Tourmaline
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On 8/1/2019 at 1:42 AM, Jowday said:
From a few samples done with my own pen I think that Affinity Designer does not intepret the start and end data and adjust it to make the beginning and end look natural. Adobe goes a long way to do this, you can see.
You can *manually* (sigh) manipulate start and end points in the pressure profile to make the beginning and end look more natural. Designer often adds several pressure curve points in the beginning or end of the curve that needs to be adjusted (and removed) to obtain a natural look:
So what we have here is too many engineers involved in the user interface. If customers have to adjust a curve for every stroke they make - who tried this at all in "Serif Labs" and what is the point of a pen tablet if the software doesn't simulate the reality it is supposed to mimic?
Designer is more honest, Illustrator is smoothing things.
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11 hours ago, fde101 said:
This is wrong.
This functionality was only added to Illustrator in version 10, released nearly 14 years after version 1.0.
CorelDRAW added its "envelope tool" in version 2, released about 2 years after version 1, but that isn't quite a mesh distortion in the same sense...
Inkscape's first release was version 0.35, and their "live path effects" were not added until 0.46, released over 4 years later. (Illustrator only had their envelope distortion about 2 years before Inkscape's initial release.)
etc...
There you go.
Sorry, maybe it's just me but I don't get all the people "demanding" tools in a first edition that other developers took years to implement.
Yes, it's nice to have but understand that implementing tools well costs a lot time and effort.
You get a lot for the price the software costs and a lot of features are added for free. Some other developers will only "fix" things in a payed update/upgrade.
There's so many people "demanding" new features that the problem is what to implement first. Everybody thinks their requested tool has priority...
Just be reasonable...
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The pdf created with Designer is always editable in Designer.
Any pdf viewer can view the pdf file as well.
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11 hours ago, MEB said:
Oval,
If you want to quote me please quote the whole sentence:The distortion I was talking about was about stretching the image format from a square (6400x6400) to a rectangular format. I'm not referring to the antialiasing/blurring introduced due to the upscaling.
There's dedicated applications for image enlargement like Photozoom Pro (S-Spline based), Gigapixel Ai and others. Some vectoring/tracing tools may also be used for this (like Vector Magic).
Gigapixel AI is really good. Only limitation is x6, so 6 times enlargement.
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4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
Each of the applications needs to be able to understand the files created by the other applications, because cross-application compatibility is a key point of the Affinity suite.
So, for example, if you have a Designer file with Path Text (Text on a Path), and you open it in Photo, it has to look right, and still be editable. That doesn't mean that Photo needs to be able to create Path Text (and it can't) but it must be able to understand it and operate on it when it encounters it.
Another example: Publisher has the Text Frame studio panel that lets you adjust the fill, stroke, insets, and other properties of a Text Frame. Designer and Photo don't have that, but they need to understand those properties if they open a Publisher file. They can't adjust them, but them must display them properly.
So, yes, much of the code is shared, and present in all 3 applications. Some user interface code is omitted, based on Serif's decisions and desires to target a particular market or set of users with each application.
If so, then I would logically think that a lot of features used in Publisher could also be implemented in Designer.
But, of course I understand that it is not in the interest of the developer to implement too much features of other apps otherwise some might be obsolete.
Publisher is for DTP/pre-press, Designer is for vector and Photo is for Photo editing. combining all 3 into one would make it a confusing application and the UI would be way too cluttered.
Each application needs specific features.
In other words, if you would implement everything that Publisher can do into Designer then Publisher would be obsolete and visa versa...
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23 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
That could be interesting
So, if you use a Publisher file with the feature turned on and you import that file into Designer and it works then I am thinking that the feature is allready hidden in Designer somewhere otherwise it wouldn't work.
Logically if a feature is missing it can't work via import.
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On 9/16/2019 at 11:26 PM, tevice said:
yes, how, that exist?
Yes, but only for Illustrator.
It's a plug-in for Illustrator from Astute Graphics.
They make a bunch of really good Illustrator plug-ins wich will enhance functionality.
Website:
The plug-in you're looking for is VectorScribe:
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On 3/22/2019 at 4:50 PM, walt.farrell said:
Actually, I've been a programmer since about 1966 (52 years or so), across many languages and systems, on both small (personal) and very large (team/commercial) projects.
