nitro912gr
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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.
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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
thanks
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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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3 hours ago, Michail said:
Of course, you are free to create your own definitions (e. g. according to the degree of popularity). I just wanted to put some order in the terminology. Nobody is forced to create their publications with InDesign. But everyone must adhere to the PostScript specifications of the PDF format. No indd files are expected from the print service providers, but PDFs. That's why this is the industry standard.
actually I am forced to work with indesign if everybody else is working with indesign (or photoshop, or illustrator, or you name it). If I have other professionals sending in open files in this format and there is no way to open a file that was saved as a pdf in the same way I could open the original indesign file, then I am forced to work with indesign or have a problem.
This is why I'm a fierce opposer of pirated adobe software, while there are a lot of cheaper and good applications out there.
If tomorrow we could somehow remove every pirated adobe software out there, this could make our work much easier, because now everybody have a pirated photoshop and do more or less some work in it, so this make it accessible to everyone and as a result "everyone use photoshop" and I have to use it too to be able to open the files.Standard is what most people use, unofficially of course, but unless there is balance in the market that's it.
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14 hours ago, Michail said:
InDesign is not an industry standard. A program cannot be an industry standard because other programs produce similar-looking results.
There is a single standard of relevance that Adobe has created, and that is PDF format. It is therefore very important that APub is able to create flawless PDFs. Serif is certainly capable of this.If 99% of the listed jobs ask you to know indesign to work there then yes, it is industry standard. Adobe suite is industry standard at the moment and this is disastrous in so many levels.
PDF is a file standard.
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AD is fine for few pages, I have managed a 12 page catalog so far and I will push it all the way to 24 pages just to see where are the limits.
I can sacrifice some control over the text for more design freedom, with indesign and illustrator I had to be back and forth between the 2 to change design elements even for a 4 pages brochure.
Now I simple make the whole thing in AD, even if it start to slow down because of the many pictures, I find it easier and faster to just make it page by page in ad (to avoid the slowdown).
Sure it is not and I hope it will never be a DTP program (I don't want it to end up like the adobe behemoths that try to do everything and end up with a complex, huge and slow program) but as far as a few pages work go (or multi pages with low demands on text control) I think it handle.
I will agree for linked assets, they are a pain if you forget to embed them but they will make the whole work so much easier. Actually this is the only pain I have with doing DTP work in AD, in the first draft I place a picture that need background removal and I remove the background later, I have to insert the picture again and add again the right attributes. With a linked file I should at worst had to update the link.
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Maybe we the windows users are a little bit spoiled since we got a more complete version for designer and photo
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Actually now that you mention it, I think inDesign files compatibility is more important than pageplus, simple because it is more likely to receive a file from another agency or the client himself made with indesign. Nothing "personal" but inDesign is the industry standard now and the only way to "steal" users from it is to have compatibility with it's files, like designer open .ai and photo open .psd.
Will publisher be able to do this?
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so affinity programs do use the gpu? I asked some other time in a thread if gpu have anything to do with performance (in designer mostly) and the answer was negative, so I changed my gpu for an older one.
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2 hours ago, Arun Sarkar said:
I can install PP 9.0 in my Win 8.1 (64 bit) without any issue but it never run after installation
First try to run installer as administrator, the newer windows versions are more strict with permissions.
Then try to run as administrator the program. Otherwise you can right click and select properties on the exe file and try the compatibility tab, select there compatibility mode for an older version of windows.
I have heard there are other ways to run older software with emulation, but I have only tried virtualbox where I installed windows XP in there, to run some really old software I wanted.
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I understand that people need access to old files but how often do you need to edit them anyway?
I prefer to sacrifice backward compatibility for a better new program (so they can focus resources on making this new program better) and in that one time in a lifetime that I will need to open that old file, I will reinstall the program just for it. I mean you don't have subscription to adobe here, you can keep using the program for ever
Also I have found it faster to redo something than to try to find ways to make it work in my current workflow and programs. Sure this is not always the case, but...
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Hello, it could be nice to be able to change more options for image export, in export persona.
For example I have the slices selected I could love to be able to change dpi on the spot (for example I design something for print and I want to export a lower resolution preview), being able to change resolution with some image preview could be nice as well, I mean I could love to see the compression loss on the spot.
Just my 2 cents, thanks!
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Is varied automatic numbering possible?
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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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.
It is not simple so a big thanks to anyone who may even try to see if this is possible in publisher.