Alfred
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32 minutes ago, R C-R said:
I do not see anything in the file that looks like a sun or has r=224, g=224, b=0 color values. There is a sort of spiral curve shape in the top group, but it is easily selected so its bounding box shows, & its colors are r=255, g=0, b=211 so it is unclear what sun shape you mean. It might help if you labeled everything in the layers panel & re-uploaded the file.
There also seems to be a superfluous double group for the tree(?).
The ‘sort of spiral’ curve appears as (r=224, g=224, b=0) here. If it were (r=255, g=0, b=211) it would be magenta, not yellow.
3 minutes ago, William Overington said:The idea is that each bounding box for a grouped unit should be an unfilled rectangle with a zero width stroke
The bounding box for the tree group is unfilled and has an unfilled stroke, but the stroke is 1 pt wide.
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25 minutes ago, Nick808 said:
Not sure what program the PDF was created in. Its a tutorial created by a gentleman called Chris Hildenbrand titled "The ‘somewhat Helpful Hints’ for Affinity Designer"
https://2dgameartguru.com/free-pdf-somewhat-helpful-hints-for-affinity-designer-v2/
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7 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:
Here is a new version that I made from the graphic information in this file.
That version is incorrect. There should be a (white) gap between the hypotenuse of each blue triangle and the neighbouring red stripe.
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The app shouldn’t crash, of course, but there are often alternative ways of producing the same visual result. If you’re trying to create the black shape on the right, you could simply draw a black quarter circle on top of a black semicircular stroke.
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On 1/24/2024 at 12:22 AM, walt.farrell said:
In the in-app Help, or online at the URL I gave (after clicking Designer V2 iPad), type toggle preview in the Search bar and the first result should be https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/previewMode.html which will show you where it is.
That meter needle icon certainly isn’t what I would call an obvious pointer(!) to the location of the Preview Mode control.
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Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @TJR1.
The version 1 Affinity apps are licensed per platform, but they are no longer available for purchase. There is a universal licence as one of the purchase options for the version 2 apps, although that may well be of no interest to you if you’re not using macOS now.
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19 minutes ago, William Overington said:
I would have needed to record x, y, width, height for each smoke item as text in, say, a WordPad file so as to get the same positions and shapes
No, you could have left them in situ so that they would be available for lining up the new versions correctly via snapping, after which you could have deleted them (or merely hidden them).
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On 1/15/2024 at 6:09 PM, William Overington said:
I realize that doing the smoke that way could not, as far as I know, be done with a real linocut
You could use the ‘reduction linocut’ process to create a multi-layer print, but that would be a tedious and unforgiving method!
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2 hours ago, William Overington said:
I am thinking, for each of the six smoke items, to make the line white and to have thickness, then convert to curves and then break the curve open at the lowest point.
For the same result with less work, break and adjust the first ellipse and then create duplicates from there.
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2 hours ago, William Overington said:
Do you do [the background] first then draw the bird on top of it, or what?
The beauty of having layers is that you can choose the order in which you do these things! You could draw the bird first and then add the background layer, or you could start with the background and add the blue tit on top (and then, if desired, go back to the background layer and make it completely different).
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6 hours ago, GarryP said:
If you mean the legacy Serif products (Page Plus, etc.) then they are not supported by Serif any more and you should look here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/164377-information-about-the-legacy-plus-range/
… for advice and assistance.Here, specifically, if you’re looking for a registration key:
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5 hours ago, William Overington said:
Hello @Alfred I am glad that you are participating in this thread.
I would value your opinion on this topic please, valued regardless of what is that opinion.
Until now, my participation in this thread consisted of nothing more than ‘liking’ a thread; I don’t consider myself to have participated unless and until I’ve made a post. Since you ask, this topic doesn’t seem to address the use of any Affinity features such as tools, filters, or layer manipulation, so I’m inclined to agree with those who have suggested that it doesn’t belong on these forums.
4 hours ago, William Overington said:If anyone would like to have a look at the image that was used in the presently hidden Share your work forum post, the image is in the twelfth post of the following thread.
https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=526
The impressionist style image, rather beautiful in my opinion.
If you want to encourage the reader to view content on another forum, it’s a good idea to provide a direct link instead of leaving them to do the legwork to get to the specified destination.
https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=526#p3876
For what it’s worth, that image doesn’t really tick the ‘impressionist’ boxes for me. It’s not likely to be mistaken for a Monet, for example!
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19 hours ago, grhamy said:
When installing from the downloaded version, I am not given the choice. When does this option appear? I want to install a 32 bit version so I can open files created by an earlier X9 running in 32 bit. Thank you.
The option should appear when you already have the 64-bit version installed.
