Modifying Affinity

[Joachim_L]

Nothing spectacular here, just clickbait. 

I would just like to know if we perhaps get assistance in understanding the xml partially controlling how the applications start up.

A while ago someone asked if it is possible to start a new document with transparent background as default. Of course this is possible if you create a new document and set the background to transparent. The application saves this information to Document.xml and next time the application is restarted the transparent background is checked again ... until ... a document was created with no transparent background. Once transparent background is saved you can lock Document.xml for writing.

Another use case could be the export preset (Export.xml). Same here. Once you made a different export, the type will be saved. So we have to write-protect here also to keep my defaults.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Settings xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="Serif.Interop.Persona.Settings.ExportSettings">
	<Format>PDF</Format>
	<Preview>False</Preview>
	<ExportFormats>
		<ExportFormat Format="PNG" Preset="PNG" />
		<ExportFormat Format="JPEG" Preset="JPEG (Höchste Qualität)" />
		<ExportFormat Format="TIFF" Preset="TIFF CMYK" />
		<ExportFormat Format="PDF" Preset="My Web-Export" />
		<ExportFormat Format="EPS" Preset="EPS (for web)" />
		<ExportFormat Format="WMF" Preset="Enhanced Windows Metafile" />
	</ExportFormats>
</Settings>

Hmm, the more I read my own post the more I think it is superfluos. Plus I don't know if locking up the xml would have side-effects on the applications. Thoughts?

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

Thoughts?

Try it, and see what happens

[Joachim_L]

Trial and error, but no luck so far. I am mainly interested in these values:

<SelectedPaletteType>3</SelectedPaletteType>
...
<SelectedPaletteName>PANTONE+ CMYK Coated</SelectedPaletteName>

I have Default palette for CMYK defined and I would like to have it selected. Right now I have to scroll the swatches up to show my default palette and this is what I want to avoid.

[R C-R]

On 1/7/2020 at 3:58 AM, Joachim_L said:

I would just like to know if we perhaps get assistance in understanding the xml partially controlling how the applications start up.

AFAIK, the Mac versions do not include any xml files except for a license file in xml format for apps bought through the Affinity (not MAS) Store. So any info you can find about this is going to be relevant only to the Windows versions.