dominik Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 In APub do the following: Create a new document and create a new vector object (e.g. a rectangle). With the Fill Tool give it any gradient. In the Swatches Studio create a new Palette (e.g. document palette) and with the rectangle selected 'add the current fill to the palette'. Double click on the newly added swatch to open the Edit Fill window and move any of the sliders > the gradient is replaced by a solic colour. Click of the Edit Fill window so that it closes. Hit CTRL+Z several times > the gradient swatch does not get restored while several other steps with the rectangle do get restored. In AD repeat the process up to #5: Hitting CTRL+Z in AD restores the gradient within the colour swatch. I think this should work the same way in both programms. d. PS: thanks goes also to @thomaso for digging this out in this thread. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Hi dominik I've tried this in Publisher, Designer beta and Designer 1.6 and none of them change the swatch back to being a gradient after making it solid when using undo so I'm not really sure what it is you are seeing or if i'm missing something. Can you provide some screenshots just to help clarify Cheers Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Chris_K said: I've tried this in Publisher, Designer beta and Designer 1.6 and none of them change the swatch back to being a gradient after making it solid when using undo so I'm not really sure what it is you are seeing or if i'm missing something. Can you provide some screenshots just to help clarify Hi @Chris_K, thanks for looking into this. It seems to be complicated (or delicate?) I tried to create a screen recording (with ScreenToGif) that I attach here. Unfortunately it looks a little awkward (= green) in some areas. I'm not a good screen recorder I recorded this in AD beta 1.7.0.188 Key is to create a new palette in the swatches panel before adding the gradient fill to it (this is unfortunately not visible in the GIF). Then I get it to work that a gradient swatch can be restored with CTRL+Zs. Towards the end take a look at the History Studio. I hope this helps! d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 HI dominik, I've manage to get the swatch to change back to the gradient on an undo in Designer, but it's doing in Publisher for me as well so I;m still not able to reproduce the issue I'm afraid Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 42 minutes ago, Chris_K said: HI dominik, I've manage to get the swatch to change back to the gradient on an undo in Designer, but it's doing in Publisher for me as well so I;m still not able to reproduce the issue I'm afraid Hi @Chris_K, I'll have to check this later in APub again. But shouldn't this work with all palettes, not only with a newly created palette? In my test the undo only works if I add the swatch to a new palette. d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 6 hours ago, Chris_K said: HI dominik, I've manage to get the swatch to change back to the gradient on an undo in Designer, but it's doing in Publisher for me as well so I;m still not able to reproduce the issue I'm afraid Hi @Chris_K, back at the APub computer. You are right, the undo works in Designer and Publisher the same way, if the gradient swatch is added to a new colour palette. It does not work in the other groups like 'Colours' or 'Gradients'. I am not sure if this is intended behaviour? d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Hi dominik I don't see when it should behave any differently when added to other palettes so I shall look into this Cheers Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Although looking closer into this, these palettes are applications ones so are linked to the entire app.If you do this with a new application palette you will see the same thing. It makes sense the the undo is linked to a document palette but not an application wide one as the undo is per document Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 45 minutes ago, Chris_K said: Although looking closer into this, these palettes are applications ones so are linked to the entire app.If you do this with a new application palette you will see the same thing. It makes sense the the undo is linked to a document palette but not an application wide one as the undo is per document Hi @Chris_K, that is an interesting thought. It makes sense that the undo history is related to the document itself. It seems a little strange that this leaves the application palette without an undo function. But as there is currently no application history it seems to have some logic to it d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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