woefi
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My use-case would require that I also have unused but registered colours in my document palette.
If I understand correctly, you would aim for a clean solution with only actually used ones in there? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
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@Nazario I'm also not very happy with the current colour system in the affinity apps.
Working with what we got here, I would say:
- By "palette" you would use affinity's "document palette"
- the Swatch books would be all the other palettes in this dropdown
- >>> (your and my) problem is – one can never see them side-by-side for a simple drag-n-drop action.
(of course there would be some other things left to repair...)
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Help!
@Patrick Connor After updating the release version to 1.8.6 (Mac AppStore) this beta wont start anymore!
because: <Validate Product Key Popup>
Do we have to wait for new beta versions of all three apps?
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@anon2 Thank You so much!
Strange tho, that it does not work, if you have selected a word to be replaced by the double-clicked field. In this stage as a beta feature, this is very counter-intuitive.
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Sorry, I'm not sure if this has ever worked like I think it should – obviously some people have already managed to successfully do a data merge, so...
I have
- a .csv file with headers called <name> <phone> ...
- a document with prepared text "<name>, <phone>"
- opened the data merge manager
- opened the fields panel
- set up all so that the datasets are correctly displayed in the fields panel
If I press "generate" I get a new document with as many pages as my datasets but the text is still <name> <phone>
I "accidentally" recognised the small grey text "double click field name to insert" but double clicking doesn't do anything... also no right click-menu or anything suggesting how I could mark my prepared text as "fields"
How do you do it??
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1 hour ago, Dazmondo77 said:
only the last selected stroke actually links
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10 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said:
would be handy if the original object was global
that's how it should work.
But as I mentioned, the colour palette panel still needs a lot of love from the affinity team - most times the swatch selection does not sync with the object selection...
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I just saw: the latest beta (798) now automatically applies the colour swatch after it generated it as global!
One step forward, hurray!
So while they're on it: can we now please also select multiple colour swatches to delete them together? (renaming a colour is also very cumbersome...)
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2 hours ago, AdamW said:
When creating a global colour from an object also apply it
YES!
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@Nazario not sure if I'm able to follow your example with the red/yellow triangle...
But if there were an setting to automatically generate or link colours, you have to be able to have two or more equal colours that are intentionally NOT grouped together.
example: I have some global white swatch used only for text on a dark background and the same white 0/0/0/0 but second global swatch for specific graphical objects. So I can independently recolour the text OR these objects as a whole if I'm changing the design.
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2 hours ago, Nazario said:
any new document should open a new document palette and the colours should be added automatically to the palette
Well, for AfPub, I would like this, but I realise it isn't just as easy:
Glancing at the Adobe way(s), they never unified such a behaviour for InDesign and Illustrator as they grew based on different codebase. Illustrator mostly didn't need global colours and gave you the freedom of messing around creatively colour-wise. InDesign on the other hand does register EVERY single colour occurrence as a global colour, which is a more cleaner and maybe less creative way.
ID way: For consistent output of press-ready PDFs, you want the controlled way as a Corporate Design usually never uses more than ten to twenty defined colours. (of which maybe 3 are absolutely critical)
AI way: To create a (vector-based) drawing with thousands of brush strokes and multiple shades of colours and gradients you would not want to convolute your palette with all these colours as the colour perception is seen as a whole. (useless like giving a mathematician a list of all numbers available...)
So Illustrator later got some features like "add all used colours" and "delete unused colours" to clean up your messy documents.
Here Affinity tries to add all shades of colours including pictures, which isn't helpful at all and doesn't link the colour to its original object as global.Affinity now has the advantage of syncing the base technique between its three apps, but at the same time this exposes these short-comings in the different use-cases. Maybe a user preference in Settings could help, maybe a dialogue box...
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On 10/12/2020 at 6:10 PM, walt.farrell said:
So, starting with a copy of the client document will probably be simpler.
Thank You for this suggestion, Walt.
But that is basically the messy workaround which I now do, but like to avoid.
What if you like to merge an object from Doc#A with some of Doc#B? The swatches have the same name and should be merged and linked together. At some point in every workflow you will inevitable have to copy objects together.
In Indesign there is also this neat trick if you change a colour swatch definition and paste an object from an older document with the old definition (same colour name!) then the new definition is used and linked to. That's very handy! (...and can be confusing if you don't expect it, I know. But every merging process has to make decisions or put up a dialogue)
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As the short title tries to explain:
Copying objects with assigned global colour to a new document does not transfer the document palette. So they retain the colour, but the swatch lives a half life somewhere "in the air".
That's a bug.
Longer explanation:
So I carefully manage my document with named colour swatches inside its document palette. ...maybe for a brochure for a specific client.
Then I need to create a related document (same client, partly same graphic objects, obviously same colour swatches.) in a different size, say, for a business card design.
So what you usually do is:
- select relevant objects,
- command+C,
- command+N for new doc, dial in all measurements,
- command+V
Problem is, a new document has no document palette. And even if you create one from scratch, the copied colours are not appended to it.
