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andym

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  1. Hi I'm looking at Affinity Designer as a way to produce pdfs etc from content I've published on a website. The html version would be the reference version. It would be great if Affinity Designer could interpret at least the basic structural html mark-up - eg heading levels, body text, and tables. I know I can convert html documents to rtf but this seems to lose all the mark-up and would mean going through the document again in Affinity Designer setting heading levels, body text etc. I'm really impressed with the beta, and I realise you've already got a long list of things to do. Thanks.
  2. Can I add my requests to this thread rather than start a new one? It would be great if the export module left styles alone - as it is if I have a set of paths with a common set of styles in the head of the document AFD puts those styles against each individual path in the export version. Similarly while AFD understands <defs> and <use ...> when it reads the document, but these don't seem to be supported on export. It would be great to be able to work on a document in AFD, then restructure it with a text editor, and then if need be, be able to tweak it again in AFD without having to start over again. Thanks. I appreciate that there are only a few of you and you have lots of users, all with different needs.
  3. Hi I know you've already got a ton of stuff on your list of things to do, but is there any chance of adding support for accessibility features for SVG on export? (and preserving them on import if they are already there) http://www.sitepoint.com/tips-accessible-svg/ I think it boils down to the ability to add <title>......</title> <desc>.......</desc> at the beginning of the svg document. As well as, if possible, aria-labelledby="title desc" role="img" to the <svg> tag. If you could enter this information at the same time as you do the export then that would be one less thing to remember. This is all stuff that can be easily added with a text editor so it would come under the heading of 'handy-but-not-essential'.
  4. Hi I wanted to ask a couple of questions about changes to the export of svgs in the next beta trailed by Matt in this thread: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/2288-svg-export-files/ ... which left me a little worried. Yes I know I may be jumping the gun, but as that thread is now locked I thought I'd ask here. I'm very much an svg newbie - so apologies if these are questions you've already thought of. My first question is whether this will be an option. The word 'automatically' left me a little worried - although maybe Matt was writing in a hurry and meant 'automatically, but only if you want it to'. I can see the usefulness of being able to make svg graphics responsive, but equally there are situations when a fixed width may be better: for example, while you might want a masthead graphic to be full-width you might well not want to have a portrait-format graphic expand to full width when say a user turns their tablet from portrait to landscape. My second question is about specifying widths as percentages (maybe I'm misinterpreting what Matt said here). I'm new to this, but from the very little I know the method recommended by people like Sara Soueidan is to remove the width and height statements from the svg altogether and specify them in the html document (if you need to) depending on what method you are using to embed the svg. Using percentages in the svg seems to be fraught with pitfalls for people like me: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SVG:Sizing#Percentage_intrinsic_width_and_height You probably know all of this, but for anyone else who's interested here's Sara Soueidan (the relevant bit starts at 20:00): Whatever way you look at it some 'fettling' is going to be involved! As ever, thanks for your time. Looking forward to the next version.
  5. Hi Is there any chance of making the help files available as a pdf? I'm having trouble with the Apple Help Center - I click on the Affinity Designer Help and then eventually get the message that the topic is not available. This is a more general issue: I've tried trashing the help cache and this seemed to fix the problem but now it's returned. Not AFD's fault, but it would be useful to have another way to refer to the help files. Thanks.
  6. EDIT: Sorry I forgot to check the answer to my question in the questions section. I'd have deleted this thread but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. At the moment if I import a file with a bunch of svg shapes Affinity converts these to paths. It would be really handy to be able to preserve these as svg shapes. For example if I have a bunch of map markers that look like this: <circle cx="168.5" cy="581.2" id="Alghero marker" r="3" class="style0"/> <g id="Algherolabel" transform="translate(0,0)" x="173.5" y="581.2"> <text id="Alghero name" x="173.5" y="581.2" class="style1">Alghero</text> </g> I can easily change the radius of the marker from 3 to 2 by using search and replace in a text editor (I can't see any way to do the same thing with multiple paths - but maybe that's my ignorance). Webcode and Sketch do this (although in other respects I much prefer Affinity). Thanks.
  7. Hi I've just imported an svg file, copied and pasted it into another, did some resizing, changed the layer names, and then exported the combined document (a map with place names) to svg. I ended up with circles being converted into paths. To give one example: <circle cx="210.4" cy="230.6" id="Genova (w9) marker" r="3" class="style0"/> <g id="Genova (w9) label" transform="translate(0,0)" x="215.4" y="230.6"> <text id="Genova (w9) name" x="215.4" y="230.6" class="style1">Genova </text></g> was converted to: <g id="Genova marker"> <path d="M215.887,281.212C217.745,281.212 219.251,282.719 219.251,284.577C219.251,286.435 217.745,287.942 215.887,287.942C214.028,287.942 212.522,286.435 212.522,284.577C212.522,282.719 214.028,281.212 215.887,281.212Z" style="fill:black;fill-opacity:0;stroke-width:1.12px;stroke:black;"/> </g> <g id="Genova name"> <text x="221.494px" y="284.577px" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11.2154px;fill:black;">Genov<tspan x="257.112px 263.848px ">a </tspan></text> <text x="221.494px" y="295.792px" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11.2154px;fill:black;"> </text> </g> Is there a way I can get it to retain the circles as circles so that I can more easily change the radius? Thanks.
  8. Thanks. I missed that check box. I set it to pixels - all fine. Set it to points and that's all fine too.
  9. Thanks. As far as the Help viewer is concerned, more often than not I'm getting The selected topic is currently unavailable. The topic you were trying to view could not be found. when all I did was click on 'Affinity Designer Help' EDIT - if anyone else is having the same problem, I fixed it by trashing the help cache and logging out and back in again.
  10. The AFD Help looks really useful: is it available as a pdf (or whatever) to download? It's probably my elderly machine, but I'm finding the Help Viewer really slow and cranky.
  11. Hi At the moment the dialogue for setting the stroke width is showing the units in points. I'd like to change this to pixels. Is there any way to do this (the document is setup in pixels and I've looked at the preferences). Also the width for a curve is showing at x pts on the top bar, but when I click on the width the drop-down shows a different width next to the slider (eg in the document I'm working on at the moment I have 6.59pts showing next to the white line and then when I click on it, it shows 1.5pts next to the width slider. I'm confused. (Excuse me, I'm new to vector editing software).
  12. Hi Thanks again for the improvements to the SVG export in the Beta. Would it be possible to have the option to group CSS statements at the head of the SVG document (along the lines of what CSS Optimiser does)? Thanks.
  13. Thanks for listening to the feedback about 'layer' names in svg and for fixing this so quickly.
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