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Wiredframe reacted to Ben in Sneak peeks for 1.7
Ok - I've added this capability. Was a bit more involved than I thought... I've done it so that Space redrag will move just the node for the edited handle, even if there are multiple nodes selected. This gives a subtly different but useful editing capability to just moving the node. It will allow you to move an isolated node, and allow for snapping to the other selected nodes.
There was also a lot to think about to ensure that all the stuff I've previewed before continues to work correctly, and updates after the node position is changed.
Anyway, enjoy the video:
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Wiredframe reacted to rubs in Sneak peeks for 1.7
I think using the selection color and line styles (or other visual indicators in the selection) would be great for this and other uses. See here for a related idea concerning using the selection color for symbols:
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Wiredframe reacted to Glyphs in Saving Interface Layouts
Hi,
Could you give us a way to save interface layouts, with customized toolbars and palettes layouts?
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Wiredframe got a reaction from Mark Ingram in Remove gradient from light theme
I don't think so ^^ Please move it to feature request then, sorry
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Wiredframe reacted to digital in Measure/dimension hardly legible...
Hate this!. 90% of my work with dark images.
And why vertical dimension has VERTICAL numbers? You really think this more comfortable for read than horizontal text?
Just compare with PS:
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Wiredframe reacted to Ben in Sneak peeks for 1.7
Yes. I've coded up alignment for the Node tool. So, you can use the Alignment panel to align the selected nodes in the Node tool, as you would align layers/objects in the Move tool.
I've also prototyped some widgets for doing snapping alignment, as an embellishment to the selection box.
NodeAlignment.mov
NodeAlignmentWidget.mov
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Wiredframe reacted to Ben in Sneak peeks for 1.7
And, here a video showing the new rotate-on-plane feature of the Move tool. A new shape is created into a grid, using the "Edit In Grid Plane" mode. Then, with the mode on, any rotations maintain the grid plane perspective.
RotateOnPlane.mov
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Wiredframe reacted to Ben in Sneak peeks for 1.7
Thought I'd give you a glimpse of some of the features that will be coming in 1.7.
Please note - this thread is only for discussing the features detailed here. Postings related to other feature requests should be posted on their own thread (else they will get deleted from this thread).
We have spent considerable time overhauling the internals of some of our main tools. It's been a labour of love, but it's going to open up greater possibilities for our core tool set.
The core tools are:
- Move tool
- Pen tool
- Node tool
- Shape creation tools
- Text tools
- Fill and Transparency tools
- Place Image tool
- Vector Crop tool
So, what improvements can be expected?
- Advanced grid editing on spread (move the grid origin and edit it's axis with a handy new widget, with full snapping of course)
- Guides can be created and moved in all the core tools, plus a toggle to turn guide editing off
- Move the artboard ruler origin (with editing toggle)
- Create objects and shapes into an arbitrary grid
- Rotate and flip objects in grid planes (great for people working in isometric), plus an option to rotate shapes in plane using the Move tool
- The Move tool will now allow you to cycle though selection boxes, including regular boxes and grid plane aligned boxes
- Snapping performance improvements
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Wiredframe reacted to MEB in SVG Import issues
Hi Wiredframe,
Here's the link to upload the file. Thanks.
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Wiredframe reacted to Oval in Workarounds for Distortion, Warp, or Perspective distort?
Serif is not edobA, so Serif tries to create better solutions/functions than existing ones. This needs time (without infinitely cat power).
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Wiredframe reacted to AffinityAppMan in Workarounds for Distortion, Warp, or Perspective distort?
I also have a Photo, but the layers get rasterized. I need to keep them vector.
thanks for the suggestion.
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Wiredframe reacted to AffinityAppMan in Workarounds for Distortion, Warp, or Perspective distort?
Any Distortion, Warp, or Perspective distort features soon? This year? Any date release? I need to know if I need to change apps.
What is everyone else doing to get around not having Distortion or Perspective distorts in Affinity Designer?
Any tips?
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Wiredframe reacted to MattP in eGPU support
An eGPU is definitely a fantastic thing for certain applications, but for others it cannot help... Basically, our Metal view is throwing hundreds of textures per second up to the graphics card as it renders new tiles of the document, so requires fast throughput (fastest is the integrated card, obviously) but then draws them with a very simple mesh and a not-too-complicated pixel shader, so there's not a lot of benefit from a faster GPU. Affinity Photo allows Metal compute acceleration of raster operations, but this can require the data to come back from the card afterwards in certain scenarios, so if you have an eGPU then it would take a comparatively long time to get the data back so everything would appear slower than just doing it on the CPU in the first place. The iOS version of Photo shows just how fast the GPU acceleration can make things if you don't have to wait to get the data back again... (data can be read/written by GPU and CPU without copying to/from on iOS)
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Wiredframe reacted to rubs in Objects not copied as vectors anymore?
