HeiligerBimBam
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Did you check if „wet edges“ is active?
OMG.. searched 15 minutes on opacity .. brush color and Stuff.. This thing really shouldn't be active by default. Thanks for advice!
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Yeah.. its so sad.. I really love the Affinity Suite, but especially this bug is so frustrating.. lost 45 min work this morning again. A document I saved yesterday in a perfectly fine state.. now 75% of the images are broken, all content changes from this morning are GONE - also in the "backup"-version. I don't get it.
QuoteJust don't use it as storage/linked is recommended
Good hint! thx. The external images are still working, the embeded ones are broken.
OH and I missed the fact, that this thread is for MAC OS. I am on Windows 11, .. so its not only an OS related weird Windows problem, its clearly up to Affinity itself 🥴 -
Same with 2.0.4, this happens way to often, and I am surprised that this error is years old.
If the document only where closed.. okay, but it typically comes with a data loss, what is unacceptable.
Seems to me like a temporary copy of the file should solve this perfectly fine, if Affinity cant save it under this file name for whatever reasons, simply create a foobar__back.afpub or whatever. Closing with dataloss is the worst case and this kind of errors should be #1 priority.
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After any value in those selects is choosed, the list becomes empty, no matter if the font family or style is selected. After Publisher is restarted, the chosen value is still selected, but the dialog is stuck in this state.
After Arial is changed to Source Sans:
After a couple of Publisher restarts .. I have everything configured, but nothing happens. Still got the message, that Poppins is missing.
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+1 for having the document palette as default (if there is one). Thx @onno-r for the workaround!
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The symbols feature are so powerful, but becomes unmanagable when the library growed.
Please, please, please add the same options we already have for assets! -
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@NotMyFault thank you so much for the detailed explanation!
Okay, i think only @MEB is able to tell us if its a bug or the expected behavior. But yeah, I got my expected result.
Thanks to all of you!
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Na dann, Moin nach Hamburg
Ich schreibe trotzdem mal weiter Englisch.. wer weiß, wem es irgendwann mal hilft.
Okay, got your point. I had set a white background to the Artboard, but the transparency 'issues' only appear (in the "Preview") if I set a white background to the "Section X"-Group too. This seems logical.. Artboards and its styles aren't exported, because they are just layout/helper-elements. So far, so good.
But what's still none intuitive to me, is that the "Waved"-shape has a solid white background (the "Rect"-shape also have a light-blue solid background), which is removed/entirely replaced by the layer-style-gradient
after the export. Adding the layer a second time, with just a solid white background, still feels like a bad workaround. If I change the shape, I have to duplicate it again.. etc.So the question here is: Is this the expected behavior? Layer-Styles/Effects overriding shape colors, that's fine, but shouldn't it be possible to set the shape color AND use a (partly) transparent layer-style-gradient on it without losing the shape-color? Seems more intuitive to me, doesn't it?
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Quoteany chance you can provide a screenshot of export format and options used, and a copy of your export file?
I could, but it happened to each format I've tried (PNG, JPEG, TIFF).. so I think this is useless?
Also tried with Publisher & Designer, all export settings should be default, here is the PNG Export settings:
Quoteyour file shows lots of transparency. (non-white areas. I added a channel mixer to map the alpha channel in all RGB channels).
Add a white rectangle as bottom layer.
Thx, but as I mentioned above, I have already found this workaround. The point here is: The export differs from the "preview", the shape has a solid background color.
QuoteIf the file you have attached displays as in your first screenshot I'm assuming you don't have transparent background enabled (you can check this going to File > Document Setup, Colour tab and checking if the Transparent background checkbox is ticked or not).
That was also my first thought, but I already know this pitfall
So, yes, transparancy is alreay turned on.
QuoteCan you please tell me what OS and what Affinity Designer versions are you running please? To what format are you trying to export?
Sure, it's Windows 10 21H1 and Affinity Designer 1.10.4.1198.
