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  1. I prefer version 1! The pixel dimensions of the new version are still the same, and you've only saved about 400 KB on the size of the attached file.

    The difference in the original file is more dramatic, down from 25.6Mb to 2.6Mb. I shall have to play around with reducing the size of the canvas, perhaps, for posting here.

  2. This was originally an exercise to use the Asset Manager which I love to bits, it lets my play with parts of buildings just like I used to play with my Bayko Building set a few years ago (before the days of Lego houses) and save the parts to rearrange them into a different building another day. Great fun! However, it is Hallowe'en tomorrow night, so I have to do my bit.....

     

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  3. I am delighted to see Asset Management and I'm finding it very useful.

     

    Just an issue with saving.

     

    1 Created a new category called Suburbia

    2 I wanted to save this category so exported it as Suburbia 2016 10 30

    3 Saved my work and closed the program

     

    4 Opened the program today and checked to see what was showing in the Asset Management pop-up

    5 Just IOS10 and Suburbia.

    6 When I Imported Suburbia 2016 10 30 it seemed to import but only as Suburbia 1

     

    7 Added more items to Suburbia 1, exported the category as Building Blocks

    8 Saved my work and closed the program.

     

    9 Opened the program again. Just IOS10 and Suburbia in the pop-up menu

    10 Imported Building Blocks

    11 The category Building Blocks imported but called itself Suburbia 2

     

    In reality I had tried this several times so my Asset Manager is temporarily populated with quite a few Suburbias with consecutive numbers.

     

    Is there any way that I can export a category and get it to Import under its correct name, please?

     

    Screenshot 1 is when I was adding today's assets to the Suburbia category that I created yesterday, screenshot 2 shows the results of trying to add either Suburbia 2016 10 30 or Building Blocks.

     

    Do I have to, for example, create a new category called Building Blocks before I can import the file again? This is an activity I foresee using often as I might take an existing category but delete some items and add others to change its nature for future use, when it would be easier just to find the best category from my list for the next project and not just use one category which becomes overpopulated.

     

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  4. Hello, first time here. I just received my wonderful book yesterday, all it took was ONE DAY!!! amazing! It's a beautiful book and very informative, my question is:

    Can anybody guide me to the place I can download all the files relate it with the book? Again excellent book and thanks for the help.

    See page 126 - the link (affin.co/...) is in the same part of each chapter, and page 69, the green page on chapter 2 for the core skills link.
  5. The Affinity Designer Workbook states the file name for the Resource files to download, for example

     

    core_skills_artboards.afdesign

     

    but one requires a complete Internet address.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbdulgcctlvxkio/Screen%20Shot.png?dl=0

    I fell for this, too! Go back a few pages to the green page at the beginning of the chapter - that is the URL (affin.co/...) that you want, although it doesn't look much when you get there, everything you want for the book is there :)

  6. I have received commercial interest in one of my vector-only creations, the client wants to be able to print to any size from covering a cushion to covering a wall. I wasn't intending the work as anything other than for my own amusement originally (and the client is known to me, so no complications)

     

    Question: client does not have Affinity, not yet at least, and I made this piece when I was playing about with the early betas of AD for Windows. The only way I can think of sending a proper scaleable vector file is to find out what program he uses and export in that format? Unless you have a better idea :)

  7. Yes, but ... this isn't an old book that they no longer sell, it's a new book that they're apparently not going to be selling!

    I agree entirely, but because they deliver it, it is in their system and therefore they "know about it" - and they link their book lists with libraries so that information and cover pictures can be shared, so I think it's just how it works. You disclose to Amazon that a book exists and they log it, in effect.

  8. If it isn't going to be sold on Amazon.co.uk, it seems rather odd that they have this listing for it! :o

    It is currently unavailable...! Which explains one strange thing I went to scan my copy into LibraryThings (I was going to say it is my Friday read this week) but it scanned an unrecognisable ISBN - I checked and the sticker over the ISBN on the back of the book was all letters, not numbers. I might still list it as my Friday Read though :D

     

    Edit; Job Done  :ph34r:

  9. Have to love insomnia, working my way through the Affinity Designer Workbook, picking up little things that I hadn't noticed before and finally understanding the purpose of artboards! I've designed three colourways of the logo for my new imaginary company and I am waiting for my imaginary client to choose one and pay me some imaginary money. Imagine is the key word with this new book, it banishes the 'white page" syndrome and feeds my imagination. 

  10. Going by the other items in the pic, I can't help wondering whether it's really an early Christmas present or actually a late birthday present! Or perhaps it's a bit of both. ;)

    It's traditional in our house that we enjoy birthday cards for a week, they are so pretty it's a shame to do otherwise. I think the book is a birthday present to myself perhaps - it certainly isn't going to be hidden away until Christmas :) 

  11. Food, Furniture, and a book.... what a morning. :D  Someone's gonna be busy today. Glad you posted the pic otherwise I'm not sure I would have believed it..

    I was very surprised, too; all the delivery men know that the front of our house is the safest place round here to set down, run and deliver and zip off again, so I took no notice until the man walked to the front door! I'm supposed to be helping hubby to build new computer desk, but somehow or other I keep coming here (poorly knee can be a blessing, sometimes), for another flip through the book :D :D :D

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