Hi, it seems that Affinity Designer lost its ability to copy objects as vectors into the Windows clipboard. I'm testing it using several target softwares (CorelDRAW, Xara Designer, Inkscape, etc.) and all I get are DIBs / bitmaps. In Xara it's even worse because all bitmaps are blank.
Also the 'Copy items as SVG' option in the Preferences dialog does not change anything for me.
Any thoughts?
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Wiredframe reacted to Jack70 in BUG 1.5.0.17 Grouping constrained objects disappear sometimes
I confirm this bug, Mac Affinity Designer 1.6.1.
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Wiredframe reacted to Mark Ingram in Affinity Designer Customer Beta - 1.6.5.109
Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents.
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.
If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Fixes
New installer UI!
Microsoft Store customers can now participate in the customer betas
Fixed editor boxes not incrementing correctly
Fixed rendering issues with custom display scales between 125% and 150%
Fixed PDF import of some inline images
Fixed crash pasting into Microsoft Paint
Fixed dialogs not appearing on second monitor
Fixed margins not being set for new artboard documents
Fixed keyboard shortcuts becoming disabled after pressing Escape in the Pressure dialog
Added missing PDF dialog scrollbars
Fixed move up/down in the Assets Panel not correctly enabling after moving a category that is first or last
Fixed Embed Assets in Current Document selection state being reversed
Fixed PDF import preview thumbnail not being colour corrected
Fixed PDF import preview thumbnail not handling soft masks on groups
Fixed colour conversion of bitmaps during vector export
Fixed adjusting line pressure being laggy
Fixed deleting a node on the stroke pressure editor not updating the document
Fixed New Document dialog not being aligned nicely
Fixed rotating nodes not being remembered
Fixed editing a Curves Adjustment preventing you from using Keyboard Shortcuts to add additional
Fixed unable to type after tabbing when editing a swatch value
Fixed RGB slider field getting a dotted outline when tabbing into it
Fixed pressing delete with a stop selected on the Gradient Flyout deletes the object, not the stop
Fixed PDF import soft masks taking too long to render
Fixed sporadic crash when sizing text frames to fit
Fixed PDF import crash loading unrecognised JPEG2000 variant
Fixed PDF import crash with coloured pattern space
Fixed editing a guide in Guides Manager not correctly changing selection
Fixed adding colour to swatch causes crash
Fixed shaking a floating panel minimizes other panels
Fixed fill layers built-in masks are broken
Fixed export area dropdown not working like the macOS version
Fixed Pen tool to add snapping while restart dragging under Pen mode
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Wiredframe reacted to simgonzalo in Perfect hair selection
Thanks everybody for your help!!
So, what I did was using the contrast between the hair and the background in the blue channel to make a better selection. Then I saved it on a separate channel and redefined on the real image, with some tweaks using ramp and feather. I think i got some decent results!! Then i changed the background to see good it was made.
Here you have my work
difficult hair.afphoto
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Wiredframe reacted to steve_m in Export Rounded Corners and SVG Shadow
Thanks for flagging this up Wiredframe. We'll get it logged as an issue and look into it.
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Wiredframe reacted to msimek in CSS export for layers
I like the current 1.6 beta of the Designer app. I drew a website design in it and now I want to code it.
But I feel like back in the old days of Photoshop, when I need to ques every dimension, unit (pt to px conversion), color, gradient etc, by hand.
Current and most used apps for web/UI design have a decent way of CSS properties export, which provides clear definition of a designer intentions. Just look at Sketch, Photoshop, Avocode etc. they all have it, because it's a must for using a design further in a development chain.
Please Affinity, consider this feature (or API for it), if you're serious about targeting Designer for the UI design area. Thanks.
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Wiredframe reacted to tomn in Sketch format import + export to Zeplin & FramerJS
+ 1 for opening Sketch files
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Wiredframe reacted to Mark Ingram in Issues Caused By Third Party Windows Software
Here is a list of known issues with third party software:
Capture One (Windows Explorer Integration)
Problem: Crash when attempting to open files (stack overflow in NVIDIA driver). Affects Capture One versions 20 and 21.
Cause: Capture One's Explorer integration crashes if more than one instance is running at once
Solution: Disable Windows Explorer Integration by renaming the C:\Program Files\Capture One\Capture One 20\WIC\WIC64 folder to something else. Note: If you have version 21, the directory will be C:\Program Files\Capture One\Capture One 21\WIC\WIC64. This assumes you haven't changed the default installation directory.
https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360013132497-CO-20-Windows-explorer-integration
ASUS Sonic / ASUS GPU Tweak III / MSI Nahimic
Problem: User Interface elements can disappear or appear stretched
Cause: ASUS Sonic / ASUS GPU Tweak III / MSI Nahimic interferes with Direct3D9 renderering.
