[Linked PDF with passthrough and specific page box settings gives mangled output in PDF/X-4]

Thanks @Pauls! I'm not very much into the PDF spec so I'm not sure I really get where the problem lies, but to be honest I kind of expected Publisher to not touch the source PDF in any way on export because I selected Passthrough. I also thought the page box was just a convenient way to crop the image. Did I misunderstand those things?

Thanks again!
Bauke

[Linked PDF with passthrough and specific page box settings gives mangled output in PDF/X-4]

This linked image (a PDF made in presumably Adobe Illustrator), with page box set to ArtBox, Minimum Content or Maximum Content and passthrough enabled, gets mangled when exporting the document using the PDF/X-4 preset.

With PDF/X-1 or any digital PDF preset, or the page box set to anything else, the problem doesn't occur.

I attached a package with the document, including the linked image and the exported PDF.

bug.zip

[Shortcut for brush stabiliser]

Hello,

Would it be possible to add the option for a keyboard shortcut to toggle the brush stabiliser on and off?

Thanks for your consideration!

[Glyphs Browser color]

As this wasn't changed in the final version of 1.6, I'm curious to hear what the UI team / @steve_m has to say about the subject.

 

Thanks!

Bauke

[Grid floating when zooming/panning]

Hi Sean,

 

Here you go!

Example.afdesign

[Grid floating when zooming/panning]

Hello,

 

Since the new version (1.6) the second axis of the grid in Designer is glitching when I'm zooming or panning.

I have attached a video of the problem.

floatinggrid.mov

[Aliased font samples]

Thanks Chris!

[Glyphs Browser color]

Hi Chris,

 

Thank you for your reply! Your proposal articulates exactly what I had in mind.

Speaking of the font dropdown, I also started an unanswered topic about that (see below). 

 

Thanks!

Bauke

 

 

[Glyphs Browser color]

It would be great to hear the opinion of the developers on this topic.

[Next level constraints / auto layout]

Nice find! That would be a great improvement for the constraints feature.

[AF: Dual plane disabled in Live Perspective tool]

Hi Toltec,

 

Do you mean the perspective tool? In that case yes, I could rasterize it and use the non-live perspective tool to get the final result.

 

No it doesn't matter so much, but it would remove an extra step from the workflow and allow for live viewing the final result while designing the embedded document.

As I'm always on the lookout to improve and speed up workflows, I'm just curious what prevents dual panes from the live-version of the same tool.

 

In the meantime, I'll try to wrap the rasterizing and and appliance of the non-live perspective tool in a macro so that it would still be a single action to perform. 

 

Best,

Bauke

[AF: Dual plane disabled in Live Perspective tool]

Hi Callum,

 

Thanks for your quick response. Let's hope they can enable it! Should the developers decide to remove it, please let me know what prevents it from working in the live filter.

It has great potential for live wrapping a book cover design (in Affinity Designer) around a 3d book mock-up (in Affinity Photo), which I now have to do in two steps (front and spine separately).

 

Best,

Bauke

[AF: Dual plane disabled in Live Perspective tool]

Hello,

 

When I add a live perspective filter to an embedded document in Affinity Photo, I can't select dual plane.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a good reason for this?

 

Thanks in advance!

Bauke

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 3)]

On 24-7-2017 at 5:32 PM, A_B_C said:

Hi Matt,

 

is there a chance to remove the Nudge Distances settings from the Preferences and put them at the bottom of the Transform Panel? It is somewhat tedious to open the Preferences, find the right Tab, adjust the settings, go back to the art work … hmm …

 

Thanks for considering,

Alex 

 

I second this from the perspective of having document wide nudge settings instead of application wide nudge settings. I usually set the nudge settings to the same unit as my grid, and changing them every time I switch projects is a bit of a nuisance.

[Glyphs Browser color]

Hello,

 

I'm very glad that we now have a glyphs browser, but I personally feel that its looks can be improved.

 

Virtually all typefaces are made primarily for use on a light background, and to correctly evaluate a glyph I think the glyph browser should reflect this by having a white background with black glyphs. Right now the dark UI theme shows light glyphs on a dark background and the light UI theme shows grey type on a light background (which is better but lacks contrast).

 

The font dropdown however does have black type on a white background in both themes, which I think is a good choice.

 

Looking forward to your thoughts!

 

Best,

Bauke

[Quick apply/quick search]

Hello,

 

A functionality like InDesign's quick apply or Slack's channel switcher would be a great addition.

 

Some things I imagine it could incorporate:

• swap between persona's
• access menu-items
• insert named assets and symbols
• apply object-, text- and paragraph-styles
• apply macro's
• apply layer effects
• select layers by typing its name
• jump to an artboard by typing its name
• apply a swatch by typing its name

I'm looking forward to your feedback!

 

Best regards,

Bauke

[Aliased font samples]

The samples in the font dropdown look aliased on my non-retina screen.

See the attachment for a screenshot. I'm using Designer 1.6.0 beta 1.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 1)]

Hi Bauke,

As far as i know, no, there's no UI button but you can set shortcuts for all vertical alignment options in the Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts section.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll do that!

I hope the developers consider giving a useful feature such as this one a well-deserved place in the context toolbar.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 1)]

The new beta looks great!

 

The vertical aligning of text didn't work correctly at first try, because it seemed the text had a negative offset equal to its leading. When I changed the leading to zero the text jumped into the right place. After that I encountered no more problems with it, even when setting the leading to a different value. Unfortunately I can't seem to recreate the issue.

 

A question: is there a button in the UI for the vertical text alignment or am I missing it?

[Fitbaseline – a tool for baseline grid composition]

Hello,

 

As part of an ongoing research to baseline grid composition, my colleague and I recently made Fitbaseline, a calculator that distributes the baseline grid over the document height. This is especially convenient when designing a document with fixed sizes (for example in print) in which you want to evenly distribute the baseline grid.

 

Although we developed a version that applies the calculation automatically for Adobe InDesign, the online calculator is application agnostic so it can be used with Affinity too. However, it would be great to see this concept implemented in Affinity applications such as the upcoming Publisher. I'll make a feature request for this soon.

 

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Bauke

[Sketch format import + export to Zeplin & FramerJS]

I expect Sketch import wouldn't be too much of a problem since they opened up their file format into JSON recently. I sincerely hope Affinity is considering opening their file format too, since it unlocks so many possibilities (automation, integration with other applications etc.)

 

Info about the new Sketch file format: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/sketch-43-is-coming-to-town-with-a-new-game-an-open-file-format-ae62e7e7c223.

[Feature request- snap anchor handles to grid option]

Hi Reglico,

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the snapping of curve control handles cannot be enabled using the snapping manager.

I agree with Mattyd that feature would be a most welcome addition.

[Font Preview Disabling]

This would be a very welcome improvement indeed!

[[AD] [Feature Request] Size\Position\Nudge Toolbar Items]

That would be a nice addition! Combine it with document-persistent nudge settings and the need to change the settings every now and then would be largely diminished.

[Export to .afphoto or .afdesign in export-persona]

Hi HVDB,

 

Thanks for your reply, but I'm aware of saving as a native Affinity file. I'm asking for the inclusion of native files in the export-persona in order to incorporate it in my export-workflow.