GarryP
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Confirmed in Publisher 2.2 on Windows 10.
Also, in my limited testing, the zoom level is slightly different between using the two methods – slightly higher percentage value when page is double-clicked in Pages Panel.
Like you say, it’s a minor issue, but fixing it would make for a ‘smoother’ user experience.
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When you are changing the Blend Mode settings, make sure that you have the image layer selected and not the Live Perspective Filter layer. (Open the layer in the Layers Panel and see which layer is selected/hilighted.)
Having said that, some ‘oddities’ do occur when changing the Blend Mode settings for the Live Perspective Filter layer – see attached video. I have no idea if any of this is expected behaviour.
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8 minutes ago, Komatös said:
Maybe the OP mean the vertical justification?
Quite possibly.
I’m a little confused as to what they mean by “aligned...on both the top and the bottom” as it’s not clear, to me, exactly what they want.
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Welcome to the forums @Dimwit
You can read (and follow) this thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/64885-scripting/ for more information about scripting.
That seems to be the official place for Serif to tell us what’s happening with scripting so if there’s any news on this then it will either be announced there or the functionality will be in a beta release, which will have its own thread in the relevant forum section.
Note: At the time of writing, there isn’t any kind of scripting functionality other than macros, which can only be created in Photo.
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Welcome to the forums @piotr4338
Unless I have misunderstood your requirements, what I think you need to use is the Baseline Grid.
Type baseline grid into the search in the application Help to find out more.If that's not what you want then more a more detailed description of the problem may be required.
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Furry: If you can share a set of example images, including both the original and the result after Photoshop processing, someone may be able to examine them to see the differences, do some experimentation, and give you a workflow which works best using the Affinity functionalities. This might be better than trying to ‘shoehorn’ a Photoshop workflow into the way the Affinity applications work. (There may be a much quicker way to do what you want than what you are trying to do.)
In this case, if you share the images, ZIP them first and upload the ZIP so we get the actual images (the forum has a tendency to manipulate images that are uploaded directly so we don’t always see exactly what we should see).
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When you hid the mask layer, the Recolour Adjustment will probably have been recolouring everything below it, which in this case is the plant and the background which are both on the same Background layer.
Try also hiding the Recolour Adjustment layer to see what happens; the Background layer should look like it did originally.
If it does, try deselecting the current pixel selection and then unhiding the Mask and Recolour Adjustment layers and then dragging the Mask layer as mentioned above.
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At the moment your mask is masking everything, both the Recolour Adjustment and the Background layer.
In this case, unless I’m misinterpreting your screenshot or your requirements, if you only want the mask to be masking the Recolour Adjustment then you can drag the Mask layer onto the name of the Recolour Adjustment layer on the Layers Panel.
Note: It helps us to help you if you give us a screenshot of the whole application window, rather than leaving bits out. Even if you don’t think part of the window is important, it might be useful for diagnostic purposes.
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An alternative to the technique supplied by markw above, the one about the Erase Blend Mode, would be to use the Geometry Subtract functionality to ‘cut’ the text from the donut.
See attached video where I keep Alt pressed down while pressing the Subtract button to make a Compound which means that I can easily change the shape or text as necessary. This also keeps the text and shape as vectors whereas the Erase Blend Mode will always produce a raster output on export.
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Welcome to the forums @TheCongressman
The Affinity applications don’t have a user-defined ‘tool grouping’ functionality on the Toolbar (or anywhere else).
Some tools are ‘grouped’ but that’s because Serif have chosen to ‘group’ them for us.
The best we can do is to use a ‘space’ or ‘flexible space’ divider between icons that we consider to be related.If you would like to have ‘tool grouping’ on the Toolbar then you can create a new feature request or, even better, search for an existing request which covers your requirements and ‘add your voice’ to that.
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The “Flow” setting, very simply put, relates to the flow of ‘paint’ from the brush to the ‘canvas’.
From the Help: “Flow—how fast the pixel brush effect is applied (1% is very slow, 100% is immediate).”The “Window” setting relates to how the software draws the curve depending on how your mouse pointer moves when the brush is in “Window Mode” when the Stabiliser is switched ON.
As far as I know they’re pretty unrelated; one of the tooltips (for "Window") seems to be wrong.
Check the Help for the Brush Tool you are using to be sure.
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I think it’s worth noting that the Multiply Blend Mode (as with all Blend Modes, in the majority of cases) will cause the – in this case – greyscale original drawing to be coloured (slightly) differently – see attached video where you can see that some of the individual colour values of the pixels are smaller when the Blend Mode has changed.
This is mentioned in the “Layer blending” page of the Help: “Multiply—The blending result is a combination of the top and bottom colour at each pixel position, always producing a darker value.”
This may, or may not, be a problem, depending on what’s wanted in each case.
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Welcome to the forums @OldSwede
(That issue was raised for macOS but I imagine it’s the same problem.)
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Welcome to the forums @Darstrial
Just because a layer is a child layer of another layer, and it looks to be in the ‘same place’ as the parent layer if you look at the Layers Panel, doesn’t mean that it can be seen inside that parent layer.
