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  1. I am also very interested to find out if this is possible .. this old thread came up on a Google search regarding iPad animation affinity .. Has anyone found a solution for this?

    I am interested in getting my Son going on his iPad as he is interested in making animations and currently wants to start out with paper flip books. For beginning cartooning, this is a great way to learn, but we would prefer digital vs paper. It seems like it would be great to get him working with Affinity art creation, and be able to create layers similar to an onion skin process, stacking up layers in a file, then automate the export process Into a motion file somehow.

    Any pointers would be appreciated :)

  2. Thanks folks for the feedback .. I've checked out the 'Switch to Next View' key shortcut and it's helpful in part, but would be nice to have the option to go back the other direction through the stack. I just tried the 'Command-Shift-Arrow' to move stuff around on a designer document, and it seems to function the same as 'Shift-Arrow' does .. could anyone confirm that ?

    I wondered how it works to open multiple files at the same time so tried a bunch of .png files that I had exported, on the Mac, 'Preview' opens them sequentially, so somehow this must have been done before .. maybe there's an Apple API for it to make things easier ?

    Anyhow .. thanks to the community ! Really enjoying the product after about 2 years into Affinity ... top shelf indeed !

  3. Greetings fellow Affini-types :)

    I'd like to ask a question about the functionality of both Designer and Photo ..

    I frequently use both of these programs to create frames that I later make into animations. As such, creating each file in the scene, I name them sequentially like "Filename 1", "Filename 2" and so on.

    When revisiting the files to edit later, I like to grab a bunch of the files and double click them all to open them as a set.

    The current, and rather odd functionality that I'd like to avoid is this: If I open up 6 files, named "xx 7.png", "xx 8.png", "xx 9.png", "xx 10.png", "xx 11.png", "xx 12.png", the order that the tabs open up is a complete jumble, for example just now I opened the same list of files, and the order Designer opened them was: "10, 8, 12, 11, 9, 7". With only 6 files, this is not a huge task to correct, but when opening 25 or 30 files at a time, and also doing this several times per hour, it's really cumbersome to have to go and reshuffle the tabs around so I can step through them easily in a sequential fashion.

    I would like to ask if this is possible in the current release of Designer and Photo, and if so, how?

    If this isn't currently possible, I'd like to request that this is added as a new improvement, as it would make my particular work flows much more efficient.

    I use multiple tabs within Safari windows in a similar fashion, and would suggest that Affinity could possibly twin Safari's Tab behaviour to make it easier to navigate between the currently open tabs. Safari's key-command "Command+Shift+(RightArrow)" and "Command+Shift+(LeftArrow)" makes a nice addition as a method to skip right or left across the tabs as well. These sequences fall easily at hand with a laptop keyboard and is familiar to Safari users.

    I think the above would make a dandy addition to these two truly world-class pieces of software.

    Please let me know if anyone can help.

  4. Greetings to the forum,

     

    I've been using the trial versions of both Designer and Photo until yesterday when I purchased both full versions .. INCREDIBLY AWESOME replacements to the big cumbersome apps of the past.

     

    But .. I have a question.

     

    I'm using Designer to work on a .pdf file which has now been saved as an .afdesign file, and there are 'many many' layers. The program felt a little slow while I was doing a move, and Designer locked up fo a while ... so while waiting I checked in my Activity Monitor to see whether I was running out of RAM (6 total, only using 4, not ideal but not bad), then did a terminal: "top -n 10 -o cpu" to see how busy the CPU was .. I saw that no matter what was going on, Affinity Designer was never using more than 100%, which was a little ODD .. I have an 8 core 2008 Mac Pro, which while admittedly old, usually shows most programs using 500 or 600% when they start to get thirsty for processing power like this.

     

    I'd like to know if Designer is able to use multiple CPU cores, and if so, what's going on with my setup?

     

    (EDIT: Just noticed that sometimes it uses more than one core (saw some 455% here and there), but when it's doing a big move of curves, Designer only uses 1 core .. does this make sense?)

     

    I have a Mac Pro 3,1 2 x 2.8 ghz Quad-Core Xeon .. running the latest of ElCapitan 10.11.1 I only have 6 gigs of 800 mhz DDR2 installed as they're crazy expensive still due to all the cooling and mac certification etc.

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