Gear maker
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7 hours ago, T4Z said:
Appreciate your help and time putting that together.
You are welcome. Happy to be of help.
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37 minutes ago, Moustachey said:
As the title states, if you open a file in Affinity Designer on Mac, make some edits, save the file and close the file. Go into the menu and click on 'Open Recent', that recently closed file will not be there. No recent files will be listed there.
I don't have that problem. What OS are you running? What mac are you using? Are you saving to the internal drive or something like a network or iCloud?
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14 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
It is clear.
Weird! Thanks. I guess we'll see if the dev's have any ideas.
It's definitely not a timing issue, because if I immediately click the image layer then the visibility twice it just pops into clarity. Where as 15 minutes later it's still not in detail if I don't touch the visibility.
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@Old BruceOkay, will you try something for me. Attached is a very stripped down version of my drawing. If you open it in the newest beta 1.10.0.6 then zoom into the meter is it in detail or pixelated?
If it's pixelated then try saving it but have any layer other than the image selected. It should come up as being pixelated. Then try saving it with the image layer selected. When reopened it should come up in detail. At least that is what is happening on my machine.
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1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:
May be down to the difference in our OS and hardware, I am slightly more up to date than you. But still it is a lowering of the expectation. I am really curious as to why the hiding revealing will show the layer at its higher resolution.
Post Script: You said you dragged the image in, I am guessing that placed a linked image layer, am I correct in those assumptions? 1 that it is an image layer and 2 that it is linked?
FYI the layer type is "Image" so it's not a linked image. I just grabbed it from my internet browser and pulled it across and dropped it into AD. It's just a temporary image that I need some detail from it for my drawing. Everything was fine working from it yesterday, but when I opened it this morning all detail was gone. Luckily after a few attempts at "touching" it in different ways I found the visibility control brought the detail back.
I think it's something in the drawing. I made just a virgin drawing and dragged the same image into it, but I don't have the same problem. The entire file is 50MB so I don't want to just upload it into the forum. I'm going to selectively delete things to see if I can figure out what part is causing the issue.
I just opened my entire drawing in the released version (1.9.3) and surprisingly it did open. The problem does not exist in the released version.
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4 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Takes a while for Designer to load, read the data, in a placed image file. That is probably what you are seeing.
5 minutes later it's still showing as:
Good possibility but no cigar. As they say. Thanks Bruce.
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I have a vector drawing with an "image" that I dragged into it. When I close the drawing then reopen it the image layer comes up severely pixelated (shown in the first example). Then if I hide it and unhide it the image comes up as it should (shown in the second example).
Edited: I just noticed that I have to select the layer then make it not visible then visible for the pixilation to correct itself. Just clicking the visibility button didn't do it.
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On 7/30/2021 at 4:15 AM, T4Z said:
I'm considering doing rough shapes and then gaussian blur as opposed to using any gradients.
I'm assuming seeing as you are using AD you want to do this completely with vectors. Yes, your suggested action sounds correct. I think you'll want to draw each surface, then start with the bigger area, green. Then yellow, then red. Attached is a quick example of the issue I'd attack it. Good luck.
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29 minutes ago, B·Ware said:
Is it possible to convert text to compound curves?
If you do a convert to curves (cmd return on a mac) each letter is converted to a separate curve or compound curve depending on the structure of the letter. If you want all letters in one compound curve, do the convert to curve, then select all letters and do an add or a Layer > Geometry> Merge curves.
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I just installed 1.10.0.5 and used it to open a document I created in 1.10.0.3. I was surprised to see it come back saying "Opening non-Beta document" then suggesting a copy be made. I'm used to having such when opening a 1.9... document which is not being compatible with beta 1.10.0.5. But usually a document made in 1.10.0.3 would be compatible with 1.10.0.5 and vice versa. Unfortunately I do not still have version 1.10.0.3 to see if it actually is compatible.
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On 7/2/2021 at 1:39 PM, R C-R said:
So maybe an alternative that would work is to extend the function of the "Hide Selection while Dragging" button to hide the bounding box during any change, including changing colors & anything else where the box might be considered a distraction?
Off the top of my head I can't think of any place that that wouldn't take care of it.
One of the biggest problems I have with the bounding box is when woking with a gradient trying to match colors adjacent to another area. The blue line does not let me visualize the actual difference/sameness of the two areas. But hiding the bounding box would hide the gradient's handles and these must be seen to use them. The handles can be easily moved out of the area so they don't really affect the view. But the blue line (of the bounding box) can't be removed during any adjustment. If the spacebar is pressed before grabbing the handle then the handle can not be grabbed. If the spacebar is pressed after grabbing the handle then it is ignored. I don't think any of the workarounds work for this except creating a New View. If as you suggest above, the bounding box were made invisible during adjustment that would be great. But the handles should be kept visible so their placement can be seen during the adjustment. Actually this would be true frequently for any handle of any bounding box being adjusted.
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1 minute ago, R C-R said:
which from what I can tell from what I quoted is when @NKC knows they do need to be seen.
I agree, most of the times. Once in awhile it gets in the way and it would be great to be able to turn off the bounding box and frames. I agree most of the time I'd want the boxes showing.
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15 hours ago, R C-R said:
Where do you see a multiplicity of bounding boxes visible at the same time? Can you post a screenshot showing that?
