Paul Mudditt
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48 minutes ago, Nadar said:
Hi 😉
Is it necessarly to save after each change on a AP file ?
Or the saving is automatic after a first save…
Thank you
Automatic saving into the internal sandbox depends on this setting, the default is 300 seconds,I set mine to 30 seconds. However there is still opportunities to lose you work so you should also manually rename your work and save your work outside of the Affinity sandbox occasionally.
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3 hours ago, ThorQue said:
Perhaps the sandbox should be more stable instead roll the responsibility to the user. And why is a document not automatically stored into the iCloud once it was renamed and stored initially. Manual saving isn't very user friendly.
Blame how iPadOS memory management works. Affinity, unlike 99% of other Apps uses lots of RAM to store edit history etc, earlier iPad Pro’s had very little RAM so when you tasks switch iPadOS forces RAM to be freed up for the next application if there isn’t sufficient RAM free. This results in Affinity having no control of the situation and your current unsaved project steps are lost or worse your project is corrupted.
I just upgraded from first generation iPad Pro 9.7” (2GB RAM) where lost data used to happen a lot to M1 iPad Pro 11” 8GB RAM where it never seems to occur.
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2 minutes ago, palermo said:
Currently running 15.2 and going to update today.
Still works for me. See video.
However I would recommend not using this functionally as it encourages storing projects within the App when it is much preferable to always save your work into an iCloud folder instead once your work is completed. -
3 hours ago, netgifted said:
When I tri to insert text the keyboard will not show up because of pencil connection. This makes it impossible to insert any text since there is no way to switch to keyboard. As I mainly use Affinity Designer on iPad to create banners and YouTube covers this makes the job impossible. Is there any trick to switch to keyboard? I found that I need an external keyboard to do a decent job but this should be easier. Also if I put the pencil away, close the app and reopen then I have access to keyboard but if I try to double tap or triple tap text to highlight the whole block it will only chose one word, its not possible to select the whole line of text. This makes my workflow impossible on iPad. I love Designer on Mac but this iPad version is really hard to work with. Can anyone give me a hint on how to work with text? Thanks in advance
Turn Scribble off under settings - apple pencil
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55 minutes ago, Heyhi said:
I lost all of my assets - for the second time- when Affinity Photo on iPad crashed. I have over 100 jpeg textures that I want to import but I can’t find a way to drag them all in at once. I’ve read over the posts about importing Jpegs on a desktop, but on my iPad, the file folder is grayed out. I just can’t find a way to select them all and import, either from the Photos App or from Files.
I know how to import from selection once the photo is in, but if anyone can help me avoid dragging and selecting over 100 photos individually, I’d appreciate it.
thanks,
jennifer
There is no way to build up an .afassets file other than one asset at a time. You should export to an .afassets file as a backup or for use on another platform. I build my .afassets files and store them in an Affinity Resources folder in iCloud so that I can import them all in a single step to my PC and Mac version of Affinity. Only by creating .afassets files can you import multiple assets at once.
An example of an .afassets file is attached. This is a replacement for the missing shape presets on the iPad version that I created one at a time. -
1 hour ago, jmaz87 said:
So the build I currently have installed is saying it’s expired and there is no update available in TestFlight. How can I go about getting on the latest beta version for iPadOS?
Everyone on the beta program has been on the released version for months as it is newer than the previous beta. When a new beta arrives we will all get it, at the moment there isn't one.
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23 hours ago, Nadar said:
Hi 😉
Is there a say to measure the objects on a page of AP ?
By instance measure the distance between the border of the page and a side of a picture or a text box
Thanks.
Look in the transform studio, select an object with the move tool and it’s position on the page will be shown in whatever units your document is set too.
