adi_cataleya

features that will be in inkscape 1.2

features that will be in inkscape 1.2

You signed up for a forum account just to say those nice things? I am impressed, and I heartily welcome you to stick around.

It's bumping time!
Can we please have a:
I've started mentioning this feature back in 2016!
Without it we're still stuck using Photoshop for many types of mockups. There's already a perspective filter, and the whole Liquify persona as a live filter!
Thanks!

Nice as Affinity Designer is, after years of working with DrawPlus, I'm finding it hard to make the change to the newer Affinity product.
Today a simple task, to change an old bitmap logo to a vector based one.  Right from the outset, I couldn't find a b-spline tool . Spent some time on line searching, and it seems some of the coding for it has been in the product for a few years, but it has never been activated. Each year people have asked about when a b-spline tool would be available, but as far as I can see,  there has never been a positive commitment. So here in 2021, I'll ask the question again "when can we expect a b-spline tool?"
I spent some time with the pen tool smart mode, but the amount of re-work necessary to get decent curves was just way too daunting.
Next issue, I couldn't find an arc tool.  What I needed was a simple quadrant.  Was able to produce one by drawing a circle, then subtracting two rectangles to cut off the unwanted bits. Surely there must be a less clunky way?
In the end it was taking too much time so I took the easy way out and went back and did the job in DrawPlus X8.

Hey guys,
I sent this idea in via FB and they directed me here. So, here it is ... (see attachment!)
The idea: You have the letter I with serifs, that you can customize to your needs in order to use it as a building block to design your own serif letters.
Cheers!
Letter-Shape-Idea-by-Nico-Heinrich.pdf

Instead of locking layers by selecting layer and clicking the lock button above, just put a lock pad button on every layer.

I wonder if there is a way to align an object not only on the wireframe but also on the outside/inside of the (brush) stroke size?
This is the standard:

 
This is what I need:

Cheers,
TImo

Thanks for that reproduced it here - it just seems to be the intersection element of that Snapping option to be broken. I am still able to snap nodes to curve paths and other nodes, just unable to find an intersection.

Many thanks for your reply @dominik .... Here's a screenshot of two difference uses the Position geometry feature to objects in AD 1.8 and 1.9.0.815 beta.....
 
My apologies 🙏
 
20-27-07.mp4 20-26-17.mp4

These presets are a great feature. Should they also be able to hide/unhide things like rulers and left/right studio panels too?
Thanks 😁

Hello,
 
I would suggest putting an animation feature into Affinity Designer. This would work well with the tools already found in Designer. Then Affinity could rival Adobe Animate and that would convince many, including me to fully switch from adobe to Affinity. This would also mean its one of the professional products on the market as I have noticed there not being a lot of competition.

Hello. My name is Vitaly, I am UX/UI designer from Russia. In my free time I decided to redesign my beloved Affinity Designer. What I did can be viewed at the link below. What do you say, colleagues?
View on Behance
 

Would be nice if you could add this.
I know I can achieve it by closing open curve, but Illustrator does it and it's useful.

Thank you. Someone on facebook literally just helped me with this It worked perfectly, I feel embarrassed I didn't know about this before.

Hi adi_cataleya,

Thanks for the file - it looks like it is importing the gradient position in the wrong place. I'll get this passed on to development.

when i move to export persona always crashes

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Fixes
Allow PSD smart object support  Fixed crash when switching between artboards with Appearance panel visible Fixed New Document dialog Presets bar incorrectly hidden when switching between Templates and Presets Fixed New Document dialog Template folders with a '.' cutting off subsequent characters  Fixed several boolean operations and expand stroke issues on simple geometry or compound objects Fixed unable to paste text into editors after receiving tab focus Fixed New Documents dialog allowing minus values in Document Size, Margins and Bleed  Improved performance of Layers Panel when updating previews of Artistic Text Fixed input lag (500ms) when drawing with a pen using Windows Ink Improved text responsiveness 1.8.1.595 release notes

yes, agree,, this is a major productivity boost on large documents and sadly missing [as is DXF import / export!

Hi there!
This topic is a word of encouragement and gratitud. Since last year, I had a list somewhere around the forums, of things that people wanted to see in the Affinity Suite. After this launch, and considering some features that came in 1.7, I wanted the thank the whole team for the following (Blue is for things launched in 1.7, Green is for 1.8, and now, red is for 1.9, purple is for 2.x)
Designer
Bleed area guides (now with the possibility to choose a color for it) Mesh Fill tool True vector Brush Mesh Warp/Distort tool Knife tool Scissors tool Calligraphic line styles Arrowhead line style Export slices with previews Export preview (not in Export Persona) Pages (like the ones in Fireworks) (Almost what we expected, but you never know if the allow to create more Pages directly in Designer) Multiple Effects/Fills/Strokes per shape (Not available for text, but it will come later) Replicate/Blend Convert Bitmaps to vectors (Auto tracing) Select same Color/Fill/Attribute (with some suggestion made by me, that I hope they can include them) Blob tool Spiral tool Width tool Paint Bucket tool Vector Eraser tool Vector Crop tool to do actual vector cropping (can be done with the Shape Builder Tool) Shape Builder tool Text Hinting support Prototyping capabilities Vector patterns Fixing the convert to curves problems at small sizes (improved to a great degree. Still needs improving in tiny cases) Fixing problems with Boolean operations "Universal Layers" using Artboards Contour Tool (hope it gets additional functionality in a future update) DXF/DWG Import DXF/DWG Export Photo
IPTC Support Smart Objects support (import only, and of course, not all possible Smart Objects) Better digital painting brushes (the double thing has proven to be very good) Tool Presets Crop to pixel selection Text on a path Publisher
IDML Import support IDML Export Data merge Global Layers / Layer tags ePub Export Color separation Footnotes / Endnotes Running Headers DXF/DWG Import All Apps
Saving custom workspaces DAM Application WebP Import/Export ICO Export BMP Export WMF Export in Mac TGA with alpha Channel Export CDR Import/Export PSD Export with editable text AI Import/Export Right-To-Left languages support Scripting/Extensibility User made Templates MS Windows Hardware acceleration Hope to change the color of more items from the above listing soon!
2020-sep-19. Edited to add 1.9 new features.
Best regards!

update 1.8 worst update that came out. With this damn publisher you completely stopped improving your main products Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. They need so many general tool for comfortable work without using third-party tools. And you decided to forces on development of a Publisher. Thank you for it. You have great applications but you develop them terribly. Of course, what I wrote is complete nonsense and who I am to tell you what to do. But I wrote it for some reason. Thanks for attention. Peace and Love

It would be great if one could edit Photoshop Mockups in Affinity Designer.

That would be to possible, to a certain extent, in the next release when they bring their first stable support of Smart Objects.
Best regards!

In Rhino 3d. There is a function called curve boolean . It uses a flood/fill to create a closed boundry - useful for colour fills in vector drawing.  video -

 

It would be nice if Affinity Designer would get such more new features like knives (shape cutting), "vector eraser", "shape blend tool" soon!