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It took some time to understand what the issue is, as the description in the posts left room for interpretation and the jpg after upload does not really show the issue. the export preview is shown in 1/2 resolution of the actual file, leading to artifacts the rendering inside Designer and exported files are ok. for me a bug.

The grid will vanish when you use integer position and size for all tiles. it gets visible in png only as jpg does not support transparency. or add a fill layer on bottom of the stack and give it the color sampled from one of the tiles.

@stokerg For me it also doesn't refresh automatically after I drop the file. It is necessary to interact with the panel to force a refresh. I checked using PNGs and SVGs. This happens with every file. So @stokerg it's possible that this is a problem for a larger group of users, but you don't see it in the reports, because perhaps not everyone will report that it also applies to them.

Sure Mike, thank you for being willing to give this a try. here is a portion of the text where the letter u is being converted to the letter v when I change the language to latin with that spellchecker. Salve, Regina Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae; vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eja ergo, Advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

Ooh, this is valuable! @R C-R It even keeps the layers via clipboard!! Whew! Thank you! This is what I was looking for.

The main problem I'm getting is that "Common" Windows 11 issue, where the Microsoft Store won't function and any apps that somehow rely on it will not update (XBOX App chiefly among those). Yes, I've tried the all the usual "Fixes" for this system related issue and no joy what so ever. Those MSIX files seem to count on the Microsoft Store being active, because I'm getting the error box that reads "Installation Failed. Please contact your vendor.". Are the EXE-Files available to Download for Affinity 2?

only one page documents are allowed as assets and pdf was also possible but seems restricted now.

I was surprised too, however it works. Also the Assets Panel refreshes as it should.

The crop tool seems to behave differently in two different kinds of Affinity Photo files. In one file, a simple jpg, it works as advertised in the affinity.help guide. The other file has several layers, including a group that contains both type and objects (rounded rectangles). In this second file, the crop tool, when selected, shows a blue outline; there is no context menu and no grid into which the image is usually divided. When I click and drag to select an area, the crop tool only selects one of the objects in the group. Hitting the return key has no effect. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how I can get this tool to work. Thanks in advance.

Yes, these crashes, as described above, have only occurred after focus merge. What I do now, is focus merge images, safe the merged image as jpg, reload the image and then do the RGB/16 conversion. and that works fine. I have saved the .afphoto file and I cannot get it to crash when converting to RGB/16. Source images are JPG, from a Nikon Z7

Was getting ready to use Designer and the app crashes every time I launch. The other 2 programs (Photo and Publisher) launched successfully and have been upgraded to 2.4.2. What do I do? Crash report attached. Thank you. Affinity Designer 2 Affinity Store-2024-04-18-195216.ips

So should someone post this in the bug group?

New to Publisher. I created a 12 page booklet the prints fine from publisher. However when I export it as a pdf to print, all pages, the last 3 pages of the file are missing?

I created 3 elipses without text>convert to curves> added 2 nodes> clicked both>break curve. Thanks guys, didn't even have to leave Apub : )

Your English syntax seems to be pretty much impeccable Oufti. Si je pourais écire en Français comme ça, je serais pas mal content. Thank you for this, especially the reference to Acrobat Reader ... I stopped using Adobe awhile back and wouldn't have thought to use the Reader to analyze what I'm sending out as a PDF. I'm about to explore your suggestion at this very moment. Merci milles fois...

Some of the contextual toolbar like bullet list show tips, but the ones on the right don't. My tool tips delay is the same as yours. But so glad you sent me to setting. I upped my black and white contrast; much easier for me to see.

Hi @Hangman, Thank you for doing all this work! I've just downloaded the zip and opened it. Tomorrow I check for the correct images/text. I'll also have to work out how to proceed in regards to the 2020 edition re-translation, because there are lots of pages to do. I prefer to split a book up in smaller parts in case of errors. First need to load the batteries. Thank you again!

Once they are in the PDF, they will not disappear — at least if you choose to embed all fonts on export. To check what fonts are embedded in your PDF, you can open it with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader and press cmd/ctrl-D (Show properties). In this document, I inserted the symbol via the Characters chooser and applied Times to the whole text — but since this triple greater than symbol does not exist in Times, the Apple Symbols font was used to embed the character.

The current empty state of the beta forum is therefore quite ideal - you can complain about absolutely everything. Hopefully they don't start filling it with something, because it will reduce our room for complaints 😞

Very clever! Thank you.

Best to do is to export first to a local drive and then transfer it to your One Drive. Applications (not only Affinity) are not very good at saving directly to a cloud or network storage.

Oufti, fantabulous!! It would have taken me forever to find that. Very much appreciated. I will be using it tonight.

Wonderful responses gang! Very helpful. I'm thinking I might just find some symbol-like text from the Times New Roman of the main body. These are just markers for the chapter ends. But if I use these ... which I probably got in 'symbols' and I SEE them in the output PDF ... any chance they might disappear on the way to the printer? I'm planning to embed all fonts/symbols in the PDF. I think it's already happening automatically as that's the way I set up the document (everything embedded).

Hi, I have this image exported 2 times. The export on the left is a JPG export while the export on the right is a PNG export. No matter which settings I use for the PNG export, there is always a visible grid. This grid you are looking at comes from somewhere: I filled the artboard with bordering squares in each direction, like this: This grid should not be visible in the export however, as it is not visible in Designer while I'm editing. I have been working with variants of this image with the same background setup since version 2.4.0 and I have not encountered this problem before. This square is a linked file set in resource manager by the way. Can this be related to the new 'primaries' and 'transfer function' settings I'm seeing in advanced PNG export settings?