[Affinity linking trouble for all 3 products]

Ok.  I figured it out.  The real problem was not the linking but that it was greyed out and not an available selection due to there being no project opened yet.  Since I just purchased the other two software and was not actually using them yet, I got ahead of myself and wanted to switch between applications, but there was no image to work with.  Studio Link allows switching without an open project, File> Edit in (the app you want), does not.

Thanks. Sorry for the trouble.

[Affinity linking trouble for all 3 products]

I own all 3 products.  Publisher shows that I can use Designer and Photo.  When I open either Photo or Designer, I am unable to edit in any other of the programs.  It seems that only Publisher is linked correctly.

Am I missing something?

Matthew

[Setup Fail for new update]

Running the downloaded update file as an administrator fixed the problem.

Thank you.

[Setup Fail for new update]

Upon starting my functioning Affinity Designer 1.7.0.367 it offered an update to 1.7.1.404 .  After downloading and trying to install I get a "Setup Fail" message.  I cannot even run the previous version.

I am running the Windows version.

 

[More guide information and control in the manager]

I would like to see more control over the guides in the manager.

1.  Guide grouping: This would allow you to turn on/off guides to reduce the number that you want to interact with at any one time on each layer.  You could also use these groups over different layers.

2.  Guide color selection:  Similar to the grouping, but this way you could color code your lines.

3.  Guide position shown in the work area:  Right now I believe the only way to see the exact position of each guide is in the manager, but if the positions were listed on the guides themselves like coordinate dimensioning you could easily identify the position.  You could even key in the exact location like a CAD system.

4.  Guide Highlighting:  Another way to see which line you are working with in the manager is to highlight the same guide in the work area that you have selected in the manager.

[Guide grouping?]

Can you group guides?  I would like to be able to turn off selected guides while leaving others on.  Can you change the guide colors?

 

Matthew

 

[Error: "The file could not be parsed."]

I keep getting  "The file could not be parsed." error when I try to open an EPS file created in Adobe Illustrator. 

Matthew

[Designer guide position display, dimensions]

Perfect. Thank you.

 

Matthew

 

[Designer guide position display, dimensions]

I am designing an overlay to a blueprint.  What is the best way to show the exact position of a guide?  Right now you have to select the guide, as if you are going to move it, to display the position.  Every time you do this you run the chance of slightly moving it out of position.  Is dimensioning an option?

Matthew 

[DXF or DWG file import in Affinity Designer]

Please add DXF support.  I REALLY need this feature. 

[Still having pixel alignment problems.]

Excellent! Thank you very much for figuring this out.

 

One of the difficulties I was having was finding the transform panel so I could manually delete the 0.5 from the integer value.  I finally found it and it fixed the problem.  Thank you again!

 

 

Matthew

[Still having pixel alignment problems.]

Okay. I sent the file.

 

The red graphic width works correctly.  The yellow and green widths have the problem described above.

[Still having pixel alignment problems.]

My system is still allowing odd pixel alignment.  I have received the following instructions before.  I believe that I have followed these instructions, but I am still having problems.  Whole integers are still not being forced.

 

Can I restart a project to ensure Forced pixel alignment?  How do I do that?

 

Previous help...

"Can you please check the X,Y coordinates of the artboard in question? Go to Affinity Preferences, User Interface section and set the Pixel values in Decimal Places for Unit Types to 4 or more. Then check the coordinates of the artboard in the Transform panel. Are they whole (integer) values?

 

To prevent this from happening make sure you have Force Pixel Alignment enabled from the beginning while working with pixel aligned projects (this setting also affects artboards)."

 

 

[Where are the artboard tranform handles in Export Persona?]

I recently saw transform handles on the artboard in Export Persona but I can't find them again.  I need to slightly adjust the artboard size before I export.

 

How do I find them again?

 

 

Matthew

[Draw persona pixel size not matching export persona size]

I found Force Pixel Alignment under Snapping Manager.  It was already on.  I am seeing it skip over whole numbers as it snaps.  Like from 100.5, 101.5, 102.5 etc.

 

Do I need to create new art boards and copy the layers over to the new boards?

[Draw persona pixel size not matching export persona size]

I changed the settings to 6 decimal places.  The transformation panel in draw shows whole integers (although it always showed this way) but the export still shows 1 pixel larger.  I even restarted Designer. 

 

I couldn't find Forced Pixel Alignment.

[Draw persona pixel size not matching export persona size]

I have an artboard size of 168x168 in draw persona.  When I switch to export persona, the export size shows at 168x169.  I believe all the components on the work space are off by 1 pixel more than the shown in draw.  It truly exports it at the off size too.

 

Matthew