Mushr00m Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Hi, I don't understand, maybe I'm missing something, but when creating guides, shouldn't they snap to basic division values of the selected layer, like 50% height / width ? Each time I open a new document I need to manualy calculate the center, the 25% etc... It would be nice to have the guide snap on it's own. On the other hand, when creating a shape it doesn't snap to a guide but only give me green and red lines, there is not magnet system for the snap to avoid missing 0.2mm everywhere ? Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 8, 2015 Hi Mushr00m, Ben is already working on improved grids and snapping. I'm not sure if he already addressed this (guide snapping to notable page points), but if not you can always fill a request for it. Meanwhile there's a quick way to create the guides at specific points on a page: go to menu View ▹ Guides Manager... and insert the values there. You can use percentages (enter 50% to create a guide in the middle of the page for example), absolute values and perform calculations inside the input field if needed. Hope this helps a little. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted July 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 8, 2015 You should be able to snap a guide while dragging it, depending upon what settings you have on for snapping. On the other hand, when creating a shape it doesn't snap to a guide but only give me green and red lines, there is not magnet system for the snap to avoid missing 0.2mm everywhere ? I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean here. Can you explain? Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 8, 2015 I didn't know it was possible to snap the guides to the middle of the page. I think there should be some more visual feedback here because it's easy to miss the midpoint. Making the whole guide turn green/red when it matches page notable points would help making this more discoverable i think. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 8, 2015 Hi, On the other hand, when creating a shape it doesn't snap to a guide but only give me green and red lines, there is not magnet system for the snap to avoid missing 0.2mm everywhere ? There is a "magnet" system in place. If you are working with vey large documents it may not be so obvious. In this case you can configure it going to View ▹ Snapping Manager... and changing the Screen tolerance (at the top right of the Snapping dialog) to a bigger value. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushr00m Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 Thanks for your answers @MEB : I tried to enter 50%, 33%, etc in the "guides manager" but it always come back to the old mm value not calculating the percentage in mm from the document. It's not working with percent. It would be nice to be able to do that in percent like you said. @Ben : I start with a blank document, I just add 2 guides in the center. I create a rectangle shape and want it to snap the bottom left corner to the guides (document center). I've put the tolerance to 50, and the document is just an A4 in mm. I doesn't "snap" like we can see in AI or PS, but it just show a green line for the horizontal and a red line for the vertical to show me I'm align. But of course when releasing the mouse it must move and when zooming I see there is a gap. The only way is to zoom a lot on my document (2000%) to have the snapping effect. So yes it's working but only when you zoom a lot on large documents. So in fact it looks like it's working when zooming enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 8, 2015 Hi Mushr00m, Hi believe you're using the Mac App Store version (1.2.1). If that's the case what i said will not work there. Sorry for not being clear. In the latest Beta you can do it as i described. If you don't want to install the Beta just wait a couple more days. The Mac App Store version will be updated very soon and will include those improvements. Can you post the file with that rectangle you are trying to align to the guides? I would like to check how you have set it up if you don't mind... Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushr00m Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 Ok nice to know ! I'll wait for the update. The file is attached, it's just a basic test. When you're not zooming enough the snaping is not working. test.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi Mushr00m, Affinity Designer v1.3.2 is already available in the Mac App Store. I advise you to update to this version since it was considerably improved. Your file is working fine here. When you drag the rectangle near the guides and both change their colour (green for vertical and red for horizontal) it means the object is aligned with the guides. If you then zoom in to check, there's no gap between the rectangle and the guides. Here's a clip using the file you provided. Isn't it working like this for you? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushr00m Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Thanks it's working now ! But I have "maybe" an issue with the update. When adding noise to a color and exporting with "Persona" to JPG the noise is not the same as in the preview. Can you have a look ? test2.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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