nitro912gr
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On 1/6/2017 at 4:57 PM, James Ritson said:
Michail, raster information in .afphoto documents is stored completely uncompressed. If you're working from raw files, those are developed to 16-bit. 16-bit uncompressed raster information is quite large!
If you don't need the extra precision, you can try converting to 8-bit via Document>Colour Format before saving your document. If you've already saved it, try Save As to create a fresh copy with no redundant data.
Additionally, when you develop or begin work on an image, an initial Snapshot is created so you can always revert to the original image. This takes up space too, so you may want to delete it. If you go to View>Studio>Snapshots to display the panel, you can then click on the Background snapshot and delete it (the bin icon).
Hope that helps.
Sorry for necromancing this post but I wanted to say thank you, my file was around 330MB, went down to 200 after swithing to 8bit color and return to a normal level of 50mb after deleting the snapshot. That is just twice the RAW I edited which is fine for me.
However some lossless compression in .aphoto could be great
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Thanks I have found this too but for some reason the first time I tried it didn't worked, now that I tried it again after your suggestion it worked. No idea what I did wrong the first time.
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Hello, is there a way to save and load settings that I used in a RAW photo processing? Or a way to just load the last used settings?
I do some photoshots to showoff our work and most of the time the images are shot under the same conditions or even the same subject from different angle, so there is no need to change anything on the RAW import settings or there are small adjustments here and there.
Thank you!
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5 hours ago, MDZ said:
Thanks Nitro, regrettably there is nothing such a functions menu on Huion software. It seems I have to wait for a newer release.
As I bought a cheaper tablet I knew I could have this kind of problems.don't worry your tablet may be cheaper but as far as I know they are great tablets too! It is good that finally there is some seriously competition for wacom, we all win here!
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7 hours ago, MDZ said:
Thanks Gnobelix, I guess I'm missing something because I'm not able to assign ALT to an express button only. I always have to assign a combo (ALT + any other key).
Did you manage to assign just the ALT key?hello I don't know about your tablet but I had a similar problem with my wacom last week, maybe it is similar with yours, so I found out that to set ALT as a button I wasn't supposed to look at the menu that I can pick keyboard shortcuts but on another menu named functions where I could pick the ctrl, alt, shift buttons alone. See if your software is similar.
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Oh! This sound like what I do in indesign, thanks! I will try it out asap because I have my hands full atm.
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On 11/8/2018 at 1:21 PM, MickRose said:
I'm not too clear what you want but I'd guess its a sort of Cut Stacks, so, for example, to print 54 numbered 210 x 99 tickets 6 up on A3 the numbered top sheet would be 1, 10, 19, 27, 36, 45. I suppose it's stating the obvious, but most imposition software will do that. I'd be very surprised if Publisher could do it. If you've managed to do that with InDesign then good for you. Maybe you could just do the design in Publisher/Designer and add the numbering in InDesign. I have found InDesign CS6 plus various scripts can do all sorts of useful output things.
Yeah this is what I want to do, numbered lists in indesign do the trick but it was hard to figure out, I was lucky to find people who teaches me.
2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:You could try using very small pages (e.g., 3" by 2") with the page number centered on them. (Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to get that to show leading zeros.)
Then print them N-Up on a larger page using the Publisher print dialog. If you need gaps in the page numbering you can use the Section Manager to accomplish that.hm this may work but seem like a really long workaround.
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Hello and thank you for your effort to give us publisher!
I happen from time to time to print carbonless paper to make invoice books or numbered coupons, while a simple automatic page numbering is enough for having numbering in paper sizes from A5 and above, there are times that I have to fit multiple smaller sized pages in one big page and need each to start and stop at different numbers.
After a long time and thanks to the help of many people I managed to do this with indesign and I wonder if it is possible to be done with publisher too.
I will describe how I did this with indesign because it is not exactly an indesign feature but more of a creative way of using the lists in indesign.
So maybe after someone recreate the result can tell me if it can be done in publisher.
QuoteSo I make a new document and enter the master page, I make a new text box in there and while I'm still in typing mode in the box I go to the upper right corner next to the thunder where there is a triangle menu. There I pick "Bullets and Numbering" at the lower end of the menu.
I choose "Numbers" and make a new list, then I select numbering style in format field and delete the dot in the "number" field. Then in the "mode" I select "Start at".
Now I return in the text box and press enter (don't type anything just press enter) and now I copy this text box as many times as I want.
Now I leave the master and return to the document where I add the pages that I want to have (let's say I add 10 empty pages) all of the with the master applied, then I select all the pages from the pages toolbox and select "override master page" and every text box get the right numbering (that is each box start where the previews on stop at the last page of the document and so on).
It is not simple so a big thanks to anyone who may even try to see if this is possible in publisher.
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Hello I want to make the text to write in a circle and not outside the circle, how can I do that?
Here is the text outside the circle with using the text tool, I want it to be inside the circle (and as a result the text at the lower part to be read right and not be upside down), in illustrator I was dragging the symbol at the beginning of the path and pulled it inside the circle but I can't replicate this here.
