[Architecture Magazine 2023]

270 pages, that must have been a lotta work.
Looks like a real fun project tho!

We've switched off most Adobe products aswell.
However, we haven't found a decent alternative for Preflight and so we are kinda stuck with Acrobat still.

What are you using for Preflight?

[Understanding Pixel Alignment, resample methods and effect on sharpness / blurriness]

23 minutes ago, paolo.limoncelli said:

Yes I well know... We've been using AD since 2014... 😜

It also creates problems with slices' dimensions in Export Persona.

This is a long term glitch, and could be fixed to snap back to the closest integer (if the Force Pixel Alignment is ON), but could be very demanding for CPUs maybe? I guess switching complex vector art stuff could be tricky... Today I'm accustomed to the scroll-wheel over the input field to fix if weird things happen.

 

I was reading through the thread earlier and I read your response like the Move By Whole Pixels setting helps moving objects onto the grid, when it actually keeps them off.

So I felt like clarifying for anyone else who might missunderstand the setting at first like I did.

The scrollwheel trick is nifty! Thank you for sharing! Will make good use of that one :^)

[Sardines & Pub Sign]

Those are some clean renders! 👍

 

[Tringledo using affinity officially]

I always have a soft spot for playful designs.

Very attention-grabbing and engaging :^)

Good job!

[Understanding Pixel Alignment, resample methods and effect on sharpness / blurriness]

On 1/18/2023 at 9:40 AM, paolo.limoncelli said:

If I could add further suggestions, is a great idea to enable both 

• Move By Whole Pixels
• Force Pixel Alignment

 

 

 

In particular in UI design scenarios these are fundamental to spot "off-grid" assets.

🙂

 

Careful with Move By Whole Pixels.

It's a great option for objects you want to move pixel-based while having it offset on the pixelgrid.
It does not help aligning objects to the pixel-grid itself.
For example:
You import an image into your workspace and its coordinates are x:0,2px y:0,5px.
If you have Move By Whole Pixels active, moving the object will always have the x: ,2px y: ,5px offset, as you are moving by WHOLE pixels, EVEN if you have Force Pixel Alignment on.

Example:

Moving an object (dragged by mouse).

 →

You can see how X and Y keep the offset.

In case there was any confusion about how these two work together, I hope this example clears things up.
It caught me off-guard earlier, when I was trying to figure out why my artboard exports had white gaps.

TL;DR:
Unless you want to have certain objects offset on the pixel-grid, disable Move By Whole Pixels.

Force Pixel Alignment is all you need to get your objects on the grid.

[Export Persona: Slice Dimensions, Duplication & more]

3 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Beside what I already told above for ADe, AFAIK no. - Other than that you would have use some third-party tool as a workaround, which then offers to do what you are after for images here (so things like ImageMagick etc.).

Pity!
Thank you for clearing things up nonetheless.

[Export Persona: Slice Dimensions, Duplication & more]

1 minute ago, v_kyr said:

Yes, as there is sadly no copy/duplicate functionality for slices.

Ah, that's a shame.
There is no workaround to smoothen out this process either?

[Export Persona: Slice Dimensions, Duplication & more]

8 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

There is no need to make a copy of the Slice - just three different exports of this slice are made. You can set different dimensions, different formats, ...

https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/ExportPersona/slicesPanel.html

What do I set so it crops the image instead of transforming it?

[Export Persona: Slice Dimensions, Duplication & more]

Sorry, I was a bit too vague.
I am working in Affinity Designer, so I can lay out the images together.
What I am looking for is to have 3 slices per image and easily duplicate them onto other images/canvas in Designer (same document).
Right now it would require me to redraw them for each image manually. 
If I could at least copy/paste a three stack and rescale them as a group, that would already save a lot of work.

[Export Persona: Slice Dimensions, Duplication & more]

Hello,

for my current project I need to refit several images into 3 different aspect ratios each. (4:1, 3:1 and 2:1)

My current way of going about it is making 3 canvas for each image.

I was looking in the export persona if instead I can just use an image once and draw 3 slices on it instead.

Couldn't find anything and doesn't seem to be possible to copy slices either.

Are there other ways to go about this?

I feel like this should be a bread and butter functionality for production. 

[Affinity 2.2: Odd Update Behavior (W11)]

22 minutes ago, Callum said:

Hi Baddy,
Welcome to the forums

It sounds like you might have installed the .exe version alongside the MSIX version of the apps. I'd recommend uninstalling all currently installed versions of V2 and then reinstall all of the apps using either the MSIX or .EXE installer.

Thanks
C

Hey Callum,
I think you are right on the money here.
Had the MSIX files downloaded and stored on a server before setting up this machine about a week ago.
Is it possible for future installers to check for an existing installation and ask the user if they like to update instead so there is a context-sensitive install even across installation files?
Honest mistake on my part, but I also see other people potentially run into that issue.

Anyway, thanks for the help!
Will go and fix my installation now 😛

[Affinity 2.2: Odd Update Behavior (W11)]

Tech specs:
System: Windows 11 Pro (22H2)
Memory: 32GB DDR4

 

Hello gamers,

yesterday I got prompted about an update when opening Designer 2, so I went on the Affinity website and downloaded the 2.2 installers for Designer, Photo and Publisher.
After installing all three, I went and opened Designer 2 again from my Start menu.
Another pop-up, telling me 2.2 is now out and if I want to download it. "That's odd, didn't I just install that?"
I check version of Designer and sure enough it's still on 2.1. Weird. 
So I close Designer and open the installer again:

Okay. "Maybe a faulty update?" 
I press reinstall, it's done almost instantanously.
Pressing the Launch button, I finally boot into Designer 2.2.
So I went ahead and just to make used Reinstall with the other two installers too.
Today I open Photo via Start menu and get greeted by the familiar update notice yet again.

You can probably tell by now: 
Opening Affinity software over my Start menu pins opens 2.1, while opening over the installer opens 2.2.
So I had a look:

Installed apps:

Start menu (with my pins):

Start menu > All apps:

I am not too sure what is going on, but I can't even inspect the location of the 2.2 installations.
Got some information out of it by looking at the Designer 2.2 task:

Whereas my Affinity 2 installation is under the default location:

 

Is there some kind of conflict with new W11 features or something? 
That would be my first guess.
Anyway, I would happy to resolve this. Having 2 installations/instances hovering around isn't very pretty. 😛

[Publisher Linked Resources not updating]

Hello,

I have some PDFs linked in my Publisher file.

Had to do some revisioning on them, so I wanted to use the Resource Manager to update all my changed files in one swoop.

However it seems like Publisher doesn't recognize a change to the linked documents. Status is presented as "OK" and the Update button is greyed out.

So while this also might be a bug, I also would like to suggest that the Update button is ALWAYS an option, even on documents that are "OK" and on press forces a relink/reload of the linked document.