kemie
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One year later still waiting for this:
Variable fonts allow users fine control over typographic properties such as weight and width, beyond what regular fonts can do.
I hope Affinity can finally support them.
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yep, i think it was the handles, thanks for the tip!. Still I'd expect the outlined stroke to be rendered the same as the original
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I'm having problems with a quite simple stroke changing weirdly when expanded (see attached image). Any clues as to what could be causing this?
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The competitor that rhymes with terminator has a great ui for nudging on ipad. Wish affinity would adopt something similar.
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On 1/5/2021 at 2:11 PM, Gabe said:
The problem seems to be caused by having the new "Import PSD smart objects" option in General preferences. Issue logged!
Any news @Gabe ? I'm also running into this problem
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Just uploaded a new swatch library for Affinity (and others).
It's two color gradients, one warm, one cool, with vibrant colors for impactful designs & illustrations.
It's now up for sale at Creative Market
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Serbidan, estás en el foro equivocado (este es para recursos, trata en el de Affinity Support & questions) y probablemente tengas mas suerte si lo posteas en inglés (usa Google translate si es necesario)
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On 4/6/2021 at 1:00 PM, loukash said:
Is there anything wrong with:
- option-click to sharp node
- ctrl-click to smooth node
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I totally missed that. thanks!
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The inkscribe plugin for illustrator has a great feature: if you double click on a node it will switch from smooth to sharp or vice versa. Would love to have this on affinity too as it is a huge time saver. could just swithc between those 2 or cycle between smooth-->sharp-->smart.
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I'm trying to create several sites with a black stroke, but different brushes and widths. There problem is after the first one, selecting "add style from selection" does nothing. If I change the stroke color it works, if l delete the previous style, it works. I've tried with multiple brushes, colors, widths and it's always the same. Only one style allowed per stroke color.
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Answering my own question, at least partially: this happened when "scale stroke" was selected on the object from which the stle was created. this is still unexpected behavior,a s I would expect the initial stroke width to be the same before being resized.
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I'm running into a weird problem: I created a style from a shape with a brush stroke set at 8px. When I apply the style to other shapes, however, the stroke width is random, sometimes it's 6.1 px, sometimes 4.2. In my mind it should ALWAYS be the same width. what gives?
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On 10/22/2020 at 12:02 PM, BarKeegan said:
Draw as many glyphs/characters as the task requires, arrange along underlying guides, kern by hand.
Just a digital process of what sign makers would do back in the day
IIRC, Freehand would let you paste a graphic into a text box and it would treat it as a character, so you could set size, spacing, etc. Maybe this is the feature that you'd need, no?
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To make a font you need a LOT of functionality, not only to draw the characters, but to set encoding, spacing, kerning, etc. I'd much rather Affinity focused on other features and left type design to other apps.
- Alfred, Dazmondo77, garrettm30 and 1 other
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Thanks for the reply! As a bit of a feature request, some things that would help in this workflow would be:
- be able to copy/paste a single attribute (like paste fx, but paste stroke/fill)
- be able to select all elements with a similar stroke/fill (I know this has been requested in the past)
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I have several objects with different fills. I want to apply the same stroke to them. Ideally I'd have a style I could apply that changed the stroke but left the fill as is. If I understand correctly this is not possible. What would be the best way of achieveing this then? Anything better than selecting all objects and applying the stroke at the same time?
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@MEB this is really frustrating behavior. If I have a group of objects including a text frame and scale it, I'd expect the text to resize along with it. If I have already created text with the Frame Text tool, the only solution os to manually adjust each text frame, which is cumbersome and error prone.
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Just released a second color palette with support for Affinity's .afpalette format.
It's a set of bright, happy colors to lighten up any illustration or design.
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Glad you liked it, thanks!
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I wanted a base palette that I could use on my illustrations, with a range of shades, and highlights/shadows for each. So I made my own:
It's a good starting point for illustrations, icons & UI work. There's more than 100 swatches, nicely organized. Comes in several formats, of course .afpalette included.
Grab it over at CreativeMarket!
- MEB, pioneer and Mithferion
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I'm about to do just that. I saved my affinity images as pdf, opened in .ai (sucked to lose all the layer organization) and converted to eps/ai. I'll let you know how it goes!
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I was just coming in to say this: I want transparency in export without having to set the doc bg to transparent for two reasons
- (Least important) It is an extra step to change the document settings.
- (Most important) The chequered background is very distracting when working on a document, especially when you are working with a grid. I like having a clean white background to work in and not have the bg export by default.
I think an easy solution (at least easy in terms of the UI, no clue in dev terms) would be to have a checkbox at export "Transparent background" That would enable transparency there.
Include Variable Fonts
in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
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J3rry,
In both weight and width, variable fonts allow you to control those values beyond the presets, so if you think the bold is to bold and the semibold too thin, you can set the weight somewhere in the middle. But variable fonts allow you to control more things, such as optical sizing, the length of serifs.
Recursive Sans is a great example of what can be done: IT allows you to control weight, slant, "casualness" and "monospaceness"