thomaso
-
Posts
11,201 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Everything posted by thomaso
-
Confused about styles
thomaso replied to KarinC's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
If you apply the pixel layer as bitmap fill to the object it may work. Below in … #26 an image as bitmap fill, created from a rectangle object (note, the rectangle is not part of the style), #27 is created from a copy of the rectangle used for #26 but with another fill, #29 is created from a copy of the rectangle (i.e. same fill) but with an added stroke. (that the fill of #29 doesn't appear in the Styles Panel is an UI issue). I can apply every three fills to new created objects in a new document.
-
Perhaps in your custom user library folder? There for instance the "autocorrect.propcol" is stored (for your custom entries in app preference -> autocorrect), together with a range of various user related app data or custom preferences. What exactly do you ask for? – A text may contain multiple languages while a character / word / text style may have only 1 language assigned. (of course / luckily)
-
The default for leading is 120% (dynamic, auto-adjusting with font size), the space before is 0, space after 12 pt. Apart from the mentioned app defaults (via menu Edit) you also can save a custom set of certain Text Styles as Default:
-
Therefore it could also be assumed that Affinity offers a much wider range of tools … maybe after 25 years of development, for instance tools & features like Arc / Spiral / Vector Flood Fill / Knife / Connector / Roughen / Blend /… / CutOut Studio / Autotrace / Instant 3D / 1-click material Filter Effects / Keyframe Animation / … The addition in Affinity V2 of a Vector Flood Fill + a Knife Tool doesn't necessarily mean the others have to or will follow. Particularly given the number of persistent bugs, automated layout and production processes, calls for artificial intelligence, decreasing hardware size (iPad ... -> iPhone? -> Smartwatch -> 🧠 ?) or 3D-print, may feed speculations in another direction: Fewer individual features but rather ready-made or automatic and web-based apps, designs and layouts … finally with no need for users to measure a dimension anymore 😉 "AD, create a design with very very very very very perfect dimensions."
-
Image artefacts or corruption can possibly get avoided by disabling "Hardware Acceleration" in the app Preferences > Performance.
-
In what way "unnecessary redundancy"? – I don't see duplicates within one app package. That each of the three apps contains the profiles appears necessary for instance if you have only one app installed. Or do rather you mean the colour profiles should be stored outside the app packages in one of the macOS Library or Application Support folders and get used shared? In this case there may be more redundancy for instance in the "liblibpersona.dylib" with its size of 1 GB in each app but apparently same content.
-
If you can choose this profile for export what makes you think there is "a missing .icc file" ? – Does the export not work correctly and, for instance, embed this profile if set as export option (e.g. for PDF/X)?
-
Text Formatting
thomaso replied to BHIP's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Interesting, was it set in "Typography"? – To me Super- / Subscript unfortunately affect specific characters only. I don't find a way to affect the entire selection.
-
What you want is a CAD application 😉 In Affinity I use a workaround via 'Contraints' to be able to scale the width of a group [ lines + arrows + text ] while maintaining specific properties. Well, I still need to type the numbers manually. – Attached an .asset … Measure-Constraint.afassets
-
Text Formatting
thomaso replied to BHIP's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
The text cursor height in your video seems to indicate that the font size is correct but the characters have some modifications set, in the example below for instance reduced height and width. (in case of your example in capitals also "small caps" might be activated) For issues with text / font appearance it is always useful to take a look on the font properties – and for a forums thread to show the related panels in a screenshot.
-
The Affinity font menu in the Character Panel + in the Context Toolbar do inform you if a font is missing for a text selection. Additionally the Font Manager window informs about the used font substitution. So in case of an unexpected text appearance it is always worth to select the related text & check its style properties, and, for a forum's question, to screenshot that information together with the design – instead of posting just two different looks and keep stating they would / should / could be the same.
-
Visually the two shapes occur different even if set to same height. A question could be whether the same font is used for display, too. The font may be assigned but get displayed with another font (e.g. if a font is missing). The Font Manager may shed some light on this. Or the PDF hint given above by @kenmcd.
