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Reproducable bug with copy & paste into new document
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Point is - it works fine without any delay with a new file generated from clipboard content (I'd assume it's more or less the same operation). Maybe when pasting the same content into an existing file there applies a rule that allows someone, somewhere to harvest bitcoin with my processor power for 20 minutes ... we need further investigation π -
Reproducable bug with copy & paste into new document
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Thnks for you answer Dan. What do you mean: AD technically never crashes? I assume you say that with regards to this special case. I'm well aware that there is a difference between "not responding" and "crashing" ... still, when "not responding" takes more than a couple of minutes from a users point of view this is comparable to "crashing" - it's hard to tell if the system will ever return to life or is in an infinit Loop (I'm still alive .... I'm not dead .... ensure you I'm still alive .... it's just a neverending loop .... but still aliveπ ). Reminds me of the old times: 10: Print "Still alive" 20: Goto 10 Still alive but never returning. Thanks for that smile π And yes, the layer has a bit more than 4000 instances of a symbol. If I understand symbols right we are not even talking about a copy of an element but just a reference (instance) - you can hardly get less data. That should be a no-brainer for AD. I remember a tutorial where you were presenting a new version dealing with half a million real objects (or even more) and showing how quick the system stil was performing. So let me put it this way: I am seriously surprised(!) that the system took 20 minutes to copy 4000 instances. And seeing that the system can handle the same amout of symbols in milliseconds when creating a new file from the clipboard with the same content (what I would have expected) I'm surprised that you are surprised π I'm convinced you'll find the bug and fix it since it will be hard to explain that copying one instance of a single circle(!) on an high end processors and a very quick graphic card takes roughly 0.3 seconds π Cheers, Timo -
Take the attached afdesign file, copy the "Golf Ball Structure" layer. Create a new document (1920x1200) and paste the layer into new document (CTRL+V) - Affinity gone (aka "program not responding"). It does not crash when you generate a new document from Clipboard. Cheers, TImo Golf Ball Structure.afdesign
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I'm trying to export the area of a selection. Until now I never had a problem with this topic but for some reason I canΓt get it to work as expected this time. As you can clearly see in the picture I selected the object I want to export. But when choosing "Selected Area" you can see in the dimensions that it still is exporting the whole document. The selected area is square. I'm pretty sure it's a problem between my ears ... but have no clue what could cause this behaviour. It actually makes no difference if I choose "selected area" or "selection" - still wants to export the whole document. Any ideas?
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That's true - but only if a point is selected. As long as you have the node tool active (even if the curve layer is selected) the transformation panel is not in use. Secondly: I was referring to the menu command layer>transformation>xxx. Even with node tool active this is not affected by the data input in the transformation panel so could as well perform e.g. a mirror layer transformation..
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Yep, that caused it ... I had the node tool active and that caused the issue - works fine with the move tool. Same for the transform panel as well as the layer menu entries. Hard to undestand why transformation is not available with a different tool since it is a global layer operation. But obviously my mistake. Thx Walt!
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If you select a curve layer, go to the layer menu>transformation all sub menus are disabled - unlike you select a shape. Same with the transformation panel with a curve layer active. Maybe I'm substantially doing something wrong - but I havent figured out what it could be .... sometimes you don't see the obvious.
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It seems the layer transformation in Affinity Designer does not work for curves - only shapes. This from my perspectivce seems pretty hard to understand since rotating or mirroring a curve is basically the same as transforming a shape (basically take the bounding rechtangle and perform the transformation). I can not even enter mirroring or rotating values in the transformation panel for curves. Did I do something wrong? And how would you mirror a curve without starting to construct complex gridlines or similar to lock to? Cheer, Timo
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I guess eventually this will be a designers question. I could imagine that a list comes up with all slices preselected for opening and the option to deselect whatever you don't need to open. Maybe even with the option afterwards to apply the sharpening setting applied to one slice to selected or all of the others. Just some thoughts ... (Maybe with the last suggestion to apply sharpening to other slices, we are getting closer to the "frequency separated intersections between penguins and octagons" I mentioned above ). I learned to lower my expectation when it comes to workflow.
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Ohh, don't bring up the old stuff ... Only gets me into trouble. I always get a shitstorm for reposting But frankly spoken I had the impression that 5 years gone by justifies to put up a little reminder .... and we are not asking for functions to construct frequency separated intersections between penguins and octagons. <sarcasm on> And I guess it's still a huge surprise for serif that there are people out in the world that try to productively use their tools <sarcasm off> But as I said - let's hope for AP 2.0
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Hi guys, I'm wondering what would be the optimal workflow whith regards to sharpening when you try to export (Exporting through the Photo Persona) a JPG from an existing picture? When I work on high res photos of course I don't want to resize the original before output to be able to properly adjust the sharpening settings for the required output resolution. On the other side a proper judgement of sharpening can only be done in the final resolution. The export dialog where you enter the output resolution does not allow setting the sharpening parameters for the entered resolution. I don't see a proper way in the export Persona either. For proper adjustment I would need all sharpening parameters and a 1:1 pixel precise view in export resolution. To me this seems to be a quite commen process. How do you realise this in Affinity Photo? What is the recommended workflow. Cheers, Timo
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Error from Publisher handing over to designer
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Will do so! -
Error from Publisher handing over to designer
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
I'm aware that these kind of problems can be a nightmare. Currently I'm not able to reproduce the error myself. It may be related to the things I did in Publisher. What I did was: The attached file (regrettfully in a slighly different version) was send to Publisher from Designer In Designer I used the (search and) replace function for fonts to easily exchange all fonts for one of the 3 logo elements with a different font. After that I wanted to send the file back to designer and the error occured. -
Error from Publisher handing over to designer
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Sorry for the delay ... file is uploaded (it was edited in Publisher and the error occured when re-transfering back to Designer) -
Variable fonts
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Even more important to leave a footprint -
Error from Publisher handing over to designer
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Can do so - please give me a private upload link since I don't want to publicly share a customer project ... -
Variable fonts
DarkClown replied to DarkClown's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Hmm, thanks for asking .... let me think ... YES! And I apologise for "violating forum rules" - I assume I'm a really bad boy (I always thought that this type of comment was originally cultivated by my folk ) - but how would serif ever know that there were far more than one person requestion a feature if only one request would be allowed?