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TonyO

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  1. Likely because the devs assume that if you're working in an artboard based workspace you'll probably want to use Designer, and obscuring that feature is likely intentional, who knows, haha.
  2. OH! look at that, learn something new every day! My mistake, haha. I guess to that end though, once I'm in designer persona and using artboards and infinite pasteboard... what is the point of using Publisher? I guess if you want some of the photo editing capabilities, but once pages are removed from the equation, there's not much use for publisher features are there? The standalone designer app feels quicker and more responsive.
  3. No, he totally understands what you are asking for, and that is the correct answer. Publisher does NOT support all features of the independent apps in each of the personas, the file setup is not the same, and it does not fit the needs of all users. Publisher doesn't support infinite canvas or artboards, slicing exports, and many other features of the standalone apps. Publisher is a multipage publication app, equivalent to InDesign, it is not designed for UI, illustration, photo editing or general multi-format design. Each individual app has features that the others don't. Publisher files are setup in page format for a reason, if you don't need pages or mail merge or other multi page/publication based needs then you may be better off using the others apps.
  4. Not quite. Unless there's some feature that I'm missing, there doesn't seem to be any way to add artboards to Publisher, and the canvas isnt infinite vertically, it cuts off just above and below the currently active page. Can you show a screenshot of Publisher using artboards and an infinite canvas and how you created the file? Even opening an Designer file in publisher won't allow those 2 features.
  5. And file extensions are controlled by the OS anyway. Just open a "Get info screen" on any Afdesign file, set it to Afpub as default and click "apply to all" and it changes what app that extension opens in. Not really something the developers need to implement.
  6. I'm the opposite, I've literally used everything from Corel Draw and Fireworks, to Inkscape, and finally Affinity Designer to avoid using AI as much as possible. My illustration work depends completely on fast and easy to use bezier tools and the out of the box Illustrator tools are the absolute worst I've ever touched, haha. I've heard alot of good things about Astute, I may have to give it a shot.
  7. This may be a good solution for a single one-off design or the such, but when you illustrate multiple items at once and need the expandability of an infinite pasteboard outside your canvas for extra elements, brainstorming or reference images - as well as the use of multiple artboards, the benefits of a publication based design app becomes fleeting. Everybody has different needs, Publisher can't handle a workflow that looks like this.
  8. Off topic a bit, but what are all those plugins in AI? Do they make bezier drawing any less of a slog - AI is the worst when it comes to node editing tools, haha.
  9. This only works in Publisher, Designer and Photo don't use studio link. Most users won't use pub for anything other than multipage publication design, since that's it's primary function. Even with personas though, having any more than 3 or 4 stacked studio panels can get cumbersome.
  10. Right. This suggestion is for a quick and easy way to interact with panels you rarely use but still want immediate access to. I use Affinity for illustration mostly, so i would have the color, transform, stroke and layers panels docked to the right as full sized panels. Then on the smaller panel i would keep text tools and or quick effects since I use those intermittently. It's an idea for an additional option for docking, not one you would have to use.
  11. On iPad, a panel will pop out when you click the icon, you interact with it, and when you're done you start working in the canvas again and the panel disappears. If you want it to stay persistent, like photoshop panel popouts, you can click a pin icon. If you haven't worked with Affinity on iPad, you are definitely missing out! RPReplay_Final1682508370.MP4
  12. I can't be the first one to think of or suggest this (i only did one quick forum search), but it would be more than awesome to be able to have a secondary studio panel for lesser used panels that operates like the ipad version, where click the icon to show the panel, and it auto collapses once you click off of using it. Even using the ipad side bar offset from the main studio panels. Something like the screenshot.
  13. I feel like the main problem with packaged art files for the past few decades (in apps like indesign, illustrator and others) is that packaging ends up being a collection of files that requires additional management outside of the app that made it. This kind of defeats the purpose IMO. I've always been in the camp that a package should be every asset saved inside one encapsulating file with no external links to manage. If you're editing a package and importing new assets, they should be automatically added into the package file, you should never have to manage a package outside of the app that made it. Microsoft actually does a fantastic job with this in modern Office apps. If you take a DOCX file and open it in an app like 7zip or another archive manager, you'll find that a modern word doc is actually a full folder structure inside of a zip archive containing the base file, all images, embedded fonts and all other relatable assets, but you only have to worry about managing one single file on your computer. It's works like a charm.
  14. Yes, this is why offering a prompt to install packaged fonts into AFD's internal fonts manager would be a great idea. Most designers tend to stick to a few favorites, if you were prompted to install them permanently into Designer on package load, then after a while all your usuals would just work on iPad and you wouldnt have to worry about making sure they're included with a package every time. Another idea would be to just embed the fonts into the package file instead of putting them in an external folder (sort of how a mac App is actually just a folder of files with a dot extension), that way there would be no separate files to keep track of. If the package requires external assets, why do we even need a separate dot extension for a package if the contents are just a regular AFD file?
