Seneca
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Apple Macintosh + Adobe Laser Writer + Aldus PageMaker were the pillars of the Desktop Publishing Revolution.
This is how I started my love affair with the digital publishing all those years ago and I will always cherish these products and memories.
As far as I am concerned they were great. We can criticise them all we want but they were seminal in this category.
Let's hope that Affinity Publisher can push the envelope further, standing on the shoulders of the giants such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXpress, inDesign and give the tools the modern digital publishing industry needs today.
Hopefully we won't have to wait for it for too long now. :P
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No problems here.
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There is no VivaPublisher … perhaps the reason why you don’t get an answer. There was VivaPress in the 1990s.
Ups, I meant to say VivaDesigner.
I have subscribed to their newsletter on their website and so far didn't get anything.
I'm not complaining about it. I'm just narrating my experience.
Regards
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Same here. Never heard of VivaPublisher before Oval mentioned it on this forum. Even iCalamus escaped my attention in spite of me being in the publishing business for donkeys years.
I have subscribed to their (VivaPublisher) newsletter, asked for more information about its Scripting engine, which pricked my ears when I read about it, and guess what, never heard from them since. So, they either don't care or have a very small team and cannot cope.
But I concur with what Petar is saying. I hope that the Affinity team is willing to test all these programs and make their own stamp on all these features when working on the Publisher.
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That's true, but:
1. Once the Mac alpha/beta version is out of the door, the windows version is going to be that much closer too.
2. Any features/suggestions requested by users like you, that will make it into the mac version, will also make their way in the windows version later on too.
Anyway you look at it it's a win win situation for mac and windows users (although I can appreciate your frustration regarding the time lapse between the mac and window versions). :o
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It's going to take years before it is anything like as full-featured as PagePlus or InDesign.
I think Dave's post quoted above is quite clear and It's not what I wanted to hear unfortunately.
Those of us who use inDesign professionally, will have to continue doing so for the foreseeable future and in my case it will most probably be the only DTP software I will have used till my retirement. It will be down to the next generation of DTP professionals to pick up the challenge of getting the Affinity Designer to become the inDesign challenger.
I will of course try all the beta releases as they become available but will not expect much initially.
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Well, I have never had a problem downloading Affinity betas, be it Designer or Photo.
So, I tend to believe that you may have some issues with your internet provider.
It's also possible that you have hit a busy time downloading the software, meaning that a lot of downloads have been requested at the same time.
Regards
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I doubt we'll even attempt editable text in PSD export until long after Publisher is released. It will take months to do, and that time would be taken from the Publisher budget, so Publisher would be delayed by (further) months. I'm sorry, but Publisher has been delayed enough already and we don't want it to be any later than it needs to be.
We need Publisher ASAP, thanks. :)
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Depending on how you want to count things, there are at most 8 devs working on OS X at present (6 contributing to Affinity up-to 1.5, 2 working on future things), 4 working on Windows and 1 running and improving our regression testing suite. So we have at most 13 devs at this point.
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So, who is working on the Publisher. This is the software I'm most interested in.
Regards :)
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It seems that nobody asked this question before so what happened to Beta 2?
Ups, that was answered a couple of posts above. Sorry about that.
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On Constraints,
I've been using constraints to implement my own arrows before the development team implements native arrows support in the application.
What I'm missing right now the fact that I can't lock the vertical or horizontal resizing of the Constraints Group.
In the case of arrows I want to make sure that the constraints group is not resizable vertically only horizontally.
At other times I want to make sure that I can only resize the group vertically not horizontally.
I'm not sure what the 3 icons do at the bottom right corner of the Constraints Panel. Does anyone out there know what they are for?
Best regards
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Hello, You are not in the minority.. (I think). We really need the boring (not marketable) functionalities solved before adding new shiny options like the VR 3d projection editing, 32bit HDR editing mode, etc
I don't see the Sticky settings in any part of the road map... and the polygonal selection tools still not in this beta release (not referring to the magnetic selection but a simple freehand polygonal selection) ... I think they believe this an afterthought... And the channels palette editing is really unintuitive that I don't want to go in there and use the software...
Sorry for sounding negative and I know you are working on it but it's like buying a brand new shiny car with satellite radio, bluetooth, solar panels in the roof but with square wheels....
Every few months it's the same. I see the new announcements, give the software a try and open an image in it. See the same essential tools everyday tools missing and close it and do my professional work back in Photoshop.
Obviously you like the tools provided by Photoshop so you should stick with Photoshop.
I rarely use the polygonal selection or the magnetic selection tools in my professional work. They are too crude for me.
They are not a deal breaker for me but it seems they are for you.
