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  1.    k_au reacted to a post in a topic: Columns — Feature to Span Columns
  2.    foot_portrait reacted to a post in a topic: FEATURE REQUEST - Proper vector brush support
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  4. Juhani
    As a sort of follow up, are you all paying any attention to what Figma is doing? Their flagship product design app has now many of these missing vector features that we’ve been asking for in Affinity Designer for years, including true vector brushes, dynamic vector patterns and dynamic vector effects. I know it's not print ready, and probably never will given their focus, but if they can pull this off inside a browser, IMHO there really is no excuses for not having them inside Affinity Designer.
  5.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: FEATURE REQUEST - Proper vector brush support
  6. Juhani
    No, none of these work, even when wiping my character styles, which I do not want to do obviously. "Revert defaults" does clear out the Tracking value, however it also wipes any character styles applied. This does not work when you have an edited article with bold and italics as local overrides that needs to be converted into character styles. Capitals seem to have the same problem. Often texts are imported in either All Caps or Small Caps, even though the original text was not set in all caps. Very odd.
  7. Juhani started following Publisher V2.4.0 PDF Export only exporting a single page - not entire document , Why Publisher fails to override tracking when applying paragraph style to imported text? and Cross referencing a range of page numbers/story in Publisher
  8. Juhani
    Why Publisher fails to override tracking when applying paragraph style to any imported text? It only works when I switch to a style that has a different Tracking value, but it does not clear any local overrides, even when Alt/Option clicking on the style name.
  9.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Blend tool in Designer
  10.    lepr reacted to a post in a topic: Vector/pattern fill
  11. Juhani
    If a single developer like the maker of VectorStyler can offer these (and many more) vector features (and fixes for them) at much rapid rate than Serif ever has with its close to 100 employees, and now also backed by a $40 billion dollar company, then it doesn't take a programmer to realize it should have been implemented many years ago, be it however hard as it may.
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  14.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Scripting
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  19. Juhani
    This is indeed extremely disappointing. They took 9 months to get the 2.6 out and completely ignored this highly critical bug affecting Affinity Designer. Until this gets fixed Designer is completely useless for any branding or logo design projects.
  20.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Latest Affinity V2 release versions on each platform by store
  21. Juhani
    A great start would be already an ability to "star" or "favourite" any brush without having to copy each and every brush that you use on a regular basis into a separate group.
  22. Juhani
    That's the thing, Designer is not even able to expand its most basic solid strokes properly without losing their integrity and making a real mess of them. So even if they rushed out the blend tool tomorrow, it would likely suffer from the same problems that has plagued Designer's other vector features for years, or they'd just give you a bitmap output and call it a win. Which is why the request for a blend tool goes in fact way beyond the blend tool itself. For Designer to have a real purpose and value next to Photo and Publisher, something major needs to happen with its core "vector engine", in case it even has one.
  23. Juhani
    I can see Photo and Publisher coming along and maturing nicely, especially with the upcoming 2.6 update, but I feel Designer is in a very odd and confusing place right now. It is marketed as an "award-winning vector graphics software", alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but in reality it is not even in the same category. Basically it doesn't have any advanced vector features whatsoever, and even the basic ones we expect to be vector most often fall back to bitmap solutions or simply don't work properly. In fact, the more you use Designer the more you understand how limited it is, to the point that you cannot even consider it as vector application at all. It's more like a faux vector app, which obviously is never going to meet the needs of professional users. It does keep confusing and frustrating new users, however, because Serif keeps telling them they have an "award-winning vector graphics software" available. Having been bitten by Designer by numerous times by now, I have stopped using it altogether, only use Photo and Publisher, and import my vectors from VectorStyler.
  24.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Scripting
  25. Juhani
    Thanks @MikeTO! This is super helpful and much appreciated you taking the time. I was trying to pin the block headings in which case there's no way to change the number of columns of course, but never thought about doing it the other way around 🤦‍♂️. The "only" problem would be of course importing the content manually one block at a time and still having to draw independent frames for every single one of them, but at least I'd get the text reflow back, which is a huge win. Thanks again for the hack, I'll try to implement this in the next issue. I hear you but I'm confident it's only a matter of time till we get this. Other than this span columns feature (and no way to save Find/Replace commands, and no automatic text clean-up script on import, and no dynamic captions, etc), I'd have to say my first publication with Publisher still turned out to be a success without any other major hiccups. Not to mention that there are other things which are so much better implemented than in InDesign, like image editing without having to save out separate tiffs for each and every image, or much easier way to composite images right inside your layouts.
  26.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Columns — Feature to Span Columns
  27. Juhani
    Now that 2.6 is about to be released, can we please get this column span feature in the next release of 2.7? Consider the following layout example using different number of columns and column heights. A similar layout used to take me just 2 frames in Adobe InDesign on one spread, but now migrated over to Affinity Publisher needs 23. Say this goes on for another 4 spreads and we're dealing with over 100 frames – which used to be just 10. Now imagine my editor decides to remove one block entirely from the first page. While in InDesign everything would just reflow automatically, in Publisher I have to now manually position every one of those frames after the removed block. This is insanity. So people, can we please make some noise about this feature?! We need this in 2025!
  28. Juhani
    Yes that's how I did it, but it seemed hacky and thought there should be a better way to do it. Also the generated bookmark would be possibly confusing, when clicking on the page number range (4-6), and being sent at the last page of the story. Ideally the range should always point to the start of the story, but still change automatically when I decide to reshuffle the pages around.
  29.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Cross referencing a range of page numbers/story in Publisher
  30. Juhani
    Is there a way to cross reference a range of page numbers or the whole story, not just one page? My editor wants to reference the whole story, like "see pages 4-6", not just "see page 4". Is there a way to do that in the latest Publisher 2.5.7?
  31. Juhani
    Adobe Acrobat's online PDF splitter tool should be free to use for all who has the free Adobe account. At least having access only to their photography plan, which doesn't come with Acrobat, I was able to split my document into single PDF files very quickly. The other free option would be Split PDF. Would still prefer if there was a checkbox for this in Affinity.
  32. Juhani
    Since I do all my design work on Mac, I'd leave giving suggestions for iPad to other users, but I've heard Illustrator for iPad is not too bad, which should be already included as part of your Illustrator plan.
  33. Juhani
    @AlexMzn As I said, I appreciate you’ve found a hack that could work in certain cases if you’re in a pinch, but this is still not good enough for professional workflows. At this point it’s simply better to do your vector work in better applications and use Affinity Designer solely for layout and typesetting. If that's true, then this is indeed such a bummer and should fire up red lights for anyone thinking of implementing Designer as their main vector design tool. Having experimented with the application well over 8 months by now, I sadly have to agree. The vector capabilities of the whole Affinity suite, including Designer, are extremely weak and not ready for professional workflows.
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