fernandolins86
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I'm having the same issue on Windows PC. Native OS resolution, native monitor settings, no scaling of any kind. Actual size for A4 piece of paper on Affinity Designer looks about 70% of actual A4 size.
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On 4/9/2020 at 2:57 AM, dominik said:
Hi @Jowday,
I cannot help but asking where you have been the 'last years'? We have seen the release of iPad versions of Designer and the introduction of Publisher with quite some new additions after it's initial release. This is not something I would call 'slow pace'.
I know that you are a regular at the forum. That makes me wonder why you come to think development of the whole Affinity suite happens at a slow pace? I am not familiar about Adobe's progress nowadays but during the time I was using CS even this suite did not develop much faster (but this may be my subjective point of view I do not want to insist on).
Cheers,
d.No one's asking for my 2 cents, but here I am... It's not a matter of comparing to Adobe (which is a HUGE company that delivers large updates twice a year on every product), but a matter of seeing progress in some fronts. There are features like free distort and meshes which have been asked by the Designer community for over 4 years now. They were in the roadmap, but now the public roadmap is gone, so we can't tell if something is being done about those features or not.
I understand that Designer for iPad and Publisher have been released in the meantime, but it seems that the Serif team can only work on one product at a time. So if they're making Publisher for 3 years and Designer for iPad for 2 years, that's 5 years of no substantial updates in Photo and Designer. This is, of course, my own speculation about how the company works. I can't find another explanation for this. However being in the software industry for almost 16 years I have seen really, really small teams deliver features on a regular base on different products, without entering this - really weird, to me - state of no progress in certain projects. Designer is pretty much left behind, receiving only smaller quality of life improvement updates.
Now, it might not be Serif's goal to have all of Illustrator features and make a replacement for it, but if it's not their goal they haven't stated what their goal is either.
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On 11/15/2019 at 2:12 PM, v_kyr said:
Well since October 2014 feature wise not much has happened in this direction for AD and vector based distortions, even though often demanded. So one has to resort inevitably to other applications and solutions which are able to deal with these things.
Unfortunately very true. Affinity completely ignored AD's roadmap to make the iPad versions and Publisher.
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Thanks for this update, I'm a little late on this one.
I agree with both @nezumi and @WaveF. On one side we have Adobe adding a bunch of stuff no one needs/cares about, on the other side we have this four-years-old roadmap for Affinity Designer that is not getting done anytime soon. I'm still using AD for simple stuff or early project phase, but all my final work is done in PS.
I really o appreciate all the hard work put into Designer, Photo and Publisher, but it's obvious that Affinity is biting way more than it can chew. Start charging for updates, I don't know, find a way to get a larger team so development can move faster. The roadmap was posted in 2014! 4 years waiting for distort tool!
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Zeplin, yes, yes, yes
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Thanks for explaining, MEB. I wonder why is this not the default behaviour as in many other design tools.
Also, the description of that setting in Portuguese doesn't really say what it does. It's completely nonsense, so if you could please ask the developers to review it... Translates back into english as "Move the restriction to the tool aspect". What?! I would have never figured it out.
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Hello Serif team,
I am wondering what is the reasoning behind the inconstant behavior of the Shift key when transforming different kinds of objects in Affinity Designer.
Examples:
- Transforming a single shape with shift key pressed - scales proportionally
- Transforming a single image with shift key pressed - scales freely (out of proportion)
- Transforming a group (either a group of images, a group of shapes or mixed) with shift key pressed - scales freely
- Transforming a text frame with shift key pressed - scales freely
- Transforming a selection of many shapes (ungrouped) with shift key pressed - scales proportionally
In all the cases above the shift key is being pressed while dragging the handles, why don't they all behave the same? Shouldn't a modifier key always apply the same modification to the same tool (transform, in this case)?
It is such a headache to change the behaviour you're used to depending on what's selected, or what's grouped or not. This doesn't make sense to me from an usability perspective.
i"m running latest public AD in Windows 10 (also latest). -
Great detail and styling. I own quite a bit of synths and wanted to make illustrations of them for t-shirts but I usually give up by the 11th knob
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Very nice!
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Cool idea.
Personally I find the original icons hideous, but you managed to keep the identity and expand on the concept, so they all fit together. Well done!
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Well done
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Good work!
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Great work
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On 26/04/2018 at 7:00 AM, KateM said:
I'm over the moon to tell you about the launch of Affinity Spotlight, the new place to go for creative inspiration, learning resources and Affinity news. Whether it’s features on artists and photographers using Affinity, tutorials on how to get the best from the apps, behind-the-scenes insight or news and updates, it will all be posted on Affinity Spotlight.
We’ve literally just made the site live and we’d love you to check it out!
This has been a real labour of love for our web dev team and our content team, and of course, this is just the start—we’ll be posting new stories and articles each week. We hope you like what we’ve done and enjoy reading our stories.All the best,
KateCongratulations, this is really cool!
Loving the interviews and peeks at internal processes. Well done, Affinity!
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19 minutes ago, syfpsy said:
Thanks a lot for this.
You're welcome
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This is great stuff, @Ben and Serif team. Well done! Can't wait for the update. Will certainly move me a step closer to ditching Photoshop/Illustrator.
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Hello all,
In Photoshop it is quite easy to do a "pixel-stretch" effect on a bitmap layer (such as a photo) by selecting a row or column of single pixels then scaling it (see picture below). When I try to do this in Affinity Designer (in Pixel mode), the pixel row/column is resized and smoothed out, becoming a gradient. How can I avoid this and get the same effect as in Photoshop?
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Hi, is there a changelog for the last minor update?
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Is there a way to save the gradient being added as an FX to the Gradient swatches instead of an FX style? I do not see the option at all.
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Is gradient mesh still coming?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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We've been asking for 6 years now. They could've re-done Affinity Designer from scratch by now, so my expectations are low.