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A document in Affinity Photo 1.8.3 where I found I need to modify text in Compound Group (silly me) was opened.
Some consecutive individual characters were selected and deleted, the former text was further Compounded to two groups.
Artistic text tool was selected, with current defaults and text was entered. While still in tool text was resized by shift-dragging from corner.
Wasn't happy with what I got, did cmd-z and bang. Not sure if memory cleaner was still running, if not, then at least 1.5 GB, probably more, was free.
Edit; was not cmd-z, but click to text size menu in top bar, at least did it now 😞
Hki-keskustelu-mainos-2020w20.afdesign ad-1-8-3-crash-2020-05-12.txt
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Serif appears to use the development version of the database, at least the Yongnuo YN 35mm f/2 is in both, but not on stable.
List is here: https://wilson.bronger.org/lensfun_coverage.html
Lensfun stable is at 0.3.2 from 2015-11-15, development is 0.3.95 from 2018-06-29.
The download bundle contains database, presumably uptodate to 2018-06-29.
As mentioned previously, you can add any missing lenses, procedure seems easy enough. I'll try that for Yongnuo YN 50mm f/1.8.
https://wilson.bronger.org/lens_calibration_tutorial/
The database in mac is at /Applications/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Resources/Lens Profiles . Show content on app to see contained stuff.
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Is there a way to export without the artboard container bits?
Hi Chris,
SVG requires containing rectangle for document, with an artboard that is the containing element. The only ways I know of is to make or change the artboard to the specs you want to have in the export OR export a slice, where the slice spec does the same thing.
Cheers,
Zaq
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In the release thread there was a mention of using pixels only in some dialogs, so I decided to check on older oddity:
Earlier AD seemed to automatically convert 1 pt line to 1 px line, it doesn't now, an improvement alright. However, it still apparently treats all dimensions as pixels, as can be seen in the video. Specifically:
1) Create a rounded rect, the tooltip shows dimensions in mm, yay! (~28s)
2) change stroke to 2 pt, stays that way, another yay! (~48s)
At this point all my units are resolution independent. (You think you know where this is going, right? There is a surprise coming ;-)
3) Change the document resolution, and yes, the rounded rect has 6 pt stroke and is bigger, BUT (~1:08)
4) It is not selected, kinda OK, but I have to select it from layers to resize, and correctly, the resize doesn't affect stroke (~1:48)
6) Now after resizing when I change document resolution back (~1:58)
5) Its graphic and selection rectangle have separated and stroke is thinner, but not the original 2 pt (~2:02)
I would really like AD to do calculations in the units indicated, at least for all vector stuff, there supposedly is a reason I use these units (or believe AD when it is telling me what units I'm using). The Transform panel is also showing mm:s so I do believe that I'm using resolution-independent units.
Cheers,
ZaqZaq
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zaqzaq:
I think that Affinity Designer in not the best tool to create a multipage document with 40 pages and export the document as a PDF.
[...]krollian:
Not create, there were the magic words import and image. Not the best way to get the images to AD or AP currently, especially as it doesn't work. If there is a product & design decision that it never will, I'll be ok with that, it's just not communicated to the user.
Incidentally, if I drag the two pages out of Preview so Preview creates a two page document (adding OCR text data and reorganizing stuff) AD imports it nicely and quickly enough that I'm not interested in timing it. AD even does spell checking for the OCR text.
cheers,
Zaq
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Hi Team,
I have a bit of a problem with PDF import; I'll use https://archive.org/download/delineatorvol2424unse/delineatorvol2424unse.pdfas an example.
First, though, thank You for nicer import than Affinity Photo: artboards on multiple lines, this helps a lot.
Then the problems (also present in AP 1.4.2):
1) It takes >30s of beach ball of death to get the dialog. Nearly a second / page to count them? Maybe put the other processing to a background thread and show the dialog right away?
2) If I accept the default options (i.e. all pages) there is no indication of anything happnening until 50s later the artboards appear. After that the red thingys still blink for a few seconds so something at least was backgrounded. It would be nice if the artboards would appear right away, even when empty, You know how many at this point already. It would be even nicer to have a progress indicator, like 37 of 40 pages done. Still nicer if the artboard would render when about ready. I only have 12 cpu threads so the first one should be ready by c. 20s at the latest, right? (I'm running BOINC but that's supposedly not interfering with foreground jobs.)
3) If you look at pages 4 & 5 there is no way to get them to look as intended (c.f. Preview) and they seem to render wrong but differently.
That's all, folks!
Zaq
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There's also nice stuff on the web:
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
so you can get a palette from a photo.
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To provide an example of range of palettes based on one color,
from Lapis Lazuli #265B9C
monochromatic blues:
http://paletton.com/#uid=13C0R0kqntVqHUGryHdnhltkDc+
adjacent colors (3 colors):
http://paletton.com/#uid=53C0R0kqntVqHUGryHdnhltkDc+
triad (3 colors):
http://paletton.com/#uid=33C0R0kqntVqHUGryHdnhltkDc+
with complementary added:
http://paletton.com/#uid=43C0R0kqntVqHUGryHdnhltkDc+
tetrad:
http://paletton.com/#uid=73C0R0kqntVqHUGryHdnhltkDc+
export is at lower right and as long as you only click within the frame you are quite safe :-)
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zaq
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I like this one:
several versions and you can select them in 1 to 4 colors
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zaq
1.8.3 crashes at resize text with cursor and cmd-z in former aff photo doc
in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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Correct in one. separated mode, Good to know I can avoid it, thanks.
And yes, two or more documents open.