Schubi63

Hi MEB,
  thank you so much for your effort. I really appreciate it   But:   What if the changes aren't obvious at all? Why do I have to play Sherlock Holmes :) and digging into the symbols hierarchy (which is not just one geometric object with a fill color) and compare my "dashed-symbol" with a "virgin symbol" manually?   I don't get the point, that AD is smart enough to show me, that there is a difference, but:   1. does not "tell" me which one(s) and  2. there is no button, no function, no context menu option to "reset" / "undo" this difference (means: no way to turn it back as an virgin symbol again.   This is missing.

As far as i know there's no way to "break the connection" unless you turn off sync temporarily to change a property of one of the elements of a symbol. If you somehow broken it, i would like to known how you have done it too...
 
Regarding your questions:
1. If you change one of the instances of the symbol (turning sync off temporarily, changing a property of one of its elements and turning it on again) the only way to know it was changed is by its appearance on canvas which is now obviously different from the other instances, and the dashed line on the Layers panel which indicates which object was changed.
 
2. The only way to find them is looking at the canvas and searching for the symbol that's visually different from the others (or through the Layer panel looking for the symbol which have one of its layer marked with the dashed line) as i said above.
 
3. I'm not sure i understood this point. If you turn sync off temporarily to change a property of one of the instances of the symbol, there's no way to re-sync that property back. Just drag a new instance of that Symbol from the Symbols panel again and place it in the same place as the one that was changed.
 
Here's how this works in practise (open the attached document):
In that document i have one symbol composed by three objects. Expand the bottom layer, select the Star layer, open the Symbols panel and turn Sync off. Change the colour of the Star to yellow. As you can see only the bottom symbol changed. The other instance placed on the top of the canvas remains as it was because you turned sync off. Now, re-enable sync again for the same star/layer. From now on all changes you make to the properties of the elements of any instance will be reflected on all symbols. Try for example move just the circle of the symbol on the top of the canvas. The one on the bottom will reflect it too. Try changing its colour - again the bottom symbol will change the colour too. Even the Star will reflect all the changes you may perform on it except changing its colour because this property is not synched anymore. There's no way to force it to re-sync. As i said above if you need to "revert" it to its original state - so it also changes its colour with the other instances - just drag a new instance of the symbol from the Symbols panel and place it in the same place (deleting the old one).
symbols_sample.afdesign

Hi,
 
I have learned that a symbol is marked as symbol by getting the suffix "(Symbol)" but also by getting an orange stripe on the left in the layers panel.
 
But what means a dashed stripe (see "logo banner" in the screenshot)?
 
 
Thanks,
Stefan.
 
 

Ah, I see. Hmm, if this is by design then it's a weird choice. I believe most of us expect Serif to change/fix this behaviour, in any case.
I get your point about Artboards in different rotations and dimensions, that's a funky case.

+1 to paste in place.
 
The most useful feature when it comes to UI design, where repetition is key.

I too have been unable to find a workaround to this. Would really love a "paste in place" shortcut of some kind, to paste object in the same relative place between artboards.

It indicates that a symbol and/or it's associated contents have been altered/changed! - In a similar manner like some Editors or IDEs indicate made text changes on specific lines etc.

Hi Stefan,
It means you have turned off sync and have change some property (like a color of one of its components or the stroke width) in a particular symbol instance, so it's not exactly like the original symbol anymore.

Hi folks,
 
I couldn't find an option to expand / collapse all child-groups/child-layers when pressing the little arrow button in front of a group/layer that contains child objects.
 
I know this function from Phxxxxxop, and used it a lot to rapidly collapse all expanded child-elements and quickly get an better overview of the layer hierarchy.
 
Phxxxxxop provides that functionality by pressing alt+click. And if you have used it - the next alt-click causes the opposite (e.g. expand all).
 
I liked and used it quite often.
 
 
Cheers guy,
Stefan.

@A_B_C, thank you, Alex! )

Hi,
 
I would love to see ability to group/search/order symbols in symbols palette, for example currently I'm working on UI kit and there are a bunch of symbols and it would significantly reduce a time searching for a specific symbol
 
Thank you!

Hi Schubi63,
How are you scaling the logo? If you use the lowest handle on the bottom right of the bounding box (the one that's "detached" from it) it should scale the text on the path instead of reflowing it. This is also valid for groups containing frame text objects and text on path objects.

It's not on the roadmap but i've added it to the Common Features Requests list sometime ago. It's up to the dev team to decide (if or) when this will be implemented. There's currently no eta for this, sorry.

+1 Scale and Rotate points = Point transformation tool

New user :) Enjoying working with Affinity Designer - I've always found the rotate points feature extremely useful - so ..
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Scale, Rotate points

Hi Bogar,
Glad to know you have enjoyed the Workbook.
Affinity Publisher will be out as a public Beta this year. There's no specific eta as far as i know.

Hi pmlegene,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Select the Free hand Selection Tool and change the Type to Polygonal on the top left on the context toolbar.

+1!
Scale, Rotate points

Congratulations!
 

 

Hi Schubi63
From their article: 
Affinity Photo, is yours to download free now as a public beta before its final release next year.
 
This refers to the actual public Beta phase that's running until Affinity Photo release on Windows. The retail/release version is NOT free, only the Public Beta. If you want to download Affinity Photo Beta for Windows you can do so through this forum here (the latest Beta is usually pinned at the top).

It might be different for a PC, but when I click the download button on my Mac, I get a file named "chip-download.dmg," which is only 596 KB, far too small to be the actual Windows beta. More likely, it contains an app that downloads the beta from this forum ... perhaps with some "extras" like adware or spyware.
 
I would not trust it.

At the end of the second paragraph it mentions "public beta", so I believe it is the same (expiring) public beta Windows version that you can download from this forum, via the top pinned post in the Affinity Photo on Windows Beta section.

KipV,
Check this video: attach_image_post.mov

Hi hack501b,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
There will be magnetic & polygonal selection modes in the Free Hand Selection Tool in Affinity Photo 1.5.
You may also try to use the Selection Brush Tool and then the Refine selection dialog (pressing the Refine... button in the context toolbar) for more complicated selections.
Here's a video tutorial covering cutting out selections and another covering refining selections. For additional video covering this and other subjects please check the In-house Affinity Photo Video Tutorials thread.

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