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cubesquareredux reacted to v_kyr in Hardware MacBook Pro limitation for using Affinity Suite above 5 years - what is the most important spec here?
The Affinity suite software apps are multi-architecture binaries (so called FAT binaries), which do contain executuable code for both Intel & Arm architectures.
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cubesquareredux reacted to loukash in Hardware MacBook Pro limitation for using Affinity Suite above 5 years - what is the most important spec here?
It works fine on my MacBook Pro mid-2012 (non-retina matte display), 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, running Catalina which cannot be upgraded any further.
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cubesquareredux reacted to nickbatz in Affinity Photo 2.0.3 is a nice update, but... :)
THANK YOU!
I had a whole thread on this and no one pointed that out.
See? This is why no one should pay attention to anything I say.
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cubesquareredux got a reaction from Jpburns in Text Frame styles
[I did a search for topic titles containing "text frame style" but found nothing.]
1. Is there a way to save all attributes of a text frame as a "text frame style" that can be re-applied to other text frames when necessary?
2. Related question: If a second text frame is linked to a first one, is there a way to specify that all attributes of the first text frame be applied to the second one?
3. Other related question: Can (or will) a master page hold a text frame with all required text-frame attributes such that text can be flowed in when not in "master-page mode"?
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cubesquareredux reacted to Komatös in How to maintain fill colour in text shapes in Affinity Photo
You are welcome!
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cubesquareredux reacted to cyderstone in How to maintain fill colour in text shapes in Affinity Photo
Thank you for the reply, I'm having the same problem. Isn't there a way of linking a filled shape with the text without losing the fill? After the pentagon appears when the cursor is hovered over the filled shape, after Frame Text Tool is selected from the menu, a message appears at bottom left of screen: 'Click to convert Rounded Rectangle to Text Frame'. When clicked, the conversion is made and now dragging the shape takes the text with it because, presumably, the shape is now the text frame for the text. But the shape loses its colour. It seems odd that the fill disappears, I can't see an advantage in that for the user. A solution would be wonderful! (Putting a text frame over a shape is handy, thank you for the idea, but moving one of them leaves the other behind so they have to be re-aligned and fiddled with!)
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cubesquareredux reacted to walt.farrell in How to maintain fill colour in text shapes in Affinity Photo
The Fill and Stroke of the shape will be removed when you convert it to a Text Frame in Designer or Photo. They will be retained in Publisher, because Publisher also has the Text Frame panel in the Studio which allows controlling the Stroke and Fill for the Frame.
If you want to use Designer or Photo, and you want your shape to be a Text Frame, and you want to retain the Stroke and/or Fill:
Duplicate the shape, then Convert one of them to a Text Frame, and then Group the Text Frame with the remaining shape so they stay together. -
cubesquareredux reacted to R C-R in how can I export from affinity publisher to indesign
To oversimplify a bit, it is because Adobe uses a proprietary native file format & has no interest in making it available to its competitors.
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cubesquareredux reacted to Silla in how can I export from affinity publisher to indesign
@ashlenn Hi! How did it go, did you avoid hiccups in your collab? Did you have to surrender to the Adobe software (hoping not!). I love Affinity but I can't understand why Affinity can't talk back to adobe.. Are Affinity not going to offer that in the future? All the best!
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cubesquareredux reacted to towelhead in Seperate paragraph and line spacing in text frame?
I have erased the bad text, so I cannot test your advice. I will do it when I encounter this bug again.
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cubesquareredux reacted to David in Яuislip in Seperate paragraph and line spacing in text frame?
Try setting the Leading Override to Auto
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cubesquareredux reacted to towelhead in Seperate paragraph and line spacing in text frame?
It does not work. When the font size exceeds about 80 pt, the spacing between adjacent text lines is fixed - it is the same regardless of the font size. It does not matter whether the spacing is set to default or any other value. Once this bug appears, there is no way to turn it off. This bug may be related to importing text from Photoshop. (I use Affinity Photo 1.10.1)
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cubesquareredux reacted to walt.farrell in Seperate paragraph and line spacing in text frame?
In the Paragraph panel the Spacing section provides 3 settings of interest to you:
Leading: the space between lines. Space Before a paragraph Space After a paragraph
There are also equivalent settings in Paragraph Text Styles.
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cubesquareredux reacted to havocsforge in Seperate paragraph and line spacing in text frame?
When I use a text frame with more than one paragraph, the space between the paragraphs is good, but that same spacing is applied to the text within the paragraph as well, and if I shrink that it causes issues.
If I want paragraphs to be right next to each other and use a spacing of 6pt, then when typing within a paragraph the text overlaps itself when it word wraps to the next line.
In word line spacing and paragraph spacing are different settings, so i cant seem to figure this one out
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cubesquareredux got a reaction from benwiggy in How to save settings used in PDF export?
