[Trim or prune wide margin in PDF via Publisher like open-source Briss on Windows]

Yes, it is always a breeze with Briss.  And I thought I could get alternative to a Java-driven app via Affinity Publisher or Photo. Sadly quite difficult at this point.  May have to test out new V2 version when I have time.

 

[Trim or prune wide margin in PDF via Publisher like open-source Briss on Windows]

Briss has been a wonderful tool for Windows and open-source OS systems to trim off excess white spaces surrounding some published PDF documents.  Is there any way to do global trimming? Or is there a convoluted method involving defining new Master page resizing, etc. ?

On the Briss tool (last version 0.9) one could drag corners to desired proportions for Left and Right pages and it is done on requesting a crop.  It automatically appends a suffix "_crop"  to output filename if required. 

 

[Where to locate executable for Affinity Photo v2 when I still have ver 1]

I am trying to associate the AP ver 2 to a file type in another "open with" on another image browser

I can see only my older ver 1 in usual "Program Files" Affinity folder. Where is the new exe installed by new MSIX installer when I bought the new ver 2 application package ?

I have associated the image type with AP ver 1 all right but locating the execuatable for ver 2 in windows 10 or 11 is a little difficult.

How is the new structure organised ? MSIX means new version 2 only appear as a 300+ Mb install as I assume it marks all shared DLL et al files as under ver 1.   

 

[Preview of PSD exported from AP on XNView]

Thanks everyone,

I have used the default sRGB profile before and may need to test the various profiles to see the best fit in Windows. I know it can get tricky and I hope to post my results when I can identify the setting that triggered the dramatic colour mismatch.

 

[Preview of PSD exported from AP on XNView]

I exported a work file from Affinity Photo to a PSD format with varying outcomes depending on the image I edited. 

On most occassions, the rendering of the thumbnail image (if multi-layered) on XNView MP is not possible, and quite understandable. On some occassions, the rendered image has totally different colour saturation, oftenovder-saturated. I checked the PSD in my CS5 Photoshop edit session, and it was indeed over-saturated. Was it a mismatch in the ICC profile ? I tried using several profiles and somehow, it is difficult to match accurately even if a profile is available in PS CSx.  

What parameters should one look out for in this scenario ? 

 

[How to get Paintbrush colour to match eyedropper selection in Affinity Photo]

Thanks for the detailed video tip.  Am still unravelling all differences from some tool behaviour different from CS4/CS5, NIK which I am accustomed to. 

 

[How to get Paintbrush colour to match eyedropper selection in Affinity Photo]

I selected a colour on a point using eyedropper. It displays on the selection and I proceeded to then use the selection tool for an area of the photo. When I used the flood fill tool, the colour that was painted on is different from the eyedropper selection.  How do I fix this ?

In Photoshop CS4/CS5 where I have been using in the past, it's pretty straight forward. 

 

 

[Nik Collection No longer installed]

On a Windows 10 Pro Affinity Photo upgrade to latest 1.8.3 resulted in the loss of my NIK Collection (older version "Color Efex Pro 4, Viveza 2 etc.. " that was working before the update of AP to ver 1.8.3.xxx) filters as well.  when I added the reference to the standard C:\Program Files\Google\Nik Collection\ ... area, it accepted it but the filter options are all greyed out when a Photo was actually being edited.

Is this a bug in latest release  ?

 

[Utility to remove old autosave files on windows]

I noted quite a few older autosave files in my user area in windoows. I have mainly used AP, and wondered if there is a utility to remove older files ordo I need to do it manually.

Thanks

 

[Affinity Photo 1.8 won't run up (split)]

I had the same problem with Photo ver 1.8.0.585 dated 24/2/20 that failed to display the menu text after initial startup and crashed. 

Beta 1.8.1.610 seems to work.  It's time for changes to be rolled into a production release.  I have yet to test all other features but at least it starts up on my older HP Elitebook now running Windows 10 with updates to version 1909. 

[AP and alignment for photos scanned]

Photoshop users always have access to the arbitrary rotate option, which is intuitive and automatically taken by users to mean the default angle to correct for vertical/horizontal line (horizon) adjustment.  There is no easy access to anything as simple as this in the base menu.  

Is this an add-on or macro required of the product  to make it work ?

In addition, when I used the NIK correction modules in AP, there is no provision in the layers to show separate (retractable) adjustments like that which could be done in my CS2 CS3 /CS4 Photoshop.  It looks like I cannot reverse the change as in Photoshop's smart object. 

 

 

[Text box changes when editing PSD file in Publisher]

Thanks Joachim.  helps to know this distinction in the behaviour for text in PSD files. 

 

[Text box changes when editing PSD file in Publisher]

I have a text box in a PSD file.  When I edit it in Publisher (without entering any new text), resizing the paragraph box results in a font size change.  Is there a way of preserving the original size / font when moving the text around ?