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1 hour ago, SallijaneG said:
I have Version 2 of all 3, though I have not updated Designer nor Publisher to the latest “.x” version—space issue on my computer, which I am addressing.
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See attached screenshot: all 3 programs open (all Version 2), but Studio Link is inactive.In your screenshot, did you overlook the red text telling you that you need to update both Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo for StudioLink to work?
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18 minutes ago, Pšenda said:
In pixels yes, but not in same source DPI, so then object change its dimensions.
DPI is irrelevant unless the file is printed, at which time it can be set to anything, since it is just metadata that the printer may or may not use.
EDIT: please refer to https://affinityspotlight.com/article/understanding-dpi/ for more about this.
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15 minutes ago, thomaso said:
The current workflow for such issues asks users to change their current hardware acceleration setting to see if an issue they are experiencing still occurs. If this helps prevent the problem, the situation is considered resolved – regardless of a possible alternative culprit or solution.
In point of fact, quite often it is suggested to try a different graphics driver or to check for conflicting 3rd party stuff known to cause issues with the app. If that leads to a solution that allows the use of hardware acceleration then the issue typically is considered resolved by the user.
22 minutes ago, thomaso said:The mentioned self-test routine might work similarly with the corresponding conclusions.
How specifically could this self-test routine change the settings to avoid a crash that stops the test? Once it crashes, that's it. There is nothing left to say why it did or if it is fixable.
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If nothing else, imagine how users would react if the crash was caused by an incompatible add-on & they later learned that by simply either removing it or making an exception for AP if it provides for that, then they could use hardware acceleration. Same for a damaged or missing file (in either the app or the OS) that could be replaced with a good copy.
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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
For the purpose of this discussion, the important point is that it crashed, if the thread was testing whether hardware acceleration was usable. A crash during that test means it's not usable.
No, it just means that something in a thread running in the benchmark test that was using hardware acceleration caused a thread crash, but that by itself does not mean hardware acceleration is unusable. This is because there could be other causes that if identified & eliminated could make it usable. I mentioned several examples of fixable causes above.
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10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
But it could decide to recover. It seems the Affinity applications don't.
What info specifically could any app recover from a thread that has crashed, other than that it has terminated for some reason? After all, there could be several different causes for that, including conflicts with third party 'helper' add-ons, hardware level component defects, or damaged/corrupted files or the file system itself.
Few of these things should prevent the user from enabling hardware acceleration, if nothing else for diagnostic reasons.
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As for the "touching the text" part, for Frame Text the Paragraph panel has various controls that allow you to set the alignment, justification, & spacing on a paragraph by paragraph basis.
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46 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
The application generally doesn't crash. A thread within the application crashes, and the application then decides how to handle the crash.
Actually, a lot of the topics are about Affinity itself crashing, not just one of its threads. But even if it is just one or a few threads that crash all the app can do is terminate those threads, so if that thread is one of those the benchmark must run during the test, there is no way the app can get any performance info from that test other than it did not complete after some pre-defined period of time. Same problem if the app hangs & has to be force-quit.
What it might be able to do is write a temp file somewhere before starting the test with info about its start time & what configuration it is testing & delete it if the test completes, so if the app has to be restarted by the user it could check for that, but I do not see any way the app could automatically restart itself.
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2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
With appropriate recovery and crash handling code, the app could invoke a graphics call and detect that it failed. Or detect that it did not complete in a reasonable amount of time.
I don't see how AP itself could 'handle' anything if it crashed or hung while running the benchmark. It seems to me this is something only the OS could detect.
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1 hour ago, Linda1983 said:
Affinity would do well to listen to its users.
They do, but over the years there have been so many different feature requests (including disagreements about how they should be implemented) that they have been forced to pick & choose sparingly among the ones they think will benefit the greatest number of users to focus their development efforts on.
There are hopes that now that deep-pockets Canva has acquired the company that things will improve in this respect but nobody can say with any certainty if that is realistic or not.
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30 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
In theory the benchmark code could run various tests and see if any crashed outright...
How could it do that if the app crashed while running the benchmark or if the driver never returned control to the app? Doesn't the app have to complete the benchmark test to gather any info about the results?
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2 hours ago, thomaso said:
Could Serif use their existing "Benchmark" test code, perhaps augmented with display feedback, to provide a reliable recommendation for an "optimal" performance setting for any specific, individual hardware/software configuration?
The problem with that for Windows is there are hundreds if not thousands of possible combinations of hardware & driver software versions in use by users.
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3 hours ago, Peter Hauffe said:
If you copy an object in Publisher to the clipboard and paste it into Designer using "New from clipboard", the size of the object is changed arbitrarily.
