Alfred
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I could see the link to that YouTube video when I clicked to quote your post. It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajisf_mXB0 -
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Alfred replied to Eisbar's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Those purple lines are there to show the snapping candidates. Go to the Alignment toolbar and click on the white triangle next to the Snapping button (the red magnet) to display a flyout for the snapping options. Clear the 'Show snapping candidates' checkbox. -
I thought you only had one line, not two intersecting lines! That's what I'm doing. I'm sure we'll get there.
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So, you delete the middle node to make the line straight, and then add a new node where you want to break the line. I think you're making things more complicated than necessary.
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If you have three points which are not in a straight line, and you want a straight line between the two end points, why do you need to move and snap the point in between? Surely all you need to do is delete that point, or am I misunderstanding what you're trying to describe?
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OK, try these: C=18 M=37 Y=81 K=06 R=194 G=145 B=33 H=41 S=70 L=44
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Garavan Type
Alfred replied to Caspar's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
The CommunityPlus (CP) forums are completely separate from the Affinity forums. Please start a new thread on the CP forums, making sure to specify PagePlus X9 as the product and version. <pedantry> Like most of Bhikkhu Pesala's free Unicode fonts, the name 'Garava' ends in 'a', not 'an'. </pedantry> -
Do you mean just a golden shade of yellow, without the shiny look of metallic gold? :unsure:
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Welcome to the Affinity Forums, arechsteiner. :) That video was made for the Mac version, where the Cmd key is roughly equivalent to the Ctrl key on Windows. The Ctrl key on a Mac is an extra key for which we don't have a counterpart on our Windows keyboards. The Help says but I can't get that to work here (and I don't see a footnote to go with the asterisk in the text). @NeilP: The "select object when intersects with selection marquee" option is fine if you always want that behaviour, but whether you have the option switched on or off it should always be possible to override it with a modifier key, or via a right-click or a middle-click. (The latter is no use to me on this laptop, because the construction of the touchpad is such that I can't press the left and right buttons both at the same time.)
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Now where have I read that Brilliant quote recently? <_<
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I'm afraid I just couldn't resist the temptation to draw that, after our discussion about pies and donuts in the Wi-Fi thread!
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Mmm ... jellybeans!! Wi-Fi_Beans.afdesign
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In Affinity Designer, Ctrl+Y turns wireframe mode on or off. The default keyboard shortcut for 'Redo' (i.e. the reverse of 'Undo') is Ctrl+Shift+Z, but I generally find it easier to use the History panel as Ken has suggested. The shortcuts for 'Undo', 'Redo' and other editing operations are listed on the Edit menu.
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A second patch for PPX9 has been promised, but it's unlikely to be released before the end of this year.
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Welcome to the Affinity Forums, Unachili. When you say "selected", do you mean loaded (rather than installed)? How many fonts is "a lot"? I use High-Logic MainType rather than Xiles NexusFont, and the total number of fonts stored on this laptop is in four figures (with only a few hundred actually installed) but I haven't noticed any significant problems with the app slowing down or crashing when I select a font.
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Daniele is a Windows user, like me, so the option of switching to Affinity Photo isn't available yet.
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I see the same here in the Windows beta 1.5.0 version. Initially when I exported to SVG the caps were butt or square (I'm not sure which) but I managed to fix that by changing the export options.
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No, it isn't currently possible in Affinity Designer. A Distort/Perspective/MeshWarp Tool is planned, but it probably won't be added until after AD 1.5 is released commercially.
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For an insight into Ken's technique, take a look here: www.major-confusion.co.uk/tutorials/drawplus/avatar.html You've probably seen the example avatar on your visits to the CommunityPlus forums.
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Affinity Designer also has an 'Expand Stroke' command (which you'll find with the other conversion commands near the bottom of the Layers menu) but at the moment it creates wa-a-ay too many nodes. You'll get much a better result if you export to EPS and then open the EPS file. The EPS from my file has separate curves for the fill and the stroke of the circle. You might find it a little tidier to delete the circle that has a fill but no stroke, and then apply the fill directly to the remaining circle. Edit: Oops! My mistake. Exporting to EPS or SVG doesn't expand anything, of course, so you still have the problem of ending up with too many nodes if you use the 'Expand Stroke' command in AD. My workaround is to use 'Detach As New Object > Liine' in Serif DrawPlus, but Mac users will obviously need to find another app to do this.
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With my 'pie and 3 donuts' technique, you don't need to divide, break nodes or delete anything. I started out with a unfilled ellipse which I duplicated; I then converted the duplicate to a donut via the button on the Context toolbar, set the start and end angles to 45° and 135° respectively, and enlarged and duplicated the result twice more to get the other two arcs. Finally, I converted the ellipse to a closed pie and gave it a black fill. The conversion of the ellipse to a pie was completely unnecessary, of course, but having creating those donuts I wanted to continue the foodie theme! :lol:
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The Wi-Fi symbol is just a filled circle and three concentric circular arcs, so I used a closed pie and three donuts to create the attached. Wi-Fi_Pie-and-3-Donuts.afdesign
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Thanks, Brian! :) Actually, the trickiest part was working out when to override snapping so that things went where I wanted them to go instead of where the program wanted to put them! ^_^
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I can't reproduce the problem with a simple file of my own, Brian, but I have no problem reproducing it with your file. If I enlarge Flexible Molly or Funny Francis on their own, I still get Molly's "front hair" disappearing and Francis' eye strokes staying at their original weight.
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Linked text frames and multiple pages are the first and most obvious ones, along with linked (i.e. external rather than embedded) images. Then there are the things that go with multiple pages, such as dual master pages, facing pages, mirrored margins, pagination and running headers. I would also expect tables, calendars and a mail merge facility to be added at some point.
