Changing defaults: line width, fill, font

[AaplMike]

Hello, all.

How does one go about changing the defaults for new documents? All my documents start with a stroke of zero and fill of RGB(235,235,235), so I end up having to change every object I create.

[firstdefence]

Not that it matters which app you use, but there is no way, "annoyingly" to set the "default" style to your preference. You can create styles that can be applied to objects and in Affinity Designer you can create Assets but there are no settings in Preferences to set such things, well as of yet.

You could probably set up a template document with say a single object with fill colour and stroke settings, save that and open it.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Not that it matters which app you use, but there is no way, "annoyingly" to set the "default" style to your preference.

Perhaps I have misunderstood you, or perhaps it's a technicality

It's true that you cannot set a particular "Style" (in the technical meaning of the term) as a default.

But you can:

1. Create an object (say, a rectangle).
2. Set its stroke, and fill.
3. Click on Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection. (This sets the default for this document.)
4. Finally, click on Edit > Defaults > Save. (This sets the default for new documents.)

You could even do that with a Text Frame, to save a default Font and font color.

[firstdefence]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Perhaps I have misunderstood you, or perhaps it's a technicality

It's true that you cannot set a particular "Style" (in the technical meaning of the term) as a default.

But you can:

1. Create an object (say, a rectangle).
2. Set its stroke, and fill.
3. Click on Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection. (This sets the default for this document.)
4. Finally, click on Edit > Defaults > Save. (This sets the default for new documents.)

You could even do that with a Text Frame, to save a default Font and font color.

How the hell did I miss that 

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[RWhite]

Oddly if I draw a box/rectangle, circle/ellipse or other shape it does retain the stroke colour/weight that I have set. However when I use the pen tool it has no stroke and disappears. I manually have to switch on the stroke every single time. Going to edit > synchronise from selection > save default doesn’t appear to do anything. I am starting to wonder if Affinity is deliberately trying to infuriate its user base?