Andrew McIntyre

Thanks William - I tried your suggestion, but just as with Notepad the Private Character pastes successfuly into Wordpad, but then when I try to copy and paste it from Wordpad into Publisher I get an empty narrow rectangle!

Thanks MikeTO, I have discovered that the same problem crops up in Apache Open Office, probably for the reason you suggest. I'm puzzled that Microsoft would bother to embed a utility that saves its characters to a file separate from the font thereby putting them beyond reach of 'regular' software. I don't know of anyone who would want to use Notepad or CAD software as a word processor!

I have created two "private" characters using the Windows built-in eudcedit utility. The first one I have saved to a specific font and the second one I have saved to all fonts. I can locate and copy both characters in Character Map and paste them successfully into Notepad and into my CAD programs, but not Affinity Publisher (v.1) Is there a special procedure in Publisher that will overcome this, or is the programe not yet equipped to deal with private characters?

I have just done a clean reinstall of Windows 10 (Home Edition) following a corruption problem. I have used the full Affinity suite on this machine since each of the apps became available but now when I click on the download button on the Affinity website for any of the three apps nothing happens. I have tried loading them directly from an external hard-drive I have onto which I downloaded Photo, Designer & Publisher using a laptop. However this triggers a message that I need to download a Microsoft net app of some sort which appears to be massive since I gave up after 15 minutes when only a small fraction of the file had been downloaded. Does anyone here know what is causing these sudden mystifying problems?

It has a separate numeric pad - which as mentioned earlier works fine with Open Office and other software.

Apologies to all - I found the answer shortly after posting this. The answer (of course!) is to invoke the Curves Adjustment Layer and select the Mode required through it. Works a treat !

Help needed! I want to apply Multiply to a base image, invert it, so that the image reverts to its original appearance, then paint in Multiply selectively to various parts of the image. There is no option for this in the Live Filters listing and if I add a new raster layer (Ctr i) as I would do in Photoshop, I can't get any further. I want to keep Multiply on its own layer so that I can go back to tweak it if necessary. Is there a way to do this in Affinity Photo? All suggestions gratefully received!

Well, the Glyph Browser certainly works (thanks Walt!). However I have just run a short test using the three Affinity programs alongside my OpenOffice word processor using three fonts - Arial, Times New Roman and Roboto. Open Office recognises the short cuts instantly and inserts the appropriate 'special characters', but none of the Affinity programs do. They either don't respond at all or insert a rectangle. I get the same result with my Office PC as with my Laptop, so there does seem to be a bug somewhere in the Affinity Suite. Yet the puzzling thing is that it evidently doesn't affect you Carl! Windows 10 Home edition.

I am puzzled by the fact that I am unable to access special characters in Affinity Publisher using the normal short-cuts. For instance Alt+0176 for ° and Alt+0248 for ø etc. If I type these combinations directly into Publisher I get a thin rectangle in portrait mode containing an X. I have been getting round this by copying and pasting via the Microsoft Character Map which seems an odd thing to have to do - all of my other software copes with this without any issues. Am I doing something wrong or missing a vital setting somewhere? Windows 10 Home edition

Agreed - I think being able to directly bring up a reference image and copy colours across from it is highly desirable. Hopefully to be incorporated into IP in the not-too distant future. Having to manually jot down colour values and enter them across manually has a distinctly olde worlde feel about it!

Is there a way in Affinity Photo to lock two separate images horizontally or vertically and work back & forth between them as in Photoshop? I thought at first that the "Float" feature would permit that but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in quite the same simple way. Nor have I discovered how to pick a colour in the inkwell of one image and use it directly in the other. I have to keep jotting down the RGB values and entering them across. Any suggestions gratefully received!

Dave - that's really helpful. It now works! Thank you very much indeed. One of Affinity's less intuitive features I'd say when having a tiny b&w icon under the inkwell is such an obvious way to do things!

My laptop screen gets cluttered very quickly when I am working on publications in Affinity Publisher. For which reason I was about to suggest that the menus could perhaps be made to 'roll-up' so as to occupy less space. Then - quite by chance - I discovered that if you click on the title of a tab (not the tab itself), it does indeed roll up so that you can then "park" a useful number of menus in a small space and access them immediately. Perhaps my slow wits have prevented me from discovering this earlier but in case there are others who may be similarly afflicted I mention it here since it has made a huge difference to my on-screen housekeeping efforts.

My understanding is that if you want the inkpot in the Affinity Photo colour palette to switch to black & white, the short cut is D. This would appear to be the equivalent of clicking on the miniature squares at bottom left in the Photoshop colour palette (my CS2 version!) However the D shortcut doesn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong?

While working on a short pamphlet one of the pages suddenly got overlaid with a second text-frame. Did I inadvertently press a short-cut that caused the text-frame to duplicate itself? I don't know, but either way I deleted one of the superfluous frames and the one that remains is full of desaturated text. Any fresh text I add remains desaturated. I have tried cutting and pasting the text to a new text-frame which fixes the problem, except that the new text flows over the graphics and I don't get the option to reinstate the text-flow. For such a small project I can fix this by starting again, it seems to be some kind of self-induced corruption you might want to know about!BUILDING STANDARDS_11.04.2020.afpub BUILDING_STANDARDS_11_04.2020.afpub