TravancoreKing Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 First of all, Thank you to the Affinity team . To the matter I was an Illustrator user for over 10 years and now am an affinity designer user. As a graphic designer i would like to suggest some features on upcoming versions. RECENT FONTS - As a designer we use limited number of fonts ina single design. we use variations. but the number of fonts using in a single design is limited. So we would like to see Recent used fonts in font drop down. Its a small feature, but it will help us Big PLACE THINGS OUTSIDE CANVAS - Next feature i suggest is as a designer we use different small elements in design. But we have only canvas to place things. If we place something outside canvas , it wont be visible. For print view, this is ok. We like to breath more freely. so lets place thing beyond canvas temporarily. so we can give them good place later. (Firtst Screen shot-from Illustrator)) ERASER TOOL- Yes, affinity designer have an eraser tool in Pixel persona and it work well. But we need one in Designer tool box. Because when we use eraser tool from pixel persona. it remains same object. But in illustrator we could ungroup it . So either add the feature to ungroup erased parts in to different object (second Screen shot) SMOOTH TOOL - To fine tune curves , a smoothing tool is preferred this is all from my side.. Hope you will consider it . thank you so much mdfm28 and wtrmlnjuc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravancoreKing Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 sorry.. but none of your images are not visible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 4 hours ago, TravancoreKing said: sorry.. but none of your images are not visible... Do you mean "none of your images are visible"? John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessboard Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Smooth tool or even better a simplify operation is missed really hard. Especially concerning the results of bool operations. Vector eraser would be nice, too. As well as a "recent fonts" section in the fonts menu. The last two aren't really on my personal priority list, but I can see the need. As for placing objects outside the canvas, you can do that even now. As long as you have only one cavas and no artboards, they are just invisible outside the canvas, but they are there. When you turn the canvas into an artboard, objects outside the artboard are visible, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 9 minutes ago, chessboard said: a "recent fonts" section in the fonts menu There are already Recent, Used and Favourite lists of fonts. chessboard and Alfred 2 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessboard Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Oh, thanks! Never noticed it. I must admit that I don't use text too often. I mostly do illustrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravancoreKing Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 yes i got the recent font option. thankx. but frankly.. its not that much user friendly . coz to use that panel effectively, you must use all fonts needed in your design first. so i suggest recent font displayed as top of font drop down .. @chessboard yes out side can vcas, yes.. there are things.. but invisbile.. you know.. is it really usefull? but for art board its visible .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessboard Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 @TravancoreKing Well, it doen't make much sense to me either that objects outside the canvas are invisible. But that's the way it is (at least for now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 On 2/17/2021 at 6:07 AM, chessboard said: As for placing objects outside the canvas, you can do that even now. As long as you have only one cavas and no artboards, they are just invisible outside the canvas, but they are there. When you turn the canvas into an artboard, objects outside the artboard are visible, too. Just turn off View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas. MmmMaarten and chessboard 1 1 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...
chessboard Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Ok, I see! Thanks, Walt! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 On 3/5/2021 at 12:16 AM, walt.farrell said: Just turn off View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas. That's nice for viewing stuff in the editor (and thanks for the tip), but when objects are outside the canvas they don't get exported to files like svg. Which is a problem when doing things like creating animations where things need to be outside the (svg) view(box) before they move unto the 'stage', which happens a lot in animations/interactives. So for me the request to make it possible to have objects outside the canvas AND export them (perhaps with a checkbox to either clip or don't clip) still stands and would be highly appreciated! So this: is exported without the rect: But also the following example, which is represented by some simple shapes here, but could be a complete character, like an animal or object sticking half 'in view' to be animated fully into view, would loose important parts of the figure during export, making it useless after export. Ofcourse we can work around that by putting stuff completely on the canvas and move it outside by code before animating, but it's far from an ideal workflow. Also it's not always possible to fit elements onto the canvas, as they might be bigger than the canvas to, for example, let them scroll by during animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuando Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 3/5/2021 at 12:16 AM, walt.farrell said: Just turn off View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas. I do not get active clip to canvas 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 15 minutes ago, Cuando said: I do not get active clip to canvas 😞 What do you mean by “active” here? 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...
Cuando Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 On 3/10/2021 at 12:40 PM, Alfred said: What do you mean by “active” here? Sorry for my english Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Do you actually have a canvas that you can clip to? The ‘Clip to Canvas’ option isn’t available for artboards. Cuando 1 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...
Cuando Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Just now, Alfred said: Do you actually have a canvas that you can clip to? The ‘Clip to Canvas’ option isn’t available for artboards. Thanks for your quick reply… This clarified me Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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