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14 hours ago, OriolFM said:
Well, I am a hobbyist user, and I don't know much about printing save for cropping margins, RGB/CMYK modes and a few other things that carry from my illustration background, but I found Affinity Publisher/designer easy to use and with an intuitive UI, except for when it came to adding cross-references/links on Publisher, not long ago we still had to use wonky workarounds for something that should have been easy -for the user- to do.
I also remember checking Canva back in the day, I also looked for an app that had an Android version. Canva did, but from what I saw, it was widely inadequate for my purposes, and didn't really offer enough control save for choosing a template and filling it. It may have evolved, but I didn't find much of a documentation about its features to get me interested in their product. Affinity did (having a forum with plenty of nice, helpful people also helps... when in doubt, I always choose the software with the best community).
I think you might be in the minority of Canva users, though. Most people don't want to even do research about the software they use. They tend to go for things that are "hyped up" that they've heard about.
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6 hours ago, RobWu said:
There will be an influx of new users when they are introduced to the Affinity apps via Canva. That's a good thing for us users.
I disagree. Canva is "easy" for people who know nothing about prepress, slicing and exporting for web formats, cmyk vs rgb, using a pen tool, masking, etc. Those people would need to learn all that stuff to use Affinity apps, as they are not easy to use. People aren't going to spend the time needed to do that. If they are included as part of the Canva subscription, they may download them just to see what they're about, but will most likely never open them again after that. The whole point of Canva is that it can do things relatively quickly even if someone doesn't really know what they're doing.
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10 hours ago, michael-o said:
Terrible news. Throughout my 25-year career, every company acquisition has resulted in negative outcomes such as layoffs, reorganization, and increased costs. Does anyone recall Director, Flash (the original), Fireworks, PageMaker, ImageReady, Muse, Edge Reflow, Edge Animate, GoLive, ... FREEHAND?
Same here. I would pay A LOT of money for someone to buy Freehand back from Adobe and re-release it. Fireworks, as well.
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I’m trying to find an answer to this and can’t seem to, but I would hope there is one.
I am using Designer 2.x on my iPad Pro and when I select a shape tool, such as the circle, and draw some circles, then click the selection arrow tool to move some things around. The shape tool automatically switches back to the square instead of staying on the circle (or whatever shape I had selected). How can I stop it from reverting like that? I want it to remain on the shape I was drawing with.
In my Settings I already have “Synchonize Tools Between Documents” checked. Although, I wouldn’t think that has anything to do with this anyway.
Additionally, how can I make the pen tool keep the settings I was using to draw with on the iPad?
Thank you.
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On 9/20/2023 at 9:38 AM, DEMinSoCAL said:
You might want to post this as it's own topic to get a better response because this thread is about STARTUP delays when launching Affinity apps, not slowness when USING the apps.
I just made a post a couple days ago. I had no idea this thread already existed, but I recently got a brand new MacBook and the startup time on Affinity apps is SLOWER than on my 5 year old iMac. What gives?
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I just got a new 14" M3 MacBook Pro with 35GB of memory and all of the Affinity 2.x apps launch much slower than they did on my 5 year old Intel iMac. These are brand new installs of the software on a brand new MacBook Pro. Why are they taking so long to start up? I don't have a ton of fonts installed. Actually there are fewer fonts right now than I had on my iMac.
Once they are launched they run fine, but they just launch way slower.
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On 12/3/2023 at 1:42 PM, loukash said:
Not a "bug", this has always been "by design". In the desktop version it's the same, with "Force Pixel Alignment" even being a separate toolbar button.
Then it should not be under the overall Snapping button on iPad either and should be a separate option. That is confusing when options under a main option do not turn off when a main option that controls it is turned off.
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On iPad in Affinity Designer 2, even when I have the main Snapping button toggled off, if the Force Pixel Alignment toggle is on it will snap to pixels when trying to move objects on the canvas. I have to go into the Snapping Options and manually uncheck the Force Pixel Alignment toggle and only then will it stop snapping to pixels. I would think that toggling Snapping on or off should disable ALL of the options under Snapping?
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3 hours ago, PaoloT said:
Isn't Designer a better fit for this type of work?
Paolo
That depends. If I am designing several flyers/ads, I would want to do those in Publisher for some text/master page features. Plus, I sometimes have to make tables on documents for clients. Instead of having to make individual files, it would be nice to be able to save exported PDFs with the names instead of having to name them manually every time I export.
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11 hours ago, MikeTO said:
Sections, as advised by fde101, and Chapters (not Books) as advised by Walt, are the right solution when you need this.
Naming pages might work for your documents but for any document with text that flows automatically from page to page, it wouldn't make sense because the names wouldn't flow with the pages. For example, you might name page 10 as "Chapter 1" but if you add more text on page 9 then Chapter 1 might start on page 10.
Sections and Chapters are the way to organize your pages. The reason you might not find Sections useful is that the section names aren't displayed in the Pages panel. If the panel grouped the pages by section I think it would do what you wanted.
Thanks for the replies.
