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I agree, they need to include an Android version soon. I also have a wonderful 14" Samsung S9 Ultra, which blows my old Ipad Pro 12.9 away.. I'm no longer a fan of overpriced, over-proprietary, behind the times Apple devices.

In Coreldraw 2023, there is a selectable option for you to make the current document (styles, margins, font, and any other options in the document) as the default settings for creating new documents. In Designer, what would be the easiest way to accomplish this? Thanks much, Bob

Thanks Walt. The Layers thing does what I need. I've only got 6 pages for this document that I'm making into a chart, all vector graphics, so I won't need Publisher in this case. I'm experimenting with Designer V2, to see if it can do everything that Coreldraw 2023 can do.....and it looks like it can so far, for the functions I use. I'm retiring in a year, and Designer, Photo, and Publisher will be my alternatives to the hefty Adobe Suite and Coreldraw Suite yearly subscriptions. I am very pleased with the Affinity products so far. I'm just learning how to navigate around the tools and function locations that equate to the Adobe and Corel functions.

Hi, Coming from Coreldraw where actual pages are used, I get the concept of Artboards and how to create them to act as pages, but how do you select and isolate a single artboard, in a multi-artboard document, to fit the workspace as a single page, or do you have to use the zoom tool to select an area to bring it into full view? Thanks, Bob

Yep! That worked. Coreldraw liked it. Thank you!

Designer files exported to PDF cannot be opened in Coreldraw 2022, and will open in Adobe Illustrator, but with shading errors. Designer will open PDFs generated from Coreldraw and Illustrator without issue. Why the one-way street? Designer files exported to EPS cannot be opened in either Coreldraw 2022 or Adobe Illustrator. Any help on this?

Is there a way to edit a Placed photo image object within Designer, kind of the way Adobe or Coreldraw does. Right click on the object, menu popup, "Edit With <photo app>" etc. I tried to use the "File" Edit in Photo", but that brings up the entire artboard in a low res view. Not the image object. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Bob

Most of the time, when I copy content from one document to another (all 8" x 11" landscape), or from one page to another, the pasted content falls exactly in the same place as the copy. This is good. However, sometimes intermittently, the copied content pastes in a random offset position. I can't seem to find a command in Designer for "Paste in Place", which would be useful for times likes this. There probably is a "Paste in Place" command, but I am new, and can't find it. Thanks for any help on this. Bob

As a Coreldraw User for over 20 years, I just wanted to compliment the Affinity folks on Designer. I am finding that Designer is a very capable vector program, which I am using more and more for general design work, and I especially like the object effects features. As I learn the navigation and keystrokes to do the same tasks that I do in Corel 2020, I find that Designer can do almost everything I do in Corel, and in some cases, better. While Corel has a very powerful import feature and export file feature (DWG, DFX, etc.), which I use often, I can export to AI or PDF, which, so far, Designer has been able open intact just fine. Nice job guys. Bob Malone Technical Designer

"right-click on the layer in the Layers panel and choose Rasterize & Trim" Thanks Walt! I would have never figured that out. Some of the nomenclature in Affinity I find unique, and I need to learn the naming practices as it relates to other editing software like Photoshop 2020. Still learning to get around, but I'm happy with what I've been able to do as I learn each tool and function. Bob M

Newbie. I am struggling with the Crop Tool. I crop an image, click Apply, it looks cropped, but it is only "hiding" the cropped portion. When I copy the cropped image to another layer in another file, the uncropped section is still visible. I must be doing something wrong. I figured Crop means Crop. Does it? I've attached the sample images. Thanks, Bob

AHA! Paragraph\Leading\Multiple\1.5......I would have never found the path to that in a millions years. Nothing in the help about that. Thank you so much for the directions. Bob

I am a Publisher Newbie, and I am hunting for the exact location of the paragraph Line Spacing parameter. I've read a few posts on the matter, but they aren't clear to me. Basically I am trying to implement a 1.5 line spacing. Thanks, Bob

Thanks for the response Paul. Being new to the Affinity family, I am just learning the boundaries of what I can, and can't do with the software. -Bob

I've tried searching for info on Asset Management, but I didn't find any clear answers to what I am looking for. My question is, is it possible to maintain the native *.propcol Asset library on a different drive, rather than stored on the C drive (Users\Appdata\Roaming\Affinity, etc). The asset libraries from Publisher/Photo/Designer will, in time, eat up a lot of storage space. I have a 512GB M.2 SSD for C, and I have (2) 3TB SSD internal drives I use for all graphics asset storage. Right now I am exporting the Asset library to the storage drive and deleting the one in the C drive. Then I Import the asset library when I need it, add any new objects, and then export it again. A lot of steps. Also, is there a way to combine the Asset libraries from Designer, Photo, and Publisher into a single library, like Adobe does? Thanks, Bob