smallreflection
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+1 (or more) to this. It's my most-used shortcut in Sketch and Protopie (my fav prototyping app) recently added it as an option by hitting Enter. But at least adding a menu option so we can map a shortcut to this would be amazing.
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Hey guys, at long last I'm happy to share that my beginner course Affinity Designer Fundamentals is live at Pluralsight! It covers the nuts and bolts of everything from customizing settings to typesetting and image adjustments. You can sign up for a free trial if you're not a Pluralsight subscriber. If you enjoy it, feel free to share!
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Expand stroke does look much more promising!
At the moment I'm having a strange issue with a larger-ish file (216mb) hanging when attempting to open. It seems permanently stuck saying "Loading 1 document" and I can only quit the app by Force Quitting. Doesn't seem to be affecting my other files though, so possibly my file is damaged somehow (hope not). I might can share it privately for inspection by devs.
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I don't have a ton of knowledge of underlying architecture differences, but it seems highly unlikely that Affinity will support Sketch format or will achieve perfect PSD compatibility.
Overall I feel like Affinity's UI workflow is pretty strong, and the biggest leg up there will be opening up some kind of extension framework similar to Sketch and allowing shared libraries/symbol syncing, which is the big request a ton of designers currently have for Sketch as well. What's made Sketch incredibly popular is not just its core featureset but the huge amount of community plugins that add a ton of speed to the design process. That would likely make it a bit easier for third parties to support things like inspector tools for dev handoff, etc. With sufficient growth in the Affinity user base, Zeplin has indicated they'd be interested in adding Affinity support.
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Thanks, that's helpful until a fix rolls out.
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Just rebooted the app, and the inputs reappeared. Strange!
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Occasionally with the MAS version and the beta I'm having a bug where the shear and scale options in the Character panel will have only the icon show, and no input is available.
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Any chance we'll get an option to export Develop Persona Studio Presets for backup purposes, or to move from Betas to MAS installs?
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Just a bump to this, wondering if any other UI designers have thoughts on it as well.
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I don't necessarily want/need a pattern creator tool, but I really would like a more adjustable raster pattern fill option. That would be quite helpful for web design.
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Matt, sorry, I think I just missed that I had "subtract" mode turned on for my main marquee selection. Silly me, again.
Hmmm, mine seems to be working just fine and I don't think anyone has touched that area for a while? It's certainly using the same code as the current Affinity Photo 1.5 Beta and I'd imagine there would be a lot of people testing it there? Is it just one particular file or is it even on a new document?
Thanks!
Matt
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This newest beta suddenly won't let me make any raster marquee selections at all. I open up the same file in the MAS version and selections work fine. :| Just me?
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A mixed question and suggestion. For UI work, since we have 1x, 2x, 3x asset export (but no .5x export), why are UI presets, such as the iPhone 6 for example, offered by default set up at retina resolution? This switches from 72 ppi to 144ppi, meaning all assets are exported at @2x by default, correct? It seems the suggested workflow from the Export Persona (which is my standard workflow) is always to work at 1x and export up from there. So I typically switch to 72 dpi from one of these templates.
However, the bundled UI assets are all set up @2x to fit the retina-sized presets. It takes quite a bit of grouping and fiddling to proportionally size down these constraint-setup UI elements to work at 1x.
I would suggest having all vector UI assets set up at 1x by default based on the Export Persona, but for sake of resizing, I put together a quick video for how I set up an iOS status bar so that it's both using constraints and is resizable with a couple of clicks.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0ua2oyt5t19c59/affinity-asset-constraints-suggestion.mp4?dl=0
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Are there outstanding issues with layer selection and grouping? I'm having some strange things happening in my layers, and it seems to be happening in several documents so far. For instance, selecting a layer inside of a group and deleting it seems to still be trying to select the parent group, and it deletes the whole group. Sometimes selecting a layer in a group from the Layers panel will result in nothing be selected at all, and I have to try to select outside of the group or off of the artboard entirely, then back inside again. In several repeated instances, I'll shift+select several layers and group them, but only the last selected layer is placed into a new group (nothing else is).
However, often it seems that closing the application and reopening solves the problem—I was just having selection and grouping problems, restarted and now it seems to be working normally (for awhile).
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Fantastic job, all. Downloading 1.5 now. Love the new marketing efforts and UI feature video. "Not a one-trick pony" is brilliant. :)
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One issue I've just noticed I'm having in the most recent beta is my full activated font list (via Linotype FontExplorer) is not showing up—I'm trying to turn on some basic system fonts like Verdana and Tahoma, but for some reason they won't show up in either font list (main toolbar of character panel), even after a reboot.
Edit: actually I realized these fonts weren't showing up in other apps either, and I couldn't figure out why—for some reason when I enabled them in FontBook they displayed properly, but when activating in FontExplorer they wouldn't. Strange!
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Agreed, thanks so much for including the show selected layers feature! :D I love it!
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+1 for PMS colors in EPS for me.
I tend to rely on TIFF less, but I just finished up a logo job for a client and would've preferred to be able to send EPS versions of my Pantone files as well.
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Efficiency in layer naming is a biggie for me in UI work. At least having the option under Preferences to set a shortcut to rename the current layer would be a help. Having an option or shortcut to batch rename/find+replace within a selection of layers would be awesome as well.
"Failed to load document: Access to the document file was lost while performing initial loading. The document must now be closed."
in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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Just getting around to checking on this because I'm also using GFS and seem to have several large branding files that got corrupted with the same issue. Subscribing here to see if in the future there's any discovered fixes. For now to be safe I'm guessing a better practice is to work off the desktop and copy up new versions to cloud storage? I tried copying the files down locally after I started having some issues to see if it was a connection hiccup based on file size instead of actual corruption but it does seem inherent in the file now.