loukash

Has anyone figured out how to rotate a linear gradient applied to the Paragraph Decoration fill or stroke? I haven't… It's always from left to right, no matter what I try.

Nope, tried that before, to no avail. The PDF came as the last link to the document, replacing one of the photos a few days later. The issue was present before that. No text frames in there whatsoever. Just picture frames and adjustment layers. I could have as well destructively adjusted the photos in APh but doing it this way is faster, especially since I wanted to export everything as a neat 25-page PDF to store on my iPhone. In this very special case, I'll rather spend those hours actually practicing those tunes on bass, haha… (Oh boy, I should have practiced reading sheet music more often since I learned to read notes over 40 years ago. And then it's all written in the bass clef! Argh.) But thanks anyway.

I just tested it with APu 1.10.5 on my aforementioned document (created with 1.10.4) on El Capitan: 1 linked PDF, 1.3 MB 24 linked JPEG photos from iPhone SE 2016 camera, their total size in Finder 68 MB one photo per page every photo has live Curves and HFS adjustment layers applied *.afpub size before the "Embed/Relink Trick": 47.4 MB *.afpub size after the "Embed/Relink Trick": 37.7 MB What gives?! (For what it's worth: This was no "mission critical" project at all. I just need to practice and learn 25 jazz tunes on bass guitar for a big band gig where I'll be temporarily replacing their regular bass player. So she shot quick photos of her lead sheets which I've then assembled into this document to print them on my b/w laser printer. No actual graphic art involved here whatsoever… But still, the growing APu document size has annoyed me.)

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I also noticed a similar issue just recently with APu 1.10.4 on El Capitan. But since I rarely work with linked images, I cannot compare that much. I only remember that some earlier versions had similar problems as well, and that it appeared to have been fixed eventually.

The top cog menu in the Find panel > select Regular Expression

Regex search active?

Alright, on the positive side, you can actually add metadata to an .afdesign document pretty easily by switching to Photo or Publisher; the latter with only a limited subset though. Add any metadata you need, switch the document back to Designer. All metadata well be retained e.g. on PDF export. If you have the whole Affinity suite, you can open the .afdesign in Publisher and simply use the StudioLink feature to switch seamlessly between the three apps, using their respective functions as you see fit, regardless the document file suffix. So the main issue that I see here is that Affinity strips metadata from imported PDF files. That's a Bad Thing™.

Same on Mac.

I'm on Mac, so it's an "iOS exclusive". (I have an iPad but haven't bought iOS Affinity.) Nice!

How did you change the smooth node to sharp node? Is it an iPad feature? Can't figure it out on the desktop version.

NeoFinder has a different purpose: Its main focus is to catalog media. Whereas GraphicConverter – as the name hints – has always focused on editing bitmap files. The file browser came much later. Vive la différence. They both work just fine side by side, with some overlapping functionality which is all right by me. (GC user since mid-1990s, CDF/NF user since 2000) That all said… SInce I still continue working in El Capitan, with no plans to change that anytime soon, they will pry my iView/Expression Media from my cold, dead hands! There's something in its workflow that I need and that still no other app can match. Since I'm using it mostly for working with standard bitmap type of images, I'm not all that in need to see the corresponding Affinity docs, if any. And if so, I'd simply add a small "Docname.afphoto.jpg" preview as a "sidecar".

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This feature appears to be broken in many ways: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afp-4487

I actually realized my aversion while looking at the forum.affinity.serif.com main page and seeing it there. I really like to see real numbers, not some approximations, especially since the "##k" abbreviation is so 1) English- and 2) nerd-centric!

That should work. Of course, the more overlap you have, the better.

The more I'm looking at it, the more I dislike the new "123.4k" number "shortcuts" all over the place. Couldn't we please have the real numbers back? Thanks

Keep in mind that the actual brush pattern is bitmap. It will be rasterized on export. (This is definitely not what I'd want.) In the meantime I've figured out a few vector workarounds as well. They are buried in other threads though. In short: it also involves strokes, e.g. Dash Line Style or using Pressure (beware of export bugs!), and then optionally adding multiple strokes via Appearance.

Keep as is! ??? Of course. No. I love the current concept. It's a feature, not a "bug". Not for me since I get along just fine with the concept as is. But possibly users coming from the "other" layout apps may appreciate it.

forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afp-4487

It's not a bad idea, but then it should be available for any pair of fields with XY coordinates, not just W+H. A possible solution might be a "swap fields" expression shortcut. You can already get halfway through by: copy the W value type "h" into the W field paste the original W value into the H field

Also, you don't always need to retype everything. affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Workspace/expressions.html

That looks like a bug to me. When creating a new document with the initial empty artboard active, the rotation handle is there and can be used. Afterwards it will disappear. However: No need to do that unless you actually don't want to rotate the artboard. But if non-destructive rotation is what you want, then use the "R:" field. The "R" stands for "Rotation".

That's exactly what I did to test it. Here you go: Multi_format-edit_loukash.afpub