Further: if you then select "add current colour to palette as global colour" it creates a new name for it, although the old name was visible in the colour panel...
I beg you, please consider repairing the underlying colour system in the affinity apps. there are so many inconsistencies. (create palette from doc uses rgb or hsl converted colours instead of the cmyk definitions, copying colours from one doc with cmyk OUTPUT colour profile a to another one with OUTPUT colour profile B does a colour conversion instead of keeping the INPUT values)
I know, you know how things worked in ID/Pagemaker/Quark for the last twentysomewhat years
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@Chris B I can confirm, what Old Bruce is saying: when you have no document open it crashes immediately after hitting the save button.
Next time it opens, the preset is saved though.
When I have a picture loaded, this does not happen. But when I choose "default" it crashes (with the opened picture).
(I have my panels in separated mode!)
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Wonderful addition in this 1.9 beta. At last you can save your studio presets!!
Well, I tried and sadly it immediately crashed. (-> I have my panels in Separated Mode)
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Thank you, this document is now converted correctly!
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18 hours ago, Gabe said:
Hi @woefi,
Did you use any apps to rotate the images? We used to have these issues with apps not actually modify the exif correctly. Can you zip and attach a few samples?
Well I received them via iMessage from his iPhone. But it really shouldn't matter.
I know, that it's a feature of jpeg to just "define" the orientation so that you do not have to re-encode it. But that should be honoured by every modern App that uses these photos.
I attached both a zip with the original images and a second zip with reduced ones from "ImageOptimize", which strips some Metadata from it and compresses them very effective – but the result is the same.
Could you please investigate, based on these files, whether this is just a rare "edge-case" and could be considered in a future update?
OT: And something is wrong with this forum uploader and Safari 13.1.1 on Mojave... I had to re-post this message because the "queued" did not go away unless I chose "choose files...". Same with my first post.
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I tried to quickly place an image (shot by an iPhone11) into a empty document.
The Image comes in on its head, meaning rotated 180 degree, but publisher still says "0°"So I tried this with the release version and it's the same.
More so: All Affinity apps do this whether beta or release.This only happens with images I get from my colleague, who is using an iPhone 11, but not all of his photos....
See screenshot-video: It's on top of my post... this forum-software doesn't let me delete the other video which did not start uploading and is a stub...
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57 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:
I do think "delete" tends to be the standard terminology on Apple keyboards for what is called "backspace" on others.
agree. And with many things regarding keyboards, it's very regional.
and back on topic: I just realised, adobe indesign also uses the Edit/Delete Shortcut.
But it's functionally separated from text editing, it flashes when deleting objects, but does not when deleting text.Which is why I suspect there is no distinction of these different modes within affinitys apps...
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@Gabe Well I'm sorry I have to disagree, but that's like mapping the "a" key to a shortcut that inputs the letter "a".
It's not the same as CMD+V, It is basic text input.
I repeat: It is now OK. it works without flashing.
If I reload the defaults. Before reloading there was a keyboard mapping, now it isn't. And it works, but doesn't flash.What I was wondering: I looked it up in the releave versions of the other apps, Photo and Designer, and there is still a keyboard shortcut mapped, which should be superflous. (Maybe a leftover=)
It's no program error, just the app's keyboard settings are wrong. I manually changed them in the release versions and it's OK. (well, Photo is strange, though, as it flashes "Layer"...)also: As someone, who usually works with extended keyboards, I have to ask, why is the menu-item called "delete" if the delete key is not pressed, rather than the backspace-key...
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On 4/24/2020 at 1:06 PM, tuomas_h said:
when deleting text with the backspace key, the Edit menu always flashes as if I was using a keyboard shortcut.
3 hours ago, Gabe said:Issue 3 is also fixed in the latest beta, and the "Edit" button does not flash anymore when hitting backspace or delete.
Issue #3 is not fixed for me.
Is there a newer beta than .651? It's not posted in patrick connor's thread.edit: I manually reset the keyboard shortcuts to "affinity defaults" and the "delete"-shortcut is gone. Backspace now works for me.
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On 11/13/2019 at 6:25 PM, Dan C said:
for our devs to see and consider implementing these options mentioned in the future!
@Dan C Any update or feedback on this yet?
one example, A photo with 5000 by 4500 pixels opens like this in AffPhoto:
(in Photoshop, there used to be a setting whether the doc-window should grow when zooming in, if you held a key... this was convenient)
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Hi, I was just experimenting with Designer/iPad with the Apple Pencil2 to reuse it in my Designer/Desktop logo design. I just realised the so-called "vector"-brush is no real vector brush!
I'm in the transition from my old creative suite to the affinity apps, and I must say I'm very surprised, that many features are still only raster-based.
...like these brushes or the live-perspective filter. Or some shadow-effects, which are unnecessarily rasterising unaffected parts of vector elements, if exported to pdf.
Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.9.0.215 - RC2)
in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on macOS threads
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One thing I noticed looking at the window menu:
if you combine two document windows into one (as tabs) you have no way to switch between them (either via menu or by defining a new shortcut) other than with the mouse
...in contrast to the macOS Finder windows/tabs: