maciej.pikula Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Hello, I've got a case in Affinity Designer (the newest version on Mac with Catalina). When I select a vector object and I choose a swatch from the Swatches panel, the object gains the color I click. Then when I go back to this object and click it, the matching color is not highlighted in the Swatches panel. So if I clicked in the meanwhile another color, the Swatches panel highlights this one, not the color of the selected object. Is it possible to make the app highlighting the matching swatch? If I remember properly, Adobe Illustrator does it. It is very useful when working with many shades of gray or color. AD.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatGuy Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 This probably is a bug, for me (V1.8.5 / desktop) it's highlighting the used swatch properly. Maybe you could add an example file just to make sure it's not something inside the document? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciej.pikula Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 I tried with a new file and it also doesn't work. Maybe it's because the swatches have to be global, but for me it should work even if they are not global, especially because at the moment there is no way to quickly change swatches to global. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatGuy Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 For me it's working fine even with non-global colours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 You need global colours for this - I've requested on multiple occasions, an option to have global as standard but have gradually reached a compromise by creating my own set of global colours, exporting, then importing and making it the default palette for CMYK so every new CMYK document now has a default global palette which also includes REAL greyscale in 10% tint increments Feel free to use my attached palette, although it is made up of CMYK colours Process globals.afpalette PaulEC 1 Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciej.pikula Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 I checked and it works with global colors or Document and Application Palettes. It doesn't work with a System Palette. Thank you for your palette! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Staff Sean P Posted October 22, 2020 Staff Share Posted October 22, 2020 3 hours ago, maciej.pikula said: I checked and it works with global colors or Document and Application Palettes. It doesn't work with a System Palette. Thank you for your palette! Hi maciej.pikula, Thanks for letting us know - I can confirm this is failing for me when using the System Palette. I'll get it passed on to development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 10 hours ago, Dazmondo77 said: You need global colours for this - I've requested on multiple occasions, an option to have global as standard but have gradually reached a compromise by creating my own set of global colours, exporting, then importing and making it the default palette for CMYK so every new CMYK document now has a default global palette which also includes REAL greyscale in 10% tint increments Feel free to use my attached palette, although it is made up of CMYK colours Process globals.afpalette 2.8 kB · 2 downloads This is brilliant. However, the swatches are only global if I import as a Document palette. As an Application or System palette, they come in non-global. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 hour ago, prophet said: This is brilliant. However, the swatches are only global if I import as a Document palette. As an Application or System palette, they come in non-global. Correct. Global colors are supported only in Document palettes. Note that Templates may help in this area, as you can make a Template that has a pre-defined Document palette, and then instead of creating new documents from a Preset you can create them from the Template. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: a Template that has a pre-defined Document palette Sure, but as @Dazmondo77 mentioned, making a palette the default for a color profile is a nice touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspiff Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I think I may have found another bug in the swatches palette? If you select an object and then switch from the fill to the stroke or vice versa using the two circles icon or use X to switch, the swatches palette does not update to show the selected colour unless you re-select the object. The Colour Palette shows the change, but I think the Swatches Palette should update as well as it's very confusing to not see the colour highlighted when you switch but it will be highlighted if you select an object on the page! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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