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  1. With this Affinity Designer template you are able to easily create seamless repeating pattern with a nice preview inside the document. You can watch an introduction into the template on my YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/dj2t50BLyPg and here you can download the Affinity Designer Pattern Template. These are some samples which I have already created with the Template: Hopefully, Affinity Designer also supports real vector patterns one day. Keep on drawin' Norbert
  2. In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to use an Affinity Designer template with symbols to create a CSS sprite for an animated Jumping Jack. Download You will find the AD template for the animated Jumping Jack here on my website and the tutorial on my YouTube channel. Keep on drawin' Norbert
  3. If I have symbols added to the symbols palette, I can not move these to the assets palette to better organize them. I feel this is redundant to have the symbols palette if It can not be organized in Assets. Maybe mixing the assets palette and the symbols palette would be more efficient. That way your symbols are kept organized and there is no need to duplicate effort, create a symbol and then drag it again in your assets palette. I feel a big miss. Efficiency is what we are after. no?
  4. Sketch has a feature where you can test-retrieve a feed of data which can see values like text, numbers and images.Then you can connect or similarly name symbol fields to match the feed fields which allows you to them repeat a set of symbols (like a list) based on the values of a feed. I would love a way to takea feed of data and select a number of symbols to connect to the feed.
  5. Hi, I have learned that a symbol is marked as symbol by getting the suffix "(Symbol)" but also by getting an orange stripe on the left in the layers panel. But what means a dashed stripe (see "logo banner" in the screenshot)? Thanks, Stefan.
  6. Is there a way to create a custom brush that mimics the symbol brush in Illustrator? For instance, if I wanted to create rows of lines, is there a way to easily brush these pre-created lines as a texture?
  7. It would be nice a feature like AutoCAD POLAR ARRAY, so you can place object/selections around a specified point, or along a specified path. The essential options are : number of objects, angle between objects, radius of array, rotate objects ON/OFF. Thank you :)
  8. After accidentally discovering the assets (hello there, left side studio menu!) I've started integrating it into my workflow. I like too that I can define symbols and define them as assets, and the symbol is imported into the document when I add the asset to the canvas. It means I can have a lot of control over what assets are symbols and make any consistent changes across all the symbols within that design file. Now that I've been using the asset functionality creating categories, subcategories and adding the assets themselves, I have a few suggestions for extra functionality/improvement: Visually mark in collection if asset is a symbol Ability to turn asset in collection into a symbol (in right-mouse click asset item context menu; maybe ability to detach as well is good) Update asset in collection with selected object on canvas (in right-mouse click asset item context menu). It's a pain having to delete the asset, then re-add the asset if I've made any minor changes I found there were times I was trying to drag the object's layer into the asset collection and it wouldn't work — I had to drag the object on the canvas itself into the asset collection I also had another idea for symbols to support variations on properties/nested objects. I'd like to have a button design which I can have as a symbol, but can change the text of the button to something else that is not carried across all other symbols. Maybe that could be another button option in the symbol menu that I can select the object I want to be variable and mark it within the symbol?
  9. Hello! I can't seem to find information on moving symbols from one project to another. I recently reached a wall in designing multiple UX screens for an app. I had so many artboards and objects in my project that it was slowing the application down to a crawl. I took half the artboards and moved them to a new project and the app ran beautifully again. I would like to copy the symbols I created to the new project. Is there a way to do this?
  10. I've noticed that if I 1. Create an object (square) and turn it into a symbol A 2. Create an object (circle), group it with an instance of symbol A and create a new symbol B This works fine. However, if I then 3. Create an object (triangle), group it with an instance of symbol A and create a new symbol C Suddenly all instances of symbol A are removed from instances of symbol B and start to produce strange, erroneous behaviors where they first can't be selected and then eventually disappear. Instances of symbol C remain intact UNLESS, I try to group symbol A with a new object and create a new symbol. In which case, it suffers the same fate as symbol B. This is a consistently reproducible problem, so it should be easy to test. Please allow us to create sub-symbols and allow them to be members of multiple other symbol groups. This will save a lot of time for my development process.
