[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

1 hour ago, prophet said:

This happened to me just this morning. The place to look is the Layer Properties. Right click on the Layer, choose Properties at the bottom. You will then see the Layer Color option.

 

Wow you've cracked the case!!!! Thank you so much! looks like you can choose any colour.

 

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

18 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Which PDF format/type/standard has that PDF file be written in?

I'm not sure how to find that out, I clicked command i (mac) to see and it just says pdf no other info. 

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

On 9/8/2022 at 1:46 PM, walt.farrell said:

Also, what do you mean by "importing"?

Did you Open it, or Place it, or copy/paste, or something else?

when I say I imported it, I mean I opened the PDF document like this - Inside Affinity Designer, File>Open>then I choose the PDF file stored on my desktop. So im actually opening the PDF inside of Affinity Designer. The nodes and handle are black and white. So then I tried to save it as .afdesign file, but still the black and white handles, paths and nodes remain.

Also sorry for my late response

 

 

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

On 9/8/2022 at 1:38 PM, Old Bruce said:

Is the Designer document Greyscale?

No its in RGB

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

On 9/8/2022 at 9:47 AM, DWright said:

Is it possible for you to post a copy of the .afdesign file so we can investigate this further.

I'd love to but it's from a client, sorry

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

I have even tried to save it as a .afdesign file and its still the same. the only way to get it to look like it usually does it to create a new document and copy and paste whatever is part of the design into the new document.

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

What does the Layers panel show?

The layers panel looks completely normal, I have all my layers etc. I searched through the settings etc and have find nothing relating to this. Even on google.

[Importing PDF to Affinity Designer - Why are the paths and nodes a different colour?]

After importing a pdf into Affinity Designer i noticed that the paths, nodes and bounding boxes are all black, when normally they are all blue. Ive included 2 examples so you can see what i mean. 

My questions.

Why is this happening?

how do I change this so that it looks normal (blue)

Thank you

[Vector/pattern fill]

+1

[Please add DXF support]

Is DXF on the roadmap? 

[Affinity Designer Pen & Node Tool Tutorial - Beginner to Advanced]

Hello designers! I have a new Affinity Designer tutorial for you. This one is all about the pen tool & node tool. It's a long one and goes from beginner to advanced and I cover pretty much everything possible. I also go over the corner tool and there are a bunch of exercises.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iowyjv8ezA

 

[Create an Isometric Cylinder (Can & Tin)]

Hello all, if you want to learn how to create an isometric cylinder, then check out my tutorial

 

[Gaussian Blur - sharp to blurry on one object.]

I love that, nicely done @Dazmondo77 cheers @GarryP and @RNKLN 👌

[Gaussian Blur - sharp to blurry on one object.]

Thanks @GarryP appreciate the idea. I have used this technique on previous designs but I find the layer with the transparency still stays too sharp and doesn't seem natural. Thanks again.

[Gaussian Blur - sharp to blurry on one object.]

Cheers Dan @Dan C

Then I certainly would welcome that in a future update. 

 

[Gaussian Blur - sharp to blurry on one object.]

Hi there @telemax

Thanks for that, I had thought of this also but I really wanted to keep it vector. 

[Gaussian Blur - sharp to blurry on one object.]

I'm thinking more in terms of drawing a shadow. Let's say we have a black shape which will be a long shadow, on one end of the shadow I want it to have a well defined sharp edge and on the other end I want it to get gradually more blurry. I'm thinking the Gaussian Blur could be modified to achieve this. 

If anyone can do this another way please let me know. 

[Affinity Designer crashes when using freehand vector brush]

@Ben Frank Art

Wow This is incredible! 

[Affinity Designer crashes when using freehand vector brush]

Thanks for the update! I'll give it a shot 

[Affinity Designer Tutorial - Halloween Pumpkin Head]

Oh my god! Thanks for that @GarryP

[Affinity Designer Tutorial - Halloween Pumpkin Head]

New beginner friendly tutorial on how to create a Pumpkin Head in Affinity Designer.

Happy Halloween

 

[Stroke Pressure Settings Window - Any way to expand this view?]

Hi team,

So I've been doing alot of continuous line drawings recently, mainly working with strokes. I then go into the pressure settings and manually move the nodes within that to get the result i want.

The problem I run into is this, The window for the pressure settings is really small, and the more nodes I have the harder it gets to select each node, its all so cramped. Is there a way to expand this view? better yet is there an update coming that will allow me to edit the thickness of my stroke directly?

Affinity Designer (desktop) Mac

Any help appreciated, cheers

 

[AD crash with freehand vector brush and tablet]

Hi @Gabe do you still need the crash report? I saw another member submitted theirs so assumed you got what you needed.

[Affinity Designer crashes when using freehand vector brush]

Looks like a fair few people are experiencing the same problem. Thanks @Thor E for submitting your crash log, did you find any workaround since posting that?

 

Hi @Sean P any updates on a fix?

 

Thanks for your help.

[Affinity Designer crashes when using freehand vector brush]

Hello,

Affinity Designer crashes every-time I use the freehand vector brush tool with my Wacom tablet, sometimes I can draw for a few minutes before it crashes.

Mac user:  OS 10.15.6 (Latest Version) It also Crashed on the previous version.

Affinity designer: 1.8.4 (latest version)

Tablet: Wacom Intuous Pro M with the latest drivers (6.3.40-2)

Any thoughts on how to fix this?