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Ammar got a reaction from chessboard in Layers Panel Left Margin
Also the indentation is very little you can hardly see it specially on high resolution screens
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Ammar reacted to v_kyr in Align text boxes using baseline
Probably via some Snapping candidates settings and visual controlling, aka if the red line horizontal target snapping matches here.
Something like ...
screencast_snapping.mp4
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Ammar reacted to R C-R in Confusing rectangle corner radius after resizing
Is Absolute Sizes enabled in the Context Toolbar?
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Ammar got a reaction from Brian_J in Closing Open Layers
Thanks for the info, I didn’t upgrade yet to v2 so I think it’s there for Mac as well, good news
Regards
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Ammar got a reaction from Brian_J in Closing Open Layers
That would be the best solution for now , thanks allot.
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Ammar reacted to thomaso in What DPI Means ?
Ah, this seems to be related to the "Retina" screen technology, and also the reason for the unit "point" instead of "pixel", e.g. because pt allows more 'grades' for calculations (to avoid fractions of hardware pixel).
Maybe this article helps: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/hi-res-iconui-design-can-be-pixel-perfect/
… or, depending on your tasks, maybe this thread (this link leads you directly to a moderators post in the quite long thread):
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Ammar reacted to NotMyFault in What DPI Means ?
Hi,
3 point equals 4 pixel (by convdntion / tradition) if devices render files at files DPI, yes. But apps today tend to display files zoomed (in booth ways), it normally differs unless you ask them to display at 100% zoom. Smartphone screens are to small (vs. PC), so zooming out is technically required and unavoidable. To make files readable. E.g. an PDF containing a A4 page (21x29cm) must be zoomed out to fit on a 8x4cm smartphone screen. User can then zoom in if he wants to -
Ammar reacted to thomaso in What DPI Means ?
It can be stored in the meta data but doesn't have to. For the image appearance in a layout only two of possibly three info are required. Even, just the image dimensions (its total x / y pixels) are sufficient to define a certain size on a screen. Then the screen resolution (the monitors hardware pixel size & density) defines the physical size of the image. Lets say you have an image with 1000 pixel width and a screen of 1000 pixel width then the image fills the entire screen width – note this doesn't tell anything about the physical size of the screen and the image and also doesn't talk about dpi yet. On an old monitor with 72 dpi this image would appear in a larger physical size (e.g. mm or inch) than on an iPad with e.g. 144 dpi or a smart phone with e.g. 400 dpi – but the image can get displayed on each of this screens with its full 1000 pixels width (while it would be reduced on a smaller device, e.g. a smart watch, which might for instance just display every 2nd or 5th pixel of this image and thus, of course, show less of the actually existing image details).
Now, if an app gets involved, the app itself can handle the dpi: In Affinity every document must have a certain resolution (dpi). This document resolution influences the size of the placed content. If you create an .afpub with 300 dpi a placed image will appear in a different physical size (mm or inch) than if you place the same image in a 100 dpi .afpub. – Apple's Preview.app doesn't require a certain dpi for its documents. Different to APub in Preview you can't create an empty document without content, Preview takes the dpi from the content it opens and displays. If an image has its own dpi stored then Preview will consider this for the physically displayed size, if not it will scale the image according to the size of the document window: increasing the window (dragging a corner) will enlarge the image appearance.
The macOS file info panel doesn't mention dpi, but Preview does in its info panel. If you open in Preview an image which has no dpi stored then Preview reports "72 dpi", while for instance the EXIFtool (https://www.exiftool.org/) would report for the same image the resolution "1" + the unit "None". This indicates the low importance of the dpi in an image – very different to its total pixel dimensions.
Note, vector documents (e.g. a text document or a PDF) don't need to have a resolution (dpi) but usually have only physical, absolute dimensions stored (font size, image size, page size). The fact that Affinity layout apps (AD, APub) require a dpi decision from the user is caused by the fact that they work quite flexible and may switch a certain content type from vector to pixel (by rasterization). For this it's helpful to have a certain dpi specified for the entire document which kind of ensures for pixel content a certain "quality" (e.g. smooth antialiasing and sharpness instead of jaggyness).
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Ammar reacted to Old Bruce in What DPI Means ?
I do believe that is the pixel density, the actual number of physical pixels making up the screen.
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Ammar got a reaction from Kal in Rounded Corner Triangle
Hi ..
How to convert the triangle shape corners to rounded ?
Kindest Regards
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Ammar got a reaction from R C-R in Pages & Prototyping
@R C-Rbased on the far more complicated tasks they did in a great way.
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Ammar got a reaction from Xzenor in Layers Panel Design
I think transparent scroll bars can appear when scrolling and auto hide on the right side like Apple Pages for example without the need for preserved area. It would be more neat.
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Ammar reacted to kaffeeundsalz in Layers Panel Design
It's not always empty – it's the place where the vertical scroll bar appears when the contents don't fit into the Layers panel with its current height. Granted, I don't know why the column is always visible given that other panels do behave differently indeed. For example, both the Channels and the Adjustment panel in Affinity Photo hide the scroll bar area entirely as long as it's not needed. Also, from what I can see, Serif applications don't respect the "Show scroll bars" setting of macOS under System Preferences > General.
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Ammar reacted to telemax in Glass Layer
Yes, Affinity Photo.
You can create this effect in AP, then continue working with this file in AD.
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Ammar reacted to Sean P in Artistic Text
Hi Ammar,
Could you get a screen recording of the whole screen showing the steps you are taking to reproducve the bug please? Could you also attach any files you're using to reproduce it it cannot be reproduced on a new document?
Thanks,
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Ammar reacted to Pšenda in Transparent Artboards Issue
Menu File, Document Setup, Transparent Background?
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Ammar reacted to Old Bruce in Glass Layer
Looks like a masked blur layer over the photo of the fellow.
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Ammar reacted to Old Bruce in Glass Layer
Put a Gausian Blur Effect Layer on (actually nested in) the photo layer and mask that blur layer using the marquee tool and a black fill in the marquee-ed half..
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Ammar reacted to creator in Vectorizing an Image
@Bluehen Thanks for this great hint. https://www.vectorizer.io includes even the missed dxf export in Affinity. 😀👍
Hoping anyway to get vectorizing bitmaps and dxf export in Affinity soon.
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