Aammppaa
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And why separate Win and Mac products? They look, act and perform the same on both platforms... or am I wrong about that?
The products do indeed share code for the backend (behind the scenes stuff) but the user interface (although it looks the same) is different on Win / Mac. Therefore certain bugs are platform specific.
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In the attached file I have some vector objects that I'd like to paint into using the Pixel Persona.
In each case I created the object, then added an new pixel layer and dragged it inside, to nest it.
- With the Single Object (pink square)
A nested pixel object is clipped to the area of the square.
- With the Compound Object (2 orange stars)
A nested pixel object is invisible!
- With the Group of Objects (3 blue circle)
A nested pixel object just becomes another object in the group.
It is not clipped by the other objects in the group..
- With the Layer Containing Objects
A nested pixel object just becomes another object on the layer.
It is not clipped by the other objects on the layer.
Although this behavior is consistent with the way that each type of object behaves (individual, compound, group, and layer) the resulting effect on the pixel layer is wildly different.
What I am after is the result in the simple, single object scenario: to be able to paint into the vector shapes.
As a work around I tried Ctrl + clicking the objects in the Layers Studio to create a free (marching ant) type selection that would constrain the painting. This generally works for all object types, but has the drawbacks that the marching ants are distracting, and I can only select one object/group/layer at a time.
Could Ctrl + clicking be extended to allow multiple objects/groups/layers to be selected at once?
Finally, is there a better way of selecting an arbitrary set of objects (of different types, possibly across multiple layers) and constraining pixel paint to those areas?
- With the Single Object (pink square)
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@ianrobertdouglas This looks like a bug to me. The symbols should obviously not vanish when the group is duplicated.
Interestingly, if you group the 3 symbols, and then make the group into a symbol, then duplicate, the symbols remain as symbols!
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Agree, but this issue doesn't just apply to masks... Adjustment layers too.
If masks/adjustments could be defined as a Symbol, then one change would update all layers where the mask/adjustment was applied.
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Hooking to Affinity worked for me during the beta phase, so it ought to work with Retail.
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Perhaps post your file and someone might be able to see what is going on?
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Agree!
Just adding AD or AP, plus Win or Mac to the title / post makes a huge difference.
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Just spent a pleasant evening playing with adding raster based texture to a vector image.
Learned quite a bit along the way.
- GDPR-365024, Alfred and Bri-Toon
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MEB already has a list of this nature on his site...
http://www.miguelboto.com/affinity/resources/
However I agree that it makes more sense to pool resources here.
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@soulburn In what way is this different from the sort of image stretching that Affinity Designer already does along a path?
In the Brushes Studio choose Image from the dropdown.
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Please could the Preferences search box also search the Keyboard Shortcuts?
At present if I am trying to find an action to check / alter the Keyboard Shortcut I have to know where that shortcut resides.
If I don't (and I may not even know whether a shortcut can be assigned to a given action) then I have to trawl through the whole list.
Even better - filter the shortcuts by the search term to remove all the options that I don't want to see.
Case in point: I'd like to find whether I can assign a shortcut to Show Rotation Centre, and have gone cross eyed looking for the option!
Thanks.
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@voom If you have Force Pixel Alignment turned on, and enter dimensions in mm (or other real world units) they will be moved to the nearest pixel, which will create a decimal with a fractional part.
Could this be what yo are seeing?
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True it isn't on the roadmap, but then neither is the Lighter UI, but there are Twitter leaks of that being worked on.
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There is already the option Edit in Photo / Edit in Designer, which passes to file to the other app.
I guess that merging the personas if both apps were installed may give a smoother / quicker workflow.
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Hey DesignMeister,
Worth keeping an eye on the Common Feature Requests Index (and using the forum search).
You will see that this feature is already on the list :)
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Have you enabled Force Pixel Alignment and Move by Whole Pixels?
These two options live next to the Snapping Magnet on the AD main toolbar.
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You are correct that at present there is no option to align to last selected object, or bounds of back-most object (as Xara Designer does it).
This is a feature that has been requested many times before and is on the common requested features list…
However, your example is simple to achieve using snapping rather than the Arrange tool. Simply drag the line over the Square, with Snapping enabled, and the line will drop into place beautifully.
I am sure there are other more complex examples that would require upgraded Arrange tool, but many things can be done with the right Snapping options enabled.
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Snapping works on vector objects.
This is a bitmap which Designer sees only as a rectangle shape.
You can snap to the four corners or even the center with ease, but Designer will not interpret the content and allow you to snap to the corners of the flashing cursor for example.
You will either have to eyeball or use a bitmap tracer to recreate this.
Eyeballing may not be too bad, if you set up a grid of 1 pixel size, and make sure align to whole pixels is enabled, plus snap to grid.
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I can't see a native way to do this.
You can work around the issue by drawing a rectangle, with snapping on so that it is the same size as the text frame, and dragging this in the layers panel to become a mask.
The mask even seems to resize correctly with the text frame - so actually quite a good method!
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This came up before in another thread and I seem to remember that the Devs said they'd take a look to see if Text in Symbols could be improved (ie Make the attributes separate as R C-R describes above)
Similar threads…
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/29740-symbols-with-different-text-content/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/26280-edit-text-content-in-symbols/
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Surely symbols can be used for this in v1.5?
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Doesn't fill all that you are requesting, but you can minimize panels vertically by double clicking the title, a further click makes them reappear.
Also you could consider adding a keyboard shortcut to open/close the various panels.
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Then this is indeed a Windows bug.
Can a Mod move to the Bugs forum, or do we need to repost it there?
Perhaps @varnas you could change the post title to say [bug]?
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Confirmed as described above.
Must be a bug?
[AD Win] Ctrl click multiple layers to create selection.
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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@obtusity Thanks for the reply and your example file.
As you say it works well enough in very simple cases, but will become cumbersome if one is trying to select dozens of shapes. More so if they are complicated in any way: small, gradient fills, different strokes, overlapping.
Indeed go back to your example file and try to select everything in order to add a new, second pixel layer. It is already significantly harder.
I am sure that with a little thought the development team could improve selection of multiple vector objects, after all I can already select multiple items in the Layer studio, and can Ctrl + click, so now need to do both at the same time!