-
In the Export persona > Slices panel you may choose artboards for export selectively: (in V1 it unfortunately appears you can't export multiple artboards into 1 common PDF this way but would need to merge them after export / can't tell about V2)
-
To me they don't look like same fonts (and sizes). This may cause the insufficient size of the bounding box. In the yellow figure the V2 screenshot is reduced in size to match the character height of the V1 screenshot. The different shapes are obvious.
-
Where in Affinity / in what dialog window or panel do you see this profile? Note, every Affinity document may include various profiles, one for every colour space. Unless they did not get changed they correspond with those profiles that are set in the app preferences when the document gets created. So it may happen that you see a profile in the Affinity interface that is not installed on your computer. See the profiles in the attached .afpub for instance, open the file and check its current profile and switch to CMYK to see another profile. profiles.afpub
- 22 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- affinity publisher
- colour profile
- (and 2 more)
-
See my screenshot. Unfortunately in your recent screenshots the text cursor position and the text of the currently reported "Index Entry …" styles are not obvious. Thus it is more clear if you select one of the affected words (or lines) in a further screenshot.
-
I don't know what style you have assigned to the text in your screenshot but quite a few of your saved styles (outside "Base") have massive space before and/or after set. What style is assigned in your screenshot to the text with indent? Can you please upload a new screenshot: Select one of the intended words in your screenshot and show the upper part of the Paragraph panel together with its "Spacing" tab unfolded? If the style name shows a '+' symbol right of the style name in the Paragraph Panel then please go to the upper text field of the Text Styles panel, select all text, copy it and paste it to your forum's post together with the new screenshot.
-
Also the app "ColourSync Utility" lists all profiles on your mac and their paths. Use the pulldown menu to choose a sort option ('v' symbol right of 'Profile').
- 22 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- affinity publisher
- colour profile
- (and 2 more)
-
It may have been installed with any previous app, perhaps years ago. I'd rather say you did not find it yet with your search. What keyword(s) did you use? (Does Spotlight find the / all other .icc profiles on your mac?) Alternatively you can try the search app FindAnyFile which is easier to handle, less restrictive than Spotlight (and offers some more search criteria + filters for the result list). If you press the option key when starting a search it searches as "root" with extended access rights (and asks for your admin password).
-
• The default Spotlight search may exclude certain file types or folders (according to your custom system preferences for spotlight). • Spotlight might need to manually add the search criteria for "system files". (right click a criterium (e.g. "Name") and scroll down to open a separate dialog to choose from via checkbox) • Don't use the full profile name as displayed in Affinity, profiles may have several names, their file name may vary. • There may be various official versions but also any custom modified versions, so you would need to compare the profile's metadata. Here the two file paths of mine: /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.icc ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Color Profiles/ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.icc
- 22 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- affinity publisher
- colour profile
- (and 2 more)
-
Sorry, you are correct, unfortunately the rasterize-menu command was outside the video. Poorly planned, sorry.
-
No, the green object was created + moved + rasterized with FPA = OFF. See the FPA deactivation in the video at 1:40 min, before rasterizing the green.
-
Do you mean CTRL+Click when launching Designer "did not work" to reset ("including clearing Designer settings") – or it did not solve the launch issue and prevent the communication error message? • In case of the first: did the dialog appear but the UI not work for? • In case of the latter: did you select all of its offered reset options? From your previous post it appeared that manually deleting your user preference folder solved the launch issue – which would also mean that resetting it via CTRL-click on app launch would / could have solved it (because this reset dialog is meant to cause the recreation of this folder with factory defaults). So currently it seems to be unclear what part in particular / in fact did solve it for you … and accordingly for what part "there must be a better solution".
-
So, just in case: Clipped objects require to assign possible strokes inside if placed with snapping when cut strokes aren't wanted. Also, working with those child layers may get cumbersome by the possible need to activate / deactivate the "Lock Children" option if specific parameters of the entire layout should get changed.
-
In this case of "standard" the OP's conclusion confuses: "Solved it with brute force for now, but there must be a better solution:" What could the "better solution" be then in case of uninstall + reinstall? Or does the OP's solution mean that it would have worked "just" to reset the app's preferences (via CTRL-click on app launch) … as a simpler solution?
