Alfred
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As far as I know, there are currently only two ways to do this. One is the way you have shown in your screenshot, starting a new line for each character. The other way is to type all of the characters on one line and then adjust the frame width so that it wraps to multiple lines: if you make the frame very narrow, you will get only one character on each line.
If you're doing it the second way and you want spaces between groups of characters, you need to use non-breaking spaces (see attachment) so that the spaces don't disappear when you make the frame narrow enough for one character per line.
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You could get rid of the arrows on either side, and just have lines + the value to save some room.
You would still have some distances for which the value is impossible to read at that particular magnification. Can't you just zoom in until it's big enough to read comfortably?
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an INSANELY great idea!
Or an insanely insane one! Complex drawings can have literally thousands of objects: I don't think it's generally useful, let alone practical, to have the software keep track of every little change to every single one of them.
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Welcome to the Affinity Forums, battleooze. :)
Which app are you using? I'm on Windows, so I only have the beta version of Affinity Designer, but I can set specific dimensions for a selected object via the controls on the Transform panel.
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There's already a lot of motion blur in the photo. I'm not sure that adding any more would enhance the effect.
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I'm not certain the article author knows that.
Agreed. It isn't clear whether the article author knew or not.
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One can change the dpi without resampling. It's just an information field that can, but doesn't have to be, used in calculations.
You and I know that, Mike, but the client in the story clearly didn't! ;)
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Both ideas sound great to me, Enrique! Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your tutorials and resources with us. :)
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My wife's cheap little pocket Ixus camera ...
I guess it's all relative, but are any Ixus cameras really "cheap"? :unsure:
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The example in the Horrible Mistake section is a poor example unless the image in question isn't resized down to the 5" x 7" and if the DPI field is changed so as to affect resampling.
The way I read it, Mike, the DPI field is changed as you describe:
The client notices that the photo editing software is showing that the photo is set to 72 dpi. So, following orders, the client types in 300 to reset the dpi to 300. In doing so the image is resampled and is enlarged over 4 times to pixel dimensions of 8533 x 6400.
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There's a great cautionary tale ("The Horrible DPI Mistake") on this page.
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Please see my reply in your other thread.
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You can perform a rectangular crop by selecting the image, choosing the Vector Crop Tool from the left-hand toolbar and then dragging on the handles that appear around the image. Alternatively, place a rectangle or other shape on top of the image, go to the Layers panel and drag the shape thumbnail on top of the image thumbnail.
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What about .psd files?
Affinity Designer certainly can import PSD files, although there may be some things it doesn't handle very well. I only have PS Elements (and I'm hardly what you could call a 'power' user) so I'm not too sure about the specifics.
I seem to be having trouble importing the brushes.
What kind of trouble, Ally? Do you get any error messages?
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Thanks, Chris! :)
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Brilliant! Too bad it doesn't yet work on the Windows beta, but I'm sure that will be fixed before the retail version comes out.
I've now reported the issue here.
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As discussed here, the Cog Tool 'Teeth' control on the Context toolbar seems to have a maximum value of 48 in AD on Windows beta 1.5, but not in AD on Mac.
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IMHO, you are getting close to alienating many customers who have been loyal to Serif for many years (I have been with you since PP3) and by your activities or rather lack thereof, driving them to other software.
IMNSHO, Serif have already alienated many loyal customers by ceasing development of their 'Plus' range of software. I suspect that the proportion of Serif's established user base who want to "dump all Windows stuff" is quite small.
An Affinity Publisher which matches the current capabilities of Serif PagePlus looks like being several years away, so a few extra months' wait for APub on Mac won't change things much.
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And now I have no way of diagnosing the problem :blink:.
Sorry about that, Mark! Don't you get an error report automatically when the user restarts the app after a crash? :o
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Type it in ;) .
Nope. I tried that: it doesn't want to play. :(
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You could also use the Cog tool and Divide. Two button magic :) .
1) Cog (Teeth=366, Inner Radius=0%, Hole=0%, Tooth Size 100%, Notch=0%, Curvature=0%)
2) Divide
Ingenious, but in my AD on Windows beta version the 'Teeth' control on the Context toolbar seems to have a maximum value of 48. Is there some trick that would allow me to override that limit?
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I kept losing count of my power duplicates long before I got to 364 of them, so I came up with a (slightly) easier variation:
I did what you did, but I stopped at 59 power dups (so 61 total pie slices).
I think I would lose count long before I reached 59! The beauty of doing it the way I did is that you can do it visually instead of having to count anything, but there's the obvious drawback that you don't get those nice coloured sections.
(The JPEG doesn't show the lovely moiré pattern very well, but it is there.)
It shows up fine for me. :)
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Hi, I need to do the same thing (divide a circle in equal parts). However, I need 366 segments (one for each day of the year) but the program changes my angle automatically to 1º, so I can obtain only 360 segments. Is there another way to divide a circle in 366 equal segments?
Don't worry about the fact that the controls on the Context toolbar display everything rounded to whole numbers! I created a pie slice with a start angle of 0° and an end angle of 360/366°, duplicated it and set the rotation of the copy to 360/366°. When I 'power duplicated' the rotated copy to create 364 more rotated copies, I ended up with a complete circle (and got a lovely moiré pattern into the bargain).
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I think you've answered your own question! :)