Signguy
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You can manually center the text vertically and horizontally by using the character and paragraph panel and adjusting them. It's not automatic but it will get you close. Save your document and then in the future if you ever need to change your text, you won't have to do this again.
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Hi signguy,
I wasn't creating a mask. Layer masking and Layer clipping are different things.
Got it. I'm used to masking by dragging the thumbnail over the top of the other thumbnail. My mistake. I forget that there are multiple ways to do things sometimes and that's what makes these forums so invaluable. Thank you MEB!
I do prefer to use the masking option over the clipping option so that way you can add effects like a gaussian blur to the object/shape and not the entire image. Depends on what kind of results you are trying to accomplish. The original thread was about talking about masking so that is why I chimed in with my 2¢.
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Drag the image over the rectangle in the Layers panel to clip it (make sure the image overlaps the rectangle in the canvas).
Actually, you have to drag the rectangle over the image and not the other way around in order to create the mask. Easy mistake to make and it always messes me up as well.
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Absolutely spectacular!
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versfader,
You sound a little harsh on here because believe me, Affinity has spend A LOT of time getting to know their users and their needs.
This feature is available in the latest builds of Affinity. It is called Lock Children. You can now resize your shape independently, resize the image that is being masked, move your mask while keeping the Children Locked and move the children without moving the mask.
I encourage you to spend more time getting to know the forums and the software for the benefit of your needs.
P.S. This is officially your first step to dumping Creative Cloud. Welcome to Affinity.
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I've been running Capitan since it launched with no issues. They're weren't as many new features this year they mostly focused on stability and performance so its been very solid.
Except that when your trying to search within a File Open dialog it is broken. You can not search for any Affinity file by Name. This is the only thing that is preventing me from upgrading. It worked fine in Yosemite. I have Hundreds of Affinity files that are labeled by file name and then a Number after the name. I can't search for the number. I have reported it several times to Apple in the Developers Bug report since El Capitan came out and now two updates later, still no fix.
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I am able to import SVG files that have hidden layers so it only seemed logical to be able to export them as well. It's not a problem to select all layers and make them visible before I export, it just doesn't look very nice when layers overlap or when a layer is representative of an artboard or another page.
SVG is an open standard whereas .afdesign is not so this does make it difficult for certain people to exchange files easily.
My issue was that I was sent a licensed SVG file that had hidden layers. I made some changes and sent them back to the original licensor of the file and he was not able to see the hidden svg layers that I made changes to. It just seemed awkward to have to select all layers when the SVG standard allows hidden layers.
On the other hand, I'm sure that there are instances where someone might want to export to SVG and not have hidden layers contained within the file either. I know that in AI hidden layers are exported whether you want them or not so I guess there is an argument on both sides of the fence.
I just want you to know that I couldn't be happier with Affinity Designer/Photo and you guys have given me more options then I could have hoped for. I am more than happy to work around some of these little incompatibilities and don't find them to be a major problem at all. If someone really needs something that AD doesn't offer then they can use some other program that provides that compatibility. It really bugs me when someone complains and threatens to switch to something else. There is nothing better than Affinity for the price!
Thank you for providing us with such a wonderful tool for the price and thank you for your unbelievable support! I owe you a lot more than I have ever paid for your software.
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Joey,
The Serif team doesn't like to give time frames because of unexpected issues when they add new features. Your just going to have to wait like the rest of us for that much need feature.
There was a lot of work getting art boards to work properly in this lastest update. I would imagine that as soon as they find that everything is stable and the little bugs and crashes have subsided we will start seeing more "new" features being added again.
I'm not sure if this helps but you can open your AD file in AP and use the warp tool there and then apply the change. Then you can reopen the document back into AD. This is all pretty easy to do using the file menu.
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You may want to explore using "compound shapes" for what you want to do.
I didn't have access to my laptop when I sent this reply(mobile), but here is an quick example of the sun if you haven't figured it out yet. You don't have to worry about how long you make your horizontal lines if you do it this way. The only other thing that you could do would to be use the subtract boolean but this way is non-destructive.
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When exporting to a SVG file, Affinity will only export the layers that are turned on/selected. Is there a way to export all layers to an SVG file without having to have them all selected?
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Looks like Vector Magic is now supported in El Capitan. The $300 price for the Desktop version makes me feel guilty for spending so little on Affinity.
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If you can remember the thing you try to undo, that would be useful. :)
I have a template that I always use. Basically, it has one layer that I use as a background, a graphics layer, text layer and a border layer. All that I had done was change the color of the background from white to blue and the text from blue to white (reversed from what it was created as. I pressed command z rapidly to go back to the starting point and it crashed. Attached is the crash report.
