[AD2: Bind Slice to Artboard]

12 minutes ago, D.VE said:

That's a problem, because I create primarily for print and need mm units. 

The root of the problem is that dpi is for inches so 300 dots (pixels) per inch means 11.81102362206 dots (pixels) per millimetre.

[Shortcut to language]

7 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

The simple question is: Where can I go to edit a paragraph style, and where can I go to edit a Character style.

 

The Text Styles panel, not the Paragraph or Character Panels.

[Shape won't sit beneath Text layer]

3 hours ago, MiiPalooza said:

Can anyone explain why the grey text wouldn't just sit on top?

I checked your file again and you have Black text with transparency. Choose Grey colour at 100% Opacity. Note that I had to change the font to one I have on my machine.

[Split Line of Artistic Text]

@Dimmo

When I open your Split Text file in Publisher I notice there are no end of line / section / text markers after the word Designer. The strange blue S.

[Double and Single paged spreads]

@Tamla and @NathanC,

I would strongly suggest using Nathan's "Alternative" suggestion and stay away from using the Document Setup. The reason for this is because then the PDF will be single pages even though you start with double page spreads. There will be projects that have multiple Master Pages applied, as well as asymmetric margins and changing the Document Setup to Single pages can cause problems with editing later on.

It is far easier to get a good looking document with Facing Pages for the layout even if you only want to export a Single pages PDF. Going the other way is going to may well cause a great deal of grief.

[Publisher: Bad default: baseline grid overrides text styles]

5 hours ago, Compositor K said:

I brought in "No style" only as a means of demonstrating that baseline grid on does indeed seem to be the default. I never had any notion of using to control future styles. For that, as you say, dependent styles are the way to go.

One of the first things I learned to do with Affinity Publisher is set up [No Style] the way I want it to be. I will choose to have Align to Baseline Grid off. Then with some of the text selected I go to the menu Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection and then immediately go to Edit > Defaults > Save. Now the [No Style] will have my choices honoured.

[Shape won't sit beneath Text layer]

You have black on the Text overtop black on the graphic. Try having a different colour for the text or the graphic.

[Copy text frame from 2.2 to 2.1]

1 hour ago, MikeTO said:

This isn't important but I noticed I can no longer copy a text frame from 2.2 to 2.1, it comes through as a group of art text objects, one per line of text.

 

I have to disagree about "not important", I would think it is quite important. 

I have to dash out for some time but I will try to play about with this bug. Happening here on Mac OS 12.6

[No backwards compatibility??]

18 hours ago, Pan Przemysław said:

Oh wow, I just realized the backward (in)compatibility issue. I designed a menu for a friend's restaurant and recommended that they buy a license of Designer to make edits to the ever-changing menu. They bought the license and we have been co-editing the afdesign files for the last six months. And then I upgraded to Affinity 2 and my files are no longer compatible with my client's program. They are willing to upgrade, but still..

I am assuming you have both V1 and V2 applications up and running. If you work in V2 and wish to send a V1 copy to your client...

First off, use Artboards. This will keep the Document paper sizes.

Second, in your V2 application select all the artboards and copy them. 

Third, in your V1 application choose File > New from Clipboard.

[Split Line of Artistic Text]

2 hours ago, Dimmo said:

Now when I highlight the second word with move tool it doesn't show the font family, now it I put the text tool at the end of the second word and hit delete the font family is now showing.

Odds are that you have a Return character at the end of the word "Designer" and that Return Character is a different font. This is the only way I can get the blank font family to appear as you showed in your screenshot.

[Change the direction of the ruler]

Just now, Throne777 said:

Am I missing some obvious setting?

No. It is the way it is and I doubt that it will change in the foreseeable future.

[Kontur Pinsel ausrichten]

28 minutes ago, Juli_GC said:

Dies funktioniert wohl nur bei geschlossenen Kurven. 

That is  right.

Das ist richtig.

[Align two nodes to average distance between both and join?]

On 8/2/2023 at 5:34 AM, ToyGunFun said:

Is it possible to align two nodes to the average distance between both and join them?

There are a few steps necessary.

Use the node tool and select the two nodes.

Hit the Transform Mode button on the Context toolbar.

Use the Align to Centre options in the Alignment panel.

And finally Join the two curves.

