bowen192

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Hi bowen192,
You can only change the alignment of closed shapes. If that's an open path you can't do it. Can you please check if that's the case?

Why is it like this?
I understand that until the shape is closed, it can not be determined what is inside and outside.
But it could be taken from the direction of the line (left and right).

True. We were a little optimistic regarding Publisher's release date (Beta) but there were also a few situations that affected the initial plans. In any case there's no point in releasing something the dev team isn't happy with just to make it available sooner. It would end disappointing everyone, both the devs/Serif and the users. We will get there.
 

If you create a stylish arrow, right click and go Create Style, it appears in the Styles panel, in the Studio.

 
Right click on the style and you can rename it or delete it.
 

Have you watched this ?
 
Note that you cannot cut out a part of an Image layer !!!
 
It must be a pixel layer.

 
If you create a path with the pen tool, you get this

 
on the toolbar.
 
 
 

Dimension tools are certainly not just for drafting.
If you're referring to isometric drawing in general, well...you're right on cue, I'll give you that. There are many misconceptions about isometric drawing, but that's probably the largest.
Consider: How is explicit support for 2D parallel perspective any less appropriate for a general purpose 2D drawing program than is support for 2D converging perspective? Doesn't the existence of 3D modeling render vanishing point perspective obsolete? I mean, by comparison it's not very realistic. (And as most commonly used, not very rigorous, either.)  Should Adobe not have given Illustrator its Perspective Grid feature (a copy of the almost identical feature which FreeHand introduced years before Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia)?
It's one of those chicken-and-egg things: Do most mainstream drawing programs ignore isometric drawing because there is no demand, or is demand limited to those with experience because there is no express support for it in mainstream drawing programs?
First, in most any city in proximity to a military facility, there are typically a number of private firms, small and large, to which government awards contract work on technical publications. It's a decent size industry in itself. Guess what they do? In many cases, they use mainstream drawing programs to clean up or update 2D drawings exported from CAE systems, or create such drawings from scratch, using working drawings as source material reference. Fact is, the vector line art exports from even high-end CAE software is seldom very pristine.
Industry often does the same thing in-house. That's why programs like Corel Technical Designer and IsoDraw exist. They are basically 2D vector drawing programs, but have accessory extensions (involving costly license fees) which can just open a 3D model and rotate it into the desired viewpoint before exporting it as something ready to be worked on in the 2D drawing environment.
But moreover, contrary to popular misconception, use of isometric drawing (just one variant of axonometric) is not limited to mechanical engineering environs. And commercial illustrators who don't care to add it to their repertoire are missing out on opportunity (and enjoyment).
The dramatically exaggerated converging perspective view of the proposed trade show booth will help sell Management on the design concept. But a few isometric drawings will far better serve the trade show crew to get it built, assembled, and in place on time.
The photo realistic renderings on the box cover of Lego, Lincoln Logs, and Tinker Toy kits will help sell them initially. But the equally colorful isometric step-by-step instructions inside are what ensures success and adds value to the product.
TV ads of the latest, greatest roller coaster will convince the family that they have to go this weekend. But the cartoony yet proportionally-accurate bird's-eye-view theme park map will help them find the coaster amid all the other attractions.
How many of a freelance illustrator's clients for identity graphics or placement ads and brochures are small-to-medium product manufacturers? (A good many in my experience, and they have been delighted to find out I can also produce their products' assembly instructions and exploded parts breakdowns.) Fully rendered axonometric phantom cutaways can intuitively show a product's functional advantages, and show equal detail throughout the depth.
And the list goes on. I sense a long overdue awakening of interest in isometric drawing (and a mass of confusion) within the commercial illustration community, despite the historic neglect of the big-name software vendors. This is going to be an important advantage of Affinity Designer.
JET
 

Regarding callouts:
One of the things I applaud about Affinity is the energy toward keeping the program as elegant as possible. A large part of that is avoiding tool glut (separate dedicated tools for every little specific use), and carefully designing features to serve as many uses as possible.
Especially in a general-purpose illustration program, the proper place to provide for things like callouts (and leader-lines, thrust lines, hidden lines, ghosts, etc.) is a carefully built and thorough Graphic Styles feature.
Affinity still lacks a "path ends" feature. I take that as a hopeful indication that the Team has ideas in mind beyond the mediocre standard-fare arrowheads feature. A well thought out path ends feature can address that and much more.
Also, drawing standards vary widely. Some clients (military branches, for example), specify arrowheads on callouts; others don't. Whenever I have the choice, I do not use arrowheads on callouts because in my experience (both in engineering and technical communications, and behind a parts counter) I find them to create unnecessarily distracting visual "blobs" which actually make it more difficult to find the item looked for.
A well-built graphics styles feature set (which allows multiple strokes and fills, stored Symbols for path ends, positioning of path ends relative to the endpoint of the path, and separate settings for each end) allows an illustrator to build as many style libraries as needed for vertical-application uses.
Canvas, for example, includes style libraries for various established drafting standards. That's fine for its specifically technical marketing focus. But much as I like it, Canvas does suffer from a bit of tool glut.
In a general purpose illustration program, an auto-expanding text object grouped with a styled two segment path can serve as a suitable callout object. Individual users can create special purpose Style libraries for their own purposes or to share.
Connector capability, on the other hand, could be very useful not just for technical drawing and not just for the common decision tree graph or org chart, but for many other things. But even here, I'm not convinced its interface has to follow conventional wisdom as a separate "tool" or a separate kind of object. Why can't connections just be an attribute setting for the end node of any open path? 
JET

