R C-R
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6 minutes ago, bbrother said:
After all, if professionalism lives in you, why not let your tools show it?
if you look at Michelangelo's David, do you think about the tools used or the work itself? Does it matter what tools were used to carve it?
But more to the point here, are you suggesting that anyone using Affinity professionally is somehow not really a professional, or somehow not abiding by the standards of professionalism?
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3 hours ago, bbrother said:
**Professionalism isn't a whim — it's ambition encoded into the tool**.
Professionalism is 'encoded' into the person, not the tools he or she chooses to use.
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No support for RTL languages.
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12 hours ago, h_d said:
But I think the link symbol means they are linked to your Affinity Account.
Probably obvious by now from what @GarryP posted but that is not correct.
Also, if you have a linked brush category selected in the Brushes panel & choose Delete Category... from the 'burger' menu. it gives you a choice of deleting that category either from just that app or all apps. Kinda obscure but it should be enough to at least suggest these links are not to your account but to your other Affinity apps.
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6 hours ago, markw said:
@AlanPickup, @GarryP, I’m struggling to reproduce this problem…
I may not have the setup correct for it to fail or it may be OS specific?I cannot duplicate this either on my Mac so maybe it is a Windows-only problem?
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The usual suggestions for fixing this are to switch off hardware acceleration and/or make sure your GPU drivers are up-to-date and/or to try a different driver if one is available.
Also, I am not certain but I believe certain RTX GPU's just don't work at all with Affinity Photo so turning of acceleration is the only cure for this.
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47 minutes ago, HCl said:
But this one is under "Sharing"
Most users would like to see export types as a tab or supported formats tab like many other vendors would.Consider also that many people new to Affinity's concept of personas would never even think to look for that topic in the help ... or for some not even know the help topics are available other than through the app's UI after they installed the trial or retail version.
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6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
And the file formats that are supported are shown in the Affinity Store pages before purchase. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/full-feature-list/
To be fair, that page does not make it easy to find (among many other items) the list of supported formats. In fact, just now it took me a minute to realize it was in Professional Color, Compatibility, and Output section. It would be better if that page was searchable in browsers without having to open each section....
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On 6/25/2025 at 3:29 AM, Hangman said:
- Layer → Convert to Curves or Cmd Return (keyboard shortcut)
- Node Tool and Ctrl Click the side you want to remove
@Iztok, note that in the video @Hangman provided, the status bar at the bottom of the window (at least in the Mac version) tells you that if you are hovering over a segment you can CTRL click to delete it.
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2 hours ago, R C-R said:
Can you tell me where to find this setting? It does not seem to be available on my Mac running Catalina.
Well, I finally found this 3 finger drag setting in Accessibility, but for the life of me I do not see how it improves precision or stability when drawing in Affinity with the trackpad vs. the usual 1 finger drag. Both the 1 & 3 finger drags seem to work identically for me.
1 hour ago, user_0815 said:With the 3 finger drag you can flick the object by keeping two fingers down and flick with the third one.
I tried this, both with scrolling with & without inertia set in my Accessibility preferences, & while it sort of worked (flicking did not move the object very far) there was no difference between the 2 inertia settings, so maybe I was looking in the wrong place for that. But regardless, with my old & stiff fingers plus my RSI problems, it was an extremely awkward gesture to perform.
I also tried the Drag Lock setting suggested earlier but I could not get it to work at all. Even with Tap to click enabled, I still had to press down to click to enable moving an object & I still had to do that each time I wanted to move the object -- IOW, nothing seemed to be 'locked' that I could see.
There are almost certainly things that I just don't understand how to set properly or how they are supposed to work but to be honest I just got tired of trying to figure it all out & gave up. I still think that if one is looking for a good drawing accessory to use with Affinity the money would be better spent elsewhere, like on a pressure sensitive drawing tablet.
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7 hours ago, tudor said:
Enable three-finger-drag: you'll draw by dragging three fingers on the surface of the trackpad. This will give you improved stability and precision.
Can you tell me where to find this setting? It does not seem to be available on my Mac running Catalina.
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3 hours ago, meridian360 said:
If/when I bother to post about it, we can talk about it then.
My point is simply that if you do post anything in the feature forum about how you want symbols to work in Affinity, you cannot assume how many other Affinity users are familiar with how they work in Illustrator, nor will they necessarily be interested in downloading a trial (particularly from Adobe!) to understand what you mean.
