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  1. Customizing the studio space is very important, especially for small screens. Illustrator has quite an awesome feature that affinity designer is missing. You can create a second studio with minimized (icons only) panels that pop-open when clicked. This saves a lot of space but makes them much easier accessible compared to only the tabs in affinity (often you even have a scrollable tab bar). The benefit is that you can have your big panels on the very right and expand one additional panel on the inner right studio. This males working soooo much easier. It would be great if you could add this feature.
  2. Hi Affinity team! I worked for years on Adobe CC and I transitionned recently to the Affinity suite (death to Illustrator!). I work on a big screen and I'm used to have several layer of panel clipped on each side of my screen, like in the exemple. I find it really convinient when you want to access a lot of fonctions really fast and, more important, keep those fonctions in the same place at all time. Sadly that feature isn't part of the affitinty apps. You can clip just one row of panels to the sides of the screen, the second row just floats and I tend too drag it by mistake. I would love to have this feature in affinity, it's one of the few problems I have with your apps. Thanks !
  3. Hello I have a problem with studio panels. I use three monitors on Windows 10. Every time I arrange the panels on the second monitor and restart Affinity Designer or Photo, they are unordered. Sometimes the panel is missing and sometimes they all move to the third or first monitor. I can't solve this problem. Is there any way that studio panels will always stay in one place? greetings Michael
  4. I have no idea if this is the best place to post this or not.... I'm trying to replicate a 7-panel brochure I did in Adobe Indesign and having problems with making the transition. The finished, folded size is 4" x 9". So I created my initial document with those dimensions. The inside panels of the brochure must be 4 7/8 (3.875") x 9 to accommodate fold creep. So I create a second master with those dimensions. I want each "panel" of the brochure to be a page, and then want to lay them out side by side to create the brochure inside and outside. Attached is a thumnail of the Indesign page panel showing the page panels (pages) in spreads. Each panel is a page and, when dragged into this configuration, create the spreads to print. Is this even possible in Publisher?
  5. Since the latest update of PHOTO and DESIGNER everytime i launch the programs the panels keep changing size. It worked fine on 1.7. But 1.7.1 is a mess. Tried using control on boot to reset hasn't helps. Suggestions? Please fix this its really annoying. It would be great to save a workspace like ADOBE ( sorry) and then you could have multiple layouts. Gary
  6. Since the last Update of 1.7. all my panels are constantly changing with every boot of the program. Was fine with initial 1.7, but the first update screwed this up. Tried resetting with CONTROL on boot...but no luck. This is extremely annoying . Trying to work and this keeps changing. Anyone have a fix? Gary
  7. Some of the window panels don't show the arrow to resize. For example I can't vertically resize the "Layers" "Navigator" panels. How can I fix this issue?
  8. Dear all, since the update to version 1.7 the panels don´t remain the way I arranged them. Each time you start Affinity Photo or switch between the personas the position and size of the panels changed, though they were docked to each other. My system: Windows, Office 10 Pro (64 bit), two monitors (I apologize for my english - no native speaker)
  9. I recently did some testing of publisher by making a brochure with a lot of text. I noticed some weird behaviour when moving around in my document using my apple magic (touch) mouse: the linespacing changed suddenly and another time the text size increased as if by ghost hands... I researched and found there is a (some might say) *neat* feature to change values of input fields by just hovering above and scrolling the "mouse-wheel" – but this sometimes also happens when my mouse-pointer is somewhere else. Although it may be an interesting idea, I consider it a bad implementation, and in some cases it's also buggy. Sometimes it interferes with scrolling inside a panel (like a webpage containing an annoying iframe...). Increasing line-spacing of text that has already gotten a paragraph-style just by accidentally scrolling over the input field is not good. Maybe this is a good feature in AfDesigner, where you do much less text and have to experiment with it, e.g. logo-design, but not for type-setting large amounts of text in explicit defined typography.
  10. Hi! As many of us, I'm used to the UI of adobe – although we may not like every behaviour – much of it has proven to be at least consistent and practical. I encourage the affinity-team to experiment and try new ideas for a workflow optimised UI that's fun and easy to use – it does not have to stay the way adobe settled. But what I'm essentially missing is a way to keep all the _different_ panels arrangements I need per usage - so called "Workspaces" in adobes parlance: Maybe that is what the "Personas" are for, which is an interesting approach, but I use workspaces to quickly fill my screenS(!) with all the relevant panels and to close the not relevant ones for the job I'm doing right now. It's not always just "Exporting" and "Drawing" like the personas allow me to use – sometimes I need e.g "Screendesign", "Typesetting"or "27 + 21,5inch Monitor maximized" "13inch Laptop minimal" (I'm speaking of the separated mode, of course) Second use-case is to be able to move my Workspaces to a different computer or a new system-installation. I already have to arrange the panels on the 3 Affinity-Apps times 2 (beta) on three machines (3*2*3=18) which is not fun to keep just roughly synchronised... Is there a way to manually get the .plist-file and put it on the new machine, I'm not sure where the panel-positions are stored.