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3 hours ago, Margo said:
in develop persona, when processing a raw photo with fujifilm xt-30. when I try to select the desired area with the overlay paint tool, the moment I touch the screen, a line appears instead of a point. it is impossible to select the desired zone due to this problem. the eraser is wrong in the same way. when trying to erase excess selection, it erases in stripes and erases areas where processing was required. this problem does not always appear, but very often
The only way I can repeat that is by holding the shift key down on my magic keyboard which puts Affinity into line drawing mode. Do you have an external keyboard attached? If not have you tried closing all open apps then doing a Forced Restart of your iPad.
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1 hour ago, MrSmith said:
Dear Affinity Team,
The Colour Pick window fixed on screen when choosing colour for the brush tool. And it won’t disappear whatever instrument I choose after. The problem stays even when I open other different projects. The error-circle stays on the same place of the working field. I tried to re-pick the colour which separate colour pick instrument but is opens a new colour pick circle and the error-circle still remains on screen covering the document.
Hope I managed to describe the problem adequately.
Thank you!
Alex
P.S.: Affinity products are Great!))
Close all open apps then restart your iPad or do a Forced Restart of your iPad.
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On 1/9/2022 at 3:53 AM, LK23 said:
What is the best image browser that recognizes Affinity Photo images?
I am finding that ApolloOne and other image browsers do not recognize the AF image format.
Are you using a PC, since on a Mac or iPad the Finder and Files apps provide the usual thumbnails for .afphoto files to browse through them.
You should probably ask this question in the appropriate support forum
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10 hours ago, Alfred said:
Lightest in Eduardo’s screenshot is white but lightest in your screenshot is pale blue. How do you set L* to white for arbitrary a* and b* values?
Yes, you're right Alfred, I was thinking it was similar to moving across the colour wheel where you can get to white from any colour. I blame the unknown quantity as Walt mentioned "percentage of a global color", I have no idea what that is either.
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3 hours ago, Alfred said:
Thanks for the screenshot, Eduardo!
T = Tint. I can’t find this in AD on iPad.
Still think the Lab Slider performs the same function as the T except reversed, darkest to lightest where the T is Lightest to Darkest.
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4 hours ago, HKies said:
Thanks, DM1. Exporting to PDF helps slightly, but the font size/shape do not match the design in the AD document. Files attached for comparison.
Little K New Logo Final 010522 2.afdesign LittleK 010622.pdf 199.97 kB · 0 downloads
On the text, turn off the outline effects, instead change the stroke colour to black and align stroke to outside which is same as how your effects outline were set up.
Little K New Logo Final 010522 00.pdf Little K New Logo Final 010522 00.afdesign
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1 hour ago, evtonic3 said:
How do I change the percentage of a global color?
Unless you mean opacity of a layer have you tried using the Lab Sliders rather than the colour wheel perhaps.
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31 minutes ago, Jonascher said:
I just started using Designer on my iPad Pro. I’m trying to import images into the assets. I have lots of vector images in my FILES folder, however when I navigate there to add custom assets, everything is greyed out. AI, SVG, EPS, PDF, and PNG files. Nothing will open into Affinity’s assets collection.
Also it seems like a no brainer that I’d be able to open a file from my local files on my iPad at the start screen, instead of only relying on what I have in the cloud.
I’m probably missing something simple.
thanks,
Jon
You can only import an .afassets file. To create your own .afasset file you need to import each image by using Place Image into the curent document then adding each one to your assets library.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/designer/ipad/video/273288063/
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44 minutes ago, Jörg_R said:
I try it, but nothing changed!
Works okay on my Mac when I turn off hardware acceleration but the effect is very subtle. Your screen record method would not work as your pixel image layer is locked, did you try again after turning off acceleration and unlocked the layer.
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1 hour ago, Jörg_R said:
Hello,
i have a simple question. During my workflow (learned by Adobe PS) the blur and sharpener tool did not work. Where is my mistake? Ilf I open a picture without nay other thing doing it works. But the tip of the tool is transparent so I can't see exactly where I'm working.
Please look at the video.
