Alfred
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Yeah, they differ. With NexusFont only Unicode is available.
Well, that would explain why the default option gives a good result! :P
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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.
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I've reported this here earlier: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/26635-bug-ux-trouble-finding-and-selecting-icon-font/
Thanks for the link. Edit: I've posted to the other thread about the font name display issue.
Thanks, I've installed NexusFont and it works perfectly. I don't have to use "Paste Special". Normal copy/paste works here for some reason.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.
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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%.
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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.
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Thanks for the clarification, Nat. :)
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What do you mean? That panel gives you exactly the size of the selected object(s). :huh:
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.
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There's currently no built-in way, Tim, but Alex ('A_B_C') posted a useful workaround here. :)
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Alfred's suggestion worked---after a couple tries, I got the part about dragging the crop shape to the right place. Eventually I'll remember what I did right so I can do it again! It just takes patience and the willingness to be persistent. :)
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.
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That is what I meant in my earlier reply about lines not being preserved, but I did not make it clear that my file was supposed to be an example of that or understand what you were asking until now. :wacko:
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:
It has not been a good morning on this side of the big pond. Possibly as a result of the recent massive DDoS attack, both my wife's & my Macs have been behaving erratically & I have been distracted by getting everything back to normal. :(
I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been (and perhaps still is!) very frustrating for you. :o
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How do you create a Curves object comprising a mixture of lines and closed curves? :huh:
By creating both kinds of objects, selecting them all, & using the Add Boolean operation. That's what I did in the afdesign file attached to my previous post.
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.
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You're very welcome, Caroline. Thanks for the feedback! :)
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Are you the one that did not purchase it? ;)
LOL. :D
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In my old Photoshop Elements 8 there were shape tools that could be used as crop shapes, etc., say, if I wanted to crop something to an oval shape, but apparently these shapes don't work the same way in Affinity.
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.
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A curves object can be cut apart into separate shape objects with the Divide operation, but if any parts of the curves object are just lines, they won't be preserved.
How do you create a Curves object comprising a mixture of lines and closed curves? :huh:
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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.
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1) I created it in an alternative non-Adobe vector/bitmap application that does support both warping/distortion of vector and bitmap images, as well as offers an option to keep the corners consistent. (please refer to earlier posts of mine from a couple of months ago for the name of this application - I have promised the moderators not to mention it or other direct competitors here anymore).
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.
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The short cut keys still quit working after a few mins or key strokes, been having these problems since the start of using AD, the only way it stays working is by using 2 computers, use the ADS on one and the internet for the tuts ,if you run AD and try to do a tut on same computer the short cut keys quit working,, and this is a real pain,( in you know what ) I have sent many help tickets on this issue and still not fixed
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)?
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A clip is when curves are organized inside another curve (not a layer). This creates the ability to put objects inside another creating a window-like structure. Moving the window will move the objects along with it.
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.
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Recently I bought Font Creator version 10, released in summer, there is huuuge improvement in comparison with 8.0. I am still considering to buy Glyphs because switching from macOS to Win (on virtual machine) is quite annoying.
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.
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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.