dominik
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1 hour ago, moonliiner said:
I found a similar post but it's five years old so am just refreshing. Freehand and Illustrator's ability to select all items that share an attribute is probably the most glaring omission in Designer. As an example of how valuable this is, let's say you have a hundred items/layers with 1pt stroke and you want to increase the stroke point size on all of them. Selecting by point size would be far preferable to one at a time.
Hi @moonliiner,
you might want to join the discussion about this topic over in this thread:
Cheers,
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10 minutes ago, G13RL said:
It's just a shame that the centre of rotation disappears during the movement, it doesn't make things easier.
Yes, this is irritating and should be improved.
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20 minutes ago, G13RL said:
If you display "Enable Transform Origin" you will be able to snap the center point of the doughnut to the grid by moving the doughnut itself (do not move the point itself but the doughnut).
Hi @G13RL and hello @gyalogosdesign,
this is a very good tip. Especially since you can move the Transform Origin point to the inner border of the donut and it will snap there at one of the horizontal or vertical axises. If you then move the entire donut the Transform Origin snaps to the grid. Thus you accomplish what you've been looking for.
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1 hour ago, gyalogosdesign said:
1. How can i move any type of object with one point (corner/middle/centre, etc) selection?
2. How can i select a background object in a donout inside?
3. Can i snap the donout inside point to the grid?Hello @gyalogosdesign,
@1: With the Move Tool active look at the toolbar for 'Show Alignment Handles' (see screenshot). Once turned on you can use these handles to drag them to snapping points like the grid.
@2: when you hold ALT and click on one of the green rectangles you 'drill down' the stacking order. Thus the first ALT+click selects the donut. The second ALT+click selects a green rectangle.
@3: I'm afraid there is no way to snap to the inside of a donut. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Cheers,
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1 hour ago, andrea k said:
Is there an update on this yet? can we eyedrop text styles yet?
Hello @andrea k and welcome to the forum.
The answer is no. The eyedropper only works with colours.
Cheers,
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18 minutes ago, Rog08 said:
As a buyer and new user of the software, I believe that I am exercising a right here. Or not?
Hello @Rog08,
without any doubt, yes.
I did read your first post yesterday and decided not to comment just because of that: your right to participate here. We are really equal no matter our post count (except perhaps for the moderators).
Only after the second post I decided to comment with a certain criticism that was hopefully worded in a non offensive manner. And this, also, was the reason for me to provide some further information on the topic for you (both) to start finding your way around in the forum. We all are just guests with Serif here and as these we are invited to wholeheartedly discuss all and everything, positive and negative. But we have to keep in mind that Serif is offering a lot in the first place.
Cheers,
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13 minutes ago, joel.o.d said:
And totally understand your point and think you might be right, but I didn't have any bad intentions.
Hi @joel.o.d,
I did not see bad intentions from your side just a little lack of appropriateness. Let's get over that
13 minutes ago, joel.o.d said:but what I miss the most, and again, is the possibility to go back and fort between Personas and keep the settings there (and I'm not sure if we aren't already able to do that and I didn't find out yet how!).
No, it's not possible to go back and forth (and readjust the settings). I assume this is something that will come at some point, especially with the Develop Persona, but this is just an assumption. At the moment one has to establish a certain workflow that first finishes the basic settings in one of the Personas and then contiues to finish in the Photo Persona. It is possible, though, to use adjustment layers and live filters and mimic some of the Develop Persona's functionality.
Cheers,
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15 minutes ago, feste said:
I hoped that with the new version I could open a particular Idml id document of Indesign with many images inserted in the text, but it does not make it and crashes
Hello @feste,
IDML support in APub is relatively young and chances are that it is not perfect at the moment. You could post and report this in the Affinity Publisher bug report forum and also include the file (If it is possible with the file). Then the moderators can inspect the file and perhaps forward it to the developers.
Another solution would be to look into this offer by Markzware:
They are giving away their IDMarkz for free for a limited time. It would be worth a try to see if this helps to transfer your file (unfortunately the converter is only available for MAC OS).
Cheers,
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10 hours ago, Rog08 said:
Yeah, Joel! The lack of a library makes a huge difference.
First off I want both of you to welcome at the forum.
