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Nathan Shirley

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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from tomfo in Imposition   
    Some people are printing themselves.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to annamilano in Favorite fonts list empty in Affinity Designer V2   
    Thank you very much for your help. Unfortunately this does not answer my question.
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from Callum in Project moved from Publisher v1 to v2. Strange Overflow Text Issue w/ Video.   
    So after a lot of digging I figured out a fix, but I'm not sure why it works or why it works differently in v.1 vs v.2. Under 'Text Frame', checking 'Ignore Text Wraps' fixes the strange disappearing text. In v.1 'Ignore Text Wraps' isn't checked, yet the text is there.
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from Ezbaze in 2.0.4 Develop Full of Bugs   
    Okay, done. This video shows the two consistent bugs I mentioned in my April 14th post.
    Summary: After 4 RAW photos are dragged into Affinity Photo, each are adjusted a bit (it doesn't matter how) and are then developed, right to left. The right most photo screws up, the next two are fine, and the left most also screws up. Then when closing them, they all prompt to save, but not the right most one.
    And just my two cents: I really think Affinity 2 was very premature, especially considering the upgrade wasn't free. My experience on ver. 2 has been considerably worse so far; glaring old bugs not fixed, new worse bugs added, and while some nice new features appeared, they seemed thin for a major/paid release, especially considering many of the most popular basic feature requests weren't added. Still great software, but v. 2 has been very disappointing.
     
     
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to pgraficzny in Bug: RAW development presets shown as active but not applied to next loaded image   
    This error also occurs in Photo V1.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to Steve grumpy in Edits made to RAW file in Develop persona lost when Developing the file   
    I have the same problem, it seems to be completely random.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to B.D. in Edits made to RAW file in Develop persona lost when Developing the file   
    I have the same problem After editing in develop persona and saving, edits are gone.
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from Chillr2021 in Sync favorite fonts between programs and copy from beta   
    I wish I remembered exactly... it wasn't easy.

    Okay I found the file again. I'm in Windows, so if you're on a Mac it will be in a somewhat different location. But in windows go to:
    Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher (or Designer or Photo)\1.0(or whatever version)\Settings\Fonts.xml
    So the 'Fonts.xml' file contains the favorited fonts for the specific program's folder you're in. Open it in NotePad, or something you can edit it in. Now look carefully for a line saying, "<FavouriteFamilyNames>" followed by a list of your favorited fonts. It then ends with "</FavouriteFamilyNames>" again. Copy all of this text.
    Next open the same 'Fonts.xml' file in the Designer, or photo, or whatever Affinity program folder you want to copy your favorites to. Carefully highlight the favorited fonts you want to overwrite, and paste in your previously copied text. Next time you open Designer, or whatever, you should see your favorited fonts from Publisher, or whatever program you copied them from. Good luck.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to StrawHousePig in Imposition   
    Here's the thing though: As someone in production I would love it if my layout software was able to handle that in some capacity. Trap, bleed, imposition, creep, and while we're at it separations(!), process colors, solid colors, step-&-repeat, the list goes on. Some of these are must haves, some are a luxury.
    Just because the office newsletter isn't suitable for running on a 40 inch Speedmaster that doesn't mean its designer and most likely printer couldn't make use of simple built in booklet imposition.
     
    Speaking of, that Booklet Creator 2 works really well and does include creep that can be tweaked to your needs.
     
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from Archangel in Imposition   
    Those look promising, but do they support adding creep? I couldn't find anything about that from either.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to StrawHousePig in Imposition   
    Holy simoleons that is a nice tool for the kit. Thanks very much.
     
    That said, creep accommodation should be a part of the design process not just the production process because you don't know what you're going to lose until it's lost. As a printer I can use my best judgement, but I shouldn't have to and, honestly, chances are it'll be automatic in software. Given that AFPUB supports independent page sizes the next step seems obvious, although a "creep margin" would be best.
     
