Tourmaline
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On 5/27/2019 at 9:49 PM, meyer.wil said:
Got it, finally, after about a dozen attempts. Literally.
Has probably more to do with the stability of your line/wi-fi then Serif.
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No problem here, installed just fine.
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11 hours ago, SrPx said:
A bit OT, but don't know if anyone here have watched Silicon Valley, the TV show (funny how google lists it the first, it before the actual place!).... Gotta love the (isometric?...slowly remembering...is when same scale was used for each axe, right?) graphics they have for the intro... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)#/media/File:Silicon_valley_title.png ...IMO, very well combined with the music and slight animation.
Plus, the startups I've worked at, were indeed JUST like that. At times is so faithful that is painful.
I see application of these graphics everywhere, I've done quite some works with very rudimentary techniques while at companies. Specially technical books, but also anything tutorial and education related have big chances of requiring from you these graphics.
Heck I'd have loved this while getting into a bunch of "isometric" based indy games... (as an artist).
It's funny how the brain's cache deletes all what ain't needed for a while... I studied 3 years of technical drawing at university, then many years to get a vacant as a technical (and artistic) drawing teacher for the gov. Forgot even the basic stuff, lol. So, it's good to read some write-ups like that from time to time...
Software development is faster then some brains, lol, especially after a certian age.....
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23 hours ago, Ben said:
While smart icon generator seems "smart" all it appears to do is extrude a 2D image through an isometric plane, and replicate the edge pixels on the other faces. It's an illusion, more than real isometric.
Thanks for clearing that up, Ben.
It does speed up things, if you need it.
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23 minutes ago, R C-R said:
For Macs, as long as the Finder window is set to show icon previews (which can be set differently for different windows) previews are shown for all three Affinity apps, whether beta or not.
But even if I add the Affinity Publisher file extension to the XNViewMP Browser > File list preference as a "Master extension" and/or as a "Companion" file, that app will not show previews for Affinity Publisher documents.
True, I did try that solution in XNViewMP as well, with no results.
I will use Windows Explorer anyway so for me the problem is solved. I can set Explorer to open the respective file formats with the 3 apps...
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On 3/27/2019 at 12:20 PM, R C-R said:
I am not sure if it was mentioned in the @Poohbear topic, but XNViewMP will display previews for both Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer documents, but to do that, in XNViewMP's General > Settings options, the "Show all graphics formats" option must be ticked.
As things stand now, it will not display previews for files in the Affinity Publisher public beta format (those with the .afpub file extension) but it will display them for the Designer & Photo 1.7 version customer betas.
The app also includes a configurable "Open with" feature that works well with the Affinity apps. On my Mac I have it configured as below:
I think any app can be added via the "Add..." button. It does not perform any 'sanity checks' of its own, but if you choose to open an Affinity 1.6 document in an Affinity beta app, you get the usual warning about 1.7 files not being openable by 1.6 apps with the option to open a copy, so that isn't a problem.
For previews in Windows Explorer have a look at my solution in this thread:
Both .afdesign AND .afpub work!
see screenshot in the thread...
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OK, I managed to get previews in Windows explorer!
I use this as an extension of Windows explorer:
Add the two formats to the extension list and they show up in Windows explorer!
screenshot:
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On 3/30/2019 at 12:39 AM, Ron P. said:
Yes in LR, use the command Save Metadata to file. Other than camera raw files, the metadata will be embedded in the file, which is what I done.
You have two options:
save to file, this will include the file and save as a sidecar file, wich will save the file in a different format next to your image format.
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In xnviewMP you just have to check the "show all formats" box to show .afdesign format files. Maybe manually adding the other format, the beta format might also show these files.
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add affinity publisher and then the .apub extension. It MIGHT show the thumbnails.
18 hours ago, dominik said:Hi @Tourmaline
Good idea, thanks. I looked around but cannot find a list where I could add *.afpub. Do you know how to find it?
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Have a look at this thread, it might help.
You also might be able to manually add the formats in xnviewMP
Unfortunately that didn't work, only a placeholder.
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On 5/10/2019 at 7:07 PM, dominik said:
For me XNViewMP works as a good replacement to Adobe Bridge, too. Only APub files show up as icons. I assume this will change some time later.
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You could try to add the Affinity formats into the list of supported formats and the thumbnails might turn up.
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This tool might be of some help to speed up things?
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On 4/9/2019 at 2:15 PM, iamscotty said:
Hey @Ben, thanks for the reply.
I really need to have a go myself as it's difficult to explain and understand via a forum but I think by looking at the work through that @GarryP did and what you've said the isometric function and edit in plane look great if it has the option to expand the SSR effect.
I understand that Designer has a different approach to handling the SSR formula but SSR has only one task and it's super simple.
To take an existing shape and convert it to an isometric/axonometric projection. Either top, right or bottom.
The reason of this is that the original shape, dimensions and scale may be very important to the end (isometric) result.
All the important making and doing is done in the flat elevation and then converted not the other way around.
It's kind of the fundaments of working in isometrics.
That could have it's use but it's like putting the horse behind the cart if you get my drift.
You make flat, then convert and then build.
That shape is then the basis for building whatever you want to make and you've left SSR behind at that point.
Creating in the isometric plane is okay but you're already in a distorted view so it can't be accurate from the start.
I've been working making isometric designs and illustrations for 32 years now so I can see it from a practitioners view point and although these tools look great they do seem to be missing the point a little from what I see but enough to render it almost useless to build complex shapes and designs that are faithful and accurate to the original.
