rufus Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 The glyphs in the glyph browser are fuzzy, and displayed over a dark background. It would be useful if the contents of this display was more visible. Also useful would be a user settable collection of favorite glyphs. sbe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 You can switch over to the Light UI, you can make the glyphs bigger from the small hamburger menu on this panel and the recently used glyphs are shown at the bottom of the panel, which comes pretty close to a favourites list. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 14 hours ago, rufus said: The glyphs in the glyph browser are fuzzy, and displayed over a dark background. It would be useful if the contents of this display was more visible. Also useful would be a user settable collection of favorite glyphs. Yep the anti-alias (smoothing) does make them hard to identify, Serif should switch to an other anti-alias algorithm for this view, further I miss the Windows character map feature that pops up a bigger version when you click a letter for example 'z': It really helps checking out complex signs, symbols whatever. Option to save favorites is also a great idea. Would also work as text assets (feature request), right @sfriedberg Alfred 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 @Jowday Right! Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 16 hours ago, Jowday said: further I miss the Windows character map feature that pops up a bigger version when you click a letter for example 'z': I know that's missing, but if you set the Glyph Browser to Large Size or Largest Size doesn't that suffice? 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...
Jowday Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I know that's missing, but if you set the Glyph Browser to Large Size or Largest Size doesn't that suffice? Sort of yes - I never liked the lack of such options in Windows tool. I just think the click'n'preview is an elegant tool to inspect just one symbol further without much hassle no matter what. It is a nice to have. Besides the pop up preview the Windows char map is archaic - never loved it - the pop up preview is just a great feature. Perhaps even more for people with high resolutions. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 25 minutes ago, Jowday said: I just think the click'n'preview is an elegant tool to inspect just one symbol further without much hassle no matter what. It is a nice to have. Serif included an ‘enlarged preview’ feature in at least one of their legacy software products, so they obviously know how to do it (at least on Windows). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 7 minutes ago, Alfred said: Serif included an ‘enlarged preview’ feature in at least one of their legacy software products, so they obviously know how to do it (at least on Windows). You mean... Show large characters?? But they did display characters on a white background - I think they still should. vs Look that the new PagePlus icon I got after Windows Update revised everything... thank you... Microsoft... ? ?? WTH is it? A compress your Easter egg icon? Wosven and garrettm30 2 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Well at least not the @Alfred dream I have from time to time 😄 Alfred 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Jowday said: You mean... Show large characters?? No, I mean clicking and/or dragging on an asset to make it large enough to see clearly, to help you decide whether or not to add it to the page. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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