjojen löytäminen ei ole ihan niin helppoa kuin muissa kielissä kun Libre Officessa ei suomi-hunsplelliä ole saatavissa.
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Affinity Photo not using any GPU on Mac
Fixx replied to Norway16's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
We just do not now for what Affinity uses Metal hardware acceleration. It should be more that just screen redraw. "On Mac computers end-to-end Metal compute acceleration takes advantage of Apple's discrete GPU, resulting in a 10x speed increase for all raster layer and brush operations." says Affinity ad. See also: https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Extras/hardwareAcceleration.html?title=Hardware acceleration which says: Hardware acceleration is enabled by default. If you experience poorer performance than expected, try disabling it to see if CPU-based processing works better on your system. CPU and GPU performance can be numerically compared using Affinity Photo’s built-in benchmark. Benefits In practice, the performance boost depends on the task at hand. Hardware acceleration is of great benefit to many raster-based tasks. Vector operations and specific features like blend ranges are performed on the CPU. Tools, adjustments, filters and other operations including RAW development will use GPU resources to achieve improved performance. The benefits are especially noticeable when stacking several Live Filter Layers together—export times are significantly quicker and canvas previewing is snappier. I have check how my Radeon WX behaves in my other system. I have checked Affinity recognizes it at least. -
1bit / bitmap mode colour format?
Fixx replied to Clyde's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo on Desktop
Yes, that helps. But when there is no transparent background it should still behave the same; after all painted pixels are flat in the bg colour and there should be no alphas in play. I consider this bug. This is also weird design choice; why use ppi? Layout application should always use physical dimensions. -
Give it a try if you use mac. It is quick and fluid but does NOT supply print preview where you could check ink coverage, overprinting and rich black, of which rich black check would be most wanted feature. I am not keen on convert features as they are more prepress functions. If there is a problem with file you should go back to original file and fix it as it is probably a work flow problem that should be corrected. (Of course if you get an advert with problems it may be easier just fix it and pass on.)
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LPI to cell size?
Fixx replied to Thecurlychimp's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
Preparing images for screen printing seems to be full of workarounds in Affinity apps and not at all easy task. Maybe someone could write a comprehensive work flow description (if it is at all possible)? -
1bit / bitmap mode colour format?
Fixx replied to Clyde's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo on Desktop
You can sure export to 1-bit file, see More-button in PGN export dialog. You just cannot work in 1-bit mode in Affinity. Threshold adjustment layer may help to see image in 1-bit lookalike, but there are some strange glitches there, for some reason for example brushed areas do not go black&white but stay feathered. -
Crop Canvas in Affinity Designer?
Fixx replied to BrianHermelijn's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
Really? There is Clip-to-canvas command but when you create a new document it is a page: -
Crop Canvas in Affinity Designer?
Fixx replied to BrianHermelijn's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
There are pages and artboards in Designer, no canvases... page size can be set very accurately with Document setup. It also seems to me that cropping tools in Illustrator are exactly same as in Designer. -
RGB(0,0,255) in CMYK
Fixx replied to brentjschaan's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
So you want brightest blue possible? In RGB display it is made with single blue component. CMYK does not offer single component for blue, so it must be made mixing two colours – cyan and red. As you may notice, mix of two components is never as bright as single one, not to mention that the more you add colour in subtractive system the darker the colour gets. All replies written above apply. -
Indesign IDML in Publisher not perfect
Fixx replied to skyking's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)
Because InDesign has paragraph composer on but Publisher's H/J works only row by row?