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Auto reply: guides ARE per spread. And they can even be inherited (drawn as dotted lines instead of solid lines) from the master applied to each page

Hello, I searched a bit but didn't find anything about that. Can you define in Publisher guides which are only valid and shown for a specific spread or page? Aside question: I had a document in "facing pages" mode, and I set it to no facing = all pages equal. My vertical guides are not shown on the even pages. Is this expected? If so, how can I have guides for odd pages also shown on even pages? Thanks in advance, Mario

Hello, and thank you all for checking this issue. Indeed, the best result I could get so far is forcing rasterization of everything, even keeping the CMYK color space. It's so weird that the preview hardly allows to intercept this kind of issue. It seems the print facility likes a PDF like this, so even though I'll lose vector objects, I guess I'll go with that. It would be nice if someone at Serif could take a look; maybe this could be useful as a case to help iron out things that are not right. So far, Publisher has been amazing in its ability to go back and forth between the various personas, with no need to switch applications. I didn't expect such issues - to be honest, this is the first time I have ventured into the CMYK universe, though. - Mario

Hello, I have a serious showstopper with PDF Export of an Affinity Publisher (v2.6.0 on Windows 10 x64) document set with CMYK color; trying various types of CMYK color space changes things slightly but doesn't solve the issue. Please find the attached zip file containing the project, the broken PDF, and all the relevant media files needed to load everything correctly. Also available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xe_4M8XvzB3fgRAqAJZT-n2ZI-oZcuRi/view?usp=sharing I need to export pages 3 and 4 from the attached project to a PDF with as much vector data as possible, including text as curves. In short, even though the preview is OK, the resulting PDF has broken gradients. If I export it as RGB, the gradient and the whole page 3 seems okay (though rasterized and with less detail), but other things break on page 4. Here is an example of what I see in the preview in Affinity Publisher and what is in the output PDF. EXPORT PREVIEW PDF RESULT I tried both SumatraPDF and Firefox to check the PDF, so I don't think it's a viewer issue. This is a serious roadblock for me, Please advise on what can be done to address it. In the archive, the "preview" images also show the export settings. Thanks, Mario Bag_Issue.zip

I've been asking since the original post to achieve something different, I'm not advocating the behaviour of the current alignment icon. I've already received a proper reply from another forum member. Thanks

Take a look here. As soon as I click the "horizontal center alignment" icon the two text objects are moved so that they are both in the center of the selection. It's true that I should click "Apply" to confirm the change, but even though the "Align to" drop down gets enabed and I can choose its value I see no way to get the kind of alignment I'm expecting (the two text boxes being moved so that their "group center" is put in the center of the page horizontally.

I don't get how can this work; if I select first the type of alignment the damage is already done because the objects are moved (and they are moved where they are not meant to be, at least for my purposes...) - Mario

Thanks. This helps, I didn't think of using the mid spread guides and didn't know I could take advantage of the shift-drag to prevent vertical movements. I guess the alignment section could really benefit from a new section allowing this kind of operation :) - Mario

That doesn't work... when I have a selection of objects active and try to use the alignment section, the "Align to" drop down is disabled.

Indeed, what happens now is that they overlap. But I want the centering be done by not changing their relative position from each other, rather centering the whole set as if it were a group ... - Mario

Hello, I've been searching for a way to do this for a while without avail so far... I have multiple objects more or less on the same row. I want them all to be centered horizontally in the canvas but not have their center all set to the center of the canvas. I want them centered so that the whole group of objects is centered. I know I can probably group the objects and center the group (maybe), but is there a native way without having to resort to workarounds? Thanks! - Mario

Hi GarryP, thanks for replying; I didn't know about the F2 and F4 shortcuts, they work indeed, are they documented? BTW, on Italian keyboard [] don't work as well, and regarding the technical difference of the Liquify and Photo personas, I'd expect the ability to extend the shortcuts to them also or, as an alternate option, to be able to explicitly redefine the shortcuts for the Liquify tools, even if separately from the Photo tools. Regarding user experience, as it is now is a bit ugly in my opinion... - Mario

Confirmed here, Affinity V2: "apply all" on brush size shortcuts after customizing them don't seem to applyto liquify persona brushes... - Mario

Very good questions, I kind of hate the undefined "Limited time" term btw... please give me a F**** date

This is still in 1.10.5 it seems (at least on Windows). Duplicating a perspective adjustment bring to totally wrong result.... sad it is still there and makes it a PITA working with perspective fx... I'm sad and a bit frustrated, v1.x development seems stopped and I'm encountering loads of hiccups and buglets on almost everything I do with AP... - Mario