Oval
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On 29. Juli 2017 at 0:03 AM, deborah said:
Does anyone at Affinity have info on when this might happen in both AP and AD?
“It's going to be added very soon.”
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20 hours ago, Igull said:
text to outlines
We already have “Convert to Curves” or do you mean something like “offset path” again, Igull?
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3 hours ago, A_B_C said:
I don’t think we will get faster results by repeating the same complaints over and over again, as justified as they are.
Danke, lieber Alex. Wenn Patrick Connor zuerst das hier eindeutig illustrierte Problem – dabei geht es um einen bisher nicht behobenen Grundsatzfehler – scheinbar nicht versteht und mit viel Text antwortet – ein Ja oder Nein wäre praktisch gewesen –, wenn wiederholt keine Antwort zu anderen Problemen erfolgt und deshalb gebashed und zurückgestuft wird und wenn dann unterstellt wird, dass man denken könnte, dass Serif das Gedächtnis eines Goldfischs hat, dann ist es doch sinnvoll, ihm in einer kurzen Zusammenfassung zu schildern, warum es im Zeitraum von mehreren Jahren, in denen die anderen Expand-Stroke-Probleme, die nun leider hier vermischt wurden, trotz anderer Bekundungen nicht behoben wurden, immer wieder zu berechtigten Nachfragen kommen muss. Hier wurden keine Vorwürfe formuliert, sondern sachliche Informationen mitgeteilt. In keiner Silbe wurde gedrängt. Nach dem Goldfisch-Vergleich werden wir uns allerdings davor hüten, zu fragen, ob Expand-Stroke vor der neuen MAS-Version weiter verbessert wird. Zeitweise hatte sich die Qualität ja sogar verschlechtert und die Entwicklung stoppte; da drängte sich die Frage förmlich auf.
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On 25. Oktober 2017 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Connor said:
No Oval, just no. We do not have the memory of goldfish.
Thanks and just fyi, Patrick: Still unanswered questions since 2015 like “Any news about fixing?”. Almost 30 months ago Serif wrote “this will get fixed and it is a priority” and “wasn't fixed yet because we needed to keep the code stable for the Affinity Photo release”; more than 15 months ago “Expand Stroke will be worked on very soon”. If “Expand Stroke” has not reached the quality of other apps like Inkscape in a few months, probably there will be more questions.
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20 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said:
Thanks, but you have 1190 posts, so I don't fancy scrolling through them all to find out!
I was just puzzled as to why you don't have your own forum accounts?
This is why we explained it here. Not all of us have the time to translate, write, upload, make snapshots, create examples, videos, … and it is better to represent an opinion that is secured because multiple users share the same.
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52 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
That is the sort of result I would hope for too on a small object at that zoom, but I am not writing the code.
Seems to be the reason why users that have been bashed because they don’t want to discuss code reasons they cannot examine but asked for corrections. Now we have the RC and must ask again.
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2 hours ago, Mark Ingram said:
Can I ask an unrelated question, who is 'we'?
Was already discussed. We are some users that hope that Affinity will be the best solution in future. At least seven professionals have shared the same opinion here.
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1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:
<Edit> but not if your object is "very small" i.e. is on a very low resolution document or is very small on a high resolution document </Edit>
We used almost the smallest possible object in Inkscape and got a much better result than in AD. Because Serif claims “most precise vector graphic design software available” purchasers expect that “Expand Stroke” produces at least the same good results.
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1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:
other recent thread here
Our explanations were deleted there … so we tried it with a new thread here.
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38 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
Hoisted by my own... and at the same time backing up the point I'm making about the algorithm needing to be flexible. Thanks Alfred.
I love to be proven completely wrong and for there to be a way to make an expanded stroke that is always a perfect fit (but if we could I do not think it would have the number of curve points that you would expect).
That vector command should be resolution independently with high accuracy like in other apps (like Inkscape) and should not delete needed points like in the upper example (puny ten points). Afterwards it can be recalculated depending on (output) resolution.
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On 20. Oktober 2017 at 6:28 PM, Tia Lapis said:
Publisher pushed back *AGAIN*? This is getting ridiculous 8(
No(thing has changed), Serif still claims "We’ll be asking you to help us perfect Affinity Publisher when we publish it in beta in 2017”.
And since November: no asking about help anymore, but the message “Affinity Publisher Available 2018”.