  15. No prob! After a bit more testing, the whole packaging system in AfDesigner seems a bit botched. Workflow: Create an AFdesigner doc on desktop with fonts, package this file. Drop package into cloud storage. Open on iPad. I'm not using Publisher. What it looks like is happening are a few things: 1. Loading from Dropbox doesn't bring up the package asset location prompt. 2. Loading from iCloud DOES give the asset location prompt, and the file loads with fonts intact. 3. Once a package is properly loaded from iCloud, all other open documents with the same missing fonts are now active... 4. ...but only for the current open session. Once AfDesigner is closed out and re-opened, all fonts from all documents (even the icloud loaded one) are missing, and there is no prompt to find them again. The fonts are also never "installed". So at this point, im stuck with no fonts and other than installing them manually in settings, there's no easy way to automatically get them back again. I think other than fixing the dropbox loading issue, It would be awesome if there was an option to "intall fonts from package" which would permanently add all fonts to the internal font manager under settings. As of now, only having fonts active invisibly in the background for a single session isn't really working. Thanks for looking into this, this has been the big barrier for me using AFD on ipad for layout work. I use it for illustration daily, but never do layout since font management is such a pain. You guys are much appreciated! RPReplay_Final1681906653_1.mp4
  16. When opening a package file with a fonts folder from iCloud storage, there is a second prompt during the opening process asking for the location of the supporting files, which finds the fonts and images folders and allows fonts to be installed. When opening a package file from Dropbox on the side panel on the open screen, the second package folder prompt doesn't appear, so there's no option to locate the fonts, the stats screen will show all fonts as missing when loading the document.
  17. Yes! Can do! See attached. This is a single instance, but will happen on my iPad every time the app is restarted. I did it 4 times before recording this video just to make sure it wasn't user error. Also, I'm on a 2018 iPad pro, Designer tends to close in the background often due to the older model's memory limitations (normal behavior, all apps do this), this might not happen on the newer M1 models where the app would tend to stay open longer in the background for fast switching. The windshield wiper icon is a bit intermittent. In this video it stayed on between sessions, but i just tried another test and it turned itself off between sessions, it's a bit less predictable. But snapping aways turns itself back on when the app is reopened, for me at least - and since i never use snapping, it's kind of a personal nuisance, haha. RPReplay_Final1680091611.mp4
  18. The way you described it is exactly what I'm talking about. in V2 It's always on by default every time the app is started and i have to turn it off on every file I open every time I start a new session. This doesn't happen on desktop, the snapping setting is remembered when the app is closed and re-opened. I'm asking for the selected setting to save across sessions so it doesn't need to be toggled off constantly.
  19. This explains alot, I had this odd feeling that selecting text in AFD V2 was feeling more cumbersome than it used to. The selection should definitely be based on bounding box and not invisible letter height. It would also be nice if there was an option in the settings that would prevent tool switching on anything but an apparent double click. I feel like my tools in AFD 2.0 have a habit of switching on their own alot more than they did in V1, and not just the text tool, the Node tool will activate it self quite often on it's own while using the rounded corner tool as an example.
  20. Yes, your solution of using the combined icon does work. The bug is definitely in the menu bar icons, not sure why the dropdown menu would allow the function, but the menu bar icons are still gray.
  21. Slightly unrelated, but still an idea for the pencil double-tap settings, do you think it would be a good idea to add all the options in the TOOL dropdown into the DOUBLE TAP ACTION dropdown? That way we could setup tool combos, like double tapping on PEN always enables NODE, regardless of what the previous tool was used? I use something similar on desktop where i set the F key to hot switch the PEN and NODE tools for easy access while drawing. Sorry if this isn't specific to the quick menu, but i figured its related since we're talking about the Pencil settings menu.
  22. On the pencil settings screen, maybe add an option under the TOOL and DOUBLE TAP ACTION dropdown menus that could be worded: "Double tap enables quick menu by default" - which would gray out the individual TOOL and DOUBLE TAP ACTION dropdowns, and enable the double tap menu on double click for all tools in one action (since doing it one by one for each tool would be a chore and some users might want this menu to come up no matter what tool they're using).
  23. Found a bug in the UI on iPad. From what i can gather, most UI settings are saved between sessions and when the app is closed and reopened. But I am noticing that after the app is restarted, the snapping settings are always turned on by default. And i have to turn them off on every file i open before i start working. Is it possible to save the on/off state of the snapping icon in the top right across sessions so i don't have to toggle it off all the time? I don't remember having to do this in V1, which is why im submitting as a bug and not a feature request. Thanks a million! You guys rock!
  24. Hi! I have a suggestion that would be really nice for us non-technical figurative illustrators. Currently when deleting a node in the middle of a curve (between 2 other nodes), the default behavior is to maintain the exact direction of the surrounding node handles, often resulting in a warped shape. Designer has a key command to reshape and attempt to maintain the curve when deleting nodes if you alt+delete (windows) or option+delete on mac. It's not perfect but the result is way more useful than the default node delete behavior. This alternate delete function is really good for illustration since creative drawing would rarely have a use for the un-fixed result, but it's an extra step to remember on desktop... and a REALLY unintuitive to perform on iPad. Would it be possible to get a checkbox in the settings menu to "reshape curve on node delete by default" added to the iPad app (and possibly desktop) to perform the equivalent of an option+delete by default when selecting a node and tapping the trash can icon (or hitting delete on desktop)? This would be a godsend on iPad, I always have to reshape curves when node editing my drawings, and allowing the alternate delete behavior by default would save tons of time when editing. Thanks for considering!
  25. All apps are set to default sRGB IEC61999-2.1. I don't mess with color profiles, I leave everything default at all times, they're too easy to screw up. Might be easier to see the difference if i put them directly side by sliced side. Designer export to PSD on the left, export to EPS on the right. Left is accurate since the color profile carries over.
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