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  1. Alfred
    I'm also on 64-bit Windows 10, and I'm currently using Firefox. As it happens, my keyboard shortcuts stopped working earlier today, but I wasn't aware of doing anything unusual apart from keeping Affinity Designer running (often in the background) for several hours.
  2. Alfred
    Well, that would explain why the default option gives a good result! :P
  3. Alfred
    I'm getting the same thing with the font 'Pe-icon-7-stroke' not being shown correctly in the font list. As I noted in this post, I thought it was because all of the glyphs are in the PUA, which means that there are no characters in the 'Basic Latin' Unicode range to display the name of the typeface, but the font 'OpenSymbol' is shown correctly despite the fact that it also lacks Basic Latin characters. I'm not absolutely sure, but I probably acquired OpenSymbol by installing LibreOffice. Anyway, it can be downloaded direct from here.
  4. Alfred
    Thanks for the link. Edit: I've posted to the other thread about the font name display issue. It probably depends on the range of formats placed on the clipboard. The 'Paste Special' option will reveal any additional options made available by NexusFont.
  5. Alfred
    Confirmed here. Even if it's spellchecked text with a squiggly red underline (whose opacity doesn't change) I still can't select the object. While trying to reduce the opacity gradually to see if there was a higher cut-off point, I found that the slider jumped from 3% to 0%. I had to type in 2% and 1% to test those values, but the object remained selectable all the way down to 0%.
  6. Alfred
    You need to 'Paste Special' as Unicode Text. (The default format is RTF.) That font provides a very good example of why the dropdown list of font names in AD shouldn't only display the font name using glyphs from the font. In this case, all of the glyphs are in the Private Use Area, so I just get a blank line where it should say 'Pe-icon-7-stroke' in the list. By the way, if you're doing a lot of this kind of thing you might find BabelMap easier to work with than Windows' built-in Character Map.
  7. Alfred
    Thanks for the clarification, Nat. :)
  8. Alfred
    You're welcome, Ammar. :)
  9. Alfred
    Setting aside the fact that Lucas has now clarified (as mentioned in his OP) that he wants the distance between two objects rather than the size of either one, the Transform panel doesn't actually give you the size of objects drawn with the shape tools. Instead, it gives you the dimensions of the base box, so if you use the Polygon Tool to draw a regular pentagon with a square base box whose width and height are 525 pixels, the Transform panel will display those dimensions, but if you convert to curves you will see that size of the pentagon contained within that box is only 500 px × 475.5 px.
  10. Alfred
    There's currently no built-in way, Tim, but Alex ('A_B_C') posted a useful workaround here. :)
  11. Alfred
    When the crop shape thumbnail has been dragged to the right place, you'll see a short, fat, vertical blue line immediately to the right of the target thumbnail. When dragging an object to the text part of another object to make it become clipped by (i.e. a child of) the target object, you get a long, fat, horizontal blue line extending to the right of the target object's thumbnail.
  12. Alfred
    I see, thanks. I thought you were saying that you could create a Curves object comprising a mixture of lines and closed curves, but the lines would be lost when you subsequently performed a Divide operation.That seemed to be at odds with my finding that the lines were not preserved in the first place. :mellow: I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been (and perhaps still is!) very frustrating for you. :o
  13. Alfred
    The lines are not present in your Curves object. They disappeared when you performed the 'Add' operation. If you have an unclosed curve and a non-overlapping closed curve (but not a straight line) in AD, 'Add' will close the unclosed curve and then add the two closed shapes.
  14. Alfred
    You're very welcome, Caroline. Thanks for the feedback! :)
  15. Alfred
    LOL. :D
  16. Alfred
    You can use any shape as a crop shape. Draw the shape (e.g. an ellipse) on top of the object that you want to crop, and then go to the Layers panel, click and drag on the crop shape's thumbnail and drop it on top of the other object's thumbnail.
  17. Alfred
    No, Serif used PagePlus X9 to create that workbook. :)
  18. Alfred
    How do you create a Curves object comprising a mixture of lines and closed curves? :huh:
  19. Alfred
    What do you see in the Layers panel, Ammar? You should be able to expand the layer to access the individual curves that make up the icon image.
  20. Alfred
    You may have promised, but I haven't! Although I've never used it, I think it's a fairly safe bet that you're referring to PhotoLine.
  21. Alfred
    It should be displayed in the space between the Transforms (flip/rotate) toolbar and the Snapping toolbar. Go to the View menu, choose 'Customize Toolbar...' and drag the Arrange flyout button from there.
  22. Alfred
    I got the impression from your earlier posts that keyboard shortcuts in AD would just stop working for no apparent reason. The fact that it only happens when you're also looking at tuts on the Internet might be an important clue. Which version of Windows do you have, and what browser are you using? Are these video tutorials on Vimeo and/or YouTube (and if so, does the same problem arise if you watch other videos which are not tutorials)?
  23. Alfred
    Moving, rotating or resizing a clipping object will normally move, rotate or resize the child (clipped) objects, but if you 'Lock Children' those child objects will remain unchanged when you transform the container.
  24. Alfred
    It would be nice to see a Mac version of FontCreator, but I don't know how easy it would be for a small company like High-Logic to develop a separate version for macOS at the same time as adding new features and bug fixes to the existing Windows version.
  25. Alfred
    I see that you found it, but I think the answer to your question in the other thread is that the German version will be ready when it's ready!
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