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Jonopen

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  1. Not sure if this is a bug as such or just a mistake that I've made in the past, but my email address is wrong in Preferences > Misc. I can't find where it takes the address from to change it. It's not the ('registered name') one I use to register or access my Affinity account. It's almost correct but is missing an underscore character. The email address is also incorrect in Designer and Photo.
  2. I'm never quite sure whether to report such minor things or not, particularly as I use 120% Windows scaling. Anyhow... I've noticed two buttons are clipped as shown in the attached screenshot annotated with an arrow (yay!). Both buttons work perfectly ok.
  3. Just a couple of quick observations relating to the new arrowheads (thank you) when viewing with the light interface the arrow options are white on grey the drop-down list opens/displays the end of the list first
  4. start Designer with a document that already has a grid showing ie View > Show Grid (active, ticked) create a new document - a grid is displayed on the page but View > Show Grid indicates it's not active (not ticked) selecting View > Show Grid, then deselecting it again stops the grid from displaying beta 1.7.0.243
  5. [1.7.0.238] I can't seem to find a way to numerically change the Opacity value for the Fill and Stroke of a Text Frame. I think also the Text Frame colour is showing the 'RGB version' of the colour, when you compare the swatch colours on the left side of each of the opacity sliders.
  6. Only a super-small thing, but within preferences, the drop-down list appears to be in a different order to the displayed icons.
  7. I still experienced the same problem no mater what I did. I've now rebooted computer and returned Affinity Designer to factory defaults by clearing all user settings at start up. Happy to report all is back to normal again.
  8. Sorry for delay in getting back to you. Snapping on/off makes no difference. I’ll have another try tomorrow and also test StuartRc’s formula to recreate the problem. Thanks.
  9. See attached screen recording. This doesn't happen with current version (1.6.5.123) lag.mp4 lag.afdesign
  10. My workaround is to use Inkscape's Path > Simplify tool. I copy the expanded stroke, paste into Inkscape, apply Simplify, copy and paste back into Designer. The clipboard copying behaves well (on Windows at least) and the result is normally fairly accurate. Of course if you've got a copy of Illustrator handy there's a more sophisticated simplify option available.
  11. Affinity Designer iPad v1.6.4.45 I’ve just purchased a set of brushes (Finest Vintage by Artifex Forge) which install and work perfectly on my Windows desktop version but they won’t install on my iPad (model A1893). I’ve tried several times, and have also tried restarting the iPad. When installing everything seems to be going ok, ie from the import brushes option I locate and select the file, it downloads for about 10 seconds, but then it doesn’t appear in the list of brush categories. I’ve also looked for them under the list of pixel persona brushes. The creator of the brushes has kindly sent me a single test brush which does install ok and works fine on the iPad, except when I edit the brush to change its properties, like size variance, the program quits immediately, or if it doesn't do that, it stops the drawing tools from working with any brush until I restart the app. I’ve seen a few other forum posts relating to brushes not installing on iPads and was wondering if this is a related issue and already awaiting a fix? Thanks.
  12. I’m fairly new to using brushes of any type in Designer but was also surprised at the blurry quality of the lines. I notice the included example file (rocks-glass) is quite large (approx 6000x4000pt, 72dpi) so I’m wondering if that holds the answer to getting the best out of these brushes, ie to set up the document size as if it were a bitmap for printing. I hope this is the case as I am/was planning on creating some fairly large (A3/300dpi) prints using these brushes.
  13. Hi Sean, yes it was a new document (a default web svga page) When I tried this morning, initially I couldn't get it to happen, then suddenly it did. Unfortunately once I had opened and setup my video capture app (screencast-o-matic) it was ok again! If it happens during the course of the day, I'll be ready for it! Another possibly related observation, but after opening the program, starting a new document, and drawing (for example) a rectangle, when I move it across the page it doesn't move smoothly ie it jumps as if it were snapping to a grid (which I've checked is off). Once it has been moved about for several seconds the movement becomes smooth. I've tried to make a video capture of this happening (attached). beta-test.mp4
  14. Beta - 1.7.0.178 / Windows 10 Possibly because I use a non-standard Windows scaling of 120% and possibly related to the Outline view not working, but if I draw a shape like an ellipse or rectangle then toggle on/off the Outline view, I can then no longer move the shape. I can select it, change it’s colour, delete it etc just can’t move it on the page or resize it, either dragging an edge with the pointer or changing the size values in the Transform panel. I’ve checked it’s not locking the shapes in the Layers panel.
  15. Also you can miss it as the new panel sometimes pops up under the main grid and snapping panel.
  16. Whilst talking about appearance, the characters in the 'More...' bullets are looking slightly blurred. Thanks for the new tools - excited about trying them out (although it's arrow heads I really crave!)
  17. Thanks Chris. It looks like the typography figure options is the longest page but can also see that it would be inconsistent with other the option pages to layout the check boxes differently. Perhaps a scrollbar?
  18. This is not so much a bug, as something that bugs me and I realise my screen size of is below your recommended, and also run Windows scaling at an unsupported 115%, but generally I don't have problems with any other apps including Designer and Photo. I don't remember this being an issue with earlier beta versions but as you can see from the screenshot the end of the Create Paragraph Style dialogue box is cut off and the title bar is off-screen. This occurs even if I set the taskbar to auto-hide.
  19. Apologies if this has been requested before... This applies to various tools within Affinity apps, but it does make life just that little bit easier if the program consistently remembers the last used settings. For example, when using the alignment options I often use the same settings straight away again, but at the moment you have to select the options again. Another suggestion would be to have a new toolbar button specifically to centre align (both horizontally and vertically) objects. I've tried to imagine what such a button might look like!
  20. I also hope frame fill and stroke become available in designer too, but I suppose each Affinity app needs to have its own unique features otherwise you would only need to use/buy one app. When the app versions align, it’ll be interesting to see what happens when you open an Affinity document that contains a feature that the other Affinity app doesn’t have, like text frame fills or tables.
  21. Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.139 (Windows) Two things to report: 1. Installation seemed to take longer than usual, emphasised because the progress bar stopped halfway, then suddenly shot to the end when installation had completed. 2. When trying to File > Exit I had a message about 'Quitting'. Screenshot attached. I had one (saved) file open and was not waiting for any files to load.
  22. Just to mention my copy of v1.6.5.123 Designer has also started occasionally doing this after no particular work. After clicking Exit and any open documents have closed, I see the message 'Affinity Designer not responding' in the title bar. If I leave for a while the program is left open, when I can then select Exit again and close it normally.
  23. Ah, thanks Callum (well spotted!). I've not done this sort of work for quite a while and haven't found my rhythm yet. It always seems more difficult taking over some else's work.
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