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    ygoe got a reaction from Alfred in Unexpected file size, still   
    I think I've upgraded from 2.3.x to 2.4.0 in between. Maybe that causes little differences.
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    ygoe got a reaction from walt.farrell in Unexpected file size, still   
    I'll try to reply in summary. No, I can perfectly create files of 0 or 1 or whatever number of bytes I wish with any text editor. Any storage system cannot affect how big files are logically. More storage might be reserved physically (and it is, but usually in the range of kilobytes), but we're talking about files in a file system (or a web upload) here, so the storage system must not and cannot make up additional content for files here.
    In my file, there was certainly no bitmap. I created that shape from scratch. It had some editing and moving circles and lines around, but that's it. The only specialty here might be that trapeze shape giving one of the lines a bit on an impression of perspective. I'm not the biggest artist and this icon is optimised for 16px size for now.
    I also had the issue of over 1 MB files before and there was another thread here somewhere. Some might possibly remember.
    I also can't remember having imported any settings. I last set up this computer around Sep/Oct 2023 and installed all Affinity apps in a fresh environment and made my few settings.
    I assume that the app devs should have enough insight into the file format to tell what part is exactly taking all that size. To me, that file is a black box container for a small number of circles, lines and shapes, with a small number of presentational properties. I totally understand the 2 kB for the SVG version (unoptimised as created by AD, it might also be shrinked to around 1 kB manually). I'm just a bit worried about the file size because this is actually a project icon for a C# source code where the entire source code is only a fraction of the size of its little icon. That doesn't feel healthy.
    This is how I just created the attached file:
    Open AD 2.3.1 (the latest available version) Create a new document Select a web preset (with sRGB) Set the size to 16/16 px Enable transparent background Disable margins and stuff Save file Empty16px.afdesign
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    ygoe got a reaction from Lee_T in Frequent crashes in Designer, with measure tool?   
    I cannot even recreate the crash in my current document. It seems that after one or two crashes, it works for a while. I'll keep an eye on it. Will be doing this more often in the next days again. Hope the submitted reports help you.
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    ygoe got a reaction from Ezbaze in Area measurement tool is useless?   
    Hello,
    I very much anticipated the new area measurement tool. In v1 I had to help myself with temporary rectangles and a calculator. I hoped that I can now measure the rooms in my floor plan easily. But this doesn't seem to be the case.
    After trying it out and then reading the documentation, I understood that this tool can show me the area of a single or multiple selected objects.
    I don't have objects that span entire rooms. My rooms exist between walls that are rectangles, some of them rotated by 45°.
    What I need is something that works like the distance measurement tool: Select all points of the polygon, snapping to objects, and drawing a closed polygon of the room outlines. This is how GIS tools work. As soon as the polygon is closed, they show you the area inside the drawn selection. I don't know what I could use the area of a single existing object for, really. A simple product calculation of width and height would do in most cases.
    So, Affinity v2 is of no help here either and I'll have to draw temporary rectangles and use a calculator again just as before. 🙁
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    ygoe got a reaction from Will G in Exporting PDF VERY SLOW - Affinity Designer 2   
    It's really exceptionally slow to export PDFs! Also the preview takes the same long time. I've simply taken 3 photos with my smartphone, cropped them in AP and added an exposure compensation layer, saved as .afphoto. Then I created a new AD file with 3 A4 artboards, placed the 3 images to fit the pages. Now I want to export this. It takes some 1 or 2 minutes with all-cores full CPU load! What the heck is it doing there? Any other application could do this in a few seconds. Something is really broken in this design. Maybe the compression quality is set to an insanely high value, or the PDF encoding algorithm is just extremely inefficient. Close to unusable.
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    ygoe got a reaction from BBG3 in Document Window Arrange   
    Yes, that feature would be very helpful. I'm currently designing a rollup banner that should look good besides an already existing one. 2up view left/right is the thing I need. I could only get there halfway. I can manually arrange the two windows up to almost the available size. If I make them too large, they want to dock to the full view again.
    It shouldn't be too hard to automatically arrange the windows so that they use exactly the available space, and are locked from further movement by the user.
    These undocked windows are also completely free top-level windows! They can be moved to the second screen or above the AD UI. That's not something I want in this case. The docked and arranged document windows should still be a part of the main window.
     

