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pixelstuff reacted to a post in a topic: Canva
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Has anyone used Canva - I have its absysmal. The reason its so popular is because it's got huge library of templates, that let any marketing bod build a semi decent campaign. Otherwise it's really hard to use and imprecise. Compared to Figma it's hopeless, but that's another story. I understand a trade sale makes everyone who founded the company relatively rich. I also think you probably deserve it, as building your own market is tough and customers are hard to please. But I see nothing but cynacism in this forum and quite rightly. We have all been round this cycle with other companies and it all ends up the same way, good products go here to die. The only saving feature is that Canva is hopeless for graphic design so they will not be pulling a Macromedia on you immediately. It's going to be death by a thousand cuts (integrations). I only use Canva because I have to our marketing team love it but I would never by choice as its just hard work compared to anything else. The 'This is fine' fluff piece mentions synergy, I can sort of see that and having a few million £ for more for dev may help. For the cloud stuff you are never going to be a Figma but using Canva as a sort of graphics cloud drive might work. I've also thought why my studio presets can't be saved on my Affinity account. I think we would all love to be proved wrong.
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Make snapping available for artboards
drkanukie replied to sergio's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
Same here I need artboards to snap to their contents or a size artboard to fit contents option. Such a common usecase if doing icons or logos. Workaround is to select the content and insert a new artboard size to selection. -
Another hour wasted with this annoying behaviour. 100x100 art boards but can't get the slices to align, slices only can move by one pixel (good this is how things like artboard should move), I cannot by direct input get the slice origin to 0/0. Ohhhhhh the artboards aren't on a pixel boundary when the penny drops. I had I now realise used Align horizontally / Space horizontally and that had misaligned the art boards. An artboard never need to be off the pixel boundary no matter what you do. They are 0/0 origin spaces with their own local coordinate system so never should be sub-pixel. As you say they are independant canvases it like starting a new document at 0.25/-0.32. So Align horizontally / Space horizontally on Art boards should normalise then to the nearest whole pixel, please. To fix, I had move Force pixel alignment on as always and Move by whole pixels off as always. But they still went to sub-pixels so Force pixel alignment is flaky and took several moves and checks to make sure the artboards were finally on a pixel boundary.
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debraspicher reacted to a post in a topic: Filename available as variable in Export persona
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Lovely to see this - did you look at being able to create a global variable for every slice to share? Currently the slice variable is per slice instance, it's much more useful to have a global token such as the name of a product and use it in every slice, the document name works around this as the file can be named after the product but isn't as flexible as a global slice name variable.
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drkanukie reacted to a post in a topic: Bug: "Force pixel alignment" does not always work
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matisso reacted to a post in a topic: Bug: "Force pixel alignment" does not always work
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Now stumbling on this useless feature of slice variable names. For my case I want a template where I define a set of standard sized slices for views Top, Left, Front etc and then set a single variable so that the images are named after the variable plus the slice name so if the Variable is Jeep the images will be JeepTop JeepLeft etc. Alas the user variables are not global to the file or export persona but local to the slice and so it's much quicker to just name the slices directly rather than setting a variable once. This means having a variable to name slices is wholly a redundant feature that has to be maintained and tested. Is there a Forum to raise such dunsel features with serif it should be named appropriately.
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Figmatt reacted to a post in a topic: Bug: "Force pixel alignment" does not always work
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Return reacted to a post in a topic: Designer 2.2.1 - How to edit existing gradients in Masks?
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Zac44 reacted to a post in a topic: Backup/Restore feature (brushes, styles, templates, swatches, etc.)
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Same here that video is gold this was driving me nuts as to how it works. The weird thing with raster masks in Designer if you use a black and white image and drop it as a mask it acts like a single color image. If you create a mask later you can paint in black (subtractive) and white (additive). But the raster mask doesn't work that way. This is weird.
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TrentL reacted to a post in a topic: Control Your Selections with the Refine Tool : Affinity Photo Tutorial
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MikeTO reacted to a post in a topic: Unofficial PDF Manual - Expert Guide to Affinity Publisher
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Wow Mike, that's a really well written manual, in publisher I'm guessing. Thanks so much this is really useful as I'm about to embark on a big new pub project. I really like the Tips very useful guidance. The section on master pages and spreads is very in depth and it's my least understood area. Serif need to improve their supporting documentation. The inbuilt help is terrible to use, hard to read the layout isn't helpful and hard to find anything relevant. Their videos are good but its the wrong format it you are stuck mid work. They should take some tips from this. The books they published were great but now way out of date, they should do a digital update (paid) for each major release or as an add on to the product package.
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AVIF Support Needed.
drkanukie replied to AngryKiwee's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Need AVIF i they can write a convertor in node JS how hard can it be? Is there a votable feature list for Affinity? -
I've moved to Figma 100% - I only use this for publishing, photo masking and compositing, things that Figma can't do very well as its vector based. Also to be fair Affinity SVG is much better than Figma too so I use it to clean Figma SVG exports. Figma even has a warning that exports are pixel misaligned. Another good idea.
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I have a table where all the headings are the same on every page but the values are blank so the heading values are in the master. I only have empty image frames but they get copied empty on top of the actual instances if I apply the master page. I do have placeholder text in the master text frames I should remove it as its more trouble.