casterle Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Are their any tools available for editing or examining Styles or Macros? Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 macro's and object styles are packaged in .propcol files so editing/looking at them would not be possible as far as I am aware. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casterle Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Just now, firstdefence said: macro's and object styles are packaged in .propcol files so editing/looking at them would not be possible as far as I am aware. Yes, they're binary files; that's why I was asking for an editor . Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Are you Mac or windows? I'm sure there are hex editors for both. Not sure what you'd gain from it though? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casterle Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 41 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Are you Mac or windows? I'm sure there are hex editors for both. Not sure what you'd gain from it though? Windows. And I've got a hex editor but, as you point out, looking at the hex data isn't of much value. What I'm looking for is a way to see what steps and values are recorded in a style I have created. It's not working as expected and I have no way of knowing because I can't see what AP put in the style! Even a small utility that decodes and dumps the style would be very useful. Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 4 minutes ago, casterle said: What I'm looking for is a way to see what steps and values are recorded in a style I have created. It's not working as expected and I suspect that it contains kerning info because of the way it affects other text I apply it to. But I have no way of knowing because I can't see what AP put in the style! Perhaps: 1. Create a Text Frame with a simple font and font size. 2. Assign your style to it. 3. Add some text. 4. Examine the Character panel. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casterle Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, walt.farrell said: Perhaps: 1. Create a Text Frame with a simple font and font size. 2. Assign your style to it. 3. Add some text. 4. Examine the Character panel. That's a good suggestion but I fumbled away the style in question - when I went to save another style I ended up with only one style in the list - I think I overwrote the original somehow. I recreated it and now it is working fine. I'm just learning about styles so I most likely missed a step in the tutorial. Quote Windows 11 Pro, XP-Pen Deco 03, AP, AD & APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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