But, with all due respect, I have to say I am a little disappointed by your contributions. Serif has just opened the whole suite of three programms for free use (trial) for three months. They are opening you and anyone else to an enormous amount of features to explore and to learn. And the first thing you do is to make the effort to create an account at the forum and to complain about what is missing. You may want to look around in the forum and try to find out that there are some ways to use an external digital asset management tool (DAM) to work together with Affinity.
You may start in this thread below - currently 10 pages long - where you can vote (if you want) and also find that there is a big demand for such a functionality. It is inevitable that Serif has taken note of this. So the reason that is not here yet is a matter of capacity and not an unintended ommision.
I am looking forward to reading from you some more contributing posts. This will help everyone.
Cheers,
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1 hour ago, MikeA said:
I suspect there was some complication due to the way the styles were created in the original .docx file.
This is most likely the case. Some around here have the habit of resetting the whole text that was imported from external wordprocessors and start completely new. Long grown Word documents can carry a lot with them
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57 minutes ago, MikeA said:
I just tried it with a character style — editing it to change its typeface setting to "No change" — but within the Publisher document that passage of text did not update to reflect the underlying typeface of the paragraph where the character-style text is located.
I just tried this and it works as expected. I did:
- Assign all paragraphs a newly created paragraph style that only changes the font.
- Assign a couple of words in the middle of a paragraph a new character style that changes the colour and sets a different font family > font colour and font family look different than the whole text.
- Go back in the character style (Edit character style) and set font to 'No change' > the font immediately looks the same as the whole text but the colour is different (because I did not change that).
What might be different with your setup?
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18 hours ago, Pšenda said:
Or external pdf editor.
As we all know there are many PDF editors. For this particular case (splitting a multi page document in single files) there is a little utility that does this very good:
https://portableapps.com/apps/office/pdftk_builder_portable
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15 minutes ago, mackleys said:
Where Symbols and the status quo falls short for me is when I have to apply that symbol pattern to an object.
There are other tutorials that export the the pattern as an image file and then apply this as an image fill. If you are interested I can look that up.
Of course this is not as flexible and speedy as a full flegded pattern fill tool (or whatever it may be called). But it's not bad, either.
There's also a neat tutorial on how to apply such a pattern to a real photo and the result looks pretty good:
Cheers,
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7 hours ago, pyxelles said:
That tutorial is for Affinity Designer on the iPad. I've learnt to use symbols but it's still different from AI's pattern tool!
Within the Affinity range it doesn't matter too much if you are working on an iPad, Mac or Windows. The UI looks a little different but the technique is the same.
You have two choices: adapt to this technique now and get your things done or wait until a tool comes at some time in the future. Of course it is a valid request to ask for and to discuss about such a feature. It just does not add much to the status quo.
Cheers,
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1 hour ago, thomaso said:
Mühsam nähert sich das Eichhörnchen ...
Heißt es nicht "mühsam ernährt sich das Eichhörnchen"?
Ich glaube, wir haben im Moment alle zu viel Zeit um solche Fragen zu stellen ... myself incluced 😮
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There is an official FAQ that includes the following question:
Do you plan to have Web site design/Digital Asset Management/animation/video editing products too?
The answer is: We’re not sure yet! but we are very interested in adding a DAM solution to the Affinity suite in future.
So, I would not hold my breath to see this any time soon. You all better investigate existing software (see a list of alternatives here).
You can read the whole FAQ here (yes, it's a rather old post but to my knowledge this hasn't changed):
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2 minutes ago, FKF5482 said:
With a shortcut though i can quickly hide all layers and then make visible only the layer(s) i want to work with at the time.
Thanks for explaining. Now I understand.
This is more or less related to what is called around here 'isolation mode' and is discussed e.g. over there (and in some other places, too):
Unfortunately this is not available completely. You can ALT+click on an object in the layers panel and this displays just this layer. This does not work for multiple layers. It is in effect currently mainly a preview of one object. This can be usefull e.g. to edit a mask or a single object. Many find this behaviour limiting.
Cheers,
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47 minutes ago, FKF5482 said:
Hello, i would like to have a shortcut key to quickly hide all layers or make the current "Show all layers" have double function. When pressed once to show all layers and when is pressed again hide all layers.
