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DarkClown

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  1. I've been following this topic now from the beginning on ... feeling seriously unhappy about the mutitude of personal vendettas going on here that distract from the core issues (doing no good for this discussion). Why do we all (or at least most of us) post here? I presume to express our insecurity with regards to the future of Affinity products. Many people involved here driven by a long term involvement in the product development process. Many users being scared of significant price changes or pricing models (subscription). Many people aware of the experience from former take-overs of sw companies - and the results. And - having general moral company integrity in mind - not trusting pledges and promises, since most companies did not keep those and betrayed their customers. On the other hand, what do we try to achieve? Financiel decisions have been made. Affinity is no longer in the drivers seat. Marketing bullshit has been send out. Canva is aware of the lack of trust in them. Whinging around does not improve the situation! Lets ask Canva for commitment on their pledges. We will not change Canvas possible decision in the future to come up with a subscription model (what they announced already). We will not even be able to commit them on sticking to the promise to keep the perpetual license alive on a long term. Promises that have been broken in many other companies. But for now, we can still try to get a better V2.5 and V3.0. (I hope the promise will last at least that long). Seriously - I don't trust, I don't believe. But since this decision is not in our hands (money is sadly not based on moral integrity). We still have things to gain! - The "No" is for sure ... the "yes" is an option. And to make this clear: Serif: I'm very angry about you! You are jeopardizing the future of many creative people, since noone easily changes the design software like underware in the morning. To make it clear: giving up control just for the money! Just the opposite of the ideals you promoted for the last 10 years! I just seriously ask Canva to keep the pledges! Don't try to copy Adobe, the original is always the better choice. Cheers, Timo
  2. This text is from the "Pledge" page .... I wonder who wrote this. For more than 8 years the Forum is overloaded with feature requests - and still management "authorities" ask us for INPUT? It's all there -just read the forum! How far away can you be away from what goes on in real life? If all other statements are based on the same level of competence I doubt if anything is true ...
  3. New account since yesterday .... praising the lord and instantly being given high-five by Patrick and Ash ... any questions anyone?
  4. OK, Ash, that' a fair statement! I still don't trust company promises - but it's all I can ask for for now. I was pretty upset about the humiliating marketing bullshit you send out yesterday. Seeing that this merger ends up in a pretty sprawling marketing desaster, you either completely misjudged the close relationship you(Affinity) build up with your customers during the many years of development and the effect of selling the company to a faceless nobody with enough money. Of course cutomers feel betrayed. The father just told his children that "familiy" is over and they all get sold to an orphanage home. Promising them that they still will get fed. Great news. Yes I'm still scared I might loose the product I spend hundrets and hundrets of hours on to report bugs and participate in plenty discussion on improvement and ideas.I'm scared the supportive community might disappear. I'm scared canva will not keep their promises. (I do remember as well you saying that Affinity will not be sold!) But seeing there's not much I can do about it I'll wait and see. Either way it will be hard for canva to (re-)gain trust of the customers. This merger marketingwise coud have been prepared a lot better! Cheers, Timo
  5. That was the issue. Thx for the quick response and help!
  6. I guess I'm getting old ... been working with Affinity for 7 years now and suddenly you come across some stupid thing that seems not worth mentioning but you don't get the clue. I just draw a simple ellipse, turn filing and contour off (transparent) ... But the ellipse still appears on the screen als outline and I can't get rid of this. Checked all setting (most likely overlooked the importend stuff). In the picture you see an ellipes selected and a copy of it unselected. And the filling setting. From my understanding it shoud not show up. So, who's the first to tell me I'm stupid 🙂 (and most important: WHY!) 🙂
  7. Stupid me ... could have tried that before ... Thx loukash
  8. I have a path with a gradient. Copied the path and move it somewhere else. Now the gradient on the copy is only a fraction of original gradient. But the color field for the gradient shows up properly. How can I reset the startig and endpoint for the gradient to align with the start and beginning of the curve bounding box? (I assume a gradient following the curve is still not available?!) Any help appreciated Timo
  9. Sadly the bugfix didn't make it into the 2.4 😞
  10. See this example. The bounding box is set correcty with new dimensions but the Artboard still recognises the old dimensions. Artboard.mp4
  11. Regrettfully inserting an Artbord based on the selection does not recognise the newly set bounding box 😞
  12. Good point .... I'll align the rectangle. Any idea for the 119%?
  13. As you can see in the attached screenshot the object size of the frame within the document I'd like to export is 400x100px (Layer "Exportbereich"). Line width of this simple rectangle is 0pt. The export dialog is set to "selected area" (Bereich der Auswahl) but it tells me it would like to export 401x101 pixel. I don't understand why. And final export size is actually 401x101!. Problem is: for Webdesign I need 400x100 and not a pixel more. Of course I can define the export size precisely in the export dialog but in that case I have no control where the single pixel is cut of exactly. As well the export dialog window displays "119%" - something I don't understand as well. Maybe someone has an explanation. Cheers, Timo
  14. Appreciate your wise advice and wisdom and I'm thankful for the valuable time you wasted on his thread ... seeing you are talking to unsuspecting people that are using AP in daily work and taking part at technical discussions in this forum for over 7 years.
  15. As you can see in the Video the resulting canvas ist not at all the size of the whole document but online slghtly bigger than the previous original picture.
  16. Interesting point. What are the advantages of doing so? (in comparison to my workflow)
  17. How come there are non-transarent elements, outside the image dimensions? Even if it's supposed to work like that I don't see any reason to extend the canvas (unless the rasterisation includes other elements with aditional canvas). But that should be reflected by the object size already before the destructive rasterisation. Despite this I don't actually see any reason to rasterize the object at all - considering I might want to keep the structure of the object. I just edited the picture - why would you merge the adjustment layers to it now? There's no reason to destroy the object.
  18. The amount of white space added to the canvas varies quite a bit .... can't tell exactly what is the reason for the size of added space.
  19. Sorry for being a little unspecific. It happens regardles if I use "Edit in Photo" or "switch to the "Photo Persona" inpainting.mp4
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