R C-R there is only one bounding box, but there are sometimes multiple frames shown. I believe this is what NKC is seeing.
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20 minutes ago, synaptic said:
Is that just my weird Mac that does this, or are some of the stated shortcuts in Designer not correct?
This threw me a bit. I've never tried these shortcuts before. But playing with it I have come up with what I believe is happening. To get the > you would need to press the shift and the period. So to do the Precise Bigger you need to press cmd + opt + shift + period. Usually the last character is the lower case symbol, but in this case it is the upper requiring the shift also to be pressed. At least that's how it works on my mac.
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7 minutes ago, slaterousJ said:
Does anybody know how to scale/transform so that the layer effects scale, too?
Use the Scale with object in the fx panel when you create an fx.
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On 5/19/2021 at 5:14 AM, awakenedbyowls said:
There surely must be a way. If not then that is disappointing indeed. Why is it called a Vector Brush Tool if it's raster?
I don't think anyone has actually answered this question for you. It's a vector brush because the path it takes is a vector and can be manipulated by vector tools such as the node tool. The path then controls where the pixel image of the brush is drawn. And due to it being a pixel image some vector tools do not work, such as Expand. Yes, it probably should be called something like a Hybrid brush, but that would be probably even more confusing. I hope this helps.
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17 minutes ago, werkwelt said:
at least I found the ability to freely change a single handle by dragging it while holding down the alt key. Now I would like to be able to delete a single handle at this point. I did’t found this yet.
Holding down the alt (opt) key while just clicking on a handle will delete that single handle.
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It depends on how you drew this. Normally there would be layers that are white with a black stroke on a blue background. In this case it's simple to just turn off the stroke leaving the white on a blue background. If this isn't the case then could you attach the affinity file so we can see how the images are drawn?
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2 hours ago, dcortesi said:
But when I draw (or paste) a second line, AffPhoto makes a new Curve layer. If I continue I will end up with 29 Curve layers, which will make Stroking a bit tedious.
How can I create a grid of discontinuous lines as a single "curve" object? Or can I at all?
There are a few ways to do this, you can select all your lines then do from the menu Layer>Geometry>Merge curves. This will as you ask combine them all into a single curve. But I would recommend just selecting all the lines then create a group by pressing cmd + G (or Menu Arrange>Group. If the group is selected then any change made to the stroke, fill, move, etc. will be done to all layers in the group. But if you want to do something else to one or more of the layers in the group they can be selected and changed or moved without affecting the rest.
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1 hour ago, Sean P said:
zoom into a rough area on the map that'll make it easier to find that would be helpful!
Okay now I am confused. One of the first things I did was to select about 50 layers at a time and click on Separate Curves (I have a hot key assigned). AD then only operates on the Curves, which is great. So when I stumbled on this issue I figured they were from a Curves that had been split. But they weren't, they are 5 separate Curve layers in the original file. And even stranger they are reversed in my sample but I only did a copy then a New from Clipboard. Or coincidentally I happened to find a set that look to be the same, no way. The banana shaped curve is at location 878.019 pt, 1556.465 pt in the map or using the coordinates on the left side and bottom of the map 09 and 71 approximately. The rest of the shapes are spread to the left of the banana.
So anyway by the time I found the issue many layers had been deleted, the entire file had been resized using the right lower corner handle to resize the text also. Then the contour layers had been in a selection of maybe 50 layers that have had a Separate Curve done to all. Then to make the Test file a selection, copy and New from Clipboard.
That reminds me, I had noticed that in the Test file I had sent the origin was in the bottom right corner, not the upper left as usual and I was wondering how this could happen. That would maybe explain the reversal of the shapes. What causes this change in origin? I have never seen a command to do a reversal of origin.
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1 minute ago, loukash said:
Then I force quit, reloaded the file…
Strange I've loaded several of these files, multiple times and AD has never failed to load the file in less than about 10 seconds. I'm currently working on a file that is a compilation of 4 of these files (minus the pixel layers). AD still doesn't have the slightest problem.
@Sean P Still searching.
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6 hours ago, Sean P said:
Thanks for the afdesign file - I'm can reproduce that here. Would it be possible for you to also attach the PDF you used for import as well please? I have a feeling development are interested in what could be happening at import time to create this odd scenario!
Hi Sean, the file is 67MB. Maybe a better way to get the entire file is to go to https://store.usgs.gov/product/468355 where I downloaded it. The download is free. There are many Curves about halfway down and the one I had attached above is one of them. The problems are in the contour lines. Many other Curves in that area have caused the same issue for me.
4 hours ago, loukash said:One of the stacked end nodes apparently has a "hidden" control handle. And even though both nodes appear to be aligned even at 1,000,000,000 % (!) magnification, apparently they're not.
loukash, I have noticed that the curves appear to be closed in this pdf but aren't. In just this one file, of which I am working on 4 such files, there are 3677 open curves. But about a half of those have to be open, so I can't close them en masse. Then as I'm closing them I find ones like my sample that require even more steps. I'm hoping that AD can handle some of this by not employing any hidden handles.
Affinity SVG import failing in Tinkercad
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I haven't imported to Tinkercad but in the More menu of the export try Flatten Transforms. And possibly Rasterize: Nothing. Good luck.