Andreas Scherer

At least in the German version of all three apps (2.0.4 on Monterey 12.6.3) “Datei / Inhalt importieren...” does not bring the fonts into the available fonts list. Dragging the *.affont files into the main app window works fine, though.

I'm using the base model (8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) of the Mac Mini M1 (both at home and at work) and it is definitively comfortable to use with the Affinity suite, so I'd be confident that the Mac Mini M2 would be a great tool as well (and allegedly, it's even cheaper than the M1 machine).

Do you have only the V2 apps installed?

macOS Monterey version 12.6.2 Affinity General License version 2.0.3 This seems to affect all three apps, but I miss it most for APub: Right-clicking on either of the three app icons in the dock bar doesn't show any ”Recently used objects“, although inside the programs (ATTOW, AD and APub), there are such objects to choose from in the ”Recently used files“ tab of the project start panel. I reallly miss this functionality when working with two or three documents and want to open one with a simple mouse click.

I'll keep both versions installed on my private Mac Mini. ATTOW, I have not started a new project with any of the V2 apps. All existing projects will remain in V1 format, as long as I want to exchange them with others who have/can not upgrade/d to Affinity V2.

It seems that you are running macOS 10.13. Affinity V2 requires at least macOS 10.15 Catalina: https://affinity.serif.com/de/designer/full-feature-list/

And when ”something big happens,“ lots of discussions ensue. 🤣

AFAIR, the three individual Mac licenses (with discount 150 €) are more expensive than the Universal License (120 €), so I chose the UL on Nov 9. It might also come handy if I were to buy an iPad in future.

You can export the iOS 12 assets from V1 and import them in V2.

Affinity V2 is/are separate from V1 and can be used side-by-side.

What about the purchase code we received for the recent survey? How long will it be valid? No merch (T's, workbooks) to buy at this time! 😉

Page 303: “EINFÜHRUNG” has a double-G.

On page 362, two entries in the table have excess text: BegrenzungenFarben & Verläufe HilfslinienSymbole that should be deleted.

Place a picture frame on the master page and a text frame with the page number on top. Then you can populate the picture frame on each page with individual images.

This seems to be ambiguous. Google claims that SF Pro is the system font for macOS, but my Mini doesn't have this. Then Google claims that Big Sur has Helvetica Neue as system font, but this doesn't have the symbol; the error reappears. I'll stick with Apple Symbols. Edit: Lucida Grande also works fine (even at identical font size).

That would be overkill for the small text at hand. Instead, I simply select the five symbols and change the font.

Thanks, I use Apple Symbol with a slightly larger size (30pt vs 24pt) to match the text font.

Inserting the ⌘ symbol from the Emoji&Symbols menue doesn't play well with the APub checklist. Each occurrence of ⌘ is marked in red. How do I get rid of this error message in preflight?

The APub manual for text on a path should mention this extended functionality more prominently. There is a short sentence in paragraph ”To create path text“ (without a link to the Text Frame panel), but the AD/APh text about the discarded original object (which it is not in APub) comes much earlier in this page.

It appears that AD and APh automatically make the form transparent when you add text on the path. However, APub retains the fill colour of the form. So, in order to achieve the desired effect in APub, you could start with an ellipse (form tool in the left column; click on the little triangle to choose from predefined forms). Create it with the mouse to your liking (you can change its size later). Choose “no filling” for its body colour. Now switch to the art text tool and click on the ellipse (slightly outside or inside; cursor shows ”T with wave”). In the tool bar set your choice of text colour. Then type your text. See also this discussion I do agree that APub's behaviour should match AD and APh in this respect.

Saal Digital seems to request spreads: »Es ist wichtig, dass wir im PDF jede Doppelseite als eine Seite erhalten.« Blurb requires individual pages: »Wählen Sie für Ihre Seiten die Option Bereich: Alle Seiten.«

Um deine allgemeine Frage aus dem Thread-Titel zu beantworten: Jede meiner Kameras bekommt eigene SD-Karten, die ich – auch wenn sie voll sind – nicht wiederverwende, sondern in Kartenboxen archiviere Mit den Sony-Kameras habe ich für jedes »Thema« einen eigenen Ordner auf der Memorycard angelegt; mit den Lumix-Kameras mache ich täglich einen »Number Reset« (erst neuere Lumix-Kameras haben eine etwas komfortablere Speicherverwaltung, wo man zwischen den Ordnern wechseln kann) Mit dem Programm »unison« übertrage ich die (neuen) Daten von der Speicherkarte auf den Linux-Laptop, wo für jede Kamera und jede Speicherkarte eigene Unterordner angelegt sind Als »Einstiegspunkt« pflege ich eine HTML-Seite, wo Kamera, Karte, Datum und Themen der Unterordner beschrieben sind Das Bildarchiv des Laptops wird auf mindestens zwei externen SSD-Platten gesichert JPEG-Bilder von den Sony-Kameras bearbeite ich in Gimp, selten in APh RAW-Bilder von den Lumix-Kameras bearbeite ich in Rawtherapee; die exportierten JPEG-Bilder und die Sidecar-Dateien landen vom Laptop auf den externen SSD-Platten, nicht jedoch auf den SD-Karten in den Kameras Projekte in AD und APub, die Bildmaterial aus dem Gesamtarchiv benötigen, erhalten einen »Material«-Unterordner mit Kopien; »Nachbelichtungen« – also neue/veränderte Sidecar-Dateien und exportierte JPEG-Dateien – werden im Gesamtarchiv einsortiert Soviel zum Thema »umständlich«. 🙄🤔

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Sorry for the delay, I was afk. @GarryP: The AD document does not contain snapshots nor do I save the history with it. Unfortunately, I can neither share the original AD document nor the bitmap file (which is, in fact, a jpeg file, not png). However, I can almost reproduce the effect with the simplified outline file circles.afdesign (518 KB) and the jpeg file wall.jpg (487 KB). When I place wall.jpg on each of the circles as a bitmap filling, the AD file becomes more than 50 MB in size. Undoing the overlays (cmd+z) restores the original file size (half a MB). Deleting the overlayed objects and recreating the non-overlayed circles and saving as a new file results in a file size of 5.1 MB. @Callum: Copy/pasting the 7 artboards into a new file results in an almost restored file size of 988 KB, so it seems to be purged of the overlay information. Thanks for the hint. circles.afdesign

In my case this does not work. File size with Artboard 8: “41 MB”. Delete Artboard 8 and “Save As” gives file size “39.4 MB”.