u/Knuftedufte — reddlx

Stroke width in pt while document in mm?

I have a document that operates with mm as basic unit but the stroke settings are still displayed in pt. After searching the old forum it seems in the old versions of Affinity you could change this in the User Interface settings. But even after looking there I can't seem to find this option. Is it still there (and I'm just to dumb to find it) or is there any other way to synchronize the document's and stroke's width unit?

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u/Knuftedufte — 19 hours ago

▲ 2 r/Affinity

Use brushes as path strokes?

I´ve currently switched from Photoshop to Affinity and I´m trying to recreate a visual from a Photoshop-Tutorial, since I haven`t found an equivalent explanation for Affinity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCuSeReQ5JE

TLDW: The tutorials explains three approaches how to create light streaks. The basic principle for the first and second are using a dotted brush and reduce the spacing of the brush to it`s minimum. In the first instance this brush is used to simply draw, in the second it´s used as the stroke of a path.

I suceeded recreating the first approach, but in recreating the second effect I ran into the obstacle that Affinity doesn´t seem to allow brushes (the ones native to the pixel Studio) to be used as path strokes but only path brushes. Is there some way to use brushes also as path strokes or to adapt a brush to be used on paths?

Thanks in advance

u/Knuftedufte — 14 days ago

▲ 3 r/FontForge

Is there a way to select all connected points?

In the Character View Window, is there a way to select all points that are connected to a selected point? Or is it possible to expand the selection to adjacent points?

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u/Knuftedufte — 2 months ago

▲ 1 r/Kurrent

Different capital Hs in a text?

https://preview.redd.it/jiofv2xv2b2h1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8becf4c8621d519501699c16520a4022623d48f9

Recently a friend of mine sent me a page from an old bible with a special dedication since it was a gift for a newlywed couple. So I started do decipher it and since I only know Sütterlin my first question: Is this Kurrent or Sütterlin just with a very bad handwriting?

Then I managed to make out some words and when I had all words in the last line, I typed it into my search engine. Since it seems to be a known german poem, I then had the full text.
The full translation is as follows:

Wie einer liest die Bibel
So steht seines Hauses Giebel

Herr dein Wort die edle Gabe
Wolltest du erhalten mir,
denn ich es jeder Habe,
Auch dem größten Reichthum für.
Wenn dein Wort nicht mehr soll gelten,
Worauf soll der Glaube ruhn'?
Mir ists nicht um tausend Welten,
Aber um dein Wort zu thun!

So far so good, but since I knew the text I was confused of how some letters were written. Especially the capital H doesn´t seem neither consistent nor logical.

https://preview.redd.it/rbpf61vk2b2h1.png?width=529&format=png&auto=webp&s=d529b32b0f64d2c92027a916482fa01946a8be35

These words should read as Herr, Hauses and Habe, but all their Hs are written differently and neither of them looks like a capital H from a Kurrent alphabet. In the word Herr it rather looks like lowercase h and the e also seems to be written as capital letter?

Are there different styles to write an H or do you have any idea why it was written this way?

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u/Knuftedufte — 3 months ago