Dazmondo77
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Can you post the file so we can track down the rasterising culprit?
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Just now, Dazmondo77 said:
Try grouping all your vectors and putting them at the top of the layer stack
Oh... and all your fonts - just make sure all your raster work is behind the vectors + any FX on vectors will rasterise
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Try grouping all your vectors and putting them at the top of the layer stack
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14 minutes ago, Andy Somerfield said:
Edit: Yes, I see that that is the case. Thanks for the report - will be fixed for the next build.
Great stuff Andy, look forward to testing👍
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All actions: new document, open existing document, open stock image, drag and drop - result in bombing
Crashed Thread: 9 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.utility-qos
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000004358
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFYTermination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [11151]
Full crash log attached:
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14 hours ago, Mark Oehlschlager said:
"Image Vectorizer"
Great app which I use just about everyday, also does halftone dot and line conversions, great for screen printing and just copy paste your new vectors into Affinity apps
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In Affinity apps your colour documents colour profiles need to be exactly the same to preserve colours. The easiest way to keep colour values when copy pasting, means you need to ASSIGN the same profile to the document you want to paste from, to match the designation doc, if you convert (which is the default???) it will mess up the colour values throughout your document, and even converting back will make another mess of the colour values --- ASSIGN is the key to retain values between documents
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On 4/21/2019 at 4:20 PM, justdraw said:
One trick is put the bleed area larger in the document setup (remain 3 mm in the document) but make the crop lines manually.
Been getting by using this "TRICK" for a while now, really missing that lovely slug area🤪
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On 8/30/2018 at 2:41 PM, Dave Harris said:
This isn't something we plan to change. We support one- or two-page spreads directly, and beyond that you can create a spread of any size, and demark nominal pages with guides.
As this is a much requested "feature" (taken for grated standard) is there any future plans to change the above Serif view?
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"selection sets" or "tagged layers" YES PLEASE!!!
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4 hours ago, MEB said:
We made a small change here
I did a similar post the this, but after using since the update, It definitely works better although there does seem to be a slight lag for it to highlight the destination compared to before - just about got used to it now
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On 8/5/2020 at 6:25 PM, thomaso said:
Dazmondo, this recent security update included graphic drivers for Intel GPU , could it have influenced your mouse appearance temporarily. For quite a few hardware models it also included EFI firmware updates: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/15/catalina-10-15-6-update-is-now-available/ If you scroll down to the first comment you find a list of related models.
With the tool "SilentKnight" you can run a manual check especially for security updates (incl. the usually invisible updates for "XProtect", "Gatekeeper", "MRT"): https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/
I've not experienced any curser problems since the reboot Thomaso - but when I reboot, since the last security update, everything goes great, but around a minute after startup everything locks up, I can move the curser but not click or select anything, which can last around five minutes then everything just works as normal?
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I'm getting it on Mojave - I first noticed it locking in the down position when a Designer document was using most of my system memory and went into beachball, so thought it was a one off, but I've just had a look in Pub, and as above, when zooming in and out it has the bug and sometimes locks in the lower position - no big deal
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14 hours ago, miru said:
I am using Mojave 10.14.6
I had a few issues after 1.8.4 including the curser always defaulting to the move tool when using any of the tools which was affecting all three updated apps - which I'm guessing now was actually defaulting to the the standard Mac arrow curser --- try rebooting your Mac it worked for me
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19 hours ago, R C-R said:
What happens if you use a mouse?
R C-R I was actually using the mouse for the screen capture, but it was the same using the stylus - I quit and did a reboot and all seems fine - for now - I'm wondering if it was an OS prob defaulting to the standard mac arrow curser, as my system as been acting up a bit after the last (mid July-ish) mac security update, with some unusual hangs after boot-up where everything locks and seems un-responsive for a few minutes, then comes back to life???
I see you're on Mojave, have you noticed any unusual hangs after the last security update? I've done various searches and can't find anything recent that relates to my prob
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2 hours ago, R C-R said:
FWIW, I have not seen any delays or need to wiggle anything after updating to 1.8.4.
In fact, after testing the new behavior a fair amount, I have discovered that if I move the tip of the pointer diagonally to anywhere close to the middle of the layer I want to nest the dragged one(s) into, nesting occurs immediately, often faster than before when it sometimes took a while to find the 'sweet spot' where nesting would occur.
So instead of dragging the layers down hunting for some sweet spot just below your "(Rectangle)" layer as in your video, if you target the middle of that layer for your drop, I think you will find it works quite well.
