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    Olaf, PNG doesn't support vectors so when you export it, it will be rasterized and it is always going to look worse than a vector file. Why not use SVG, which supports vectors? Hokusai
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    TangoPapaMike, Are you using Mac or Windows? If you are using Mac then Option + G will do it. I'm not sure on Windows but I'm sure someone here can tell you. Hokusai
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    MikeW, Thanks for pointing out that PDF/X-4 supports layers, I wasn't aware of it. Hokusai
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    Timber, As far as I know, unless something has changed, Designer doesn't yet have the ability to export PDF files with layers. A work around would be to create your UV areas as a spot colour (one that you aren't using for anything else) and tell them that the spot colour is the UV or just create a global colour and name it Spot UV. Hope that helps, Hokusai
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    bleduc, I think this is a very good point and something important to think about. There are many people who complain about things that are missing from Designer and while there are things missing, I think that people need to have faith in the developer's vision of the future. I too am confident that the developers will get there in time. For me there is a very important thing that people need to do before starting to use Affinity's products. I think when people start using Affinity products they need to think about is: When you take the trial, do you like the way that Affinity solves problems, because that give us a look into things to come. If you don't, then stick with what you are using. If you do then you need to be patient because adding new things takes time. I think people also have to give the developers time to add more features (even features that some would consider basic still take time to be written and debugged). The Affinity team has made great strides in a short amount of time and I am confident in the direction that they are taking the program. I applaud their effort and look forward to what they will add to the program in the future. Hokusai
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    G.M.1986, Thanks for the link. Hokusai
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    G.M.1986, Could you provide a link to the thread that you mentioned in your post? I can't seem to find it. I read this thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/37280-where-are-they-now/?p=185046 where MEB says " Currently there's no plans to implement animation tools in Affinity Designer/Photo." but if something has changed, I would love to read about it. Thanks, Hokusai
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    PeanutsA, Sure arrowheads on lines hasn't been added to Designer but you can use the arrowhead shape combined with a line or rectangular box in some situations. Is it ideal? No, but there are countless examples of things that people have done because features or functionality wasn't added yet and this isn't going to change. There is always going to be "something missing" for someone. I'm not disagreeing with you guys, I think that Designer needs arrowheads on lines but I think that being positive about it and trying to do what you can until they add them is way more productive than being negative. Some posts I've read are very negative and demanding, and others complain like it is their God given right to "have arrowheads" :lol: .
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    ket, In regards to your #1, this is the default behaviour for every tool. No matter what tool you are using, if you hit the shortcut twice-it will take you to the previously selected tool. So for example if you are using the magnifying glass and you hit "a" it will switch to the Node tool but if you hit "a" again it will take you back to the magnifying glass tool. Hokusai
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    Steves, Just a suggestion, you might want to consider using some phrases like "I think" or "In my opinion...", "I believe", "for me..". To me, your post reads like it was written by a megalomaniac. Maybe that wasn't your intent but that is how it reads to me. There are workarounds for arrowheads. Are they ideal? No, they aren't. Do they work? In some situations, yes they do. Do they work in every situation? No, they don't work in all situations but they do exist. I'm sure that the developers are fully aware that they need to add arrowheads. It has been brought up many times since the very first beta. Yes, it has been a long time but they have their reasons for not adding them and since neither you nor I work on the development team, we can only guess about the reasons that arrowheads haven't been added yet but complaining about it sure doesn't help. We can rest assured that the development will add them when they are ready, as they've said as much.
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    Kuttyjoe, I'm surprised to hear that you think Illustrator is great for editing things without going back to the toolbox, as I find Designer's Node tool much faster, easier to use, and more efficient than Illustrator's Direct Selection tool. With Illustrator's Direct Selection tool, you have to switch to another tool (or use a keyboard combination) to add nodes and and a different one to subtract nodes. With Designer, you don't need anything, you just do it. It doesn't get any easier than that. As well moving and adjusting nodes is so much easier and better in Designer than Illustrator. Drawing is good in Illustrator but if you have to manipulate a bunch of nodes, it just feels clunky to me. Manipulating nodes in Designer is smooth and easy. The only area that Illustrator has the leg up on Designer's node tool is Illustrator can select a segment but Designer can't (yet). I personally never cared for Freehand's method, it just didn't seem as intuitive to me but that is just me. I also thought Freehand's U.I. wasn't nearly as smooth and polished as Illustrator's. Freehand had a lot of power and functionality but to me it was hampered by a poor U.I. (but it was miles ahead of CorelDraw).
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    moonjasper, I can appreciate your and other Linux enthusiasts' enthusiasm but your own quote actually hurts the case for bringing Affinity's products to Linux. "there is no professional graphics software in Linux" begs the question of why doesn't Adobe, quite possibly one of the money-grubbingest companies out there, make their software for Linux? Surely if there is even a small profit to be made, Adobe would do it. Adobe has lots of programmers, lots of extra cash to throw at such a project so why haven't they done it? The answer is, because the return isn't worth the effort or they would have done it by now and sure enough as soon as it is worth it, they will. "but thousands of designers all over the world regularly ask developers to release one"-if there are only a few thousand designers who would be interested in using Linux, it isn't a big enough of a market to support the cost of porting the software to Linux. Plus if, as you pointed out, there are no professional graphic design programs on Linux, then it is fair to say that there are no professional designers using Linux, to design at least. If I lived in a country with no cats, it wouldn't make much sense to sell cat food there, would it? I hope that Linux continues to mature and evolve but Linux has a long ways to go.