Detection: Check if Nahimic is running as an active Windows Service. Kill the service and see if the problem temporarily stops
Solution: Start the application with --no-hw-ui flag, or stop the software (this won't affect the driver or functionality of the sound card)
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/49247-16089-issues-tabs-vanishing/&do=findComment&comment=249809
User Provided solution (not verified by our developers): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/147155-ui-elements-disappearing-on-hover-publisher-19-110/&do=findComment&comment=822640
Topaz OFD (Brazilian Banking Software)
Problem: Applications won't start
Cause: Unknown
Solution: Uninstall Topaz OFD
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/148321-the-software-doesnt-start-at-all/&do=findComment&comment=827774
Brother Control Centre 4
Problem: Unable to update the Affinity applications (Setup Failed).
Cause: Brother Control Centre opens files within the existing Photo installation directly, preventing the old files from being removed (causing the setup to fail).
Solution: Close Brother Control Centre via the system tray, , or try restarting then immediately running the Affinity installer.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/69753-setup-failed-installation-message/&do=findComment&comment=622860
Fresco Logic Proxy Display Driver
Problem: Crashes at startup
Cause: It acts as a proxy display driver, but doesn't handle the kind of requests that WPF makes upon the Direct3D 11 runtime.
Solution: Uninstall, or try using --no-hw-ui and WARP renderer (unconfirmed fixes)
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/61068-unhandled-exception-error-on-app-launch/&tab=comments#comment-322202
My Endpoint Protector
Problem: Crash when dragging in the Layers panel (reported with version 4.6.7.6 of My Endpoint Protector)
Cause: My Endpoint Protector injects itself into the application and attempts to handle messages on our behalf
Solution: Upgrade to version 4.7.8.3 or stop the My Endpoint Protector software
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/48129-instant-crash-on-moving-first-new-layer/#comment-253176
NVIDIA Optimize for Compute Performance
Problem: Document renders incorrectly
Cause: Incompatible with sparse textures (NVIDIA suggests disabling it for applications that use sparse textures, such as Affinity)
Solution: Disable 'Optimize for Compute Performance'
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/55424-display-distortion-when-opening-designer-or-photo/
NVIDIA Surround
Problem: Application window remains solid black and cannot be used
Solution: Disable NVIDIA Surround. One user has suggested using FancyZones as Part of the Microsoft PowerToys project.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/125632-all-affinity-programms-are-black-nvidia-surround/
RivaTuner
Problem: Instant crash at application start
Cause: RivaTuner hooks into Direct3D libraries and injects its own code, which causes the crash (neither Serif or Microsoft are at fault)
Solution: 1.6.x.x attempts to catch the corruption, and offers a slower, software-only fallback (with a warning at startup). Alternatively you can tell RivaTuner to ignore the Affinity executables (also add help.exe and crashreport.exe) by adding them to the list and setting 'Application detection level' to 'None'.
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack Problem: Versions prior to 3.8.0.9 will cause a crash at application start Solution: Install version 3.8.0.9 or later https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21449-unhandled-exception-on-launch/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/27758-affinity-photo-system-crash/
Duet Display Problem: Versions prior to 1.4.7.6 will cause no UI to be shown, other than a portion of the welcome window, and the document Solution: Install version 1.4.7.6 or later https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/28482-big-ui-error-for-photo-and-designer/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/28923-affinity-designer-panels-not-loading/
D3DGear Problem: Crash when creating or opening a document Cause: D3DGear hooks into Direct3D libraries and injects its own code, which causes the crash (neither Serif or Microsoft are at fault) Solution: Currently no work around other than to uninstall https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/29144-crash-when-i-create-or-open-a-project/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21320-unable-to-create-a-new-file-or-open-a-file/
QTranslate Problem: Causes the Mesh Warp and Perspective Tool previews to fail if 'Mouse Mode' (Left click the icon in the tray) is enabled inside QTranslate Solution: Disable 'Mouse Mode' in QTranslate https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/29884-problems-with-previews/?p=148424
Actual Tools (Actual Multiple Monitors & Actual Windows Manager) Problem: Application hang/crash on open Solution: Uninstall the Actual app or try the suggested solution on Actual Tools forums here - https://www.actualtools.com/forum/read.php?FID=10&TID=5493 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/94242-photo-crashes/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/106762-drag-and-drop-into-affinity-photo/
Display Fusion Pro Problem: Application hang/crash on open Solution: Uninstall the Display Fusion Pro app or close the app down, start Affinity and reopen Display Fusion Pro if required. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/149859-incompatibility-with-display-fusion/ -
Wiredframe reacted to TonyB in Affinity Designer for Windows - 1.6.4
Hi,
We are pleased to announce the Windows release of Affinity Designer , version 1.6.4
The change-list is as follows:
- Improved brush smoothing. Any painting tools should now have better smoothing by default.
