[How much does my GPU matters?]

Hello, I'm looking into a possible upgrade for my system and I was thinking to left the GPU out of it becauseI have an amd radeon 7850 1GB and it is still a good enough GPU (entry for gaming, but still strong overall).

 

But since I don't know how and how much does affinity utilize the GPU I'm not sure if this is the right way to go, or should I upgrade my GPU with the rest of the system?

 

 

Does it matter for affinity?

 

(as far as I'm consern 7850 is close to a more modern radeon 460, so I have to get a GPU from 470 and above to make any difference)

 

 

 

[copy/paste from different documents not keeping size]

Thanks yes! That was it, for some reason the old one was in 400dpi while I was working in the new one at the standard 300dpi.

 

Thank you!

[copy/paste from different documents not keeping size]

Hello I just noticed that I copy something from document A to B and this something change size when I paste it.

Both documents are of the same size.

 

Am I doing something wrong? Some option that I need to change or something?

 

Thanks

 

(affinity windows)

[Bend on designer?]

thanks :)

[Bend on designer?]

Hello, is there a way to bend an object or text?

Something like make envelope in illustrator?

 

 

Thanks :D

[Change behavior for print dialog]

Hello, I just recently started using affinity directly for printing production, but I got a bit frustrated by how the dialog box remember and forget things.

 

So the scenario is that: I sent something for print and select artboard 1 and make 20 copies. All nice and fine.

But if I press to print again the dialog box forget what artboard I selected last time, but still remember how many copies I entered.

 

I think it will be better and faster if the dialog box could keep what was the last printed artboard but reset back to 1 the number of copies. So if you want to print another 5 extra copies you will just need to enter this while the dialog box have preserved which artboard you printed.

Now this is just a matter of how I'm used to work, but it seems to me like the faster way if you want to print extra from the job you are already printing.

 

 

Also the auto rotate doesn't seem to work, I have a landscape artboard and it will not turn to fit the portrait paper that I have in the printer (and configured in printer's dialog) and I can see in the preview. I'm I doing something wrong here or it have something to do with the printer drivers that is out of your control?

[search box like font select and glyphs]

Hello I just wanted to suggest something that is very nice if you have a lot of fonts and you partially remember the name, or even if you remember the full name and want to jump directly to that font.

To make the dropdown menu of fonts to act like a search box, so if I have the UB-Helvetica and start typing Helvetica, I will get a dropdown menu with the fonts that contain that (for example in my case I will get UB-Helvetic, Mg Helvetica, Helvetica etc).

 

At the moment I can only type the name and jump to the font but it is not very helpful since it doesn't recognize spaces (so if I have a dozen fonts that are like PF Bodoni and type PF space Bodoni it will get me at first at PF and then jump to letter B) and many times I can only remember a part of the font's name.

 

Also if it is not a way to open the full charmap of a font and insert something from there, can you add this too?

I have some obsolete fonts from the 90s that work fine with English, but the Greek characters are registered elsewhere and I need to open glyphs and enter them one by one (in illustrator).

I haven't found a way to do this so far.

[[Win10 AD 1.5.0.36] change CMYK values to % and a color change question]

Thanks :)

[align to, select artboard to print and multicolor change]

Hello, it could be nice to be able to select on what we want to align, like align to object (which is the default now), align to artboard and align to key object where we could select an object or group to align to.

 

Also it could be nice to be able to select in print dialog which artboard to print.

 

Another thing that I find very useful is the ability to change colors in a more massive way. So if you have a group of objects selected and the object have different tints of red, to be able to select blue and automatically change to the blue tints, or if there are many different colors to have a list of those colors and be able to change them individually by selecting them in that list, without the need to try and spot the actual objects on the group (which may be a lot if it is a complex design).

 

That's all, thanks for your hard work and for getting affinity suite in windows :)

[[AD] CDR files (CorelDRAW) import]

I could like to see this too. It is rare but sometimes people sent me corel files and I could love to save me the time to ask them for pdf or svg.

[[Win10 AD 1.5.0.36] change CMYK values to % and a color change question]

I still haven't found an answer to CMYK numbers, should I report it as bug?

[[Win10 AD 1.5.0.36] change CMYK values to % and a color change question]

Hello I work mostly with print so I changed the color panel to show CMYK values, but the numbering is still in RGB form (0 to 255). How can I change them to show cmyk percentage?

 

Also I try to do something that helped me in illustrator but can't find out how to do it with AD.

In illustrator I could go to edit-> edit colors-> recolor artwork and there I could do some color changes, like say change only the parts of the design that are in black to blue.

Is there a way to do this in AD?

 

To give a better example I have selected a group of objects who are blue and I want to turn them black. Just changing the color doesn't do the trick because some of them have the black in fill and other have it in stroke, so if I try to change color to black it create a black fill for the objects with the stroke.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thank you