rjvela82
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I'm not sure what you mean. In my video, you see that I attempt to update a template file that has my latest styles with the goal to update another document I made previously with older styles. My attempts to update the template file's styles so that it does not cause all my frames in an older file to start with the same number is what I'm asking for help with.
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3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
In the first video around the 20 second mark you deleted the four but never entered anything. Try entering 1.
It causes the same issue. All my frames will start with 1 instead of 4.
I honestly believe there's a bug here. The Styles properties allows me to clear out the Start numbering at field so that it says [No change], however when I reopen the properties, the current value of the Paragraph studio is always set, and therefore that is what's importing to new documents.
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41 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
I am going to guess you mean on "Text Style Import" the numbering for Numbered lists has the starting value imported. I would expect that to be imported as it is part of the definition of the Paragraph Style.
Pls have a look at these videos and let me know what I'm doing wrong in trying to solve this issue.
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I have gone ahead and set it No Change on the template.
Can you tell me exactly what the 'Restart numbering now' flag does?
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I noticed on Style Import, the 'Start numbering at' value is being imported.
This resulted in me having to go through every frame and double check my bullet numbers.
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Thank you for the help. Based on what you said, I was able to figure out the correct step is to set the paragraph style to appear in Both character and paragraph styles.
The bullet styles only looks at Character styles by default and when you said to select the Paragraph style it occurred to me to set the option for the paragraph style to appear in both panels.
I do have one more issue with these bullets 😅
You see this video below how the image's text wrap options for the hanging line as well as the distance of the bullet are not maintained. Are there any options available that would help maintain the style in this scenario? I want to avoid creating separate text frames whenever possible.
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Hi, can you help me understand why this is happening:
I have a set of bullet points which I have set with No Style so they retain the color style of the paragraph style. I also have a character color style which modifies the color of text.
When I use this character style on the first word of a bulletpoint, the bullet style is affected. This does not happen when applying the style to other words in the bulletpoint.
Is there a way to resolve this without having to create another bullet style based on the default color ?
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Can we get Batch Job templates?
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7 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
As I mentioned above, it's only on the Mac, not Windows, and is a bug that's planned for removal.
The bug is on Windows for not including it. The Text Frame is formatting tool for text layers, so it should absolutely be part of Affinity Designer.
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Thanks for pointing out the Staff badge. Goes to show I'm not here on here much.
No I definitely I'm not married to this idea! There are different ways to accomplish things, and sometimes keeping things rudimentary remains the best course of action. I work for a software company and telling customers that databases don't work like the human brain is a common response but you can't blame people for venturing to cut corners.
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Everybody, look.... I couldn't believe my eyes.
Only found it because I'm trying to do text on a curve path. Clicking random buttons and the Text Frame shows up. Case closed.
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@Old Bruce are you Serif tech support ? Not relevant, just curious.
Yes, bleed is paper that is trimmed off and used to make sure color bleed or lack thereof results in a good print. The text frame panel allows for fill color to apply on a text frame, I'm sure you know that by now. If a text frame with color is used to go into the bleed, than that text frame's inset must account for the bleed to improve alignment with other aspects of the software that facilitate a user's design and workflow like grids, rulers, margin guides, etc requiring the user to do the extra math on every edge of a text frame that borders a bleed.
To answer your question:
The value is applied to each inset in the text frame when the option is toggled on/off including insets with a value of 0. It would work like this: Left Inset + Left Bleed = new adjusted Left inset, Right Inset + Right Bleed = new adjusted Right inset, and so on.
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Bleed is somewhat of a variable that could change based on the printing job and this could adversely affect a user's workflow since they are now forced to account for bleed on every inset of a text frame bordering bleeds within the whole project.
It would be great to have an option in the Text Frame panel that adds all 4 bleed values as insets using a single option "Add Bleed Insets" or similar. This value would stack on top of the main Inset settings.
The benefit of this option would allow a user to change Bleed which is at the Project Setting level and have complete confidence that it won't be necessary to adjust many text frame insets settings in the project. Instead, the only required step is for the user to adjust their text frames height and width to border the new bleed. That's it, everything else would maintain its intended alignment.