When exporting a PDF, the default seems to be "All Spreads." Is there a way to save a preference such that the "All Pages" setting is the default instead? Or do I have to select "All Pages" from the menu each time?
I'm referring to Affinity Publisher and I don't see how to save this setting in version 1.9.3.
Thanks for any clues.
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cubesquareredux reacted to thomaso in How to save settings used in PDF export?
Do you mean the 'running ants'?
I haven't experienced yet that a layer selection can't be selected as export area – unless I forgot to indeed select objects before.
However, this is the Q & A forum. To force it as feature request feel free to add your vote in the thread linked above. A "+1" note is sufficient to bump it up.
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cubesquareredux reacted to loukash in How to make a block of text look as if it came from an old newspaper?
I was just about to post something similar.
Affinity text objects can be used for clipping, so you can place any odd bitmap texture inside.
Or use a random complex gradient fill:
There's still no opacity, blend modes or effects involved, so it remains vector in PDF/X-3:
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cubesquareredux reacted to thomaso in How to save settings used in PDF export?
Me too. Actually it's hard to understand that with the initial concept "by design" …
… pages are remembered while area is not, and
… only settings in "More" are savable but those in the step before can't be included in the existing feature of custom presets.
Odd: Pages are remembered – even if Selection is used:
That is quite annoying / cumbersome for exports of selections which get fine-tuned repeatedly, e.g. exports as image.
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cubesquareredux got a reaction from thomaso in How to save settings used in PDF export?
When exporting a PDF, the default seems to be "All Spreads." Is there a way to save a preference such that the "All Pages" setting is the default instead? Or do I have to select "All Pages" from the menu each time?
I'm referring to Affinity Publisher and I don't see how to save this setting in version 1.9.3.
Thanks for any clues.
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cubesquareredux reacted to thomaso in How to make a block of text look as if it came from an old newspaper?
Another way to simulate reduced print quality might be a text fill with a noisy / cloudy image.
For finetuning play with its blend range options …
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cubesquareredux reacted to loukash in How to make a block of text look as if it came from an old newspaper?
That's true, but from technical point of view, a fully flattened and rasterized PDF might then look as a scanned reproduction of the original.
The art of faking an old/bad print is to find the right balance.
I'm still searching for the ideal balance, but eventually I'm getting better with every printed result.
The actual "problem" is that the print quality these days is "too good" to begin with, and getting better every year, haha.
The stroke options are available in all programs. Only in Photo they are somewhat "hidden", as you either have to select an object with the Node tool to add stroke from the context toolbar, or use the Character>Decorations panel for text outline. There is no Strokes panel in Photo.
But that doesn't really matter because the Affinity document format is universal: the file extensions actually only defines which app should open a document by default. But every document can be edited by any other app of the suite, adding its respective unique features, e.g. symbols, linked layers or live filters directly in a page layout. That's the beauty of this concept. (Take that, Schmadobe! I had to do many complex layouts in Illustrator because some tricks just are/were not possible directly with InDesign.)
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cubesquareredux reacted to thomaso in How to make a block of text look as if it came from an old newspaper?
In this case, different to 'normal' text, the text maybe treated rather like an image than text. Means the final output format (screen vs. print) and the size (details) could be more important to avoid the impression of 'just bad quality for the delivered image', e.g. by low resolution. An 'antique' font can make it easier, especially if there is no paper to support with olderness.
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cubesquareredux reacted to loukash in How to make a block of text look as if it came from an old newspaper?
@thomaso already gave some great ideas.
Keep in mind, though, that transparency and blend modes rasterize on PDF/X-1 or X-3 output, and adjustments, effects and filters will flatten and rasterize in any other otherwise vector format on export. So use with caution.
This is probably the main reason I'm still keeping Illustrator CS5 handy:
The live Roughen filter.
I've been using it on live fonts very often, for exactly this kind of effect.
Here's an example that I've uploaded recently in another thread and in different context, using Gill Sans and Bodoni Poster as fully editable text with Roughen filter applied and with an old cardboard scan as an overlay in Multiply blend mode. You can't do something like this with Affinity (yet; I hope it will eventually arrive!):
^ The content is upside down because this was a part of a vinyl LP gatefold sleeve inner spread on a print ready layout with a die-cut form.
(Also still desperately needed in Affinity: overprint preview! On the other hand, we already have seamless canvas rotation preview with was a p.i.t.a. in Illustrator.)
Anyway…
There are two somewhat usable methods how to roughen a font outline in Affinity – other than using an already roughen typefaces like Caslon Antique, Block, Averia and the like:
dashed stroke outline
stroke outline pressure
Stroke pressure is quite a promissing feature which has the potential of a Roughen filter, but it has a few bugs, causing ugly artefacts on vector export, so use with caution.
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cubesquareredux reacted to thomaso in How to make a block of text look as if it came from an old newspaper?
If it's an "old" newspaper (before DTP) a visually recognizable vector format would not really be credible.
Quite nice workarounds! 👍