Staff Ash Posted April 12 Staff Share Posted April 12 Apps: All Platforms: macOS and Windows As has been requested numerous times we have now converted the typography dialog from a pop-up dialog into a panel so you can now easily dock it / keep it available should you wish. This is available both fro the Window menu (note: this is currently at the bottom of the panel listing, but will be changed to be a sub menu from the Text panel options next week), and also from the typography button in the context toolbar when you have text selected. BBG3, kirloi, Aammppaa and 19 others 14 8 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted April 12 Staff Share Posted April 12 Known Issues in this feature A list of unresolved issues for this feature, reported by users AF-2973 - Typography panel can't be resized if it gets docked with another panel AF-3131 - Unable to resize Typography PanelAF-3132 - Typography Panel: Missing label(s) Released Fixes A list of issues for this feature, available in the current beta build AF-2477 - Typography Panel: Hide irrelevant features checkbox is missing padding on the left hand margin AF-2787 - Typography Shortcuts is missing from Settings > Shortcuts on MacOS AF-2784 - Typography appears twice in Window menu item AF-2417 - Typography panel can't be vertically resized on Windows AF-2876 - Repeatedly clicking the typography button will decrease the size of the panel Upcoming Fixes A list of issues for this feature, which will be available in a forthcoming build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 A very minor cosmetic issue with the positioning of the 'Hide irrelevant features' checkbox and associated text where it is sitting right on the left edge of the panel rather than being aligned with the checkbox and radio buttons above... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.0 | Affinity Photo 2.5.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.0 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 19 Staff Share Posted April 19 Hi @Hangman, That's a known issue that's already logged with dev (AF-2477). Hangman 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Hi @MEB, Perfect, thanks for confirming... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.0 | Affinity Photo 2.5.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.0 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 If you load a studio preset saved in 2.4.x, you will be unable to open the Typography panel. The menu command, Context toolbar button, and Character > Typography "more" button will do nothing and the menu command will remain unchecked. Reset Studio clears up this problem. Affinity Info Bot 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Please, make the Typography panel resizable vertically. Now it has fixed height. Viktor CR, GRAFKOM and 4dimage 3 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 1 minute ago, Petar Petrenko said: Please, make the Typography panel resizable vertically. Now it has fixed height. It's not fixed height on macOS. You have both platforms so which one were you referring to? Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 4 minutes ago, MikeTO said: It's not fixed height on macOS. You have both platforms so which one were you referring to? Sorry. It is fixed on Windows. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I'm sure this is on your to-do list, but just in case, Typography isn't listed in Settings > Shortcuts. Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 The Typography menu item is available twice in Affinity Photo. Once in the main branch Window, the other under the TEXT menu item. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 3 minutes ago, Komatös said: The Typography menu item is available twice in Affinity Photo. Only in Photo for Windows. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 This is a good move, in fact, I would like to see this in other windows too, specifically the Text Wrap window in Publisher. I use this quite a lot and having to open and close it is quite annoying. ronnyb, GRAFKOM and jmwellborn 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I deleted my previous 2.4+ betas and have downloaded 2.5 directly from my account. I have just tested Designer 2.5 and have found something strange. Having selected some frame text, I tried the "fi" button on the Context toolbar. Nothing. Then I tried TEXT>Show Typography. Nothing. Tried to access the new Typography Panel these two ways several times. Nothing. So then I used WINDOW>TYPOGRAPHY and the panel immediately popped up. Now both other ways to access this panel work perfectly too, whether or not I have saved the new Typography Panel on the left or right studio. I will try this again with Photo 2.5. Edit: Same thing happened. Edit again: Same thing with Publisher. Not only that, but then after using WINDOW>TYPOGRAPHY to get the panel working, I tried StudioLink with Photo, and was back to square one. Both "fi" and TEXT/Show Typography would not respond. I purposely deleted the 2.4 + betas on my desktop to be sure that there were not any carry-over glitches. So all three 2.5 Betas are fresh installs from my Affinity account. I have made a video of this, in case anybody would like to see what I am finding. Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 19 minutes ago, jmwellborn said: I deleted my previous 2.4+ betas and have downloaded 2.5 directly from my account. I have just tested Designer 2.5 and have found something strange. Having selected some frame text, I tried the "fi" button on the Context toolbar. Nothing. Then I tried TEXT>Show Typography. Nothing. Tried to access the new Typography Panel these two ways several times. Nothing. So then I used WINDOW>TYPOGRAPHY and the panel immediately popped up. Now both other ways to access this panel work perfectly too, whether or not I have saved the new Typography Panel on the left or right studio. I will try this again with Photo 2.5. Edit: Same thing happened. Edit again: Same thing with Publisher. Not only that, but then after using WINDOW>TYPOGRAPHY to get the panel working, I tried StudioLink with Photo, and was back to square one. Both "fi" and TEXT/Show Typography would not respond. I purposely deleted the 2.4 + betas on my desktop to be sure that there were not any carry-over glitches. So all three 2.5 Betas are fresh installs from my Affinity account. Try resetting your studio. I had this problem when I loaded a 2.4 studio preset and only resetting my studio or restarting solved it. If you just deleted the app your presets would still be there so it might be something like that. You could try restarting first and if that doesn't solve it then reset your studio. Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 @MikeTO well, I will try that tomorrow, although I have everything working right now. But it seems to me that we shouldn’t have to load or unload anything to sort this out. Maybe just me. April 20: @MikeTO I have found that I had one studio preset for Affinity Photo. It downloaded with the fresh installation of 2.5 from the Affinity Store. In the process, I have discovered that some of my linked brushes and palettes from V. 2.3 (Photo and Designer) also downloaded but some others did not. Seems to be quite random. But that is another topic. Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Typography Panel does not expand even if it is the only one among the panels. GRAFKOM and Viktor CR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Is it possible to run Typography panel with the options minimized and only the Capital expanded? This is probably the most used option. Or move Capital to the top of the panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 7 hours ago, anto said: Is it possible to run Typography panel with the options minimized and only the Capital expanded? This is probably the most used option. Or move Capital to the top of the panel. I think the current order makes sense but perhaps it would be better if the sections that normally have a small number of options (Capitals, Figure Width, Figure Position...) could be positioned above the potentially long lists of alternates and variants. These screenshots are of Adobe Garamond Pro, EB Garamond 08 Regular, and Trattatello and the panel is at full heigh on my 14" MBP. I don't think I'd like the panel sections opening collapsed because when I click in a different font with different sections they'd keep collapsing. The sections also can't remember their state when opening the panel for the same reason. I love that Affinity shows samples for everything but perhaps there should be a panel menu command to hide them because they're distracting when typing. Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Note that the Typography panel can still be opened with Text > Show Typography. Perhaps this command should be removed now that it's in the Window menu? JGD and Alfred 2 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 4 hours ago, MikeTO said: Note that the Typography panel can still be opened with Text > Show Typography. Perhaps this command should be removed now that it's in the Window menu? It pretty much has to be removed, as it no longer opens either the Typography window or the new Typography panel (at least on the Mac). I would also suggest that the latter should be tucked into Window > Text > Typography, next to Character, Glyph Browser, Paragraph and Text Styles. And that's me, a typography teacher saying it, but I'm not biased to the point of thinking that what is essentially an advanced version of the Typography section in the Character panel (which you can, indeed, open by clicking the “ellipsis/more…” button on the latter) should be a top-level, uncategorised panel. Patrick Connor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, JGD said: a top-level, uncategorised panel Oxymoron alert! 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...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted April 21 Staff Share Posted April 21 9 hours ago, MikeTO said: Note that the Typography panel can still be opened with Text > Show Typography. Perhaps this command should be removed now that it's in the Window menu? That change just missed this build, thanks fde101 and _Th 2 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 While you’re at it, would it be difficult to add the following feature for collapsing and expanding panel sections to all panels? https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/202656-please-improve-panel-visual-depth-management/#comment-1205284 A better explanation of the feature is provided by fde101: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/202656-please-improve-panel-visual-depth-management/#comment-1205349 Patrick Connor and Rudolphus 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 I see this occasionally, the All Alternates and Stylistic Sets seem to be blank unless both are opened. Close both and then open one or the other and I'll see a blank area. Sometimes it will show properly if I click somewhere else. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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