Staff MattP Posted July 23, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted July 23, 2016 Just because... Yep too much time on my hand. I blame Matt P. Stars.mov Hey, don't blame me - it's Alex's fault! His movie made me think about what would be possible... I reckon with enough time and inclination you could actually do something pretty insane! I was trying to figure out if I could detach syncing for symbols then alter the size of the gear symbol to be smaller and then reduce the number of teeth and change their parameters so I could get a smaller meshing gear? Lost patience trying last night... maybe one day when I'm not bug-hunting... (that may be a while away!) A_B_C and My Strawberry Monkey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 I am seeing an odd problem with both of the two SVG file attachments in https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/22837-svg-how-to-separateextract-nodesfrom-singleobject/ posted by af-user. Both files open OK in 1.5-Beta 6 (or Beta 5 before I replaced it yesterday) with a single "Curves" object in the Layers panel. The problem is selecting that in the Layers panel does not activate the "Divide" operation, so it can't be split into its individual curves. However, if I open the files in the retail 1.4.2 version of Designer & select the layer, the Divide operation is active & splits the Curves object into its parts as expected. vonBusing and MattP 2 All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 24, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted July 24, 2016 I am seeing an odd problem with both of the two SVG file attachments in https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/22837-svg-how-to-separateextract-nodesfrom-singleobject/ posted by af-user. Both files open OK in 1.5-Beta 6 (or Beta 5 before I replaced it yesterday) with a single "Curves" object in the Layers panel. The problem is selecting that in the Layers panel does not activate the "Divide" operation, so it can't be split into its individual curves. However, if I open the files in the retail 1.4.2 version of Designer & select the layer, the Divide operation is active & splits the Curves object into its parts as expected. We've had this problem before - and fixed it - yet it has crept back in again! I'll have to sort it out again :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Hey, would be awesome if aligning buttons would work on vector nodes: Yes, yes it would. brandbrilliance and predick 2 http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted July 25, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 25, 2016 Improvements to Node tool will be done at some point. predick 1 SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexislav Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Hi, just a little observation on creating new documents in designer: New document form is different from Document setup form, doesnt make to much sense to have two dialog forms for the same operation, does it? To set up bleed You need to enter the settings two times (as bleeding is not included in New document setting And new document created as an artboard ignores the margin settings from new document window, so You need to set up the document twice again. A bit annoying. This should get some attention too, I guess. Otherwise, new beta seems pretty stable to me. No crashes so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Hey, would be awesome if aligning buttons would work on vector nodes : I agree predick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian23 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 In export module I miss the ability to create slices automatically, i.e. 100 slices in a row of 64*64 each. With a duplication method on a hotkey (duplicate to right/down) this could be implented intuitively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Hi Alex, You got me thinking... I wonder what the most complicated misuse of Symbols could be?... (maybe that should be a challenge!) gears.mov I'm sure someone must be able to think of something crazy!?! Matt If only AD would have a frame animation persona - maybe something like Hype 3 ;) UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 One thing I don't see in the 1.5 release, that would be nice, is the ability to change the margin and bleed lines colors. brandbrilliance 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Hi team, Still having an issue with the export persona, exportSelected button (exporting ticked slices) being greyed out when slices are selected. (See attachment below). Can't send a file because re-opening resolves the issue! Also having occasional issues with the app not releasing a file properly after being closed. If you try to open it again, it will offer to 'open a recovery' file - even though it was closed properly without a crash. If you say OK it says the 'recovery file can't be re-opened because it's in use'. Also had a crash after saving a file... crash log attached incase it's of use. Cheers. beta6_crash.rtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 26, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted July 26, 2016 Thanks for that, Malcolm :) I've also had the problem with the 'recovery file' when trying to open a document I had already saved and closed.... I've asked Ben to look into it and see what he can find :) Matt Malcolm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaqzaq Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Hi Team, I have a bit of a problem with PDF import; I'll use https://archive.org/download/delineatorvol2424unse/delineatorvol2424unse.pdfas an example. First, though, thank You for nicer import than Affinity Photo: artboards on multiple lines, this helps a lot. Then the problems (also present in AP 1.4.2): 1) It takes >30s of beach ball of death to get the dialog. Nearly a second / page to count them? Maybe put the other processing to a background thread and show the dialog right away? 2) If I accept the default options (i.e. all pages) there is no indication of anything happnening until 50s later the artboards appear. After that the red thingys still blink for a few seconds so something at least was backgrounded. It would be nice if the artboards would appear right away, even when empty, You know how many at this point already. It would be even nicer to have a progress indicator, like 37 of 40 pages done. Still nicer if the artboard would render when about ready. I only have 12 cpu threads so the first one should be ready by c. 20s at the latest, right? (I'm running BOINC but that's supposedly not interfering with foreground jobs.) 3) If you look at pages 4 & 5 there is no way to get them to look as intended (c.f. Preview) and they seem to render wrong but differently. That's all, folks! Zaq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krollian Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 zaqzaq: I think that Affinity Designer in not the best tool to create a multipage document with 40 pages and export the document as a PDF. In Mac OS with Preview or Acrobat Pro and another apps in another OSs you can join images to create a multipage PDF. Or wait to Affinity Publisher!!! Graphic designer from Bilbao (Spain) FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer rocks! - Diseñador gráfico de Bilbao (España). FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer ¡mola! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaqzaq Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 zaqzaq: I think that Affinity Designer in not the best tool to create a multipage document with 40 pages and export the document as a PDF. [...] krollian: Not create, there were the magic words import and image. Not the best way to get the images to AD or AP currently, especially as it doesn't work. If there is a product & design decision that it never will, I'll be ok with that, it's just not communicated to the user. Incidentally, if I drag the two pages out of Preview so Preview creates a two page document (adding OCR text data and reorganizing stuff) AD imports it nicely and quickly enough that I'm not interested in timing it. AD even does spell checking for the OCR text. cheers, Zaq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 1) It takes >30s of beach ball of death to get the dialog. Nearly a second / page to count them? Maybe put the other processing to a background thread and show the dialog right away? Thanks. This will be fixed in next week's beta. It was loading all the bitmaps before it needed to. 2) If I accept the default options (i.e. all pages) there is no indication of anything happnening until 50s later the artboards appear. After that the red thingys still blink for a few seconds so something at least was backgrounded. It would be nice if the artboards would appear right away, even when empty, You know how many at this point already. It would be even nicer to have a progress indicator, like 37 of 40 pages done. Still nicer if the artboard would render when about ready. I only have 12 cpu threads so the first one should be ready by c. 20s at the latest, right? (I'm running BOINC but that's supposedly not interfering with foreground jobs.) I think it's interpreting the PDF that is slow, not the rendering. More feedback while loading would be good. Our own documents tend to be fast enough not to need it, but it will matter more for multi-page Publisher documents. 3) If you look at pages 4 & 5 there is no way to get them to look as intended (c.f. Preview) and they seem to render wrong but differently. Unfortunately these pages use JBig2 compression, which we don't currently support. camloken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekikou Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 The app crashes when trying to make a compound path from a constrained shape and an unconstrained shape. AD_crash.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 28, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 28, 2016 Thanks for the report Tekikou. Issue logged to be looked at. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Hi Team, Got a crash when I access the asserts panel and select my personal assets :( Crashes even when there is no document open so I'm pretty sure it's my assets which have got screwed up somehow! I have them saved out so I guess I could do a reset on start up and then load the saved assets back in. Here is the crash log incase it is of use. crashLog.rtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 28, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted July 28, 2016 Hi Team, Got a crash when I access the asserts panel and select my personal assets :( Crashes even when there is no document open so I'm pretty sure it's my assets which have got screwed up somehow! I have them saved out so I guess I could do a reset on start up and then load the saved assets back in. Here is the crash log incase it is of use. Hi Malcolm, The problem is apparently down to an asset that contains a raster fill layer... I'll check that out here and see if there's something lurking - thanks! :) Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Unfortunately these pages use JBig2 compression, which we don't currently support. Is that likely to change in the foreseeable future, Dave? I recall JBig2 compression being mentioned a few times during the PagePlus years, but (as far as I'm aware) support for it was never actually added. 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...
EX•74 Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Hi, Zoom SPACE+CMD+Drag in 1.4.2 zooming canvas to mouse pointer.. Latest beta zoom is different. Zoom not centered to mouse pointer. This is issue or new feature? Creative & Design • Game Development Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2016 Hi EX•74, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Yes, this has been changed. It now performs a scrubby zoom when you press Space + ⌘ (cmd) + drag from any tool. For more info about this check this thread. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Hi Meb, seems to me that it's doing a "marquee zoom" when you press Space + ⌥ (option/alt) from any tool and it's showing the magnifying glass icon with a minus sign in it, should be a plus sign, no?... at least that's what is happening in my version of beta 8. ...and the scrubby zoom doesn't seem like it's zooming from under my mouse. It's not quite "on" target... http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2016 Hi retrograde, It's Space + ⌘ (cmd). Post corrected. Thanks for the heads-up. Space + ⌥ (option/alt) does a marquee zoom. Yes, i see what you mean about the scrubby zoom. I'm also getting a beep when using those shortcuts. I'm not yet sure if it's specific to this config.... A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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