William Overington

I was playing the My Mix video sequence on YouTube while eating breakfast. An advert for Affinity played. "Hey Hey" music and fast moving images, not at all like the ambience when I am using Affinity products. Perhaps there could be an advert of someone gently painting a landscape while music like this is playing. William

Well, I did the search but have not found out. William

What problems please? I either never knew of that sharing or I have forgotten. William

Yet if Canva Affinity chose to do that, then that would be a significant change. A press release about it might well get lots of good publicity and that might help the business. It would put Canva Affinity into a leading league of its own and Canva Affinity could lead with innovation and development in the industry sector. William

Well, no matter how willing they are to be guided by our ideas and feedback, they cannot be guided by our ideas and feedback if we don't provide them with any ideas and feedback. William

Well, the fact of the matter is that we have been able to discuss the situation in this thread. In the company's user forum. But we can do more. For example we can do things like suggest that the Managing Director might please consider posting a statement each week about "this week's progress". And others could comment that each week is a bit too much to ask, but a monthly update posted on the last working day of the month might be a better thing to suggest. And so on, which is what Pledge 4 seems to suggest is wanted from us. William

Thank you. Pressing TAB worked. All of the "stuff" became displayed. William

I just started Affinity Publisher, version 1, (I only have version 1), not having used it for a long time and the display only has the menu bar across the top, when I was expecting lots of "stuff" at both sides and perhaps along the top beneath the menu bar. Does anyone recognize what has happened please? Can I reset it or something? William

Maybe off-topic but if readers would like to have and use a copy, free, of a font that I made that was last updated in 2012 here is a link. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=17690#p17690 The font is a TrueType font, no OpenType features in it. There are lots of alternate glyphs, each encoded with a code point in the plane 0 Private Use Area. In the font I experimented as to how far I could get with really swash glyphs. The link is to the most recent post in the thread. The thread has lots of posts and some illustrations of what can be produced using the font. The illustrations were made with PagePlus. Here is one of them. William

There could possibly be issues if the glyphs are not mapped to code points. They would only then be accessible by using an OpenType effect. I do not know to what extent every possible OpenType feature that could be being applied in the font is available for use in Affinity products. It might be that every OpenType effect that is used in the font is supported in Affinity products, but it depends on what the font designer(s) have used in the font and whether what is used is supported by Affinity products. William

Quite possibly. No. William

I am not sure at present. Oh, I thought that the Tutorials part was for listing the tutorials available, not for discussion. I was just posting a general observation as general feedback. William

I have tried full screen. William

I am not complaining. I accept that some people may well find the videos very helpful. I was just saying my point of view as feedback. William

I hope that this post does not annoy some people but I wonder if I may express my point of view about training videos please. I have only tried to watch a few and so maybe there are some that are different from those that I have seen. Basically I have given up on them as I find the ones that I have tried to watch unfollowable to me. They seem to be images of the full screen, usually the black background version whereas I use the light grey version that has black lettering, but people seem to rush the pointer over the menu and click click click quickly. To me, and I realize that I might be criticised for stating this opinion, but the videos that I have seen seem as if answering an examination question, where the audience (that is, the examiner) already knows the answer and the author of the video is trying to prove to the examiner that the author of the video knows what to do, rather than trying to teach people who do not already know the answer. For me, not already knowing the answer and trying to learn, the presentation is too fast and too tiny and does not explain what is being done. Can there be frames, on screen for long enough to read it and take it in, in a larger size of type please, with zoomed in views of menus showing what to click. I hope that this is useful feedback and that this can be discussed please? William

Yes, indeed I would have. That had not occurred to me. William

Following on from my experience with the Quest art thread, I experimented with producing a picture using glyphs from the Webdings font. This picture uses two glyphs from the Webdings font, and a rectangle, an Affinity Designer shape. I produced the shadow by copying the one glyph, rotating it 180 degrees, changing the colour, shearing and then flipping 180 degrees and generally adjusting the position and the shear angle. The rectangle was introduced to put more space betwwn the cactus and the factory so that the shadow would not overlap the factory. I know that the angle of the shadow is not right, but this is a first attempt, more modern art than like a photograph. William

