chirpy
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So as I mentioned, my document is 280x70 at 72dpi. In every other application, including Preview and Photoshop, the file displays at actual screen size, as it does in a web browser. This is not how it displays in Affinity Photo using the 100% Zoom.
I am just trying to find out which zoom option I should ALWAYS be using to see a document at the correct size.
Photo did not used to display things incorrectly like this until after this latest update. Did something change?
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Thanks for your reply. However, I still do not understand why if I am viewing my document at 100% and the document is 250 pixels, why then when I export it, is it larger in another app, as in my screenshot? Is 100% not 1=1 pixel?
Basically, I am not sure why a Zoom of 100% is even there if Actual Size is what we should always be using to view something as it will actually appear on every screen.
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Also, what is the difference in Zooming to 100%, Actual Size and Pixel Size. I don't see these explained anywhere in the help documentation.
I found this,
"For example, if you chose 'pixels', one pixel in your document corresponds to one pixel on screen; your document will display at its exact pixel size at 100%."
But this is not the behavior I am getting based on my screenshot above. Viewing at 100% should give me the same size document as what I export, should it not?
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I am noticing an odd bug. I created a document at 280x70 pixels at 72dpi. When I view the image at 100% in Affinity Photo it is not the actual size. When I export the file as a PNG or JPG it is the correct size. I am attaching a screenshot showing the Photo doc (left) and the PNG opened in Preview on the right.
Anyone know why they are not the same and how to fix it?
Thanks.
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Hi, so I just did this.
I have a global CMYK color and my document is set to CMYK, but when I make a tint of my swatch and add the tint color to the swatches it is named as an RGB color. Does this mean it is registering as an RGB color and not CMYK?
It's quite confusing.
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Looks like Affinitio will not be going live.
Also, just curious as to why someone would name a site with io at the end and then not get the .io domain name?
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In Affintiy Photo, when I click on a point on the canvas and then shift click, the stroke continues from the last shift clicked point, NOT the new point that I clicked independently of the shift click. Therefore, I can never start a new straight line - it always continues from the last shift clicked point.
Rather, I should say, that I have to actually MOVE the mouse while painting in order for Affintiy Photo to use that as the starting point, instead of just clicking and making a dot without moving the mouse.
Really frustrating.
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I am having issues printing from Affinity Designer. It always seems to print bitmap images very pixelated, no matter what the resolution or what printer I am printing to.
It also NEVER remembers my print settings.
If I export my documents as PDFs and print from Acrobat or Preview they print the bitmap images fine. Anyone know what's going on?
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Glad everyone likes them!
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I just created some Affinity Photo brushes free for use. You can read about them here: https://www.cricketbow.com/brushes
Or just download the file directly here: https://app.box.com/s/p7fao19irvpjz04zp5v2guefd5nv4uf2
They are free for use, but are not to be sold. If you want to redistribute them, please ask permission.
Have fun!
-Tim
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So after 3 years of people requesting a simple feature like arrowheads, mesh fill tool is on the feature roadmap, but arrowheads still are not? I can only imagine the complexity of trying to create a mesh fill tool over something like arrowheads. Please flip these two and make arrowheads priority over mesh fills. We have the pixel personal for those that need to have nicely rendered "meshy" type things.
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Hey NewInBoston, you can change text (as well as other things) by disabling the symbol sync button in the symbols panel and then re-enabling it when you're done making your changes. Learn more in this video
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Hype is another interesting HTML animation software: http://tumult.com/hype/pro/
Guys, if i can ease the tension a little, for those interested in a WYSIWYG app, you might wanna pay attention to the developments in Scarlet Macaw: http://scarlet.macaw.co
Serif is not focusing on this for now, they are limited in size and resources should go to more important issues, like coming up with a robust perspective tool in A.Designer for example. I hope they're listening. It kills me that Carapace (http://www.warrenmarshall.biz/carapace/) can do it and Designer needs to play catch up!
I also happen to think that if you want to be good web designer, go learn front-end too. Don't be lazy! I'm doing that now. And i'm only getting started.
Those intimidated/confused by floats/clear for e.g. in CSS, there's a better alternative by learning flexbox! There are so many paths to learning ya!
Hope i make sense.
SMA, Macaw has been abandoned. No work/progress has been made on it in years. Macaw was developed by a group of kids that gave everyone a lot of hype and promise and then under delivered and then sold the company to InVision, which has done nothing with it.
I would avoid Macaw like the plague. I like InVision, but it's too late for anything good to come of Macaw.
If you are looking for something like it, then Webflow is your best bet.
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budaloco, out of curiosity, is there a reason you set your document to use points instead of pixels?
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It would be a great feature and would put Designer above other apps like Sketch if we had the ability to apply a different style (color, weight, dashed, solid, etc) of stroke to each side of an object, just like you can with CSS.
I have never seen a design app that could do this and would be a welcome feature for any web designer.
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Ditto my July 2015 feature request for Linked Files. It's now January 2017. There's been ample time to implement this important feature. Please add it ASAP. Thanks.
I also think linking files into a document would be far better than embedding them and also more logical. It seems like symbols accomplish anything that an embedded document would otherwise be used for.
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Streamline was so much better than Illustrator's Live Trace. I don't know what they changed, but the results just aren't nearly as good.
Anyway, hope this feature comes to Designer soon.
Hey, do you remember Adobe Streamline?
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Is this something that will be added in the future? It seems like that would be the point of have styles to begin with, so that all objects with that style are easily updatable.
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I just updated to Mac OS Sierra and I now have a problem printing to my Canon Pixma printer. I send a document to print and it spits out a black sheet of paper and an error appears in the printer window saying "Could not print because of a Filter error"
The same document prints fine from Photoshop, so I know this is not a Mac OS or Canon software issue.
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I'd like to make a request for something I used ALL the time in Macromedia FreeHand: the Find & Replace Graphics panel.
It is one of the most time saving and amazing things even put into graphics software and I miss it greatly. Adobe still has a page up with some very old looking screenshots of it from Mac OS 9: https://www.adobe.com/support/freehand/programs/creating_animations/creating_animations03.html
You could basically find anything in your document and replace it with something completely different. Colors, strokes, stroke widths, symbols, overprint attributes. The list goes on. It was an amazing boon to productivity when dealing with very detailed illustrations or many-page documents.
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Graphic Styles Do Not Carry Over
in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on iPad
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Hello, I've noticed something that is a little annoying when moving between Affinity Designer on the iPad and Desktop. The graphic styles do not carry over from one to the other. I can set up styles on the desktop version, open the file on iPad and those styles do not appear in the styles panel. Likewise, the same happens when setting up styles on my iPad and then opening the file on desktop.
It seems like graphic styles should be embedded within the document you are working with (like color swatches can be).