To use percentages for resizing, now, the user goes to the dimension box of choice and enters, for example, 50% (or, perhaps it's *50%). If the user's input were captured by the macro then that is a clear indication of what the user wants to do. Unfortunately, today the macro does not capture the user's input but instead it captures the result of the calculation, and that's the root issue with macros doing resizing in Affinity today.
Yes, it's odd that a crop tool can increase the size. But that's different, and doesn't justify calling % a unit in the dialog we're talking about.
Photoshop kinda works in the same way, you have to choose the % option and then fill in the value of percentage. This is faster. Just fill in 50% e presto...
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30 minutes ago, Roddie said:
It shows a list of all characters but I can't see a way to make hidden characters (eg tabs) appear within a block of text.
Ah, you mean those hidden caracters. There is a way to add them into text but not a way to show them.
For tabs to make them visible go to paragraph - tabs, click on the + and add a stop, now you'll have options to show the tab stop. Either a point, dash etc.
There are 2 little arrows, click on the right one to select how you want to make the tabs visible.
Probably won't work with imported text.
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In Designer there is something called the glyphs browser. It will show all special caracters.
Go To view - Glyph browser.
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30 minutes ago, Foomandoonian said:
I have been attempting to create a city map and there are two specific looks I want to accomplish...
1. I want to be able to create junctions that look like this: (just the green circled bit)
Specifically, note how these two road types have different colours and different outer strokes. I was able to achieve the look I wanted by duplicating my lines and putting the black strokes at the bottom with the coloured inner strokes on the top. While this works nicely, it will become a pain to manage large maps and any edits I make will also need to be manually copied and moved again.
I don't know if there's an easy fix. I tried applying a new stroke to an entire group or layer expecting that it would create a new stroke around the outside of all of the strokes within, but instead it overwrote all of the individual stroke settings. I feel like this should have worked as I expected, and while it wouldn't be a clean solution for my needs, it is definitely something that could have helped.
Another option I suppose is to have different classes of strokes editable in the appearance panel. For example, the topmost stroke could be considered the 'inner' stroke, and the bottommost the 'outer'. Then there would be some way to telling AD that a particular group should share the inner or outer stroke properties. I doubt this is very intuitive however.
2. I want my labels to knock out the black outlines, like so...
I'm not sure if that's the right terminology, but you can see in the example how the black outlines on the roads and buildings are removed, but the fill colours remain. This would be accomplished by using either a stroke or a clipping shape. Maybe something like this is already possible?
I know that the map above was probably created using specialist mapping software, but it would be a huge convenience in AD too.
My thinking was that there could be a special 'erase' fill type that accepted parameters, so you could specify that those objects erased only content on specific layers, or in my case, the 'outline' stroke types.
tl;dr: I'd like to create these specific effects with AD. I have some thoughts on how they could be implemented as features, but I'm very interested in people's ideas for how I could go about accomplishing them now.
Thanks!
Illustrator has probably the same problem as you can't fill open paths.
Maybe you can group some paths and the end with 0 fill.
The second image is possible by using the geometry tool.
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7 hours ago, FHPhotog2 said:
I have started a project using Publisher that will include very sensitive material. This project will take several days. I AM SHOCKED TO FIND THERE IS NO WAY TO PASSWORD PROTECT/ENCRYPT this document. Both Designer and Publisher need a way to be saved as an encrypted/password protected document. You can do so with with most other apps (Adobe, Microsoft, etc). Then, at the same time, be able to export as a protected PDF.
(I have no trouble password protecting a currently exported PDF using Acrobat or PDF Expert, but that still leaves the original Publisher document unprotected.)
Please, Affinity, figure out how to do this and update these apps accordingly. Not being able to do so is a critical shortcoming for me and a lot of others.
I hate Adobe and do not want to go back to Illustrator or InDesign, but needing a way to encrypt my work is extremely important!
Thank you.
Lot of programs, also free, to encrypt files or folders in Windows. Windows 10 pro has a feature for that. Veracrypt, 7zip etc.