IOW, if you want support for your request, it is in your best interests to make it as easy & frictionless as possible for others to understand how you want them to work in Affinity.
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3 hours ago, IssyVivi said:
2.Go to Window > Move and Resize (this is resizing the actual affinity window)
In what app do you see this menu item? I do not seem to find any "Move & Resize" item in the Affinity Window menu.
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15 minutes ago, meridian360 said:
I can't use AD's Symbols as they are now.
Why? Do you understand how they work & their purpose? How else would you want them to work?
If you are going to make a request like that, you really should make it as clear as possible what you want to use them for & how they would work in comparison to now. Otherwise, it is unlikely that anyone would even understand what you are requesting.
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1 minute ago, meridian360 said:
But I refer to them as symbols, because they are Map symbols.
Then if you mention them in a feature request maybe refer to them as "map symbols," or even "GIS Map Symbols." And it is always useful for clarity's sake to include examples of the kind of objects you mean.
3 minutes ago, meridian360 said:But what I found with how AD works with Symbols, capital S... That's gonna be its own thread in Feedback. lol... [hand meets forehead]
I have no idea what kind of feedback you want to offer about Symbols or how they work but please consider searching that forum for anything similar to whatever that is before starting a new topic there. As it is, there many new requests that are basically just repeating something already mentioned, making it difficult to see how much support they actually have among the user base.
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34 minutes ago, meridian360 said:
It appears there are two "requests" that are coming out of this
Yes, & if is it not clear why I am suggesting that you just pick one for your request, it is because when two or more are suggested in the same request the discussion sometimes devolves into a dispute about which one has the most merit.
But of course it is up to you if you want to promote both of them.
EDIT: One other thing I keep forgetting to mention. Keep in mind that in Affinity both "Image" & "Symbol" have special meanings, so in you request(s) it is a good idea to try to be as specific as possible about what you mean if you use those terms.
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1 minute ago, meridian360 said:
Nope. Because you can have layers with content on import.
For the first of the two options I mentioned I meant an option to remove only empty layers on opening. Sorry if that was not clear.
3 minutes ago, meridian360 said:then you deal the content, say move it to a new layer...
I do not know what you mean by that.
Anyway, I was suggesting you pick one of the two optioned I mentioned for your feature request.
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4 minutes ago, meridian360 said:
Yup, I guess having to push this to the suggestions might get some more eyes on it.
The remove on opening option or a way to select all empty layers afterwards? It probably would help if you picked one....
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4 minutes ago, meridian360 said:
Have a toggle, "Import layers, even if they empty".... [shrug] ???
Conversely, does Illustrator have a toggle not to remove empty layers? (I do not use it so I don't know.)
Anyway, if you want that option in AD, you could post that in the feature request forum, and/or an option to select all empty layers added to it.....
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35 minutes ago, user_0815 said:
(regarding the Apple mouse I have the opposite opinion as the previous posters. I just like it a lot and would not want any other mouse. Except for the charging port of course. )
Personally, my main problem with that Apple mouse is I find it much to easy to accidentally, while touching the surface to let my finger move slightly when all I want to do is click, causing movement on the screen. So to avoid that I have to keep my fingers off the surface completely when I am not trying to click, & to be very careful not to move my finger when I do want to click.
If there was some setting to make it less sensitive to surface movement, it would not be so bad but for me it causes so much fatigue & cramping that I can't use it for long. It is possible this has something to with the RSI issues I already have so it might not be an issue for others.
I normally use a trackball, not a mouse but when I do I use a Logitech 3 button one that has a physical scroll wheel, which avoids the problem.
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8 minutes ago, meridian360 said:
Opening it in Illustrator results in no empty layers. The two PDF interpreters are doing different things with what's in the PDF. So, even if the PDF has all that empty stuff, why does Designer keep it?
It is just a guess but it is possible Illustrator removes the empty layers when it opens the file, while AD does not, the assumption in AD being that those empty layers might have some undefined purpose worth preserving.
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I have no idea how many chisels & other tools that were used, or why he picked the ones he did. It simply doesn't matter -- as you say, it is the mastery his works made visible that matters. The tools were adequate to the task, in the same way that the tools Affinity provides may be adequate for professionals that use them to demonstrate their mastery.