VectorCat
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Working with a simple shape with 2 selected end points. pressing "Join" has no effect.
Why?
Simple, short movie of what I did is attached. thank you!
vcat
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What's the path for us to be beta testers of your upcoming software tools?
thanks!
VC
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What's with the purple edges on shapes?
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Affinity doesn't yet have type styles.
yeah, that is a deal-breaker for my purpose..
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Three reasons I see for people asking for raster features...
1. Affinity Designer came out of the gate with raster tools...people want more! I reach for Pixelmator when it's appropriate. AD lets me "stay in the tool" for a lot of things.
2. Over the past couple decades, the lines between vector and raster apps have been blurred. When I got into this game, everything was divided into "rooms" so to speak, and if you wanted to combine vector and raster, you had to go into these separate rooms, build something, import it, and go back to that room and re-import if you wanted a change. *VERY* cumbersome. AD attempts to remove some of that time-wasting by enabling you to do more in 1 "room."
3. Sort of a subset of reason 2, people are expecting tools to incorporate functionality of other tools. There is no physics law that says a vector app can't have raster tools; it's whatever the Devs build it to be.
I am confident that Serif will keep their apps lean and nimble by not loading them with too much cross-functionality.
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I have a 1-page resume (my own) in InDesign. Not a lot of hocus-pocus being used, except type styles, which are very important.
I'm thinking about either moving it entirely to another software tool, such as AD, or having it in another tool as a...maybe a fallback? I'm getting a bit fed up with CS6 snarkyness..that's the main motivation.
My question: has anyone used AD to do a resume, and if so, was it good for you? My top concern about doing this is retaining control over the type..not sure whether AD type styles are "there" yet...maybe they are.
thanks!
vcat
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...so...I don't have to capture any bats or newts? Is that the takeaway from all of this?
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..and maybe a little wing of bat, eye of newt?
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thanks..good to know about the beta builds..
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Thank you to the Dev team for releasing AD 1.1.2; ought to be using it hot and heavy when I begin work today.
Curious; with respect to the bug reporting, do we continue to file them same as before, even if the same behavior is observed? I know that not all bugs can be addressed in one round...
Thanks for any info on this
VCat
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Is there a tutorial showing how?
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these are sweet! thank you!
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Might be more productive if you can describe what you want Affinity to do for you, or what you have been using other software to do. Also, I don't know whether Affinity Design has a trial version available, but there is very little learning curve and giving Designer a test drive would be the best way for you to get spun up on what it can do for you.
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Hi, Jon;
I know that there's a school of thought out there which uses Photoshop as a "web design" tool, and while I understand why, I'd encourage all devotees to rethink. Vector tools are vastly better-suited to this chore than raster, owing to greater speed, smaller file sizes, and better editability of the works-in-progress.
Affinity Designer combines both vector and raster tools in a primarily vector environment, so you can have some of the raster effects if you need them while retaining ease of editing type and shapes, the ability to change things easily. I am finding Affinity Designer to be *very* fast, even on years-old Macs. With Adobe, the mantra is if you want things to get faster, buy a new Computer. Down here on earth, that's not easy to do, and Affinity Designer effectively gives you that "new mac" feel with the incredible speed boost.
I think you'll be very happy with what Designer can do for you..
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The apps in question are...I hesitate to mention them bcs I don't want to generate negativity, or cause undue embarrassment to those developers..changing the landscape of computer apps is not easy.
Let's say they are...close competitors to Affinity Design without being the "legacy" vector app we all know.
I have a fair amount of work tied up in these apps, and I would like to move them into Affinity Designer without a lot of malarkey and re-constructing..things breaking, etc.
Any tips on the best way to ensure a happy ending? Export out as EPS? PDF?
thank you,
VC
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And by "printer" I mean the human/business kind, not the box full of toner...
Can the dev team speak to anything which will encourage printers and service bureaus to accept Affinity Publisher files, versus InDesign or Quark files, which have decades of history between them...
I suppose one way around any opposition would be to send PDFs to be ripped to film. Perhaps at the prices being offered now, Publisher won't hurt anyone expense-wise, but are there other reasons for printers to support Affinity Publisher?
thank you for any thoughts on this.
Vcat
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to my mind, there are only 3 heads which enjoy wide recognizability in the western world: Beethoven, Einstein and Waldo. Images of gutenberg show him rockin a fu manchu..which is pretty cool...his invention is undeniable.
what about the Chinese' contribution?
What is essential to putting ink on paper?
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not sure whether to use shapes for the wireframes, and then enable snap-to objects, or to snap guides and snap to the guides..
anyone care to share what they've done and what works?
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This is a challenge! I'll give it a go! :ph34r:
As mentioned by Vectorcat: Photoshop/Illustrator naming is a market winner: whereas ID=no idea. So can the Affinity team change its spots? If we come up with a stonker of a name for each app or the whole suite; then it's time to rename the 'litter'.
The holy trinity of brand names are thus:
- it must be a noun
- it must be a verb
- it must be an adjective
One out of three is good, two out of three is great...
Here's my ideas:
- Affinity Photo = Affinity Developer
- Affinity Designer = Affinity Poster or Graphiq
- Affinity Publisher = Affinity Press or Quill or Illuminator (I know...!)
What do you think?
a noun, verb or adjective? In other words, the name has to be a word, right? "Developer" sounds like what programmers do. Graphiq is not too shabby...it sounds sophisticated and European to my American ear. It speaks generally enough, and specifically enough at the same time..not an easy balance to achieve.
The current use of "Designer" for what seems to be an illustration program is confusing to me. What is the primary purpose of the software? I could design with Open Office.. but, what is the primary purpose of OO?
It might be time to explore words that don't have anything to do with preconceived notions, and therefore, don't come with any baggage.
Kodak is one such word...it doesn't actually mean anything in itself, though after 80 years of people snappin' pictures, "Kodak" came to mean "Photography."
This stuff doesn't happen over night, despite what "branding" proponents would have us believe.
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I'd put the logo on the "later list" and keep pumping out updates and tweaks.
Bump this!
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sometimes locked items have X's where the round control handles are, but sometimes not.
Is there a sure-fire method for "waking up" a locked item rather than rooting through the layers?
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this would be very handy!
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Good discussion, Znak...
and here are more things to throw into the mix... QuarkXPress...what on earth does that have to do with page layout, other than "Press", and when you say it, you don't think "Press" you think "Express"
Microsoft? Maybe at one time Micro (computer) Soft(ware) made a lot of sense, but now it seems sadly anachronistic.
Apple? Just because Steve Jobs worked on an apple farm and loved apples? What's the relationship to computers and personal electronics?
We could go on. Affinity is a positive-sounding word, so I feel there's nothing wrong with it at all, and many things right with it.
By the time a name becomes associated with a thing, all of this academic discussion evaporates in significance, yes?
Thank you for batting about these ideas!
Join has no effect..why?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Actually, I don't want "close shape" because that produces two nodes which I have to fix; they're asymmetrical or disconnected and for my purpose I just want a straight-line connection.
the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line...right...?