Turn Off Outline (Designer)

[dre.]

I am zooming in and out of a project of a lot of small logos and I want to turn off the magenta outlie showing on screen. There is no outline to the objects. I've looked in the view mode, outline is off. I'm assuming this is user error but I cannot work out how to just see the objects, without the outline. The logos' are vectors, all the same colour (at the moment). It's the same whether the view mode is pixel or vector

Zoomed even further out?

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, dre. said:

and I want to turn off the magenta outlie showing on screen

Magenta outlines are usually caused by having Snapping Enabled, and Show Snapping Candidates enabled.

[dre.]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Magenta outlines are usually caused by having Snapping Enabled, and Show Snapping Candidates enabled.

AMAZING, thank you 🥰 I'd never have worked that out myself. 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[Pšenda]

59 minutes ago, dre. said:

I'd never have worked that out myself. 

A small tip for using Google search here on the forum, which very often provides relevant results even when a "general" query is entered.
https://www.google.com/search?q=magenta+outline+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com

[v_kyr]

... and a look into the reletaded Online Help sections (Design aids -> Snapping) sometimes helps too here ...

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• ...
• Candidates—sets how candidates are created. Select from the pop-up menu.
  • Maximum—limits the number of active candidates when Candidate List is selected (see above). If you reach this limit, new candidates replace older candidates in chronological order.
  • Show snapping candidates—when checked, highlights the active snapping candidates, i.e. objects that can be snapped to by prior selection or hover over. Candidates will display a 'purple halo'.

 

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

... and a look into the reletaded Online Help sections (Design aids -> Snapping) sometimes helps too here ...

True, but in fairness, you need to know that it's Snapping before you can check the Help for it

[v_kyr]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

True, but in fairness, you need to know that it's Snapping before you can check the Help for it

Right! - Which brings us to another point, namely that the Online help's search index is also pretty limitted and often useless here, as it doesn't have been setup to cover at least some of the internal used colors markings ("red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "orange", "purple"...) for finding possible in sections named things like ...

• Red line: Object snaps to target horizontally.
• Green line: Object snaps to target vertically.
• Yellow node: Object snaps to shape's key points (often centres) or geometry.
• Blue line: Object snaps to third plane when using triangular projection grid.
• Orange line: Object snaps to target horizontally or vertically if a projection grid is active.
• Candidates will display a 'purple halo'.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

you need to know that it's Snapping

This brings me back to the idea that I presented here years ago - why is such a very specific function that rather confuses the user (mainly by its expression - see dozens, maybe hundreds of posts) enabled by default? If the user is knowledgeable and wants to use this function, he can turn it on without any problems - he knows what it is and therefore knows where to enable it. But it's a big problem for uninformed users - what is it? why is it here? reinstalling didn't help! what should I do with it?

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, Pšenda said:

... why is such a very specific function that rather confuses the user ... enabled by default?

Pretty much the same as ... why was OpenCL hardware acceleration on Win always enabled as default ... even it made long time more crashing problems than anything else here? -- Probably only the person who makes these final decisions there (...or their marketing) knows.

[Pšenda]

On 6/16/2023 at 1:37 AM, v_kyr said:

why was OpenCL hardware acceleration on Win always enabled as default .

I was also very surprised that after the negative experience with the introduction of hw acceleration in MacOS, they left it on by default in the Win version, where problems could naturally be expected due to the countless number of video controllers and drivers.

 

On 6/16/2023 at 1:37 AM, v_kyr said:

Probably only the person who makes these final decisions there (...or their marketing) knows.

I think they should look at it more from a casual/less knowledgeable user perspective. An experienced user can handle it, and the default setting does not suit him anyway and he has to adjust it.

[dre.]

On 6/15/2023 at 6:26 PM, Pšenda said:

A small tip for using Google search here on the forum, which very often provides relevant results even when a "general" query is entered.
https://www.google.com/search?q=magenta+outline+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com

I'd never have thought of that 🤣 thanks for trolling my posts once again!

[dre.]

On 6/15/2023 at 7:15 PM, v_kyr said:

Right! - Which brings us to another point, namely that the Online help's search index is also pretty limitted and often useless here, as it doesn't have been setup to cover at least some of the internal used colors markings ("red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "orange", "purple"...) for finding possible in sections named things like ...

• Red line: Object snaps to target horizontally.
• Green line: Object snaps to target vertically.
• Yellow node: Object snaps to shape's key points (often centres) or geometry.
• Blue line: Object snaps to third plane when using triangular projection grid.
• Orange line: Object snaps to target horizontally or vertically if a projection grid is active.
• Candidates will display a 'purple halo'.

Yes, I looked in the help but clearly didn't "word" my search correctly and was instantly helped by @walt.farrell. I had no idea it was snapping related.