Just noticed that it does it with MAS version as well.
I have sent a copy of my template to support@serriflabs.com for your review
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I've been getting a lot of crashes with this latest beta when I try to use the history feature. Most times I'm just trying to use Command Z and Shift Command Z and it crashes. Other times, I've tried to use the history slider. I will capture the crash file next time and send it. I was testing the beta program in my production environment but I had to open the MAS version after the beta crashed twice. Not reliable enough for me to make the switch just yet.
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Looks like a bug to me. If you rotate all three shapes 90º so that they are vertical and then use the add boolean, then the shapes join fine. You can then rotate them back. It doesn't work for any other angle.
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Hi Signguy,
This seems to be working fine here.
Make sure the artboard is selected in the Layers panel.
Artboard is selected. I'm using Beta 1.3.5.16 with Yosemite.
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I'm unable to change the Width/Height of an Artboard using the Transform tool. I can only drag its corners. This doesn't help in making precision artboards. I can create a rectangle in the pasteboard and then convert it to an artboard but again, once it is created, you can not use the transform tool to change is dimensions.
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Is there any way to change the heart tool to provide a tapered bottom.
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After clearing all of AD beta settings, I now only have the three color palettes that are provided with the program (Grays, Colors, and Gradients). Opening AD defaults to first on on the list (Gray). However when I create a new document, Now I get a new document palette from a previous palette that was deleted and not even currently installed or imported into AD.
Where would it be pulling this profile in from?
I even deleted the Beta and reinstalled. It still creates a new document palette with a previously named palette that does not exist within the Beta.
EDIT: It must be pulling it in from a library file. I discovered that it could be changed by Setting as default for RGBA/8.
Also, If I delete all the palettes and then import my preferred palette first and then import the grays,colors and gradients palettes, Affinity Designer will now default to my preferred color palette. I still think that there should be a way to set a default palette or allow them to be re-ordered.
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Could you please consider a way to re-arange the color palette application sort order so I can put my own application palette at the top of the list or at the very least allow a way to define which palette that I would like to have as the default? Or another option would be for there to be a way to create a document palette using the current palette when a document palette doesn't exist.
Opening any of my over 350+ designs that were created in previous version of AD results in the application opening with the wrong palette (since it was never created with a document palette). There needs to be some type of backwards compatibility.
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Due to the addition of global colours and document palettes, each document now remembers its own last selected palette since the palette might or might not exist. The bug is that the last selected palette is not serialised with the document so when you load it back up it just defaults to the top palette which is usually a document palette.
Edit: I might look to see if I can improve on some of the logic but we are very close to app store submission, so we try to avoid anything that can potentially break the app even more!
Thank you for that explanation, however, when I open a document and reselect a different palette and save it, why doesn't it re-open with my preferred palette? Do I have to re-create all my documents again? How do I "embed" a palette within the document if document was created using a prior version of AD? Why wouldn't it default to my preferred palette or last used one? And if the document is saved as a RGB/8(for example), why doesn't it use the palette that I set up as a default for that color space?
It seams to me that the option to save as a default doesn't work.
If a document palette doesn't exist within the document, it should revert to the current application palette and not the top one on the list.
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Could you elaborate on that?
If I import my color pallet into the latest Betas, and then open one of my documents, the application reverts/falls back to the Grays color pallet instead of my preferred color pallet. And, if I set my color pallet and save it as a default, as soon as I close my document, the application again falls back to the gray pallet.
The application should remember the last used pallet without having to reselect it every time a document is opened or closed. My solution to this is to delete all of the application pallets leaving only the one I want to work on but this is not an ideal solution because I have more then one pallet that I use.
I know that this probably isn't part of the fallback feature but I had posted this issue before and did not get any feedback so I thought that I would post it again here.
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Fallback features are also affecting color pallets.
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Still the same issue with this Beta as in previous. The application always defaults to gray swatch pallet when switching between documents.
Even when you try to set a default swatch pallet for a particular type of color profile, the setting doesn't stick.
Please fix this before the MAS version.
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Opening a new document always reverts back to the Grays application color palette. I have tried to change the default pallet based upon document color format but the application always defaults back to Grays.
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The operating system is a fundamental part of the user experience! There is simply no way that the level of fluidity and speed could have been accomplished had this been created on the Windows platform. There are simply far too many PC variants out there. The DLL's and drivers that would have to be created would make this just as bloated as anything else that is currently offered on a PC.
Thank you Affinity for not only designing an awesome program, but also for mating it with its Operation System in a way that makes those PC guys envious.
You could create the best program in the world on a PC but you would have been limited by its Operating System and its inefficient memory management.