thoroughburro

Indeed, if you so much as bring up the entry panel to check, but then cancel out of it, the rounded dimensions are immediately applied. If you miss that and don’t undo immediately, you lose the original, exactly entered size and it can be very difficult to reverse.

I just wanted to say, this has been driving me bonkers for the past few days. My new workflow is that I have to work at a lower DPI to use the grid settings which make the task easy — than convert the document to the proper DPI for exporting and test printing. Par for the Affinity course. Buying 2.0 continues to feel like an insulting mistake, and one I will be far more cautious about come 3.0.

I found it! It’s two menus deep, under an unlabeled arrow to the right of Bold, Italic, etc. This one was my bad. Yesterday, every single little thing was down to a bug or poor design, so my nerves are sort of on a hair trigger and my default assumption has changed from “it’s probably me” to “it’s probably Affinity”.

Actually, I think my morning brain confused leading with kerning. I’m trying to change the kerning… I guess my confusion is caused by the kerning control not being where I expect it. I read the help article, which suggests there is a Character Positioning panel somewhere with the kerning controls, but I can’t find it.

I spent more than half my day on Affinity bugs and idiosyncrasies yesterday. Just sat down to work, and literally the first thing I try to do doesn’t work. I mean, of course it doesn’t; I’m not even surprised. I’m trying to adjust leading. The interface seems to be the same as Designer, but in AP2 the adjustment does nothing: FullSizeRender.MOV Is there a workaround?

In AD 1, you positioned the cursor between the letters, but it disappeared while you adjusted the kerning. This allowed you to closely see the adjustment being made. In AD2, the cursor instead remains. This obscures the adjustment being made.

Thank you very much! I’m glad there’s a workaround, albeit unintuitive. It’s another of those “is this really a serious product” details, though. Maybe you’re getting into less common territory above 2400 dpi, but to imply by UI design that 600 dpi was an unforeseen use case is frankly bizarre. What industry is “400” targeted at, as an upper default? I know nobody has answers, I’m just upset that I’ve wasted so much of my day on this “upgrade” I paid for.

I’ve been fighting with Affinity Designer 2 all day long, and it’s just so disappointing. I’ve tracked everything else down to known bugs (more fool me for not checking that basic features work before buying), but I can’t confirm this one… I’m trying to create a new document at 600 dpi using Affinity Designer 2 for iPad. I’ve seen people report this, only to be told you simply need to type in the value manually. As you can see from the attached video, entering 600 manually does not work. What am I missing? ad2_dpi.mov

My current workflow involves writing down the true dimensions of objects on paper, as I create them. There is no other way to refer back to the true dimensions otherwise. Affinity Designer 2 cannot, will not, and seemingly will never divulge its secrets. The secret of what size things are. In a design program.