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Hello, is there a way to add custom artboard sizes?
I see affinity designer have some presets but they are all for screens, I want to add paper sizes.
Thanks!
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no actually it is my bad, I confused what I meant to say because I pull the guides out of the rulers.
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On 7/21/2018 at 5:01 PM, JET_Affinity said:
Can you show a screenshot or two of what you're describing, and the names of the software?
I've long argued that rulers are one area in which 2D drawing software in general does a very poor job of matching the simple utility and efficiency of the pre-computer physical tools they metaphorically emulate. In my case, I'm comparing to the freely moveable, rotatable "track drafters" attached to drawing boards commonly found in engineering departments. (The closest software approximation I've seen to that is Lazy Nezumi Pro.)
But I'm not quite sure how to envision what you're describing. Literally "using rulers like objects" sounds like something I could do by actually drawing a set of rulers to accurate scale, storing them as Symbols, positioning, aligning, locking them on the page, and snapping to the nodes of their increments.
JET
what you describe is closer to how the rulers work in autodesk sketch, what I want is how the rulers are selectable and can interact with the objects in the artboard, like it happens with Illustrator (and in some level inDesign too).
In those programs you drag a ruler and you can select it like an object, you can group rulers with other rulers or objects, align rulers to objects or the artboard or just select some specific ones or all together and press delete.
For example:
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Hello I'm trying to use artboard
rulersguides like objects, I mean like selecting them, grouping them, aligning them etc, something that I have found very useful on other software I'm using.For example I want to divide the artboard with
rulersguides so I could just place 5 rulers and select them and then align them to artboard with distribution tool.It is not a deal breaker but I could love to see this functionality in designer.
Thanks
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I check back from time to time, only to find pages over pages with "where is publisher" posts. Really guys, don't you have anything better to do than bitching about it all the time? I mean if we clear up this thread we will barely get 3-4 pages of posts...
I wait for publisher too, I desperately need it even now that I'm afraid it will not do some tricks with varied numbering I do in iD, but I just wait. Just like I waited for photo and designer to come in windows. And once it arrived, it delivered.
All this waste of energy here, it is almost a shame.
As a side note, I'm a gamer as well and I have seen where this impatience leads to. People were crying for getting a game to play faster and developers where pushing out unfinished games that needed huge patches in the first day of release to work... the games ofc where crippled.
So just say no. Just wait for publisher "when its done", because this is the only way to get something good.
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16 hours ago, SrPx said:
IMO ~ 50 (even some bucks above) is both a magic number for pure psychology (impulse purchase much more likely to happen!), but also, the kind of price that at the same time makes the product reachable for professionals (who could actually pay more, or most of them) from the first world, but also from several other countries, not so privileged ones. And from hobbyists AND students from many countries. This is crucial for large diffusion, to really build a huge user base (key in this kind of applications), even more when you need to fight a lot of resistance as there are established tools that dominate the market. IMO, need to keep a no-brainer advantage.
This. As a student I couldn't afford anything software wise, even the student price pack was just too much for me, so I had to find "other ways" to have the software I was learning in college. It could be a no brainer buy if I could get the software for 50€ and I could prefer it.
Even now as a professional that I can afford the more expensive software, I am in a country that taxes are breaking me every day, so I will prefer the 50€ software that does the job more than just fine. Plus I can afford to buy more licenses and have it on every system I have, in the second PC at office, in my pc at home, in my laptop. Something that could be financially impossible to do with more expensive software.
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23 hours ago, Larsene said:
Right. This is why i asked. This is my point too.
In my opinion, Serif is doing a fantastic job with the Affinity products, i really hope that all developpers have a fair wage, and for this kind of product, i can offer more. but perhaps these products are not known enough on the market to set another price.
We'll see. Anyway, i'm really impatient, and right, you already have my money for Designer and Photo, and you will for Publisher
I asked this too a while back, they said they can sell at this price and make a good profit back. I guess it is that since the cost is too low more people buy the software, I mean people like hobbyists out there who just want to have a good photo editing program or want to draw.
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17 hours ago, Laserjunge said:
A bit worrying to see serif's plans for another software although the community is still waiting for necessary features of AD. I remember very well that two years ago, it was said that the users shall remain patient with their requests due to the intense work on AP. Now, two years and only few AD features later, serif has another big project, where they have to focus on, and again no time to include the features into AD, which are on the road map since version 1.0. That's bad news.
what do you mean? AD is getting updates and improvements, what is that you are still consider necessary and is not available? Personally I feel complete with the add of searchable font menu.
Sure I still want a couple of things added but with the current state of AD anything more will be a matter of polishing not necessity.
Also as mentioned above is about the holy trinity now, better to have APub out first and then refocus on improving everything, I was still able to use AD even without every tool I wanted till they add them, but I'm not able to use APub even in a premature form if they don't release it first.
11 hours ago, Wosven said:I said "teaching", but "showing" is more what I was thinking. I wasn't teached Xpress at school, or other apps, I learned with books and doing my own work…But if we were curious and adventurous and able to test programs and OS because it was possible, I'm not sure people do this a lot today.
