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Hey screenshots are often better than text - specifically if Eng isnt your native language. BTW with instance I think you mean geometry clones so when the master is edited the clones show the same geometry change. In apps like AD this are symbols. You edit the symbol and all update.

It seems that the rasterize command is based on the document DPI setting. Is there a way to rasterize an object in a 150 DPI document with lets say 300 DPI?

ah bottom first ok got it that is unusal for DTP - I guess thats why I did not figure it out.

I have not figured out how AD sorts artboards for export into a multipage PDF. I looked into the manual as well. Any advice?

I believe in Affinity - which is why I switched my students to it and showed Adobe the Bye Bye sign! And I also know good things take time - specifically software development!

Yep this one can be very useful in many cases!

I tried out the settings. The main culprit is indeed the ruler. it seems running the integrated GPU options makes Affinity run a tick smoother (less lag) but adds some UI glitches. But the difference is minimal. here are two screen casts. integrated GPU.mov dedicated GPU.mov

Hi out of curiosity whey do you embed a Designer file and not just expose all the layers the file as inside the artboard of the new file? when you double click the embedded Designer file you can fully edit it. Is the reason in case you place a small design that when being used multiple times all will update similar to the idea of symbols? Is there a way to if not desired remove the embeded status and make all the layers visible in the artboard?

Ah sweet! I entered change brush width and size in the help but did not find anything. going to the page for the paint brush lists everything there. face palm to myself. this is pretty great. the brush size and hardness preview is like in Blender 3D. tho there is a noticable lag when using it on my MacPro - does it run smooth on your side?

Ah perfect!

Ah Ok I see - I would mentioned that on the website so that people now what format they can only import. Like in my case - I deleted AI since I bought Affinity and I read that you can open AI. Then yesterday I noticed that it does not actually work. So I got the AI trial to quickly convert the AI files. One a different side I also read online that other Adobe apps need the PDF Preview option saved to open the AI file in other Adobe apps. Since I only worked in AI (freehand) I never needed that and did not notice it.

I noticed that in many aspects Affinity goes with a different UI and workflow trying to minimize amount of tools and mouse movements to interact with them making the designer more productive. However I don't understand why for the bitmap brush tool there is no RMB size and hardness menu something that is a standard in all other apps and right under your mouse without any mouse or hand movements required. RMB slide done size is changed. The tool bar slider is nice but I have to always move the mouse to there which is adding a lot of mouse movements only for changing the brush size!!! Any chance to implement such a tool option or is there a reason for against it?

yeah hot keys are ok for some steps but a RMB pop up menu is a lot faster

Affinity can load AI files including the artboards. But any serious designer does not use the PDF preview when working with multiple art-boards and linked in images because this till blows up the file size. It seems Affinity however can only load artboards from AI files when the PDF preview function was turned on when saving. Any reason for that? Is that an Adobe reason? This requires that you have to open the original AI file and save it with PDF. I just downloaded AI trial to do so with my old files.

for photo editing a smart repair tool that like in Photoshop or Pixelmator fills the marked area is incredibly useful and handy. It beats cloning tasks and such. it would be great if Affinity Photo could offer the same. In Pixelmator you just brush over the area where you want to remove something and in the majority of cases the brushed area will be filled in a way that you do not see the edit. time wise this is extremely effective

You judge the power of Affinity Photo based on a media browser? WoW! Yes Affinity does not have everything Adobe offers yet it offers stuff Adobe does not offer. We just switched the complete department and my students away from Adobe to Affinity.

sync dragging on OS X works without crashing or heavily freezing the app for some seconds. only issue is the drag lag in general in Affinity apps on my MacPro.

I see the point with making the UI not as complex Freehand like Gravit solve this through properties and this approach works pretty good. when in text mode you should be able to edit the text when in path node mode you should edit the path that already would be a well working and logical approach. with having the text tool selected and clicking onto the text Affinity should be smart enough to jump into text edit mode instead of making a new text box. in freehand this works very well and in affinity with the node tool I can select just only the path this would make sense and help selecting only the object the tool is allowed to edit Oddly sometimes I see mainly 3 third marks not 4 quarter marks. how is this being triggered? While screen recording I tried to recreate the Designer lock up when using CTRL and the text maker but was only able to show you a massive lag and the UI freezing for some seconds. yet this still is not ideal. the CPU fan kicks on and you can see that dragging in addition runs nto very smoothly. here is the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2XzJ4Q3p6cDBLNDg/view lol of course after screen recording trying it again I was able to reproduce it I did not overlap the markers just moved them left and right cpu load was once even hitting 51%!

agreed!

Autch that really must hurt ...

please allow file linking of images and not only embedding it this would prevent affinity design files keep the file size slimmer. plus one could use one image in multiple designs I know you work on publisher but I assume it will be more like InDesign and not Freehand which can have artboards of different sizes and served in design as the best DTP Illustration hybrid.

interesting choice for JavaScript. most design tools I use use Python for scripting Maya Blender Fusion ...

mac experience for a creative person is limited? WOW! spotlight, preview, quicklook, and and and all functions you do not find in this way implemented in other OS also I am with Linux since years - it will never be the future - Linux did not make it. period. the future will be mobile OS devices and not Win or Mac OS Both Apple and Win started to streamling their OS which makes it more usable and reliable than Linux for the majority of users. this is another reason why linux is not the future. in 3d areas (I work in 3D as well) it is used a lot but not really in graphic design or such - so please !

Hi David, thanks for the pointers. I figured out how this is supposed to work now. Nice compact approach! The manual that comes with Affinity Designer needs more clarifications such as screenshots. Before going to the forum and posting here I looked into the manual. there are I think some areas that could be further improved more snapping points on the path - the ellipse as an example shows three but we have 4 text markers show path when moving text or adjusting baseline. not being able to see path makes adjusting the baseline very very hard it would be great to edit text with having the text tool selected without having to select the object first. thats an extra step. also I do not understand why you do not allow the text path to keep a stroke or such. this makes really no sense. this forces me to add extra paths ontop or below making selecting the right object more complex There is also bug with the baseline you have only -50% to 0 to 100% and not -100% plus the drag slider jumps when going negative nearly instantly to -50% In addition the CTRL sync text marker drag on windows seems extremely buggy. I just locked up Designer each time I just used it - needed to force quite it. 1. the sync drag does not work well - does not drag evenly from the beginning 2. the text marker seem to quickly overlap while only moving the mouse a little sending the text around the path and locking up designer

what I like about Affintity Text on path are the snap points when dragging. otherwise the tool seems to quite limited or odd to use. take a look at Gravit: You can place text on the path on top or inside, reverse the direction for text on an ellipse and what is quite nice is also the offset value gravit.mov affinity.mov