GarryP

@princesitaneko The document opened for me on my Windows machine but with some missing images and fonts (as might be expected). However, it's working very slowly as it tries to find the images. As Hangman mentions above, I think the problem you might be having could be to do with you using lots of large external images marked as “Linked (Remote)” in the Resource Manager. I’ve attached a version of the document with all of the images replaced with an embedded ‘red cross’ image, just in case you cannot get the images moved to a local drive – not what you want but better than having to do the whole thing again. Agenda personalizada Coni 2024-without-images.afpub

Welcome to the forums @laagparb A Curve cannot have a bifurcation; it can only have one start point and one end point, meaning that it cannot ‘split’ anywhere along its length. As mentioned above, you can Merge Curves to have more than one curve in the same layer but the points on each individual curve in the Curves layer will still behave in the same way as you have seen – each curve will still have just one start point and one end point. I don’t know how Figma does it but the Affinity applications do it this way.

Interesting. On Windows I cannot get the Style Picker to Load from any type of layer* that has no Fill and no Stroke, even when the layer is already selected. Sometimes I can click on where the Stroke should be and the mouse pointer changes to ‘loaded’ but when I click on another layer that clicked-on layer flashes but nothing else seems to happen. * I’ve only tried Rectangle Quick Shapes, Rectangle Quick Shapes converted to Curves, and Curves drawn with the Pen Tool so far.

You have posted this thread in a section of the forums which is for the beta (testing) release of software. Does this issue only relate to the current beta, or is it also extant in the commercial release of the software?

I’ve never used the Style Picker with text layers – I’ve only really used it today, for this one thing, and might hardly ever use it again – so I don’t know how it’s supposed to work.

Find the layer in the Layers Panel and press the Toggle Lock icon to the right of the layer name.

The ‘X’es usually mean that the layer is locked, or it’s on a master page (and you’re not currently editing the master page).

I’m not sure of your exact requirements but I think this is already available in Designer via the Appearance Panel – see attached image.

I don’t know if I would go so far as to say it was a bug, ‘minor edge-case short-coming’ sounds better to me. Maybe this is related to the situation where the user cannot select such a layer from the canvas without marquee dragging.

I think that sounds like the better way to get the job done but I’m still curious as to whether the Style Picker should work in the above scenario or not. Maybe someone out there has the answer.

I don’t seem to be able to Load the Style Picker from a layer with no Stroke and no Fill, but I might be using it incorrectly. After Unloading, I’ve tried: clicking within the boundary of the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer; clicking on the bounding box (if I can see it) of the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer; marquee-dragging the picker around the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer; clicking on either the name or thumbnail of the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer in the Layers Panel; ...but nothing seems to work, nothing seems to be ‘picked’ and the mouse pointer doesn’t change. (All of the above was done with all of the settings in the Context Toolbar set to ON.) Is there a ‘trick’ that I’m missing, or does it just not work? Note: I don’t actually want to do this, I only got into this situation when trying something as a possible answer to another user’s issue. (I did a quick search of the forums for style picker but didn’t find anything relevant in the first five pages of results.)

I’m a little bit confused by the differences between what's mentioned in the text and what's shown in the image. In the text you seem to be asking for a single button to set both the Fill and Stroke to OFF together, e.g. But in the image you seem to be asking for separate buttons, one of which will set the Stroke to OFF and the other to set the Fill to OFF. Can you clarify the request please?

One service I’ve used before is https://icomoon.io/ (choose IcoMoon App) from the top menu, but I’ve not used it in a while.

As far as I know, like I said above, there’s no way to use a non-font user-defined item as a bullet within the Bullet functionality. I’m pretty sure that this has been requested before. Note: If your bullet is a single-colour vector-based image, that you will use a lot, then you can probably use a free web service to create a font from it and then use that.

You can create a bullet from any font character – see example image – but you cannot use any non-font item as a bullet (except when done manually).

See: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/49032-looking-for-polar-grid-tool-in-affinity-designer/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/158083-pattern-design-tools-missing-in-designer-desktop-same-fillhide-edgeshide-bounding-boxpolar-grid-grid-toolsmooth-tool/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135742-feature-request-polar-grids/ etc. etc.

Alternatively, you could just type the text directly into an Artistic Text layer and save a lot of bother (unless I’m missing something important from the requirements).

You're welcome.

The V1 and V2 installations are completely separate and changing/removing one should not affect the other. Make sure you have made a backup of any important assets, palettes, and other things before you uninstall. Note: Even if you do find yourself needing V1 back then you can reinstall it again from wherever you installed it before.

I don’t understand why you are using the Selective Colour Adjustment. Can you give us an example of the website text and an Affinity document containing the layer coloured with the hex values, but displaying wrongly, so we can compare them.

Thanks for telling me; it’s good to know that I’ve helped a bit.

Some years ago, when I was looking for a new laptop (the one I have now in fact), I ordered one from Currys online (was still PC World then, I think). They took my money, then a week or so later they sent me an email saying that the machine was out of stock and gave me my money back. So I looked for another laptop, on the same site, ordered it, waited a week or so again, and they sent me an email saying that the machine was out of stock and gave me my money back, again. Then I went to PC Specialist and got a better laptop, for pretty much the same price, delivered within about a week.

Currys have a machine which (at first glance) is like the original example but with 16BG of RAM and it costs around £80 more (there may be other minor differences), so the prices seem to be pretty comparable with PC Specialist.

In addition to the advice above, if you draw the gradient fill in greyscale you can use a Gradient Map Adjustment to create the colours. That way it’s easier to adjust the colours without adjusting the gradient. See attached video where I have used the adjustment to convert white to yellow and black to red, with different opacities on the gradient stops to get the ‘ripples’. 2024-04-07 09-07-20.mp4

Since you are based in the UK, rather than going to Currys, have you considered PC Specialist https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ ? They have lots of different set-ups, which can be customised if necessary, and they aren’t much more expensive than buying from a store when comparing similar products (and their customer support is very good). An example of a low-cost solution, similar to your example (only about £50 more) but which looks like a better deal to me, can be seen here: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Dimension-Spark/ (this is just an example, not a recommendation) Note: You’ll need to specify a mouse and keyboard, if you need to buy them, as they don’t come as standard (they don’t sell you stuff you don’t need/want). And don’t forget that you might need a monitor too (it doesn’t look like the Currys machine comes with one either). Note: If you want to get the most out of using the Affinity software with your new computer I would suggest making sure that the Affinity applications can use Hardware Acceleration with the graphics card which comes with it (see Affinity technical specs for details). You could be disappointed otherwise.