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    ygoe got a reaction from Rick G in Regular dash pattern ignored in PDF export   
    Wait, PDF cannot represent some content? That's new to me. My understanding is that PDF can display whatever could be sent to a printer. And if balanced dash patterns cannot be printed either, I'll make sure to disable them all again in my files and not use them again.
    I don't know anything about what PDF knows about dash patterns. But if PDF doesn't support any feature, it simply needs to be represented at a lower level as in other cases, i.e. all individual dash segments as separate items. Isn't that the case already? A PDF document must be fixed and look exactly the same everywhere, after all. Any kind of interpretation is a danger to that.
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    ygoe got a reaction from GripsholmLion in Area measurement tool is useless?   
    Hello,
    I very much anticipated the new area measurement tool. In v1 I had to help myself with temporary rectangles and a calculator. I hoped that I can now measure the rooms in my floor plan easily. But this doesn't seem to be the case.
    After trying it out and then reading the documentation, I understood that this tool can show me the area of a single or multiple selected objects.
    I don't have objects that span entire rooms. My rooms exist between walls that are rectangles, some of them rotated by 45°.
    What I need is something that works like the distance measurement tool: Select all points of the polygon, snapping to objects, and drawing a closed polygon of the room outlines. This is how GIS tools work. As soon as the polygon is closed, they show you the area inside the drawn selection. I don't know what I could use the area of a single existing object for, really. A simple product calculation of width and height would do in most cases.
    So, Affinity v2 is of no help here either and I'll have to draw temporary rectangles and use a calculator again just as before. 🙁
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    ygoe reacted to MikeTO in Drag tool?   
    Hi, the tool you're referring to is known as the View tool. It's often stacked with the Zoom tool so look for that in Tools. If you still don't find it, choose View > Customise Tools.

    Cheers
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    ygoe got a reaction from kenmcd in Edit quadratic bezier curves   
    Thanks for the references to other tools, I'll take a look at them. Maybe it'll be better to build my tool with Python instead of PHP (went faster for me) so I can more easily use the Fonttools API.
    I had to read this out loud a few times to get it – did you mean: voilà? 🙃
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    ygoe got a reaction from JGD in Variable Font   
    I'd also like to use a variable font in my design. This seems to be the only thread about this topic here. And the only time someone official said something was a "no" some 5 years ago. The Affinity store says that I should go to these forums to ask for support with the application. I'm feeling a little lost now. Is there another way to make the developers aware of this and get a statement on how they see the future of these apps? A roadmap would be a good starting point so that the users have some perspective. As it looks now, I cannot assume there is a future for Affinity because I can see none. (There probably is some kind of future but I can make no assumptions about it. And there's nothing I can even look forward to. Pretty dark there.) Right now (and also from other experiences) I have that feeling that "you get what you pay for" and Affinity will always be that cheap little wannabe Adobe replacement but never even get close to it. I guess what I'm looking for is a solution a little more powerful (and a little more expensive) than Affinity but also a lot less powerful (and a lot less expensive) than Adobe. Any ideas?
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    ygoe got a reaction from Alfred in Make outline thicker as new shape   
    Yes, of course! Stupid me. Thanks for the reminder. Meanwhile I've changed my UI again so I don't need this icon. But I hope I'll remember it next time.
    It might even work to add the stroke and simply convert to an outline path?
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    ygoe got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Cursor position with ligatures in app login dialog   
    Imagine you have an e-mail address that happens to contain the word "affinity". Now enter that e-mail address in the new app registration dialogue and place the cursor at the beginning. Now slowly move to the right with the arrow key. The cursor won't go in the middle of the letters "ffi" but you'll still have to press the right key three times. Looks like the rendering of the input field has some trouble with ligatures.
    BTW, that dialogue window isn't password manager friendly. I use KeePass global autotype. When I select the credentials to use, it puts itself in the background and the app window to type into becomes the foreground window again. But now the input field lost its keyboard focus, so the typing goes nowhere. If I quickly click into the text field, it still types something into it, but missed the beginning. I had to complete that manually. (And no, I don't know my password, I have a password manager for that.)
    Designer 1.9.0 on Windows 10 2004.
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    ygoe reacted to Paul Batty in Document Window Arrange   
    One of the things I really miss in Affinity software is the ability to quickly arrange open documents, yes I know you can Float and Dock them, but wouldn't it be nice to have the option to arrange tabbed 2up Vertical or Horizontal, or even 3Up, 4 up etc. What about adding the option to 'Tile' tabbed windows that would be a start!
    As it is now I have to float the windows, move them around and resize them to suite, which is tedious! It is like going back in time!
    Maybe I have been spoilt by other software that offers this facility; but I think it's time Affinity had this feature, especially since most people now have bigger monitor/displays and can make use of such a useful feature. 
     
