Tim Gummer
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The padlock icon is ambiguous, - in default unlocked state it, it could be locked. LOCKED it gets a background.
Now that I look at ai and ps, the're not much better - they toggle between nothing (hiding the function) and a lock.
This may seem trivial but I'm constantly am confused as to the state of my layers / elements.
Best I think would be:
- unlocked: Dimmed 'open shank padlock' icon
- locked: solid 'locked shank padlock' icon
Thoughts anyone?
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A rather depressing set of results from Khoi Vihn's survey big enough to have motivated him to make it a microsite. AD seems completely absent. (I did my part, in fact the esteemed Mr Vihn wrote to me personally to find out more about Affinity. I think he rather wrote it off as just for Freehand devotees (which it is true, I do still carry a flame for FH - but am no longer trying to actually run).
Hoping marketing can make a bit of a dent there, anyway.
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hey thanks Andrew - yes i checked back textedit and pages failed also - I'd been put off by AI actually being the only one to work this time, so assumed AD at fault
Not 100% sure what the issue was specifically but looking like conflict between system Myriad Pro and 'Big foundry' imported Version - issue went away by opting for the latter.
the clear fonts in prefs was a handy hot tip though - saved me regularly rebooting
Thanks again
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i have a fairly full range of Myriad Pro typefaces running via Font Explorer. AI sees them, AD doesn't - or at least it sees some (light, black) but not regular and bold.
You can check them out with the file I was working on here…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ct8syvuw6g5zvp/myriad%20font%20issue.zip?dl=0
Note the AD file is descended from an ai file from someone else, I was busy unpacking all the masks to get at it. But the issue occurs on any new AD file or whatever. But, as I say, not in other apps, like illustrator.
Tim
And just BTW, a keyboard shortcut for paragraph dialog along with the text character dialog (or better still, combine dialogues!) would be really really handy.
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Am I missing some way to do this without creating separate arrow head objects?
If not would be a simple feature to pop in the todo list? (after big canvas, artboards!) -
I'm getting the retail version required error, with current beta, both versions at top level in my applications folder. What to do?
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After using AD for a few months now I still forget where to open the right sidebar thingie - which is apparently called "UI" and specifically layers.
Here are my beefs:
- UI is too general a name - something
- KB Shortcut for UI should be more obvious
- There should be a button to show hide "UI" at the top for newbs
- Layers panels usually needs to be very tall, I want to dock it side by side to the other UI panels - docked, not free floating
- And therefore separate button / KB shortcut for layers
Much of this is more or less (sans docking to workframe) illy UX, if I remember right, and it has been helpful.
T
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Trivial Customize Tools toggle UI issue.
After opening customize tools, the menu doesn't show ticked. Also AD seemed a bit keep to keep customize open after I restarted the app.
Very trivial but something not quite right
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i've been doing more exporting images to web of late, which has seen me hopping between personas a lot more.
And stewing. A lot.
My reference point vis a vis slices management is FIreworks, which for all of it's many flaws, does several things reasonably well:
- display and editing of slices, guides and graphic elements simultaneously
- Export of 8 Bit PNG images with alpha transparency
With AD, if I'm trying to optimise elements for better pixel level precision, or even just ensure that multiple elements are fitting multiple slices of a consistant size, there is no way to see or edit those things in one view.
So I have to jump back to draw persona, nudge things a bit, maybe pull down a ruler and hope it matches slice borders, go back to export persona to view slices and see if my guesses were close, then repeat, ad infininitum.
Clearly what is needed is to allow editing of elements in export persona.
Oh, and 8 bit alpha PNG exports.
Cheers
T
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I'm not sure why this is so poorly supported across design apps - even Photoshop (at least on the versions I own) doesn't have it and the only straightforward game in town seems to be Fireworks.
These days, most of my exported files for web site themes are 8 Bit PNG with alpha transparency. it just makes sense.
And it's quite a wrench to the workflow to have to jump out of AD just to make these conversions and manual optimisations in another app. There is quite an efficiency hot as it's not just a matter of running a conversion script, each file has to be individually reoptimized from 24 bit with transparency down to 8 bit, selecting the colours etc
Please could this one be a priority?
T
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try it on these logos - whether grouped or as a multiple selection, the type is not sizing with the rest of the elements
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Just how illustrator and freehand do, but as of yet not on affinity.
If I have a bunch of elements on the page and say i decide to switch typefaces in the evolution of the brand Identity, in affinity i have to do this one by one over and over again.
Hopefully this will be a quick fix for you folks.
Note the freehand implementation is of course better - it allows selecting any old thing(s) (text, group, mixture of elements) and there is still facility to change the font - whatever type is within that selection will get changed.
Of course I could go on and ask for styles etc but will leave that for hit further down the road.
Cheers!
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Somewhere on the list can we have a GUI artboard / document sizing? Like Fireworks, photoshops crop with capacity to crop larger? (or illustrator, FH's artboard sizing tools)
Am often building free form collections of elements and need to just resize the artboard in an intuitive way without thinking about units, origin points etc.
But not as important as … many other things.
T
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(not a feature, a simple change)
I LOVED that affinity assumes you don't want to screw with typography during transforms, so that shift isn't required to constrain XY during transform.
But then it blows that by being inconsistent on shape or curve transforms, which does my head in.
This would be a simple change to make consistent across the board, and I can't see any good reason to not.
Thanks again for this great app.
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We want's it. That is all.
I'm figuring this might actually be an easy one.
And I do really really miss this facility..
It's the sort of thing that one wants at the heart of the creative process, so it's very jarring to have to go to another app in the middle of the act, as it were - which may lose various affinity nicenesses.
TIA.
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mmm - may have spoken too soon its definitely better - but not consistent - still trying to establish the variables
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Thanks for the update Matt - much appreciated. I understand the desire to roll out a substantive feature upgrade - and when I use AD I get (something of) a clear sense of how much extra work must have gone in to make AD's implementations so demonstrably better than any other app I've used (frequently including FH, which is saying something).
I guess I'd want (from the sidelines) to suggest that rolling out bugfix dot-dot-dot update might be worth the bother of the forking required, for an issue as pervasive as this one. But whatev's - looking forward to it when it comes. (that would be the next beta? not the release?)
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Being a typography junkie, i'm often switching to the type tools.
Trouble is I usually end up with the one I DON'T want - mostly the Type Art Tool. when I want the Text Box.
The simple answer is to set modifier keys for alternative tools - so "T" might be Text Box, and "Shift-T" = Text-Art - or vis a versa… And similar for the other non-type tool variations.
This one should be a snap for the next release, without distracting from the serious stuff like multi artboards.
TIA!
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Hi - pester pester - this is SO constant I can't believe it hasn't been patched within a week, let alone three weeks. Driving me bonkers - I SOOO want to use this app but almost anything I do triggers this issue and I have to reopen the file not once, but at least twice to be able to use it again.
Here in the trenches, we could use a little hope!
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any news on this one? It really does happen an awful lot of the time - very frustrating.
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Phew - doubts about my personal sanity are now, well… in check.
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I have no artboard tool or panel or whatever. Just the option to convert an object to an artboard and visa versa.
Is there something I'm missing?
but thanks anyways - as a former FH user I've been looking forward to artboards since forever ago