When I use New from clipboard, I always get the same size in pixels of the copied object in both (actually all 3) apps. So could it be that what you see is because you are using different units of measurement or resolutions in the apps?
If not, could you post a small *.afpub document with just a few objects in it, tell us which one(s) you are copying to the clipboard, & also the *.afdesign document that you get when you use New from clipboard in that app?
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1 hour ago, William Overington said:
It may well be that the policy of not commenting will remain as it was, but not necessarily.
How much clearer than what @Patrick Connor already told you above does have to be before you understand that the policy has not changed?
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14 hours ago, William Overington said:
So is the new era going to be locked into what happened previously when things were different, or will the opportunity to go forward into the new era be seized?
The only thing that is different in this respect is Canva has deeper pockets than Serif did, which does not change the fact that they still will not comment on if user suggestions are accepted or not. So your so-called "point of order" has been overruled & it is pointless to continue to whine about it.
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50 minutes ago, PeteBoi said:
Although I have no idea what the abbreviation UI stands for...
Just type "UI" without the quotes into the search field of your favorite search engine like Google or whatever & you will get tons of hits like this one from Wikipedia.
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8 hours ago, Ryw said:
I've rebooted my computer several times, now no ather program (beside Chrome) is working.
That almost certainly means the problem is not caused by anything related to updating AP2 because that cannot affect any other apps than whatever Affinity ones are installed.
So you need to do the various systemic troubleshooting methods relevant to your OS & hardware.
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6 hours ago, Alex_M said:
I have a PDF open with hundreds/thousands of layers/objects and I want to delete all of them except for the few objects I've selected on the canvas.
I may not have understood what you want correctly but if you have selected the objects you want to keep, you can copy them to the clipboard & use File > New from clipboard, you will get a new document with just those objects in it on a canvas just large enough to enclose them all. Then if desired/necessary you could resize the canvas & export that to a new PDF.
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56 minutes ago, DavidMac said:
It is eight years since I first posted this. Nothing has changed and no response ever, that I can see, from a member of the Affinity team.
It seems to be a classic case of don’t hold your breath while waiting.What a shame …………. ☹️
However, they have mentioned that they are working on scripting for the apps (presumably for all 3, not just AP) so macros may end up being much less important even if they never improve that feature.
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On 4/19/2024 at 6:16 AM, MikeTO said:
Artifacts are drawn on the Character panel's section expand icons when I type in a document. This is only with collapsed sections and the artifacts are consistent as shown here. It happens docked and undocked, light and dark modes, and in all three apps.
For what very little it is worth, I am not seeing these artifacts in any of the 3 apps, maybe because I am still running Catalina, but that is just a guess.
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7 minutes ago, DWright said:
In the context tool bar for the Style Picker if you deselect the Stroke and Fill options are you able to select the layer.
Do you mean select it to pick up its stroke and/or fill or something else? The problem, as I understand it, is the picker will not load either "no fill" or "no stroke" so that style can't be applied to any other object with the tool.
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7 hours ago, thomaso said:
If I choose on mac a menu entry in the Studio menu with the according left/right studio currently hidden then the app auto-switches the according panel dock to visible. No need to choose "Show Studio" before or after selecting the panel in the menu.
This does not work like that for me in AP V2. When the Left Studio is hidden & includes the Macro panel, in the Windows menu (where the Macro panel item appears in V2, unlike in V1) I have to select it twice before the Left Studio is unhidden. It's very annoying.
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8 hours ago, thomaso said:
On mac you can use the Help menu, enter a term an get auto-lead to an according menu entry with an animated arrow.
But sadly, this does not work in the new 2.5.0 beta because the Search field in the Help menu has been removed. 😦
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I know there are some issues with the built-in help in (some?) OS versions so it has at least for now been removed & all help directed to a web-based version, so that may be why the Help menu no longer has a Search field but please consider that for Mac users in earlier versions that field can also be used to highlight & select menu items, so even if there is no built-in help it is still a very useful feature.
Should it not be clear what I mean, below is an example from AD V2.4.x showing all the menu items that include the search word "text"
So please consider adding this functionality back in the Mac versions, even if there is no way to link to the Help Topics.
EDIT: It took me a while to find the older discussion about this at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201635-online-help-to-resolve-search-in-macos-that-affects-macos/ but since the retail version of V2.4.2 still has the Search field I have to wonder why we can't have it in the 2.5 version as well....
How to let the brush don't overlap their color?
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Does turning off "Wet Edges" in the Context Toolbar get you what you want?