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to NathanC in Deleting hyperlink via right-click can result in fragmented hyperlink   
    Hi @Nathan Shirley,
    Thanks for reporting this, i've now logged with with the developers for resolution. I had found whilst replicating the issue that if all words which formed the hyperlink were highlighted before going into the right click menu to remove the link that the entire Hyperlink would be correctly removed.
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from DKMusic in Memory leak? Frequent crashes and large RAM usage   
    This is a known issue (at least it should be since I reported it right around when Publisher came out). I had what I believe is the exact same problem. My project was about 450 pages, also with linked sheet music PDFs on most pages. The more PDFs I added the more unusable Publisher was, with frequent crashes and using huge amounts of memory.
    The workaround was to simply embed all the linked files (I believe you can do it all at once in 'Resource Manager'). It still takes a little while to load up the project, but it's not that bad, and once loaded, it works great (I also currently have a similar Ryzen CPU). Of course having the files linked would still be more handy, but it's not difficult to update embedded files as needed.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to HomeofficeDad in Affinity für Linux?   
    I use Affinity Designer and Photo on a Mac currently but I would love a Linux port. There are only very few things left that keep me using Mac.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to Renzatic in Affinity für Linux?   
    Most of the issues with Gnome were ironed out by 2015. Gnome 4 basically took that, and switched it from a vertical layout to a more standardized horizontal one.
     
    Yeah, let's not let this devolve into some internet style platform war BS, huh?
     
    Like I said, it works for me.
    I don't recommend Linux to everyone. If your primary concerns are 2D graphic design, it'd be better to stick with Windows and Macs, yeah.
    Considering I admitted to such just below, that's not much of a revelation. The Affinity programs are my one big exception.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to jodler303 in Affinity für Linux?   
    +1 on a Linux version.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to neptronix in Affinity für Linux?   
    Linux desktop becomes downright awesome when you pair it with a well tuned VM, because the limitations to it's use disappear.

    I have been using Windows 7 in a VM ( within Windows 10 ) for the last 7 years. Moving my windows workflow to linux was a matter of copying and pasting a large .vdi file.
    I have been gradually been giving the Windows VM less and less screen space as i continue to find excellent alternatives to Windows software. The real time sink is exploring the open source & commercial software available in Linux land. The surprise factor is that some of the free Linux software is actually pretty damn good ( Blender being the best example i can think of )
    Using Linux makes me love computing again. it is a refreshing experience that reminds me of using early MacOS and Windows 2000 - lithe, powerful, and not restricting of the user's freedom and constantly nagging them. An ideal OS for the power user of today.

    It is awesome that the VM software of today allows us to use Windows software as a temporary bridge without any serious limitations. The VM software of today is incredibly advanced and refined at this point. I have been using Virtualbox ( free ) for ages, and only until i encountered Affinity Designer, did i have a 'Windows VM' problem. 
    Of course i would prefer to use a native Linux version of Affinity Designer; and to finally burn that bridge to Windows land.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to neptronix in Affinity für Linux?   
    I would love affinity Designer for Linux, and have paid for a license, and enjoy the hell out of it on windows!!!
    I would contribute to a crowdfunding effort, or even buy another license to vote with my dollars.
    I would be a free beta tester. I'm a software developer too, so i give good reports.

    Affinity is the only reason i am still running windows ( inside of a virtual machine ), and Krita and Inkscape don't cut the mustard compared to Affinity. Also, my pen tablet inside the virtual machine simply does not work well - no problem in Krita/Inkscape.

