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    Chul got a reaction from Dan C in Higher DPI value in Designer   
    That helps. Thanks!
    Not a problem. Thanks for your prompt responses!
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    Chul reacted to Dan C in Higher DPI value in Designer   
    I recommend checking out the following Spotlight article on understanding DPI, as this will explain it much better than I can! https://affinityspotlight.com/article/understanding-dpi/
    Thanks for letting me know, I would have thought that a larger size than this would have been more desirable - however I've never created nor sent an E-blast, so I'm certainly not the authoritative figure for this - apologies 
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    Chul reacted to thomaso in Higher DPI value in Designer   
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    Chul reacted to Mark Oehlschlager in Higher DPI value in Designer   
    Good question.
    In Photo, one can go to the Image Resize command and uncheck the Resample option before changing the DPI, which will preserve the pixel dimensions even as it changes the ratio of pixels to linear inches.
    In Designer, there is no option to uncheck/disengage Resampling.
    If you've set up a document that is exactly 600 x 600px with an initial DPI setting of 72 pixels per inch and you wish to change the DPI setting to 300 pixels per inch, in the Document Setup dialog box you must make sure that the Document Units are set to Pixels – NOT Inches or Millimeters or any other physical, real-world, linear measurement. If your Document Units are set to pixels, you can change the DPI setting from 72 to 300 and your pixel dimensions will be preserved. The only change will be to the ratio of screen pixels to linear inches/millimeters on a printed output.
    On the other hand, if you have Document Units set to inches or millimeters in the Document Setup dialog box, and then you change the DPI value from 72 to 300, Designer will resample the pixel data (in this case upwards, increasing the total number of pixels per linear inch/millimeter such that your new document pixel dimensions will be 2,500 x 2,500 px rather than your original 600 x 600 px).
    If you want to preserve your pixel dimensions while changing the DPI in the Document Setup dialog box, make sure your Document Units are set to pixels.
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    Chul got a reaction from stokerg in Hyperlink in Designer?   
    ok, I'll just switch to Publisher then... Thanks for your response!
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    Chul reacted to stokerg in Hyperlink in Designer?   
    Hi Chul,
    It isn't possible to set a Hyperlink in Designer but you can do this in Affinity Publisher   
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    Chul reacted to MEB in Question about Affinity Designer and deleting selections in Pixel Persona   
    Hi skylamar,
    The Place Image command inserts the image as an Image layer (check the layer type between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel) which keeps the original data of the image but can't be manipulated at a pixel level. If you right-click the Image layer in the Layers panel and select Rasterise it's converted to a pixel layer which can then be manipulated at a pixel level. After the conversion you can delete just the selection instead of the entire layer.
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    Chul reacted to MattP in Expanding Stroke amazing precision   
    I keep biting my tongue and trying not to get involved with all of these discussions that quickly become name-calling. It's disappointing to read and unnecessary. I suspect I shouldn't even be typing this (it's one of the reasons you don't see me as much on the forums nowadays) but I just wanted to stop this thread degenerating further by stating that I have been typing the new code for this feature for the last couple of weeks: It isn't something that is being left unaddressed, its omission is not some "petty revenge" as stated earlier (which is truly a rather paranoid, unsettling notion to try to get my head around why someone would even think that?) Please can we just all be nice to each other? It doesn't take much, and it frequently takes less time than bashing a keyboard to try to upset someone else or lash out to feel better. We're all after the same thing at the end of the day and we'll get there quicker without wasting so much time trying to say how "disgusted" we are at the job the software developers do: We're actual real people and we're doing our best with what we have - end of story. We try very hard indeed (we have many hundreds less developers than Adobe) and some things will take us longer to work out, but we actually do care an awful lot about what we do and we want it to be something we're proud of. If we're taking too long for you then I genuinely am sorry, but what more can I say or do - I'm doing the best I can
    Before someone suggests throwing more developers at the problem is a good way of fixing things we've nearly always found exactly the opposite - they need to be the right developers, and they're very hard to find - if you get the wrong ones then you spend time training them up only to find that the user experience of what they create wasn't as good as you'd want anyway, so have to do the work again so that's even more time lost.
    Like everything in life, Designer isn't perfect, I'm not deluded enough to think it is, in fact I'm usually the first to point out its failings when I meet people, but I genuinely am proud of it because despite its failings, it is also a genuinely powerful creative tool that is more fun and productive to use than the competition for a very good range of tasks. So no, I'm not going to feel "disgusted" with myself or my colleagues and nor should anyone try to suggest that we should. Yes, there are things wrong that we've already said are wrong and we are fixing them. Please let this be an end to the name-calling and disparaging.
