lepr
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8 hours ago, Ldina said:
I don't think you do need those extra Nodes. I was able to create those angles by setting the "Join" value in the Stroke Panel to a bevel per the attached screenshot. Try this for the beveled edges, and if necessary, adjust the miter value.
The paired nodes are necessary for providing control of the size of the bevel at a given corner.
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10 hours ago, dantaylr said:
So the real bug is that when you expand a stroke at a small size, some points may be merged into each other causing unintended side effects.
Yes, an old Affinity problem. If I remember correctly, good stroke expansion in Affinity requires the distance between nodes to be a minimum of 0.5 document pixels. (Affinity's internal unit of measure is pixel.) You can either temporarily scale up the object in order to do the expansion, or you can temporarily increase the document pixel density (termed DPI in the document properties) in order to do the expansion.
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24 minutes ago, Pšenda said:
From the sentence "This has eluded me since Affinity launched.", I conclude that the OP especially appreciates the information about the use of the Point Transform tool and its existence in ADesigner (the tool is not immediately visible in the Tool panel - it is shared with the Node Tool, so it can be easily overlooked).
To me, the sentence seemed to refer to the elusive ability to snap an edge of one object to any edge of another object rather than an object's bounding box.
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11 hours ago, Bryan Rieger said:
It gets harder to not only see the 'close loop', but to also trigger the auto-close feature the more you zoom in.
The feature seems to be working 'by design', as Serif would say.
The auto-close threshold is a constant distance in screen space rather than document space, and so it becomes smaller in relation to the object's displayed size as the zoom increases. Notice that the red loop symbol is about the same length as the pencil pointer at the moment it first appears, regardless of zoom.
The 'harder to see' is simply the poor contrast of red on the black of the stroke. As you zoom in, the black becomes more expansive until the red loop is never being presented on white.
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1 hour ago, MEB said:
There's [n]o direct way to do it with the Move Tool
There is a way with the Move Tool. An object's Transform Origin can be used as a handle. Snap it to the object's path and then use it as a handle for dragging the object until it snaps to another object's path.
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5 minutes ago, BohoYve said:
I'm not sure why by the preview panel is greyed out
That's correct when a document isn't 32 bits per channel. I thought it unlikely your documents would be 32 bpc, but it was a possibility, hence my advice regarding the panel.
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If your Affinity documents are 32 bits per channel, ensure ICC Display Transform is enabled in the 32-bit Preview panel.
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7 hours ago, Alfred said:
At 96 ppi, 168.6 mm is 638 px (i.e. 2 px less than 640 px). Maybe that means something, or not!
Affinity internally uses pixel as its unit of measure. The maximum corner radius seems to be 1991.1 px, and that is equivalent to 168.6 mm when PPI is 300.
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Welcome to the Affinity forums
Please attach an Affinity file (.afdesign, .afphoto or .afpub) which has the problem.
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37 minutes ago, thomaso said:
Isn't it rather due to the hybrid nature of "text" objects where a fill colour 'usually' affects the containing text (not the shape of its frame), and so do layer effects – unless the text frame gets a fill colour assigned?
I was referring to any object with an outside-aligned FX Outline. The object is composited over an outline-coloured dilated silhouette of the object. Reducing the opacity of the object's fill colour results in the fill being blended with the silhouette instead of concealing the silhouette.
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7 hours ago, lacerto said:
These controls also reduce opacity of enclosed text.
Good point. I was too focussed on the fill of the shape to notice the text fading out.
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The black gradually becoming revealed as the white fill colour gradually reduces in opacity is coming from a Layer Effect Outline (there are two of these on the object).
Instead of reducing the opacity of the fill colour, use the control labelled with "Fill Opacity" in the Quick FX panel or Layer Effects window or Blend Options window to reduce the opacity of the fill without revealing an FX Outline colour.
(By the way, the Appearance panel in AD and the Designer persona of APub allows multiple strokes to be given to an object.)
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@DarkClown Seems like the Auto-select is in Object mode despite saying Default in the context toolbar, and so your marquee selection is drilling down through Groups to directly grab the objects within the Groups - notice how a Group is only dimly highlighted in Layers panel when its content rather than itself is selected. Performing a deletion of the contained objects leaves the now-empty Groups in the document.
I have had the Auto-select behave contrary to its stated mode a few times and corrected it by toggling to another mode then back to the desired mode.
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1 hour ago, ronanski said:
You can put it pretty close but you zoom in and it is still curved so will never get a neat line joining it to the next node which is needed.
I'm not sure if it's what you want, but opt/alt-click the Node Tool on a segment, rather than a node or handle, to completely straighten that segment.
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48 minutes ago, Dan C said:
In Affinity V1, the 'Shape' slider changed the brush from a Square shape to a Rectangle, which means the brush is no longer a 'Square Brush' - hence this option was disabled for V2 as a 'Square Brush' should always be square.
In that case, the functionality could have been kept and the name changed to Rectangular Brush.
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In the file Z50_1657.afphoto, the Pixel object isn't truly opaque except near the top. Make it all fully opaque then do Rasterise & Trim, and then you'll be able to add the correct FX Outline.
There are many ways to make the Pixel object fully opaque, so let me know if you need advice about that.
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7 hours ago, Thomahawk said:
select them all. Suddenly rounded corner option not to be found anymore.
7 hours ago, Thomahawk said:I have to go back to step one, rounding the first rectangle, and make the copies and placements afterwards.
No you do not need to "go back to step one".
A selection of multiple Rectangle objects can have their corners changed simultaneously when any shape tool or the Node Tool, rather than the Move Tool, is active.
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Divide does not work correctly when there is no operand that only partially overlaps another. A workaround is to include a pair of additional temporary operands that do only partially overlap, do the Divide, and then delete the fragments of the temporary objects. See example below. (Other workarounds using other commands or tools exist, but I'm showing one for when you do want to use the Divide command in particular.)
Line (Stroke) Width Tool
in 2.5 Beta New Features and Improvements
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