Example:
As you can see in the screenshot below, the user has created a comfortable grid to work with. The inset settings they would naturally be inclined to use would be based on their grid, but the bleed is now forcing the user to adjust the Text Frame Insets to account for it.
The work involved (a little bit of arithmetic), for every edge of a text frame for how ever many text frames are found in the project make the transition to use another bleed setting for the project a daunting task.
If they had such a setting and applied it as they were adding text frames, then all they would have had to do is adjust the current text frame height or width and everything would be aligned as intended automatically.
One last clarification: Yes, only one option is needed, and when used all 4 bleeds are added as inset in the Text Frame. It's uncommon for bleed settings to be different across all four edges. Moreover, you will notice there are more options in the text frame panel for adjusting the relative height of a text such as baseline and vertical position but these would be supported by such a feature, not reduce their usability.
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22 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
I would much rather the developers fix all the outstanding bugs that won't let me exit from a number field with a push of the enter or return or escape key. I would also like to see the various fields accept tabbing and shift + tabbing so I can go from one to another with out using a mouse click.
I feel the same way as you, but the gradient tool is a rudimentary part of Affinity Designer. The community has been asking for it to be overhauled, reimagined, reinvented, whatever and it needs to be.
Consider the fact that 4K monitors are now more prevalent than ever and on such a high resolution screen you are forcing users to focus in one little area of the screen. It is not a good experience.
This brings up another grievous point I have with the Gradient tool.
An issue where the Opacity is not being maintained upon color change. A user has to re-initialize the opacity either in the value field or the control to reapply the desired opacity. Whatever programming reasons existed for this, it doesn't matter because there is no reason to constrain the user's process by forcing them to select the color before selecting opacity.
I don't like getting into programming discussions either, hell I dont even like having to come to the community to complain, but its a given that development frameworks provide toolkits to address these scenarios but developers sometimes unwittingly choose to be hyper-efficient and will refuse to believe that some level of verbose programming shouldn't be handled with garlic and stakes to someones heart.
If a Serif developer is reading this, pls consider addressing this problem. The proper fix is that the current behavior be exactly maintained as it is now, and the only difference is that the user no longer needs to re-initialize the opacity value in the gradient nodes. In other words, don't pass the opacity directly to the color selection, handle so only the gradient tool will show nodes with opacity.
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11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Not a developer, just a thimker.
Plus some code to check see if the selected stop is the 100 stop, this would have to check every time. And this would have to be put into the Insert button as well.
I am not against this, just pointing out that there are difficulties in doing it.
I would much rather the developers fix all the outstanding bugs that won't let me exit from a number field with a push of the enter or return or escape key. I would also like to see the various fields accept tabbing and shift + tabbing so I can go from one to another with out using a mouse click.
No because the 100 value is a constant. Moreover, the code is already checking which ID the node is along with its position when copying so the scenario would be considered in compliance.
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1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:
I think this is due to where the new copied stop is placed. At the halfway point between the selected stop and the next one to the right. Or not the 'right' but the higher location from 0 (left) to 100 (right). If we choose the rightmost there is no place to its right, no higher value. There would be a fairly large amount of coding for this one change, and that means more bugs.
I'm not sure you're a developer at Serif but a proper Copy function of the 100 value, means creating a new insertion in between the last stop or 0 whichever comes first and the 100 location with the Color value maintained from the 100 End location.
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I have to do a Reverse, then use Copy on the Start Node, and then click Reverse again.
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Problem: The page list panel only displays Page #s alongside their thumbnails which means users either have to look at thumbnails carefully or remember page numbers. Not a huge deal breaker, except when there are projects that are not page number based. For example a set of sales sheets where each page might be a product. Currently, users must remember which product is a certain page number. But you might say they can use large thumbnails to navigate the project, true but its not that helpful since its common for these kinds of projects to have pages that resemble each other.
Suggestion: Have an option in 'Document Properties' that enable Custom Page Names. This option will then display the Name field in the Spread Properties for regular pages that users can edit the page names, (the way it is in Master spread properties).
When enabling: the user should be warned that Page name labels will stop updating automatically when moving pages around in the project.
When disabling: the user should be warned that Page name labels will be overwritten by Page numbers. Then as pages are moved around again, each page name will update with the number like before.
