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Psenda sums it up better than I can: That's exactly how it is, and what I meant. Thank you. Have a nice weekend! Johannes

I apologize, but I think many here in the forum “tinker” with Affinity, but don't work with it professionally. Maybe Gen Z. If you have to open, change or finish 65 book designs or ads a day from the server, you don't have time to look anywhere and call up “Manager”. It has to run smoothly and you don't have to “search”. Period. In any case, I have the impression that there are always people who think they have to gloss over criticism. You can do FastFourrier analyses with Affinity - but it's difficult to stand in production. That's how I see it. I have already mentioned also the extremely positive aspects above. Johannes

Hello Garry, thank you for your answer and informations! As a regular observer and contributor (more questioner...) in this forum, I am aware that this requirement has existed already for a long time. To respond to your answer: Do you expect me - after opening an (older/foreign) document - to now search in all kinds of menu items and dialogs to see if anything is wrong, outdated or incorrect at any point? That would be grotesque. Of course I know the menu item “Resources”. Missing/wrong/different color profiles are just as significant as a missing font. I think, it should be possible to create a central dialog that does not close irretrievably after 3 seconds, all showing all the “ifs and buts” of the document just openend. I've said it many times in the past: The Affinity Suite is great! I'm happy. And I hope we all look forward to a peaceful (not necessarily "for free") future of update models etc. ! - but the programmers of the suite don't seem to me to be practitioners. Johannes

When opening some of my documents, AFPub shows different (error) messages for about 3 seconds. These then disappear before I have had a chance to read them carefully. (Missing fonts, ressources, color profiles etc.) My question: Is it possible to look up/call up again these messages later in the corresponding Affinity software? My second question: Which programmer would have the idea of drawing his users' attention to potentially serious problems in this way? It's like a fire alarm only for 3 seconds. Grotesque. Best wishes, Johannes

Thank you all very much for the information and help! I've learned something again. Regards, Johannes

Many thanks, "Lacerto"! We all knew, that you are one of the most skilled members here concerning "the secret knowledge" about the furthest cornes of the panels : ) This I did'nt know. Has something changed in the structure of the panels as a result of updates, or has it always been like this? I have been typesetting books and commercial work with Affinity for years... Thanks alot! Johannes

Hello out there! I've just come across a strange phenomenon: I'm currently designing an event poster, which of course includes time specifications. I'm doing this with the "Typography" panel by formattoing "superscript" of the minutes. (10/superscript: 3 pm). But it won't work! Superscript etc. everything is ignored. After some tinkering, I now realize that there are only a certain fonts in my system (Calibri, Bagdat ...) that accept the formatting. In other cases the buttons for formatting are greyed out. 😱 Maybe it has something to do with UTF or something similar? Where is the point to “repair” this? Or does it have to do with the fact that Affinity only accepts certain font types? However, I no longer use Type 1 fonts. Mac OS 13.6.9 Affinity Suite 2.5.5 Thanks for help from Germany Johannes

To say it in advance: I am ultimately a layman in this field! I see 2 possibilities. On the one hand, there is the option “Print as image” in the print dialog in Acrobat. Then the PDF output is rasterized (usually due to display/font difficulties) bei Acrobat itself. Second, I think that in Acrobat Pro (which I bought in 2020 for far too much money...) there is a function with which you can convert all fonts to vector within the PDF. The problem is that the font is not *missing* in a PDF, but is safe embedded (or a subset of the letters), but you can't get to it from the outside. But as long as you stay “inside” a PDF (as long as it was not created with a chi-chi software, including Office), the display should be correct. So long for my grain of salt to the problem! Johannes

Thank you very much @Return, you are a genius with the “cinematic demo”! Yes, together with the hint from ©carl123 it comes down to *this* “solution”. But you have to admit: The approach at the “big mother” is at least 3 times as fast and more "straight forward”. That's just the way it is. Johannes

Tanks for your answers! If I see it right, there is only the 2-step workflow to get a correct cut out!? @return: I also tried the tool: layer -> live projection –> perspective projection. But then I can't cut out anything off the original picture. Or I'm wrong? How did you get that (correct) cutout? Johannes (As I've said before, the Affinty development team creates the strangest and most outlandish filters and functions. But they struggle with the basic tools/functions. But maybe this is due to the commercial "competition”. You can't make a fortune with a conventional toolbox with high-quality standard wrenches. Then it's better to have flexible wrenches with Charly Brown lights and stardust spray ...)

Hello out there, I am in the process of editing several dozen photographs of painted pictures for a catalog. The artworks were photographed while leaning against a wall, so they are usually somewhat perspectively distorted: I need to cut out these artworks out of the photographs (including their frames). In earlier times (PSD) I had a “perspective crop tool” where I dragged the corner points onto the corner points of the photographed frames, then clicked “apply”, and this software cut out the marked area and automatically corrected its perspective to a rectangle. Apparently not so in AfPhoto! If I set the corner points with the perspective tool (selected is “dwell”) and then click “Apply”, AfPhoto distorts the marked area to the original pixel dimensions of the original photograph! Grotesque. The cut out area is totally distorted to the dimensions of the original file: Question: How do I get a non-rectangular area cut out of an image? Thanks for any help! Johannes

Hello Walt, I am always impressed of your knowledge! At my company, they had a small, young team to program the software themselves (media & publishing branch). The software was supposed to map all production processes, all administration, correspondence and even great parts of the warehousing. I was one of the people who had reservations and advised buying a commercial solution “off the shelf”. But the boss forced it through. Productivity dropped to what felt like 50%, and cries of despair and curses could be heard from every office. And the bug list or to-do list grew longer by every hour. After about 1.5 years, there were several thousand of bug items in the queue. But then came the decisive solution from the management team! The entire bug list was declared null and void, as no one would have been able to work through it anyway and no one would have been able to prioritize it. And everyone was asked to report bugs - if they found any. That's how effective management works!

I am currently preparing the typesetting (and print) of a catalog of an artist's works. For me, this includes image processing, in the course of which I prepare the material to 300 dpi (delivered from the cameras as 72 or 144 dpi) and AdobeRGB. In terms of resolution, it is therefore a matter of setting this to 300 dpi WITHOUT changing the absolute pixel dimensions. I have no interest in declaring any of those work steps superfluous or similar at this point. Some days ago I just have learned that AFPub is not even able to correctly convert a 4c document with process black text into an other 4c color profile without losing the black. Best wishes to you, Bruce! Johannes

Many, many thanks to both of you! I still had the thread you quoted in the back of my mind. But I find it a bit frustrating that nothing more has happened since then. They rather realize a "inverting spectral filter" or “walking on the moon”, which the community needs once a year. It seems to me (not for the first time) like a drilling machine where the development team is working on the 16-speed hydro gearbox, but the electrical plug always falls out of the socket by itself - but they have no time to fix it. I'm so sorry... Johannes

Hello out there! For an exhibition catalog, I need to edit several dozens photographs of different size. Now I have tried to set up a macro in AfPhoto, which should only change the resolution of the images (but not their absolute pixel size) and convert them to aRGB. Now I realize that in the macro not only the new resolution is applied to the new image - but all subsequent images are also given the pixel size of the first image! Although I made sure to de-activate the “recalculation” checkbox in the size/resolution dialogue when recording the macro. Therefore the pixel counts are grayed out – and should be ignored while erecording the macro (as it is done in PSD...). Is this another one of the Affinity development team's tricks? How do I get a macro that simply changes the image resolution but not the size? Thanks and best wishes! Johannes