[Select artboards for PDF export]

Thank you Dominic and Walt - errrr, yes, I've always just used file export.....all good now

[Select artboards for PDF export]

Can you please change the pdf export choices page to include "Select Multiple  Artboards" or  "Pages _  to _  " .  Not just the whole document or choice of a single board.

When one is working with quite a few multiple boards and changes are made to some of them, I don';t want to have to export them 1 at a time...

[URGENT: Designer backups]

Thanks for that Walt Farrel!

[URGENT: Designer backups]

1 minute ago, carl123 said:

If you closed and said "No" to save changes then it's probably gone

If you forced closed the application or the app crashed there may be a recovery file 

Said No by accident - aaargh!!!

Thank you for replying

[URGENT: Designer backups]

Please tell me that AD saves backups of your work - I closed the wrong window in a multi window document and lost 2 hrs work!

[Simple, versatile text on a path please.]

Thanks for the feedback guys

[Simple, versatile text on a path please.]

Thanks Alfred.

The great thing about CorelDraw is there are no handles on the text  - just select the text and move it.

When I try to resize the path in AD I get this -Text 2 - then have to fiddle with the handles to get it correct.

In CD, just select the type and drag it - CD3 + 4

AS I do a lot of logo design, I use text on a curve/shape often

OH well, maybe the devs will see this thread.

[Simple, versatile text on a path please.]

AD's text on a path is awful - it's just about OK if you want a few words at the top of an ellipse for example, but try and put a separate line of text at the bottom of the same curve(with the tops of the text touching the outside of the ellipse) - forget. You have to create a second ellipse and move the text around with those confusing different coloured handles.

I've attached captures of text on a path from CorelDraw X4 from 2008 showing how simple and intuitive it is. In addition you can use the node tool to adjust the spacing between letters.

AD definitely deserves better than what it has at present.

[[ADe] Select same color / fill / stroke / appearance]

This is SUCH a useful feature to have.. chioce to find or replace shapes, lines, fills, colours, etc.

CorelDraw X4 from 2008....

 

[Opening CDR with Affinity Designer]

On 8/30/2020 at 11:11 AM, jehangiraziz said:

Hi,

I recently downloaded the suite of Affinity softwares from Mac. Unfortunately, none of them would open CDR files which were made on Corel Draw. Is there a solution for this?

Export .pdf's from inside Corel - mine work just fine.

[Image resize dpi slider/button not working]

Yes, typing the values is the way to go.

[Image resize dpi slider/button not working]

Thanks for the responses - can someone report this as a bug?

I'l get around it using the %age slider.

[Image resize dpi slider/button not working]

First attachment shows image open in AD - 1719x1612 pixels at 229dpi 100%

Next attachment shows what happens when I try to drag the slider the slightest bit to the left to reduce the image size.

Somethings not right....

[Gradient Mesh]

+1 for this.  CorelDraw had this back in 2008...

[constructive Feedback (hopefully)]

I really am disappointed that affinity haven't added this. It's such a basic need - you create a line style (for example), save it, draw a few lines and then decide that you want to change the colour or stroke of the line - but you can't! Crazy!

 

[Designer: How to update styles?]

On 3/20/2017 at 7:48 PM, mcbates said:

Thanks, but symbols are exact copies of the object, right? I cannot just copy the style of say the line width with this, exactly?

 

I try to create a map where I want to globally change the width of the roads. If I understand it right I cannot achieve this with Symbols nor with Symbols.

 

 

This really is a necessary feature for inclusion in AD

[I. AM. DONE.]

15 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Just saying “Paint splatter effect issue (didn’t work)” doesn’t give us much to work with.
We don’t know what you are trying to achieve so it’s difficult to know what instructions to give you to achieve it.
I assume that you want the paint splatter effect to be overlaid in some way over the image but we need to know exactly what you want to do otherwise we could give you all sorts of answers none of which may answer your needs.
If you are working from a tutorial then if you give a link to it then we can look at that too.

Painting on the mask, in the second case, will make the hair invisible because the mask is masking both “Background (Pixel)” layers (one is inside the other). Try arranging your layers like those in my (very rough) screen-grab (if that’s what you want to do).

Gary P - I'm really amazed at the trouble you have gone to to help this user.......

[NEED Envelope / Warp Tool]

This has been asked for MANY times before - really surprised that with the new update it hasn't been added

[How to set the point of origin (zero) with guides]

Any idea when will be  able to have angled guidelines?

[Exporting multiple artboards as a single document PDF]

See this thread...

 

[Designer high memory usage.]

Thank you DWright

[Designer high memory usage.]

Hi there,

My system is as follows on the attachment. I'm working on an A4 file with q total of 3 artboards - the file size in explorer is 27mb.

I exported the 3 page file as a .pdf at 192dpi which I then opened in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer - the alternative design software I use - and saved the file as a native Xara .xar file, closed the program and reopened the Xara file which was 4mb.

 Task Manager shows memory usage as 2 331 mb  and for Xara 100mb.

 Is it normal for Designer to use so much memory ?

[Lock guide lines]

Many thanks Old Bruce!

[Show both Frame text tool and Artistic text buttons]

Many thanks - don't know how I missed that...

[Lock guide lines]

Thanks I know that, was looking for keyboard shortcut....