Hokusai Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Tim, The move tool has a small arrow on the lower right hand side of the icon, if you click and hold it you'll see a flyout with the Artboard tool icon on it. Hokusai Tim Gummer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hi Tim Gummer, Press and hold the Move Tool for a few moments to display a menu with the Artboard Tool. Tim Gummer 1 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gummer Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 The new type palette is wonderful - editing multiple textboxes at once with font previews - long awaited - thanks one planet, one chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreflection Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 To echo another post or two, I hate to be a broken record, but I do have to request a simplification of the color picker as well—that's probably the number one request that I've gotten from our development team on probably a dozen occasions, wondering when it will be changed. Currently it does just require too many steps. Paekke, ronnyb, 00Ghz and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 And I wondered about the meaning of this little ring around the open / close triangle on the layers list … (the triangle looks a bit off-center on my non-retina display, by the way) … :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 9, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted November 9, 2015 Hi Alex, Yes, it was pointed out to me last week that on non-retina screens it's off-centre, I'll sort that out asap - sorry... It's an attempt to do a couple of things: Firstly, when you used to have a group/layer selected before I added this 'ring' it was quite tricky to see the arrow because it blended into the selected colour, whereas now it cuts through the selected colour around the arrow so it's always visible. Secondly, if the 'ring' is lit up it means that you're inside this hierarchy - your currently selected item is inside it (so it's easier to see whereabouts in the structure your current selection is) and also it means that when you create a new object (draw a rectangle for example) it will be created inside that container. You'll notice that it shows lit up when you select a layer (because you'll make the next object inside it) but not lit up if you select a group (because you will create the next object on top of it - by default). Hope that makes some sense? :) Matt A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nravenlock Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 (edited) Would it be possible to disable selecting the Art-board by merely clicking on it with the Move tool, and restrict it only to the Art-board tool? @ronnyb, The Move tool will only select an artboard if it is empty. If an artboard has contents: the Move tool will only select objects placed on the artboard the Artboard tool will only select the artboard So what is an artboard? No mention in the Help. @bpedit, There is a book dedicated to artboards in the Help. From the Help menu, select Affinity Designer Help. You'll find the dedicated book listed third from the top in the table of contents on the left. Alternatively, from the Help menu, search 'artboards' to bring up all the relevant topics. A few observations: It took me awhile to figure out that I could change the color of an artboard to get rid of the transparency grid. Not sure what you could do to make it more discoverable, but it's a great feature! @Clayton, There is a topic in the Help, Artboard colour and opacity, which covers this. -- We aimed to cover artboards as comprehensively as possible, but if we've missed documenting any vital functionality, please let us know. Likewise, if anything is confusing or you think it would benefit from being expanded upon, please get in touch. Edited November 9, 2015 by nravenlock improved layout ronnyb and KipV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Just a quick thank you for the update. The Art board feature will make my life significantly easier - Proper cropping of artwork for slice creation, perfect for my workflow! ... if I could multi-select slices in the export persona slice panel to toggle them on/off (like you can with objects in the Draw persona) life would possibly be too easy :) All the best. Dale, smallreflection and MattP 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Thanks, Matt, for this detailed explanation … it makes perfect sense … :) (Although the following might seem a little bit nit-picking … maybe a simple colour inversion of the triangle icon would suffice to achieve the desired effect. To my eyes, the ring indicates something like “Watch out, there’s a very special function applied here!”, but maybe that was due to being so accustomed to the old interface … On the other hand I would like to believe, that we could get rid of this “exclamation mark,” but I don’t know how your UI designers feel about it … perhaps there’s a problem, when the brighter background of the triangle and the layer highlight meet, but maybe this issue could be met by using an even brighter background circle … just an idea … :unsure:) Thanks again, Alex :) ronnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgartists Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Designer quits immediately when I select PDF (flatten) in the export settings. Even if I Shift-run the app and create new document. Now I can't export anything from that app as the default export setting is that flattened :/ www.cgartists.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreflection Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 ... if I could multi-select slices in the export persona slice panel to toggle them on/off (like you can with objects in the Draw persona) life would possibly be too easy :) Yes, please! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garytagreg Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 A bug I've come across: If a member of a GROUP that's a child of another object / layer has a gaussian blur applied to it, it is no longer properly clipped by the parent layer. If it is just a normal child and not part of the group, it seems to work fine... See attached file. The green shape with no blurring is being clipped as expected. The red shape is not being properly clipped and is overflowing on the left side. Taking away the blur makes it clip as expected. Hope that helps. Broken Clipping.afdesign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 9, 2015 @Matt, Regarding the arrow highlighting, I would take advantage of the system highlight colour (in my case blue) to highlight the hierarchy you're in and invert it (the circle + arrow) to highlight the selected group/layer: If you find the white circle visually disruptive in the selected layer/group, you don't need to invert it, keep it blue with an white arrow - the circle will blend with the blue of the selected layer/group, leaving just the white arrow visible -. smallreflection, ronnyb, Patrick Connor and 3 others 6 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 That’s an even better idea, Miguel … :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Might have been mentioned in a rush though so... BUG: If you create an art board in a doc with slices the slices can get moved to the position of the new art board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Designer quits immediately when I select PDF (flatten) in the export settings. Even if I Shift-run the app and create new document. Now I can't export anything from that app as the default export setting is that flattened :/ We're sorry about that. See my earlier post #60 in this thread for more details and workarounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Very good release ! Center of rotation now works perfectly and I like pantone too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Sorry for asking … but what’s the meaning of this single “dot” that appears when I use snapping with the Pen Tool? Of course, I can see a pattern here, but I wondered how to answer this old “bug or feature” question in that case … :unsure: (And, by the way … are there still any plans to add a switch to the Transform Panel that would allow entering numeric rotation values with respect to the on-canvas rotation center (and not with respect to the bounding box reference points that are shown there)? I’d welcome this option very much … :)) Dots.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 10, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted November 10, 2015 Sorry for asking … but what’s the meaning of this single “dot” that appears when I use snapping with the Pen Tool? Of course, I can see a pattern here, but I wondered how to answer this old “bug or feature” question in that case … :unsure: (And, by the way … are there still any plans to add a switch to the Transform Panel that would allow entering numeric rotation values with respect to the on-canvas rotation center (and not with respect to the bounding box reference points that are shown there)? I’d welcome this option very much … :)) Hi Alex, Does the 'dot' problem happen for you on a blank new document? Does it only go wrong with artboards? I'm thinking it might be simply that these items are drawing at the wrong position and should have been drawn over the top of the snapping intersections/candidates... :) Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Well … it seems, this issue is independent of using art boards. I created a blank document, just as you suggested, placed a square (quite randomly), and played around with the Pen Tool. Seems there are also “ghost nodes” created. Please find my video below, Matt … :unsure: Cheers, Alex :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 And the issue seems to have a certain relation to the zoom factor … :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2015 Hi A_B_C,Those issues were introduced with the latest Beta (probably due to artboards) and were already logged.You can also see them if you enable "Snap to selected curves" in the context toolbar and drag one of the nodes of a path around. You will see several red, green yellow coloured squares/dots appearing around the screen too. Does the 'dot' problem happen for you on a blank new document? Does it only go wrong with artboards? I'm thinking it might be simply that these items are drawing at the wrong position and should have been drawn over the top of the snapping intersections/candidates... :) Thanks,Matt Yes, it also happens with a simple document (no artboards.) A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Oh, let me apologise, I hadn’t noticed that it was already logged … hadn’t found a post concerning this issue … :( (Yes, I see what you described with the Node Tool as well …) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpedit Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 About the lack of a pasteboard for those of us who don't want to go through the process of creating and manipulating "artboards". I've empirically deteremined that the area outside the printable document (no artboards here) can not only contain objects which do not print, these objects can continue to be edited. The only issue seems to be that they are not visible! It just doesn't seem like it should be much of an issue to let them be visible thereby effecting a pasteboard for those of us not needing artboards nor the extra work and management they entail. nravenlock: thanks for the pointer, I had searched help but the first thing I saw was '(0) results for "artboards"' so I exited too soon. I'm still not sure why it would say that. anon1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2015 Hi A_B_C, No need to apologise. It wasn't reported here in the forums so you couldn't know. And it's way, way better to have something reported twice than not reported at all! Thank you for all your help. A_B_C 1 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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