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On 9/14/2019 at 9:00 PM, graphos said:
The fact is that the grid is needed exactly at the edges of the image, or text (at least for me), otherwise it just bothers. It would be very convenient for everyone if there was an option to transfer the object to the foreground. In any case, this design is available in Indesign. And what are we worse?
Thank! I am no longer alone!We are not worse as you say but Indesign has been developed way longer then Publisher. You can't expect every single option of a way older program into a relatively new program. It takes time to implement.
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8 hours ago, Ikikuru said:
Hey Guys,
Would it be possible to allow aligning by guide lines per chance. My use case is that I wanted to perfectly align an object between to guide lines, but currently of course that does not appear to be an option.
Cheers,
If you turn snapping on you can make the object snap to the first guide line.
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7 hours ago, johnnyfive said:
These are plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator we need a solution for Affinity Designer. Are they planning to release them?
I know, but the question was if you were looking for something like this...
It has a lot of advanced measuring tools.
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On 9/11/2019 at 2:02 PM, Pyanepsion said:
Hi, Petar Petrenko.
If you ask in English to speak English, you are not sure of being understood. Not everyone really understands all languages. For my part, I master especially the most popular of them: the Google translate.
24th says: "Urgently please, add the possibility to add notes at the bottom of the page!".
People on this forum are smart enough to figure out what you mean in English. I mean, they are smart enough to use Affinity software...
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2 hours ago, Raymondo said:
Hi F401z74
There is no knife tool in Affinity Designer at the moment but is on the road map to be implemented soon, maybe next update.
Yup, it's on the raodmap and in the pipeline...
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Something like this?
Astute Graphics plug-ins:
Dynamic Measure
- Hover measure closed path area
- Measure anywhere on your artwork
- Toggle following information: distance/ angle/ change in horizontal/vertical distance/ distance along path
- Scaling factor
- Units of measurement
- Hover-measure information including: distance along path/ tangent angles/ radius of curve at any point
- Draw curve normals
- Extensive customisation through preferences
- Use standard Illustrator arrow-heads instead of fixed
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On 1/26/2019 at 11:38 PM, R C-R said:
Yes, in the other very long topic they have explained (quite a few times) why they have no interest in developing Linux versions at this time. Funding is only a small part of it, which is why they have rejected the crowd funding idea.
That doesn't mean they will never develop Linux versions, just that they are not going to do so while other things have a higher priority. Since there are many of them, don't expect Linux versions any time soon.
Probably linux users is a way too small a market for Serif. Windows is about 90%, MAC is about 9% and the rest? Not worth the effort?
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3 hours ago, fde101 said:
Agreed, but the simple ability to keep objects "connected" to each other seems like it could be a somewhat natural extension of snapping, and I don't think we should be too quick to rule out that this could be useful for things other than designing flowcharts and the like.
Visio isn't the only game in town either - OmniGraffle is out there too, and I'm sure there are others.
Sure, probably more tools like that on the market but Visio is probably most popular or well known.
OmniGraffle is MAC only, so no go for Windows users.
I agree though, there are certain area's for improvement in Visio.
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Move the group around and see if they stay in plane.
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On 9/9/2019 at 2:06 PM, fde101 said:
So is the ability to add text and shapes to a canvas. Maybe Serif shouldn't implement those either? Also the fact that it is in Visio is kind of meaningless to some of us as that is a Microsoft product and thus rather worthless...
How so? This adds almost nothing to the UI except maybe a checkbox in the snapping options to enable the feature ("link stroke ends to objects when snapping" or similar), so from a user perspective, some 95% or so of the UI is already there.
Illustrator is not some kind of gold reference that competitors should try to match - strive instead to leave it in the dust.
I'm certainly all for that...
I am just saying that what you're looking for is in another product, wich Serif does not offer.
Visio professional is a total different product then Illustrator or Affinity Designer.
Designer won't be a replacement for Visio.
Visio also accomodates a lot of professional type of elements, like ICT models etc.
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3 hours ago, momsthewordus said:
Thank you, Carl123. That tool is just what I need. Like Glicky said, I would also love to see perspective and warp tool in designer. That type of feature is the only reason that I need both programs right now.
For perspective you got isometric.
Can you remove junk fonts from Publisher?
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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Use a font manager like Suitcase Fusion or another to turn on and off fonts for your workflow.