I started off doing isometrics on a drawing board using pens, iso guides and rulers and then Mac Classic's came out and someone worked out the SSR formula in Freehand.
That was the big transformation but the rule has stayed the same: Make your flat shape. Apply SSR. Build your isometric object.
To show you how I work and use SSR to build isometrics I wanted to take something that's original (flat) appearance is very important so I chose the Affinity Designer icon/logo.
I made a flat, paths version of it, converted it to iso using SSR and only then started to build the 3D.
All the information I needed is in step 1.
All the conversion is done in step 2.
Everything after that is just embellishment, faffing about and building using the same principles as the "cube with a punched out corner" I did above.
I can't imagine recreating the Affinity Designer logo using "edit in plane" with any degree of accuracy.
Please don't get me wrong here.
I have HUGE respect for you guys that put these packages together and I'm telling you this with the very best intentions (I want to use Designer for isometrics) but when it comes to this area I do feel you may be missing the point a little and that would be a great pity.
Now, that's cool.
I need to explore isometric for sure...
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On 3/23/2019 at 3:53 PM, iamscotty said:
Thanks guys.
I did go to the search from the off but it didn't turn that much up "isometric, studio".
Probably my bad. I can be impatient at times.
I skimmed through all 26 pages so excuse me of this has been said as I most likely missed a lot.
I even needed several rum and cokes to recover.
I might be shooting myself in the foot here (almost didn't post it as I intended to design a plug-in for Ai) but I do a hell of a lot of isometric illustration and I reluctantly use Ai to do this which is very time consuming so anything to speed up the process would be a real game changer for me and others.
(Images attached for illustration purpose, not self promotion.)
There tends to be two approaches to doing iso illustration. The first being the grid method which is not my personal choice because I find it a bit primitive, clunky and it's not that good for accurate proportions and complex shapes like text and curves.
Most vector app's use this approach but they're not always made by iso practitioners so I think they're missing the game here a bit. A lot.
The other is the SSR method which is what I use.
In this way you can take a plan elevation and accurately transform it to an isometric projection retaining the proper proportions.
The thing about the SSR method is that you have to input the scale, skew and rotation every....#$£&'ing....time to achieve this which is very time consuming, confusing, boring and repetitive as hell so what I did is write a set of simple actions in Ai to do this with one click. (Top. Right. Left and a reverse option for each). DONE!
I'm sure I didn't invent this but it's a bit of an isometric illustration secret.
Those simple set of actions made my iso workflow go through the roof and the lack of this option has been the one thing that has stopped me from converting to Affinity Designer.
Having the ability to write actions or even better, having an isometric transform button for each elevation would be like BOOM!
I'm no software Dev but this must be SO simple to incorporate and wouldn't necessarily need it's own widow or menu. It could be tagged onto transform or distort.
Top is like: Scale > 86.062. Skew > 30 degrees. Rotate > -30 degrees.....and so on.
Just a bit of code.
Ai doesn't have this as standard, only the ability to do so if you know how.
I know that this tiny addition would not only make my life easier but make me ditch Ai, move to Affinity and open up iso illustration to a lot more people because people like easy don't they?
If you combine this with Affinity Designer's cool way of snapping stuff together, the iso grid and even better, at a 30 degree angle (optional) it would make it the go to app for anyone wanting to do iso stuff by a long mile.
Isometrics have become very popular in recent times due to infographics, animation and games and so on so the market here is HUGE.
They're just a bit of a ball ache to do at present with current software.
There you go...... Phew!
Here's the small print:
Note. If you do incorporate this feature I'd like a new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, the new improved Affinity Designer app with isometric transform and some rum and coke in return.
Oh...and a yacht as well which I shall call "The Mighty Scotty".
(If this has been suggested before please tell me and I'll crawl into a hole with my rum and coke but without the above items.)
Some great isometric work there, iamscotty.
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+1, would also welcome a mm scale.
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On 1/30/2019 at 1:22 AM, Alfred said:
I strongly suspect that they’re unlikely to change its name to SometimesNotVeryFastRawViewer!
You're wrong about that...It's the fastest raw viewer.....
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In order to add a hyperlink to the hyperlinks panel, select your hyperlink, click on add hyperlink and you'll see a name appearing in the list (hyperlink1). You can then click on go to target or go to source to either go to the target or go to the source.
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Jpeg 9.1 is available and has many advantages over the old standard. Incorporating this new file format(codec) might be a great selling point over other software as no-one has incorporated it into professional software yet.
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The new Jpeg 9.1 file format(codec) has some hugh advantages over the old standard. Will you guys incorporate support for this new format into the Affinity Suite?
I mean, lossless compression, 12 bit, HDR, etc. is something very nice to have.
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8 hours ago, Jampes said:
Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.206 start no more. By starting, the window of Affinity loading opened, than it tell "Loading fonts..." and closed the starting window. Nothing more...
Corrupt font in there? Or used by another application?
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Would certainly welcome support of the Astute Graphics suite of plug-ins.
- Maijuline, Boldlinedesign and Jowday
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On 1/11/2019 at 8:06 AM, Duskolo said:
Money is definitely a factor here. Repairing bugs doesn't earn you money. Hyped up iPad users with their "bionic processors" do...
You can always go back to Adobe and rent their software, with bugs and all. I got CC2019 installed on my pc and it's really sslloooowwww....
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Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.371
in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on Windows threads
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Impressive list of improvements and fixes.
I'll test the installer and report back.
EDIT:
no problems updating Affinity Publisher.