LEB Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 Using the Designer persona in Publisher, I observed the following: if I lock a layer containing for instance a text select all texts (the locked object is also selected, even if it is hidden) change a property (e.g. color) then the color of the locked object will be changed. This looks like an undesired behaviour. I also wonder if hidden objects should be selected in the first place. I have not tried but imagine that it also affects Affinity Designer directly. Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 You have discovered one of the most baffling things about the Affinity suite. Locked is not actually locked. In my opinion Locked in Affinity is pretty much useless. CLC 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
LEB Posted November 20, 2021 Author Posted November 20, 2021 (@OldBruce The most baffling thing for me is that if you make alignment changes and then group or move those items, your alignment changes are lost.…) Quote
LEB Posted November 21, 2021 Author Posted November 21, 2021 Hence my questions to the Affinity team: does it qualify as a bug? if not, how are we supposed to subselect elements based on their type or properties, avoiding selecting corresponding objects *in the whole document*? CLC 1 Quote
NotMyFault Posted November 21, 2021 Posted November 21, 2021 2 hours ago, LEB said: Hence my questions to the Affinity team: does it qualify as a bug? if not, how are we supposed to subselect elements based on their type or properties, avoiding selecting corresponding objects *in the whole document*? Is has been repeatedly stated in older posts) that it’s by design. Layer lock protects against layer movement (by move tool, not against movement in layer stack), nothing else. If you need a selection by color tag, and exclude locked objects, you may assign them a different color tag. all this is rated as no bug, by design. There are several feature request raised to change the design. The best course of action would be to add your voice to one or more of these feature requests. Bug reports against features rated as by design will mostly be ignored. I’m very dissatisfied with the status quo, too. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
Alfred Posted November 21, 2021 Posted November 21, 2021 51 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Is has been repeatedly stated in older posts) that it’s by design. Layer lock protects against layer movement (by move tool, not against movement in layer stack), nothing else. <pedantry> Layer locking protects against anything you can do with the Move Tool or via the Transform panel, so not only movement but also resizing, rotating, and shearing/skewing. </pedantry> Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
LEB Posted November 22, 2021 Author Posted November 22, 2021 Hi @NotMyFault and @Alfred, would there be a place where such requests of alteration of initial design can be ranked by order of priority? Quote
GarryP Posted November 22, 2021 Posted November 22, 2021 If by “ranked by order of priority” you mean ranked by priority according to we the users then the answer is no, for reasons that should be fairly obvious. Quote
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