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Just installed designer 2.4.0 A few comments (some I have made years ago) — the behaviour of the windows is very un-Mac like: it seems not possible to have multiple overlapping windows: only one of them has tool bars and is always in front modified documents should have the red dot set (but this is not possible since single window is forced now) I really want the separated mode back, I never ever use tabs and single applicatrion windows. — my use is mainly technical drawings, and I work in metric. Yet the menu for font sizes is still not in whole numbers: it has a choice of 1.8mm, 2.1mm, 2.5mm, 2.8mm etc where expected values would be 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, etc. — there should be a single keystroke to switch from text editing back to the move tool. I have managed to write a Keyboard Maestro macro to use the escape key for that. Double-clicking somewhere outside a text is not the answer. — in the announcements, forumes and so on, please add the year, and let me use the international date format (year-month-day or day-month-year) instead of forcing the American format (month-day-year). — svg export is better, thanks. — the window title bar still disappears behind the menu bar at times... But overall an excellent application, that I do recommend to everyone!
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lacerto reacted to a post in a topic: Opening multiple files into separate windows.
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Sorry for late reply RC-R. I'm on Mac (Ventura). Yes, and I can as well drag the tab out. But no default indeed. The earlier UI was much more friendly indeed. Another thing: “shortcuts” can be defined in the settings, but it is not possible to use anything but simple alphabetic characters. I would like to use ESC or control-A to select the Move Tool (V). This is to avoid the problem of getting out of editing a text by having to move the mouse to the tools palette. Typing V just inserts the letter V of course. This same problem exists in PhotoShop and it is very annoying. It is possible to move the cursor and double-click, but it is not reliable and as much a nuisance as having to find the tools palette. Affinity Designer is also not scriptable at all, so using Applescript is not possible. I've tried with Keyboard Maestro, and that would work if I could somehow find the location of the tools palette, but that too is not possible. Sigh.
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OK about vocabulary... 🙂 BUT: I cannot find in either Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo any setting such that documents are opened in separate windows instead of tabs. I also know I can drag the documents by their tabs out and into separate windows, but that is just an irritation that upsets me every time. (Just for the record, and at the risk of getting flames, but I hope you guys will enjoy this: I have been using GUI windowing systems since 1981, Macs since 1984, and I also happen to know Alan Kay very well, who invented overlapping windows at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s. And I positively HATE tabs. Never use them, never want them. Ever. 😎 )
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Affinity Designer for macOS - 1.9.3
Robert Cailliau replied to Patrick Connor's topic in News and Information
Yes. I already did that a long time ago. Just mentioned it here, not meant as a bug report. Have a nice day. -
Affinity Designer for macOS - 1.9.3
Robert Cailliau replied to Patrick Connor's topic in News and Information
Well, yes, obviously release notes only mention fixed things, that's exactly why I repeated the ones I do want to get fixed but that apparently got no attention. -
Affinity Designer for macOS - 1.9.3
Robert Cailliau replied to Patrick Connor's topic in News and Information
OK, good. But: you still have not fixed: (a) on a machine with two screens the document window appears on the second screen first (separated mode) (b) if the document and font units are set to millimetres, the font sizes are not whole numbers in the pop-up menu (see screen capture) (c) the selected choice in preferences is white text on highlight colour, which in my case is white on yellow; the text colour should be the "opposite" colour of the highlight instead of white, or else it should be settable. (d) it is still necessary to tap the tab key twice to go to the next associated value in the Transform box (X to Y or W to H) I reported these issues years ago. -
Flood Select Tool settings by default
Robert Cailliau replied to madPXL's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I do not have the answer, but I'm having the exact same problem. All default settings should be manageable, in a way similar to that for keyboard shortcuts. -
Fixx reacted to a post in a topic: How to set the default font
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Hi, How can I set the default font for text objects? Whenever I make a new piece of text, the font defaults to Arial. I want to set the default font to a different one. I could not find a preference setting, but I may have verlooked something.https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/5-affinity-on-desktop-questions-mac-and-windows/&do=add#
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JDW reacted to a post in a topic: Set White Point, Photoshop-style
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(yes I have the latest version: 1.7.0) Create an object, say a rectangle. Set its fill to none and its stroke to pure black (rgb 0,0,0). Then try to add style from selection in the styles panel: nothing happens. Now change the stroke colour ever so slightly: e.g. rgb 0,1,0. This is so close to black as to be imperceptible, but it is NOT black. Now adding style from selection does work.