Personally, I think having the middle of the layer as the drop target when nesting is desired is more intuitive than the old behavior; that it always should have worked this way. But maybe that is just me.
R C-R - Just been having a play around and I'm kind of getting used to it - I guess it should help with the problem of mistakingly placing an object inside a container when you just want to place it behind which I've done many a time - so yes, dragging to the middle and right is working for me now, although it's the preview of the action which seems a bit slower to update ---👍---
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I'm assuming this is a bug - whatever tool I select, the curser changes to the move curser and doesn't show the correct curser until you use the selected tool, after use it quickly changes back to the move curser - I can't remember seeing this behaviour before?
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38 minutes ago, anon2 said:
A deliberate change (supposedly an improvement) was made to the software
I't worked great before, quick and snappy, now seems like a huge back-step with delay and uncertainty wether the goal is achieved DAMN! I have the mac App Store version so can't go back to 1.8.3 - well still works better than Illustrator CS5
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Hi
Updated all to 1.8.4 👍 well done on all the bug fixes, drawing with the pen tool seems to be working great.
I'm just struggling with the dragging layers into vector containers behaviour, weras in 1.8.3 and previous it was instant, now there seems to be a delay which is slowing me down quite a bit - I get that you now have to really move to the right and wiggle whatever you place inside the container - is this by design? if so maybe a colour change to green for the overlay to show what's happening or something to indicate you've achieved the goal - just wish it was as responsive as before which always worked great.
It's really getting to me so thought I'd upload a quick demo vid just to check to see if others are experiencing the same problem?
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7 hours ago, sfriedberg said:
My personal preference is the opposite of yours, complete with opinion about "the only sane option"
Sorry sfriedberg I was on a rant after yet another added session of box ticking.
So lets agree that "the only sane option" would be to have a master tick box or preference to enable ticked or unticked as default - I think we probably work in different sections of the design industry and yes with logos I do normally convert all strokes to paths, it's so many times I've done something like an album cover where I usually work to 320mm square incase theres a vinyl release, usually all vector and usually pretty complex so I have to size down for CD and size up for say a 2meter square backdrop and I always get caught - I remember when I mainly used Illustrator for vector illustration it was a few seconds to fix with the find same options - also really looking forward the find same options being available in affinity (as hinted in a few forum posts), and who knows when this feature finally lands, we may have a way around the problem???
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Sorry for the rant!
Forgot to just do this:
True Vector Brushes +1
Blob Brush +1
- Jaakko, Markio and Boldlinedesign
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2 hours ago, Boldlinedesign said:
Very frustrating to try to hang on to CS6 while they catch up
Yes very frustrating
2 hours ago, Boldlinedesign said:I'm hoping for a blob-tool that can allow for any shape to be made and used -
Yes - been requesting since first release?!?!?!
I have to say as there years slide by I find myself turning less and less positive towards Affinity, as I think my first set of posts when this forum was first made available, was the need for a fair few things including true vector brushes and a blob brush along with my No1 missing "feature" Vector distortion / perspective warping, I say "feature" as I wouldn't class any of these as features, I see them as bog standard vector tools for any software that classes itself as a professional vector application - I have been trying to keep positive, especially when receiving any kind of moderator feedback and seeing that old list of goals for the future - I used to just try and be patient - thinking what are we gonna do if it takes two or three years for these basics to appear ---- FIVE YEARS LATER ----- and now it pisses me off that I have to use the ten year old (and considered obsolete) Illustrator CS5 to plug gaps - I just wish Vector styler was as easy to use as Designer as it has all the basics (including vector brushes, Vector distortion / perspective warping) along with lots of other "features" it looks like it's been in development for around two years and it's not even released yet
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19 minutes ago, MiWe said:
Let's say you got several objects with different stroke sizes. Select all apply scale with object in stroke palette and and it is aplied for all objects.
Works with effects the same way. Select all go to the preferences for the effect e.g. outer shadow and activate scale with objects. After that it is applied for all effects not only shadow.
This method only works for parent items - it's the vectors inside vector containers that are the problems and with a complex piece of work, currently the only way around it is to dig down through the layers, groups and containers within containers within containers etc... and tick those pesky tick boxes then after what seems like an age resize and discover you've missed a few so go on a hunt for the offending few - say you create a logo or a vector album cover or whatever it will need to be sizeable from button badge to billboard with no bother - just having those tick boxes pre- ticked by default can save loads of time and a potential ton of grief
I can't save vector file in pdf
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Thats your problem by the sound of it just convert them back to vectors and all should be good