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    Chul reacted to Alfred in One Licence on a Desktop and a Laptop   
    Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Reiner.
    Each licence covers multiple computers, as long as no one else is using the app for commercial purposes. So your licence for the Windows version allows you to install Affinity Photo on your new laptop (and your licence for the Mac version would allow you to install it on an iMac or another MacBook).
    If you purchased from the Affinity Store, sign into your account to download the installer and retrieve your product key. If you purchased from the Microsoft Store, sign in using the Microsoft Account details that you used when making the purchase.
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    Chul got a reaction from MEB in "Edit in Designer" didn't work, now it's working   
    Works fine now that I'm using 1.7.2!
    Thanks!!
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    Chul reacted to Patrick Connor in Affinity Photo for Windows - 1.7.2   
    We are pleased to announce a major update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.7.2
    Changes in this build
    The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.7.2 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.7.1) are as follows:
    New Features and Improvements:
    Tweaks to Crop tool. 'Absolute Size' has been renamed to 'Resample', and the 'Unconstrained' units defaults to the document units, as well as allowing the user to change the units for the crop creation. Added more lens correction data. Added TGA export support Improved Photoshop plugin support (more to come in the future). Re-added support for CRW metadata  Improved font matching of unknown fonts when importing PDF Allow .icm profiles, as well as *.icc Enabled import of ICC profiles when there is no document Improved performance of adjusting sliders in Develop Persona Added Remove White Matte and Remove Black Matte to the Filters menu Added an option to use the version 1.6 shadows/highlights filter Improved performance of editing live filters Simplified crop tool drag-to-crop behaviour Improved Healing brush. Changed selection refinement to be the same as in version 1.6. Added Select menu to Export Persona. Added JXR file associations. Fixes
    Fixed Develop White Balance with linear profiles Fixed rasterising groups with live filters inside Fixed flood select to work on placed images Fixed import of ABR brush files to skip any corrupt brushes Fixed text in shapes ignoring bounds when exporting selection Fixed incorrect rendering of text when exporting a PDF with embedded PSD Fixed PDF export of non-breaking hyphens Changed selection of first letter in bulleted list to not include the bullet Fixed failure to apply 'liga' near end of line Fixed text justification failing to split ligatures Fixed PDF export of text with ligatures to embed the font (as many browsers don't support ligatures unless the font is embedded) Fixed bullet and number lists not allowing single characters Fixed export settings not getting saved Fixed occasional crash when printing Fixed soft hyphen in a word prevents it from being added to the spelling dictionary  Fixed DNG imports with severe chromatic aberration Changed PSD import of background layers to correctly render blend modes Fixed sporadic crash in Batch processing Fixed rendering issues with Live Filters Fixed possibility of Develop Crop resulting in non-whole pixels Fixed certain CMYK JPEG opening at 72 DPI Fixed Drag and Drop of a file twice causing the file to remain locked Restored TIFF 'fff' support Fixed crashes when attempting to load truncated files Fixed failure to connect to Unsplash on Windows 7 and 8.1 Fixed Resize Document Prevent macros from recording Tone Mapping or Develop Cancelling the Crop Tool remembers the initial "drag to crop" state Fixed crash with Clone Brush (current layer and below) Fixed Image not clipping correctly when Reveal is enabled Fixed Lightroom data being stripped from Capture One XMP output Fixed saving a Jpeg replacing the Subject field EXIF Property with the Title Fixed EXIF Color Space property not matching new ICC Profile when exporting Fixed 32-bit images (and RAWs in Develop) appearing darker for people with HDR monitors Fixed Procedural Texture Up/Down onscreen modifier arrows next to the value field do not apply the value Fixed changing DPI using Anchor to Page resizes document Fixed pressing Esc during a colour pick operation hides the cursor over menu items Fixed Effects panel negatively affecting performance Fixed wrong document dimensions when switching document units Fixed 360 images losing their 360 functionality after being exported. Fixed crash when installing a new font. Fixed new fonts failing to appear when several thousand fonts have been installed. Fixed yellow colour cast opening some DNGs, such as converted Canon EOS 6D CR2 files. Fixed hang when pressing ESC to cancel Navigator panel Movement. Fixed Styles missing labels when using grid view. Fixed inability to assign Backspace key as a shortcut. Fixed Studio panel group gets disconnected after switching Personas. Fixed import of JXR 16-bit half float documents properly. Fixed Crop tool Reveal. Fixed help errors Earlier changes and fixes in 1.7.x since 1.6 (including the new 1.7 features) are listed in some detail in this earlier update announcement.
