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Hello Alexander,
welcome to the forum. Just a friendly suggestion. Don't use a real email adress as a user name. It is very likely that spam robots are picking this up. You can change your user name in the account settings on the top right of this page.
Cheers,
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2 hours ago, hughosb said:
would be an option ... to Paste as Plain Text.
Hi @hughosb,
in addition to @walt.farrell's suggestion you might want to look into this little Windows utility program: PureText (link: http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/). It allows you to paste plain text into any application with a custom keyboard shortcut.
There's also a description on how to do it on a Mac: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-strip-formatting-copy-paste-text/ (> #3.)
Cheers,
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On 3/4/2020 at 12:05 AM, fredphoesh said:
Hi,
The one thing I miss a lot having dumped Adobe for Davinci / Affinity is the wonderful dynamic linking in Adobe products.
It would be GREAT if afdesign files could be used within Resolve and changes made in Affinity would update in Resolve.
Pretty please?!
tx
Mark.
Hello @fredphoesh,
I think this is something the Davinci Resolve developers have to implement. They need to read these files and notice any changes. Affinity/Serif cannot do anything about it.
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1 hour ago, B13eL said:
update 1.8 - no new features for affinity design
Please don't claim that there are no new features in 1.8. This is not true. Please see here:
If you find bugs you might want to post more precisely so that the developers can look into (and hopefully solve) them.
Cheers,
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5 hours ago, JacobThePhotographer said:
Tried that in my MAC - no luck. The [ ] keys work though.
Thanks !As I said on the Mac it is a different combination of keys. See here:
Try Control + Alt + mouse button.
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6 hours ago, JacobThePhotographer said:
One of the most annoying to me is the setting of any brush size - why not make it like in Lightroom with the mouse at the brush-point instead of a silly slider.
You know that you can do this?
Press and hold (on Windows) ALT + left mouse button + right mouse button and drag left/right or up/down to scale the brush and its transparency.
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10 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:
Effectively that is what they have done, the Master application is actually Publisher which actually contains all the functionality of AD & AP. When you switch personas in Publisher you do not actually leave Publisher which is why it’s so fluid. If you like, AD and AP are the cut down versions targeted at slightly different applications.
So they could have gone down the route of selling “the master package” at £150 then the cut down AP and AD at £50 each but rather generously they kept them all at £50 and the “master program” simply checks that you have purchased the cut down part.
This is my personal view as a retired R&D Manager of embedded software devices, could be wrong but I’m pretty close and really admire what Andy and the team have done.
Interesting explanation. Thank you for that.
What I noticed is that recently the install files (on Windows) increased in size about 100 MB. I cannot imagine that this is only due to the new 'File new' dialogue. It seems there is some amount of new functionality added behind the scenes.
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8 minutes ago, Whitedog said:
I guess it's too soon to expect an Affinity Publisher Workbook.
Dan C. recently posted that they are working on a Publisher Workbook. See here:
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5 hours ago, Whitedog said:
But unlike InDesign, it does not allow for custom zoom levels.
Hello @Whitedog,
in the Navigator panel you can type in any zoom level you want.
Also, if you switch to the Zoom Tool you can type in any value into the box labeled 'Zoom'.
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4 minutes ago, derei said:
I just tried that, indeed it changes the dpi depending on the actual page size (when clicking on it), you are correct.
Thank you.Good to see that it works for you, too.
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19 minutes ago, derei said:
This post is not meant to be a criticism, but a suggestion. I would have not spent my time drawing and taking screenshots if I just wanted to rant about something what bothers me. I did observe the interface can be easily improved and I offered my suggestion as designer, exactly because new features tend to have some rough edges. And as a user I'm always happy to provide my feedback.
I did not read your post as criticism and my intention was to add in a constructive way to your suggestion. Especially in regard to the DPI setting, because it would be of great help if there is some bug burried.
For me the DPI value only changes when I click on a preset itself. Not when clicking on the different sections at the top.
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20 minutes ago, derei said:
This being said, the following are a series of suggestions which I believe would help improving the New Document interface for all your products. I hope they will be considered and if deemed worthy, implemented (an image is worth 1000 words, so I made an image for you):
Hello @derei,
in my observation new features tend to have some rough edges. I agree that some things in the new dialogue can be improved a little.
Two things came to mind, though:
- the DPI setting changes correctly here in AD, APub and APh. I wonder what may be the difference between our two setups. I'm on Windows.
- The font for the page format setting has to work for different amounts of text. Admittedly 'A1' looks rather small in that rectangle but it also has to work for e.g. 'Social media square post'.
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1 hour ago, David in MA said:
Not exactly. That would work for a square or circle, but for irregularly shaped paths/objects it would scale the whole shape toward the center, even if locally at a point on the curve the interior is away from the center. For example, the outline of a thick letter 'C'. Your method would reduce the size of the whole shape proportionately. What I'm thinking is if you shrink the outline so the C becomes skinnier, ie, the outline of the C moves toward the interior, not toward the center of the whole object.