Hello @FKF5482 and welcome to the forum.
I do not understand what the advantage of hiding all layers is. Then everything is invisible. Can you please explain a little further or give an example what you have in mind?
Thanks,
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3 minutes ago, anthony pinna said:
I find my mistake! It's because a value was too low.
Thanks for the help!
Good to see
I had set up the dashes slightly different. The value in the first field I set to 0 and the value in the second one to 1. This works.
Cheers,
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2 hours ago, anthony pinna said:
Hello everyone, i have a little proble with expand stroke and i don't know if this is a bug or not.
When i try to expand a dash line i got a solid line; i used to work with Illustrator and when i do that it work fine, i got all my little dot.
I don't know what to do, if someone can help me it will be great.
(Sorry for my bad english. Not my native language.)Hello @anthony pinna and welcome to the forum.
It seems to work for me (see screenshot). I wonder how you are doing it?
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25 minutes ago, tonyri said:
Thankfully, as you mentioned, I have found that I can search and replace the text attributes to restore the colour back to black and so have been saved from hours of editing. I am most grateful that I can continue to develop and maintain my albums in Affinity and the recent inclusion of IDML has made the job so much easier
Hi @tonyri,
glad to hear that this was solved so easily.
Cheers,
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2 hours ago, tonyri said:
I am having to move all my black/white stamp albums from Adobe CS5. Initially I saved them to PDF and then opened them in Publisher only to find that the formatting and positioning of text had globally changed (left justified instead of centred etc etc). The introduction of IDML import could save me hundreds of hours since it correctly retains the format and layout of every page. My documents are simply albums using only black text, single font, mainly centred within text boxes to describe what is positioned above the text box A simple thin black line rectangle is positioned above each text box to indicate the position of the content of the album page (postage stamps). On opening the IDML files in Affinity Publisher I find that whilst the format and layouts of my text boxes and frames have all been retained correctly, all text within every text box has changed to a grey scale, that is, is no longer black. Moreover I have found that if I copy imported spreads from one document to another, the text line spacing changes and I have to reset the leading on every text box? I have several hundreds of pages per album and 20 or so albums to convert.
Is there a simple way to globally reset the default font colour to black on every text box on every spread so that it propagates throughout the album?
Hello @tonyri and welcome to the forum.
I think the first step to solve this is to analyse why the colour changed. It would be worth looking at an album in CS5 and check what the text settings are, especially the colour and the colour space of the document. You could also check if you have the same paragraph style applied to all text.
Then, with the IDML file in APub you can look at these settings to find out, why black appears grey. It is completely unclear if this is cause by a bug in the IDML-import or perhaps by some setting that get's wrongly interpretated in APub. Make sure that the settings in APub and CS5 are as similar as possible.
Ideally you would have all the text assigned with the same text style and you could change the colour accordingly. This should fix it everywhere.
Or you could do a 'Find and Replace' across the whole document and search for text with the wrong colour and replace it with black.
Maybe some of this helps?
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1 hour ago, kimmarcussen said:
I can’t find a Key combinations that will get the right or left bracket used to resize brusch in Photo "refine"
Hello @kimmarcussen,
I am not quite sure if I understand your question correctly. Left and right brackets work well on english keyboards because they are directly accessible. See this illustration (right or letter 'P'):
On many other language keyboard layouts the brackets are accessed through a modifier key and then this does not work too well. I for myself (working on a german keyboard layout) assigned the keys '<' and '>' and this works quite well.
You can customise keyboard shortcuts at 'Edit > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts'.
I hope this helps.
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On 3/24/2020 at 5:06 PM, SVM said:
Need setting for rotate/Flip/move single alphabet in a word or sentence.
Hello @SVM,
What you can do is to make the one letter in question the same colour as the background (or transparent should work, too). Then place the same letter as an extra element exactly on top and rotate it. That way the spacing is exactly the same.
This is only a workaround and would work only for occasional rotated letters. But it should give you what you are looking for.
Apart from that I support your request 🙂
Cheers,
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Select and snap
in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
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That's a good point. In some other input boxes this works already. It would be worth to post this as a seperate feature request.
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