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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: Is there an Official approach to App data creep?
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: Is there an Official approach to App data creep?
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: how to decrease the nodes
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: How do I add an outline around the whole design?
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: Affinity Photo Dockable Toolbar (actually applies to all products)
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firstdefence reacted to a post in a topic: curve that I drew in Affinity Designer 2 doesn't show
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walt.farrell reacted to a post in a topic: curve that I drew in Affinity Designer 2 doesn't show
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Thank you for your patience with me and your suggestions! It appears that I was sloppy / crazy / not paying attention and created a new PIXEL Layer and then moved the VECTOR layers within it to act like a group. I am quite tired and this project has been going on for months and I made a mistake and couldn't see it - I even said to myself, " Huh, that group icon looks funny." You can see that I repeated this mistake several times. The bummer is that even though I saved a backup, I saved the backup after I messed it up. LOL Oh well, off to fix things! Thank you!
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I am baffled. I drew a foot in Affinity Designer 2. It doesn't show up at all unless I select the layer, then an outline of the foot shows. It should have a black stroke and a grey fill. I moved this group to the top of my layers and I turned off all of my other layers to try to see what the problem is. This layer may have been marked Passthrough - I can't remember - I have changed so many layers from Passthrough to Normal I looked up Passthrough since I had never seen it before (I've been using Affinity for decades and V2 for months. I am using 2.0.4 now) and it says that it preserves the fidelity of imported pdf items. I have not imported a pdf into any of my documents that now show so many layers as Passthrough. So, Why won't my foot show and what is this Passthrough layer setting that is making things not show and is driving me crazy?
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Is there a way that I can persuade them that this is not the behaviour that I expected? After all, it was not like this in AD1 and AP1.
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: New Document window - can it default to templates and can it always only show favorites?
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: New Document window - can it default to templates and can it always only show favorites?
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In AD1 and AP1, my new document window defaulted to showing me my personalized templates. I chose one and went on with my work. AD2 and AP2 show me a new document window that defaults to presets, many of which I will never use, and doesn't default to only showing me my favorites. What I really want is for the new document window to default to showing me my templates, instead of having to click templates, then click on the folder icon for my templates, then choose my template. I have looked for a setting to change what New Documents opens by default, but haven't found that. I have text and some lines in my templates, so I think I can't turn them into presets. Is there a way to just open my templates when I want to create a new document? Thanks!
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: Yesterday while working on a png, Affinity stopped showing transparancy
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Yesterday while working on a png, Affinity Photo 2 stopped showing transparancy. I didn't notice the exact moment (It was between 11:30 and 1:30) because I put in a color layer so I could more clearly see while I was erasing the background. Through testing multiple transparent pngs, the checkerboard that signifies transparency does not show in AD1 or AD2 or AP1 or AP2. Here is the really strange bit - transparancy shows on my main monitor, but not my Wacom Cintiq 22 or my 3rd monitor which is the same brand and model as my main monitor. Other people in my zoom meeting saw the transparency when I couldn't. Other drawing programs show transparancy on all 3 monitors. Because I was working on the image, I wasn't updating anything on purpose. Because it affects my Wacom and my LG, and not my other LG, and Because other programs show transparancy on all 3 monitors, I don't think it is the monitors. So only Affinity programs are the problem, and only on 2 of 3 monitors, and only while I am viewing them not sharing in a webinar. I am really confused. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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AncientWire reacted to a post in a topic: Filter Forge
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firstdefence reacted to a post in a topic: I'm having problems intertwining 2 objects - knife, scissors, shape tool
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Nowave reacted to a post in a topic: I'm having problems intertwining 2 objects - knife, scissors, shape tool
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I want a plant to wind around a stake and I haven't been able to easily accomplish it with vectors in Affinity Desgner. In Affinity Photo, I would just erase parts of the stake. Easy! So I may be thinking about this the wrong way Knife and Scissors will cut up the stake, but the edges are strange and don't match the plant, or the pieces won't fill, or I move a node and everything goes crazy. I have tried Shape Builder to delete the stake where it intersects the plant, but it deletes both the stake and the plant. What I did to accomplish the plant and stake on the right is completely redraw each bit of the branch so that it is 6 separate parts. I can certainly do that, but I think there must be an easier way, I just can't see it. Thanks for your advice!
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Spelmann reacted to a post in a topic: Line without smoothing
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I have been using Serif products for many years, but I only recently started drawing with a pen on my Microsoft Surface. After some experimenting, I have turned the stabilizer off which is best for me at the moment. I have 2 different pens for my Surface, and have found that the hard plastic tip does a better job than the soft rubber tip. I have been struggling with drawing an oval for an eye in one line - the line moves around when I pick up my pen. I can draw a decent oval, but when Affinity Designer does it's thing, the oval is no longer the oval I drew, but can become egg shaped, or have areas that are more flattened or more rounded than the original line that I drew. When I go back and look at the nodes, sometimes an oval will only have 3 nodes - beginning, end and more often than not one close to the beginning, with the rest of the shape relying on however the bezer curves are decided by the software. My ovals can have up to 10 nodes. It would be nice if something like this could have a more consistent number of nodes. In short, Affinity Designer is "helping" to create a worse oval not a better one. Sort of like when autocorrect gets it completely wrong I do want some of the smoothing that software can help with and not have shaky lines and tons of nodes because I am a beginning artist Perhaps there could be a setting that would create a number of nodes per inch?
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I created text - Antiqua 96 pt, selected it, used Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection , then Edit > Defaults > Save , opened a new document and my font is still Arial 12pt. I tried some more things. If I open a new document using a template, the font settings don't change to the new one - makes total sense now that I think about it - the template must have also saved the settings. If I open a new document using File / New and change the document size, my font becomes Arial 96 pt. So it keeps the old font, but changes the size. I don't think Antiqua is one of the websafe fonts, so I tried Trebuchet 72 pt, which has now changed my new default font to Trebuchet 72 pt. So my conclusion is create a new document - don't use a template (I will go back and remake my templates), and find a font family that will save as the default.
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Thank you for pointing me to Object Defaults. However, Synchronise defaults from selection is only working within the current document. Edit / Default / Save does not apply the new settings to new documents in Designer, Publisher or Photo. I am using Publisher 1.8.3.641, Designer 1.8.3.641, and Photo 1.8.3.641 for Windows. Thank you