Gaylord

Hello I’m Gaylord. I’m retired and live in beautiful Vermont. I have had photo, designer, and publisher for a few years, but I have not achieved the skill level I want with any of them yet. Totally my fault, I suffer from executive short term memory loss. I logged in today to see if Publisher for iPad is available yet. I have written a lot over the years and I’d like to publish. Or at least prepare to publish. I have Publisher on my Mac. But sitting outside with my iPad would be nice. Any update would be helpful. I’m also working on a collaborative cartoon book using Larson cartoons as templates for ideas, re-captioning and reimagining them. Should be fun. Thanks

I am glad to read that this thread is still alive. Should we jointly draft a written request, and all send it to… ? With scissors of course.

Yes I have used that work around. But what I think we would all like is for an open vector line to be treated as an enclosed shape, when both ends touch another vector line. Also to simply trim a line where it crosses another. Closing a vector gives various and usually unwanted results. With foresight and planning, closed shapes can be created on different overlapping layers thus hiding the overlap, or use the boolean tools. But the boolean tools also do not offer the result we want. It becomes like painting a picture in reverse of the back side of glass. It takes lots of practice and visualization. There has to be a way to mail a bunch of scissors to Serif.

Great idea. I'm in. We need to nail down the address and the date to mail them.

Is there another way to communicate with Serif? It would be nice to have an acknowledgement of this request.

I continue to hope for this. And I still look for work flow workarounds for the lack of a knife.

"Do you think it would be good if Serif added some ‘pinned’ guidelines to the top of the section for people who post tutorials here?Doing so would not guarantee that submitted tutorials adhered to such guidelines but it may give some people pause for thought before they posted." In this case it would be nice for everyone to do, at least going forward. It is probably not realistic to do over anything. It is just an idea that I thought would be helpful. So if Serif added some guidelines, I agree it would help.

I have been watching again, several tutorials, to refresh my memory. Something that would help me, but is missing, is a short overview of the layers/content that will be used in the tutorial. For instance, if an original image is imported becoming the first and locked layer. And then additional images or content are imported or created, including adjustment layers, I would like the author at the beginning of the tutorial to: Show and describe in order of creation/source, the original beginning image, and each layer. These are the assets that will be used in the tutorial and it would be nice to see all the assets, so we can be familiar, as they are introduced in the tutorial, preferably by name. A short example of not knowing what a layer looks like or it's source until later in the tutorial, is the Mask tutorial. The tutorial itself is well done, but I feel a frame of reference at the beginning would make it better. Thank you.

You have hundreds of requests for a knife tool and eraser. Can someone from Affinity respond to this request for features? Please, Thank you in advance.

No, everything Affinity does is not available in Gimp. I love Designer. I want there to be a knife tool, but for now I can clean something up in Gimp and then import it into Designer. "In some cases," I can do this to get things done faster.

I agree. And people are inserting non relevant info to a post about a specific subject. It seems hard to navigate this and respond to the original post.

Hey heads up. In Gimp I can fill those crossing path zones simply because they enclose a space with no trimming, node manipulation or boolean operations. 10 Seconds to proof. Paste, choose the fill bucket, color, and click in the zone. I can be even sloppier with my vectors extending past lines into space!

I can't believe this is not done yet. I'm trying to overlay a pop art drawing over an image of a chair, So there are a lot of vector lines crossing so they create a fillable zone between them. That is what I need anyway which I can do with Gimp. So apparently I just wasted a couple hours on Designer, only to go online and find that lots of people want to do similar things, and have wanted it for a long time. AArgh. So I will do it over again using Gimp and suck it up. Actually I just realized I can cut and paste my vectors into Gimp and get it done. At least I won't have to redraw the whole thing. I'll let you know if the cut and paste process I just described goes poorly.

Hello. I recently moved to a remote location in Vermont. I have a VERY slow DSL connection and I am unable to download updates to my software. I've tried three times but the update connection seems to be timing out. Does anyone have a suggestion about how I can get the updates onto my Mac & PC another way? Thanks. I'll try the link from Leigh.

This easy change fixed it. Thank you!!!