VectorCat
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i am using apple pencil..after turning on touch for gestures only, the pencil is now seen only as a gesture-maker. is there another setting to adjust?
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first off, thank you to the developers and to serif. I can scarcely believe the functionality and power packed into this app. and for $13.99 intro price?! Even at 5 times this price, one of the best values in the history of money itself! this great tool could single-handedly change minds about what this platform can truly do.
I’m drawing with a pressure-sensitive brush in vector persona, and not every time, but sometimes gestures, such as 2-finger zoom/pan, will be interpreted as brush marks, and 2-finger tap for undo will take a couple tries to actually undo. my drawing is neither large nor complex. when it happens, I see the 2 light-blue circles indicating gesture recognition, but then as I try to zoom or pan, a brush stroke emits from one of my fingers instead.
any thoughts?
2017 12.9” ipad pro, 256gb
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I’m good with what I have. I could get a new machine, but that wont deliver next-level performance for what I do.
thanks!
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firstdefence
thank you for the clarification..I’m happy not to spend money if it won’t gain me anything significant.
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My 2009 mac pro runs AD very nicely..I’m considering a video card upgrade, to a GE 1050 ti 4 gb
Since AD is one of my 3 essential creative tools, I wonder if performance in AD would be improved by a better card.
thank you for any information!
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Affinity Designer is my prime mover on OS X...will there be a counterpart for iPad?
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It's sad to me that somebody had to make an inappropriate comment about the language a post was written in. It's taken this thread to a dark place.
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Thank you..
what I'm angling for is more along the lines of whether the developers themselves know of any change to the such that they would want AD to take advantage of it, thereby requiring them to leave El Cap and other OS X versions behind.
OR
Whether something is coming down the pike from Cupertino which might "break" AD - something that often happens with OS X revisions.
Can any developers weigh in on this question?
Thank you!
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Affinity Designer is one of two applications that's keeping me on OS X. I am not going to upgrade OS X beyond El Capitan - 10.11.6
I have version 1.6.0 of AD running on this Mac.
Does anyone know how long Affinity Designer will run on El Capitan - in terms of future releases?
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Seriously? This topic is still going on? I certainly celebrate peoples' right to talk about what they want to, but across the spectrum of software issues, the icon for Affinity products is a concern?
Ugliest, most worstest icon ever? OK..let's see here....
Lightwave 3D - also great software. The icon is..exactly what? Sonic the Hedgehog on bad liquor?
Same goes Blender 3D - only with a spike haircut? what do either icons have to do with 3D? Nuttin'.
QuarkXPress - the name has zero to do with design, and the icons have been...meh...
Scribus: Uses a fountainpen? Huh?
Inkscape: a snow-covered mountain with ink dribbles..looks cool, but what's it got to do with vector drawing?
Apple? because Steve Jobs worked at an orchard and for a time ate nothing but apples, which made him stinky. How very sexy!
Product Icons must do 2 things: be recognizable, be distinct. All of the logos mentioned here do that, including Affinity's. As someone here mentioned, Affinity's icons make all their products look like they're part of a set. Kinda like Adobe's. Kinda like microsnot, etc.
Continue to chew this cud if you want but Affinity's software rocks and their logos do what logos are needed to do.
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I've used AD since it was released in November of 2014. My first impression, which has held, is that the developers have a new vision of what a Vector program can be like. I think it's a solid vision. IMO, if anyone's stuck in the 90s with a little splash of the 2000s, it's adobe, who I regard as a sad case of greed disease..a company that once made great software tools and chose to milk customers rather than to innovate.
I feel the same about Mac OS and have stopped upgrading my Macs. I will probably not buy another Mac, having gone to Linux, which doesn't exert the same pressure to upgrade every year or so. If Apple could relax and support their machines for longer, I'd stay, but it seems that Apple desires a customer with money to burn. That isn't me, nor will it ever be me.
On the Linux side, I've found software tools that do what I need them to do. I won't bother arguing whether or not they're "just like Adobe." Happily, they are not.
If AD were offered for Linux, I'd grab it on the spot, but I respect the costs of developing software versus the numbers of potential customers; if it doesn't pencil out, you can't do it unless somebody hands you a suitcase full of money.
I am a designer/illustrator with 30 years' experience and I can testify that there's nothing important which AD doesn't do that AI offers. However, there are significant things Illustrator doesn't do, or doesn't do well, that AD offers, or excels at. Not the least of which is that AD is well-behaved software. Not burdened by bloaty code and the workflow is solid and reliable.
That's my 2 piasters.
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^^^ Yes, please. Sign me up. I'm migrating to linux and I will buy AD for linux absolutely and without reservation.
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The answer is: YES!!!!!
Wheeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If I have a document with X-number of artboards, can I export the artboards as a multi-page PDF?
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Thanks, I'll practice with those ideas tomorrow!
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Is the Flood selection tool AP's implementation of a magic wand tool?
Is there a tool which behaves a little more...magic-wandy in terms of more fine control, and less all-or-nothing selection?
I assume AP has its own way of selecting based on color...thanks for any tips!
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I may be making my own discoveries by playing with the tolerance value (which had earlier seemed sort of "all-or-nothing")
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I've been using this software for about 35 minutes. I'm not disappointed..I grabbed AD when it was initially offered in 2014 and AP is at the same great level which users of Affinity software have been treated to.
Both feel very well thought out, which is not small aspect of using software for 8 hours/day, and I feel that with Affinity tools, I can do whatever I want to.
Nicely done!
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We do have plans to bring AD to iPad. I would presume the hardware requirements are the same but I'm sure a developer will correct me if i'm wrong :/
Good to know..I just received my iPad Mini 3 for xmas..will be awhile before I need to upgrade, but I am very glad that Affinity's products are available for iPad.
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Are there solid plans to make a version of AD for iPad, and if so, will the hardware requirements be the same as for Affinity Photo?
I just learned that my iPad Mini 3 isn't supported by AP..DIsappointing, but I know that developers can't support every device...
I will continue to enthusiastically support Affinity on my devices that can run it!
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OK thank you, MEB...good to know..
the shapes I'm making now are not so simple that I can't make them using primitives as a starting point. I appreciate the work that you are doing on this excellent software.
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Is there a way to control how many points result from a stroke that's converted to curves? Especially simple strokes such as: a straight-line segment with round caps (the shape of a pill, basically).
If we were to make such a shape ourselves, there'd be 6 points. AD winds up with probably 20 points, and some of them move from where they ought to be.
Thank you for any thoughts on this!
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What if "Reset Studio" has no effect?
It doesn't for me..
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Somehow, my palettes are all foobar, not sure what up..gone through all the menus, tried a bunch of things, but nothing will put humpty together again.
Any suggestions? I'm sure it's very simple..thank you.
gestures interpreted as brush strokes?
in Pre-V2 Archive of iPad Questions
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cursor change from brush to arrow; I didnt notice..