If I export pages as individual images or PDFs, will it keep the name of the section with the exported file? That's what I'd really like it to do. Behave just like artboards.
If I was just looking to make books (Chapter 9, 10, etc) I wouldn't name my pages in such a way that it would interfere like that. But would be nice to have the feature.
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It would be great to have the ability to name pages instead of just having them viewed as 1, 2, 3, etc. For example, naming the page “Cover” or “Back Cover” or “Article about Rome” or whatever. We are allowed to name artboards in Designer, but not pages in Publisher. I also hate that InDesign doesn’t let you name pages, either.
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Expanding strokes of smaller size does not keep the same shape as the stroke.
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I’ve created a thread here. Not sure where else to report bugs other than maybe this forum section, so I’m posting this here in hopes the Affinity team will see this and fix the issues.
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2 minutes ago, Pšenda said:
Same object (copy), but bigger.
Notice the Sharp nodes in the middle that was created on the smooth curve!
Isn't this a problem with the "size" of the objects - was it before that the objects had to be enlarged, perform the required operation, and then shrink back to the correct size?If that's true, that is a huge issue. You can zoom in to like 1,000,000% in Designer and draw stuff. No matter what the size of a stroke is, you should be able to draw it in place and then expand it and have it look exactly the same. If I have to keep enlarging and then reducing all of my stroke objects I am going to go insane. Particularly if they are clipped inside other objects.
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PS. I should also mention that this same thing occurs when exporting the document to PDF or EPS without expanding the strokes! This is not good!
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Hey all,
After drawing some strokes in Designer, I sometimes need to expand them for editing. Sometimes when I do this I get weird results. I am attaching a screenshot. The stroked path is perfectly smooth, but when I expand it Designer makes a weird angle at the place where the smooth curve should be.
Anyone know how this can be fixed, or is it a bug?
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I much prefer the v1 export dialog box. The icons at the top made everything clear and easy to see. I now have to hunt for what I want, like in Photoshop, which is not what I want. Also kind of baffling why the items in the dropdown are not listed in alphabetical order and just kind of tossed in there?
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On 11/26/2022 at 6:56 AM, tatanka said:
A bit hard to construct the test documents for the report, as Publisher kept crashing over and over. Sometimes the placed EPS would be missing from the file on re-opening. That also happened in other documents. Hope they got the crash reports.
I will say that you (and everyone else) should stop using EPS files. They are an old format that should be retired. If you need to place something other than a native Affinity file, you should make a PDF and place that instead of EPS. I know EPS will never go away, as there are too many of those files floating around "out there", but nowadays nothing should be saved as EPS to give to someone else unless they are unable to use any other format.
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18 hours ago, tatanka said:
Just bought the v2 suite, and I was running my head against Publisher’s inability to print a black logo as black. So I search the forum and read this
Incredulous I re-read it. Can it really be so that a DTP suite can not print a simple black logo as black? Really? What is described in the quote above is exactly what is happening at my end.
If there is a way to make a logo black (K=100 or GREY=0, either is fine), place it in a Publisher document, and then have it output the logo with the colour it was given – then please let me know!
Converting black to dirty CMYK renders Publisher useless for professional work.
I have had this issue, as well. None of the Affinity apps will print correctly directly from the app itself. I have to export as a PDF first and then they print fine. Kind of frustrating.
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On 11/17/2022 at 3:10 PM, Samuli said:
Only used Freehand at school, but we were taught to use find & replace. InDesign’s links panel could do something like it but not seamlessly. To be honest, I preferred InDesign over Illustrator for basic vector work.
InDesign’s links panel (which is also like Illustrator’s) is nothing like the FH Find & Replace. The links panel can only replace placed items within the ID doc and nothing else. The F&R panel could change literally anything in the FH doc.
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3 hours ago, Kal said:
Corel Draw… Gosh, I used that once or twice back in the 1800s I think. Macromedia Freehand too. But AI was always my favourite, and it's the one I'd probably still be using if not for Adobe's subscribe-or-goodbye policy.
Macromedia Freehand was (and still is) the best vector app that has ever existed. There is one feature alone in that app that was better than anything I’ve ever seen in any other app. It was the Graphics Find & replace panel. Apparently, no one else ever used it but me, because no one is submitting feature requests for it to Adobe. You could use it to find anything in your Freehand doc and replace it with anything else. It was amazing. I will never forgive Adobe for buying Macromedia and killing that app. I have to use Adobe software at work, but I will never again install their apps on my home computer.
I also cannot ever get used to having more than one arrow tool. It seems so dumb. The one arrow selection tool was able to do everything that multiple arrow selection tools do in all these other apps.
I also share in the frustration of the UI elements, especially the new poorly drawn icons compared to V1. The UI was fine in V1. What we needed were things like a blend tool. Hopefully, those other things that have already been requested before will be added in a future free update and not 5 years from now.
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Made these candy corn stickers in Affinity Designer that I sent out to family and friends for Halloween. 🎃
https://www.cricketbow.com/products/korny-kandy-stickers
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