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tomek

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  1. I thought I’d share some more info: iPad Pro 12.9” 2021, iOS 14.7.1 Affinity Designer 1.10.5 See attached screenshot.
  2. Unfortunately I do not have access to the IDML file. INDD only for this particular document. But that's for pointing this out. From now on I will ask my collaborators to deliver IDML files for my workflow. Thanks again.
  3. I've just tried Viva nad I am not impressed. It was not able to correctly import my InDesign document, and once it did the performance of the app is abysmal. I have a pretty high end iMac and Viva was struggling to even scroll through my document, which by the way is not very complex at all. Publisher is a performance beast compared to Viva. We just need the ability to import InDesign file, among other things.
  4. Yup, not having proper object styles, that can be updated, just like text styles, is really painful. Current "styles" palette is pretty much useless.
  5. Thanks @dominik, I did not know that you could do that. -t
  6. That's why I suggested that we have the ability to create our own list of custom presets. Then everyone's "standard" would be taken care of. This should extend to creating new documents which already allow me to create a custom size but there is no way to save the preset. That's just silly. It's really annoying having to do all that clicking all the time every time I want to create a new document of a certain size that is "standard" to me. I fully support the team's strategy to port Designer and Photo to Windowd and iOS but now that these platforms are stable I think they need to go back, take a good hard look at all the pain points and pick some of that really ripe low hanging fruit and give us some of the functionality that loyal customers have been asking for for years now.
  7. I'm with the original poster: it would be great if we could display some more "standard" sizes for art boards. Even better, give us the option of creating a bunch of sizes that can be displayed in the drop down menu.
  8. Yeah, this one is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I create a lot of diagrams and they usually have lots of arrow. Still, I believe and so I persist and keep waiting for the new version with this functionality implemented. In the mean time I have get dirty with Illustrator... the longer I use it the more dirty it appears. Go Team Affinity! May you have the energy and resources to crank out new versions so that we may liberate ourselves from the yoke of Illustrator's oppression ;-) P.S. Illustrator is not all bad though so do borrow some of the ideas like ability to make selections based on appearance and definitely implement re-definable and editable styles. If I had more sophisticated selection, arrows and editable styles I could switch to Designer 100%.
  9. I'm not sure of this is a bug or a poorly documented feature but I keep seeing these purple rectangles around object on my artboards. I want to turn them off but can't find a way to do so. Being able to see object frames is very useful for alignment and layout but sometimes I just want to see the artboard with no meta objects displayed. Being able to turn off object frames would give me that ability.
  10. Yes, this is definitely needed. I have recently decided to take the plunge and forced myself to work exclusively with Designer and Photo. Until that point I thought that both apps offered pretty good functionality. But since I started using them exclusively I find myself wanting to switch back to Adobe CS because there are so many basic features missing from Affinity apps. I believe in this suite of apps and so I will continue using it as I believe that many of these features are close by. I really do hope that the company will prioritise implementing what many consider essentials over the new and merely interesting. At the same time I appreciate that this suit is being developed as a blank slate trying not to imitate or rely on old techniques. I'm just a little impatient ;-) cheers, -tomek
  11. So what is the recommended process for importing DWG files in Designer? This is a must have for using Designer in architecture. -t