Tried different export formats: PNG, JPEG & TIFF - pretty much the same issue on all of these (JPEG & TIFF attached)
PS: Sorry for the German UI, hopefully it is still helpful.
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I've set a gradient layer effect on these shapes (solid color to ~90% transparent color) + blue/white color for the shape. Looks right in the preview, but it's not exported like this.
Sure, the layer (background-color-)styles overriding the shape color, regular behavior. But if a (partly) transparent gradient is set as layer style, the shape background should be visible?
I've found two workarounds:
1. add a copy of the shapes, with just the shape-color and move it behind the original layer
2. Rasterize the shapes (including the styles) before the exportThis is how it looks in Affinity Designer:
This is how it looks after the export:
Afdesign file attached!
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+1 for this, I have to go into the SVG code for each exported SVG Icon, really, really annoying and time consuming.
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+1 This would be great, SVG Support is one of the last pain points I have with Affinity Designer.
Duplicate Issue:
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Same here, i've replaced the font-family for the Basis/Foundation style (translated from German) what is inherited from all other styles but nothing happened till i restarted Publisher.
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No one stops you from working with artboards in Publisher. Just create them in Designer persona of Publisher. No need to mess with Master Pages. Leave those for print projects. Instead, Symbols can be used for same repeating elements. Easy to update, easy to control. Very convenient.
@Alex M Yeah, I thought about it. I've tried those synced symbol stuff in the past, it was damn buggy at this point. But that's kinda long ago, so thanks for the advice, I'll give it another shot!
QuotePersonally, I find Publisher with all three Personas being the best way for designing websites. Way better and powerful than Sketch, Figma and XD.
Typography tools, image editing tools are just on the next level. Love it!
I agree, it's freaking amazing, you'll never get a better tool set, especially for this price.
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However, if someone sticks with master pages, I just figured they have very helpful settings (just open your content page, right click the master-page-layer and hit settings). In the upcoming dialog (screenshot attached) you are able to control the alignment, so the for example the footer sticks to the bottom of the page, even if you resize it.
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I use Master Pages to create my header, footer (stuff that's on every page of the site) then apply them to the pages.
Tried this as well, works pretty good! There are other benefits though, various typo functions are working on web too (floating texts around vector forms, text columns, ...). And as you already said, switching to the Designer and Photo UI on the fly is just amazing.
The only thing that's really annoying to me so far, is changing the size of the pages, i love the Artboards in Designer, to have different page mockups next each other, its super comfortable to expand the height. In Publisher the only way to do this, is to change the pixel height of the layout page? Naming the pages would also a nice thing.
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+1 for this, pls add the file name as variable.
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Really confusing default behavior. Wouldn't it be helpful to let this magic "assistant" thing rasterize the image layer if a selection is present and the user uses copy or cut? Powerusers will get the assistant message, so they're aware of what has happened and novice users doesn't run into this problem.
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Would be really great to have an settings export / import feature baked in.
On Windows it should work to backup the appdata folder(s): C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity.
But i've not yet tried to restore the settings.
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Same here, thats very annoying, my layers panel is way to flat.. endless scrolling
Maybe i should consider to rotate my monitor
=== Update ===
If i create a second sidebar i am able to drag the height of the panels!
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I've tried to draw with the Surface pen.. it's working.. but that's all. The additional pen keys are not supported and if i lay down my hand on the display i get unwanted drawings.
So a pen mode would be very nice, so drawings can just be done only with the pen. Only pinch zoom, roatate, etc. should be available with touch gestures.
Failed to save document - Save failed because the file could not be written to
in V1 Bugs found on Windows
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YES! Finished sorting these ~150 Layers, finally.. so SAVE:
Boom. Work dumped. Start Over.
An issue for years. Can we plaase finaly fix this?! Is this possible? Stop inventing new features and fix this VERY, VERY BASIS ISSUE.
Is it so hard to trigger the "Save in"-Dialog instead of sending the whole work to hell?