harrym

In truth not a lot of that affects my workflow but it's fantastic to see the continuing work and commitment, great stuff guys!
 

I prefer the AP image, good job!

This is my second Art Nouveau piece (and probably my last as I'm ready to move on to something else). I based my version on a Henri Privat-Livemore poster from around 1896 or so.
 
As I mentioned in my previous piece, I normally don't use the "effects" in Designer because I normally work only in pure vectors but the effects worked so well with shading on the skin in my last piece that I decided to recreate this piece as well adding my own little touches along the way. I chose this poster because I liked the composition and it had a lot of shading on the skin tones and I wanted to see what I could do with it using Designer's effects. I was very happy with the results. I hope that you enjoy.
 
Thanks for letting me share my picture.
Hokusai

Well, here I am. I'm using the standard interface to transfer images plus a special interface to obtain EXIF data as that's needed for PTLens. Do you want to take this offline? Being a developer you probably have access to my email address.
 
    // examine EXIF info
    uint8 *exif = NULL;
    rc = getProperty(0x3842494D, propEXIFData, 0, &simpProp, &compProp);
    if (rc == 0) {
        size = getSize(compProp);
        if (size) {
            exif = (uint8 *)lock(compProp, false);
            if (exif) {
                processExif(exif, size);
                unlock(compProp);
            }
        }
        dispose(compProp);
        if (!exif && gbl->dlg.pspHost) getPSPexif();
    }

    // also try XMP for lens info
    getProperty = gFr->propertyProcs->getPropertyProc;
    rc = getProperty(0x3842494D, propXMP, 0, &simpProp, &compProp);
    if (rc == 0) {
        size = getSize(compProp);
        if (size) {
            char *xmp = (char *)lock(compProp, false);
            if (xmp) {
                processXmp(xmp, size);
                unlock(compProp);
            }
        }
        dispose(compProp);
    }
 

Hi Fossil36,
The location (source load location) of the files you want to stitch is not important (if I'm understanding what your asking correctly) The issue you are having sounds like there are not enough common reference points in each of your files for the software to successfully create the stitch. If you wish to make the files available I can confirm.
Regards

Honestly I wouldn't recommend to play the too early adopter here for installing any OS patches etc., cause in the last time the OS vendors also messed up a lot of things with too early thrown out patches, especially when they were under stress due to massive press comments and reportings. So better give them some time to sort out things the right functional way, otherwise you might be left with a half-functioning system. 

According to Google "Today's CPU vulnerability: what you need to know" these vulnerabilities affect many CPUs, also including those from AMD, ARM, and Intel, as well as the devices and operating systems running on them.
Microsoft last night prepared a Windows-Update, though people should by all means first read this here related to that update ...
Important information regarding the Windows security updates released on January 3, 2018 and anti-virus software

This can be a game changer for the AMD / Intel fight, indeed. Yet though, games seem will be mostly unaffected in the performance loss by the fix. (I dont' know why people is so sure... I'd be to think it'd affect them as well... Not that I'd matter, tho. Heavy 2D and 3D editing, there's where all my worries are, specially in old machines. )

Do note that checker is not valid for yesterday's new bug. The new bug is only going to get patched at the OS level for existing CPUs.

@DWright
Nope, that has nothing to do with the Intel Management Engine (ME) problems here, it's instead another Intel CPU hardware "Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization" (KASLR) problem where kernel vulnerabilities could occur. Actually with KPTI („KAISER“) the OS vendors try to build fixes (patches) which require massive kernel remodeling in virtual memory management. This effects all platform OS kernels here aka Win, Mac and Linux systems.

A practice cricket net and a ride on lawn mower with a bucket in your garden, now that's just showing off! 

Honestly, I'm very jealous of people with such graphics skills.
Lovely
Regards

I've once typeset a booklet with mathematical formulas for students in Adobe InDesign for a client. While there are plugins like InMath, they are expensive and clumsy since they rely on hacks like baseline shifts and so on. There was another plugin that can be used an external formula editor like in Word, but it turned out the formulas didn't print properly and there were incorrect characters. Not to mention that these solutions are way too expensive if you only have a one-time project.
 
