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  1. I am having a bit of an issue with Photo today. I had two crashes which is unusual. After restarting, I opened one of the files I was working in, only to find a few notifications. The first telling me this file was created in Affinity 1, which is certainly not the case, as I created that file within the past few days. The second stating that the file is corrupted. Is there any method of salvaging a corrupted file that a mere mortal can undertake?
  2. Not if you simply use the space bar to change to move tool, release space bar and you're back to whatever tool you were using.
  3. What I really don't like about that is, you have a selection-maybe a complex selection and you have to lose that selection in order to get back to the hand tool. Or is there a way to get the focus back on the main window? Thanks.
  4. When I hit the space bar, I expect to be able to pan around my work area and that is how it works most of the time. However, when I am doing something in the layers palette (or elsewhere) and hit the space bar, and expecting to move around in my work area, it does not activate the view/hand tool and I end up moving some item around, forcing me to undo and try it again. It works the second time. Is this a bug or is there is some condition I am experiencing that causes it to, sometimes, not activate the view/hand tool when I press the space bar? If there is some condition that causes this, is there a method to remove that condition so the spacebar works as it should all of the time?
  5. Hello. I am trying to create a dash line that gets smaller/narrower as it goes from point A to point B. I have a layer where I am using the Pressure settings to make a stroke go from wide to narrow but can not find a method to do the same with the dash line. Can anyone recommend a method to do this? Hopefully, you can see that I am attempting to mimic a road and a line in the middle.
  6. After some digging around, I found that I was using a different version of Futura Medium. Sorry about that.
  7. @Callum It seems to be a combination of a converted Illustrator file along with the specific font, Futura Medium Condensed. Thanks, Gary
  8. I am having a recurring error when expanding strokes on certain text characters. THIS ONLY HAPPENS ON CONVERTED ILLUSTRATOR FILES. The font is Futura Condensed Medium. I am using 54 point text with a 3 point stroke. Here are the steps I take to turn the live text into curves. Select the text. Command-Return to convert the text to curves. Go to Layer > Expand Stroke All characters expand as expected except for the letter S. See what happens in the video. I created these files several years ago in Illustrator and I edit as necessary in AD. If I create files from scratch in AD I do not have this issue. CleanShot 2024-11-03_1.mp4
  9. Hey Karin. I started with a path I got from Vectorstock. I did not appear to be a bad path but when stroked and expanded, a lot of crap appeared. I took that original Vstock path and brought it into Inkscape, simplified and brought that back into AD. Sure enough it worked much better. I got a few extra weird curves outside of the main path but those are dealt with pretty easily. Thanks for your help. BTW, I see we are neighbors. Where in NM are you?
  10. I've found that the expanded paths generated by AD contain a lot of extraneous nodes. I was creating a number of paths that are outside and inside the original path. I was doing this by selecting the original path, stroke XX points and expanding the stroke. Then I use the expanded paths to add strokes to them and expand again. When I attempt expanding the paths that were generated from a previous expansion, I get the above results. So I am now asking if this method of creating multiple paths inside and outside an original path is the best way to go. Since I am getting poor results using this method, perhaps someone can suggest a more efficient way of doing this? BTW, I am sending these designs to a laser cutter so the stroked paths MUST be expanded. The machine does not recognize strokes...all it sees is a line.
  11. What I notice about this path is that it has many "duplicate" nodes. Node on top of node on top of node. This is the likely cause of this issue.
  12. I applied the Separate Curves and deleted the extraneous curves. I also turned off Metal acceleration. Unfortunately, problems still occur. CleanShot 2024-06-27 at 07.41.31.mp4
  13. I often run into issues when expanding paths in AD. See the video below to see the ugly results expanding this particular path. Being able to simplify a path in AD would likely solve this problem. Making a round trip to/from Inkscape is an irritating workaround and Inkscape doesn't actually do a good job at it. Does anyone have a suggestion for dealing with all of the errors produced when expanding paths? CleanShot 2024-06-26 at 18.06.01.mp4
  14. I have a bunch of product photos that we shot on a tripod so they are all from the same angle. The perspective isn't exactly square so I like to use the perspective tool to get them all correct. Doing that manually is pretty much impossible. I tried the Batch tool using File > New Stack... thinking the perspective setting in there would do the trick but it seems that does not work like I had hoped. So is there a method of applying the same perspective adjustments to 20 photos?
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