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Hello all, Now we can hide all panels after pressing the TAB key. And that's great. I'm using a MacBook Pro 13 "and it would use the ability to minimize all the tools - as can be done in Adobe InDesign. This is a very handy thing for smaller screens, otherwise there is very little space left to work. It would also be good to be able to define whether the panels are to hide automatically.
 
Thank you for the team's work and all helpful suggestions from other users

Hello
Affinity Designer suggestion.
To the Affinity team.
ESKO is the creator of plugins for Adobe Illustrator
https://www.esko.com/en/products/studio
A brilliant tool for those who design packaging.
If you did something like that right away in Affinity Designer, not as a plugin, probably a large part of the market would be yours.
Designer would become a leading application in packaging design.
I think we can have dreams 🙂
Greetings to all
Thanks for your work.

Hello
"subsequent sessions will use the HSL color wheel as default"
hmm ... did anyone from the DTP industry prepare anything in InDesign, QuarkXPress in HSL color space? 🙂
why HSL is in the program preparing things for print or presentation and why HSL is the default mode?
when creating a document, the color space should be set.
when I create a document, I know why. if I do something for printing I need CMYK, if I click on an object in the color palette it should automatically switch e.g. to RGB if the object is RGB.
I do not understand this solution. after all, in all programs of this type it is simple ...

Thanks very much for the hints, I will try.

"The palette named" Grays "contains swatches defined in RGB"
Where's the logic here? 🙂
Grays is gray.
RGB is RGB.
Something with UX went wrong 🙂
Regards

In my posts, I mean pointing out to the Affinity team things that for me - as a user - are incomprehensible or bad.
The matter of color control in the production program which is Publisher is VERY important. The same applies to all tools for checking and repairing / replacing colors, styles, etc.
But I think this is the Forum to help each other and the Affinity team improve the application.
I hope that the Affinity team will once again think about the operation of the Colors palette, especially since it is very intuitive in the competitive InDesign.
Confidence and trust that there will be no errors in print files will make people more willing to switch from Adobe to Affinity.
Thanks to everyone for the hints

1004/5000       Hello,
Thank you for your reaction.

But why the 100% Black in the Grays swatch is a Rich Black?
The name itself - 100% Black - says what this color consists of.
And here for the unknown, it turns out that
100% = e.g. C-89 / M-78 / Y-62 / K-97
🙂

It's illogical - I mark 100% black in the Gray palette - which only suggests 1 color and its shades - so I should get only 1 color - black, not something from 4 colors.

Gray - for me it's black from 0 to 100%
Black - belongs to the CMYK palette.

so...

if the object is black (no matter whether from the Gray or CMYK palette), then in the CMYK palette it should show us the EXACT value of black and zero other colors!

I don't know if I explain it well, English is not my first language.

But to understand me, just see how it works in InDesign.

I have idml, 100 pages and I need to manually control every element of its color. In a way that Publisher suggests right now, it's a lot of work.

And I'm not sure what I'm doing 🙂
  It would be nice if you could select an element in some color and replace all the elements in the same color with the one we indicated - in the whole document.
And the separation preview.
The cost of printing poorly prepared documents is often very high, which is why control is a serious topic.


Regards

In my posts, I mean pointing out to the Affinity team things that for me - as a user - are incomprehensible or bad.
The matter of color control in the production program which is Publisher is VERY important. The same applies to all tools for checking and repairing / replacing colors, styles, etc.
But I think this is the Forum to help each other and the Affinity team improve the application.
I hope that the Affinity team will once again think about the operation of the Colors palette, especially since it is very intuitive in the competitive InDesign.
Confidence and trust that there will be no errors in print files will make people more willing to switch from Adobe to Affinity.
Thanks to everyone for the hints

Hello everyone,
First of all, many thanks for the new update 1.8. Well done.
The ability to import idml files, I think it will change the balance of power in the market.
I have some suggestions.
1. When we remove a style - Character or Pargraph - a check box should appear:
and.
"Do you only want to delete?" and then the texts in this style are replaced with the default style.
b.
"What style do you want to replace the one you are removing?"
Option b. Is very important because it allows you to organize your styles freely.
Next suggestion:
Table Formats palette - after opening the idml file there are often a lot of inherited table styles.
a. they have no names.
b. names appear only after the cursor poses, which slows down the work.
c. there should be checkboxes to select many styles at the same time, e.g. to delete - how to delete, for example, 20 styles ???
d. there is no Rename (?) option only after opening the Edit window
Next suggestion:
Swatches palette
the same as for removing the Character and Paragraph styles, so that another sample can be replaced with the removed sample.
If I missed something - forgive me 🙂
Best regards to the whole Affinity team

A function would be useful, thanks to which you can specify a new folder with all source files. In a situation when the whole folder is moved to a different place.
This can be done just like on the attached file ... Now you need to update each file individually - in InDesign, automatic file update happens.

A function would be useful, thanks to which you can specify a new folder with all source files. In a situation when the whole folder is moved to a different place.
This can be done just like on the attached file ... Now you need to update each file individually - in InDesign, automatic file update happens.

hi,
thank you A_B_C for the hint. I converted what I could into tiff files. The Publisher file was reduced from over 4 GB to 400 Mb, which is a great success :-)

However, the InDesign file had 3 times less, although it had attached files such as psd pdf ai etc. When I connected the same files, the Publisher file also had over 3 GB

Attaching Affinity Photo files is super convenient - and so you need to have some files to edit and tiff files to Publisher.

I can see that it's almost no difference whether I connect AP files or have them as Embeded, which is strange to me, that's the main idea of DTP programs.
It's a pity, because large publishers / catalogs contain many files - which makes Publisher files huge.

Question to the Affiity team - why is this happening?

hi,
thank you A_B_C for the hint. I converted what I could into tiff files. The Publisher file was reduced from over 4 GB to 400 Mb, which is a great success :-)

However, the InDesign file had 3 times less, although it had attached files such as psd pdf ai etc. When I connected the same files, the Publisher file also had over 3 GB

Attaching Affinity Photo files is super convenient - and so you need to have some files to edit and tiff files to Publisher.

I can see that it's almost no difference whether I connect AP files or have them as Embeded, which is strange to me, that's the main idea of DTP programs.
It's a pity, because large publishers / catalogs contain many files - which makes Publisher files huge.

Question to the Affiity team - why is this happening?

Thank you for the information. I thought so ... We are all waiting for further corrections, it is known that not everything at once. Good luck and best regards

Hello to all who like Publisher :-)

I do not know if this topic was discussed, but ...
it would be nice if you could mark and update multiple files at once or if you could point to the entire new folder with source files.
Now you have to do it "manually" with each file separately.
Thanks.