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Thanks again for the detailed answer, @thomaso. It worked!! I already had a Studio Preset for my workspace, though I did not find a file for it. Anyway, like you suggested, I copied the three folders from ~/Library/Application Support (one for each app) and the three .plist files from ~/Library/Preferences and pasted them to the Shared/Public folder of my second user account. I also saved my custom shortcuts to the shared folder. I then switched to the second user account and copied and pasted the files and folders in their respective Library folders. I then restarted my Mac (seems not to work without). Now the Affinity suite on both of my user accounts looks exactly the same. Again, thank you so much!

Thank you very much @thomaso for taking the time for your quite detailed reply to my question. I really appreciate it. As for your suggestion above: this is what I already did, but without any effect. Maybe I picked the wrong folders (didn’t find any for the workspace or custom shortcut settings at all). Could you elaborate which folders and files do I need to copy? That sounds pretty tedious. I might give it a try, but it’s likely not worth the hassle. If it works manually I’d be happy. I don’t change my settings that frequently after all.

Hello there, I am still using the Affinity Suite V1, but I think this applies for V2 as well. I have a Mac with two user accounts and want to use my Affinity Suite on both on them, and I want my settings, workspaces etc. to be synced between the two. I have searched this forum and the web and didn’t found a working solution so far. I wouldn’t mind if I had to manually copy the necessary files. Can anyone help me with this? Note: I bought the suite here at the Affinity Store and currently run MacOS Ventura. Regards, Johannes

I have a related question, and since I am still on V1 I decided to post here rather than opening a new topic: Why are rounded corners slightly off perspective when applied after transforming an object into the isometric grid? Please see the two images attached. On the left: square object, rounded corners, transformed into curves, then transformed into isometric view (fit to projection layer). On the right: square object, transformed into curves, then transformed into isometric view (fit to projection layer), then round corners applied. It is the one selected in the path view (second image). As you can see, when I apply cound corners in the isometric view, the perspective is off enough to look weird/not correct – it is even more obvious with more rounded corners and/or smaller sized objects. Am I doing something wrong? Or has this been fixed in V2? Best regards, Johannes

I second this, like in the old thread.

@claidheamdanns I fully agree with your point of view. Without GREP styles I still miss a crucial tool. Whenever a project requires more then basic typography, like kerning punctiation or other microadjustments, I am lost without Indesign. I was told that the staff has it on their list, but that was two years ago.

+1. Came across this today. This is a basic typography feature, not something worth some kind of workaround. Looks like the more I use Publisher, the more I ran into those "missing basic typography features".

That’s a feature not easy to spot. I’d still like an option to have select/deselect not logged by the timeline, but the ability to branch the protocol is a completely different approach. I have to try and test it. Thanks Walt!

Yeah, but that’s still a workaround, not a solution, right? Thanks nonetheless @Johannes.

Thanks mate! Never thought of this, but it definitely is a better workaround (there could still be an option though).

Has this one been solved yet? Came across it recently and thought it would be my printer. Then prints from Apple Preview turned out to be fine, as always. So I ended up doing the same workaround as @Johannes.

+1 . You can’t do sophisticated typography without it.

Hi, is there any way to NOT have the select/deselect command included in the protocol? I have tried to get used to that ever since I switched from Indesign, and it looks like I can’t. For example, when I go back in history (protocol) to undo something to just have a look like it looked before and then deselect the current object to really have a proper look without disturbing blue lines around it, I can’t redo that because the protocol logged the deselect as an action. So whatever changes I did, I have to do them again. I doesn’t make any sense to me why select/deselect should be part of the protocol at all. Or didn’t I get something here? Best, Johannes

If we can open IDML files, are there plans that we can also export into IDML at some point? It would be just vice versa I guess. Thanks for the updates and all the necessary efforts. I appreciate it. However, I would be glad to see a world-ready paragraph composer, first-line only base grid fit, a pipette tool that can copy styles and GREP implemented. Then AfPub would finally be a full Indesign replacement for sophisticated book projects. 👍

Thank you very much in return @Jon P. I appreciate that. Maybe adding a feature similar to the World Ready Composer would solve the issue. And I have confidence that the you are interpreting the font correctly. However, neither Fontlab nor fontdrop.info nor Typeface have this feature and render the font as it is supposed to be, without any issue. What do you think about that?