Eelco Deuling
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Dear developers,
Is it possible to add the viewBox tag to SVG export? It could echo the width and height tags for instance (that would be relatively easy I think).
I appreciate the SVG output of Designer: it is among the cleanest I have seen.
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…Inkscape has a GUI version based on Potrace built-in (free but a bit annoying).
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A preference is nice :-)
…I always hated InDesign not using standard OSX settings for text navigation.
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Hm…
I bought Affinity Designer right when it became available: that is, for myself (not for the company I work for).
It looks like the OpenType features are not reliable: attached are two screenshots of a small poster set in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro (2005): in two textboxes he OpenType features panel shows me options, for the third one not. For one text box the OpenType features are applied incorrect.
Since I bought Affinity Designer I had some more time to test type settings, and paste text from one application into Designer. No matter what OpenType font I use, I do not get the same results twice.
I also miss the OSX standard combinations to navigate within text (using the alt-arrow combinations).
As a drawing tool Designer is quite (insanely!) good (and really fast on older hardware!), but if the same text engine will be used in Publisher I doubt if I would buy that program as well: it would need a lot of work.
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Hm… tried it again today… yesterday it worked, but today not…
(maybe I wasn't looking yesterday?)
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SVG's do not have layers. If you use Inkscape there is a basic layer tool, but these are grouped objects stacked above each other.
If you want to use layers in svg you should look at the
<g>…</g>
enclosures (sorry for my lousy English: hope this makes sense).
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On my computer it does in Affinity. Not in Pages: this feature was lost with the latest version (although Apple promised it will be returned later).
Maybe this depends on the font being used?
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Tried some more fonts: all OTF fonts dating before 2005 do not show OpenType features at all. The newer ones do: I am not able to pin a date when the do, but the OSX supplied Avenir Next (2007) does.
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@Dave: that is probably the case. I work in a small design agency with a history of 20 years (and a +6000 font library with some very old fonts). I will try to find some more "modern" OTF files in our font library :-)
…but, I have a feeling even older files should work, as the OS gives me acces to those features in other applications and these features are persistent if you copy/paste text from TextEdit into Affinity Designer.
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I hope this works: as an attachement:
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…Minion Pro also gives me Default ligatures and Fraction Ligatures.
The list of special features in TextEdit is even longer than for Zapfino :-)
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…Zapfino is an old .dfont: I will check with some more modern OTF's.
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Hello Dave,
Unfortunately not. If you pick for instance (not a favorite of mine) Zapfino, TextEditor gives me: ligatures, vertical positioning, Ornaments, Stylistic Variants, Oldstyle Figures, Special and 5 Character Variants.
Affinity Designer gives me: Default ligatures and Fraction Ligatures.
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…just a check: if I copy paste from TextEditor the features are preserved
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I am running the beta of Affinity Designer, but I cannot find a way to use the typographic features of some fonts, especially a way to enter old style numbers.
Normally I can use this features with the standard OSX "CMD-T" window (I use a Dutch localized version of OSX, and I do not know how this is called in English), but Affinity Designer uses a non standard window.
For a graphic designer extended attributes of fonts are a must, so I would be disappointed if these could not be used.
SVG viewBox
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Thanks! (it's a IE9 compatibility issue)