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FWIW, in APub V2.4.0 on my Mac, I created this Lots o' column guides.afpub 3300x3300 px document & had no problems setting large numbers of column & row guides, As attached I used 120 for both, but using the scroll wheel method I could easily set them to 500 or more & everything updated in realtime.
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R C-R replied to Willis Darden's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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FWIW, in AP 2.4.0 on my Mac, there is no popup slider for spacing like is shown in the OP's video, & whenever I change the spacing value, either by entering a number & exiting that numeric field or by using the scroll wheel to change it, it updates in realtime. So I'm not sure if the Mac version should have a popup slider that is missing or what....
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Strange line-wrapping behavior
R C-R replied to Joe Swann's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
What kind of text object are you using, Is it Frame or Artistic text? -
Terminal message: Why did I receive this? Is it malware? I'm not a developer and don't know how to run chsh –s /bin/zsh, nor sure I want to. Everything was working pretty well. When I re-opened Affinity (V2), the text tool bar at top was hidden.
R C-R replied to Former MS Publisher's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
OK, but what happens if you quit Terminal? -
Terminal message: Why did I receive this? Is it malware? I'm not a developer and don't know how to run chsh –s /bin/zsh, nor sure I want to. Everything was working pretty well. When I re-opened Affinity (V2), the text tool bar at top was hidden.
R C-R replied to Former MS Publisher's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Terminal message: Why did I receive this? Is it malware? I'm not a developer and don't know how to run chsh –s /bin/zsh, nor sure I want to. Everything was working pretty well. When I re-opened Affinity (V2), the text tool bar at top was hidden.
R C-R replied to Former MS Publisher's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I don't think this has anything to do with any of the Affinity apps, nor do I think it is malware. Did you by chance open Terminal.app on your Mac by accident? If it is open, the main Mac menu will say "Terminal" just to the right of the Apple logo. If so, you can just click on the word Terminal there to open a menu & choose Quit from it, or use the normal keyboard shortcut for quitting a Mac app (Command + Q). That said, I'm not sure why it says "You have mail" on the second line. I have never seen anything like that in Terminal. -
Almost since day 1 of the first release of AP V1, I (among others) have posted in many topics that this brush should be named the Hue Replacement Brush Tool, but to no avail. FWIW, the link to the online US English version of that page for V2 is https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/index.html Try https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_clrReplacementBrush.html It is the same for V1 at https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/index.html, so this inconsistency has remained uncorrected for a very long time. Try https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_clrReplacementBrush.html
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Accidentally hit the tab key
R C-R replied to LeaS's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
This is not unique to APub. Any time you are in text entry mode in any text field, at least for frame or art text layers, the apps must assume you want to enter a tab character. it is a bit weird for text fields in Studio panels because in most (all?) you can't actually use a tab so it is ignored but the focus remains on that field. I assume the logic here is that if you intentionally set the focus to a text field in a Studio panel, there is a presumption that you would not want to hide it, so it sort of makes sense. -
I think the real issue for you is if you can somehow convince the Affinity developers that the install options you believe should be available actually would be something enough users would want or ever use to justify the work required to include & maintain them. I think that is a lost cause but I wish you luck if you want to try to do that.
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Accidentally hit the tab key
R C-R replied to LeaS's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I don't think it is really an issue for enough users to justify any special treatment. It only comes up a few times a month, near as I can tell, so not really very frequently in the greater scheme of things. Of course, YMMV. 😉 -
But this support forum provides lots of very effective support not just from the staff but also from other users -- in fact, very often the overworked staff doesn't even need to get involved because other users have already done so. So if the info was limited to just the support staff via some (once again new) code addition the effectiveness of this forum would be adversely affected, the staff would be even more overworked, & getting effective support would take much longer. Besides, some users are quite leery of supplying comprehensive info to Serif or anybody else about what else they may have installed besides one or more Affinity apps that may be relevant to some issue, like third party additions, unless or until they are convinced it might be relevant to whatever issue(s) they are asking about. As for including 'advanced' options, it still requires more code & more maintenance as the apps are updated, which means the developers would have to devote more time to that & less to fixing the plethora of existing bugs, & adding requested & planned features to the apps, all to benefit what I think must be a tiny fraction of users who want more complete control over what gets installed, at the expense of those who are quite happy with how the installers work now.
