[User interface Text contrast has only partial effect]

53 minutes ago, NathanC said:

Hi @abra100pro,

This is currently a logged bug related to automatically generated layer names suffer from contrast issues and are unaffected by the UI Settings, I've updated the issue and bumped it with your report.

Thanks @NathanC, Affinity might consider fixing the above mentioned bugs features, as well. It's about time...

[User interface Text contrast has only partial effect]

Why, but why?

I work in web development. when our applicatiins do have issues (I don‘t even call them bugs) like that, we fix them within days. customer happy. 

I changed gladly from Illustrator to Affinity years ago, because the apps were easier, lightweight, faster(!). 

But there are some issues I simply don‘t understand why they‘re still there:

above all these:

this one above (fixing time: 15mins, no?)

artboard placement on the canvas and the impact on their dimensions (major super big issue for years). it‘s been discussed a lot in here  IMHO there is no reason to not call this an issue but a feature.  

The super lousy preview on export - that‘s more like from an unbeloved project all students had to to finish quickly.

stroke weirdness when fiddling with their thickness

artboards having a background colour and bleed: background colour is not extending to bleed at export. yes this is no a bug, but think only 30 seconds (or hours if you wish) and it is obvious that this makes no sense in any situation. 

[User interface Text contrast has only partial effect]

Text contrast (3rd slider) does not change the (very weak) layer names – please see images.

[All unusably rendered as pixels though there aren't any.]

...... it was the selective color adjustment layer that was still on top.

I wasn't aware that this makes it pixels.

But the shadow makes it also pixels – shouldn't shadow be (part of) vector graphics?

[All unusably rendered as pixels though there aren't any.]

AD 2.6.2

Yes. please find it attached.Las Guschgel-Etikette.afdesign

Am I curious.

[All unusably rendered as pixels though there aren't any.]

I've converted everything individually to curves and still export says "some areas will be rasterised". I go for a walk.

[All unusably rendered as pixels though there aren't any.]

I have this design and everything is vector/font but the Export seems to render the whole PDF output into an unusable pile of pixels.

Also destroys layout when converting to curves. See video. In the video you see, that I removed the shadow in order to be sure not to have anything to be rasterized (however: why?).

Also: "Some areas will be rasterized" is as helpful as "you have an error in your 30'000+ lines of code". Why not showing the areas? AND: The preview of export is still complete c**p. Of no use at all. Still. 

I'm a bit tired of this, I must say.

 

[AD Canvas zooms out when moving artobard]

See movie: moving the artboard zooms slightly out the canvas.

[Missing font display / ressources manager]

If there are any fonts missing, why not allocate them and giving a possibility to replace them? And why do they not appear in ressources manager? This would in fact be gorgeous: replace all comic sans with Helvetica ;-).

[Slow startup (all Affinity apps)]

On 12/6/2024 at 2:54 AM, MikeTO said:

I waited a few days before posting this just in case I hadn't been paying attention, but it turns out I hadn't been paying attention. 🙂 The slow launch issue is still there and it happened to me several hours after I posted this, it's just not all that slow on this computer.

Here on my M1 Sequoia AD,APub and aPh are ready in 6 seconds after click to open.

[Incorrect dimensions at export]

2 hours ago, drkanukie said:

Spent another hour debugging this stupid bug on exports again. Anything with a graphic border really shows it. I use Figma a lot too and it just rarely happens there as the frames all have integral origins. It's such an easy fix, impressive level of  refusal to listen to customers. What is the common use case of an art board with a non integral origin compared to the one with an integral origin,? 

I gave up on this – it won't come anymore. This is the way it started with Adobe, then. Just ignore the folks hard enough. At that time in lack of alternatives it worked. Not so anymore.

[Selecting elements doesn't work (as it used to)]

16 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Hi @abra100pro,

AFAIK, objects have to be visible for that to work, did it work for you in earlier versions of Designer?

Not sure, but you're right, that was the issue. Thanks for making this clear. I assume it's a feature, then...

[Selecting elements doesn't work (as it used to)]

Hi, I cannot select elements, that are obviously on the artboard – see movie. I have the appropriate preference set:

 

Any clues or confirmations?

 

[Position of Artboards and their influence of export dimensions]

5 hours ago, drkanukie said:

A vector space should start at 0/0 origin point 

Right Said Fred. +1

[AD does not recognize jpg]

Hi @Hangman

It is a JPG I export from a PSD in Photoshop, each time I change it. It's on my internal drive and linked to in AD. (Should I mention: copyrights apply).

[AD does not recognize jpg]

I get this message everytime I update the JPG and AD syncs with the updated, linked file.

The update itself works.

AD 2.5.5 / Sequoia 15.1

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

Just now, Old Bruce said:

@abra100pro

Please include the Layers panel in that looping gif.

That is 2.6 and yes, it was Edit all layers at the Layers panel's bottom.

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

As always (I can remember) @walt.farrell you're right. The edit all layers was the culprit. Now it works again in 2.5.5. Thanks!

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

So, I downloaded 2.6 and – tadaaa! – there it is (again?): elements outside the artboard are visible, respectively act exactly as described by @walt.farrell.

Either my 2.5.5 has an arrow in the back or I and Walt really messed this up. 

 

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

It has been the way it works as far back as I can remember, which is way back in the first Mac-only versions of AD.

One more thing that I dislike, the list gets larger... how am I supposed to work fluently in a design process, when I can't put things around the artboard? And if @walt.farrell  is mentioning it, I think there is/was a way, no? really?

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

I'm pretty sure this wasn't always so.... and it would be incredibly stu**d . Ho should I arrange stuff, Juggle with elements? It can be, that I confuse it with Lunacy, which handles out of the artboard stuff as expected (and described bei Walt).

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

The object is still within the artboard layer-wise. I dodn't know if that was always so.

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

 

macOS Sequoia 15.1, AD 2.5.5

[How do I Show Objects that are Outside the 'Page' Area in Affinity Photo and Designer]

On 9/24/2024 at 12:50 PM, walt.farrell said:

Note that:

• In Photo you usually have a Canvas. And objects outside the Canvas are not visible.
• In Designer you usually have a Canvas, but instead may have one or more Artboards. Documents with a Canvas work differently from documents with an Artboard. Objects outside the Canvas may be visible, or not. Objects completely outside the Artboards will be visible. Objects partly inside the Artboards will be only partly visible.
• In Publisher you usually have a Page. Objects outside the Page may be visible, or not.

 

In AD this used to be but now, as soon as I draw something completely out of an artboard it is invisible. Do you have any clues?