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I know, but I am aware they don't like you starting a new thread if there is already a relevant one open. Can you help me? Or should I start a new thread.

Hi @toltecI have recently bought a 2 in 1 acer and was looking forward to using the stylus to design, but have just opened affinity designer and cannot figure out how to use it. Without the shift, ctrl keys etc. It seems practically useless. And it won't even adjust the stroke of brushes in relation to speed or pressure even when those settings are selected. How are you using it on your acer?

oops, thanks for the heads up

Yea I saw that, I was just wondering if there was also the option the other way. I am getting there but I've now encountered a problem installing one of the overlay bundles on affinity photo. Gives me an error (please see screenshot), but it doesn't really explain what the error is. Would you guys be able to decipher what it means?

Okay, so the I am currently talking about designer, but purchased all 3 from Affinity website, and I am using windows 10. The textures that had to be installed manually were in a bundle 'Fine Liner Affinity brushes by The Artifex Forge'.

Ah, yes the font one has that symbol, and yea the brushes I was looking for appeared in pixel persona. And on further inspection I realised most of the others are textures and overlays, which I have now found in assets. There are also some layout templates, which I realise now are in a separate folder to my templates I created. I wonder if you could tell me where on the computer these would have been saved to? And could I move them to be with the ones I have made? or would this confuse the programme? Oh but I've just noticed 1 lot of textures did not install itself and had to be manually downloaded as image files and so aren't installed in the programme, is this normal? would there be a way to put them into the assets panel like the others? Oh and also, do I need to install on all 3 programmes separately? Or will they get installed on all at the same time?

I've recently got a new laptop and was downloading everything to it. After downloading and successfully installing 2 additional packs of fonts and brushes etc. from my account on the website it prompted me to try doing it directly in the app as it was quicker. It seemed to work, all the features eventually got a green tick by them, but they don't appear to be available on my app. There are no extra fonts, brushes etc. relating to the ones downloaded, installed and according to the app available other than the original 2 that I did via the website. What's going on?

Wana rethink that response

As plenty of users have pointed out they wanted to be able to do this in designer on. What if you don't have photo? It's a lot to pay for a tiny extra tool that could be easily implemented in designer. And if you want to achieve the result on a vector object. As for Fixx, again as has been pointed out multiple times, we know how to do that but this is not what we want to do.

this literally defeats the whole point of having affinity. If I could afford illustrator I would just do everything on that.

Ah, I've just figured it out. I had lock guides on haha. Got it working now.

Oh sorry no I meant on the right side (still within the art board). I cannot get any line to come out no matter what tool is selected. I tried move tool first.

Um Im not sure what the difference would be between putting on the canvas or on the Artboard, either would be fine. And not sure what the pasteboard is. Thank you for the image, i didn't notice the little page icon down there before it appeared to be greyed out but still works. But so how would I do the click and drag one? as this would be a lot more useful for me as I can snap it to an exact location, rather than just typing in a number. And can I not move already placed guides?

Hi I just wanted to add some new vertical guides to the right of a card design I was doing, but clicking and dragging from the ruler does nothing, and also when I try going to the guides manager there is no add new guide option. Am I missing something?

Oh it was artistic text tool. And it was the whole text or object selected, so should've worked. I tried the other eyedropper and that worked, and then since that, it now works the other way... I seem to get a lot of intermittent bugs lately

Yea both curves are defo selected, but yea it does seem to be a very intermittent problem. Very inconsistent. join curves greyed out.mov

When I have text selected, whether with the text tool (highlighted) or the selection tool, I cannot choose a colour via the eyedropper. It just deselects the text when I click the eyedropper.

I have 2 curves with end nodes on top of each other. I have both nodes selected and yet join curves is still greyed out. I literally did the exact same thing seconds before and it worked fine.

Ah it didnt update cos i had be signed out of app store. All sorted now thanks

sounds silly but cannot work out how to update, where do i go to do this?

I also am having this same issue

I just printed some cards today and it actually happened printing directly from affinity this time. I have attached the file for this one, (had to drag and drop cos the 'choose files' link still doesn't appear to be functioning. xmas4.afdesign

Just tried exporting as PDF, and the lines are still there when opening in acrobat. Not tried printing yet as tucked up in bed atm, but I presume it will show up on print as well. I cannot seem to upload the file atm, the link 'choose files...' doesn't seem to be responding when i click on it and I've tried refreshing the page several times.

Hi, I am aware there is a mild glitch with lines appearing where some elements of a design meet even if there is no stroke, it even mentions it in online tutorials but to be rest assured they will not print. And you can normally check the lines are not really there by zooming in and they don't get bigger with everything else so just a glitch on the screen. And I have not noticed a problem when printing before, but I recently made some placemat designs that needed to be exported before printing and the lines appeared in the exported version and then even when printed even though they don't exist in the design. Is there any way to avoid this? as I don't really want random lines going through my designs in future.

no copy pasting from photoshop works when i paste into illustrator and inkscape, and inkscape works pasting into photoshop and illustrator, and affinity designer into inkscape and photoshop and illustrator, but nothing works pasting into affinity designer