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  1. CLC
    I don't demand anything. I conversate. I joined a request thread, adding my points and am waiting for anyone relevant to tell me, in pure binary: 1 - feature will be added or 0 - feature won't be added
  2. CLC
    Good for you Luckily, not everyone is the same as you. Some other people would like Affinity suite to be superior and a real competititon to the Adobe package. And to be able to work for them, when it currently doesn't.
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    It was from version 5.1 (1996) and 7 (1997, Windows - there was no version 6 for Win) and in version 6+ (1996, Mac) - so it was more or less 1 year (but in offline days, where you bought new version of spinning discs, thus the distribution was different and there was nothing like agile releasing like nodays). Every feature was thoroughly tested before relese. You're also forgetting that this feature is nothing heavyweight, it's about taking document tree and parsing it through few regular expressions, fetching the result to selection. A one day job tops (few hours actually). In case document object model is done right. There might be an issue with the sequential file structure of affinity documents but when you load the document to RAM, the whole document tree must be available anyway, so this last line is more of just rhetorics. Edit: I believe it's more an issue with feature requests. I beleive that Serif is afraid of adding user requested features because other people would start pushing for their other requested features to be added, pointing out to this one as an example that "it can be done"...
  4. CLC
    You can use a workaround - just use the classic CMYK channels, pick any of the empty ones and move your graphics there. It's the old way we did back in the old days. Not an awesome workaround, but works in case you're preparing data for offset output.
  5. CLC
    I have to agree, but I feel (without any real clues, it's just a gutt feeling) that Serif is currently working on a maintenance release of all apps (despite the season which suggests most of them are on vacation), that would get rid of the most annoying bugs. I hope they will also incorporate some of the most requested features like this one. All I have is hope though
  6. CLC
    Depends on what you do. If you're like me, a person who has to deal with graphics and/or technical drawings brought to you by your customers and you have to edit those as per their requests, you will find out it's a vital, necessary feature. If you're designing stuff from the start, or doing creative stuff with Designer, you might be happy without it (albeit even you would benefit from this very feature if you ever did something complex and you needed to edit it for whatever reason - selecting every single object and modifying its properties is simply horrible with say 4000 objects per one document). Edit: You should consider amount of people (potential Serif customers) who want to get rid of Adobe not because it's bad, but because they can't afford its subscription model anymore, it would be more than reasonable for Serif to add such a trivial, but again, vital feature that basically still stops them from switching over. And omission of this feature is simply a blocker for them, even with reasonable prices and licencing model Serif offers. From marketing point of view, I just don't get Serif, to be honest.
  7. CLC
    Hi Serif, considering amount of issues users are reporting with Geometry and objects, it might be nice to mark nodes that share the same position (while in different layers) with a different colour, perhaps in blue? So it would be way easier to spot potentionally problematic nodes/curves right from the start. Thanks for your attention.
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    Word.
  9. CLC
    So I figured out it's probably an issue with low quality font file as you can see in attached .gif animation. Some letters contain abandoned nodes, namely lowercase a, c, d, e. When I removed those, adding and substracting the curves was a breeze. I'd personally rather avoid this font. Have a nice day. Edit: A little workaround is as follows: after converting text to curves, just export the whole document as pdf/x-1a, then load it back to Designer and adding/substraction will work without a hunt for abandoned nodes. Not a perfect solution, but a time saver for sure.
