Mr. Doodlezz
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But how come open source software like Inkscape or other freely available applications like Vectornator (as mentioned above) can implement this? 🤔 I guess they don't have the capital to buy rights, APIs or whatever from Adobe. Oh well … I see. Hm, maybe this short demonstration will help you to understand what we’re talking about? (Without searching this thread, I bet there was at least one demonstration like this among the entries). Of course it is possible to create complex shapes in Affinity Designer without the Shape Builder tool, but it takes considerably longer and requires many more clicks. -
I was going to mention the basic Boolean operations, and of course the compound option is cool. But at the same time, Boolean operations are the absolute minimum I would expect from a software that claims to be professional. 😅 Plus: Shape Builder simply works differently and – in my opinion – even more intuitively and efficiently (though destructively). For example, I would need only one form to perform several Boolean operations at once. For example adding in one part and subtracting in another. In Designer, I would need at least two copies of the shape I want to use to do these two different operations. (A bit hard to describe as text, but since anyone reading this thread knows how Shape Builder works, I strongly assume they understand what I'm talking about.)
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Just to bring this up … again. When are we finally getting this feature in Affinity Designer? Several other vectorbased apps or softwares – paid or free – have been updated these days (I'm thinking for example of Inkscape, recently Vectornator) and offer this important and useful feature. So Affinity should watch the market, listen more to it's community and not rest in Apple's spotlight of the last few years just to be overtaken by completely free software that at the same time offers much needed/demanded and more advanced features. (My honest thoughts and impression.) Maybe we get an official answer from the staff at Affinity: After so many years and several requests from the community: Are we actually hoping in vain for the implementation of this function? An indication of what is currently being worked on would also be pretty cool. Like the open roadmap (reduced to the essential points, if you like) of past years. I've already asked for this a few times, so that the community doesn't repeatedly request the same features that are possibly already being worked on.
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Kurz auf deutsch, geht schneller: Ah, nein, ich hab’s schon verstanden in deinem Video – du hast automatische Einschübe definiert … oder? Edit: Hast du nicht, ach so. 😅 Naja, was ich jedenfalls meinte ist, wenn du allerdings einen Paragraph Style mit »Bullets and Numbering« eingestellt hast dient ein Tab dafür ins nächste Level zu wechseln. Also von z. B. Level 1) zu 1a), das meinte ich damit.
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Ah, now I get it @Old Bruce! You guys have just answered my example question about the styles perfectly. (At least I’d like to think so!) Basically, it's like this, and I wasn’t fully aware, at least for »Next Style«: Paragraphs (in some way) serve as a trigger for »Next Style«. Tabs (in some way) serve as a trigger for »Next Level«. At least for me, this solved my example question, besides the faulty functionality shown in your videos @thomaso. But basically that's exactly the kind of explanation I expect from a (here I go again) documentation or or rather a fully comprehensive help file. How is anyone (regardless of the degree of experience) supposed to get to know this, why aren’t there any tooltips in that dialogue?! Trial and error is a great way to learn the ropes, but it's not always an option. By the way, I didn't even know about the »... Then Next Styles« option – so thanks for pointing that out, @thomaso! Definitely comes in handy next time when formatting text! Now I just wonder why there is not also the option "... Then Next Level", e.g. for nested lists. Edit: I now also know why I got confused about this in the first place! When setting up »Bullets and Numbering« you can also provide a Style that will be used for the bullet/number at the start. I guess I though that »Next Style« would work quite similar. Guess I didn't think that through completely. 😁
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That's exactly what I'm wondering. I mainly became aware of it because Publisher offers these options and not necessarily because I need it right now. Me neither, not at the top level, don't get me wrong. But please take a look at the first three dropdown menus in the screenshot – I would like to understand how they build on each other and influence each other. For some reason, I have not been able to really figure it out. What does »Next Style« imply? I can't seem to wrap my head around it. One use case I see could be controlling colours (each colour gets its own character style) without editing the global colour swatches? --- Please don't forget the big picture though! Character Style paired with Paragraph Style was also just an example for the head topic – I would still appreciate documentation of the other functions in this dialogue, as not everything is self-explanatory and the help file therefore seems incomplete. Besides, you don't seem to get the information about these options anywhere else. Scouring the forum for possible threads cannot be the solution when you need a quick answer. Adding documentation would also benefit novices who want to delve deeper into the matter of clean typography and therefore more organised file structures.
