budaloco
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There is a very annoying bug that crashes the entire program.
I´m creating a new text box over an existing one. Click on the second text box, then click on the "Float with text button". Proceed to clone the item (with alt). The second or third time you do this and try to clone that second text box to the other text box on the bottom it will crash.
Just letting you know.
I could not reproduce the exact same error, but I cought another little bug and made a gif. See the attached gif for more info
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5 minutes ago, Alfred said:
This is a long-standing issue! As you say, it’s because of the scale you’re working at: if you increase the size of the objects (by a factor of ten or more) before expanding the stroke, you’ll find that you get a much better result when you shrink it back down to its original size.
That worked! Can't say the same for dotted outlines. No matter the size, those circles turn to shit hahaha.
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I was trying to do some line art and when I tried to expand the stroke I got some ugly results. It could be the scale. I'm working on a small size. But this is just wrong.
I've arranged both elements so you can see the difference. On the left original vector element, on the right it's the expanded shape. The last image is a overimposed comparison.
The same happened when I tried to expand a dotted line. See attached images.
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1 minute ago, Ben said:
I've made some improvements for tablets and iOS pen. These will come out very soon - either on the day we release Publisher, or sooner as a 1.7.1 release.
Ok, so trackpad it is...! thanks ben!
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Apparently the latest version of affinity has some wacom tablet issues.
When approaching a handle to modify size, for example...the program does not recognize that I'm over the handle. So, I find myself moving things around or making random copies of layers instead of adjusting size. It's very annoying. It does not happen when I use the trackpad tho. So, i'm a little bit frustrated...
My wacom tablet is the Bamboo pen and touch. I do have the latest drivers and I'm running Affinity designer 1.7 on a High Sierra (v10.13.6).
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On 3/29/2019 at 11:26 PM, fde101 said:
This has already been requested in a few other threads.
Good catch - I agree, the current behavior in this situation isn't particularly helpful.
This should be done in the text styles instead of directly. That way it will apply to everything using those styles. Most if not all of the predefined styles inherit directly or indirectly from the one called "Base", so setting your hyphenation settings on that style should cause them to apply basically across the board.
The only option I see for hyphenation on the Character panel is the option for the language. This makes sense as you might insert text in a different language into the middle of a paragraph. The other options all impact entire paragraphs so it makes sense that those would be on the Paragraph panel. I don't see the issue here, particularly since again these should really be configured in a text style rather than modified directly on the text.
That would defeat the purpose of preview mode. Preview mode is meant to show how the document would print in its current state. Showing placeholder boxes that would not print would defeat that goal.
Document -> Resource Manager
No, but others have requested something like this also.
You can add your own in Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts; make sure Publisher is selected in the upper combo box and Text in the one underneath it.
Assuming you mean as guides, this is handled from Guides Manager (View menu). If applied on the master page they are inherited by any pages/spreads that do not define their own.
Perhaps not, but you could look under Preferences -> Performance for a few other options that might be helpful if you are experiencing performance issues.
Thanks for getting back at each comment!
Your input was very useful!
Thanks for taking the time to read my review.
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I'm loving the new software from affinity! specially because I downloaded the latest build of indesign before starting this project and I was really bummed out and overwhelmed by the bloated UI of recent Adobe products. All I can say is that working with publisher has been a breeze. Full disclosure: I'm a Affinity Designer and Photo evangelist, so my view of things might be a little tilted towards the folks at Serif.
What I can say about this beta version is that is VERY stable. I could produce a production ready brochure and really fast. I've never used publisher, but the workflow and look-and-feel was familiar to me since I use designer almost every day. Being able to copy and paste from designer was the best thing ever (If Only I had this functionality in apple motion...I would be sooo happy). I've worked for 2 days straight and never got a single hang up. I did have a session reboot (an issue specific to my video display driver that sometimes drives me crazy) and this wonderful piece of software even managed to save and restore a copy. I was delighted. The response of the app overall is great. VERY fast compared to In Design (latest version). But since I'm working on a beta version I found some things that could be improved and I hope someone from the team takes notice. It's nothing to worry about actually...just a couple of quirks that (to the best of my knowledge) can be fixed relatively easy.
Here's my list.
- Workspace configuration (sets?). It would be nice to save my panel configuration.
- Sometimes the cursor just does not pick up columns very well
- Baseline grids over-imposed. If you have baseline grids for the document and the activate the same option for the textbox (in case you need a different baseline grid for a specific text box, the result is a weird and indecipherable canopy of lines. Maybe there's a way to hide one or the other momentarily
- Some bugs while dragging image placeholders. The placeholder boxes would sometimes jump from one place to the other...
- Double click to drag inner photo is erratic. This behavior is not always consistent.
- There should be some option to configure the hypenation document wide. Doing it for every column is tyring.
- Sometimes I had to reset the hypenation language to get the words to cut correctly.
