Bud Brown

It took some playing around, but you've pointed me in the right direction. It seems to be working. Thank you. I'm frustrated with Affinity's support and help system. When I invoke the Affinity Publisher help app and search for "pin" or "pinning" nothing shows up. When I search for "pin an object" or "pin a table" in the support forums, nothing shows up.

Affinity's Table feature really is messed up. I have created a table that I want to move with the paragraph just above it. I.e., when the paragraph moves lower down the page because new text was added before it, I want the table to move with it. I've tried using the text flow feature, I've tried pasting the table inside of a frame, I've tried inserting an anchor for it, but nothing seems to work. Is this that hard and the function that obscure? Anybody know how to do this?

Thank you. How in the world did I miss that?

I have searched high and low through the menu system, the settings, and the help system trying to figure out how to reveal the Text Styles Panel so I can do some editing of text styles in a publication I'm revising and updating. Darned if I can find this anywhere! I'm baffled that it's so hard to find the panel! Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Mike! I don't know why I didn't see this before. I had been looking under the File menu...

I would like to copy six pages from one .afpub file to another .afpub file. I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Can anyone provide me insight

That was it. Thanks!

I have tried every way I can think of -- and the online tutorials do not seem to address this issue -- but in Affinity Photo the panels do not display on the right side of the app window. They show up just find in Affinity Publisher, but not Affinity Photo. Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong here? I am using Affinity Photo version 1.10.5

I'm trying to create a logo for a sailboat named "Sedona Leona." In my mind I see a very simple line drawing that consists of (1) the outline of a prominent tourist attraction in Sedona, AZ (like Bell Rock or Coffee Pot) and a sailboat. I have a couple of landscape photos that I'd start with. I've converted them to B&W pencil sketches, see attached as an example. I'm not sure the best way to move forward. I would like to eliminate all the sketch detail so I end up with only the outline. I'e experimented a Curves layer and dragging the controls around, but am not proficient in this tool. Am I down to erasing pixels and regions? Or is there a better way to do this?

Aha! And yes, we have a winner! Thanks, Mark. I was looking in the wrong place for this.

Thanks, Mark. I'll jump on this and see if I can work it out. UPDATE Here's the steps I followed, with mixed success. I created a new document in Affinity Designer 1.8.2 Set the background to "Transparent" in the Color section of the Document Setup dialog Placed the image (a .PNG file) and then rasterized it (I also tried dragging the file name from the Finder window and dropping it on the Affinity toolbar which automatically places and rasterizes graphics files). Drew a couple of shapes and tried set the Blend Mode to Erase, but I did not find an Erase setting! Poked around for a while in the Affinity Help file and found that some layers have a "Transparent" setting, but not all layers. Mine didn't. Finally out of frustration I grabbed one of the shapes in the sample file you sent, copied it and pasted it into my working document. Bingo! So I've got to figure out how you did that. Are you using the same version of Affinity Designer? Thanks for your generous gift of time.

I'm new to the Affinity suite. I've been chugging my way through the Fora, been watching the tutorials, and experimenting endlessly. There's one thing that has me stumped. I'm trying to make an image to be used in OBS. I need to 'cut out' various shapes, leaving them blank so that I can slide other elements (e.g. a couple of video feeds, a Zoom conference, and a PowerPoint) into the broadcast. In the sample image I've uploaded here, imagine that the white shapes are the areas I'd like to delete from the background image. I've sort of figured out how to rasterize the image and delete either round or rectangular portions, leaving the deleted areas blank. But I haven't figured out how to use masking to delete specific shapes, such as illustrated in the attachment. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, and sorry if this is an elementary noob question. But I am an elementary noob to Affinity.

WordsFlow Pro offered two-way linking between Word and InDesign files. This was extremely helpful when I was working in a multi-contributor environment. I asked each contributor to a large Indd project to submit their work on a shared Word document. I set up the interactive link between the indd and docx files. Then any changes made to the docx files were pushed to the indd file and vice versa. If Affinity could mimic that in some way, it would be a huge boost to those of us working on collaborative projects.