Document > Transparent Background
 

If using Artboards there is no need to group just select all the objects in the layer panel you want to have the same fill then apply the fill
 
You can also do this without Artboards

If you group the items you want to have the same fill (pattern), then apply the fill to the group all items will have the same fill size and rotation
PS You can ungroup them afterwards and the fill will remain
 

Hi bowen192,
No there's no way to see what's inside the bleed area because these objects are inside the Artboard layer and thus only visible in the canvas area. But when you create them you can still see if you have extended them enough to cover the bleed through their bounding boxes. 
 
The only situation where you can actually see the objects in the bleed area is with non-artboard based documents un-ticking Clip to Canvas in the View ▸ View Mode menu.
Bleed preview will come in a future update.

Hi bowen192,
Currently there's no bleed preview on canvas. You have to draw an "auxiliary" rectangle (no fill just a thin stroke) with the document dimensions+bleed and center it to use as a "preview/boundary" so you know up to where you have to extend the artwork.

Draw the rectangle, set the stroke, center it within the artboard etc, then move the rectangle layer to outside the artboard layer in the Layers panel and it will become visible. Then lock it. Since you only need it as a visual reference you don't need to touch it again.

Hi bowen192,
 
In the Document settings change the type to Print(Press-Ready) and in the Bleed tab assign the required bleed for the document then when exporting to PDF use the PDF (for printing) then click on the more button and in the new menu tick the Include bleed option and this will apply your document bleed to the PDF file.

Hi bowen,
Check the sample file i attached below. Document size is A4. I've set the document's bleed to 30 mm (exaggerated just to be easily discernible). The yellow rectangle has the exact same size of the document (A4 dimensions). The stroked line outside the canvas (created manually) is to preview the limit of the bleed area. So in my example you would have to fill the whole area inside the red outlined rectangle extending the content of you page up to the limit of the bleed to prevent  white from appearing on the edges (after trimming). If you export the document to PDF with Include crop marks ticked (click the More button on export dialog to access these settings) you will see that the crop marks are correctly placed in relation to the document dimensions.
 
bleed_example.afdesign
bleed_example.pdf

Hi bowen192,
There's no bleed preview in Affinity Designer yet. You will have to use a stroked rectangle (no fill) or a similar system to simulate the bleed preview on canvas for now.
This will be added in a future version/update.

You can also try to change to the Light Interface (1.6 Beta only) where the layer's thumbnails use a light grey for the background.
Moving this thread to the Feature Requests section per your request.

Is there a way to change the Artboard/Layers preview to a white background?
 
I create most of my work with dark lines so I can't see them with the default black background.

Distribute Vector objects along path. With interactive preview. 


 

With Random Distribution.
 
1. add object in list
2. pick path
3. play with settings
 
 
 
 
Falloff Scale:

Is there a way to change the Artboard/Layers preview to a white background?
 
I create most of my work with dark lines so I can't see them with the default black background.

There are several ways.
 
 
If the background is white, you can go Filters > Colours > Erase White Paper. Best for black bitmap logos on a white background
 
If you select from sampled colours and are happy with what you have selected, the first option is to invert the selection Select > Invert Pixel Selection so you have everything selected but the bit you want and press the delete key. You will be left with just the selection you made.
 
If you make a selection and click on the little mask icon in layers, or go Layer > New Mask Layer that will make a mask for you
 
Second option, once you have made your selection, you can duplicate the layer Layer > Duplicate or (Ctrl J) and that will just put your selection (and only your selection) onto a new layer. Everything else on that layer will be transparent and the original layer is untouched. Hide the original layer (tick on the right) so you can tell or you will think nothing has happened.

Hi Shaker242, thanks for the image.
Select all three lines, change to the Node Tool, enable Snap to selected curves in the Snap section on the context toolbar (the first icon), then drag a node from each corner away a little then back to over the other where it was. You should see a yellow circle or square when both match the same exact position. After doing this for the three corners and with all objects still selected, click on Join Curves from the Action section in the context toolbar (fourth icon). This will join them all creating a closed shape. You can now fill the shape as you wish.

AD crashed on me. It saved a recovery file which I used.
 
I saved the recovery file as something else.
 
I cannot use the Save function now and have to use Save As....
 
The file is now Read Only.
 
Any ideas?