Here in France, they forget to teach about using tools but tend to teach to use specific applications from specific big companies. When I tried Affinity' apps, instead of curiosity, questions and such I was expecting from people doing the same job, I was told : "If 'they' make us change app at work, I'll quit".
(About the mantra: alas! it isn't dead yet… I hear it from lot of young — and not so young — people a lot)
Since some training centre/seminars (?) — "centre de formation" — are planning to add Affinity's program in their sessions, I thougth it was logical that i.e. schools used those apps too: we expect people knowing how to use Adobe's products to easily use Affinity's products, why not the other way around ?
And like you nitro912gr, long ago we swithed between Windows and Linux, playing game on the 1st and testing, coding or using Gimp on the second… we used Mac too, all is only tools to play with
It is the same everywhere I guess, if I have to make a list I could say 8 out of 10 colleges or universities that say they are teaching graphic design, they actually just teach specific programs. It used to be worst, at least now they have added some classes for art history, free hand drawing, color theory etc, but they are still mostly machines for mass production of people who know the programs.
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Well maybe everything is WIP at the moment with nothing finalized as to what will make it to the release version, so they don't want to say something that eventually will have to keep back because it was not ready.
As for teaching affinity in schools, this seems hard to happen. Schools are so slow to adapt, by the time they will find out about affinity we will all be dead from old age.
The thing is the right "school" doesn't teach you programs, the right school teach you design so you can apply it as you see fit with the tools you choose. They will teach you a program or two, but just so you can find a job once you are out there in the wild. From there on is up to you to learn the right tools for what you want to do and not just blindly follow some stupid mantras like "designers use macs and adobe only". Designers use charcoal and paper if they see they are more suited for what they want to design.
After all most of what I learned in college was for adobe CS3, most of the things from there does no longer apply and the books I have are only good for fire-starters in my bbq now.
Not to mention the obsolete programs like adobe flash and director.Tools evolve, change, die, are remade from scratch. We simple can't be attached to them. I started playing with adobe programs that my uncle had in his mac when I was 15 years old back in 1996 , then I started playing with corel apps in my own pc that I was able to find in pirated cds, then I was testing every other possible program from macromedia, metacreations and all the other companies back then, in college I returned to adobe, I started using open source a few years back, now I turn to affinity, who knows tomorrow what I will find more suited to use?
Teaching specific programs is of no use to anyone, better learn design and go to a seminar or two to learn about the programs you want. Or learn them yourself, the internet is a huge resource if you use it wisely. I wonder what I could learn back then I was younger and had all this free time that I was spending trying to get as much info as possible from limited resources like printed publications, if I had access to the info I have today (or at least I wish I had the time now
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5 minutes ago, VIPStephan said:
His point was that this causes everyone to “own” and use PS, and therefore popularize it even more, making it harder to get away from it.
yeah that's the TLDR; version
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Don't worry you are fine
it is just I had tons of free time during the winter and some conversations with other pros that lead me to the conclusion. I will explain in PM.
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4 minutes ago, Seneca said:
Hmm, I've been working with inDesign for many years. I'm not forced to do it but I like it. In fact there nothing out there in the market that comes close to that. Some prefer QuarkXpress and that's fine too.
I completely agree that it's incredibly important for Affinity Publisher to import inDesign files if it wants to compete at the top level. I also realise that it may take time to get there but I hope we are not waiting for a toy but for a competitor at the highest level. IDML files are not proprietary. INDD files are.
There is a number of people on this forum for whom linking text boxes will be more than enough to make them happy but for us who have been in the industry for more than 15 years (much longer in my case since I started with MacPlus and a LaserWriter) we expect, in time, a real competitor to inDesign. And not only that, we are hoping for a new leader in this field. I hope I'm not wishing for a pie in the sky. :-)
it is not a matter of preference, I like it too but first it is unbelievable that I have to wait all this time to render a final pdf. Time that could be a lot shorter if adobe finally realize that we have computers with more cores (it only use 1 of the 6 cores) and time is an issue if you are working. So if I can get the same speed I get with design and photo compared to illustrator and photoshop, that's great!
Also the other reason I don't like indesign is the monthly tariff, what if for a couple of months I can't pay that? Life is hard, I had to spent 500 in car repairs last week, I couldn't afford paying subscription for the tool I need to make money.
The thing is I'm not sure how we ended up here in the conversation, I just pointed out that we need to cut off the adobe trend by using good tools like the affinity programs.
1 minute ago, Rick G said:What does pirated software have to do with the subject? I am not being a jerk, I just don't get the point in the context of importing or reading file formats. How does that affect you or your business if I am running pirated Adobe software vs paid for subscriptions? I am missing something
It have a lot to do but forgive me I can't go that off topic, would you like to tell you in a PM?
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I don't expect it to change, but it could be easier for us to say "I work with X, I deliver the files in .x" if for example the market was split and not 99% adobe owned (even if it is pirated software).
Just answering on about what I think is a standard.
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*.afphoto files are getting bigger and bigger
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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and the developed and "flattened" file is twice the size of the RAW? RAW files use bigger compression or something?