Add A2, A1 and A0 to Photo and Designer

[Chills]

Just realized that the templates stop at A3.  Some people are going to be doing posters at A2, A1 and A0.   It would be nice if these were included in the presets.   I am having to stitch some Maps together that are between A3 and A2.  SO I need to stitch a couple of A3 scans together.

I know I can do it manually but....

[Pšenda]

https://www.google.com/search?q=Add+A2,+A1+and+A0+to+Photo+and+Designer+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com

[Chills]

Thanks for that, I know it's not difficult to do, but A2, A1, and A0 are commonly used by professionals.  Which is where Affinity wanted to go?
So you would have thought they would have included them.

I have just added them and it only took a minute or two.  Also adding A2, A1, A0 to Designer I noticed Publisher also automatically picked them up too.

So it makes sense for  Affinity to put in ALL the ISO A and B sizes and, as I commented in the other thread, more of the US sizes for the Luddites who refused to join the rest of the world using ISO sizes 🙂

[fde101]

Thing is they had them at one time and intentionally removed them; this is a duplicate thread:

 

[Chills]

59 minutes ago, fde101 said:

Thing is they had them at one time and intentionally removed them

Why? I seems a very silly thing to do, especially as it is not difficult to put them in.
It is only 5 minutes.... but that is 5 minutes times millions of users rather than 5 minutes for one person at Affinity!

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Chills said:

rather than 5 minutes for one person at Affinity!

It's probably

• more than 5 minutes (New Document dialog (with 2 different Preset categories), Document Setup dialog, Release Notes (forum, website), possibly documentation/Help)
• and certainly more than one person (developer, QA/Test (for 3 apps on 3 OSes) and regression test and beta test coordination, documentation developer, website maintainer) 

I doubt that any change can be just 5 minutes, or just 1 person.

[Pšenda]

7 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

It's probably

• more than 5 minutes (New Document dialog (with 2 different Preset categories), Document Setup dialog, Release Notes (forum, website), possibly documentation/Help)
• and certainly more than one person (developer, QA/Test (for 3 apps on 3 OSes) and regression test and beta test coordination, documentation developer, website maintainer) 

I doubt that any change can be just 5 minutes, or just 1 person.

But removing these format presets was just as challenging, wasn't it? So who could have decided that the Serif developers were wasting their precious time and resources like this? And to remove the completely basic, standard (see ISO 216) and commonly used dimensions of printing sheets in professional practice? I hope this "smart" head was properly "rewarded" for this senseless and for professional tool completely irrational decision.

[Chills]

9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

It's probably

• more than 5 minutes (New Document dialog (with 2 different Preset categories), Document Setup dialog, Release Notes (forum, website), possibly documentation/Help)
• and certainly more than one person (developer, QA/Test (for 3 apps on 3 OSes) and regression test and beta test coordination, documentation developer, website maintainer) 

I doubt that any change can be just 5 minutes, or just 1 person.

It took me LESS than 5 minutes to do it due to the geometric progression of the sizes.
Also, all the parameters are the same as the others in the series that are already there.
A series of Templates that have already been used and tested.
Do remember this is not a new feature. It is putting back something that was already there.

It wasn't mentioned when they were removed, so no need to mention when they go back. We can all be disingenuous.

 

[PaulEC]

It's certainly easy enough to add these presets (back) yourself, but for me, it's more a matter of principal that they should be included by default. Having said that, there are more important things to worry about, so I'm not losing any sleep over it! 😉

[Chills]

9 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

It's certainly easy enough to add these presets (back) yourself, but for me, it's more a matter of principal that they should be included by default. Having said that, there are more important things to worry about, so I'm not losing any sleep over it! 😉

100% Agree with all of it. I have added them myself, so no problem, but as you said it was a point of principal.  Especially if Affinity want to be taken seriously be the professional market.  

I am seeing Affinity more in the UK professional market, but that is because, cost wise, it is a no-brainer for a company and more of their customers are using affinity.  So they really need to add ALL and ISO A and B sizes (and the US sizes for the Luddites 🙂 )

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Pšenda said:

But removing these format presets was just as challenging, wasn't it?

Perhaps, but the removal occurred when they were doing a major restructuring of the New Document dialog, which would have needed extensive testing and documentation anyway. So if they were going to do that, they did it at a good time to minimize work. (Even if it was a bad decision to remove them.)

4 hours ago, Pšenda said:

So who could have decided that the Serif developers were wasting their precious time and resources like this?

I can only assume that no one at Serif considered this streamlining to be a waste of time. 

I have no good idea why they did it, other than to streamline a long list of presets, and to remove some they apparently didn't think saw much use among the users. And the removal doesn't affect me, but I'd probably be objecting as strongly as the rest of you if they'd removed a standard one that I did make frequent use of.