SillyWalk Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hi guys thanx for this beta, it looks great! My suggestions: - Lock guides (also in Affinity Designer) - Package whole document - Implementation of GREP - Implementation of Nested text styles - Make master page from actual page - Import or place text from Word, tables from Excel Quote iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 I found It! Enable/disable guides editing. Great! Same function for Designer, please. StuartRc 1 Quote iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Nice list...I think you can nest styles using 'Groups' Quote Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2415 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuctTape Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 (edited) @SillyWalk where did you find it? FOUND IT. Edited September 1, 2018 by DuctTape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 Right here Quote iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 We can now (1.7.0.128) lock guides. 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...
Jenny Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 On 9/1/2018 at 12:28 PM, SillyWalk said: Right here Any idea how to get these options into the toolbar? Do I have to add those manually? I am working with version 1.7.0.238 and they are not there by default. I tried customizing the toolbar and couldn't find those buttons there either ... Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Hello Jenny, You can't find this option, because it has been removed from the app. Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elchverleiher Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Why has this function been removed from Publisher when it at the same time has been announced for the upcoming version of Designer? Are there any technical reasons? Because this is an option I would call for indispensable for any reasonable program for design or publishing. So I hope it soon will be back in Publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 From what I gather, the developers seem to be of the opinion that because the guides can only be moved directly using the move tool this should no longer be necessary. Most of us do not share that opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 7 hours ago, fde101 said: From what I gather, the developers seem to be of the opinion that because the guides can only be moved directly using the move tool this should no longer be necessary. Most of us do not share that opinion. More completely, as I understand it, they believe that as they have made it impossible to accidentally select a guide, that locking them is unnecessary. If a guide and some other object are in close proximity and you try to grab one with the Move Tool you'll get the other object, not the guide. Therefore, you can only move a guide if you intend to move it, so you don't need a lock. (Because, obviously, if you intend to move the guide, and it has a lock, you'll simply unlock it. So the lock is worthless to protect against intentional moves, and no longer needed to protect against accidental moves.) 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...
SteveP110 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Confused. I had a rectangle snapped to a guide. I could accidentally select the guide if I hovered over the guide/rectangle boundary. I also in another task wanted to move two guides so I tried to marquee select the guides and could not. After looking at other things I found that there is no partial marquee only full surround marquee. Am I missing something or is not marquee select not fully implemented yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 10 minutes ago, SteveP110 said: Am I missing something or is not marquee select not fully implemented yet? Set your Preferences: Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 13 minutes ago, SteveP110 said: I also in another task wanted to move two guides so I tried to marquee select the guides and could not. But you won't be able to select guides that way. These are not objects as per other applications. Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 26, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 26, 2019 Hi SteveP110, Welcome to Affinity Forums Regarding guides, there have been some changes here since Publisher Public Beta started. There was a button to lock guides during beta development as shown in the screenshot above, however it was later removed and in its place a few changes were introduced to prevent moving guides accidentally: they could only be moved on canvas with the Move Tool and they become the lowest priority item on canvas. This means that if you have an object overlapping a guide and you click on canvas over that guide, the object (not the guide) will be selected. Although these changes do help somehow, in some cases/circumstances they still can be moved. There's also the need for a true lock functionality for other use cases/workflows. I've passed all these feedback to the dev team in the hope this can be reconsidered and this is where we stand now. As soon as there's some news we will let everyone know. dutchshader 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Bohn Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I like how the guides work but also agree that true locking is needed, plus treating guides more like objects so you can move and transform them like any other shape or line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveP110 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 On 2/26/2019 at 4:00 PM, Seneca said: Set your Preferences: Thanks, now I remember I had set that earlier. That's the problem sometimes with playing with Beta's you change preferences forget about them. Then reset preferences, and have problems that are not problems As an addition would it be possible to implement different right and left drag marquee as some programs have. It is an option I find very useful when selecting overlapping layers. Right drag is enclosed selection, Left drag is partial selection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 28, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hi SteveP110, Besides that option in Preferences you can also press and hold ⌃(ctrl) on a Mac or press and hold the right-mouse button (along with the left one) on Windows while creating the selection marquee to switch between these two behaviours (partial/full surround marquee). PaulEC, ronnyb and garrettm30 2 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 8, 2019 Just an update on this topic: the Lock Guides command is now available from the View ▸ Lock Guides menu in Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.7.0.6. It should be added to the rest of the apps in the upcoming Betas. Elchverleiher 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 Hi Meb, Lock Guides works again, it's really great! Thank you MEB and Elchverleiher 2 Quote iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elchverleiher Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 20 hours ago, MEB said: Just an update on this topic: the Lock Guides command is now available from the View ▸ Lock Guides menu in Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.7.0.6. It should be added to the rest of the apps in the upcoming Betas. Interestingly, in Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.7.0.6 this menu item disappears when I change the language to German. In the newest Version of Affinity Photo Customer Beta 1.0.7.112 the Menu Item shows - but just in English as it is so far not yet translated, i suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveP110 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 On 2/28/2019 at 9:54 AM, MEB said: Hi SteveP110, Besides that option in Preferences you can also press and hold ⌃(ctrl) on a Mac or press and hold the right-mouse button (along with the left one) on Windows while creating the selection marquee to switch between these two behaviours (partial/full surround marquee). Am I reading this correct press and hold the Control key then click and drag to chnage marquee behaviour on a mac. I hav tried it and Control Click is a right click on a mac so I get the context sensitive menu not marquee select. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 13, 2019 Hi SteveP110, You have to press ⌃(ctrl) after starting the selection (in other words while you are drawing the marquee), not before starting the selection - that will display the context menu as you noticed. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveP110 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Just answered my own question by accident. The Control key has to be pressed after you have clicked and started to drag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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