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Stroke?
GarryP replied to Ralph Tomaccio's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I forgot about the Outline functionality which Alfred mentioned later. -
I don’t think the Boolean operations are limited by the number of shapes. If nothing happens when you use them it’s normally because of a different issue, sometimes the Fill Mode is ‘wrong’ for some of the shapes, sometimes it’s because the shapes are not (all) closed curves, or various other things. If you can share the document we can experiment and see what’s happening.
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Stroke?
GarryP replied to Ralph Tomaccio's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Thanks for the reminder, that’s probably an easier method in most situations. -
Text cursor not visible
GarryP replied to WillDo's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Without a screen recording, as requested by Callum above, it’s difficult for us to know what’s happening and, therefore, difficult for us to give further advice. -
Gradients with Global Colours
GarryP replied to MarioDM's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Welcome to the forums @MarioDM It seems to be working okay for me – see attached video. If you can give us more details of your set-up (OS+version, application+version, etc.), and tell us which tools you are using and how you are using them, then someone should be able to give better advice. 2024-03-28 08-48-46.mp4 -
Stroke?
GarryP replied to Ralph Tomaccio's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Thanks for supplying extra information. For regular shapes (e.g. rectangle, ellipse, and such forth) I would probably just use a Quick Shape (e.g. Rectangle Tool) instead of messing around with selections. For irregular shapes I would probably use a variant of what I show in my attached video using a Spare Channel, which I suspect could be what David’s macro does. (Make sure that the first selection is smaller than the second selection so it can be subtracted.) 2024-03-28 08-36-24.mp4 -
I think I was able to reproduce this but not in a way I can give a repeatable workflow for. Attached is a video where I managed to reproduce it, or something like it, but I couldn’t say what I did before to make it happen. It seems to happen, but only sometimes, almost randomly, when I’ve been in Preview Mode and then do some other stuff and then try to drag a guide from either ruler, if that helps any. 2024-03-28 08-06-17.mp4
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using bitmap fill locks objects fill color
GarryP replied to maxen's topic in Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas
@maxen You have posted this in a section of the forums related to the beta software only. If you are still using the V2.4 beta software (there is no V2.4.2301 as that’s not a valid Affinity software version number) then you should look at upgrading the commercial software (already at V2.4.1) as the older beta software will expire soon. If you are not using the beta software then this should have been posted in the relevant non-beta section of the forums. A moderator can move this thread for you (if necessary) when you tell us which you are using. -
Stroke?
GarryP replied to Ralph Tomaccio's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I’m confused by your combination of the Marquee Tool (there are more than one), and shapes, and guides, and “stroke them” in the same sentence. Can you give us a more detailed example of what you are trying to do, preferably with a visual example and/or a document? -
Photo: Straightening Blueprints
GarryP replied to JimSlade's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
If the blueprints have been scanned with something like a flat-bed scanner, from flat drawings – i.e. the scans are ‘flat’ with no 'z-axis distortions' – then it’s possible that the only thing that is needed is to use the Straighten functionality of the Crop Tool . -
PDF not working
GarryP replied to Rufus Reade's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
As Walt said above, the file with the ‘~lock~’ at the end of it isn’t a real document, it’s used to lock the real document so it cannot be edited by more than one person at a time. If you can see that file and you are not editing the document then something has gone wrong somewhere. I managed to export the file okay, apart from some Pre-flight errors (potential spelling mistakes and overflowing frames), but I don’t know which export settings you were using. Pdf (containing errors) is attached. Funeral sheet recentred.pdf -
Step and Repeat
GarryP replied to Steveporter's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Did you try selecting a layer and pressing the ENTER key? That functionality is documented in the Help as Move Data Entry. (Screenshot is from Designer but it works in Publisher too.) -
I think it’s because they use rasters that are drawn along a vector, rather than being ‘hand-drawn’. In a similar way, the Vector Crop Tool in designer doesn’t just crop vectors. I think some of the Basic brushes are wholly-vector. Note: Use of Adjustments and/or Blend Modes may also cause a wholly-vector design to be rasterised.
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Change spot distance?
GarryP replied to Handyann's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
You can change the Screen Tolerance (‘snapping distance’) via the Snapping drop-down – see attached image. If that’s not what you want then you might need to give us more details, preferably with a visual example. -
You’re welcome. As for rearranging the categories manually, I don’t think you can do that as they are always listed in the order specified by the “Sort Categories By” option in the Brushes Panel ‘hamburger menu’.
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The ones with the ‘shopping bag’ come from the Serif Store and the ones with the ‘linked chain’ are linked between the applications.
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Affinity Photo 2.4.0 keeps crashing (for me)
GarryP replied to pfi's topic in V2 Bugs found on Windows
@pfi This section of the forums is for the beta software only. If you are still using the beta software then you should probably update the commercial release to 2.4.0 and use that instead as the beta will be ‘expiring’ soon. If you are using the 2.4.0 commercial release then you should be posting in a different bug section of the forums. -
I can’t be sure but the problem looks like it’s because the QR Code (layer name “bit.ly_boar-barra”, in various places) isn’t pixel-aligned. Make sure that the X, Y, W and H in the Transform Panel are integer pixel values and it should work better.
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I know, I tried it myself and got so mixed up in the various dash parameters that I gave up after a while. In case it’s any use to anyone, the Dash parameters I was using (also getting an SOSOSOSOS) were: 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 (Round cap) 2, 22, 0, 0, 0, 0, -3 (Square Cap) 2, 22, 0, 0, 0, 0, -7 (Square Cap) 2, 22, 0, 0, 0, 0, -11 (Square Cap) Also, I had Balanced switched OFF for each Stroke.
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It’s a nice idea but, to my untrained-in-Morse-code eye, that spells SOSOSOSOSOS..., or maybe S O S O S O S O S..., rather than SOS SOS SOS... I believe SOS is supposed to be keyed without gaps between the letters so it needs to be SOS<gap>SOS<gap>SOS... Might be a bit tricky to pull that off with multiple Strokes, but nice if someone can do it (and maybe share it in the Resources section).
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You can click on the filename of the image in the VS Code Explorer to display it and then either: right-click the image, select Copy, then paste it into the Affinity application, or; right-click the image, select Copy, and then use “File → New From Clipboard” in the Affinity application, or; drag the image to the Affinity application (I think you need to click on a different filename and then click on the original image filename again in the Explorer to be able to drag it again). Note: When you drag a file from the Explorer in VS Code, you are dragging some text which contains the filename of the file.
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The Procedural Texture Filter (Live or otherwise) needs a layer to work on because it has to apply a texture to something. You should be able to add a Live Procedural Texture Filter when there are no layers in the document but it won’t do anything because it has nothing to work upon. You cannot apply a non-Live Procedural Texture Filter to a document that contains no layers because it needs a layer to work with.