[AD2 page sizes]

27 minutes ago, R C-R said:

That AD 2 dialog seems kind of buggy in several respects to me. For instance, set it to Type: Presets, & then open on the Page Preset: list. For me, that includes multiple duplicates & just about every preset in every category.

I think that what is happening there is we are getting the Print and the Print (Press Ready) items duplicated. So it is the Colour Models RGB vs CMYK showing up as duplicated same sizes.

[Frame and Column break create a new paragraph?]

My first thought from looking at the screenshots from @mykee is I wonder if there is maybe a "Keep Paragraph together" setting turned on in the Paragraph Style.  It certainly looks like it to me. Without a document that exhibits this problem we will all be speculating ad nauseam and the solution may get presented and missed.

Other than that did you try a line break (not a new paragraph. Use Shift +Return) in the bottom of the text on the right hand page? If yes did you still get the indent?

[How to Export Editable File from Designer V2 to Illustrator? (with layers exported correctly)]

18 hours ago, CJIIIFS said:

Rather than keeping the naming structure and layer structure I specified, Illustrator mashes everything together under one layer, with no names and no groups. The file I worked so hard on looks like such a sloppy mess. Even my text boxes have been divided into letters that have been converted to curves, rather than a defined box for text to reside in.

You can get Layer layers in Designer to export as Layers in PDFs but everything else will be given generic names, rectangle, pixel layer etc. So if you need to have Everything named SVG may be the way to go. But if you just need the Layers for organizing bunches of layers then you can use PDF if you use Layer layers instead of Groups.

[AD2: Bind Slice to Artboard]

The use of an Artboard instead of a Group makes a little nervous.

[Issue with drop cap on numbered list]

22 hours ago, garrettm30 said:

I recently encountered an issue in one of our documents....

 

5 hours ago, Dan C said:

I can confirm that I've been able to replicate this issue here and I've logged it with our development team.

It appears to be triggered by the Language. If I change it to None for the Hyphenation (and maybe the Spelling) then things work right. English (UK) seems to solve it as well.

 

 

[No recent documents to open]

You may have set Recent to None in the Mac OS System Preferences. Some applications can override/ignore this setting, others honour it. Go to the System Preferences (or Settings(?) in the newer OS) and check the General tab.

[art text tool suddenly ignores leading]

You may have set your leading to 0 (zero) points. Check the Paragraph Panel while the text cursor is in the offending text.

Try hitting the Revert Defaults button.

[AFF DESIGNER | Text - Blurring when Rasterized and Exported to PNG]

20 hours ago, affuser9001 said:

Exported as png at full size.

 

17 hours ago, affuser9001 said:

I just want the image to look the way that I designed in the AFF Designer program.

You are taking Vectors (the text) and exporting them as Pixels. You are not going to see the vector's smooth lines in a pixel export.

[Support for Page Down and Page Up Keys in Publisher]

2 hours ago, Gatada said:

Would be nice if the Page Up and Page Down would work to navigate a Publisher document.

Further to Return's screenshot I would add that the first thing I do is get rid of the Control or Command key and just use the Page up and Page down keys on their own.

[Scripting]

15 hours ago, PanthenEye said:

I just want this to be possible in Designer: https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-scripts/tree/master/photoshop

Creating new tools is all swell and good, but I just need a basic export pipeline for Spine 2D animation software, which is the industry standard for 2D animation in video games. The linked script saves literally hours of work and is the single biggest reason I'm still subbed to Adobe. Hopefully, the API will cover things like merging layers, parsing layer names then do operation X if the name contains some string, change exported layer name, add alpha padding to each exported image, trim alpha whitespace, set and read designer document ruler origin, read layer mode, scale layers before exporting and write relevant data to a JSON file, which Spine can then import and rebuild the exact layer order, layer position, layer mode and everything else that's relevant. This should be possible without manually defining export slices, ain't nobody got time for that. 

There is a "Spine JSON" choice in the Export Persona. I don't know if this helps you.

[Pixilated text]

View it at 100% not the 782% you have it at in your screenshot.

[AD2: Bind Slice to Artboard]

19 minutes ago, D.VE said:

Which problem does this solve?

 

4 hours ago, D.VE said:

Because I need to export different aspect ratios. A5 for print. And a square format for Instagram.