One of the first things to do is make sure that the child layer you are trying to clip with the parent layer is visible within the extents of the parent layer.
For example, in my screenshot, the “Blue Right” Curve layer is not within the visible extents of the “Right” Curve Layer and so cannot be seen, but the “Black Right” Curve layer can be seen.
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Whenever you apply an Effect to a layer, that layer – and its child layers – will always be rasterised upon export, no matter what the export file type is. (Unless you choose “Rasterise: Nothing” when you export, which will cause the Effects to be removed from the layers upon export.)
This is not a bug; it is expected behaviour in the Affinity applications.
There’s no way round it that I know of other than to reorganise your document in a way so that the things you don’t want to be rasterised do not have any Effects applied to them.
Note: The same thing goes for Adjustments, Live Filters, and maybe some other things that don’t come to mind at the moment.
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Welcome to the forums @Mark Beattie
If your line
only has one dimension– it’sis just a simple closed curve then Contour Tool should only ‘offset’ on one side of the line (unless the line ‘curves back on itself’ somehow).If you are getting an ‘offset’ on both sides then that would suggest to me that your line is either an open curve or a 2D shape which looks like a line (e.g. an expanded stroke). Check the Layers Panel to see if your layer is a Curve layer or a Curves layer; a Curves (plural) layer will have more than one curve in it. Also, check to see if the curve is open or closed.
In that case there’s probably not much you can do other than remove the inner our outer stroke before or after using the Contour Tool.If this doesn't help then we may need to see a document containing the curve so we can check it for ourselves before giving further advice.
Edit: Amendments in italic or struck through.
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You're welcome.
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One way to do what I think you want to do is shown in my attached video.
Note: This only works with Designer as I use the Point Transform Tool (in Translate mode) to get the two end points of the curves to the same position before the join. (If the two ends aren’t in the same position you will get a line between them.)
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53 minutes ago, raily74 said:
So thank you again for the quick help.
You’re welcome.
(I’m pretty sure that I had to be told about it rather than finding it out for myself.)54 minutes ago, raily74 said:Does a new feature request have to be opened or are those responsible reading this?
Since the gist of this request is about a way to select multiple nodes, but the actual need is to have some existing functionality documented, I would say that a new request should probably be created. (You can add a link to that request in a post in this one so there’s some kind of continuity.)
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Would anyone looking at the image know, or care, that the amount of the shape that was filled was exactly the value required?
For instance, which of the shapes in my attached image is filled with exactly 50% red and 50% black?
Also, the exact fill percentage may not look ‘right’ for the shape, or the shape of the image may not allow for ‘pleasing’ results when exact measurements are used.
An automatic solution might not look ‘nice’ and therefore impel you into messing around with the result to get it looking ‘nice’.
Also, filling the shape exactly would prevent you from using certain psychological ‘tricks’, such as filling the shape ‘faster’ at the start to perhaps get more people to join in with ‘the rush’.
My advice would be to do it by eye rather than worrying about precision.
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I had a look in the Help, specifically the pages for:
- Node Tool;
- Edit curves and shapes;
- Draw and edit shapes;
- Draw curves and shapes;
- Transforming curves and shapes;
- Selecting and aligning nodes...
...and there’s no mention of this, that I can see.
(Why are there so many separate pages about drawing/editing curves/shapes? Maybe some 'consolidation' would be useful.)I think this should be mentioned in the “Selecting and aligning nodes” page, at least – the “To select multiple nodes” section would seem appropriate.
It might be worth adding a feature request to ask for this.
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You can already select all of the nodes of a Curve layer by selecting a node on the curve and choosing menu “Select → All”, or by using the shortcut key.
You can also select all of the nodes of multiple curves in a Curves layers by Shift-selecting one node in each individual curve and then using the same method.
See attached video.
Does your suggestion extend the current functionality in any way, or am I missing the point of what you want to do?
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11 hours ago, mahboud said:
They keep telling me that they need AI format
If the print shop is insisting that you can only supply an Adobe file format document then there’s probably not much you can do about that, other than using Adobe software or changing to another print shop.
Each print shop which has this ‘limitation’ will have their own reasons for it – procedures/costs/experience/etc. – and most customers will have no control over that.
(I’ve even heard of some print shops refusing to print from PDFs which were not produced via the Adobe software – sometimes they check the PDF Producer” attribute of the PDF and simply reject anything that doesn’t have “Adobe” in it.)
11 hours ago, mahboud said:I was hoping that there was some known format that gets close to AI format to prevent them from losing any needed resolution or have any other issue.
If you absolutely have to send them an Adobe file format document then that’s what you will need to send them, and it will probably need to be produced by an Adobe application – anything “close” may not be “close” enough.
Page Centering in Publisher
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I think you might be right.
I tried creating a simple non-facing document with 5 pages of 3”x3” and I saw no zoom changes.
However, I created a different non-facing document with 5 pages of A4 Portrait and the zoom changed from 73% (after pressing the “Last Spread” button) to 71% after double-clicking the last page in the Pages Panel, but was unable to replicate it after that (the slight shift in position is still there though).
The 'zoom thing' might be a 'red herring'.