Back then, I, too, found LaTeXIt! for Mac to be the best solution since it allows you to type out small snippets of LaTeX and save it out to a PDF using XeTeX (XeTeX being a key part since this allows access to OpenType fonts to customize the look to match the text in the publication) or copy and paste it into other applications. But it's not ideal since customizing the fonts, look and kerning of the formulas takes loads of boilerplate code since LaTeX was never meant for lots of customization. Not to mention every formula was basically a linked image and had to be re-built for even the smallest change.
 
I don't think actual LaTeX integration would make a lot of sense. But I do think that built-in formula editing support for Affinity Publisher ("Maths Persona"?) would be a fantastic feature. Additionally, a way to quickly type LaTeX code simply as an input method (without having LaTeX installed, the formula subset would be enough) and a way to import MathML would make it really quick and flexible to create math-heavy documents.
 
It's not just a feature that benefits the few people who are professionally printing math-heavy publications. I'm certain that such a feature would position Affinity Publisher as a really attractive solution for teachers and educators for creating work sheets and the like. This demographic is currently mostly on Word because something like InDesign is just way out of the price range and learning curve that these people would consider. But at $49, I think it would be a no-brainer for every teacher. All it would probably take is a decent math typesetting feature for Publisher and a non-destructive graph plotting tool for Designer. The expressions parser is already there as part of the text input fields…

Hi both,
 
In the next beta:
 
The borders have been increased to 5 (the left border bug is already fixed).
A grab handle has been added to the bottom-right corner of floating documents.
Dock, Dock All, Float and Float All has been introduced to the window menu.
The hit test area for docking/undocking has beeen improved.

Hi Timo,

Thanks for the feedback. We appreciate your workflow suggestions and agree with you, We're looking at improving them further asap. If you have any other suggestions too, please do continue to let us know and we'll look at them.
 
Kind Regards,
Chris

I've spoken with the guy who wrote the Shadows & Highlights algorithm and he's said this will be improved for the next beta.

A practice cricket net and a ride on lawn mower with a bucket in your garden, now that's just showing off! 

Hi Iam1of 2, pretty easy to reproduce actually just open two images and undock one of them, hardly a 'mess'. Not sure if I've ever used a graphics package that doesn't support this functionality.
Regards

Just like to add my thanks to all for the hard work that's going into these releases, much appreciated!
Regards
 

Just like to add my thanks to all for the hard work that's going into these releases, much appreciated!
Regards
 

Bless you!
 

The issue I've got is that to do really accurate editing you need an exact paste match, nothing to do with how other software works. Loosing that functionality is a mistake (frankly a big misjudgement imo). Please don't make it a separate additional command make it a preferences option if you really feel the need.
 

So anyway, Nutella and his merry band of morons decided to update my computer when I was in the middle of a batch process even though I've set what my working hrs are. I'm now seeing some strange letters in the top menu bar, they seem to have gone away for now but just curious as to what that is? More of an issue though is that I'm getting terrible screen flashing when loading an image I mean the whole program appears and disappears rapidly several times generally finishing with Windows Explorer which I've got open in the background opened on top of it. I've re-started my machine several times to try and stabilise it. I suspect the update.
Not sure if this is a different issue but I'm also experiencing selection issues. Adding and removing from an existing selection using the brush tool doesn't seen to be working. I notice that RickG has posted what may be a similar issue? Could someone check this please as it seems like a super basic thing to have an issue with so again that makes me suspect the update or me just loosing the plot 
The other thing I noticed about selections is that having created one and doing nothing else except watch the marching ants the CPU is running away with itself. Is that normal?
 
Thanks for letting me vent I actually really do hate MS now

The issue I've got is that to do really accurate editing you need an exact paste match, nothing to do with how other software works. Loosing that functionality is a mistake (frankly a big misjudgement imo). Please don't make it a separate additional command make it a preferences option if you really feel the need.
 

The issue I've got is that to do really accurate editing you need an exact paste match, nothing to do with how other software works. Loosing that functionality is a mistake (frankly a big misjudgement imo). Please don't make it a separate additional command make it a preferences option if you really feel the need.