- Transparent TGA import support.
- Fix for failures when using compound objects inside groups with Constraints set on them.
- Fix for exporting JPEG automatically choosing to export clips as paths which is a poor default and causes confusion.
- Fix for text objects being created outside the hierarchy of the artboard they were supposed to be created in.
- Fix for rotated text bounding boxes being incorrect and for disappearing text following Power-Duplicate.
- Added special case PSD import code for “SketchClub” PSD files (they should fix this!).
- Fixed PSD export of Fill layers.
- Fixed Text Styles panel to show the document defaults when no text is selected
- Changed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers
- Fixed document DPI showing a decimal place in some situations
- Fixed reset of user workspace when new panels have been added
- Fixed newly created Text Styles being applied twice to a text frame on creation
- Fixed vector export (including PDF) taking a long time due to large clip areas
- Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable does not fit to printer margins
- Fixed 2nd Print has a zero size document in printer dialog
- Fixed adjustments being ignored when outside of an artboard even though they may have an effect on the document
- Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay
- Fixed colour node appearing on the Colour panel
- Fixed hit testing on floating window edges to make it easier to resize windows
- Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closing the application (a side-effect of this change is that Alt+F4 on a floating window will now just close that window, not the app)
- Fixed Pixelmator PSD text import
- Attempt to support fonts with truncated type 4 tables (e.g. Serpentine)
- Fixed text frame auto-resizing not working with a single character
- Added support for fonts that substitute spaces, eg Nyala
- Fixed brush selection is not retained after duplicating brush
- Fixed changing brush tip is not always initially accepted
- Fixed Fill Noise not applied when filling with Custom colour, Primary and Secondary colours etc
- Fixed Colour Chooser not correctly switching to match the selected colour
- Fixed tool shortcuts ignore modifier keys
- Fixed Text Styles showing wrong units for Justification options
- Fixed Tab Stop units not auto updating with document units
- Fixed Text Style dialog missing the [No Change] behaviour for the Tab Stop table
- Fixed drag and drop from IrfanView not accepting file items into the document as new layers
- Fixed exporting multiple documents
- Fixed when a colour is removed, the Opacity/Noise slider is not disabled
- Fixed floating windows starting off-screen when monitor is disconnected
- Fixed layer folder icon not initially updating
- Fixed document type incorrectly displayed when artboards added
- Fixed text not being drawn after power duplicate
- Fixed rare instances of being unable to select text
- Fixed a couple of instances where the colour wheel wouldn't update properly
- Use different icon for Arrange/Alignment
- Fixed unusable transparent area left after cropping with New View
- Fixed Surface Pro pen UI failures (requires Enable Pointer Support in User Interface Preferences)
- Fixed Vector export print and print preview differing from on-screen
- Fixed crash with multiple documents open when using pixel selections
- Fixed vector export so clipped-out transparencies will draw as transparent
- Fixed PDF export of embedded uncommon fonts
- Fixed OpenType MarkToLigature rendering incorrectly
- Fixed OpenType Contextual Alternatives displaying incorrectly with Levandria font
- Fixed crash in GlyphBrowser when fonts don't have a cmap table
- Fixed Type1 fonts being incorrectly embedded in PDFs
- Fixed failure to add symbols to some documents
- Fixed failure to load some .afpalette files
- Fixed alignment of some context bar items
- Fixed custom Export Presets not being remembered correctly
- Improved performance of Brush Editor dialog
- Fixed panels to allow expansion anywhere on the header, not just on the expansion arrow
- Fixed creating an analogous colour chord does not add the correct swatches
- Fixed Colour picker loupe not displaying on second monitor
- Fixed Panel groups do not revert size when dragged in and out of other groups
- Fixed Document Setup does not reflect or change current "Actual Size" Zoom for "Web" type documents
- Assorted PDF export improvements.
- Numerous other fixes and stability improvements.
Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Bugs on Windows section
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Wiredframe got a reaction from Amdival in Clear constraints properties
I often am in the situation where I have to completely ungroup a constraints group. The problem is, when I create a constraints group of the items again the group disappears. This is because the layers still have constraints properties applied which I have to set back to default.
So it would be perfect to have an option to remove all constraints properties of one or more selected layers.
Thanks in advance :)
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Wiredframe reacted to Terry44 in Import Fireworks PNG
Because Adobe hasn't told anyone how Fireworks PNG files are created, as far as I know there is no 3rd party applications that can support Fireworks Files. Even Photoshop converts the layers to it's own format, but photoshop can open them because that software is made by the same company.