  12. I've been collecting links to various resources useful in the field of architectural rendering and visualisation and I'd like to share them with the community. There are quite a few on my list as it has been compiled over some years. These are content related: cut out people and objects, vegetation etc: http://www.gobotree.com/ http://xoio.de/en/ http://skalgubbar.se/ http://www.immediateentourage.com/ http://www.mrcutout.com/index.php/people-cutouts http://visualizingarchitecture.com/favorite-architectural-cutout-and-texture-resources/ http://texturer.com/ https://placeit.net/c/people http://www.viz-people.com/ http://vyonyx.com/cutouts/ http://www.nonscandinavia.com/ http://www.escalalatina.com/ http://www.cutoutlife.com/ http://skalgubbrasil.tumblr.com/ These are tutorials and example specific to architectural presentations: http://visualizingarchitecture.com/no-render-quick-collage/ http://vyonyx.com/tutorials/ http://www.arqui9.com/ https://www.behance.net/arqui9 http://www.archdaily.com/645270/architecture-software-tutorials-part-2-what-we-heard-from-you http://www.ccc.umontreal.ca/fiche_concours.php?lang=fr&cId=207 http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/163772/water-reflections-using-displace-filter https://visualizingarchitecture.com/tutorials/ http://landarchs.com/beyond-basics-10-photoshop-hacks-advanced-photoshop-skills/ http://landarchs.com/10-best-photoshop-tutorials-youtube-landscape-architects/ http://visualizingarchitecture.tumblr.com/ And these are more generic stock resources: http://www.cgtextures.com/ http://cgtextures.com/ http://compfight.com/ http://everystockphoto.com/ http://obeygiant.com/archives/ http://www.premiumpsd.com/#_ http://www.vectorstock.com/ http://www.123rf.com/ http://www.veer.com/ http://subtlepatterns.com/ http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ http://www.thomasnet.com/cadmodels.html?WT.mc_t=blg&WT.mc_n=blg1107&channel=email http://medialoot.com/ http://www.sketchuptexture.com/p/bricks-section.html http://www.texturepilot.com/ http://texturelib.com/ http://nos.twnsnd.co/ http://www.gratisography.com/ http://graphicburger.com/ http://nobacks.com/
  13. As long as these animations do not slow down the tool selection process. See my other request. When working under pressure on time critical projects being slowed down by animations and other UI embellishments is very annoying. If Affinity suite is to be used by design professionals it has to not stand in the way of getting the job done. It has to facilitate getting the job done. It has to be fast, sleek and streamlined. Customizable keyboard shortcuts everywhere please.
  14. Some of the UI elements which are not visible either require a lengthy mouse press-and-hold to be revealed, like secondary tools, or use UI devices which use lengthy animations to reveal the element (eg, snapping options). These while cute quickly become annoying when working under pressure on time critical projects. It would be great if there was a way to toggle UI animations off or enable fast UI mode. In particular, right click on tools with secondary options should reveal the menu (or whatever UI device needs to be displayed) instantly.
  15. The forum software doesn't seem to be the right platform for feature requests and bug reports. Consider migrating this part of your support service (which is excellent by the way) to something like Trello.
  16. Corner tool is not what I'm after. I am referring to the ability to trim two separately drawn but intersecting lines or lines which would intersect if extended (ie non parallel). Likewise it would be great to extend a line to another line.
  17. Add ability to manipulate case in paragraph styles InDesign has a tool in the Type menu which allows one to change the case of a string of text into various general formats (Title Case, Sentence case, etc). However these options are not available in paragraph styles. One can only select form a much less useful list of Normal, All caps, Small caps. This is very annoying. Being able to change case should also be available in Find/Replace dialogue which needs to be at least as powerful as what's in InDesign and could be even more so.
  18. Thanks for the reply. I am still getting used to the different workflows in Affinity suite. I really like it but it's sufficiently different that I simply don't see things as my brain is expecting something entirely different. I'll get there eventually, especially now that I have forced myself to use only Photo and Designer for all my personal work. cheers, -tomek
  19. It's great that Designer now supports artboards. But when working with multiple artboards it is tedious to have to export them individually to files bitmap based file formats. Please add the ability to export all artboards automatically. File names should be derived from artboard names. Artboards could also have index numbers and one should be able to export ranges of artboards.
  20. It would be fantastic if Designer eventually had Trim, Fillet and Chamfer line editing tools as found in all CAD software. I am not suggesting that Designer should ever become some sort of CAD hybrid application but merely suggesting that these tools are invaluable when dealing with parametric 2D lines. They save a lot of time and effort. People have been asking for these to be implemented in Illustrator for years. Hopefully a dynamic team like Affinity can grant this long standing wish.
  21. I guess I better hurry up and buy a license then so that I can get those interesting betas. cheers, -tomek
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