    This thread is for commenting on this announcement. Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Photo Bugs on Windows section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.
    UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
    The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
    If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
    If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.
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    Chul reacted to Patrick Connor in Affinity Publisher for Windows - 1.7.2   
    We are pleased to announce a major update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.7.2
    Changes in this Build
    The changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.7.2 (over the last release Affinity Publisher 1.7.1) are as follows:
    Spread Setup
    Grids can now be set up independently for different spreads or master spreads. Spread grids now taken from applied master unless overridden. Grid Gutters re-instated. Tools
    Fixes issues reparenting when dragging selections between spreads Fixed issue with Vector Crop tool creating multiple crops under some circumstances Fixed possible crash after cancelling multiple image placement Fixed performance issues with 'Lock Children' in some instances (Win) Fix for issue using drag/drop to open the same file twice Text
    Words with soft hyphens can now be added to the spelling dictionary correctly Fix for Hyperlinks not exporting if intersecting page bounds Fixed text entry issues with US International Keyboard Fixed copy / paste from MSWord not always selecting RTF format Fixed issues with drag / drop and Master Page text Fixes for pinning / unpinning objects within Master Page text Fixes for Pinned objects and Path Text Text wrapping performance improvements Text wrapping around other Text Frames now honours z-order Text wrapping fixed for thin lines Apostrophes causing spelling errors / auto-correct issues Fixed issue preserving fields, index marks etc when correcting spelling Text Style Editor fixes Fix for some fonts not showing underline / strikeout List of used font families for current document does not refresh automatically Fix to prevent creation of 'ghost' pinned objects leading to possible document corruption Fixed issues with Edit Text Style / Bullets and Numbering panel Fixed crash rendering Text Styles panel with large right indent Fixed crash breaking path text curve for open curves Fixed error copy / pasting Text Styles that could cause crash Overlapping text frames now respect Ignore text wrap when wrapping around each other Fix for Optical Alignment ignoring Tabs Text selection highlight no longer includes generated list text Fixed bug that could fail to apply OpenType features near end of line Changing letter spacing now splits ligatures correctly Fix for issue unpinning pinned nodes in pinned nodes Fixed Pinned Node status not updating correctly when changed on Master Page Fixed positioning issues when unpinning nodes Hyphenation fixes (Win) Fixed Text Style Editor Category Selection issue introduced in last beta (Win) Fix for changing font size if text selection contains a pinned image (Win) Text Styles Panel - hyphenation setting is not reflected correctly (Win) Font handling improvements, new fonts not recognised if many fonts installed, instability when installing a missing font (Mac) Fixes for Japanese input using IME Tables
    Fixes issues resizing table cells from Table Panel Fixed layout issues in Table Format panel Fixed crash selecting tables on different pages Fixed issues with table growing when copy and pasting between table cells Pages / Sections / TOC
    Fixed crash from two differing definitions of default TOC style name Fixed document sections drifting when the the document model was changed Master pages creation was incorrect after changing the document model to single pages Fixed issue updating page thumbnails in some cases Resources
    Linked Image previews were not colour managed in Resource Manager Replacing a linked image with an embedded document could move the object Fix for failure to reload linked resources correctly under some circumstances Fix for slower performance with Resource Manager open Linked resources were always updating when a document was re-opened Fix for 'Locate missing resources' on file open failing Replace image was always creating a linked resource Resource Manager was showing incorrect image size for some stock images (Win) Allow .icm profiles as well as .icc - they are the same thing Import / Export
    Fix for failure to load colour in certain SVGs causing crash Export to PDF of a previously opened PDF could channel invert JPEG images Fixed 'Preview export when complete' applicable for PDF only Added TGA export support DocX import using File > Place was ignoring styles if no frame previously selected Other DocX import fixes for specific files PDF Import fixes for specific files PDF Export - Date format in Info now locale dependent Bleed control moved to 'More' options or removed for export formats where it is less relevant PDF Import: Improved Font Substitution suggestions when opening PDFs etc PDF and Vector Export: Fixed issue with Embedded Documents and Adjustments PDF Export: Fixed Bleed not being saved in export profiles PDF Export: Fix for unwanted clipping when text nodes exported 'as selection' PDF Export: Fixed export of non-breaking hyphens PDF Export: Avoid font preflight warnings when embedding TrueType CIDFonts PDF Export: Web preset now embeds all fonts. Many browsers don't support ligatures unless the font is embedded and so render incorrectly. (Win) WMF import fix for specific file (Win) Custom print profile not saving/restoring all settings Printing
    Fix for Empty Picture Frames being erroneously output to Print (Win) Fixed occasional crash when printing (Mac) Fixed issue printing CMYK documents on older OSX e.g. Yosemite 10.10. (Mac) Typing '0' in Pages under Range and Scale in Print dialog causes crash (Mac) Tiled and N-Up options in Print dialog can't be directly edited StudioLink / Interop
    Implemented 'Edit in Publisher' for Designer and Photo (Win) Photo - Creating a mask from selection now accounts for bleed settings Misc
    Find and Replace with Paragraph style was only applying style to found text rather than whole paragraph Fix for ArtText not showing as selected if no fill is applied Help updates Translation updates (Win) Pantone categories are now alphabetically sorted. (Win) Asset names are no longer cut off in list view (Win) Object styles are no longer missing labels when using Grid View (Mac) Page outlines not always visible with white pasteboard (Mac) Fixed crash starting app from folders containing '/' This thread is for commenting on this announcement. Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Publisher Bugs on Windows section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.
    UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
    The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
    If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
    If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.
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    Chul reacted to Patrick Connor in Affinity Designer for Windows - 1.7.2   
    We are pleased to announce a major update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.7.2
    Changes in this Build
    The changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.7.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer 1.7.1) are as follows:
    New Features and Improvements:
    Added TGA export support Improved font matching of unknown fonts when importing PDF Re-enabled gutters Changed "Edit all layers" to control whether we re-parent objects when dragging across artboards Improved WMF import Added missing Select menu to Export Persona. Allow .icm profiles, as well as *.icc Improvements to hyphenation rules Fixes:
    Fixed path text handles loading incorrectly Fixed hang when breaking the curve of path text Fixed crash copy and pasting text styles Fixed import of ABR brush files to skip any corrupt brushes Fixed text in shapes ignoring bounds when exporting selection Fixed incorrect rendering of text when exporting a PDF with embedded PSD Fixed PDF export of non-breaking hyphens Changed selection of first letter in bulleted list to not include the bullet Fixed failure to apply 'liga' near end of line Fixed text justification failing to split ligatures Fixed PDF export of text with ligatures to embed the font (as many browsers don't support ligatures unless the font is embedded) Fixed bullet and number lists not allowing single characters Fixed sporadic crash on user's file Fixed export settings not getting saved Fixed occasional crash when printing Fixed soft hyphen in a word prevents it from being added to the spelling dictionary Fixed crash when installing a new font. Fixed new fonts failing to appear when several thousand fonts have been installed. Fixed hang when pressing ESC to cancel Navigator panel Movement. Fixed clipped Asset names in list view. Fixed Styles missing labels when using grid view. Fixed inability to assign Backspace key as a shortcut. Fixed Studio panel group gets disconnected after switching Personas. Fixed certain CMYK JPEG opening at 72 DPI Fixed Drag and Drop of a file twice causing the file to remain locked Restored TIFF 'fff' support Fixed crashes when attempting to load truncated files Fixed crash due to failure to load some colours in SVG Fixed performance degradation when transforming objects with Lock Children enabled Fixed crash when duplicating symbol with Appearance Panel visible Fixed EXIF Color Space property not matching new ICC Profile when exporting Fixed 32-bit images appearing darker for people with HDR monitors Fixed Appearance panel negatively affecting performance Fixed crash after escaping right-click menu in Crop Tool presets Fixed changing DPI using Anchor to Page resizes document Fixed pressing ESC during a colour pick operation hides the cursor over menu items Fixed pressing ESC whilst dragging an asset out will stop any further assets from being added Fixed Effects panel negatively affecting performance Fixed wrong document dimensions when switching document units Fixed crash importing PDF with empty paths Earlier changes and fixes in 1.7.x since 1.6 (including the new 1.7 features) are listed in some detail in this earlier update announcement.
    This thread is for commenting on this announcement. Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Designer Bugs on Windows section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.
    UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
    The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
    If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
    If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.
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    Chul reacted to Dazzler in Affinity Publisher   
    I have all three products, and that's a fairly broad question to answer, but in general Publisher is just more geared up for producing final products, such as perhaps a book or PDF where you need things like master pages, and page numbering, and general laying out of pages, whereas the other products are more geared to creating the individual assets used in the final publication. Think of Publisher as the master station where all the other assets come together and form the final finished thing. The studio link is very cool, enabling switching between three personas (roughly the three products, but not in their entirety). Things like wrapping text around images, flowing text between multi column designs become very easy in Publisher.

     
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