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VectorCat

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  1. I may be noticing this more on things like PDFs I open in Affinity, where it seems the only way to select child items is to open the parent and scroll down until you see a thumbnail that looks like what you're after.

     

    This can be time-consuming to say the least. Could there be a way to direct-click on a child item with the cursor, perhaps holding another key at the same time, to "drill down" to the child?

     

    Maybe there's something about PDFs opened in Affinity that confounds this, but thought I'd toss it out.

     

    Thank you

     

    PS: I need to amend this: it is not possible or practical to select child layers in a PDF that has been opened in Affinity....

     

    My reason for doing this is to whip out some quick designs based on a web page. I PDFd the page from Safari, and opened in Affinity, thinking I'd be able to quickly manipulate the vector parts of the imported PDF but it couldn't be slower.

  2. it certainly can!

     

    I have not been able to re-produce what I saw earlier, which is basically, that I selected the object in the art board..the whole thing at the parent level..in the export personas area, made a slice, exported slice and wound up with 58 separate jpgs; one jpg for each of the 58 objects — lines, boxes, type - in the document.  screengrab shows the layers expanded, but in my attempt to reproduce, it didn't make any difference layers open or layers closed; I just couldn't get it to happen again.

     

    Thank you

     

    layers%20to%20slice.jpg

  3. I am  making a graphic with many boxes and lines and I tried to export the whole graphic as 1 jpg, but instead, I got 58 jpgs! One for each item on the art board.

     

    Also, trying to select all of those slices and I can't easily mass-select them using shift key or shift + arrow.

     

    So...How do I say, "Take ALL of these items and make 1 slice out of them...all together.

     

     

    thank you!

  4. Right now, if you select text with Cmd-A, then hit a left arrow, the cursor doesn't wind up at the beginning of the text. I think the default is cursor at the end of the text.

     

    Could this be changed so that the cursor would be at either the beginning or the end, dep. on which arrow was pressed?

     

    The universe doesn't hang in the balance, but it's a nice convention of text selection/moving about .

     

    thank you

  5. Hmmm, that's odd then! Any chance you'd just send a copy of the file to support@seriflabs.com and we'll find out what's going on? We'll obviously only use your file to diagnose the problem and delete it afterwards, so don't worry about anything like that :)

    Sure..I'd be happy to. After I  had that problem and the added pixel problem, I stopped working with that file. It still exists, but I tried to reproduce the problem this morning and couldn't.  I could try re-creating it from scratch, using the source file again.

     

    I can describe what I did...I created a new Affinity document, and placed a graphic at 3X size, then made 2 duplicates of that on the layer, a 2x and a 1x. The goal was to then export the slices. Somewhere in that whole process, the yellow triangle appeared, and curious that not all of the slices had it!

     

    If I can get it to happen again, I'll zip up all related files and send it your way.

  6. Every time I return to the Export persona, I think the arrow tool is still active, swipe my item, and lo, a new slice is created which I must then delete. And that is because upon entering the Export persona, the slice tool is the active tool.

     

    maybe the behavior could be last tool selected is the tool that's active when you enter Export again?

     

    Thank you!

     

    vcat

  7. The scenario I'm imagining is like this: you're drawing, editing, etc, and you want to zoom in on some bit, so you Z + marquee over that area. As it is now, the Magnifier is still active and you have to key press back to the tool you'd been using.

     

    Is there/could there be a way that you have Magnify only while you are magnifying, then returned to the tool you'd been using prior to magnifying?

     

    Magnify should also still be available for times when you still want it, but maybe there could be two key commands for each? One for permanent magnify (until other tool is selected) and one for "magnify on the fly"

     

     

    thank you

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