Friksel Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 When working on a big layout I use copy on an object with Effects applied to it and than paste FX on the target objects to make sure all my objects get the exact same outer shadow. But it's not working as expected: when pasting the Effects on an object with a different size, the values of the Effects (at least with Outer Shadow) are different!! It looks like Designer does some sort of proportionally scaling to the surface of the object we paste the Fx unto, but that's not consistent and unwanted anyway. I don't know what Designer does with the values, but it's not pasting the FX the way se set them up and copied. This way paste FX is pretty useless, because we want to have the exact same effects on all our objects. At least with effects like Shadow, Glow etc. Now we still have to adjust all FX-values by hand, so copying and pasting didn't make much sense. I've been looking for a way to paste with absolute values (like checkboxes, preferences, a different menu item for it), but could't find it anywhere. Especially because we set the Outer Shadow value in pixels and not in percentages, we might expect the FX get copied with absolute values too. So I call this a bug. (Unfortunately rightnow I have to walk through all of my (around 100) objects in the file one by one to set the right Outer Shadow values... 'cause I just found out it isn't using the same shadow everywhere now... damn ) Hope this can be fixed soon, because copying and pasting FX is a pretty nice workflow that really speeds up the workflow and the way it is build now is just unusable!! Thanks in advance! fx-copies-values-relative-instead-of-absolute.mp4 AGP, nodeus, Nadir and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadir Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Same problem here! I worked with ...a long time waiting the Development team to fix it! I hope they will fix that as soon as possible. Thanks Friksel for your reports with video show. Friksel, nodeus and AGP 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 @Friksel it is worth spending a few minutes to do a search for existing bug reports on the forum. Long standing issues like this have been discussed (many times) before… https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/35329-paste-fx-will-resize-the-effectshttps://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/33992-paste-effects-random-values-bughttps://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/41865-ad-when-pasting-styles-or-effects-effects-always-scalehttps://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/86962-layer-effects-styles-panel ^ Just the first 4 threads that I spotted. Until the bug is fixed, I try to workaround by applying the Layer Effects to a Layer (folder) into which I place all the objects that need the same effect. This has its own issues (moving objects between artboards - since there are no global layers) but can help at times. Sean P 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friksel Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 5 hours ago, Aammppaa said: @Friksel it is worth spending a few minutes to do a search for existing bug reports on the forum. I agree. I searched on it, but couldn't find any about this. Thanks for your finds. Aammppaa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Still the same in 1.9. Aammppaa and Nadir 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Still the same in 1.9.2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I copy the effects from a smaller object to a larger one, the effects are adjusted proportionally, Click once on the cogwheel next to the effect. A new options window should open. There you can select "Scale with object". Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 On 3/31/2021 at 11:03 AM, Komatös said: Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I copy the effects from a smaller object to a larger one, the effects are adjusted proportionally, Click once on the cogwheel next to the effect. A new options window should open. There you can select "Scale with object". Pasted fx will be scaled regardless of "Scale with object" setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadir Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 On 3/31/2021 at 7:03 PM, Komatös said: Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I copy the effects from a smaller object to a larger one, the effects are adjusted proportionally, Click once on the cogwheel next to the effect. A new options window should open. There you can select "Scale with object". Copying the effects then pasting them on larger same shape/object, the effects are adjusted with same first values, but when pasting the effects on other shapes or objects, this is the problem, kindly check the screenshot... https://i.ibb.co/d0zzJ8g/AD-FX-Past-problem.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Ah ok, now I understand! An unsightly bug. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGP Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 This is still happening in 1.9.2 and the latest beta. There is no setting or workflow that allows consistent absolute application of copying/pasting of styles on objects that are scaled differently, regardless of the scale with object check box. Does Affinity have an answer or response? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntr Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Waiting for fix... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelAffinity Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Is the Paste FX issue still in latest version? Mine doesn't paste correctly either pastefxissue.flv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptosauru5 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Still a problem in 2022. Quite embarrassing if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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