postmadesign
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I came to ask for the same: I don't need the magnifier when using the pencil, so I would rather get rid of it because its distracting
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Yes, i would love to participate, as i do in other betas of affinity.
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Just now, Matthias said:
But once it has a global color swatch assigned, this attribute should travel with the objact.
I agree on this
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15 minutes ago, Matthias said:
If you go with scenario 1 or 2b and now have swatches 1 and 2, you could still decide at any time to delete one of the two swatches, in which case Publisher/Designer/Photo would ask you with which swatch (or none) you want it to be replaced.
replacing swatches with other swatches would be a very useful feature, and I have requested this before. Deleting a global color should always bring up a dialog to ask me to replace the color of the affected objects IMO.
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21 minutes ago, Matthias said:
This! In other apps like InDesign I often copy an element with a defined (corporate) color into an empty document just to obtain the color. Quick and dirty, sure, but works as expected.
This is because objects don't neccesarily have a color attribute which is a swatch. You can go to the color picker and change an object to any color you want, but this would not create a swatch or alter a swatch. This is different from indesign, where the color of an object can only be done by picking, creating or altering a swatch. A color in a document would always have an associated swatch. Perhaps this could be a preference, but as @fde101 described, this could have unforeseen consequences, in a case where a swatch with the same name already exists.
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6 minutes ago, Jeremy Bohn said:
InDesign's swatch method is the preferred method, as described by thomaso. Color swatches behave more like they are objects, and if they are being used in your document they become "linked" to those objects so copying and pasting means they come along for the ride. It's simply the quickest, least confusing and most professional way.
In some cases I agree, and Publishers method is more complex for sure. However I like the distinction between global swatches and regular ones, and both have their specific strengths. Indesigns swatches are always global colors, which might not always be the best option. In Publisher, objects can have their color changed without them becoming a swatch, this is not possible in Indesign. Were Publisher to have this swatch management, I guess it would cause problems opening the file with the other Affinity apps?
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I did not know about this function in indesign, sound interesting! And you use indesign to create the maps as well? It sounds more like a job for illustrator or Designer?
Actually I could imagine creating the maps in Designer, each as a separate artboard. You would have all the swatches in one place, and could use symbols which would also be convenient for maps I imagine. Assets can also be embedded with a document, so even if you would open it on a different machine, they would still be there (I am not sure if symbols do the same, as I don't normally use them)
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One thing I really like and use a lot in Designer on the iPad is the 3 buttons at the bottom left to deselect, turn snapping on or off and to delete an object. Could you add these to Photo? Is there any specific reason they should/could not be there?
- Paul Mudditt, DM1 and Alfred
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2 hours ago, thomaso said:
@fde101, I think I am aware of all this. To me you simply describe the momentary situation as is. But it appears not reduce confusion and complexity.
A practical example:
– You have created a map with particular swatches for various elements: Ground, road, village, castle, tree, lake.
– Now you want to copy those – one of each – with their swatches to start working on a new map with same elements.
– There you also want to create both new elements using same colors, and as well new elements which must not get existing colors.––> How would you copy those existing elements – with 'normal', global or spot-color assigned – to another .afpub document if you want to make sure their swatches will be transferred, too?
Just curious, what program does this? I don't know of this option in Illustrator or Indesign? If you would create many maps with the same basic elements, with slight variations for each, would it be so difficult to create a base palette and import it?
You could also create a base file with all the elements and colors that are shared between maps, including assets and colors. Then save this document and use it as a template for all maps. Much as @fde101 described.
I am not sure why the method you described would be much more efficient.
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4 minutes ago, Seneca said:
Im sure you are aware of the fact that you can export the colour Palette and import it to another document. So in a way you can do it already.
Yes I do know this, but in some situations I have not saved a palette for it, so I would have to open the document first, export it and import into the new document. It can easily be done, but the other way is just slightly more convenient.
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2 hours ago, thomaso said:
@fde101, I think I am aware of all this. To me you simply describe the momentary situation as is. But it appears not reduce confusion and complexity.
A practical example:
– You have created a map with particular swatches for various elements: Ground, road, village, castle, tree, lake.
– Now you want to copy those – one of each – with their swatches to start working on a new map with same elements.