    If there's a way to make it happen, i'm down to help.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to Garteth in How to crop an image on a selected layer - Affinity Photo?   
    So after 6 years, when is it going to be possible to crop a layer rather than the whole document?
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to GrayFox in Affinity für Linux?   
    I too would likie to see Affinity running on Linux, even if only via Wine

    Currently, Affinity Photo is the second most requested peice of software being voted for wine compatability, and the number one graphics software being voted on as well

    https://appdb.winehq.org/votestats.php

    If a native Linux version is not going happen, could we at least see some support from someone on the dev side to get it running via Wine?
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from Waffelo in Affinity für Linux?   
    +1 for the Affinity suite on Linux.
    It's interesting, things seem to be rapidly shifting in favor of Linux right now, as Apple, Windows, etc., become increasingly problematic for privacy and security, plus pushing ever more unwanted things on their users (Edge/Bing, ads and tabloid "news", Amazon shopping in desktop searches, etc.). Meanwhile SteamOS moving to Linux, powering the world's most popular game platform, is forcing game designers to embrace Linux, while also creating a lot of new Linux interest/installs on high-end gaming machines. As Adobe continues to frustrate long-time users, more people have been looking for and moving to Adobe alternatives, and there's likely a growing number (of these people in particular) who are also frustrated with Apple/Windows.
    In the creative-professional Linux world we have Blackmagic's Resolve for video production (now surpassing the competition in many areas). For music/audio production we have Bitwig, or if you prefer, Reaper (plus Resolve's Fairlight). But there's still one last major gap that Affinity would fill perfectly. I'm sure it would take a lot of work on their part, but I--for what it's worth--would certainly be willing to pay a premium to have Photo, Designer, and Publisher running natively on Linux.
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from maor26 in Affinity für Linux?   
    +1 for the Affinity suite on Linux.
    It's interesting, things seem to be rapidly shifting in favor of Linux right now, as Apple, Windows, etc., become increasingly problematic for privacy and security, plus pushing ever more unwanted things on their users (Edge/Bing, ads and tabloid "news", Amazon shopping in desktop searches, etc.). Meanwhile SteamOS moving to Linux, powering the world's most popular game platform, is forcing game designers to embrace Linux, while also creating a lot of new Linux interest/installs on high-end gaming machines. As Adobe continues to frustrate long-time users, more people have been looking for and moving to Adobe alternatives, and there's likely a growing number (of these people in particular) who are also frustrated with Apple/Windows.
    In the creative-professional Linux world we have Blackmagic's Resolve for video production (now surpassing the competition in many areas). For music/audio production we have Bitwig, or if you prefer, Reaper (plus Resolve's Fairlight). But there's still one last major gap that Affinity would fill perfectly. I'm sure it would take a lot of work on their part, but I--for what it's worth--would certainly be willing to pay a premium to have Photo, Designer, and Publisher running natively on Linux.
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    Nathan Shirley got a reaction from Renzatic in Affinity für Linux?   
    +1 for the Affinity suite on Linux.
    It's interesting, things seem to be rapidly shifting in favor of Linux right now, as Apple, Windows, etc., become increasingly problematic for privacy and security, plus pushing ever more unwanted things on their users (Edge/Bing, ads and tabloid "news", Amazon shopping in desktop searches, etc.). Meanwhile SteamOS moving to Linux, powering the world's most popular game platform, is forcing game designers to embrace Linux, while also creating a lot of new Linux interest/installs on high-end gaming machines. As Adobe continues to frustrate long-time users, more people have been looking for and moving to Adobe alternatives, and there's likely a growing number (of these people in particular) who are also frustrated with Apple/Windows.
    In the creative-professional Linux world we have Blackmagic's Resolve for video production (now surpassing the competition in many areas). For music/audio production we have Bitwig, or if you prefer, Reaper (plus Resolve's Fairlight). But there's still one last major gap that Affinity would fill perfectly. I'm sure it would take a lot of work on their part, but I--for what it's worth--would certainly be willing to pay a premium to have Photo, Designer, and Publisher running natively on Linux.
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to Waffelo in Affinity für Linux?   
    Linux is great for artists and creators, I would love to see Affinity on Linux, I own photo and designer and im using Linux
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    Nathan Shirley reacted to Totte in Affinity für Linux?   
    The sole I'm still running Windows. Lack of Adobe AND/OR Affinity products. Windows has been going downhill for years, shoving bloat and forces software down our throats.
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