  11. Hi, Why when duplicating a page, symbols is converted to groups and are not symbols anymore at the new page ?
  12. Hello, When I CTRL+Click in Designer (Windows) it always selects the deepest level in the hierarchy, so if I have a rectangle inside a symbol inside a group and ctrl+click it, it will select the rectangle. Is there a way to set the depth of this selection, so that it doesn't select the "insides" of symbols, or only selects up to the first child of a group? Thanks, Fernando
  13. I was drawing a watch and I figured I'd use symbols for the minute marks. I drew the first at 12:00 and then used it to create a symbol. Then I used cmd J to reproduce the other 59 minutes. I then clicked on the Sync in the symbol panel and deleted the instances of the symbol where an hour symbol was needed. After deleting the 12 suddenly the symbol picture from the symbol panel disappeared and each symbol layer lost it's child. I tried Undoing several times and got back the minute marks I had deleted but never could get back the rest of the minute marks. What happened? This was really the first time I've used symbols in an actual drawing. Watch.afdesign
  14. In this tutorial I will explain how I've created a simple jigsaw puzzle in AD for a web application. I've used the puzzle pieces as a mask which I have filled with a symbol. The photo is nested inside the symbol. In the 2nd part of this tutorial I explain how to export all 15 puzzle pieces in one step with the Export Persona. Keep on drawin'
  15. The Symbols Tool makes it soooo easy to create seamless repeating pattern in AD. I've published a tutorial on YT where I explain how to draw a simple chain link seamless repeating pattern. Keep on drawin'
  16. In this tutorial I will explain how I've created a simple jigsaw puzzle in AD for a web application. https://youtu.be/rpbQUSYNCfo I've used the puzzle pieces as a mask which I have filled with a symbol. The photo is nested inside the symbol. In the 2nd part of this tutorial I explain how to export all 15 puzzle pieces in one step with the Export Persona. https://youtu.be/ST2pUlEbOxw Keep on drawin'
  17. Not sure if this is a question or a feature request. It may already exist. Sometimes when working with symbols I want to stop and start a new iteration. I'd love if I could duplicate an artboard and the symbols on the original were also duplicated and became independent. As it is, if I duplicate an artboard with symbols and work on the new duplicate, the symbols in the original also change. In other words, symbols are document wide. Would be great if they were artboard wide only -- or at least to have the choice. Is it possible already? Maybe I'm missing something.
  18. I've published a tutorial on how to create a photo lens in AD with symbols. Hope you like it.
  19. Hello, I have downloaded the iOS UI assets file that comes with AD which is a great showcase of restraints and a great resource, but at my company we design all UI at 1x and the iOS assets are in Retina scale. Scaling doesn't work properly on these assets so I thought I'd make my own collection of UI elements for iOS and Android. How should I save/export the file so that I can import it in the assets panel and use them in any projects? (BTW here's a nice article about the benefits of designing UI at 1x - https://medium.com/shyp-design/design-at-1x-its-a-fact-249c5b896536#.bhxum5ugk) Thanks, Fernando
  20. So far I think this is a great program. I am hoping to replace Adobe with Affinity. I would like to see a way to create simple character styles and paragraph styles. Also a way of creating reusable symbols for UI elements and art boards for different size web pages.
  21. I need to assign to a lot of SYBMOL boxes different names but want to retain the ability to change the buttons size and the font later on without having forced the same name on every button. Like name plates for tenants on a building block or names on a metro map - different names with identical outlook.
  22. AD 1.5.5 beta1 macOS 10.12.2 Please check the following screencast videos. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2d99S8YSMv4UmZvNmFRaWtoTzg
  23. From AD "Import and Export file formats", GIF, JPEG, and PNG have an x under the Import column. And above: "Affinity Designer is capable of opening many raster and vector file formats directly." How?
  24. Hi, I just tried to add some symbols to my project in order to edit just one of them and have the others adapt automatically. So I dragged to instances of the same symbol preset from the assets panel to my artboard (iOS 10 slider). But when I'm resizing one of them, the other stays in the original shape. In the symbol panel, there is just one instance of the used symbol and the synch-button is activated. I know, that the synchronization worked before, so I just screwed up somewhere :( The tutorial video ( ) seems not to be up to date, because I can't even drag symbols to my assets panel. Can anybody help? :)
  25. Hi, I was wondering if there is a maximum number of symbols to be added to a document? I have been working with an array of logos. I have put all the building elements as symbols, also derivatives variants thereof (i.e. colour variants). After reaching 36 symbols, it seems impossible to add new symbols. Is this a known limit or is could it be some other bug kicking in? If it's a known limit, it could be adequate to make it clear that this limit exits. (I will revise what kind of variants I keep as a separate symbol to bring the number down in my document) Also a couple of comments on the interface for Symbols (I'm sure some of them have been mentioned before during the beta of 1.5): It's not easy to understand the states of the Sync button. Which is on and which is off. A checkbox would have been more easy to understand and more in line with the rest of the interface. A way to organise symbols other than in addition order would help when one have more than a very few symbols. Alternative background (light) for dark symbols. Being able to rename symbols is great. Why not put the current name as the default value in the renaming field? Thanks, /Miro
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