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On 5/3/2022 at 2:29 PM, walt.farrell said:
Serif seems to be saying, though, that text functions like that are better done in Publisher.
Okay I get it, I guess I'll use the "Edit in..." options to switch between apps when I have to touch the text frame panel. Thanks.
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Back on here squeaking this wheel. The Text Frame tool deserves to be in Designer. Adding it no way overlaps with Publisher since content is managed completely different in both apps, pagination vs artboards. Pls add this to Designer!
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Welcome to the dark side! There's an app called PixelSnap that is 'pro level'.
You can also find this app for free on Setapp, a $10 subscription services that lets you download any number of apps. The apps are curated and I personally use 26 of them, that's how useful they are to me. I highly recommend trying it out.
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I think the Frame Text Studio would be a great addition to AffDen because they are two vastly different workflows in need of managing text. AffPub of course manages workflows through pagination, but AffDen manages workflows through artboards. Each app serves hugely different purposes, one is flat and one is hierarchal. There's no real reason to be restricting AffDen from providing a way for text content to be managed with the defined set of parameters that is possible and available with the Frame Text Studio. Pls add it to AffDen!
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Imagine an app that integrates the locally installed Affinity software with an online asset collection service from Serif paid through yearly subscription.
I call it "Afffinity Collage" an Affinity app that serves as a locally installed asset and project manager for the Affinity suite. However, the key persona in this new app is called "Spotlight" (yes, just like our Spotlight newsletters from Serif), where you pay $50 a year (in line with a single Affinity app), to store and share an online showcase of your work, portfolio, and community assets.
Back to the locally installed Collage app, there are two additional personas: the main persona ties the operating system files to the App's library of folders and collections.
Studio Examples for main Collage persona:
- Preview Studio, which shows content in a large view depending on the studio you're browsing:
- File Browser Studio, (i.e. OS files and folders)
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Library Browser Studio (for separating different lines of work, graphic designer, photography etc),
- Collections Browser, (where you can create manual or smart asset repositories)
- Project Browser ( where you can store client related assets, or any project)
- Tag Browser (an internal tagging system where you can browse by tag)
- Task Browser (simple flagging studio)
This is straight forward until now, but there is the 2nd persona which is unique, it is the Portfolio persona and it essentially serves as a staging area for assets that sync with the Spotlight subscription service.
The general usability of the Portfolio persona is that it mostly mirrors your Library, Collections, and Projects, but only the assets that are marked as Portfolio appear.
The user can mark and unmark portfolio assets from either the Main Collage persona or the Portfolio persona itself. The Portfolio persona removes all of the management aspects of your projects and simply features and highlights the most desirable assets of your projects, collections, etc, for the purpose of seeing a showcase of your work. From this persona you can push specific portfolio items to your Spotlight Subscription Service profile.
The last persona, is the Spotlight persona, a website viewer. On the surface it seems just to be only a web viewer for the Spotlight website, but what you can do is build a collection of public assets that you don't have to browse the website for. This studio could be shared with the main Persona for flexible usability. I think this kind of connection with your internal Affinity files and your user Spotlight profile would be magic, but I also want to mention that a lot of people might criticize that it makes no sense to add a website viewer in the app, but I wholeheartedly disagree because this creates a seamless experience as far as managing your project data, your portfolio data, and your public asset library. This is basically what Collage is and does.
I could go on how I imagine such an app would impact the Affinity ecosystem but I have no need because Affinity generated community assets has to be in the cards for Serif sooner or later, but I think an app that connects the Spotlight public profile of an Affinity user with their internal assets and private collections creates a truly unique, and worthwhile experience which also adds manifold value back to the Spotlight subscription service.
thank you
P.S. Pls note, these are just conceptual ideas, pls do not be overly critical to me on specifics. I'm sure the community here could piggyback hundreds of more great and useful ideas. -- again -- thank you for taking time to read this post
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Should the Bullet 'Start Numbering' really set on Style Import?
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Sorry I didn't understand you the first time but that was the issue.
I basically updated the style to clear the override and then re-edited it with the [No Change] in the properties and importing it didn't break the ordering I had in the frames of the older file.
thanks for the help, good one! @Old Bruce
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