I did a little test with multiple strokes on a letter C (converted to curves). Visually a wider outline is close to an offset path. I compared it to a copy of the letter that I shrank by the same amount of pixels as the stroke width. And, yes, the result is not the same, only somewhere in that area.
Too bad that my idea doesn't work 🙁
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2 hours ago, David in MA said:
It would be great to have a similar option in Designer that grows/shrinks a closed path or shape by a specified distance.
Hello @David in MA,
wouldn't it work to type into the transform panel's field 'W: 200px-2' and set aspect ratio to locked? To me this seems to be pretty much the same.
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21 hours ago, allaboutdolph said:
I'll take shapes / lines and convert to guides
I support this idea and, yes, it is not possible at the moment to turn vector objects into guides.
But it is possible to create a 'fake' guides layer with any kind of object in it and use these as visual and snapping guides. See screenshot and the attached AD file:
You can style them
You can position them
Make sure to lock the guides layer
Make shure to select 'Snapping Candidates > All Layers'I guess to set up an elaborate guides layer with objects turned into guides won't be much more effort ... but perhaps cleaner 😉
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44 minutes ago, Hilltop said:
there is so much empty space for these.
In regard to screenspace you'de be surprised to read this:
To each his own 😉
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4 minutes ago, big smile said:
So it does! Although it seems a little buggy, as I had to do a few before it located them. It would still be neat if this was built into Resource Manager.
I think the logic behind the current behaviour is to use the 'Yes' button for easy to solve problems where all missing resources are in one location. While the Resource Manager is the way to go for more complex cases. E.g. one first needs to find out which resources are missing and then locate them individually.
But I agree the Resource Manager has room for improvement in this regard 🙂
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17 minutes ago, big smile said:
When locating missing images in the Resource Manager, it would be great if the Resource Manager would automatically locate other missing images in the same folder.
Example:
My document has 4 linked images:
1.jpg
2.jpg.
3.jpg
4.jpg
They are all stored in the "my images" folder. This gets renamed to the "linked images" folder, so I need to re-link them.I use Resource Manager to re-link 1.jpg. After doing this, resource manager will display a dialogue stating "Other missing images found in this folder. Ok to relink?" I can then click "OK" an images 2.jpg to 4.jpg will be relinked without me having to do it manually.
Hi @big smile,
if you select 'Yes' from the dialog box that informs you that there are 'Missing Resource(s)' instead of switching to the Resource Manager all files in the same directory are relinked.
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1 hour ago, Rosie Haller said:
Has anyone had any luck keeping the several Publisher files separate, while maintaining page numbering?
Hello @Rosie Haller,
welcome to the forum.
As I wrote a couple of postings above I tried merging multiple documents and table of contents and page numbering work correctly in the merged file. What I mean is that page numbers are applied correctly after the merge. Within the single documents each document starts at page 1 unless you add an offset.
But I do not encourage you to work that way right now. This was merely a test and is far from a true book feature.
I do not know what they have up their sleeves. But I could imagine that at some point they introduce something like linked Publisher files similar to linked image files.Cheers,
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14 hours ago, dbrear said:
Thanks - yes, I just wondered if I could do it in Publisher, rather than using Photo. No probs.
If it is a not too complicated shape you can create a vector shape and use that as a mask for the GIF (or any other placed file). No need to switch to the Photo Persona.
Additionally you can use text wrapping and apply 'Edit Wrap Outline' (icon on the toolbar). That one is a native APub feature.
It all depends on where and how you want to place the image file.
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Hi @dbrear,
51 minutes ago, dbrear said:When I place this in AffPub the background shows as white.
How do I show it as transparent, so I get the cutout I intended, please?
make sure you specify to export the GIF with transparent background. In APh in the export dialogue you click on more and there you can select background transparency. As far as I know this should be the default.
41 minutes ago, dbrear said:Still - if you get an image with a white background, CAN you make the background transparent instead of white - in Publisher?
You could change to APub's Photo Persona and create a mask from only the white parts of the placed image ('Select > Tonal Range > Highlights', then invert the selection and finally 'Layer > New Mask Layer').
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13 hours ago, awelt said:
Is there a timeline for including this feature into Designer? It is difficult to replace Adobe Illustrator workflows without this option. SVG just isn't the same.
Hello @awelt and welcome to the forum.
No, there is no timeline. Serif does not (or rarely) comment if features are in development or not. At some point they show up in the beta versions. You can read release notes in the respective forums over there. DXF support is not mentioned yet.
Cheers,
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Style and Brush Assets: Camouflage II
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Hi @StuartRc,
I cannot thank you enough for providing us with these patterns and styles. Great work. Thank You!
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