THX
Jörg
Try turning off hardware acceleration under preferences.
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On 12/16/2021 at 5:07 PM, These8arms said:
I am opening files from Dropbox (not importing) and after I do edits and save the file, it never shows up on Dropbox itself.
I've tried with the Dropbox app open, refreshing there, etc. No matter what I do, the file is never saved back to Dropbox.
I remember being able to do this fine, but it no longer works. Have rebooted the iPad to make sure it wasn't something with that, but no dice.Do you mean the .afphoto file that you saved or the image file (jpg, tif etc) you exported? You cannot save an image file only export one.
You cannot open an image file edit it and save it back on itself on the iPad like you can do on the desktop, you need to export the edited image so in Dropbox you will have the original and the modified exported image.
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On 1/4/2022 at 9:08 PM, Jasmina said:
Dear Madam/Sir,
I’ve been having problems with freehand selection tool which suddenly in the middle of the work for no reason at all stopped working. I couldn’t fix it otherwise than by deleting the program and reinstalling it.
When I uninstall the program the folder where all the aff. files were stored was gone. Of course I didn’t know than that by deleting the program you also delete the whole folder. So I have lost half a year’s work.
But Freehand selection after reinstolment now works. Maybe this is also one more handicap that had to be improved in the future.
Is there any possible way to restore this folder since I did’t have backup. I could easily save in another folder if I just knew that.
Please help.
Under preferences, change the default save location to be iCloud. It is very unfortunate that iPadOS deletes the OnMyiPad folder associated with any App when it is uninstalled, however it leaves the iCloud folder equivalent alone so it is preferential to always use save in iCloud instead.
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10 hours ago, evtonic3 said:
Does selecting or highlighting text work in iPad version using a Bluetooth mouse? I can’t get it to highlight it. or is the Apple Pencil the only way?
Yes it does, use just like pencil or finger, select text layer, choose text tool, then click and drag over text with mouse button pressed start to finish.
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11 hours ago, DiegoIta said:
It’s what I’ve done, I closed it as you can see but the copy it’s still there (even if I restart iPadOS).
Hmmm, mine seems to do the same in Photo but not in Designer. I think this maybe a bug for the Devs to look at when they return to work. None of these documents are on my AP home screen now.
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22 hours ago, Del H said:
If I open a jpg photo from Onedrive, Affinity Photo 1.10.3 gets stuck on “Downloading”. I’m doing “Open from cloud”.
It’s not all files but also doesn’t seem to related to specific files. Maybe 30% success rate.
Edit: Trying some more, I can’t open anything from Onedrive now - or the sample images….
You could try going into the Onedrive app and ensuring the files you want to access in Affinity are downloaded first. The best way is to use iCloud rather than any of the other cloud services which have been a lot more hit and miss on the iPad over the years.
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On 12/29/2021 at 9:32 AM, bcowo said:
tapping the screen with one finger trick is too inconsistent and finicky, it keeps picking color instead of constraint, and the floating keys at the bottom just plainly doesnt work. either draws ghost lines or sticks longer than i press it, or snaps to wrong axis. Oh and most annoyingly it keeps disappearing and going back to first page after every action.
drawing straight lines are a relatively common action, i dont get why is it hidden behind pages of tools and is that buggy. please give more consideration for touch only use cases, and add an always visible toggle for snapping to axis, or better, a proper ruler tool. Even making the floating toolbox actually float would be an improvement.
Joining this discussion late but it does seem like you should be using Affinity Designer not Affinity Photo which is akin to Photoshop. If you don’t want to do vector drawing perhaps a sketch app like Procreate may be what you require.
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18 hours ago, Dockskipper said:
So I can use the shortcut to open an image from a folder, but will not open a photo from the photos app.
Sounds like Privacy on photos, check this area
A special effect on a rectangle…
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
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Struggling to follow what you want but did you try changing the angle or azimuth of your effect.