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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Leigh in AD only in advert design?
You will have to recomend APhoto, too. You can't expect one app to have all the bitmap tools. AD is not all-in-one app, sorry. :)
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from lorenzodetomasi in Manipulating characters inside text?
It would be really handful and time saving if Affinity apps could flip, rotate, move characters inside text. I live in Macedonia where we use cyrilic alphabet. But not all fonts support cyrilic alphabet so I have to "create" some of them using letters from the alphabets inside the fonts. For instance, to get cyrilic letter "Г" I have to flip latin letter "L". For now I have to make a lot of text frames and them rearranging them which is very time consuming process. Please, help.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Madeline in Exporting to PDF- losing color
Thank you so much for your time. Exporting without that box checked seems to have solved the problem as all my pics are in color and they uploaded to Create Space successfully from my MacBook. I went from Affinity Designer directly to PDF and am so glad this problem seems to be solved. I just need to check out the previewer to see if there are any problems. I haven't been able to do that yet but hope to tackle it tomorrow. Many thanks!
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Madeline in Exporting to PDF- losing color
It is page 3 and page 42 that are the problematic pages. Many thanks! It is uploading now.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to mac_heibu in Affinity Publisher
Ugly? It is not handsome, it is not trendy, it is simply workflow orientated – in contrary to the Affinity apps with its quite unergonomic design (we talked about this here hundreds of times), the iCalamus user interface is clear and you can identify the commands within a twinkle of an eye.
I bet: Until a new publishing software will reach the actual state of iCalamus, you'll have to wait for it at least(!) for 5 years from now.
One more thing: This application has absolutely no "Atari heritage". You may think of good ol' Calamus SL, which initially was an Atari app, but iCalamus is a pure, newly developed macOS application.
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from pioneer in Plugins That Work With Affinity Photo
When instaling a new beta or final version, are all paths to plug-ins and installed brushes... preserved or we need to reinstall them after any new version?
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Joshuaces in One Adobe app less?
Today, a German software firm named SoftMaker, announced two versions of their Adobe Acrobat like software for a really affordable prices.
Standard for 60 USD/EUR and Professional for 80 USD/EUR. Let us give it a try and say (eventually) goodbye to Adobe Acrobat.
Here is the link:
http://www.softmaker.com/en/flexipdf
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Stephen_H in Ghost Preview: Publisher
I agree – a fantastic feature.
Quark Express does the same thing, but it's not an option – it instantly does it the moment you resize the frame.
To really knock this feature out the park, can you give us the option in the preferences to define the opacity of the cropped image? (I'd like it really light when working on a white page, but quite strong if I'm on something complex like a layered collage or a black background.)
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Petar Petrenko reacted to decimate555 in Ghost Preview: Publisher
One feature I use extensively with InDesign is the overall graphic preview while resizing an image frame which is very useful for knowing on the fly how much to shrink or expand the frame or to get an idea of how much clipping is on the image without having to resize everything out. It works by holding down the handles a second longer to activate that mode.
Has something like this already been considered for Publisher? If not, I'd like to at least put it out there as a possible feature that I know many would love.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Stephen_H in Please keep Design, Photo and Publisher separate, focused apps.
I see lots of typography-based feature requests for Affinity Designer. This is not surprising since a lot of us are designers using very mature Adobe software and text wrap, linked text boxes, bullets, columns etc are all essential features for layout.
However, we have Photo for photo editing, Designer for illustration and [hopefully soon] Publisher for layout.
I think a lot of these "essential" typo features are being requested because Publisher has not yet been released. Designer should not get these advanced type features because they are aimed at layout, not illustration. Typo features that should be in Designer, should be limited to artistic effects like envelope distortions for warping and advanced text on path. My rule of thumb would be "if I can use the feature to design a logo, then it should be in Designer, if it's needed for a brochure, then it should be in Publisher".
If we look at the Adobe line-up... sure Illustrator has got a truckload of text features that allow you to do typographic layouts, but I think that's part of Adobe's failings. I have designers who work for me who make me tear my hair out when they insist on using Illustrator for a 20 page brochure – it's possible but it's not the right tool for the job. Then they go and design a logo in PhotoShop – again, possible, but not the tool for the job. (Illustrator REALLY lost the plot when they added multiple pages/artboards)
I think this comes from the fact that for many years, Adobe has been adding features from other applications and calling them "upgrades". Instead of innovation and reworking old tools, we just get shared feature sets. This is exactly what I consider to be "application bloat".
I hope the developers at Affinity don't give in to all the requests to add missing features to Designer, when these missing features are actually a request for a missing application.
Please Affinity, keep your apps focussed, efficient, streamlined and well-considered. Please don't turn all of them into a Jack-of-all-trades. Your pricing is low enough to force me by Publisher if I need typographic features.
I'm concerned that when Publisher comes out, customers will pick and choose which, single app they want based on a collection of broad features that satisfy 70% of their needs, and then complain that it's missing features. Rather, we should buy the suite and get all the features we need, than try to get one app upgraded to the point where we don't need the others.
I guess my post could also read "Please speed up delivery of Publisher", or at least give us a few more teasers – even just a full feature list of version 1.0 so we can stop asking for what is already on its way.