On 5/20/2019 at 12:33 PM, Alfred said:If it’s a new computer it’s probably running 64-bit Windows 10, in which case the installer with automatically give you the 64-bit version of PPX9. That version won’t be able to open files created with 32-bit versions such as PagePlus 8.0 PDF Edition, so you would need to run the installer again — leaving the 64-bit installation in place — and use the option to install the 32-bit version. The two versions will happily coexist on your system, but (because they share a single set of application data) you can’t run them both at the same time.
If memory serves, the options are to (a) perform maintenance on the existing 64-bit installation or (b) install the 32-bit version. It may be possible to bypass the 64-bit installation by choosing a 32-bit setup program instead of the generic ‘setup.exe’, but I don’t currently have access to the files I would need for checking up on that.
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Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, @vectorPhile.
Which version of the STIX Two Text fonts do you have installed? The Affinity apps don’t currently handle variable fonts correctly, so you need to install the static fonts instead.
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On 9/30/2023 at 12:26 PM, Chris26 said:
The only requirements are that an IPAD Pencil can be used and that Procreate intertwines seemlessly with Affinity Designer.
Does your wife already have an Apple Pencil? If so, it’s almost certainly a version 1 Apple Pencil, not version 2, which will limit your choice of new iPad unless you’re prepared for the extra expense of a new Apple Pencil at the same time.
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1 minute ago, LionelD said:
AirDrop is an Apple feature that allows you to transfer files between Apple machines wirelessly
More info here: https://support.apple.com/HT204144
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26 minutes ago, henryanthony said:
@Alfred The link you posted works for me. I am in the U.S. using WIN 10. Not sure if that matters.
It works for me, and (like @jackamus) I’m in the UK. I’m not sure why Jack is having a problem!
QuoteDid you start at Blender.org?
I think I actually went straight to https://www.blender.org/download, but the ‘Download’ link on the Blender home page takes you to the same destination anyway.
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50 minutes ago, jackamus said:
I know its free but I can't get past the Donation window to download it!
The ‘Thanks!’ page that I see here says ‘Your download will start automatically. If it didn’t start, download manually.’
https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/blender/release/Blender3.6/blender-3.6.4-macos-x64.dmg
The above download (for Intel Mac) is 277.6 MB.
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7 hours ago, bobdobbs said:
I want to do the opposite
The opposite of text curving from right to left inside the ellipse is text curving from left to right outside the ellipse. If you want the text to face the same way as it was when you created it, you simply need to adjust the Baseline value on the Context toolbar.
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10 minutes ago, byron37 said:
Is there any way to get one (I have the proof of purchase if that helps)
You can’t get something that doesn’t exist! Purchases from the Microsoft Store or the Mac App Store are tied to your Microsoft account or your Apple ID, respectively, so there are no product keys because there’s no perceived need for them.
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21 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
I've seen reports from several users of performance issues with 2.2.0 on iPadOS 17, with many (perhaps > 80) fonts installed.
There were clearly some major problems in early releases of iPadOS 17 beta, but I haven’t read anything about whether they were resolved or not. I’ve only recently upgraded to the latest release of iPadOS 15, so those issues haven’t affected me.
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On 9/19/2023 at 1:41 AM, Sulaiman_ said:
i still have problems of loading fonts in affinity V2 ipad,
it's so slow and laggy,
are you guys have the same problems..?I have an iPad Air 2 (so not exactly top of the range!) and I have several hundred fonts installed. I can’t say I’ve ever noticed any problems with font loading in any of the Affinity apps.
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7 hours ago, William Overington said:
The design to mean
because
is inspired by the word 'because' being used after stating something so as to state clarification of the first thing that was stated, so I have used an equals sign followed by a second, linked, yet subsidiary, equals sign.
For experimental use from an OpenType font, the code %882 is suggested.
We already have an established Unicode symbol for ‘Because’, namely ∵ (U+2235).
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8 hours ago, Gavin123456 said:
I create the circle. I use artistic text tool to place text on the top of first circle . No problems there . I create a second circle, a copy of the first with its text. I move the text to the bottom after changing it to reflect what I want the text to say on the bottom of the circle. Boy it's upside down inside the circle.
It’s easier if you just use one circle with two lines of text. Type the top text, press the Return key and type the bottom text to get something like this (screenshot from AD version 1, but version 2 should be the same):
Drag the green triangles to adjust start positions of the two lines of text:
Select the second piece of text:
Adjust the baseline to move it outside the circle:
Art of its own genre - but there are problems in producing it!
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I think @R C-R may have explained why you’re having problems:
The yellow spiral is nested to the bright green rectangle, so the easiest way to select it is via the Layers panel. If you expand the rectangle layer there, you can select the spiral child object.