sbonsell71

A problem that has just started happening and not solved through paragraph settings, or alignment. When a new Frame text box is opened the top line is indented, despite paragraph first line settings being set to '0'. This happened 'overnight'. I currently copy and paste old Frame texts that still work fine. Very strange.

Hi Walt - yes, I have - but when things go wrong (e.g. when experimenting/editing, particularly when changing text size) the Help topics just don't work. Most of the time I just re-draw the line and re-write the entire text. Occasions when, for example, there appears to be two of each triangle on one line - with no identifier as to which triangles are linked to which text , just trial and error, moving one triangle and seeing what happens to the text. I guess that whenever I see help files that only discuss one, simple, example I'm suspicious of the function's capability .. Some work I'm doing this morning ... Screenshot 1 I want to push the text along the line - about 5mm. So my intuition is to use the green arrow which will move it along 5mm. You can see at the end of the line (the orange arrow) shows that a 5mm move should NOT push the text over the end of the line. Screenshot 2 Simply by selecting the green arrow and moving it 1mm Screenshot 2 happens: I now have two green arrows, two red arrows, the text is upside down and no amount of trying different techniques achieves what I wanted to do. So, I will just do it again from scratch. That doesn't make for good workflow.

I use this feature a lot and have never understood how it works - help section provides no useful answers. What is the significance of the Red, orange, green triangles? I have tried to work it out many times and every single time I think I have a theory it confounds me. Thanks for any help Just tried to look at it again. Makes no sense.

I nested it with a box the exact dimensions I need (1242 x 2208). When I export as 'selection without background' the export image shows as 1380 x 2264. When I override it with the dimensions I need I get all sorts of stretched images. For info, the image on the right (on the canvas) is the size I need.

Hi. I uploaded it using the link. Thanks for having a look.

Ok. I’ll send it across tomorrow. Thanks

I’m at home now, calming down I’ll try nesting the design again tomorrow. I just don’t understand why there is a view that ‘clips to canvas’, yet the export doesn’t do the same?

Sorry, but every time I have a piece of work to produce that must be a precise size, the output from Affinity Designer is just garbage. I've written about this before without any response so I'll try again. I also use the phrase 'seems to' a lot in these examples because, after spending the last ten years operating with other software (SerifDraw being one) and getting exactly the results I need, I just don't know what is going on with Affinity Designer. Exports seem to take into account objects placed outside the document (why bother specifying the work area in the first place?), perhaps when items are cropped (?) such that when I am looking at the screen now and compare it to what I get as an export I am utterly at a loss as to how the result comes about. As a workaround in previous months I've not been using the crop tool at all, instead manipulating every pixel to fit exactly within the screen and hoping for the best. If this isn't responded to I will bin Affinity designer once and for all. Be warned.

The file itself file not exporting correctly.afdesign

Bleduc, I think the whole point of art and creativity is to 'overcome' the things that lots of people have difficulty with in life. I often wonder what a living hell life would be without art and creativity - merely the pursuit of money, an exceedingly unchallenging pastime. I taught design for twenty years in the UK, specifically because when I was at school I was just so bored by the normal 'academic' subjects - I was actually advised not to study design as it wasn't academic enough to get into university! Anyhow, I think that most of what makes us creative comes about because we do not fit the mould. I know a number of people who are extremely intelligent and reliable but would readily themselves admit they have almost zero creativity ... which makes them perfect for the jobs they do, though I guess everyone is creative in their own way.

Alfred, are you able to help as an advanced member? I have a problem with affinity which no one seems able or willing to respond to. My next port of call will be to ask for my money back as I'm not using it already after just five days. Do you have problems exporting images? The problem I have is that, when I select the final image the transform box shows the W H that I expect it to be, but the export box shows something different - along with the final image. I check layers to make sure that there aren't rogue graphics hiding - which was never a problem with the crop to top function of X4 - but I just can't work it out. I don't have much experience with Serif help as I've never really needed it. Not impressed so far ....

X4.0 Alfred, you're right! Let the record be changed.

Hi, my name's Stuart, a mac user and long time user of DrawPlus. Used to run it on a Virtual machine on my mac but decided to change to Affinity for stability. Let me start out by saying there's a reason I stick with Serif - since about 1990 when I was first able to add text to a curved line which Claris couldn't do at the time I've stuck with Serif/you. But ... I have a big problem with affinity which a) is absolutely critical to accurate work (I read 'the most accurate design software' reviews) b) is a really fundamental function, not even a feature, and c) has not been responded to since I posted it here, with screenshots, four days ago. I'm sure affinity is better than Drawplus for many reasons, but, after three days of trying it out and encountering this problem (graphics not exporting at the size they were drawn is really bad news for web design) I've returned to DrawPlus - v4.0, for the record - because, as a graphic designer, I actually need to get jobs done. Heartfelt plea - get affinity right, because binning DrawPlus is a bold, bold move.

And finally ... here is the layout from the layers menu showing how I've laid it out. Hope someone can help because I'm about to return to Drawplus so I can return to meeting deadlines.

I also realise théâtre any drop shadow applied does not fall within the boundaries - so I've attached the final image to show that this is not the problem in this case. The final image extends far beyond the shadow. The image needs to placed centrally in a column on a website alongside two other columns - a very common web layout - and the additional border pushes it offline and makes the layout impossible.