     
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    ygoe got a reaction from walt.farrell in Empty installation path   
    No, the recap is wrong. The new instance of the issue is on a completely fresh installation of Windows. Then I installed Photo and Designer from the MS Store and Publisher from the EXE installer. All for the very first time. No uninstallation before that. The installation path was empty.
    Update: I tried it again and now the path was already there. So this is not even reproducible. On a fresh Windows with no Affinity settings restored from the old installation. Happy bug hunting. 😞
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    ygoe got a reaction from Jowday in Add menubar top margin   
    Yes, Alt+Tab and the taskbar icon are options as well. But since Affinity is a very visual application, I tend to use the mouse to operate it. And no other application (no decent one) messes with the window title bar in this way, so I can activate a full-screen window in the background practically everywhere by pushing the cursor to the top screen edge and clicking. Anywhere, not just somewhere in the right part or other small areas that I certainly won't target for a quick window switch. Not here.
    I wouldn't need the 7 pixels space like in Visual Studio but 1 or 2 pixels would already be very helpful here.
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    ygoe got a reaction from Jowday in Add menubar top margin   
    The menubar is placed at the very top of the application window, at least on the Windows system. When the window is in full-screen mode, there is no place to activate the window at the top edge of the screen without also opening a menu. Visual Studio 2019 moved to the same window layout but took extra care about this. The menus won't open when clicking in the top few pixels of the window/screen. This allows for easy activation of the full-screen window in the background of other windows.
    Could you please fix the Affinity menubar so that it also leaves a bit space at the top to activate the window?
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    ygoe got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Empty installation path   
    I've just uninstalled the Publisher public beta and wanted to install the full version 1.7.1.404. This is how the installer looks like:

    Where should I install for proper function? Does the path require the last element or will it be created?
    Needless to say that just continuing without entering a path fails.
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    ygoe got a reaction from Pšenda in Arrowheads please. . .   
    I haven't read all of your post, but it sounded like you believe that arrows on lines are only for technical drawings. Have you never seen any arrows in your environment outside of technical drawings? Or is everything with an arrow a "technical drawing" for you? I see arrows every day, in all kinds of places. They are one of the most basic sign language concepts of mankind. And as with a drawing tool, I want to be able to style my arrows as I like while keeping them accurate (i.e. not MS Paint freehand-mouse style). The old point-outline-shape tools were simply inappropriate for most such cases. I very much welcome the addition of arrows in the beta and now quickly switch from 1.6 to 1.7-beta whenever I find I need arrows in a document.
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    ygoe got a reaction from Markio in Arrowheads please. . .   
    Now that's an interesting point. Would that mean that I could create a "leaf" "arrow head" and spread leaves along a branch path to form a tree or something? This is actually something I had needed some time ago when recreating an old logo from paper.
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    ygoe got a reaction from Markio in Arrowheads please. . .   
    Depends on what you see as minor. It's clearly blocking me from using Affinity Designer for an entire class of tasks: technical diagrams. And I'm not primarily an artist but a technician. Now imagine my priorities.
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    ygoe got a reaction from A_B_C in Arrowheads please. . .   
    Depends on what you see as minor. It's clearly blocking me from using Affinity Designer for an entire class of tasks: technical diagrams. And I'm not primarily an artist but a technician. Now imagine my priorities.
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    ygoe got a reaction from dpum in Arrowheads please. . .   
    Depends on what you see as minor. It's clearly blocking me from using Affinity Designer for an entire class of tasks: technical diagrams. And I'm not primarily an artist but a technician. Now imagine my priorities.
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    ygoe got a reaction from Alfred in Arrowheads please. . .   
    I imagine part of this sometimes heated discussion comes from not knowing anything official, other than "it will come sometime, probably". Maybe the team could say a word or two to give us some hope.
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    ygoe reacted to pixelrain in Scanning   
    Say no more ... :P
     
    I've asked because usually manufacturer's own apps use the hardware better, or have more options for scanning; which is a big plus if you ask me.
     
    There is also NAPS2, which is open source, there is also a portable version if you prefer this; maybe you will find it useful.
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