monk Posted January 11, 2015 Posted January 11, 2015 1. Is there any option to merge two vector layers together? If no - that would be helpful. 2. The way you enter for example width and hight of the object acts very strange. Instead of manually deleting previous numbers it should be deleted when you start editing those numbers. 3. One more thing.. is there a a way to snap object to embedded images? When snapping object must be in the same layer? Quote
Staff MattP Posted January 12, 2015 Staff Posted January 12, 2015 Hi monk, 1 is definitely a good idea :) I agree with you on point 2. I think that for point 3 you might be best taking a quick look at the snapping tutorials on our site (here) - you should be able to snap to anything on any layer - but it's all a question of candidates - watch the video and you'll get the idea :) Thanks! :) Matt Quote
monk Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 Ok, thank you MattP. About those tutorials... I have watched them before my post here. But it seems like mouse-over for make object snapping candidate doesn't work all the time. Not sure why it happens. Bug maybe? There are those all snapping options... For snapping I just need something very simple working like this function in Google Drawings. Is there a way to achieve this? In your tutorial with simple objects it seems it should work this way but I'm wondering why I cannot reproduce that in my project, even when I have same snapping settings turned on. :( Quote
Staff MattP Posted January 12, 2015 Staff Posted January 12, 2015 Hi monk :) Have you possibly got a simple example that you could share with us and I could ask Ben (who wrote the snapping feature) to give you a run through what's going on? Thanks, Matt Quote
monk Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 No problem. Please check your PM/inbox folder, here on forum. Quote
Staff MattP Posted January 12, 2015 Staff Posted January 12, 2015 Thanks for that! :) I've got the files now - I must say it's not acting as I'd expect either, but I'm wondering if this is a problem with embedded documents? I'll ask Ben to look at this for me when he gets in and then try to report back. Sorry about this in the meantime... :( monk 1 Quote
monk Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 You are right - I was trying do that with embedded document (this icon) but after that just imported that icon into a project via insert image option. Still without results. Thanks for your help! Quote
Staff Ben Posted January 12, 2015 Staff Posted January 12, 2015 Ok - the simple answer is that Embedded Document nodes currently don't allow snapping - (they cannot be made a snapping candidate). This was an oversight as Embedded Document nodes are a special case in our code. I'll get it fixed. monk 1 Quote 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
monk Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 Just for clarify - same with inserting image via Place Image Tool. Then it's not considered as "embedded", right? Quote
Staff Ben Posted January 12, 2015 Staff Posted January 12, 2015 No - that's a different Node/layer type. It should say (Image) after the layer name. Image nodes should have been working with snapping before. My fixes for embedded documents will have tightened things up a bit more as well. Quote 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
monk Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 Image nodes should have been working with snapping before. My fixes for embedded documents will have tightened things up a bit more as well. Did MattP forwarded you my project file Ben? They also seems to not work :mellow: Quote
Staff Ben Posted January 12, 2015 Staff Posted January 12, 2015 The file I was given only has Embedded Documents - there are no placed image layers. Quote 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
monk Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 All icons were imported from other .afdesign files via Place Image Tool. They count as "embedded" then or what? Because previously I have imported them another way. Not remember how right now. Then there was something about "embeded files" in the name of their layers If I remember correctly. EDIT: Ok, now I know how I did it before - simply by dropping .afdesign into my project. So it looks probably that's the same case and it's also embedded file. Quote
monk Posted January 15, 2015 Author Posted January 15, 2015 Hi Do you know when it will be fixed? Quote
Staff MattP Posted January 16, 2015 Staff Posted January 16, 2015 Hi monk, If you try the current beta version (released yesterday afternoon) you should find that this now works as you expect :) Ben fixed it very quickly after you spoke to him Thanks, Matt monk 1 Quote
monk Posted January 20, 2015 Author Posted January 20, 2015 How about snapping guides like this? Are they in the plans? 1) 2) Quote
Staff Ben Posted January 20, 2015 Staff Posted January 20, 2015 #1 is in the plan to be done soon. Don't we already do the alignment indicators like #2? Snapping object bounds will show you which edges are in line. Quote 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
monk Posted January 20, 2015 Author Posted January 20, 2015 2) Hmm.. I don't understand green/red lines difference. Can we adjust thickness of those lines somewhere in the settings in the future? It's hard to see them sometimes in bigger project. Quote
Staff MEB Posted January 20, 2015 Staff Posted January 20, 2015 Green is used to highlight vertical alignments, while red is used for horizontal alignments. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
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