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2.6 Annoying Pen Tool behavior
lepr replied to street79's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
The right hand end of the context toolbar of Pen Tool has toggles for 'use line style' and 'use fill'. If you see a pair of chevrons at the end of the bar then there are more controls which become available by clicking on the chevrons. -
It is a bug since way back in v1, and there is a workaround. The bug is that transparency in an object's FX Gradient Overlay incorrectly affects transparency of the object, instead of just the overlay, if the object is clip-nested in some other object. An Artboard is a clipping object, therefore its content is subject to the bug. Fortunately, there is a workaround which tricks a correct rendering without requiring a change to the structure of the document: add an invisible opaque FX Colour Overlay to the object that has transparency in its FX Gradient Overlay. An invisible opaque FX Colour Overlay can be achieved by black with blending mode Add, or white with blending mode Multiply.
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Sorry, I missed the bit where you said it works on your Mac.
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The technique you tried in your video works correctly on my Mac. You shouldn't need to use the more complicated method shown by Bruce.
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What's wrong with 2.6.0?
lepr replied to Guedes's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Yes, I get the impression James Ritson got the job. -
What's wrong with 2.6.0?
lepr replied to Guedes's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Yes, clearly, and that is why I said it's possible that Serif is not an attractive employer. -
Anti-aliasing setting in Blend Options ignored when rasterizing
lepr replied to fde101's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
It's been like that since v1, and I suspect it will be classed as "by design". A workaround is to enclose the aliased object in a Group then rasterise the Group. -
The Move Tool is not working correctly after new 2.6 Update
lepr replied to Serfus's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
The solution would be the developers restoring the previous behaviour. Hopefully the bug will be acknowledged by a member of staff today. -
What's wrong with 2.6.0?
lepr replied to Guedes's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
There was a recruitment ad several months ago. It’s possible that Serif (Canva Nottingham might be more appropriate now) is not an attractive employer. -
Certainly not universally true. Rasterisation of vector objects can be avoided in the cases of FX Outer Shadow and FX Outer Glow.
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The Move Tool is not working correctly after new 2.6 Update
lepr replied to Serfus's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
I see the same unfortunate change. -
Constraints Group, documented anywhere?
lepr replied to Iltirtar's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
A Constraints Group really is a vector Rectangle with no stroke and no fill (although it can be given a stroke and/or fill after being created). A particular problem with the implementation is that it can crop off part of the stroke of a child object and then workarounds have to be contrived. -
Issue with rasterization and vectorials
lepr replied to DavidAntagon's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I would describe the rasterisation of your Group as a bug. There is a workaround: instead of the FX being on a Group which contains various objects, put the FX on an invisible Rectangle which contains these objects. (My "invisible Rectangle" is a vector Rectangle with no fill and no stroke.) Try to export to PDF edited.afdesign Try to export to PDF edited.pdf -
The new behaviour is in the last beta too. I didn't have FPA enabled when testing for it before, so it didn't affect me. Normally I opt+drag an object or use Duplicate command to duplicate an object, anyway, and so there was little chance of seeing the new behaviour until reading about it. For a pasted non-rotated/skewed object with stroke, it seems to be the top left corner of the bounding box that would contain the expanded stroke that gets aligned with the pixel grid.
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Issue with rasterization and vectorials
lepr replied to DavidAntagon's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
A vector/text object with FX Outer Glow or FX Outer Shadow can be exported with the object remaining as vector/text over rasterised effects, depending on the PDF options. However, a bug results in the exported FX always being given Normal blend mode even when the PDF version supports alternative modes that may have been specified in the Affinity document. -
Not exactly. When the Passthrough Group contains a mix of Filters/Adjustments and non-Filters/Adjustments, the blending is still Passthrough for the non-Filters/Adjustments, but the Filters/Adjustments affect only the objects inside the Group. It is the Passthrough still functioning for the non-Filters/Adjustments which made me realise my workaround for making the Filters/Adjustments affect the scene behind the Group in addition to objects inside the Group. The workaround is to put a white object with Multiply blend mode at the bottom of the stack inside the Passthrough Group. That object can be a Fill Layer in Photo, and a good alternative in Designer is a vector Rectangle covering the canvas (and bleed if appropriate).
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Erroneous changes to pencil tool width value - Designer 2.6.0
lepr replied to sepaco's topic in V2 Bugs found on Windows
Both scenarios are replicable on my Mac. It seems that if an entity (a Layer or object) is selected, then the tool's width field and the Stroke panel both display the stroke width of the entity rather than the width that will be drawn. In contrast, older versions of the tool showed the width that will be drawn, and the Stroke panel showed the width of the currently selected entity.