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Hey everyone, I've been working with Affinity Publisher for quite some time now (actually I'm a day one user) and before that I worked over half a decade with the equivalent of the big A. So, I'd like to think I already have some experience with DTP software. Still, here I am coming back to questions that arise every now and then when working with interdependent Text Styles. (Some things I never quite get used to, heh. 😅) Question: Is there any documentation or overview of the different options (I know, there are a lot) or a section in the FAQ or help file that I missed that helps to explain them and the context/requirements? Just as an example: I am currently stuck and wondering how (and if at all) I can combine a pragraph style with a character style, So if I change the character style, all the associated paragraph styles adapt as well? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! For those wondering what the heck is he talking about, here's a screenshot of the first tab in the left list – there are many more options:
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Hey everyone, with the all-knowing alternatives to Affinity Suite (and also numerous other unrelated apps/applications), right-clicking on the name of the currently open file in the file window/titlebar allows you to see the location (unless it's a new, unsaved document). In combination with the option »open recent« (which also only shows the file name but not the file path) or the touch bar, which as well displays the last X documents, this would be incredibly helpful. Because … you know … we creatives sometimes forget where the current file or the latest version was saved to. 😅 My next workaround would actually be »Save As…«, which – in other apps – usually can be used to make out the location of the currently opened file. But here too, Affinity Suite seems to have its own way of working, which is not really comprehensible to me, as it shows the location of the previous/last »Save as…« operation, which is rarely the location of the currently opened file. I would be happy if this small feature gets implemented in a future release. 😉 Greetings Dennis
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Hey @Dan C, thanks for your reply and the detailed explanation on this issue. I don't know if it's too much to ask, but such a hint would be great as the last message before a thread is automatically merged, wouldn't it? »Hey X, this issue has been relocated with other similar issues within a new (internal) thread and it will be worked on further.« That's why we use tags, so that we can easily and quickly find all the threads that belong together, right? By silently moving/merging and closing a thread, users are just wondering why the problem hasn't been solved and it feels a bit like communicating into the void. But of course it is nice to read that the problem is not going unheard and is being worked on. Let's hope that at some point (sooner rather than later) there will be a solution to it. 🙂 Happy Weekend! Dennis
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Also, why the heck was my old thread closed and moved to solved when the problem clearly hasn't been touched in any way?
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Haha, oh wow, thanks for looking it up! ❤️ I hadn't even thought about how old it actually is. Sweet, hope you all brought cake – the issue is turning seven this year! 🎂🥳 Jokes aside, that's one year after the first release of Designer I mentioned this problem. At the same time I can remember some other good suggestions for improvement from the community, which were unfortunately completely ignored. Instead, more and more new – but mostly uncalled for – features were released without fixing the existing problems first. And if you ask after 6+ years, you don't get an answer – or as in other cases an answer from the moderators with a spiteful/annoyed undertone, in which they deny any responsibility instead of taking the users seriously and referring the issue to the right person. What’s the point of having a Feature Requests & Suggestions section in the forum if same are getting completely ignored? That's quite frustrating. 😑
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Better Keyboard-Support required
Mr. Doodlezz replied to muelli75's topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
Hey @Gabe, I don't want to sound pushy, but this is actually something that's been logged for years. So … what's the status on this? 🤔 Cheers Dennis- 4 replies
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tab to navigate pane fields
Mr. Doodlezz replied to Daniel Gibert's topic in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
Hey @MEB, so what‘s the status on this? It’s been a couple of years … 🤔 Cheers Dennis -
Hey Affinity team, this continues to be one of my recurring pains with the entire suite, and as someone who loves navigating menus and input fields with the keyboard it drives me crazy. I've raised the issue some years before, but I can't seem to find it again here on the forum. The (mis-)behaviour is incredibly annoying if you are used to working with keyboard shortcuts – every other software has a logical sequence for jumping/changing the active field with tabs. As far as the whole Affinity suite is concerned, I only recognise fragmentary connections that do not correspond to any logic, and this is independent of the desktop operating system (Mac/Win). Sometimes the cursor jumps to the next field, sometimes nothing happens, sometimes you get a hint or error tone. The key combination Shift + Tab, which normally jumps to the previous field, does not work either. Therefore: Please, it would be great if you could clean up the logic in the suite – even if it costs a lot of time, talking about creating tab-enabled forms in Acrobat. 😪. In addition, tabbed navigation also allows for better accessibility. I would love to see and improvement on this matter in a future update! 🙂 Cheers Dennis
