Hi Michel, thanks for the feedback.
re:
> Copy as PDF :
> When "Exporting as PDF", the objects sizes are preserved while when "Copying as PDF" they aren't.
> edited :
> (could be a problem with the way Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer read the PDF.
> If I "Place" a previously exported PDF file into the Designer document and double
> click it, it opens an "integrated window" and if I then "Paste" a copy PDF from MoI in it, the size is ok).
I'm not able to repeat this with Adobe Illustrator, it appears to be a quirk in how Affinity handles pasting. It appears to be sensitive to the DPI setting in Affinity. Affinity seems to think the PDF file is 72 dpi (I don't think there is actually any kind of dpi setting for a whole page in PDF), and if your current Affinity document has a different dpi then it scales it.
Before you paste into Affinity, if you go to Document Setup > Dimensions and set DPI = 72 then it seems that it will paste it over without altering the size.
Pasting into a "Placed" PDF file works I think because the placed PDF file has DPI = 72.
re:
> Copy and Export as PDF
> Tick marks have the thickness of drawing lines instead of being the size of dimension lines.
Tick marks have their own line thickness setting which is used. It's set in the Annotation properties > "Arrows" section, "Tick line width".
You can alter it for an individual object using Details... or set the default for a newly created one under Options > Dimensions.
> Small display error when drawing solids (not specific to v4. It is really minor as the result is not affected) :
> (width shows as negative)
It's actually not an error - it's due to the drawing using the faces of the cube as the current snap plane when you are placing points in the 3D view and have snapped points onto an object. If you turn off object snap or hold down Alt to temporarily turn off object snap for that pick so you don't have both points snapped onto the plane then it won't use the solid cube's plane as the current cplane orientation.
This is what allows for drawing things like rectangles directly onto the face of a box when you are picking points in the 3D view.
> Dimensions wish :
> Would it be possible to add the Style (color) property to the Defaults as it already appears in Details?
Hmmm, well currently when you draw any object it gets the "active style" applied to it, that is the one that has a ring around its color swatch in the Styles list in the Scene browser. You can set it by right clicking on a swatch. That is how the style assignment for new objects works for all object types including dimensions. But if I understand you correctly you want a way to set a default style for a dimension in the dimension preset instead of having it use the active style?
> Extrude command wish :
> Not exiting the command after specifying extrusion length (would wait for right click by user).
I don't know, this may be too big of a change. Having an extra step for all uses of Extrude is kind of like paying a "workflow tax" on all simple extrusions just to make that back and forth between Draft angle and distance work for the tapered case.
> Add an Axis Show/Hide check box in the "Grid Snap" button wish :
> This check box would be under the Show Grid checkbox.
If you want to put this in now, you can do it by editing the file GridSnapMenu.htm inside the ui folder.
Add this below the <moi:CheckButton> for "Show Grid" on line #19 :
code:
<moi:CheckButton binding="value = moi.grid.showXYAxes"><moi:Text textid="Show grid axes checkbox"/></moi:CheckButton>
- Michael
