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Working on a MacBook .High Sierra, AP 1.7.2 In any photo, using any tool, the image flickers as drag tool onto image There is no flicker when the tool is actively being used. Once over the image there is a flicker each time the tool is engaged or disengaged (click on click off). Video attached to show the effect. Image is background - no layers. Very distracting! Flickering screen.mp4

I could really use a destructive crop method that can be triggered by shortcuts for processing large numbers of files. I know that many people would say that having a non-destructive crop is better...just not in all circumstances. Here's the scenario.I am managing a hundreds of photos of students for our school database. The photos are all rapidly taken with lots of extraneous background and very poor centring. They are also just too big in file size and bloat the database if loaded as taken (yes I know, better source photos would be great, taken at a lower resolution...yes we have tried to train the staff) This was possible in photoshop with a selection and a series of shortcuts: Rectangular selection (based on a ratio) Crop (user defined key strokes) Image size (Shift-Command I) Save at a lower resolution (Command S and offered at save time) In photoshop I managed about 200 files in about 25 minutes. This would take hours in Affinity - batch won't work because this would require the same selection to be made each time. What do you think? I know others miss this too... As a second best, the ability to click-drag to expand the crop selection (ie expand from centre not at edge or corner) would be very welcome

I am using the newly released Publisher and switching from InDesign 5. I want to be able to see certain text elements as I work but hide them when printing. A specific case is where I set up a single A4 sized layout to hold 4 pages of a book (making a section when cut after printing). There are four page numbers on each sheet and these are needed to be visible to me while type setting (for ordering the text blocks). However I need to be able to set these to be invisible when printing. This was possible in InDesign, where I also used the feature to write myself notes about imprint, fonts used and page collation after cutting... but I can't find this in Affinity Publisher. Although I can set a layer to be invisible, it means I can't see it to work with. I hope this makes sense. Have I missed something or is this not possible?