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Oh wow, thanks for the macro @T V! And the video is a great reminder of the (slightly hidden) Duplicate Linked option – I had completely neglected it until now and am just seeing whole new possibilities for workflows! 😲 Thanks for sharing and happy new year! 🎉
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Very nice, great use of symbols – they are a very powerful and underrated tool within the Affinity Suite! Reminds me of my snowflake generator from a few years ago! ❄️ Happy Holidays and see you next year 😉
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Failed to Save Due to Internal Error
Mr. Doodlezz replied to Adam Smith's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Hey @Sean P, thanks for the hint about Save History with Document, that finally did the trick for me! In future versions I would prefer the error message to refer to this rather than just spitting out a (for us users) vacuous error message and that we should contact you – without giving a hint how. 😁 Greetings and a happy new year! 🎉 -
Sure, but then I ask myself: Why pretend the forum is a platform for collecting suggestions for improvements and for new features that the community actually wants/needs, when apparently only the internal agenda counts and dictates which new feature will be implemented next or which bugs are getting fixed? 🤥 I really can't remember a single feature that was implemented due to requests from the community (however, if this is the case, it has not been mentioned publicly). To me, feedback/bug fixing on basic, already existing features seems less important than the next hot sh*t for publicity at the next Apple event. 😑 I don't just want to vent my frustration here, but also admit that many many new features are great and make the work immensely easier! 😉 But often it's the little things that were buggy from the start and finally need some love and tweaking. Greetings
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Hey guys, nice to see that I'm not the only one who would like to use the NumPad for shortcuts! 😃 After seeing many threads with great ideas like this one, I can't help but feel that a lot of the community's ideas are overlooked and ignored when directly approached by the moderators (»I'm not responsible for that matter and I can't/won't name/forward this to a responsible person ...«) so that Affinity/Serif only implements what the company and its employees think is important. At least that's how it feels. Sure, performance improvements are great and the (staff) euphoria about special features like astrophotography is nice. But I haven't had any problems with performance for years (fortunately) and – like probably a large part of the user base – have absolutely no use for astrophotography stacks. In fact, I had never heard of astrophotography before the update. Good for them! As a long-term user, at this point I'm frankly just disappointed. Submitting what feels like basic and easy to implement ideas and requests/improvements for features like this that end up gathering dust unheeded just feels like a dull waste of time by now. 🤔
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Hey @MEB, not sure you're still on it, but since you're active at some point I'll tag you. 😉 On Windows I still get the same results and suspect that – whether checked or not – »Scale with Object« is always active with saved presets and pasted styles. I have a design for which I want to create several complex styles that I can then apply again and again. Unfortunately, the styles scale completely randomly or multiply by multitudes even though the option »Scale with Object« is deactivated – what could be the possible reason to keep this behaviour in the apps, am I missing something? It is completely contrary to what I would expect from a list of preset styles. If I have to manually adjust the styles every time I apply them, I can save myself the trouble of creating presets in the first place. 🤔 Cheers Dennis
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All right. That might be efficient and I can understand that it is not possible to comment or give information on all topics at all times. Nevertheless, after a few years and several threads repeating the same old question, it leaves users waiting for any sign of their concerns being looked at with a sense of indifference or ignorance on the part of the developers. Just some user perspective and light venting/feedback from a day one user of the products and long time member of the forum. 😉
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Hehe, sorry, you were the first name that came to mind, I didn't think anything else of it. 😁 I'm not sure who to tag here, but I feel like these requests don't get proper closure. This feature request is not exactly new, there are at least four different threads on the forum about font management and specifically missing auto-activation (through interacting with/integrating third party apps). I feel that the issue is being treated somewhat shoddily, and maybe I'm wrong, but no staff member has ever commented on it. After all, the question has been unanswered since 2018 – maybe you can forward the topic to the person in charge or give me the right name to tag? 😜 Cheers and thanks MrDoodlezz
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@Patrick Connor I'm not sure if you're the right person to give us an update on this, but it's a feature that's been requested for a long time and I feel like there's still no update on it. Cheers MrDoodlezz
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Wow, thanks for digging this up! I wonder where and why they decided to move (delete?) this thread. Lots of nice features I've been looking/longing for since the first Designer Beta, besides Calligraphic line styles of course. Multiple Effects per shape (we're lucky we got those multiple fills and strokes I guess) Convert Pixel selection to Vector shape (would be a nice thing to have at least basic image tracing) Replicate/Blend (pleeease!) Let's hope for a surprise in a (hopefully soon) future update. 🤞 Cheers
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Hey photopart, thank you for the brief instructions – with your workaround it works just fine! Cheers!
