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Wow, thank you so much for your great help! When I first discovered the missing archive bits, I was shocked to know, I worked without any "safety net".

Dear Affinity software engineers, If I open a Affinity file and make a new file via "save as", no archive bit is placed for the file document in window’s file manager "explorer". To tag this archive bit is crucial for making daily archival backup copies of my changed or newly created files. Therefore, all "save as" Affinity files are missing in my archival backup. If some damages happens, all these files are lost forever. Hence, I beg you to fix this problem as soon as possible, please. My OP: Windows 11 My Affinity version: 2.2.0 Kind regards

Hi Stokerg Thank you for your answer. As soon as the footer is placed, the colour value isn't 100 % Cyan, 100 % Magenta anymore. Only if I embed the footer, I'm able to change the colour back to 100%C 100%M. The original footer file is a publisher document in CMYK. The advertisements are printed in very varying publications like news papers, glossy magazines and so on. Hence the different profiles. There must be a way to place vector graphics without changing their colour values. I simply cannot find the way. I'm very desperate. I hope, you can help me.

Thank you so much for your helpful reply. The feather function is better than expected. But even if I choose the lowest value 0.1 px, it is not as crisp as Photoshop’s anti-aliasing. It's more blurred (I know, I can reduce the blur with the help of level adjustments).

I have almost hundred advertisings from the same client. The footer of these advertisings always is identically. In the footer, the logo, the postal address and some more infos are included. All these elements are blue (100% Cyan, 100 % Magenta). Therefore, I made a separate publisher document named "footer.aftemplate". I want to place this document in every advertising at the bottom. These advertising-documents have different ICC colour profiles. Unfortunately, if I place my footer into these advertising-documents, my blue colour changes. It's ultimatively important, that the colour values don’t change! It always must remain 100% Cyan and 100 % Magenta! I tried to achieve it by choosing 'Document Setup' > 'Colour' > 'Assign'. But annoyingly, it always changes back to 'Convert'. If I place the footer, there is no adjustment option to whether the colour values stay (Assign) or change to the document’s ICC profile (Convert). I also don't have an option to delete the ICC profile of the footer document itself, so that a change of colours can't be realized. To place the footer instead of embedding it, would save me tones of working hours! But as long as the colour values of the footer changes, I'm not able to use the placement function of Publisher. This makes me very frustrated. Can you help me, please?

Please, enable anti-aliasing for the Flood Select tool – this is extremely important! Thank you in advance

carl123 & Gabe: Thank you so much! Indeed, to change the group layer to Normal is the solution. I'm really glad. You helped me a lot.

Hi everyone, This is the original image: This is the mask: I applied the mask on a colour layer: When I put the colour layer into a group and apply the mask to the group, it looks ugly: I very often works with mask on group, because I use several adjustment and colour layers for the same mask. In order to be able to work in Photo, it's utmost important, that this bug will be removed as soon as possible, please!

Hi everyone, For a client, I have to create a form for minutes of a meeting. Per line, I have five tabs overall. At the beginning of the tab is a word, then followed by dotted lines for handwriting. This looks a bit like this: Word.......... Word.......... Word.......... Word.......... Word.......... But for many lines, there are very varying exceptions with less than five words but with longer dotted lines, for example like this: Word.......... Word.......... Word.............................. Unfortunately, if two tabs meet each other with only dotted lines as filler, I get ugly empty gaps. Please, have a look at this screenshot: I know, I could avoid these gaps by removing the redundant tabs and extending the first tab. But there are so many exceptions per line (different amount of words and widths of dotted lines from one word to another) that it means, firstly I have to do alot of rework and secondly, if the client wishes for changes (what happens every few years), it's not easy to add or remove words, because I have to adjust the tab distances for every line. Is there a better way, to remove these gaps, without altering the tab lengths?

Hi anon2 Thanks a lot for your hint! I hope many more people will complain about this to increase the pressure for the development team to fix this disastrous bug. I need this sort of mask very often for my photo retouching. I really want to prefer the Affinity software. But as long as this bug remains, I cannot quit Photoshop and switch to Affinity Photo, sadly.

Hi walt.farrell, Thank you for your great explanation. Now, I understand its real function. I will post my wish in the 'Feature Requests & Suggestions' forum, then.

Dear Affinity service team, If a mask has greyscales/gradients, adjustment layers don't adjust the brightness of the colour in a correct manner (my OS: Windows 7). Here an example screenshot: For comparison, I reproduced the same file in Adobe Photoshop, where the result is fine: The mask itself looks like this:

Chris B: Thank you for the pop over. :) elk + wonderings: Thanx for your feedback.

Dear Affinity service team, If I try to choose 'Document Setup' > 'Colour' > 'Assign', it always changes back to 'Convert'. This is very problematic, because I sometimes have to place PDF files with ICC-profils deviating from the ICC-profil of my Publisher document. In this case, the CMYK colour values will change. For example, a 100 % black will change into a combination of all four CMYK colours. This way, I cannot use my Publisher document for the print. It would be very useful, if Publisher would ask me every time when I place a file if I want to assign or to convert the colours. It makes sense because every placed file has to be handled differently. OS: Windows 7

Hello Chris B, Thank you for your answer, I hope this feature will be included in version 2. Would it be useful for the Affinity developer team if I post my opening text in the 'Feature Requests & Suggestions' forum instead?