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JDW has a point. I've reported a number of "bugs": "a rose, by any other name, smells as sweet", so call them what you will (some bugs/features/workarounds/… usually stink.) But they do not get corrected in a new version or an update. I do not need new features: they came in avalanches in Illustrator but never the desired ones. I'm much happier with Designer than with Illustrator, and happy with Photo, except for that missing white point tool. For Designer I have reported, without reasonable response, that on a machine with two screens, a new document appears first on the second screen (where obviously I do not want it) documents do not always open in the same location and view as when they were closed the interface colours now do use my preferred highlight, but the text on the selection is not the inverse (I get white on light yellow…) the tab order in the transform panel is wrong and I just now found that adding a style from a selection does not work if the stroke colour is pure black (rgb 0,0,0) but it does work if it is even just very slightly different (e.g. rgb 0,1,0). That is a BUG. I will report those issues again on the corresponding forums and feature request lists. As to the white point request: I fully support JDW. It's not about "photoshop on the cheap". I do realise that professional users will rarely or perhaps never use this tool. However, I'm using Affinity Photo mostly for touching up scans of documents, and in those cases almost always the first thing I want to do is to get rid of the light greyish background, turning it into simple flat white (not the Australian coffee). I'll be happy with a "macro" if it does exactly that. But I get the impression from the responses that there is no easy workaround at all, and that some even find the question annoying. This is not a place for a flame-war. We are here to collaborate to find working solutions. If there is no white point tool available and there is no simple workaround, then we should simply admit that, put in a strong request in the feature requests list. Not waffle around. I'll go and do that now.
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JDW reacted to a post in a topic: Set White Point, Photoshop-style
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And same here: this is a tool I use(d) a lot in Photoshop. It's not perfect and it's not "professional", but it is so effective and efficient: you scan a document or make a photo, the want to print it and the quickest way to get rid of the greyish parts is to use the white picker. Saves a lot of ink.
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GUI highlight colours
Robert Cailliau posted a topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Just downloaded Designer 1.7. In 1.6 when I clicked a layer in the layers palette, it highlighted in the colour set in the system preferences, but in the Designer preferences a selection highlighted in blue. Now it is the inverse, but in addition the text of the selection becomes white. My highlight colour being yellow, this makes the text unreadable. See attached screenshot. -
Geotagging in Affinity photo
Robert Cailliau replied to NemesisSensei's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
OK, found one: solmeta Does have the viewing direction included, and not just the azimuth but also the altitude angle (by how much the camera is tilted up or down). Ordered one and will let you know how its data appear in Affinity Photo.- 2 replies
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Geotagging in Affinity photo
Robert Cailliau replied to NemesisSensei's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
oops, this is "old" and has no replies I can spot. However, I have the same problem: my Nikon D750 has no built-in GPS. My iPhone 6s tags its photos with the location, altitude and the direction in which the photo was taken (compass bearing). The latter can be very important! The D750 GPS attachments do not give the bearing. Is there any attachment that does? Solutions that do the tagging by synchronising from a smartphone app also (as far as I know) do not give the bearing. That's not surprising since the bearing only has a meaning if the smartphone is held in the same direction as the camera. Trail recording apps record the place but not the bearing. One solution would be to fix the smartphone to the camera and make sure it records the data (position & bearing) at shutter release. Anyone?- 2 replies
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