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3 hours ago, SarahB said:
Other people have reported Assets disappearing, we haven't all done something to make that happen.
Fair enough but also consider that compared to the total number of Affinity users who must have updated to 2.6.2 without ever reporting this issue, there almost certainly must be some common factor among those who do.
I have no idea what it might be but the more info we can get from those experiencing this problem, the more likely a solution can be found, ideally one that does not involve a backup that not all users may have available.
One possible bit of info that might help from those making Time Machine backups, is to look for the first backup date/time when the assets file went missing & compare that to when they updated to 2.6.2. Not exactly a smoking gun if they are significantly different but it may help get closer to figuring out the cause.
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2 minutes ago, PaulEC said:
I'm not really sure exactly what's going on
Neither am I but what I was looking for is any of the page 20,21 text layers hidden(?) in the Master A page in the Pages panel. I can't find any signs of them either at the bottom of the page or anywhere else.
Regardless, the way this document is set up seems very odd & much more complicated than it needs to be.
BTW, once the document loads on my Mac, I can access the text on the document page & change it with essentially no delay. Weird!
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1 minute ago, PaulEC said:
If you look at the Layers Panel for the Master Page there are dozens of hidden layers!
Can you find any of the text layers that show up in Pages 20,21 hidden in the Master A page? I did not do an exhaustive search but I could not.
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8 minutes ago, MikeTO said:
It's easy to miss but at the bottom of the master there is
I can find some small items at the bottom of the master page but nothing like the various other objects on the document pages, including the text items.
But everything on the document spread (like Pages 20,21) disappears if I clear its master, so somehow all that stuff is on the master page, like the layers panel shows for that spread.
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2 minutes ago, jimrome said:
It seems embedded in my tables. New tables do the same thing.
I don't think it has anything to do with it but maybe check your text styles?
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1 hour ago, jimrome said:
Why was it enabled?
I think you might have done that by accident.
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3 hours ago, MikeTO said:
I removed most of the master page content...
Weird! When I opened the OP's document the master page has no content except for the text frames -- nothing else. Plus, on any of the document spreads I checked everything was in that Master A. If I deleted the master on any of those spreads, nothing was left.
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1 hour ago, Hangman said:
It does...
Weird! That wasn't working for me but now it does. I thought it should but an hour ago, I swear every time I entered anything like w, sw, or whatever it just ignored that when I tabbed out of the field & returned to the original value. i even tried the same thing ib V1 & it did the same.
I guess I'm just going crazy.
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3 minutes ago, Hangman said:
Sorry, yes, it's a case of doing the math, I'm afraid, there is no other way to achieve this...
What would be ideal is if the Transform panel would take expressions like H*3/2 for W or the like.
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16 minutes ago, Hangman said:
As @thomaso mentioned earlier in the thread, by adding the marquee selection to a blank pixel layer and then selecting the Move Tool... This will allow you to set width and height values for the selection...
??? Blank (empty) or not, I can enter pixel numbers (document units like pixels or cm's) for w or h values but I am asking how to set a ratio (in the Transform panel or elsewhere).
EDIT: Say I want to set a marquee I dragged out to an arbitrary size, like 200 x 600 px. I want to change it so the ratio is 2:3 (like say 200 x 300 px). Obviously, I can easily do the math for something this simple & just manually change 600 to 300, but there does not seem to be any way to set the ratio directly in the Transform panel.
Can someone please show me a step by step way to do this?
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On 9/10/2024 at 4:07 PM, thomaso said:
Start with any marquee, then enter the wanted ratio, here for instance Din A4 …
Maybe I am missing something obvious, but how do you set a ratio in the Transform panel for a 'marching ants' marquee selection?
Same question for what @Carloes said about an option to crop a ratio of a 'marching ants' marquee selection.
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1 minute ago, Carloes said:
In Affinity Photo the option to crop a ratio exists, but you resize the crop area instead of being able to drag a marquee tool.
Not sure exactly what you mean by that but you can drag around the 'marching ants' marquee selection if the Mode: is set to New.
A less convenient way to do this is to click on Quick Mask in the toolbar (or use the Q keyboard shortcut) & switch to the Move tool. You can then drag or resize the marquee
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10 minutes ago, Ldina said:
@lucaben On my Mac, it gives me a square or round aspect ratio if I hold down the Cmd key while using the Marquis tool.
Same for me, so I wonder if @lucaben is using Windows if holding down the Control key would do the same ... or if the status bar indicates that it will....
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For me, when off the artboard or canvas (AD cannot create pages) in the Dark UI the pointer is black with a white (ish) outline, so while it may be a bit hard to see depending on the artboard or canvas grey level, it is always visible if I look carefully.
I do not think there is a setting to change this.
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Check to see if Caps Lock is on. If so, turn it off.
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3 hours ago, Phil_rose said:
Is there any way to contact Serif at all?
Scroll down to the bottom of the page & look for the "Contact Us" item below the 4 round social media buttons.
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@Rachel Hills, you say Affinity would open but Publisher would not load properly. Publisher is one of the Affinity apps, so it is not clear what you mean about open but not load. Same for when you say you "had" the window but it "would not load properly."
So can you explain a bit more about what specifically did not load properly? What were you expecting vs. what you got?
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5 minutes ago, champigny said:
it refuses to overwrite files in the original folder
Did you try using the Authorize option? See in the Batch Jobs help topic in the Settings (or Preferences) > Output: section what it says about the Save into original location option.
BTW, this topic was last posted to 4 years ago, before V2 was available.
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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
But, when you have a canvas in Designer, and the option is enabled, an object totally in the Pasteboard is also clipped. So in that sense, since an object totally off an Artboard is not clipped, the option is disabled.
Consider this artboard clipping.afdesign example:
EDIT: Also try this with this file:
On the Layers panel drag the off-artboard rectangle back into the Artboard layer so it becomes a child of the artboard. Since it is in the artboard but off to the side, it becomes hidden (clipped).
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I interpreted "installer from Apple" to mean the Affinity app, which is available from both the Mac App Store & directly from the Affinity store. Otherwise, I can't think of a good reason why the OP would ask if "it" would work with an earlier Catalina version.
But either way, the most recent installer for Catalina is available directly from Apple via the link at https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662, among other methods of installing it.
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3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
I would say it is disabled, because objects entirely in the pasteboard are always visible when the document contains Artboards.
I said enabled because there is a checkmark next to that greyed out menu option, at least in the Mac versions, & because when an object is partially off the artboard it is clipped.
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So if printed, it would be a single folded sheet, correct?
If so, what happens if you set Document Setup to facing pages starting on the left? Then pages 1,2 could be the front & back & 3,4 the inside ones, or visa versa.
Would that work for your needs?
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IMO, there is no better source for comprehensive info about color management than https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/color-management-printing.htm, in particular the 3 color management topics in the From Camera to Display to Print section.