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I think the Minimal Score setting (which I assume is the Minimalwert) is going to be a frequent source of confusion. Unlike the other settings, which are set based on attributes whose values can be understood by the user because they are based on units like character count and distance in millimeters, the "score" is undefined from the perspective of the user. How is the user to know that the value should be between 0 and 1, especially since the stepper increases in units of 1? This score appears to be some value calculated internally, but its meaning is not clear to the user.
I think it would be better to use something more like a stepped slider of less hyphenation on one side to more hyphenation on the other, and let the app worry about its own internal values.

Setze mal den „Minimalwert" auf 1 oder 0 …

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Hi MEB,
thanks for your reply and help. The only reason to color the Layers is to set up an "own" structure and to make the Layer Panel more readable.
As you mentioned, there are so many different kind of "LayerTypes", I just do not get the reason why there should be a problem to give each Layer a color I want. Should be easy or?
 
As I posted this on feature request, again my request :) 
 
Feature Request:
Abbility to set up an own folder Structure in the LayerPanel Window Set Different Colors to these folders and Layers Make the Layers searchable by Attribute or Name Please Make the selected state color more visible in the Layerpanel, at the moment its a dark "marineblue" which is hard to recognise on the dark ui
  Find attached a comparison to Affinity and PS. The Layer Panel is just better readable in PS
 
Thanks for your replies so far.
Best regards
nod
 
 
 

Can´t see the reason why there is a restriciton for coloring layers. Most of my Layers are Symbols, and Fonts.  :(
 
 
I am working on Windows. Nevertheless, changing the Highlight color system wide is in my opinion a no go, sorry.
 
As I mentioned. As the Layer Panel is a central work element it really could receive more attention regarding UI and usability. Would be great if serif could invest some time in here to refine this control.
 
Just my 50 cents ;)

Totally agree! For UI Design it is absolutely necessary to  have some pre-sets for Font-Antialiasing!

 

Hello,
 I now worked way over 200 hours with AD, great Tool for UI Design. But one thing that really could be improved is the font rendering, especially for UI Design. Most of my Designs are for WPF Applications. It would be really great if the developers would improve the rendering. The fonts in AD just look very blury. I really would wish some presets. The "Curve-Tool" is in my opinion useless, I was not able to get any satisfying results.
 
See the attachment with the comparison of WPF Rendering, Photoshop and Affinity Designer.
 
Best regards
Nod
 
 
 
 

We do have prototyping already working behind-the-scenes in the current Designer, but it is disabled while we work through and flesh it out. Hopefully 1.6 will enable this functionality :)

maybe I'm missing it, but is there an option to open a JPEG, or bitmap image
and trace,or convert it to a vector file for further editing? If not there should be one, it would be a great option. even if it had only a few modes like black and white, and 5 color
it would make me convince me to convert from adobe illustrator

Hello,
would be great to change the background color of the Panel of the Assets Library.
Would be very useful once you have a lot of Icons in the Assets Library
 
See attachment-
 
THX
Nod

Hello,
 I now worked way over 200 hours with AD, great Tool for UI Design. But one thing that really could be improved is the font rendering, especially for UI Design. Most of my Designs are for WPF Applications. It would be really great if the developers would improve the rendering. The fonts in AD just look very blury. I really would wish some presets. The "Curve-Tool" is in my opinion useless, I was not able to get any satisfying results.
 
See the attachment with the comparison of WPF Rendering, Photoshop and Affinity Designer.
 
Best regards
Nod
 
 
 
 

Hello,
 I now worked way over 200 hours with AD, great Tool for UI Design. But one thing that really could be improved is the font rendering, especially for UI Design. Most of my Designs are for WPF Applications. It would be really great if the developers would improve the rendering. The fonts in AD just look very blury. I really would wish some presets. The "Curve-Tool" is in my opinion useless, I was not able to get any satisfying results.
 
See the attachment with the comparison of WPF Rendering, Photoshop and Affinity Designer.
 
Best regards
Nod
 
 
 
 

When typing text in a Photoshop document, there is a popup available that displays the following anti-aliasing options:
None Sharp Crisp Strong Smooth The addition of these would make Affinity Photo's type handling even more powerful.
 
Thanks.

Hi folks,
 
I couldn't find an option to expand / collapse all child-groups/child-layers when pressing the little arrow button in front of a group/layer that contains child objects.
 
I know this function from Phxxxxxop, and used it a lot to rapidly collapse all expanded child-elements and quickly get an better overview of the layer hierarchy.
 
Phxxxxxop provides that functionality by pressing alt+click. And if you have used it - the next alt-click causes the opposite (e.g. expand all).
 
I liked and used it quite often.
 
 
Cheers guy,
Stefan.

Just started using Affinity Designer. One thing that I have an issue with, at least for my workflow, is when I have many many layers in an artboard / group, the only way to collapse it all is to scroll to the top where the parent layer is and right click and select "collapse layers".
 
In Sketch, I was able to set up a key command to quickly collapse all layers. Is there a way to do this in Affinity Designer? I tried looking in the key command section of preferences and was unable to find a place to add one.
 
Thanks!

Hi,
I have created a UI and I want to deliver to the Dev. team the exact positions and sizes of all components, aka graphic specifications...
There are tools and addons that support this tedious task in PS.
Is there a way to do it in AD?
Thanks in advance... 

Also, when right clicking a layer in layer panel, contextual options :
 
- Select all visible layers
- Select all layers
- Invert layers selection
 
And of course, talking about layers:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/33352-afph-multiple-layers-selection/

I love Affinity Photo, but I just can't get used to not having some basic functionality I'm used to from Photoshop.
 
(1) Using a modifier key to toggle Hide/Show all other layers (except for the one I'm clicking). This is especially useful if I want to quickly A/B the before and afer.
 
(2) Click and drag/slide up and down the check boxes in order to quickly Hide/Show multiple layers.

Totally agree! For UI Design it is absolutely necessary to  have some pre-sets for Font-Antialiasing!