It depends on one's viewpoint I suppose. I generated an A3 landscape document with Document units as Pixels rather than the default Millimetres. So one untitled document open, a blank document. I then used File Save As... and saved it as Quest art 005.afdesign I then used File Save As.. and saved as Quest art 006.afdesign I then used Fle Save As.. and saved as Quest art 007.afdesign So now I have one file open, with a blank canvas. But, I want the files open across teh page in the order from left to right of 5, 6, 7 So I close Quest art 007.afdesign I then open the files in the ordr 5, 6, 7 and so I have access to the three documents, and I work from left to right four times. Quest art 005.afdesign is loaded with the picture at the start and that picture is unchanged but is copied four times. Quest art 007.afdesign, over at the right, is blank at first and the final picture is gradually built up there. Quest art 006.afdesign, in the centre, is the workspace. For each of the four colours it is cleared to start, a copy of the whole image in black is copied from Quest art 005.afdesign, parts of the picture not to be in the current colour deleted, then the remainder coloured to the desired colour, then copied and pasted into Quest art 007.afdesign. So by closing Quest art 007.afdesign after it had been generated and then opening the three files in the order 5, 6, 7 a convenient workflow order from left to right is produced. William

I managed to produce the colourful version. I had open three documents, from left to right. Quest art 005.addesign Quest art 006.addesign Quest art 007.addesign Into Quest art 005.afdesign I copied just the picture from Quest art 004.afdesign, thereby not having the remnants of the original text frame in Quest art 005.afdesign. I added a filled black square 300 by 300 with no border at (300, 300), so at the top left corner, to ensure correct register, though in fact this might not have been necessary, though it did give provenance that all was correct. Select All, and group. Quest art 006.afdesign was a workspace. Quest art 007.afdesign to build the colourful picture. Then four times, one time for the sun, one time for the walls, one time for the roof, one time for the non-roof parts of the building, in that order, starting each time with a blank canvas in Quest art 006.afdesign, I copied the whole picture from Quest art 005.afdesign to Quest art 006.afdesign. In Quest art 006.afdesign I then used the Node Tool to show all the nodes, then deleted all parts of the picture except the current chosen part. I then was able to colour what was left on the canvas. In fact I used the RGB sliders as I like setting things by entering numbers. I then copied everything then pasted into Quest art 007.afdesign, ungrouped, checked that the alignment square was in the right place using the Transform panel and then deleted it. William

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https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/203275-quest-art-question William

I started a thread in the Share your work forum. As I asked a question, @Alfred has suggested that I ask here, and @PaulEC has liked his post. As I would like the result to be in the Share your work forum, rather than ask to have the thread moved, may I instead post a link to the Share your work forum here and ask that suggestions as to technique are posted in this thread and any attempts at producing such aa result are in the Share your work thread please. Part of my reasoning is that I have thought of a possible way to proceed, so I might get a result for the Share your work forum. Here is the link. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/203266-quest-art William

I think that I may have worked out a way to do it, so I will try to have a go and report back. Though it might not be the best way or the most efficient way. William

In around 2002 I produced Quest text, my first full alphabet font, using the Softy program. In 2005, by then using FontCreator, I started a new font using FontCreator and copied the artwork from the font that I had generated using the Softy program into the new font that I had generated using FontCreatoir. The font was last updated in 2008. The font is available on the web. https://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/QUESTTXT.TTF In the Private Use Area of the font, at U+E701 through to U+E704 are four pictures that I produced, probably around 2002. They are each monochrome, and are influenced by the novel Don Quixote. The font has an indication to display them as white on a red background at 340 point. Here is a link to a PDF document that I produced long ago. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/quest.PDF So today I decided to use one of those pictures, the one at U+E704 in the font, and keep the original picture, yet try to use Affinity Designer to produce a colourful A3 size print by colouring various parts of the picture and perhaps adding a background colour. So the picture above is as far as I have got. I started a Text Frame, inserted the picture from the font using the Glyph Browser, sized it at 288 point, then converted to curves, then with the Aspect ratio locked, I made the image 4000 pixels wide. The picture above is a one-seventh size png file of that result. Alas, I do not now how to go any further with this, as I am not able to change the colour of individual parts. I went to ungroup but it is greyed out. Is it possible to colour the various parts of the picture please? Readers who want to have a go are welcome to gather a copy of the font and use it. William

It is not only the intended output size, it is the size on which I design, as I use the transform panel to position and adjust the size of shapes precisely. So I can work in sizes of hundreds of pixels. William