  11. Just as I was making the post the images came back. You can see how in one of the images the boxes are blank and then the birds came back in the other one.
  12. Right now panels can snap into place horizontally but if I have a large screen it would be nice if I could put several panels side by side and then they would move when I resize the window.
  13. Is there any way to increase the size of the panels? I undock them and show them on my second monitor, but the icons and text are both so small that I cannot read them without magnification.
  14. This is something I haven't tried before, so I don't know if it was present in previous beta versions. When I add a Studio Panel, it is placed in a default location. According to the documentation, I should be able to move the pane somewhere else. As long as I move a panel to an existing panel group, that's fine. What I tried was to pull a panel group from a column--the one on the right. It was now a floating panel group. When I tried to place it back in the same column, there was no way it would dock. It would either dock to create a new column to the left, or a really big column on the far right over everything else. I tried every which way I could think to dock the panel group back into the same column--but nothing worked. Finally, the only way I managed this was to reset the studio, which moved all panels to their default locations--including the three panel groups on the right. I should be able to slip new panels into any column. If manually placing a panel or panel group into a column that already contains a panel or panel group is not possible, it should be well indicated in the documentation, but relocating panels should be simple and obvious.
  15. Hey, please make the Resource Manager available to the Studio palettes for better integration in the UI. I need it right by my side all the time like the Layers and Pages panels. Please also add more options to pieces of information like Color Space, Transparency, Rotation, Dimensions, File Path etc already in the list. Cheers Benny
  16. I like the power of macros in Photo but in my workflow I use a lot of macros and there is no way to create or organize the most used macros, tools and menu items in a panel. I would love to see something like this implemented in the next version. A great example of something like this made for photoshop you can find here.
  17. The panel contents are clipped and don't extend all the way down. Resizing the panel only increases the gap between panel content and panel edge. Edit: And you get a light show of selections when you hold the left mouse button down up/down arrows next to the value fields.
  18. Not sure if this has been requested yet, but.. I would like to see the Resource Manager available as a panel similar to the Links panel in InDesign, as well as being able to assign hotkeys to Resource Manager buttons like Replace (Relink) and Locate.
  19. Hi I am trying to use the adjustments in affinity photo for Windows 1.6 desktop. When I click on the adjustments I seem to get 3 options rather than the panel with the adjustments. For example when I click HSL adjustment I get default, desaturate and invert hue, but not the panel with the sliders. It is the same with Levels-instead of the sliders for levels I get default, darken or lighten. I can't see where to alter this setting. Any help much appreciated. Thanks in advance
  20. Just recently started doing some painting again in Designer and with the dizzying amount of brushes available now, it's almost a hinderance to workflow, bouncing all around the brush panels/paint and pixel tools... while working. Would LOVE to see some sort of ability to create custom, saveable panels to streamline the process whether it be painting, retouching, path/pen workflows etc... with the ability of creating a "painting" panel with brushes, swatches, tools etc... specifically tailored to the task at hand. Something like Cinema 4d where you enter a UI edit mode and can drag and drop tool icons and menu commands onto a blank floating panel that can be saved and named. Any comments from the team on the possibility or even concerns of attempting this type of thing would be greatly appreciated?
  21. Is it possible to dock studio panels in 2 columns on one side? I found the options to have studio panels on the left and right at the same time but I would prefer to have panels in two (or even three) columns on one side. I am currently doing lettering of the comic saga Nanits Chronicles in Affinity Designer and my "standard" working layout is to have script and references on the left side (25% of the 21:9 34' screen) and Designer on the right (75%). The artwork should be in the centre, so I have one long Layer panel + other panels on the right (see attached screenshot). The Layer panel is not docked, is actually floating over the workspace. Is there any chance to dock the two panel columns next to each other?