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    David4, I have been wondering something for a while and I thought I would ask. It isn't related to your question and I know that they say that curiosity killed the cat but I was just curious as to why you have super long titles for the threads that you start? They aren't really titles but it appears that you put the whole post of a thread in the subject line instead of summarizing the problem or the question? Why is that? Just curious, Hokusai
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    reglico, No worries! You were close enough to get anyone in the right area and most importantly, you had the right keyboard shortcut!
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    reglico, You were close :) , it is "View/View Mode/ and uncheck "Clip to Canvas".
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    I'm surprised that a vector eraser isn't on the Roadmap. It is something that is requested a lot. A knife tool is useful in some situations but there are others where an eraser would work better. In addition to Affinity Designer, I also have iDraw (before it was bought out) and it features a wonderful vector eraser tool (although other areas of the program are lacking) and I really wish that Designer had something along the same lines. Hokusai
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    ket, I see, as far as I know you can't select different objects using the node tool by dragging. Once you have multiple items selected with the node tool, you can then drag a marquee selection to select multiple nodes but you have to select the different objects by clicking on them first, no dragging. Hokusai
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    ket, Sorry I don't have an answer for your first question (but I would guess the answer is no) and I'm not sure if I understand your second question. Do you want to select multiple nodes without having to select them individually? If that is what you want to know, if you have the Node Tool in use and you select an object you can drag select different Nodes and if you want to select more just hold down the shift key and drag again to select more nodes. If I misunderstood your question, sorry. Hokusai
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    ket, I'm glad that you found a way that works for you to quickly access the node tool! For me, I'd like the Node tool behaviour to change a little or at least have a preference so I can change it. I know I can access objects that are lower with an alt + click but I would prefer it if the Node tool had a preference so I can make it to only select objects and to ignore subtracted areas of objects. That way if I have a really complex shape with lots of holes or things subtracted from the original shape, I could still easily get to the objects below it by selecting it with the Node tool instead of having to worry about where it is in the layer stack (or using the alt + click). If i can see it, I want to be able to select it. Sometimes I have lots and lots of objects stacked up and they all overlap a bit so it takes a long time to alt + click to get to them. It would be much faster just to be able to select what I can see. I do realise that this might not be ideal for everyone so a preference would probably be the best bet! reglico, I'm glad that it helped!
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    fteifeld, I'm impressed that you apologized. Many people would just not come back. Hokusai
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    pastorbradm, If you make publications on a regular basis, then both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer would be useful. When you consider how powerful the programs are and the price, I'd buy them both. Designer isn't a page layout program but you could use it to make simple layouts but you would still be using images in your layouts sometimes and so Photo would be great to have because it is more for manipulating images. Hokusai
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    ket, I also used Freehand for a long time along (until it was bought and they quit developing it) as well as Illustrator both since the early 90's. I worked at a graphics place that for reasons unknown allowed different groups to use different software packages and I had to use both. For me, I much prefer Illustrator's way over Freehand's and I find Designer to be perfect (with just one exception, Designer won't let me select an object using the node tool when the object I'm trying to select is underneath a shape that has a whole in it). Designer's Node Tool is leaps and bounds better than Illustrator's "direct selection tool" (the white one). To me using Designers's Move Tool and Node Tool are very efficient as I can assess them easily and quickly by simply typing "a" for the node tool and "v" for the move tool. Plus if you are using the Move Tool and you want to switch to the Node Tool, just double click an object and it will change to the Node Tool. Fast and easy. How would you suggest to make them more efficient? Hokusai
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    gdenby, You are close but Illustrator was actually in its 12th version before it had the ability to vectorize raster art.The first version of Illustrator to do that was CS 2 (released in 2005) and Illustrator was first released in 1987 so it took them 18 years to add it. Streamline was Adobe's application (sold separately of course) that was originally designed to vectorize images was released in 1989 until it was incorporated into Illustrator in CS 2. The lame thing was, Illustrator's live trace functions weren't new or different from Streamline at all. It wasn't until CS 3 in 2007 that they actually added to and improved upon Streamline's functions. I'm not a Corel fan and while I've used CorelDraw I don't know much about it or its history but I agree with the point you are trying to make, adding a vectorizer isn't an easy task and it isn't a "basic" tool as crgshell has claimed. Hokusai
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    Pandorino, First of all, you are correct, Designer isn't the best program to this kind of project in. Normally a Page Layout program would be best but until Affinity Publisher is released your choices are limited. Maybe take the Adobe trial or see if Quark has a trial? Did you make the 30 pages in one Designer document and use different artboards for different pages? If so, then maybe you could break the document down into readers spreads (or printers spreads) to keep the files smaller. Once you are done, export the files as PDF files and the combine them later (if you are using OS X you can use Preview to combine them). That would make the file more manageable. To me 315 mb isn't that big. I sometimes have files (only a single page) that are near a gig. Also, are all of the images in your project like the ones in your attached screenshots? They almost look like they were vectorized at one point, were they? If they were, then you shouldn't rasterize them but you should use the vectors. If they were never vectorized, then you could look into vectorizing them. Normally photos that are vectorized look slightly fuzzy and lack detail but your images look like that now so why not vectorize them? It would help to keep the file size down. Some people here use Inkscape to rasterize images (free), others use VectorMagic (not free), some use Potrace (Free I think). I hope that helps, Hokusai
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