Mike089123
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Anyone know how to do this in 1.7?
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12 hours ago, Pšenda said:
Document, Transparent background is set?
Yes. One other thing I noticed is if the graphic doesn't fully cover the artboard, the PNG will export with an alpha channel. Once the graphic fully covers the artboard, it will no longer export with an alpha channel.
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Just updated to 1.7 and the technique that I used before to export a PNG with alpha channel was to make sure the artboard's fill was white. Now it no longer works and I'm not sure how to include the alpha channel. There seems to be no option in the preferences -> color options as well on mac osx.
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currently i'm using illustrator to organize all my assets, which works great since there's a tagging system. Unfortunately affinity designer's asset panel isn't really functional for anything reaching over 50 items and it seems there's nothing on the roadmap to improve that. But affinity is much faster and overall a better product, so I'd prefer to use this app if I can figure out a good way to organize each individual image where I can easily drag n drop them into an affinity project. Any advice? I'm currently thinking of just using out of the box mac tagging and folders for each image, each image being it's own affinity file. Has anyone tried that?
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No plans I'm guessing? Currently I'm using illustrator primarily for the asset search functionality, but it's really a bloated mess that is extremely slow.
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I've been waiting for a while for this, being able to search for something that's in another category or subcategory and being able to search by tags (example: searching for "green cloud" will not return "cloud green". As of right now, anything more than a few dozen items in the category become unmaintainable due to lack of search options.
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On 3/17/2018 at 5:38 PM, owenr said:
The app's preferences has a keyboard section where you can assign a shortcut for Draw persona's Layer > Convert Object to Artboard as shown below:
I think that's a different option than the insert artboard from selection function, because doing that will only allow me to create an artboard from a single, ungrouped object.
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Before I go ahead and start adding 1000+ vector graphics to the asset manager in affinity designer, is there a limit? Since the subcategory and cross-category search is very limited, I'm planning on just adding everything to one category with no subgroups for easy searching.
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Is there a hotkey or a way for me to make a hotkey for the create an artboard from selection option?
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On 2/19/2018 at 5:38 PM, stokerg said:
Hi Mike018,
I suspect the file you are opening was created in AI and exported as an EPS file, which will also store a copy of the .ai file in the EPS. When you open that in AI, you are seeing the AI file, which contains the groups and not the actual EPS file. When you open the same file in Designer, we open the EPS file which is why the items are no longer in groups.
Is there any way to retain the groups of the EPS files commonly downloaded from these types of sites, where the author probably made them in illustrator?
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Vector EPS files that I have bought from shutterstock lose all groupings when opening it up in affinity, but I know they are there cause when I open them in illustrator, everything is grouped. How do I retain all the groups with affinity?
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23 hours ago, R C-R said:
The decimal places set in Preferences are just for display purposes -- internally, the app always uses the maximum precision possible. "Move by whole pixels" will do exactly that, so for example, if the width is currently 800.2 px dragging a handle will be constrained to values of 799.2 px or 801.2 px & so on.
Also, if the aspect ratio lock is on in the Transform panel, changing width or height may force the other setting to a fractional value to maintain that ratio.
So how do you scale while keeping integer values?
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I have the decimal place for unit types on pixel set to 0, and snapping and move by whole pixel on, yet when I rescale images they will not be integer values. Even when changing the width and height to an integer value, and rescaling, it will not be an integer value anymore. This makes it a pain to create an artboard from selection since it keeps adding extra pixels to the sides, as well as adding more pixels to the dimensions when exporting.
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100% of the time I need the stroke to scale with the object and I'm willing to bet a lot of other people always do that to. It would be awesome to have a global setting for this so I don't have to keep double-checking before I resize things.
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I'm a bit confused as to the point of the asset manager. When there's something in a collapsed sub-category, and I search for it, it won't appear. Doesn't that make sub-categories useless?
Search also doesn't cover different categories. So instead of searching for something from anywhere, say a planet, I'd have to specifically go the the space category, and then do my search, and also make sure the sub-category with the thing I'm searching for is expanded, otherwise nothing will appear. How come search is so limited?
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for example, a star field. is it possible to rapidly create many stars? Bonus if I can randomly change the size, opacity, and rotation of them.
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I have lots of subcategories with various assets, so all of them are collapsed to save space. When I search for something, the category where the item is located at will not uncollapse, making it really hard to find something in a sea of sub-categories. I wish the search function would just show what is being searched for outside the subcategories, because it doesn't matter where it's located at, I just want to use "so and so". Bonus points if I can search through multiple categories. Will this ever been implemented? I could see this is a great way to store everything I have in the asset manager, but this lack of search feature prevents me from doing so.
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how do i get this always enabled?
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So far I've tried shutterstock. I was able to find most graphics I needed and was amazed that I got away with paying $170 for 350 graphics. Any recommendations for another website where I can bulk buy lots 2d stuff, or a hub where I can buy individual 2d art packs from artists?
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I'm curious what you guys use to organize graphics into something that's searchable. For example, you need a "flat style 2d bird" or a "tree", so you use something to search your database of graphics that have been properly tagged, and volia, you have exactly what you need.
Do you use affinity's built in asset manager for databases of graphics that range over 1000? Or have you found another application that is better for organizing things?
I need to be able to find the assets quickly and (hopefully) be able to just drag them into an artboard to make mockups, but at the same time I need to be able to easily export (or already have exported) all the individual graphics as I only use affinity designer for making mockups.
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Is there a way to do boolean operations with grouped shapes? Right now, if I have a group of shapes that I want subtracted from a larger shape, I have to ungroup them and individually select all the shapes, then subtract them.
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I tried exporting using all the SVG options and still no symbols are being created in the SVG code.
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I'm using symbols in some art, and I've noticed that on export to SVG, instead of creating a symbol of the shape and using that symbol in all instances, it will just create a new shape for every symbol.
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any update on this?
Exported PNG half the pixels of the slice?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I can't figure this out, my exported PNGs are being exported as half the original size. In the export persona, all my slices are set to 1x.