– There you also want to create both new elements using same colors, and as well new elements which must not get existing colors.––> How would you copy those existing elements – with 'normal', global or spot-color assigned – to another .afpub document if you want to make sure their swatches will be transferred, too?
You can create a set of swatches in a document, including global colors, and export this set. If you create a new document, you can then import these as a document palette. The global colors are preserved. If you import it as application or system palette, the global color becomes a regular swatch.
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I have found a weird thing with setting default palettes for a color space. I created a set of colors, saved as application palette, then set it as default for CMYK. Now when I create a new CMYK document this palette it actually includes this palette as a document palette... I can still select the application palette I created too, but this makes little sense to me. Also, you can create as many document palettes as you want, which makes it rather confusing too. Shouldn't there just be one palette per document?
One handy feature Indesign has, which I have used several times, is the ability to import the swatches from another document. I would like to see this ability in publisher too.
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9 hours ago, Andy Somerfield said:
Preferences now has a spline for controlling pencil input pressure.
9 hours ago, Andy Somerfield said:The modifier keys on a hardware keyboard now work (alt, cmd, etc.). If you enable on-screen modifiers, a symbol has been added next to each one indicating which key it corresponds to.
These might seem like small improvements, but they improve my workflow enormously! Thanks so much for adding them!
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2 hours ago, Mark Daniel said:
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- After modifying an embedded file you could no longer save the document
- After replacing a linked resource the document could become corrupted and could not be re opened.
- Making multiple resources linked in the Resource manager could crash the application
- The application could fail to save to folder linked to OneDriveShould this not be [326] ?
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I have the problem that when I want to switch the eraser to a different brush, and this brush has a preference set for the tool with which it is used (pixel tool or brush tool for instance), clicking said brush will reset the tool to this setting. I can not erase with these brushes, except when I set tip sharing for all tools in the preferences. Though I can see some use for the preferred setting for a brush, as it may not work as intended in another, but current behaviour is rather frustrating. I hope this can be changed or improved somehow?
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I ran into a gesture conflict when I have the artistic text tool selected. I tried to access the iOS dock by swiping up, but in the process it creates a new artistic text cursor, which is of course unwanted. I tried the option "touch for gestures only" but this has no effect. I can still drag a text field with my finger with this option selected. Is this intentional? It seems unlogical to me.
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Overall I really like the new, more minimal interface, but one thing that bothers me a bit is the lack of contrast of the icons on the right side bar. This makes it harder to find the feature I want, and slows me down in the process. making these higher contrast would help I think.
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I have noticed this too, it is a bit distracting
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16 minutes ago, MikeW said:
So while the other pages may have had RGB data, this PDF does not.
You are right. I was doing test with a personal file to check the differences in the settings. I cannot find any consistency in the color conversion, sometimes it is still RGB, sometimes DeviceCMYK, I never get it to become a profile like you see above. This has me completely confused...
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You are indeed correct, and so is your printer. There are problems which I did not notice at first. Though the ink manager shows no RGB data, the transparency blending data is still in RGB, not CMYK. Only when I convert it to x-1 as described above these transparency issues are resolved. However when checking the images these are in a generic CMYK profile, not the profile I chose... This is a pretty nasty problem in some situations I think and I hope this can be addressed!
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That is strange, as I checked and compared the files created with various setting with the output preview and ink manager in Acrobat: the conversion with specified color profile does not contain any RGB data, whereas the other do. I am not an absolute prepress master, but to me this indicates the images are correctly converted. It would be interesting to see you file to be able to compare it.
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I think I found what causes this problem. When I output as PDF for Print and leave the color setting on "as document" and profile on "as document" the images are indeed RGB when I check these in Acrobat. When I set it to CMYK but leave the profile to "as document" the images are not converted even though they should be, which is a bug, I would say.
But when I define both the color setting as CMYK but choose a specific profile from the list (it does not seem to matter which one) they are correctly converted. It is a small workaround, and they do need to fix this, but at least it works!
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BUG Copy/Paste Text from PDF
in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
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I noticed Publisher has a bug when pasting text copied out of a PDF document: the german accented characters are not properly encoded. See screenshots