  22. What is really missing in Affinity Photo for a Pro user is the ability to create customized workspace. Especially now that many retouchers work on the set, this is very important. We go back and forth from our normal place with our usual monitor layout to many other places with many different monitor layouts. It's very annoying to rearrange every time all the panels to have our desired workspace. So, having the ability to save and recall custom workspaces would be a great feature. Professionals love to be fast and productive in the shortest time possible, so I think this is important for all the pros. Thanks again for your attention! Alex
  23. The ability to dock panels, toolbars, and the main window toolbar, in Separated Mode just like in the Mac version of Adobe products, Macromedia FreeHand, or older versions of Microsoft Office, would allow for much neater workspace organization. It would also make everything cleaner when placing panels on secondary monitors in Non-Separated Mode. A setting to have these screen-edge docks collapsed and only open up when moving the mouse to the screen edge (just like the OS X Dock with "Hide Dock" activated or the menu/toolbar sliding in on regular OS X applications like Safari in full screen mode) would further improve usability on small screens such as smaller laptops. The ability to arrange documents next to each other in all modes would be very useful. The nicest implementation of this is probably in Microsoft Visual Studio, where it is very easy to arrange documents in a variety of different ways just by dragging the tabs. Adobe products can sort-of do this, but not when using floating windows because it cannot dock two views in one window, it only works when activating their Application Frame. Currently, Affinity Photo has a very useful option "View > New View" that opens up a new document tab for the same document, but this is utterly useless in non-separated mode since there is no way to actually put the two views next to each other to work on detail while looking at the whole document. In separated mode, it would be useful to be able to split the tool options from the main window toolbar so one doesn't have to drag the bulky main window toolbar around with it In separated mode, currently the status bar completely disappears, and in non-separated mode on the other hand, there seems to be no way to hide it The Character/Paragraph buttons in the text tool options bar only show these panels, but they don't open them if they are collapsed. Chances are that a user wants to actually use them, so un-collapsing them would make sense. It might also be confusing if these are already on the screen in collapsed state since it will then appear to the user as if nothing happens when they press the button.
  24. In Affinity Designer my character panel will not open. I click on the tab and in the drop down menu and it simply does not open. I have tried to find where I can do a reinstall. Does Affinity permit a reinstall? At this point I'm sorry I bought it. If this isn't resolved I'll just go back to Illustrator for good. i do a lot of type layout.
  25. Hi guys, I know it's at least the second time I'm complaining about this, but this time Affinity's behaviour is really irking me big time. Just to freshen up your memory (and because the earlier behaviour, while still undesirable, wasn't all that bad compared to the current one), last time I mentioned this nagging issue, this was what happened: When waking a dual-display Mac from sleep which had parts or the whole of the Studio on the secondary monitor, said panels were moved to the primary monitor, as a snapped-on block , in a similar location as they would appear on the secondary one (see screenshots “Designer” and “Photo”, below), which is conveniently located to the right of my main screen and only shifts the panels a bit from their default location. The only way to avoid this issue would be to quit Affinity Designer/Photo before putting the Mac to sleep, but at least if you forgot about that you could drag all of your panels to the secondary monitor. [By the way, while I'm at it, another bug/undesirable behaviour that I detected back then and which still hasn't been fixed in 1.5.x or in these 1.6.x betas is that if you drag the panel group from the topmost panel and push it even one pixel above the lower edge of the menu bar – regardless of whether you are doing it on the main monitor or on the secondary one –, the whole panel group will start breaking apart and grouping panel tabs in undesirable combinations all by itself, which is a serious abuse of Fitt's Law (it should be applied in useful functionality like hot corners, menus and other UX interactions like maximising or snapping, not semi-random, uncontrollable interactions that feel more like bugs rather than features; in this case, dragging the panel group against or above the menu bar should obviously result in, well, absolutely nothing besides it stopping its movement along the y axis).] Enter screwed-up scenario #2, under the 1.6.x betas: Now, when you wake up the Mac from sleep, the panels will reappear on the right-hand side of the primary monitor, in a semi-snapped state (they are not actually snapped but spaced with 5 px gutters between them), and some of them even lose their width info (I like to expand the Glyphs panel, for instance, so it opens up as a large window covering almost the entire remaining space in the secondary monitor, but it reverts to its default, minimum width) which screws up my setup even further (see screenshots “Designer Beta” and “Photo Beta”, below). Whereas before, I could just drag the whole thing back to its rightful place, now I have to either piece them all back together from scratch, or force quite the apps so they purge their current, unsaved – and patently undesirable – preferences and revert to their earlier state (which, while already an option before, is something I'd rather avoid doing, especially if I have open documents). To add insult to injury, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop CC do not even put the panels in the wrong monitor (they just shift them around a bit, but enough to render them unusable), and I managed to fix the issue by assigning an easy to remember keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Opt+hyphen) to the “Reset Workspace” command, which works a charm. I know this is actually a macOS issue (because besides Adobe apps, iTunes and other apps will sometimes also forget where they are supposed to draw their windows and shift them around the secondary monitor or redraw them on the main one) but please, oh please, can't you try to make Affinity play nice[r] with multiple monitor setups, on the Mac at least? There are a lot, and I mean *a lot* of professional Mac users who run such setups… And if you can't make it put the panels in the right monitor automatically (because macOS and its APIs, or its lack thereof), can't you at least make the apps revert to their older 1.5.x behaviour or implement some sort of Workspace functionality, to give us more advanced customisation management options and compete head-to-head with Adobe? [P.S.: I'll be sending Apple feedback on macOS and link to this topic thread; it's a damn shame that the OS which offers what is currently still the best multiple monitor support in the market can't get something as simple as this absolutely right and provide developers with the tools to do it as well].
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