[Adobe Illustrator's Live Paint, Gradient Mesh and Blend Tool]

On 1/1/2023 at 3:43 PM, gotanidea said:

Adobe Illustrator's Live Paint, Gradient Mesh and Blend Tool features are essential for vector illustration. If possible, please create those features for Affinity Designer.

Major bump

[Adobe Illustrator's Live Paint, Gradient Mesh and Blend Tool]

 

On 1/3/2024 at 5:01 AM, tzvi20 said:

Hi @Besli Within a few days there will be a new beta and we will know if a blend tool was added as that is something that they are working on.

blend tool? Any link?

[Maximize a window]

1 hour ago, Bit Disappointed said:

I believe this is what you wanted to report, @PepGold

 

Wow, thanks 👍

[Maximize a window]

10 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

No option key required. Just click on green circle/button to toggle maximize window.

No that that is Fullscreen, not the same thing. Try it using Zoom vs Fullscreen on a macOS app and you will notice the difference, like the menubar disappears in Fullscreen and it is moved to a difference Space.

[Maximize a window]

"Maximize a window: Press and hold the Option key while you click the green button  in the top-left corner of an app window. To return to the previous window size, Option-click the button again." Doesn't work.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2469/mac

 

[Bring back large format presets]

I know that you can add your own presets, but I really miss the large A0, A1, B1 etc formats in there as a default. 

[Forgive me, but how does one delete a mask from a Live Procedural Texture layer?]

Thanks for all your suggestions 👌

I ended up with a different approach. Slightly weird.
 

1. Click on the Live Procedural Texture layer with the mask.

2. Click on the popup window, make it active, or resize it, doesn't matter.

3. From the Layers panel go Live Filters > Procedural Texture

4. And the now Procedural Texture layer now have the same settings as the original with the mask, just without the mask.

5. Delete the original.

[Forgive me, but how does one delete a mask from a Live Procedural Texture layer?]

I cannot figure this out? When I right click or CMD click on the mask on the Procedural Texture layer, I can only delete the entire filter/layer or refine the mask. How to do I delete the mask? I tried dragged it off and away from the filter layer.

 

[Live Filters > Voronoi cell size higher than 500?]

Hi, 

Just wondering if somehow knows about a way to increase the Voronoi Live Filters cell size beyond 500? Just typing in 1000 reverts back to 500. I don't quite understand why that 500 limit is there. 

[Out of Gamut query + 100% black text]

12 hours ago, Chris26 said:

Thank you Bryce.  Though once again I am being bombarded with stuff, I really do not understand this 300% black or what ever, in maths you can not have 300 % it is a mathematical impossibility.  😄  Having said that I am dealing with an RGB document being sent away to a printer, I have never in all my life had to understand manually messing with CMYK or Text not coing out as Black.......🤣

 

Maybe this playlist could be helpful 

 

[Symlink ICC profiles on macOS]

It would be nice if Affinity would symlink or just install the ICC Profiles that Affinity ships with into 

/Library/ColorSync/Profiles

So they should up in the Color Sync Utility.app making it possible to view profile and compare them.

[Align text frame height to descender?]

Hi all, 

I just ended up converting the text to curves. 

18 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm curious why you need that.

 

Just calculating a layout grid where that had to be aligned from ascender to descender, as supposed to from cap height to baseline as one normally would

[Align text frame height to descender?]

Hi, 

I know that you resize the height of text frame to last line visible by double clicking on the resize handle / control point. That resizes the frame to align with the baseline, which I great, that it was I want most times. But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. Is that possbile. 

[Publisher Softproof many Pages]

On 11/15/2020 at 10:45 AM, lepr said:

 

That rigmarole is why it's a pity that we can't simply press a key or click a toolbar icon to toggle soft proofing (after initially selecting an appropriate proofing profile of course).

Yeah

[Soft Proof entire document]

How does one go about soft proofing an entire Publisher document? Since it is an adjustment layer, it is tied to one specific page. But what if I want to soft proof an entire document with multiple pages?

[Quick non manual way to count lines?]

Wow. That was amazing. Hard to discover.

[Quick non manual way to count lines?]

Is there a count non manual way to count the number of lines in a text frame? I know you can count words, but I need to know the numbers of lines and counting the manual is no fun and error prone.

Is there a way? Like InDesign's Info panel?

[Apple font "SF Pro" doesn't render correct]

Affinity Publisher doesn't render all weights in Apple's font SF Pro correctly. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/. 
The SFPro-ExpandedRegular is what I used. But the Compressed versions are also not correct.

I have attached screenshots from Affinity Publisher and Pixelmator Pro, which render the correct correctly.

SF Pro
Format: OpenType TrueType
Version: 19.0d6e1

[Euler’s constant]

Also weird that w=width and h=height aren't available when creating a grid in the Grid and Snapping Axis window. 

[Euler’s constant]

I seem to have trouble with Euler's constant. I am certain that I'm just have brain fart. But in my mind I should be able to access that value as constant equal to 2.71828182845904. 

I can use the other constants like, pi, phi and root2 directly in the Transform panel by setting the W as pi, phi or root2. But not e. It is bold and red as if it is unknown or invalid. 

Is this expected, or I am confusing Euler's constant with something else? 😂 

I would it the following.

pi = 3.141592653589793
phi = 1.618033988749894
root2 = 1.41421
e = 2.71828182845904

[Issue with saving a file]

52 minutes ago, stokerg said:

How large are the saved files you are working with? 

Not large at all, B1 format 707 x 1000 mm around 2.5MB in size.

[Issue with saving a file]

I quite often experience an issue when a file saved in Designer isn't, I guess "isn't properly saved". Meaning that the thumbnail of the .afdesign isn't updated, likewise if the document is linked in Photo the file isn't recognised as being modified in the Resource Manager and no notification is given from Photo. 

In Finder if get info on the .afdesign file the file is modified at the correct time. So it would seem that the file must be saved corrected on disk.

I've tried Save as... with he same filename to force a change. Still the same.

But if I close the .afdesign file and reopen it, the changes made are no longer there. They are lost.

The only work-around I've found is to save the file with new name.  

Additional information, I am saving into the app folder Affinity Designer on iCould Drive.

Affinity Designer 2.0.4

[How to pack or fill a shape with another shape without collision? Possible?]

Thanks everyone for your great suggestions and ideas, truly helpful. 

[How to get "rid" of purple outline in Designer?]

YES! Thank you! I was going crazy

[How to get "rid" of purple outline in Designer?]

When nothing is selected in Designer, how do I see the document without those purple outlines? Pressing  ⇥ hides the UI, but not the outlines. Is there a keyboard shortcut? I can't figure it out?