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Weird. That's buggy
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Pencil Tool - still difficult to handle
desult replied to Jhonatan S's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Please just make it automatically close the curve. If Use Fill is checked, it should close the curve. Why would I ever want to draw a filled shape without it being closed? -
Hi Callum, Thanks for the response. The Spot color name is not shown anywhere, but it's there. Create a New Spot Color. Right click on that swatch in the swatch panel. There is an option to rename Global Color, and there is an option to rename Spot Color. The Global Color name is used within Affinity. The Spot color name is adopted when the document is exported to pdf. This is not intuitive, but I noticed this when experimenting with how Affinity exports pdfs. These are just some initial observations. My aim in this post is to get some insight as to why Affinity designed the naming of swatches this way so that I can appropriately adjust my workflow.
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I have a document open that has raster images in it. How can I extract the image files? In Illustrator I would Export to SVG, and have the images linked (I'd end up with and SVG, and image files in a folder). What Can I do with Affinity Publisher? I understand that there are different ways to go about doing things with Affinity products, so I'll describe what I am doing and maybe someone can give me a good solution: I am dragging an image from the Stock panel. I love this feature, BUT it is embedding the image (even though I have expressed preference for linking images when I created the document). I want to make this image linked so that my file is not bloated.
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Tab Stops don't update
desult replied to desult's topic in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
It's much better in the 1.7 Beta! It's still a little awkward, but seems completely functional. The awkwardness I am referring to is this: There are these 7 buttons: [Positions] [Align] [v] [Leader] [v] [...] [x] Clicking [Align] does nothing. Clicking [Leader] does nothing. [Align] [v] should be just one button: [Align v] [Leader [v] should be just one button: [Leader v] The [...] button should be much larger and more visible; it seems to be more useful than the other buttons. So, [Align] [v] [Leader] [v] [...] could just all be one button that does [...]. My very first suggestion of all of the above would be to just make the [...] larger and easier to click. -
Tab Stops don't update
desult replied to desult's topic in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
Where do I find the beta download at? EDIT: I found it. -
I'm exploring how to use tab stops in AD for the first time. I have quickly run into an issue with the way they function. Here is what I am doing: - Place cursor in paragraph that I want to apply Tab Stops to. - Open the Paragraph Panel. - Adjust distance (example 4 in) - Press "Add New Tab Stop" That works great as long as I get the distance exactly correct. I can Highlight the created Tab Stop and adjust Alignment and Leader, I cannot, however, adjust the distance. This feels broken. I should be able to adjust the distance without having to delete and recreate. I thought it had something to do with the name of the Tab Stop, so I highlight the name to attempt to rename, but the new name does not stick.
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Affinity Photo and Designer 1.6 have launched!
desult replied to TonyB's topic in News and Information
I'm most excited to see the ability to Unlock All on the list of new features! I've tried it out and live the way it works! Something I've noticed though, the shortcut for Unlock All does not work if I use the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT on the right side of the keyboard, I've got to use the keys on the left side of the keyboard. I'm not sure if that is intentional or consistent with the way shortcut keys work. -
Thanks for the replies. It's helpful to know about the Insert Behind/On top/Inside buttons, although they are a bit cumbersome to use. I did find out that I can double click a group to drill down inside of it, as owenr has said, then paste or create objects to have the same effect as depressing the Insert Inside button. I think what is helping me as realizing that the layers panel is really a list objects and not layers in the sense I am expecting. That being said, I think aiming to have it be a list of groups rather than a list of layers might help me organize things. I also realized that the reason things were always dropping down to the bottom-most "layer" is because that bottom-most layer was an artboard. Edited: 9/29 . Fixed some typos and such.
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Can someone point me to a video explaining how the layers panel works? Some trouble I'm having: 1. I'm not sure how to control where new things I draw are being put. I can highlight a layer I want to work on and then draw something. The new thing I draw is put into the bottom-most layer (even though it is locked). 2. Some layers are medium grey, some are dark grey. Why? 3. How do I unlock things without having to dig through the layers panel?
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I was using Codecademy for awhile, but their Python course is using version 2, I don't mind being familiar with the syntax differences, but I would ultimately rather not be learning on an old version. I also like FreeCodeCamp and will probably use both that and Codecademy when I do get around to picking up Javascript.
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Cut tool?
desult replied to Paul Martin's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
The Boolean operations are comparable to Illustrator's Shape Mode tools. Does AF have tools similar to Illustrator's Pathfinder tools? -
How can I see a list of missing fonts in a document? When I open a psd or ai file, a dialog appears that gives me time to find the fonts before fully opening the file. When I open an AD file, a windows sometimes briefly appears that lists the font. That window does not always appear though. Where can I see a list of fonts used in the document?