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Thank you Callum,
but I didn't mean with Text/Paragraph Styles but something like in InDesign or QuarkXPress. They offer a list of used fonts in the document and there you can change the font(s) in entire document if you need so.
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Hi heruler,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
1. No, Affinity Designer cannot export to ai (it's a proprietary format).
2. You can switch the document (including History) to Affinity Photo (going to menu File ▸ Edit in Photo...) and edit the image there but you can't currently use a third-party external editor.
Corel can, Xara can...
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Hokusai,
you are right. As a client I would think so ... but my problem is: my work. I was used to do so over the last years. Whenever I had to work with AI I did my work inside and outside of the artboard / print area (for all the prework, trials, variations etc.).
I was thinking about this problem ... and asked myself if it isn't solvable by manipulating the artboard/document dimension to the max during import process. Because we speak about the .AI file which contains all the object. And if I open AI and set the document dimension manually to "the maximum" and save the file > the afterward import progress of AD is perfect.
Cheer,
Stefan.
Maybe you should consider to change your habits. :)
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Hi,
1. is there any way to see which fonts are used in the document?
If not, then please add this feature with option to change any/all listed font(s).
2. Would you be so kind and put the rectangle and oval tools together with all other vector tools (triangle, cog, heart...))?
There is no need of rounded rectangle if you add "control points"(?) to rectangle tool.
3. Is it possible to join pen and pencil tool in a new tool?
So, if you just start clicking it will work as a pen tool, if you click + drag it will draw curves and if you additionally press SHIFT a straight line will be drawn.
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I use InDesign and QuarkXPress heavily in my everyday tasks and I am very familiar to their functionality (especially for printing).
My opinion is that InDesign has the ultimate solution about character styles, but their paragraph styles need little additional work to be OK. I mean in additional options to be included and some rearrangements of the existing ones.
Opposite to InDesign, QuarkXPress has a little bit different approach. Their paragraph styles are not as rich as InDesign's one and you don't have all the options you need in one place. You have to dig in different menus to find what you want to include in them. So, it is a little bit difficult to define a complex paragraph styles inside QXP. Also, defining character attributes in paragraph styles is a bit different than in InDesign. You can't define character attributes inside paragraph styles but you need to link previously created character style to an existing paragraph style.
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I just don't see the purpose why character style must contain paragraph attributes. It is applied to selected text not to the whole paragraph.
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OK, if so, but in that case "Text style" must be without Paragraph style options and vice versa.
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Hi,
clicking on "Create Paragraph Style" and "Create Text Style" open the exactly same windows. They even crash on same place as I described in this topic:
[1.5.0.14] Crash: Text Styles: double click "no style" -
More logical is selected ref point to be white.
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"Refference point" tool (InDesign term) can be used for flipping and rotating objects according selected refference point, beside possitioning and resizing the objects.
A "bug"? -- When some refference point is selected it changes the size but the upper left point remains white.
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Well, a user-defined unit would need some extra user interface to define it, and it would need to be stored in the document, which makes it different to all our existing units. Currently you can change the number of decimal places for units in Preferences, and that would need to be re-thought now the list of units is not fixed. It's all doable, but it takes more time than we'd like.
What other units do you need? Bear in mind that inch-marks and foot-marks were supposed to be including from the beginning, and it's a bug that they don't work. They will work in 1.5.
Well, in Japan, I think, they use "q" as a unit which is equal to 1/4 of a "mm". Beside this, I would preffer "t" that is equal to 1/10 of a "mm".
A suggestion: When "Show text in points" is deselected in "Preferences", the values in "Text height" are shown in millimeters converted from points (in my case). It would be nice to have values like these: hairline, 0,1mm, 0,2mm, 0,5mm, 1mm... In this case, "q" and "t" units would be obsolete.
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Hi,
I also use Xara but it has one big problem -- lack of proper CMYK support.
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Do you think this Feature will be on your list?
It's so usefull to copy some elements of an illustrator file and paste it in InDesign.
Why doesn't it work in AD?
Have you plans to do it?
THX!
This is a question for Adobe, not Affinity.
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The standard units are:
px, pix, pixels - pixels
in, ins, inch, inches - inches
pt , pts, point, points - point
mm - millimetre
cm - centimetre
m - metre
ft, foot, feet - foot
yd, yds, yard, yards - yard
cat, cats - cat
°, ˚, deg, degs, degree, degrees - degrees
rad, rads, radian, radians - radians
pc, perc, percent - percentage
‰, permille - permille
The standard variables are:
pi Pi, PI ,π - pi
phi, Phi, PHI, gr, GR, φ - the golden ratio
root2, rad2, rt2 - the square root of 2
The Transform tab supports variables:
x, y, w, h, r, s,
xposition, yposition, width, height, rotation, shear
The Document properties supports variables:
w, h, l, r, t, b,
spreadwidth, spreadheight, marginleft, marginright, margintop, marginbottom
In the 1.5 beta, the text size controls will support variables:
x, a, c
xheight, ascent, capheight
So "12pt / x" will make the text x-height be 12pt.
We don't plan to allow user-defined units. We did intent to support " and ' for inches and feet, but that doesn't seem to be working in the current release. I'll fix it for 1.5 beta.
Is this included in Help files?
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I was trying to finish this thread in which a lot of post are almoust repeating. Obviously, some of the users are lazy to read the thread from the start. :D
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LOL. No, I don't have to re-read the thread, and I'm not just trying to increase my post count!
I was actually being a bit mischievous. The image I attached was one of three that I obtained by separating out the R, G and B channels in this image from Pixabay; that one is from the blue channel, so there was nothing but blue in it.
I don't think it is so easy or obvious. That is were the Affinity team comes into play. :)
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Thank you, mac_heibu :wub:
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What's your best guess about the colouring of the attached image before I desaturated it?
Please, reread this thread again if you have to. Don't just post to increase your number of posts. :)
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I can't also. But maybe "The new kids in the block" can do it? ;)
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Just guessing I may say. Nothing exactly.
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Everything you said is OK. But, explain to me how the scanner found those RGB values in grayscale image?
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That image has RGB color space because it has been scaned as RGB image. I don't know how the scanner added that RGB values.

AI file import ignores "offscreen" objects
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I suppose you don't need to open all AI files at once, so you move all artboard elements to new page(s) only when you need to import a specific AI file into Designer.
Hope this help.