  10. CLC
    Nice workaround, however, what if he needs to actually cut the shape with a cutting plotter? @klsmn Could you please upload the .afdesign file set in German (with text converted to curves)? It might be a bit easier to find out what's wrong. TIA
  11. CLC
    Well, the Power Duplicate has a limiation - you must never deselect the source object you're about to transform. It must stay highlighted, then you have to transform it (either manually by the mouse or using the Transform Studio Panel) then it remembers such settings and does exactly what you want to achieve. Once you deselect it, you are going to lose all the transformation info and duplicates. Edit: But yes, you have obviously found another bug - transformations done by Point Transform Tool ale ignored by Power Duplicate exactly as you described (hadn't too much time to check
  12. CLC
    I completely agree that a dialog such as Transform in Ai would be more than handy and intuitive for extending/controlling the Power Duplicate feature. I wouldn't be mad if Serif devs just copied the dialog without attempting to reinvent the wheel again, but I assume they don't want to be called copycats so that's why they want to do things different. Honestly - Power Duplicate feature is useful, but not as intuitive as Ai's Transform dialog, where you can set number of repetitions and all other stuff incl. point of origin of the source object/group you're about to duplicate, in another words: Power Duplicate's ux is simply 2nd grade in comparison to Ai's. I'm just being honest here, I don't want to touch any dev's feelings, fyi. I have to repeat, again, that Affinity Apps are a bargain for the price and amount of features, and they're doing great job. I just wish it was more user friendly and less buggy.
  13. CLC
    Hi @JGD In this mentioned case, using Transform Feature in Illustrator would do the same trick in seconds (with optional instant preview if you check the Preview tickbox). Image courtesy of webdesign.org. As you can see below, the Power Duplicate feature in Designer can handle the trick as well, in matter of seconds, see following .gif (sorry, 5 mb), so maybe it's a workflow issue instead in this case? Don't get me wrong, I get your point and agree that the Ghost Feature would be a very nice and attractive addition (as your hexagon example below clearly depicts). Have a nice day.
  14. CLC
    Oh, you got it wrong, it doesn't USE the path to mask it, it just stores it for future use. So you see a standard jpeg as it is, just the mask is available in the Paths panel.
  15. CLC
    Works for me in both HighSierra and Mojave
  16. CLC
    Ok, thank you - that's a brand new info to me.
  17. CLC
    You can add even binary blobs to .jpg files metadata. It's nothing special, but a very creative use of metadata, indeed. Also, vector data can be easily just a basic plain text (see SVG) Anyway, Serif could take a hint here, since as I said above, this is quite awesome and creative use of metadata and people would surely benefit from this. Edit: They do as mentioned in the post from @Murfee below.
  18. CLC
    Just tested and it works like charm, even with PS CS5. Pretty awesome!
  19. CLC
    Very interesting, thank you for that tip! I didn't know this at all.
  20. CLC
    It's as easy as this. You can always edit the shape/path later on. Seems faster and even better than Photoshop/Illustrator way, imo And it works across all the apps, Photo, Designer and Publisher, the same exact way. However yes, to keep the editability, you have to save as .af* file from what I gathered, and indeed, the sequential .af* files are imo huge. A bit downside. tl;dr There's probably no way to do it in Affinity the same way as with your described Photoshop workflow.
  21. CLC
    Because beta, as mentioned by Serif everywhere, isn's suitable for production use?
  22. CLC
    @gabriel_komorov I didn't say it does nasty stuff, but that it could be doing nasty stuff. Anyway, sharing original .bat is always way better than anything compiled
  23. CLC
    Of course not, check the compiler's homepage, it clearly states you have to licence a PRO version to distribute your exe. Just install an OS to a Virtual Machine (ie Oracle Virtual Box) and check for yourself... To your plans: Users don't care if they run .exe or .bat - they're after its functionality. Also compiling a .bat into .exe means you're hiding something. Maybe something mailicous. It could easily be harvesting Affinity licence files and calling back home sending them to you. Or whatever. I don't care, ran this in a airgapped VM, just to check out. Could run filemon, regmon and wireshark to spot what it's actually doing around but didn't do that yet. Maybe later
  24. CLC
    @gabriel_komorov Nice. However... You could just share the original .bat file instead
  25. CLC
    I have to agree. I would LOVE to have an alternative (key modifier) for adding to selection in Photo since the RMB+LMB is so anti-ux I can barely use it.
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