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  1. Alfred
    Welcome to the Affinity Forums, rmantri. :) You can't buy the final version because it hasn't been released yet. Your current beta version has expired because it's more than a month old; please download the latest beta release via the link in this post.
  2. Alfred
    Try this: 1. Draw a small ellipse or rectangle on top of the letter 2. Select both objects with the Move Tool 3. Click on 'Convert to Curves' on the Context toolbar 4. Click on 'Subtract' on the Geometry toolbar
  3. Alfred
    Philistines!! :o
  4. Alfred
    Shift+Rotate actually constrains the rotation to multiples of 15°, not 5°, but I agree that Shift+Shear should do more than just Shear on its own, and (even though Rotate and Shear are intimately connected) I like the idea of having a shear constraint which is finer than the rotate one.
  5. Alfred
    Affinity Designer certainly does need a Perspective Tool, and, as MEB has pointed out, a Mesh Warp/Distort Tool is on the roadmap (so it will be added in 1.x rather than our having to wait until 2.x) but I disagree that that's all Designer needs. At a minimum we also need a Blend Tool and a Knife Tool, and I'd like to see a Glyph Panel for easier input of characters which are not directly available via the keyboard.
  6. Alfred
    Yes, that should work OK, but I don't think you actually need step 2.
  7. Alfred
    Thanks for the 'recipe'. The crash is easily reproducible here. No Crash Reference dialog was displayed when I restarted the application, but I found a crash dump file in my %AppData%\Affinity\Designer\1.0 (Beta)\CrashReports folder. If you edit your original post and press the 'Use Full Editor' button below the message composition area, you can edit the the thread title (and the thread tags, too, if desired).
  8. Alfred
    I'm all in favour of that! B)
  9. Alfred
    Wonderful shots. I particularly like the one with the water dripping from the duck's feet.
  10. Alfred
    In the Layers panel, click on the image thumbnail and drag it up towards the rectangle layer. A thick blue line will appear, extending to the right from the thumbnail, and the image in the workspace will be clipped. I've attached a screenshot showing the relevant part of the Print dialog. Well, you didn't mention it in the topic tags or the title, but you did mention it in your postscript! ;)
  11. Alfred
    Hmm ... I wonder why not! Yes, that does achieve a nice effect. On a quick test here, 'Lighten' does the same thing; 'Difference' yields a similar result, but markedly stronger.
  12. Alfred
    Unless I've misunderstood what you're trying to achieve, you can do this: 1. Draw an A4 rectangle on top of the drawing 2. Clip the drawing to the rectangle 3. Select the clipping rectangle 4. Choose 'File > Print...' 5. Set the Range to 'Selection' 6. Press 'OK'
  13. Alfred
    How do you clip it to the shape of the frame, not just to the rectangular shape of the frame's base box? :unsure:
  14. Alfred
    Your original post includes this: Neil wasn't initially on that list, but Kate was already there when I first saw it.
  15. Alfred
    OK, try this: 1. Place image 2. B&W adjust 3. Duplicate and invert 4. Set blend mode to 'Colour Dodge' At this stage, the image should be white (or nearly so) 5. In the Effects panel, expand the 'Gaussian Blur' section 6. Move the Radius slider until you see the effect you want
  16. Alfred
    You're welcome. :)
  17. Alfred
    It may be by design, but it's certainly counter-intuitive! As a simple workaround, after triple-clicking the first line to select it, press Shift+left-arrow on your keyboard so that the end-of-line character is no longer included in the selection.
  18. Alfred
    You're welcome, Neil. It's very easy to be fooled by these things, especially when you're working with different default values.
  19. Alfred
    In Line Mode, you can get a perfectly horizontal line (or a perfectly vertical one, or a line sloping at exactly 45 degrees) by holding down the Shift key on your keyboard as you draw.
  20. Alfred
    I think so too! Since we're already at RC5 (Release Candidate 5), the commercial version can't be very far away. Each beta build stops working after a month, so presumably the latest builds will die a natural death soon after the final product is released.
  21. Alfred
    If you select the background shape (rectangle, or whatever) in the drawing and choose the Fill Tool, you can set the fill type to 'Bitmap' (via the Context toolbar) and browse to your mottled image.
  22. Alfred
    What PixelPest's screenshot doesn't show you is that the upper (inverted) layer has its blend mode set to 'Colour Dodge'.
  23. Alfred
    If you single-click where there isn't already a node, a new node will be created.
  24. Alfred
    I think the "simple fix" you need is in the Document Setup dialog. It sounds as though you're using a DPI value of 300, so the pixel dimensions are more than three times as big as they are with the 96 DPI setting used by DrawPlus.
  25. Alfred
    Of course it would, Petar, but I don't think Serif's QA team would want to run two beta tests at the same time! Assuming that the Mac beta comes first, I'm sure Serif will be keen to sell the commercial version straight away instead of waiting for the Windows beta to finish.
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