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1 hour ago, R C-R said:
The scroll bars will appear only when the document is larger than the workspace window, like when you are zoomed in to see a small part of it at high magnification. Does it not work this way for you?
Not so. The scroll bars were visible at all times, whether the document was Fit to Window or larger. They are still visible in one or two saved Publisher files, and have vanished from others. This problem popped up with the download of Affinity Designer yesterday.
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I have used Affinity Photo since February 2017. I have been working with the Publisher betas since this August. Happy as a clam. Yesterday I decided to complete the trio by purchasing and installing Affinity Designer. And now I have somehow lost the horizontal and vertical scroll bars in all three applications. I am using MAC Sierra with a connected mouse (not a trackpad) and have aways used click and drag with the scroll bars. I have also checked with Apple tech support to be sure that it is not an Apple problem. It isn't. The scroll bars are present and function perfectly in every other app (Font Book, Pages, etc.).
Until yesterday, the scroll bars worked perfectly with Publisher Beta 4, and now they seem to be intermittent. Some documents don't show them when opened. Others do.
HELP!
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3 hours ago, stokerg said:
Hi marno2013 and Welcome to the Forums,
The textures don't install into Affinity, as they are a collection of PNG files which you can use via the File>Place command or with the Fill Tool, just set the mode to Bitmap and you'll be able to select one of the textures
I had this same question, after watching the DAUB video about their watercolours. The narrator whizzed over the steps so rapidly that it took 5 reruns, a magnifying glass, and quick pauses in the video to discover the mode change to Bitmap. That crucial step is left out of the verbal discussion.
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38 minutes ago, Ash said:
Thank you, Ash, for putting up with us! As for my MAC dock, there won’t be any problem distinguishing between Adobe and Affinity icons. Because there won’t BE any Adobe icons. This is all reminiscent of the old Peter Principle, that a corporation board meeting spends the longest time arguing over the size of the wastebaskets. I am sure we will find the new icons to be just fine after a week or two.
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I have been writing and publishing for a long time. Publisher is not currently for sale, because it is in Beta, but when the first commercial version is ready, I will be purchasing it on Day One -- I am sure only one of hundreds of thousands of others. I may not think the new icon is as attractive as it might be, but it is so unimportant in the scheme of things. What IS attractive is that for those of us who have been waiting for a long time, we are in the process of getting a splendid initial-version alternative to the Adobe prison. In my humble opinion, the Publisher, Photo, and Designer icons can be whatever the developers decide.
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There is also Typeface 2, which I have just discovered. It has some very nice ways to manage/create collections of fonts. And the added advantage, according to one reviewer on the Apple App Store of "Auto Activation in Affinity Apps (and others)." That was what sold me. It is half the price of RightFont as an added incentive.
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Well, I guess we have all thrashed this out. À chacun son goût. Cheers, everybody!
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1 hour ago, Fixx said:
Space-CMD works ok, unfortunately CMD-SPACE does not. Thus if you are in a text box you are outta luck.
It is Command plus the plus key (+) to zoom in. Command plus the minus key (-) to zoom back out. That was what I meant by Command + the + key. Etc. Works.
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18 hours ago, dominik said:
I see, so you don't have a mouse wheel

You could remap in Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts>Tools>Zoom to a key close to the left Command key (on my german keyboard this would be '<' on an english keyboard this is '\' as far as I know). Then you could toggle to zoom and back to the previous tool. Not the same but not bad, either

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But if one is left-handed, the key close to Command is Z.
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1 hour ago, Chris26 said:
. One 15 minute tutorial from affinity is all it takes.....
Yes, but demonstrated and spoken slow’w’w’w’w’w’w’ly. Preferrably with the light UI. So hard to squint at all those tiny little black arrows galloping back anf forth between tiny little words in tiny little menus in all that black at about 65 mph! Maybe a 17 min tutorial?
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9 hours ago, Serenak said:
In Adobe you hold Cmd Space to temporarily access the zoom function. This is a tool I use all the time, it is so useful not to have to come out of a text box, hit Z, zoom, and then go back to the text. Zoom to selection helps a bit but isn't the same. Any chance of a key combo for "temporary" access to the zoom?
I am using MAC Sierra. For my computer the correct temporary zooming shortcuts are in Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts>View. Zooming in is Command + the “+” key. Zooming out is Command + the minus key.
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Oh ho! Stupid me. I entered something else into HELP, and found EDIT>Undo Set Ruler Origin and Redo Reset Ruler Origin plus their shortcuts. Need a brains transplant. Just another case of Everything You Always Wanted In a Publishing Program But Were Afraid to Ask. No need. Already there.
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7 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:
I will add:
6. In "View > View Mode" and "View > View" flyout panels are on the left, too.All of these panels appear on the right with my MAC, Sierra.
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For the life of me I cannot think why anybody who has a computer and the chance to learn Publisher would want to use it to go back to that cash-gobbling Adobe product. But then, nobody asked me.
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Downloaded perfectly! Miss the previous colors. Like the rest of the logo.
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I must be missing something. There does not seem to be any consistent way to change the zero point on the document rulers (not frame text rulers) a second time, after it has been first changed by dragging on the top left hand corner of the rulers. I noticed this after the icon for adjusting the rulers (not frame text rulers) was removed from the Context Toolbar. I am now testing v. 174. Sometimes a double click up there moves the zero point back. Sometimes it does not. Sometimes a double click changes the tiny little "p" to two of them. Sometimes not. Would it be possible to enable some sort of mark at the horizontal zero point permitting it to be used to drag the zeros (both horizontal and vertical) back and forth?
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3 hours ago, fde101 said:
There is an arrow shape available too.
Yes there is, but it is very short and rather wimpy. Mugsy’s sample showed a longer arrow.
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Just downloaded v. 167. Smooth as satin -- as usual. MAC Sierra. I have installed it as a separate version, keeping v. 162. Every document I have created from v. 145 through 162 has opened perfectly. Granted, I saved the 145's in v. 157, then the 157's in v. 162, and now the 162's in v. 167.
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5 hours ago, Designing Woman said:
Thanks that info is helpful. Can anyone who uses a Mac chime in on how they manage fonts using Affinity Designer?
I have 313 fonts, many of them added to the Apple fonts and ranging from the plain to the very intricate (think Augsburger Initials) in my MAC Font Book. Some are TT fonts, many are OTF fonts. Affinity Publisher (the beta version we are all working with now) handles them all perfectly!! I don't know about Designer, but don't see why not.
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6 hours ago, Chris_K said:Hi jmwellborn
This is due to being in Light UI, Our current apps exhibit the same behaviour. On Windows the orange is kept in light UI but can be slightly more difficult to see. As light UI was made on Mac first,, I image i is windows that need updating here
Cheers
Thank you so much. I really love the Symbols Panel! Also Light UI!! Doesn’t matter at all whether the bars are gray or orange. What matters is the way all the images can be edited in one swoop. When the HELP team gets to that point in their documentation, they could possibly state something to the effect that “either a vertical gray or an orange bar, depending upon the user’s operating system.” That would help us “reading learners” as we discover the many extraordinary possibilities with Publisher. Thank you again!!
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Lost my scroll bars!
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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That may be what is supposed to happen, and the Apple tech support guy and I checked all that out. All settings are fine. What is NOT fine is that scroll bars are missing from all three apps and in the HELP section of each app it distinctly says “scroll bars.” Further, I did have scroll bars in both Photo and Publisher before I downloaded the current commercial version of Designer. And I had them when a document was in the smallest possible screen view. I hope the Affinity developers can help me with this. Extremely frustrating.