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Welcome here, Greensturm. You posted in “Designer Beta on Mac” (not easy to compare AD with PS**).
In AD use the colour picker tool and select “Greyscale” in the colour panel.
Perhaps we will get scripting and the possibility to create our individual info panels in AD. Simply create a feature request.
**AD has great features in the field of image processing, PS does not have many of those great vector tools of AD.
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23 hours ago, Chris B said:
If we make the standard dialog box bigger, it might make other areas look odd with too much negative space.
No. If Serif would use much more space (a great graphical tool!) for structuring, then bigger dialog boxes would not look odd but well designed!
It is not a problem of the size of that dialog boxes. The lot of space was not used for design here.
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On 13/10/2017 at 10:08 AM, VIPStephan said:
cut off uncommonly squished
and without use of a design grid
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On 6. Oktober 2017 at 10:23 PM, Patrick Connor said:
No.
So HEIC import for older/other OS only for ≥1.7 or/and Affinity Pro or/and as an in-app purchase?
The license (< 10.13) is expensive?
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Because we still have no detailed information how the pictures have been produced, we only can say that the biggest problem source seems to be the designer and the first step should be the correction of typographical errors.
On 25. September 2017 at 9:44 AM, David Law said:please explain to me in layman terms what i am doing wrong as I am finfing it really frustrating.
David, was this information helpful or do you still have problems? If your texts are too pixelated, simply export them with much more pixels.
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3 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:
Are you using the current beta for your tests of this incorrect behaviour as you keep referring back to old posts?
Of Course. FYI: We just (unsuccessfully) asked if there will be improvements in the next beta, because there were no further ones in beta 10, so we just illustrated that in other apps like Inkscape there are no such misshapen results when using the same values. The problem also concerns bigger and complex curves and can change with the position/copy of the same curve. We referred back to old posts because we didn’t/don’t have the chance to use AD. The problem still exists in beta 10. Users that notice the inaccuracies late when works are produced can get into trouble. HTH
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54 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
In this post .you were asked "Could you attach the document you are using that gives you this result please?". We asked not because we cannot be bothered, but because your report matters and if we get your file working you are less likely to say that our fix (on our own files) has not fixed your problem.
3 Posts later and no file so we said "I simply asked you for the file shown in your screenshot". And yet you have now replied a total of 4 times and despite describing the problem over and over, which we are not denying exists for you, still you have not given us your file. You have made much more work for yourself doing these convoluted posts so clearly it is not because you don't have the time, so it does seem that you are only providing the cooperation you want to rather that what is requested. If you do not want your posts to be ignored please cooperate with my QA staff.
Thanks for the information. We are in vacation and again: You will get a file. Please be patient until we can use AD again. Or just create a line we proposed six months ago. If Serif is impatient it can use that measurement and gets those reported inaccuracies in less than five seconds.
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On 20. September 2017 at 9:09 AM, Sean P said:
Are you purposely being awkward and uncooperative?
This would be a very negative art to interpret factual texts, would be no answer of the question “no further tweaks of Expand Stroke?” and no meaningful way to motivate purchasers to help.
This bug exists for a long time and was reported many times but it was not corrected completely. This picture illustrates that even free apps don’t have that problem. So we are awkward to ask if we get further tweaks after improvements stopped here?
On 20. September 2017 at 9:09 AM, Sean P said:it is not obvious what your starting point is
It is because Affinity Designer only has one tool that is named line thingy and would make sense here.
On 20. September 2017 at 9:09 AM, Sean P said:I simply asked you for the file shown in your screenshot […] So, do you have the file
You will get a file. Please be patient until we can use AD again. Or just create a line we proposed six months ago.
Again: No further tweaks of “Expand Stroke” or will we get the same quality like in other apps in the next beta?
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11 hours ago, Scungio said:
I guess the question I have
These inaccuracies also occur over 2 pt stroke widths and concern not only simple lines. Affinity Designer is advertised as the most precise vector graphic design software, but in other apps like Inkscape you don’t have these inaccuracies. One gets even different results in AD when repeated with copies/positions.
The question was: No further tweaks of “Expand Stroke” or will we get the same quality like in other apps in the next beta?
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8 hours ago, Sean P said:
already replied to you saying this has been reported to development
Sorry, we were of the opinion that so small errors, which were not corrected after two betas, should be reported again to avoid that they will be overlooked.
Arrowheads please. . .
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