- Hypenation options should be grouped in a separate window...all of them together. Going back and forth between character and paragraph is messy.
- There should be some way yo move images inside placeholders faster and without double click. Maybe just clicking on a placeholder you could get a control to move stuff inside faster.
- Can’t Group select image placeholders sometimes. It was hard to replicate this...but finally I could.
- Would be nice to have placeholders show in preview mode as well to have some idea where items will be placed. Empty placeholder boxes dissapear in preview mode...sometimes when you have many grids and baseline guides...it becomes harder to spot them. If not..maybe a grey background color...that could help.
- On image placeholder image edit mode (double click action) if I accidentally rotate the image a little bit and then return to normal position, when trying to move the image the contour (blue lines) will appear rotated on the same angle I accidentally rotated before.
- Can we have CMD + Y to go to line mode activated please? thanks.
- Couldn't find a "links" window to check all my external images and files (maybe that's the asset window I didn't pay attention to).
- Is there like a text-only compose window? that would be very useful.
- Sometimes selecting text inside columns was erratic (with a wacom pen in my case) I would always end up selecting the text below or above what I wanted to choose.
- Keyboard shortcuts for column breaks would be appreciated
- I haven't seen this since the first release but I would love to have the option to create column layouts in master pages. I did it manually, but if I want to change the gutter I had to erase the reference boxes (red ones with a low opacity) and move all the guides one by one. This one for me is a deal breaker. I don't mind doing them by hand (I've done it before in designer, but it's nice to have that automated).
- No option to use a low resolution version of the images while working...that would make the app go 400% faster IMO.
After all of this I still would choose this ß over Indesign over and over again. Great work by the guys in Serif. You've sold this to me. As soon as it's released...I'm buying. Keep up the good work.
I'm sure I´ll post more stuff as I use it more and more. I've enclosed a sample of the brochure (it's in spanish...sorry non-spanish speakers)
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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On 5/3/2018 at 11:11 AM, thisldo said:
Just found this post and wanted to thank you for this nice and extremely useful share.
Thank you!
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The people of School of motion are a big fan of affinity and today they posted this very detailed and wonderful tutorial on how to export from Affinity Designer® to Adobe® After Effects@.
It may seem a little bit cumbersome, but I think it's worth it...specially if you try to avoid illustrator. The link: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/save-affinity-designer-vector-files-after-effects
Have a nice one!
B.
- BrokenT, Iván Cardona and Wosven
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Have you guys tried Pages on Mac? it can do a pretty decent job. Specially the latest version. Give it a go.
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Great work! very neat!
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Hi guys! I've been working on this template file to create social media branding material for my clients.
I've managed to create a single file with multiple artboards (each one with it's export presets) ready for use.
You are welcome to delete the ones that you will not use (so you don't generate empty files on export).
It also includes flat icons from each platform just in case you might need them.
It's updated for 2017 according to this data from Social Sprout.
Hope you find it as useful as me.
Leave a comment if you like/use it. If you are going to post it anywhere else, please add the proper credits
Thanks!
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budaloco, out of curiosity, is there a reason you set your document to use points instead of pixels?
None at all I think I forgot to change it...I guess.
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Hi guys! I needed to create a custom design for a Brand manual and I was struggling with the fact that there's no layout grid option like sketch. So I decided to download the illustrator templates of the 960.gs grid system and adapt it to affinity designer using the constraints (so no matter how wide your artboard is, the grid will always strech porportionally). Hope you find this as useful as me.
You've got three files:
- 12 column layout
- 16 column layout
- 24 column layout
Happy designing!
- Ueeism, Zk433, LyricsGirl and 17 others
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Great work and great idea thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
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There is a very simple-to-fix bug in photo. When you open it for the first time, you get to choose the size, resolution, etc. When you press tab to go to the height option, the textarea isn't marked as "focused" (it should be white). It's a silly detail but adds to the overall user experience. Thanks!
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Thanks @Paul! ;)
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Fernet Branca is a very popular alcoholic drink in my country. Each year they hold a contest aimed to artists and designers to create a series of posters. Information about the contest can be found here (spanish) . The poster I made is attached to this post. I also uploaded it to my behance profile. I also have some flyers I did with Affinty Photo. You can check them out here.
- Paul Bravery, MattP, anon1 and 3 others
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Hi! I'm Ben! I'm a visual artist from Argentina. Came to Affinity to finally break free from Adobe. Seems I'm in the right track. Greetings to everyone.
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Maybe this can help. I added the bleed size (6mm / 3mm for each side) as a math operation inside "document setup options" to the page side. Then I went to "margins" and added 3 mm for every side. This creates a blue line that you can use as a reference while the affinity team updates the app, the trim lines will have to be created by the user of course.
Hope this helps!
Happy designing!
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I hope this update fixes the pinned text bug that crashes the app every time I try to save.