AaplMike Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 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. Quote = Designer & Programmer =
firstdefence Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 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. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
walt.farrell Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 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: Create an object (say, a rectangle). Set its stroke, and fill. Click on Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection. (This sets the default for this document.) 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 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
firstdefence Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 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: Create an object (say, a rectangle). Set its stroke, and fill. Click on Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection. (This sets the default for this document.) 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 Please stand back strike-through in previous post in progress... walt.farrell 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
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