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Affinity Photo - Create an animated gif
Fixx replied to Tibreizh's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Please do. We can use such a tool. -
importing pdf layers as they are
Fixx replied to D3R's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I think the core problem is that CAD software does not group or layer objects in PDF any useful way, but rather randomly. It may be because CAD developers see PDF only as delivery format, not a transfer format. I usually work CAD to PDF exports in Designer. -
Indent on second paragraph
Fixx replied to Edward Goodwin's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
It would be wonderful if devs would develop this kind of style automation but so far no one has implemented such. It would be a great time saver to apply rule based styles to whole publication.- 10 replies
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photo cropping canvas vs image
Fixx replied to ahnay's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Photo is a tool for manipulating images. Cropping removes unwanted parts of the image. Now, if you want to replace unwanted parts with transparent areas or white, that is another function. Not too hard either. -
External storage
Fixx replied to OrangeEmpress's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
You can open and save files from/to external drives as you please. You though have no control over scratch disks, I suppose system handles that part and uses just startup disk for scratch. -
DWG > Designer?
Fixx replied to Fixx's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Libre does not open DWG. FreeCAD imports DWG to filelist but crashes when I try to open the file to a window. I will check those online converters but I suppose they are just googled ones, you do not really use them, do you #v_kyr? At least Autodesk Viewer does not print or export vector data. -
Have you found any clever tools for converting DWG to Designer? I have tried some of those chinese DWG > PDF converters that Mac App Store offers but so far either they have no working trial or they are unable to keep scale. I suppose can use heavy CAD apps for converting but I would rather use something light and simple. Mac is my platform of choice.
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import docx files..
Fixx replied to Dan8's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
You can place docx to Publisher. -
Moving from Adobe to Affinity
Fixx replied to Marcooooo's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
If you search this forum you will find an InDesign script that will batch convert your INDD files to IDML that publisher can read. -
I have noticed Designer often slows very much when working with CAD generated PDFs. I guess usually it is because CAD apps generate very large amount of vector objects and Affinity just cant handle such a load, even if the file size looks moderate. If you know there is something to be done with file structure to ease the problem let us know.
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AP uses also automatic palette, which is optimized for image colours. There is no way around dithering though if here is anything in he image that can be dithered. Simple clear shapes should not dither (though sometimes they do in AP). I tested simple 600X800 pixels 2 colour image which has left side green and right size red. PS compressed it to 1 891 bytes. AP compressed the same image to 611 bytes. PS had 2 colour palette, in AP 2 colour palette did not work (got grey image) so I used 4 colours. Are you sure you did choose NOT to include colour profile AND metadata?
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Word count in Affinity Publisher
Fixx replied to vdamjanovski's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Yes, it is a word processor feature. In page layout apps it has not been available long. -
WTF How to Make from 2 layers one?
Fixx replied to danilo's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
There is valid reason why Photo should not merge image layers. After all, it merges image layers happily if you select "Merge Visible" or "Flatten". -
Activity Monitor does not display much useful information as OS is designed to assign ALL free memory to applications, and free it not until it is needed elsewhere. Thus part of the memory is assigned but contains only unnecessary data. Basically you would be just fine with Mac Mini 16GB RAM, or similar iMac. Apps you use are not too demanding. If you want be safe you could buy M1 Pro 32GB instead but I am not sure you would see much difference. I kinda wish next Mac Mini version would be M1/M2 Pro which might be my next upgrade.
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Idea for a new filter
Fixx replied to othereyes111's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Once upon a time when computer generated images did not always produce antialiased images there was an application called JAG (Jaggies Are Gone). It did have a really good algorithm for smoothing jagged edges to smooth but sharp antialiased edges. I have not seen as good antialiasing solutions since. Have to say that demand for separate antialiasing solution is not so urgent nowadays. -
making technical drawings
Fixx replied to iMac1943's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
SketchUp should have adequate dimensioning tools too. -
Improve "Book" Printing
Fixx replied to efc's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
No you don't. Printing works just fine (RGB print mode can present some tonal problems though). If your printer machine supports booklet mode in-printer you can do that also. If it does not, Create Booklet 2 helps.