Eisbar Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Hello, is there any preview mode in AD? One command to see the document without border, lines and so on - just the document in full screen. This would be very helpful! And one more thing: are you planing to make something like Adobe-Lightroom? Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoBu Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Hi Eisbar, when you press the tab key, you get a simple preview (unfortunately the guides lines are visible). But better than nothing.KoBu Quote Win10 HP i7 - AD (Win), AP (Win), APub (Win), AD (iPad), AP (iPad), Affinity Photo for iPad Pro - the best app I ever had excuse my bad English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisbar Posted October 14, 2016 Author Share Posted October 14, 2016 yes - i know. But that is not a really previwe :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisbar Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 again - I think there must be a solution. See in the attached screen how difficult it is to get an overview without this disturbing lines! to get a preview - or at least a something like that - I have to export the file in jpeg and open with viewer. Or while scrolling the document in AD very slow the disturbing lines disappear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Those purple lines are there to show the snapping candidates. Go to the Alignment toolbar and click on the white triangle next to the Snapping button (the red magnet) to display a flyout for the snapping options. Clear the 'Show snapping candidates' checkbox. 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...
Eisbar Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 THX!! that´s it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 You're welcome, Eisbar. :) 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...
R C-R Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Since new users so often do not understand why the the purple outlines are there or how to hide them, I wonder if this would be a good topic for a "sticky" post at the top of the Questions forum.... Alfred 1 Quote 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...
Bomatick Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hej Her out there, since this is one of THE first threads to come up when researching the issue, I may jump this train as well. As far as I know, there's currently no shortcut to make a quick preview of your design, right? I mean, if you fiddle around with a lot of lines, trying to arrange stuff and neatly positioning it, plus you're working with text (so redlines of autocorrect are on) etc. etc. Your screen is just a mess of lines. ^^ So to quickly (like the big A-Contenter does for example) switch into a preview-mode – to look at your work without distraction and fiddle around while you're there – would be awesome Serif! Yes, I can switch them off one by one, but this really is a tedious way of doing so. Am I missing something, or hasn't it arrived yet? thx Quote // sort of freelancer // professionally designing things digital and IRL // products - gfx - light - UI & UX // Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 If you press Ctrl + ; the guides disappear, if you click the magnet the snapping guides disappear. If they are even on. As for the spelling lines, why don't you just switch them off if you are ignoring them ? Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auggiesmom Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Tab then frontslash (\). Tab will hide all the tools and frontslash will clip to canvas (don't worry, not a permanent crop bc front slash again will bring it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone Camara Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 I can't find a preview mode in Designer as we have in Publisher using a simple button or keys is there an easy way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 No, View > Preview Mode is only in Publisher. In Designer you'll have to turn off the items you don't want to see individually. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone Camara Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 18 hours ago, walt.farrell said: No, View > Preview Mode is only in Publisher. In Designer you'll have to turn off the items you don't want to see individually. Thanks for answering I can't believe it, It's so necessary like in Publisher I was designing a trifold for printing and it's very useful to preview it. So I will have to use Publisher for printing items and Designer only for logos and some internet staff; nonsense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 You're welcome. If you have both, there are a number of good reasons for working in Publisher, and using its Designer Persona as needed, rather than working in Designer, if you're doing much with text. You have much more flexibility in working with Frame Text (linked frames with text flowing between them, automatic hyphenation, ...), you have Find/Replace, Preview Mode, and other functions that may or may not ever be added to Designer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone Camara Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: You're welcome. If you have both, there are a number of good reasons for working in Publisher, and using its Designer Persona as needed, rather than working in Designer, if you're doing much with text. You have much more flexibility in working with Frame Text (linked frames with text flowing between them, automatic hyphenation, ...), you have Find/Replace, Preview Mode, and other functions that may or may not ever be added to Designer. I guess those functions won't be added to split Publisher and Designer goals; so being a beginner in Affinity, I think every piece to design where text takes up most part and for printing purposes, has to be done in Publisher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 11 minutes ago, Tone Camara said: I guess those functions won't be added to split Publisher and Designer goals; so being a beginner in Affinity, I think every piece to design where text takes up most part and for printing purposes, has to be done in Publisher I think that is the direction Serif would like the Affinity users to go. But only Serif knows how the functions might be partitioned among the applications in the future. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klababa Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 To preview without lines press spacebar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuancitoP Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 (edited) 2021. I need it, I am making some tilesset, and I must remove all the lines, etc, to see how it looks. Any solution today? a simple preview button would be beautiful. Edited .... I could achieve it with ( CTRL+' ) and ( CTRL+; ) A little weird those shortcuts, but hey, it is what it is. Edited May 11, 2021 by JuancitoP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrablue Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Hello, is there still no solution in Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer to have a quick preview without lines and the red spelling check lines below text? It would be really helpful without one having to switch it all off one by one! CTRL+; oder Control+' does not work for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andré felipe Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 +1 for a Quick Preview mode in Affinity Designer. Coming from Illustrator, even though it's not perfect there, the preview mode is very helpful to see an artboard in fullscreen and use the keyboard arrows to navigate on different artboards, and choose the best layout variation for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vita12 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 try ctrl+shift+w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Welcome to the forums @vita12 Ctrl+Shift+W takes you to Preview mode in Publisher (APu/APub) but that functionality is not available in Designer (AD), which is what this thread is about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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