Thanks guys for great software. I'm very optimistic for the future – a future without the need to have Adobe software on my computer. (and great typographic tools in Publisher is the last stepping stone to that future)
:)
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Petar Petrenko reacted to gdenby in Making logo/text transparent
Was about to post, but what @RNKLN says is right. Groups cannot be subtracted. The individual shapes can be subtracted.
Or, you can take all the shapes and use the boolean combine operation. Then all can be subtracted at once.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to VIPStephan in Designer 1.5 - Edit in AF-photo
That’s one thing I thought about, too. That could be a viable option.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Patrick Connor in Changes on the Affinity Start-Up page?
Thanks for your suggestions, this menu will be reworked soon ;)
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Petar Petrenko reacted to MikeW in Global colors?
I very much prefer that method over fill proxies myself.
I also far prefer small swatches running along the bottom of the screen than a panel.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to jclounge in Designer 1.5 - Edit in AF-photo
I don't buy the argument that it would be heavier or more complicated to maintain. Clearly the two apps are using the vast majority of their codebases the same as each other. They can both load each other's file formats, and can both even edit things that only the other app can create, as if they created those things themselves. If they are supposed to serve such different purposes, then why would they ever need to be so tightly compatible? It's plainly ridiculous to pretend they are hugely different in their purposes.
Until I see any evidence otherwise, what looks far more likely is that it's a coldly calculated marketing decision. Plus, having two separate apps has certainly not made either one very bug-free, and has caused issues between them where there should be none.
I would bet that it is in fact harder to maintain the apps separately because it means keeping track of all their arbitrary superficial differences, and expending time and energy deciding on just the right balance of differences to force people to buy both apps. If they were combined into one app, I would wager that the 1.5 release would have arrived around the same time, with just as many features, and far fewer bugs due to less duplication of effort and dividing of focus.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to PepGold in I really need a Glyphs panel
I really a glyphs panel. So that I can select a specific glyphs. The Typography -> Show all font features are great. But if you have a font with a lot of option, or special display characters, or just need a special character. You can't select that.
And, sidenote. In the typography panel, the tekst and checkbox are overlaying.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Ash in Affinity Designer Workbook
Hi All,
For a number of months now behind the scenes we have been producing a workbook for Affinity Designer, and I'm pleased to let you know it is available from today!
This is a big book - 448 pages, in hardback - and it includes fantastic projects created by some top designers, as well as a comprehensive reference to all our tools and panels, and a set of core skills tutorials.
You can find more information about it here.
Usual price is $49.99 / £37.99, but we are running a 20% discount for the launch making it only $39.99 / £29.99 (+ shipping and handling).
It's worth pointing out that right now the book is only available in English but we do plan to do a German version which should be available towards the end of the year.
Hope you like it!
Thanks,
Ash
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Petar Petrenko reacted to depcore in Affinity Designer Public Beta (RC3) - 1.5.0.27 (Windows)
Hers how to list all the ICC profiles via command prompt
menu start cmd,
in the command line
cd c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color
then
dir *.* >> icc.txt
This will save the directory listing to the file called icc.txt (if there's a problem run this in the admin console)
icc.txt
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Bri-Toon in linking text boxes
I need to have arguments for that. :D
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Fixx in Convert font selector into autocomplete search box.
You can give several letters, not only first. Personally I think there should be only limited amount of fonts active at the time and font selection particulars (like shuffling through 748946 fonts) should be done in font management app.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to ChrisM in Perspective/distort
A tool that distorts groups of objects would be extremely useful - the most obvious use would be to distort groups such as squares laid out in a checkerboard or tiled floor design add perspective. Ideally with no restrictions on the directions of distortion - similar to Free Distort.
For me this feature is actually essential rather than just useful.
Thanks
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Petar Petrenko reacted to rui_mac in Text ruler on top, please
Creating Indents, First Line Indents, and tab stops should be a more "graphical" procedural, besides having the option to adjust the values numerically.
It is a pain and a hit & miss process to add tab stops that are just created numerically.
FreeHand had the most amazing (optional) Text Ruler where we could, just by dragging, adjust the Indent/First Line Indent and all types of Tab Stops.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to KipV in linking text boxes
I used to love Adobe with upgrades like CS3 and CS4 it's just that they don't put out updates like that anymore. Fortunately I found another company that could do great work.
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from KipV in linking text boxes
No one vector/bitmap based apllication hadn't (powerful) layout features when they started. And they need not any of them if the company offers separate layout app. It was OK for Freehand because Macromedia didn't have other kind of apps.
What Adobe does is insane. Soon they will have three separate apps with same capabilities but with different approach. You can't work the same way with text in AI, ID and PS. And this is same with other features. PS has some text effects that even ID doesn't have. This is very stupid.
And what if I use 3D modeling app? Do I have to ask Affinity to add such features in AD or APh because they are essential for my design work? And they must have it to be Maya or 3D Max killer?
So, it would be better if pixel feautures are left to Photo, vectors to Designer and text and layout to Publisher, or much better -- only one app (yes, I know you don't agree).
Separate apps with mixed features can lead to many mistakes and problems.
