Skyesofrock
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For the developers:
Please check out this great grid calculator if you don't already know it:
http://gridcalculator.dk/#/980/12/20/20
You can use the arrow keys to inc/decrease the values and all relative values are updated accordingly.
A similar functionality would be insanely useful for web
This is exactly the sort of functionality I'm after. Great reference!
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I would expect a 0 value as a default space before/after until explicitly set to a value and/or saved in a style or template.
I checked back and in fact a default value of 0 makes much more sense. For a minute I thought a value of 0 would mean the vertical position wouldn't change at all, meaning no line break.
...my bad
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Hey ladislavsulc,
The global guides is an excellent idea and I would definitely post it in the Feature Requests. I've had a quick look and couldn't find it. A possible workaround would be to apply your desired guides to one artboard and then duplicate it. The only problem is if you had to change it further down the line, you'd have to change them all separately.
The ruler guide only showing vertically is a known bug. The horizontal one does drag out but it is quite offset from the pointer. If you keep dragging you might eventually see it.
This is what I currently do to circumvent the problem. I have the default bootstrap grid set up on a single artboard document ready to create new projects from. It works, but I'd love to see an expansion in guide creation/management options in 1.6. Posted a feature request yesterday here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/26874-guide-layout/
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I have purchased Affinity Designer, and upgraded to 1.5, can I still get the Grade UI Kit, or do I need to pay for it?
Thanks
John
The option to download the Grade UI kit should be presented in the welcome screen by default to all users of 1.5. Can you confirm it doesn't appear after waiting for the welcome content to download from the internet?
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Not as yet. But once we start working on 1.6, we will decide which features to prioritise.
(please add this in 1.6)
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I think that might be something to ask the developers of Sip, not Serif. Granted, that would be awesome though.
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I know what you mean, it happens frequently to me too.
In the past I used to do what you say, today I tend to ask firmly for new assets or specific re-design tasks.
It is useless to ask a quality job if the quality is not distributed equally.
I think that a Tracing Persona, or something like a Tracing Tool will be very welcome be in AD 2.x.
Great to trace inked pictures, to vectorise resources... Lots of creative way to apply it.
But if you try to vectorise a jagged Jpeg oldie 221px wide should prompt a message like:
"Hey man, do you like puddings?"
:D
It's got my vote, that'd be a great way to solve the problem. Being able to generally trace an image and then fine-tune it manually in a separate workspace would be perfect.
You're right about the quality of the job as well.. Wish clients would see it that way from the outset.
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Yep, I do agree...
Sometimes it could be useful for example to vectorise acquired media (such as strokes or textures).
Logo redesign via vectorisation is something that should be prohibited by international laws :lol:
While I generally agree, I've noticed clients will sometimes make it unavoidable at a conceptual stage. Trying to create a website concept for a smaller client with no official resources happens more often I'd like, and ripping images from a client's current site site can oftentimes be worse for the end result (low-res, high compression etc.).
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Tony, if you are going to benchmark, I'd look at vector magic rather than illustrator. In most cases it still produces better results IMO. Also, for the record I don't really think that vector tracing is particularly important in the grand scheme of things.
You might well be right, Illustrator's attempt at tracing a logo today was very mixed and none of the presets matched the real thing without heavy modification.
And Vector Tracing in general is a very situational tool. I find myself using it extremely infrequently, but it's useful to have. Considering that AD is poised to knock Illustrator out of the top spot as a professional designer's weapon of choice, it's one of those features that could do with being implemented.
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Dynamic guide tools will be coming soon.
That's brilliant news, I've been waiting for this feature for a while (used Mac AD since beta). Is there any chance of an ETA?
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The default behaviour for text objects is to set the Space After to 12pt. When you say 'rather than a default value' what kind of value are you expecting?
I'd expect the default value to be automatically set by the font size I'm currently using. For example, if I'm using 3pt as a font size, I'd expect the Space After to match it (set to 3pt).
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Most of the time (not all of the time, difficult to tell when it will strike) the "Space After Paragraph" setting in the Paragraph panel sets itself to 12pt rather than a default value, regardless of the font size.
This is based on a fresh installation of RC2 on Windows 10 Pro; it's effectively happening on the first document I've produced with this installation of AD and I haven't changed any of the default settings.
If there's any other details you need, let me know and I'll try to provide them.
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The one thing that stops Affinity Designer from being the perfect tool for UI design for me is the lack of an ability to set up a guide layout.
There is almost this functionality in the grid set up options, just without the ability to make grid tiles the full height of the artboard and add a default margin on the left/right/top/bottom independent of the gutter. The ability to save a guide layout preset in the Guide Manager and load it up in future documents has been mentioned previously, and this is potentially another great way to solve the problem, so +1 to that idea too.
My issue is just that when setting up a new document I need to be able to quickly set up the bootstrap grid as guides before I start. My current workaround is to set up the guides in a document and use that as a template for any web UI work I need to do.
Please consider adding a Guide Layout feature and/or Custom Guide Presets (honestly the Guides Manager is currently brilliant, it just needs extending).
I'm so very close to being able to replace PS/AI with AF.
Cheers
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Definitely could use this feature. Clients with low-res logos are one of the biggest reasons this feature makes Illustrator so useful.
It'd be one more nail in the coffin for Illustrator if Affinity picks it up ;)
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Just adding my voice by saying this feature would save me tons of time for UI work.
Thanks for considering!
Guide Layout
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Just what I wanted to hear ;)
Cheers for your replies on the topic Ben!