Seweryn

+1 I am working with text using Obsidian, would be good, if after preparing text I can set all properly and publish using my Affinity publisher.

Hi, +1 for Markdown. Especially in context of preparing notes in Obsidian and then extracting them to Affinity Publisher. Would be good to avoid quite error prone "copy-paste" process. Regards, Seweryn.

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. I am happy to help you. Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi, Photos are uploaded: https://www.dropbox.com/request/Engu0X17MkJkULxdHfiY I am using Affinity Photo 1.10.4.1198 on Windows. The problem is that somehow photos in NEF format are more RED, or they have strange RED artifacts. Especially, in my case, I did them in 1600 ISO, so it might be also bug reported in (*). You will see screenshots from: Fast Stone Viewer (free tool), Light Room and Affinity Photo. Displaying is getting worse in the same direction as listed here. I have not very strong theory, that in fact green color is shifted to the left, at least I have such a feeling by looking at histograms, but this is not scientifically confirmed. So the dominance of the "red" is only an optical effect. And those errors are nor possible to repair by simple levels, gamma changes or white balance changes. As well as decreasing of the clarity does not help at all as it is not really noise, but shifted to red areas. If you need more examples, I have a couple of more shots like that. Thanks in advance and regards, Seweryn. (*)

Hi, Thanks for the response. I will describe all in the ticket which might be also related. Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi, Thanks for the proposal. I found some older ticket where my problem is also mentioned and still not solved. I will use your link and place photos there. It might be like this: Or this: Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi, Due to GDPR I can not publish photo on the forum. How can I report a bug related to such a photo? Do you have any storage with NDA, that data will not be shared? Best regards, Seweryn.

The same problem I observe on Windows :-(.

Hi, Is this somehow solved? I have the same problems. BR, Seweryn.

Hi, Is this problem solved? I have the same effect. BR, Seweryn.

Hi, I am working on some leaflet, where separate chapters/sections comes from different authors (text files). What are best practices to work in such a case? As I have to glue the document, whenever I got new text from any author I have to recreate his or hers chapter from scratch (text flows, fonts styles, ...). Are there any options, not to do this all over and over again? Remark: The main reason for my question is that for images, the workflow is pretty clear in that case. One shall use linked images and operate on resource manager. Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi, Thanks for helping me. I am attaching the complete project. It is my "private" photo, so feel free to experiment, as I was starting to do :-). BR, Seweryn. _DSC3408.zip

Dears, How to use layer masking in Affinity Photo 1.10.1 (AP)? For me, this tutorial (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/332168517/) does not work at all. At the very beginning, AP v. 1.10.1 behaves differently. Mask in the icon in layers panel appears not in the place, where it is painted. Mask does not create any transparency between layers. Are there any significant changes around this topic between AP version 1.9 and 1.10? Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi, On Windows I am using FastStone: https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm I am not what "selling point" would be to have it in Affinity Studio. It shall be a kind of separate tool, which serves for all Studio parts. Regards, Seweryn.

Hi, Simply: "Liquify for designer" :-). I think this would be great to have. Regards, Seweryn.

Hi, I have a simple question. Is any of the tracers good enough for complex shapes? What would be your rating? I have not used all of them, but I tried few free and commercial ones and at the end I was never happy with the results, because: worked only for demos or simple cases*, which I was able to vectorize myself by hand; having this traced shape, I never can efficiently work with it except very trivial resizing or so. So finally I took glass of water and patiently draw what shall I draw ignoring this fancy feature. What was anyhow good for design, as I might rethink the symbol, logo or whatever. *) simple shapes, only few colors. Best regards, Seweryn.

Thanks Walt! I had tested this and works for me.

Dears, I have a question. When I am creating list with bullets using some style and typing text, then style of the bullet it self is preserved. See on the image the bullet has standard black style and then the first character is "black regular" space: But When I am changing the style of the first character in the list (deleting "black regular" space) and then "blue bold" 4 becomes the first chanracter, then the style of the bullet is changing to "blue bold". See when I am removing the space: Is this behaviour expected? How can I keep bullet style not changed even if the first character style is changed (placing space is not nice woraround)? Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi! I apologize. I think now I really understand what you mean. I had experiment for a while with what you proposed and I think I understand the concept. Thanks a lot for help and I will use your trick to make some of my watermarks. Best regards, Seweryn.

Hi Walt, Thanks for very quick response. Your proposal is good, but this not what I am aming for. Consider, that Image 2 shall be like water mark only on the concrete page and not on all pages. When I will put it on master page I will have it on all pages, which is using given master. And anyhow, if I drop by accident something in there (between layers), it is not recoverable error and I have to delete complete page. Best regards, Seweryn.

Dears, I found the following IMHO bug in Affinity Publisher, when I am placing normal/regular layer between layers from master page but located in regular page. This layer is later not editable and not deletable at all. Entering into this bug, one have to delete complete page and make it from scratch. I am attaching you komplete minimal project representing this problem, as well as screenshots - AFF-PUB-1.8.5.703.bug.zip. Please have a look at layer called Image2 and try to move it, change it or delete it. Detailed steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Create master page with two layers: a) lower layer with image 1, b) text box in upper layer 2. Use this master page on any page - screenshot Step-1 3. Optionally fil the text in text bon on the regular page 4. Drag next image to the page, so the image covers the text - screenshot Step-2 5. Move the second image 2 layer to be located between the image 1 and text box layer to move the image 2 behind the text - screenshot: Step-3 I such a case I am expecting I can do everything with the layer image 2. But I cannot do anything even delete this layer. Please have a look on this matter. Thanks in advance and regards, Seweryn. P.S. Generally your product is fantastic. AFF-PUB-1.8.5.703.bug.zip

@walt.farrell Thanks a lot for the hint. I had unpacked the files from dict_ru-ru.oxt to the dict_ru-ru directory. Then created subfolder in side: C:\Program Files\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\ru_RU Then copied all necessary files from dict_ru-ru: ru_RU.dic ru_RU.aff hyph_ru.dic Restarted Publisher. And I have it under Character > Language > Spelling.

Dears, I am not sure what I do ing wrong, but according to the documentation: There is a way to install additional dictionaries, but this is not working with OpenOffice files e.g. dict_ru-ru.oxt Do you have any hints about this? Thanks in advance and regards, Seweryn.