bluearch

I am a music theory instructor using Affinity Designer to mark up assignments for students on a shared screen on Zoom. Separated Mode allowed me to only share the document window, not the entire workspace. My students don’t need to see my pens colours and layers, and with some of them on iPad screens it uses up valuable screen space for no added value to them. It is a great product that many people use in many different ways. Design changes as significant as this should be optional rather than enforced. Please return this feature, I will be only able to use V1 until separated mode returns.

They do however have calligraphy brushes in pixel mode, which is a good start. Does anyone know how we can edit the actual nib shape, rather than just change what the nib does?

Does anyone know if the new V2 has calligraphy brush possibilities?

Thank you for this update. I am in the middle of a large project (with deadline fast approaching) and I started feeling ill when one of my files kept crashing when I tried to print or export as pdf. It seems to be working now with the Beta. StudioLink would be nice, but not crashing is nicer. Thanks, Tim

Yes it is in the feature roadmap, but there is not a whiff of it in 1.7. What is up???? I really, really, really need calligraphy brushes for music notation. I do not care if they are pixel or vector, but I need a brush that knows when it is going vertically and when it is going horizontally (and the lovely interactions in between. Developers, do you hear us???

Is it possible to rearrange the order of the master pages. They are presented in chronological order according to when they were added. If I want to add a special chapter title page, but don't want it buried in my modified copy pages. Could I drag it, or arrow key it up to closer to the top of my list?

Does anyone know the status of Calligraphy line styles on the feature roadmap? I really need them for music notation. There has not seemed to have been any movement on implementation. Hello? Anyone out there????

So what exactly is the status of Calligraphic Line Styles? Are they coming or are the just on a list to make us wonder why they are not here yet?

My first post on the forum. I have been using Affinity Designer for a week, and there are many things that I am very pleased with and there are some things that I am scratching my head at. First off, I am not a graphic designer, I am a musician, composer and educator. I prepare materials for my classes that combine multiple page pdf and added png in a desktop publishing setting. I also use these files in the class, projected on screen, on which I make real time notations of analysis and added comments. (like the overhead projector was used with felt pens in the olden days). I have used Illustrator for this for a number of years, but now with an updated computer, I am unwilling to continue into the brave new Adobe world. Thank you Serif for having a reasonable one time fee for your product! One feature that I thought would be a given, but is not available, is a calligraphy pen. When writing music by hand, a specialized angled nib is used so that the vertical lines are thin (barlines and note stems) and the horizontal lines are thick (note heads and beams). This gives a very professional looking product that is easy to read on screen. I REALLY need this feature. I have read that it is on the list to add to future updates, please add it soon. Another feature that I am having difficulty with has to do with layers and artboards. Multiple artboards was an absolute necessity for me and I really appreciate being able to automatically open multipage pdfs in their entirety. (In CS5.5 I had to use a third party script to import multiple page pdfs in one go rather than page by page—crazy when you are opening a 23 page Beethoven piano sonata!). What I am having trouble with is that after opening such a file, the layers are self contained on each artboard. I am accustomed to having layers that go through the entire document. Here is my scenario: I import printed music as pdf (several pages) then I lock the music so it is not accidentally altered. I then add a new layer and in this layer begin drawing my Harmonic Analysis (blue vector pen). I add another layer and then do Structural Analysis (green pen), and maybe another layer with Melodic Analysis and so on. The page can get quite overloaded, so it is nice to hide my Harmonic Analysis when I am working on another type of analysis. Is there a way I can do this without having to create a Harmonic Layer for each page and a Stuctural Layer for each page and so on? I know I am using the terms page and artboard interchangeably, but I do understand that these are very different things for some. Does anyone know of a work around for global layers (containers) across multiple artboards? One last comment is that I was blundering through trying to export a selection of a page as a png to place in my word processor, unsuccessful at first, until I read up on the export panel. Make a slice, click the share button and you are done. What a lovely surprise. Simple, easy. Bravo on the export persona, I have only touched the surface, but it looks like there has been some very careful thought going into that one. Thank you. I will try to be less verbose next time I post.