PAULRFONTENOT Posted February 26, 2019 Posted February 26, 2019 While you are writing code for new retail versions, please consider: 1. Make the help topic pages sizable to offer screen wide views. (As it stands now, you can resize only vertically; it should resize vertically and horizontally. 2. Make each panel within the topic page sizable relative to the whole page (As it stands now, when you zoom in on a help topic page, the sidebar zooms wider at the expense of the topic text panel; it should at least work the other way around where the text panel zooms at the expense of the sidebar panel. 3. (Each panel within the page should be able to be sized independently of the whole page.) 4. or, Make the entire page zoomable just like the canvas in the drawing persona. I will assume that the development teams for all applications are collaborating to make all Affinity applications behave the same so I will not repost this under the other application forums unless you advise otherwise. Feature request 1.mp4 Quote PAULRFONTENOT Late 2013 iMac/32gb ram/2tb ssd 2018 MacBook Pro/32gb ram/1 tb ssd Affinity Designer/Designer Beta Affinity Photo/Photo Beta Affinity Publisher Beta
Pšenda Posted February 27, 2019 Posted February 27, 2019 In Windows Help is sizeable. PAULRFONTENOT 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
PAULRFONTENOT Posted February 27, 2019 Author Posted February 27, 2019 I have the beta version of both Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher on Mac OS and I cannot figure out how to make the help topic page screen width, or how to zoom in on a specific text on the page, or how to resize panels independently. I have spent some time at this, so I am assuming that it can't be done in Mac OS (or, I am dumb as a post! ) Someone, please rescue me from my ignorance. That is why I submitted the feature request so that the development teams could possibly include these features in the next retail versions and operating systems of all Affinity applications. It seems logical to me that the development teams might want to have everything behave the same way across all applications and operating systems, if only to decrease the variables when troubleshooting bugs. Quote PAULRFONTENOT Late 2013 iMac/32gb ram/2tb ssd 2018 MacBook Pro/32gb ram/1 tb ssd Affinity Designer/Designer Beta Affinity Photo/Photo Beta Affinity Publisher Beta
walt.farrell Posted February 27, 2019 Posted February 27, 2019 36 minutes ago, PAULRFONTENOT said: It seems logical to me that the development teams might want to have everything behave the same way across all applications and operating systems, if only to decrease the variables when troubleshooting bugs. In general that's true. However, sometimes it's not possible. For example, MacOS provides Separated Mode, and Windows does not. So the Affinity applications on MacOS can run that way, but those on Windows can't. The Affinity Help on MacOS has some capabilities that it doesn't have on Windows, so it is possible that Affinity is making use of differing system capabilities or services in its Help implementation just as it does for some of the application UI functions. But the Serif staff would need to comment on that before we would know for sure (Note, by the way, that the Serif staff generally do not comment on feature requests. But rest assured they will read this topic and take note of your request for future planning purposes even if they don't comment here.) PAULRFONTENOT 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
PAULRFONTENOT Posted February 27, 2019 Author Posted February 27, 2019 Silly and ignorant me; I misunderstood what I was reading and read into something on this site that lead me to believe there was another Affinity program out there called "Range" Sorry if I wasted anyone's time or inconvenience with my "faux pas". Quote PAULRFONTENOT Late 2013 iMac/32gb ram/2tb ssd 2018 MacBook Pro/32gb ram/1 tb ssd Affinity Designer/Designer Beta Affinity Photo/Photo Beta Affinity Publisher Beta
Pšenda Posted February 27, 2019 Posted February 27, 2019 Alternatively, use the Help on web (https://affinity.help), and customize your web browser as you like. PAULRFONTENOT 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
walt.farrell Posted February 27, 2019 Posted February 27, 2019 6 hours ago, Pšenda said: Alternatively, use the Help on web (https://affinity.help), and customize your web browser as you like. Yes, that's a good choice, at least for those aspects of the Affinity Applications that are common to both Windows and MacOS. In some areas the programs act differently, though, and unfortunately Serif does not make both the Windows and the Mac help available online. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Pšenda Posted February 28, 2019 Posted February 28, 2019 22 hours ago, walt.farrell said: at least for those aspects of the Affinity Applications that are common to both Windows and MacOS Serif declares, that "functionally" are equal / identical applications. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
walt.farrell Posted March 1, 2019 Posted March 1, 2019 23 hours ago, Pšenda said: Serif declares, that "functionally" are equal / identical applications. For the most part, yes. But that means that they offer the same functions. Fine details of using those functions can differ, and that may result in differences in the documentation (Help) across the OSes. I don't know if this one is such a case, but it serves as an example that the Help could treat differently: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
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