lepr
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15 hours ago, Joshua Stamper said:
I'm needing to select the ledger lines and change their color at various points.
Your ledger lines all appear to be black, so you can select them on that basis and put them into a Layer to make them easy to access by disabling Edit All Layers:
- select any one ledger line
- do Select > Select Same > Stroke Colour
- press cmd+G to group
- do Layer > Promote Group To Layer
- use button at bottom left corner of Layers panel to disable Edit All Layers
There will be a few black vertical lines in addition to the ledger lines in the Layer, but you can move them out of the Layer.
You'll find the document much easier to work with if you give it a structure with various Layers for the various features of the notation.
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13 minutes ago, Joshua Stamper said:
Every time I try to select [a ledger line], it only selects the notehead, or the staff, or other nearby elements.
I'm able to marquee select a ledger line. If you tell us what you intend to do with them, there may be advice to help you succeed efficiently. (Although I'm switching off until tomorrow now
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2 hours ago, Joshua Stamper said:
File attached. I can't cut through the staff lines or bar lines.
Knife Tool refuses to slice through straight lines which have a fill (which won't be visible in the case of a straight line, of course).
Your problematic lines have a redundant grey fill in addition to the grey stroke. Set their fill to none and then you'll have no trouble slicing through them.
- Eric R, Joshua Stamper and Old Bruce
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4 hours ago, Ash said:
There are ways we could do a hybrid tool in some way, but it is a huge amount of work - I guess we are wanting to figure out whether actually using the live filters from Photo do solve a lot of requirements that people have in this area, or whether we should still be looking to invest a lot more time in expanding the functionality of vector warp.
In the absence of a hybrid tool, it would be very helpful if the Photo Mesh Warp live filter used the same meshes as the Designer Warp Group, and we could copy the mesh from one to the other.
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5 hours ago, ZhangX said:
Some of my Group icons in designer's layers panel have a round dot within them. Some others do not.
What is the difference?The dot indicates the group contains at least one mask and no other type of object. You will see the same dot on a mask's thumbnail.
The blank indicates the group contains at least one vector or raster object. It may also contain other types of objects. The Layers panel burger menu has an option for displaying a preview of the group's content in the thumbnail.
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Not a bug.
Affinity does only centred stroke on an open path. When you broke the path, it changed from closed to open, and so the stroke became centred.
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On 2/1/2023 at 2:27 PM, Zero1 said:
I assume this is a bug unless i am missing something here?
Whether the result should be classed as a bug or not, I don't know, but I can explain what is happening.
A live filter/adjustment operates on an on-the-fly rasterisation of whatever object it is applied to. That raster object covers the entire canvas, and its pixels are black with alpha of zero wherever the source object did not exist. If the filter/adjustment increases the alpha of those hidden black pixels, the pixels become visible to some degree, blending with the underlying scene, unless they are excluded by clipping by the object which is parent to the filter/adjustment.
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1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:
What Affinity lacks of is an option to choose which color/alpha channels gets impacted for any layer type, and layer blending.
+1
Yes, sorely missed functionality sometimes.
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2 minutes ago, smadell said:
I'm guessing that there are multiple other combinations that would make this work, but Boolean logic always seems to break my brain a little.
The Compound Mask operators aren't really Boolean although they effectively are Boolean when combining a pure "black" mask pixel with a pure "white" mask pixel.
You might be more comfortable with the operators when you consider that they are really the equivalent of layer blending modes:
- Add == Add
- Subtract == Subtract
- Intersect == Darken
- Xor == Difference
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Hi, sometimes it can be difficult to solve problems or give advice when there are only words describing the problem.
Please attach an example Affinity document to reduce or eliminate ambiguities.
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Just now, R C-R said:
What happens if you select the Group in my example file?
Now I see the anomalous value. If you had initially said Group instead of explicitly specifying three objects, that would have helped.
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20 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Try selecting the Group of all 3 scaled down shapes, like in this group of 3.afdesign example, switching to the Contour Tool, & changing the radius on the context toolbar. When I try to do that, it flickers to other values but always goes back to 0 mm in the field in the Context Toolbar, while on the canvas there are strange redraw issues if I drag back & forth on the Radius label.
Now I see the anomalous value. If you had initially said Group instead of explicitly saying the three objects, that would have helped.
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26 minutes ago, R C-R said:
So if you select all three of the scaled down shapes in the OP's file, switch to the Contour Tool & for instance set the radius to 0.1 mm with 3 decimal places set in preferences, you get something other than "0 mm" in the contect toolbar?
Yes. I get "0.1 mm" displayed.
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32 minutes ago, R C-R said:
So then I am not sure what you meant about it being vanished in V2 in the preferences and layer menu. AFAIK, in both V1 & V2 it appears on the View menu & in keyboard preferences.
I said no such thing. I wrote nothing about anything except the "bots" typo until you got confused about who wrote what and asked me about cmd-R and rulers.
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2 minutes ago, R C-R said:
I see that now, but what about CMD-R as a shortcut for showing/hiding the document ruler?
Yes, View > Show Rulers has shortcut cmd-R by default on Mac.
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3 minutes ago, R C-R said:
It also seems to be buggy if you select all three scaled down shapes, switch to the Contour Tool & try to change the contour radius on all of them at once. At least for me, in the Context toolbar it always shows "0 mm" no matter what radius I set there.
Not happening to me. The field in the toolbar shows whatever I set.
Sounds like you have insufficient decimal places specified in Preferences for display of the values you are using.
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17 minutes ago, Hangman said:
Therefore still a bug as it clearly shouldn't... Also, curious to know if this affects Windows and iPad...
Of course a bug!
Did I say or imply otherwise? [rhetorical question, in case that could be misinterpreted too]
I was only giving a little insight into what is happening, not a justification for the change.
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28 minutes ago, R C-R said:
bots?
Obviously, that was a typo when "both" was intended.
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29 minutes ago, Hangman said:
OK, I did say the document is CMYK.
However, I did not say the two shapes are "using the same base CMYK green". I said the back shape is a lighter green than the one darker green that is specified in all nodes of the gradient fill of the front shape.
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The current V2 does a non-colour managed conversion from CMYK to RGB when a CMYK Pixel object is pasted in an RGB document. It's using the same simplistic formulas as the common online colour converters which do not consider colour profiles.
V1 does a colour managed conversion which maintains colour appearance by taking into account the source and destination colour profiles.
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4 minutes ago, Omi said:
@,,,, thank you for pointing that out.
I feel a bit sheepish about this, but I'm actually not 100% clear on how to specify a color mode for the gradient node color editor.
Would you be willing to briefly explain how to do this?
There is a selector for the mode immediately above the sliders in the node colour editor.
It's at arrow 4 in the click sequence shown below.
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1 hour ago, R C-R said:
True [...]
Thanks
Knife tool not working for certain elements
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I didn't know that you wanted to change all ledger lines to just one particular colour. The Layer instead of Group, in combination with disabling Edit All Layers, makes it easy to prevent other objects on the page from interfering with ad hoc selections of only some of the ledger lines.