Coconut42

Hi all, just got a color picker tool called ColorTagGen from the Mac App Store and have this weird effect that even when both it and AD use the same sRGB color space then the same HSB values generate quite different RGB values, much more than could be accounted for by rounding errors or similar. Now I'm no expert on color spaces, but given the same color space and the same input I would expect the same output - is this a bug in one of these applications or am I missing something important? Thanks!

Here's hoping that the combination of Affinity Photo and Apple Photos will be more than a replacement for Aperture! Can't wait to get my hands on Affinity Photo :-)

Ok, I replicated it now - there is a different behaviour for the two different text tools, the frames create empty ones for each click, the art text tool doesn't...

Despite some missing features, despite some bugs, despite not having much experience with this kind of software: I really like Affinity Designer, it's a software that you can immediately get comfortable and productive with, and you totally deserve to be in the spotlight! And the fact that you appear to be listening to your users regarding bugs and features basically ensures your long-term success, at least I very much hope so! Keep up the good work :-)

How did you manage to accidentally create empty text blocks? I'm asking because when I select the text tool and then click and drag around randomly on empty parts of the canvas, nothing gets created in the first place...

Ok, the Node tool... Thanks!

Hi, sorry for more newbie questions, but I'm stuck trying to manipulate multiple layers. I've created a bunch of circles and am playing around with them to get used to things. 1) Changing line color: When I select a single circle, I can change the color of the line/stroke near the upper left corner of the Affinity window, in the bar below the main tool bar. When I select multiple circles, that bar shows other things and I can't find any place to change the line/stroke color of all objects simultaneously! Which is different from the fill color, which, with a single circle selected, can also be changed near the upper left corner, and, with either one or multiple circles selected, can be changed under "Colour" near the upper right of the window. However under "Line" near the upper right of the window, with either one or multiple circles selected, I can change some properties of the line/stroke, but NOT the colour - or did I miss something??? 2) Changing object sizes: Under "Transform" near the lower right of the window I can change the size and position of an object by entering the appropriate numbers. When I select multiple objects/layers, in this case circles, the size given is the size of a hypothetical compound object, and when I change it the whole selection scales like a compound object which creates two problems: - It makes it difficult to change the objects' size to a given value because I have to calculate the object size in relationship to the compound size first; - the positions of the objects changes although I only want to change the sizes. I would expect this behaviour with a group of objects, not with individual ones... ...or am I missing something again? Thanks!

No problem, thanks for your help! I would hope that this is a non-controversial and simple-to-implement addition that doesn't break anything - seeing that currently nothing happens when right-clicking there.

Erm, my point was that I can't invoke the layer's context menu from it's entry in the list of all Layers - clicking the right mouse button does nothing, whereas it does open the context menu when directly right-clicking on a layer/object in the canvas...

Thanks, I just tried it with a "subtraction" as Boolean operation in the compound, and that makes the difference clearer - they both behave similar when the operation is "addition". Another difference is that I can't change e.g. the color of the parts of a compound object, whereas this is (of course :-) ) possible for the members of a group.

Hi again, there's one small thing that I find highly unintuitive: When I have a selected object (they seem to be called "layers" here) on the canvas and I click the right mouse button I get a context menu where I can "do stuff". When I click the right mouse button on an entry in the list/overview/tree of all "Layers" to the right of the screen, nothing happens at all; I would expect the very same context menu to show up... Thanks!

Ok, so a compound is a single object that happens to be made up from Boolean operations of some other objects, whereas a group is a bunch if individual objects. Not quite clear what that means in practice, i.e. when to use which, but at least the concepts are clear. Thanks again!

Hi, when selecting multiple objects, what's the difference between "Group" and "Compound"? Since there seems to be a "group" in SVG, my guess is that a group actually creates a new node in the DOM and renders according to how groups are rendered, whereas compounds are just a short-cut to manipulate a bunch of objects together. Thanks! PS: Sorry for such a newbie question, but I have no experience with vector design applications whatsoever.

Since this probably won't be done soon I started looking for other ways to achieve the same goal; it appears that programmatically generating an SVG and loading that into Affinity is the closest I can get and it should be good enough for the beginning.

Hi, this is the first serious vector design software that I've ever used, and 30 minutes in I'm missing some very fundamental things: I'd like to have a scripting interface, with an embedded language like Lua, where I can write scripts that give me complete access to the document object [in an OO sense] tree, and the possibility to programmatically create, modify and examine "everything". This would also allow easy procedural generation of objects, think fractals or vector lines according to mathematical equations etc... Thanks PS: Holler if you need some more info on Lua, I'd help you integrate it if necessary.