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As far as I am aware we don't currently have any plans to add Macro support to Affinity Designer however that doesn't mean it can't happen in the future. Hopefully one of the devs will drop by just to confirm this :)
Well, Andy Somerfield said this in another thread:
"Macros are one of the prerequisites for scripting - and scripting certainly will be exposed in Designer in the future."
So there you have it.
Regards :D
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1. I think macros are fine and they can do a lot to automate certain processes.
2. But we definitely need scripting to push the automation envelope further.
That goes particularly for Designer and later Publisher.
3. I also hope that Affinity is planning to expose their APIs so that we can write Plug-ins to go much further (to
infinityaffinity and beyond!!! :)).Regards
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make circles, make a symbol based on it
move + enlarge and then power dublicate
- if you then move one circle (you have to decollapse the symbol and select one of the circles itself, not the symbol, all circles move in relative increments to their size
+macOS visual fixes work as far as I see
+rendering performance seems to be improved yet again? I mean there are some issues left which I´ll report but for now this is really improving very well!!!
- not only curves end point modifications and bevel profiles are broken but blend ranges sliders are also broken
- one still can´t drag the "opacity" label to change the opacity of layers :wacko: (like it works for brush size e.g.)
- when you have a brushes mod panel opened and press the v key, the controls are not editable anymore
+ dropping stuff into assets and symbol panels
+ might we get the docking of two columns of tool panels to the right (and left) side like possible in AD for Windows?+ Bleed preview, linked bleed valuesthanks for the update! (mostly looking forward to AP 1.5 though :lol:)This drives me nuts. I cannot reproduce any of that.
---make circles, make a symbol based on it
do you mean circles (plural) or just one circle.
---move + enlarge and then power dublicate
Done
--- if you then move one circle (you have to decollapse the symbol and select one of the circles itself, not the symbol, all circles move in relative increments to their size
Nope if I sub-select a circle only that circle moves. What do you mean by decollapse?
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Thanks for the next beta.
Leading appears to be still broken unfortunately. :)
I mean, the manual leading is still broken. If one defines a Style that works.
Regards
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Slides on steroids!
I don't recall seeing so many options in the Slices Tab before, especially when you click on the triangle left to the name.
Have they been there before or is it a new addition to Beta 1.5 release? JSON? Wow.
That would merit a good video tutorial from the Affinity Team. :)
Regards
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Hi Seneca,
The way AD is working as per the example given is to place 3 objects, not layers, on the page. e.g. Open a new document in AD and add a layer, now, with the layer still selected draw the three objects on the page, AD will have drawn the three objects within the layer created. This is how AD worked originally, but has now been removed and a good reason for making this change has not been forthcoming from Serif.H
Hello Ken,
You are wrong. Each object is placed on a separate layer. They are all layers!!!
If you create a new layer before you start drawing AD creates a grouped layer.
So when you then draw something new on a page it simply adds that new object to the grouped layer but even then each object is placed in its own layer within the grouped layer.
Regards
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Not quite, if AD started with a layer already in place then all drawing will go into this layer (as it does now but without a layer being created) until the user decides to create a second layer to populate with drawing. It makes things much easier to manage in the long run and is one less thing to think about when starting the app. Why does the professional artist Kevin House produce a complex drawing such as the sample 'High Flyer' using a myriad of layers? Because it makes drawing a complex scene much easier to manage. I doubt if it could be drawn easily without layers.
Hello Ken,
You misunderstood my post.
Consider this:
1. Launch the program. The program starts out without any layers.
2. Select a rectangle tool. Draw a rectangle on a page/canvas. As soon as you do that the program will automatically create a new layer for you and your new rectangle is placed on that layer.
3. Select a triangle tool. Draw a triangle on a page. The program has created another layer and the triangle was placed on a second layer.
4. Select text tool. Type some text and a third layer with the text has been created for you.
So you have used 3 tools and the program has automatically created 3 independent layers for you.
What I said in my previous post was that the program will take care of the layers for you. So there is no need of having an empty layer at start up.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you are not aware of how Affinity Designer works.
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Why was a "layer 1" automatically created at document startup when the program was first introduced and then taken out of the program?
Because it makes more sense not to have it until you start drawing and the program will create one for you automatically.
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Sorry, but I'm not sure whether I understand your problem.
I much prefer the way the beta works now. The program starts out without any layers because there is nothing drawn yet.
As soon as you start using the program each tool will automatically create a new layer.
So no need to create an empty layer.
If later you want to organise your layers in a different way or merge them you are free to do so using either Grouping, or merging, etc.
Regards
Printing all artboards on one page
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Select print and then in the pop-up Artboard menu select: Entire Document.