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Accidentally hit the tab key
R C-R replied to LeaS's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Sure ... but there are also many others that some users could accidentally trigger so I think most users would be annoyed if all or even many of the others of them included a 'don't show again' checkbox. And of course, inevitably some users will have clicked the boxes & realized they didn't mean to do that & want some way to reenable the message(s). IOW, where do you draw the line? -
Accidentally hit the tab key
R C-R replied to LeaS's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Or Clip to Canvas, Split View, any of the Tool shortcuts, or anything else that could be set to a single key shortcut? For that matter, even the shortcuts that require a modifier key could be activated by accident, so I do not think it is practical to add options to display messages when any keys are pressed by accident. -
I think a great many users resort to looking for documentation only for things they can't figure out far more quickly by doing a little experimentation once the app is installed. Besides, as you said, the documentation for the Affinity apps is far from complete or comprehensive. IOW, "learn by doing" is far more common than starting off via "RTFM" & typically even more effective for most things. As for what would need to be a very long list of features set to install by default, I seriously doubt the vast majority of users, pro or not, would want to waste any time scrolling through it looking for items to exclude. And no matter how it was presented, it would mean adding & maintaining more code to make sure all the necessary dependencies were included, not just for the initial install but also for updates that added new features, fixed bugs, & so on. It is in no way a "win-win" situation either for Serif or most users. Regarding support nightmares, I don't think you understand what I meant. Both Serif & users would need to know what any particular user had omitted from the install & if it had any relevance to whatever issue or question they wanted help with. So among other things, not all Window users know how to or even want to delve into the Registry, download & run some script or whatever to upload what they might consider in part to be personal or private info, or do anything else that would make what could already be complicated issues even more time consuming to resolve.
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Accidentally hit the tab key
R C-R replied to LeaS's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I think users who frequently use this toggle would be annoyed if they had to dismiss a message or even had to set an option not to display it. Besides, if tapping this keyboard shortcut by accident needs a message to explain what it did, what about the dozens of other shortcuts that users might also tap by accident? -
To begin with, I think most users consider at least some of the various features in all the personas of AP very useful & well worth including -- even if they use some other app to develop RAW files, the Develop Persona offers various adjustments that can be applied to any RGB pixel layer. Likewise, the Liquify & Tone Mapping personas offer various ways to extensively modify the appearance of those layers, including Tone Mapping presets like the ones James Ritson created and any that users have created for themselves. So while you personally may not have any use for any of those features, I think most users would at least prefer to have them available without having to re-run an installer (which they may have to download again to use!). And of course, if you personally never use any of them other than the Photo persona you can always customize the toolbar to remove the Personas item. I also am not sure what you mean about wasting the resources to maintain the other personas. Users do not have to maintain them but Serif certainly does need to do that whether or not you use them because some if not most users do use them. Besides, if Serif did add the ability not to install them, they would have to add additional code & resources to the installers which would increase the amount of maintenance they would need to perform as new features were added, bugs fixed, etc. The same applies to the minimal security aspect because they would need to add more code to the installer to support those options. I also disagree with your comment that the apps are targeted specifically at experts, & beyond that, that even most experts (however you want to define them) would know enough to decide at install time which features they would want to use as they become more familiar with what the apps (& their updates!) are capable of doing. For that matter, the installer itself would have to include built-in pre-install help of some kind to guide new users through what could be dozens & dozens of install options, or at least a bunch of built-in links to online resources that explain what they are & any interdependencies they may have with other features, resources, etc. On top of all that, it make it a nightmare for both Serif & other users to offer or get support for the apps because nobody could be certain what anybody else had or had not installed or if that had any relevance to whatever issue they were asking about unless/until that was made clear to all involved. If nothing else, it would make it very tedious & time consuming to install & use the apps to their fullest & most useful capabilities, something I think most users & potential users would find of very little benefit & not worth the hassle.
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The same question applies for "parts / features" that are not initially installed. Would the user have to re-run the installer (after possibly having to download it again) to install any new parts / features they later decided they want or need? I'm not even sure that Serif could sell the apps in the Mac app store if all the options @lphilpot wants for the installer were available, & possibly the same for the Windows store version.