[Publisher Colour Chooser gives two different CMYK value sets.]

5 hours ago, SamSteele said:

I have never seen CMYK sec'd as other than 0—100%. The 0—255 sliders are fake—and distracting—as far as I'm concerned. Some computer nerd fooling around??

Yes, it's verry unusual. Don't know if it makes any sense. I saw something somehow similar before with the Alpha channel (RGBA). As far as I remember, it was in GIMP. Normally the Alpha channel also is defined in percentage from 0 to 100. But there it was in values from 0 to 255.

[Publisher Colour Chooser gives two different CMYK value sets.]

Hi SamSteele!

The sliders on top have 256 possible values per channel (0-255 - like in RGB), the other ones on the right use percentage terms (0-100%).

[What brush am I using?]

1 minute ago, Bynah said:

Yes for sure. After reading this I looked to see if I could download Mypaint but it is only for windows. :(

Haven't ever tried to use Mypaint on Mac, but this website says that it should be possible with MacPorts.

[What brush am I using?]

9 minutes ago, Bynah said:

I thought this was exactly what I need. If this program can do this, can Affinity find a way to do the same thing? It would be the GREATEST thing!

Hi Bynah!

Cool!!! I used Mypaint for years, but this "w"-thing is absolutely new for me. Verry nice feature! Would like to have it in Affinity Photo too.

[Adjustment dialogs not showing]

31 minutes ago, buuu said:

just where are my dialogs, i'm losing my mind

Do you mean the Studio panels? Try the TAB key. Possibly you pressed it by accident. It hides/shows everything but the working space, the menus and the document.

Ctrl+Shift+H does the same without hiding the Toolbar (or in the View menu under Studio).

[Affinity Design Wrinkle Tool]

Hi DJ Ozz G!

I'm afraid there aren't equivalents in Designer to any of the tools in that menu at the moment. I haven't worked with Illustrator since many years, so I can't remember those tools. Inkscape has some functions like that (Warp Tool). Also something like this Wrinkle-function.  Inkscape is a free vector graphics program. Not really an alternative to Designer, I think, because f.e. Inkscape doesn't support CMYK, but it is a nice sidekick for some things that Designer doesn't offer. F. e. autotracing. But I'm not verry experienced with this Warp-functions.

[Please put the image dimensions in the UI!]

You can also see the document size in pixels x pixels in the Metadata panel.

For me it is not really an important topic, but f.e. in GIMP you can see the image size in the header, and also the file name, the colourspace, -depth and -profile, and the quantity of layers of the document. I think, it would be cool if Affinity Apps would offer this too. Might be a case for the "Feature Requests & Suggestions".

Edit: Oh sorry, I forgot that this IS the "Feature Requests & Suggestions" category.🙄

[Layer Effects for fill only, not stroke.]

2 hours ago, JimY said:

Now let me reply to iconoclast. Symbols would not be a solution. Symbols allow you to take an object, or group of objects, and have them repeated throughout your document. You may have meant Styles. But unfortunately, that wasn't a solution either (at least everything I tried with Styles didn't work).

I really appreciate all the input. It's great to have creative souls like you and carl123 willing to lend a hand.

No, I meant "Symbols". I thought that you could possibly create one filled form on one layer and a duplicate of it with no fill, but an outline stroke, on another, and you could scale, rotate, distort... both at once with the "Symbols" feature. But this doesn't seem to work.

Seems like the best opportunity would be to create this two layers and put them into a group. So you can at least scale and rotate both layers at once if you select the group layer. To move the same nodes of both layers (to distort the form), you can select them by first selecting both layers, then dragging a rectangle with the Node Tool over them and then drag them with the mouse or move them with the arrow keys. But I don't know if there is a way to drag the handles of a node of both layers at once. At least I didn't find a way yet.

Not the easy solution of your dreams, but I'm afraid there is no easier way.

[Layer Effects for fill only, not stroke.]

8 hours ago, JimY said:

A normal stroke does not have rounded corners (see my attached image in the original post at the top) unless you specify Round Join in the Stroke panel. Miter Join produces nice, sharp corners...

Yes, sorry, the "Outline" of the Layer FX doesn't offer the "Join" function.

Possibly the "Symbols" function ("View" > "Studio" > "Symbols") allows you to do what your looking for. But I'm not sure, and I don't know if it will be much easier as just using two different layers for fill and stroke. I'm still not familiar to this function.

[Layer Effects for fill only, not stroke.]

"Center" alignment creates some rounded corners inside, as far as I see - but it looks the same with a normal centered stroke. Doesn't it?

I'm afraid that the only other solution is to create the fill and the outline on seperate layers.

[Layer Effects for fill only, not stroke.]

Hi JimY!

If you create the stroke with the "Outline" function of the Layer Effects, it will not be affected by the inner glow or other effects..

[Publisher suddenly can't edit text]

29 minutes ago, AmeliaW said:

Thank you so much, iconoclast & GarryP.

I've tried both:

Press Ctrl+A to select the whole text;

Double-click then double-click the ‘word' layer,

but the 'text cursor' never shows. Ah what can I do?

The text layer is locked. Click on the Lock-symbol of the layer to unlock it.

You can also see that the layer is locked if you take a look at the corners of the text frame. They are marked with "x"-symbols if it is locked.

[Publisher suddenly can't edit text]

I think, the reason is that the text layer is a sublayer of a group of layers. So if you doubleclick on the text with the Move Tool enabled, you get another layer selected that lies above this text layer. Probably the whole group.

Select the text layer and the Text Tool and try again. If this doesn't work, select the text layer, place the text cursor in the text and press Ctrl+A to select the whole text.

[No .afphoto extension when saved]

I'm not sure, but as far as I remember, if you rename files in the file manager, you have to be careful to keep the right extension - if it is visible. Otherwise the file could become unreadable. If the extension is hidden, it will be kept anyway.

[Designer lost personalized settings at launch.]

You can also create different presets for different needs. For example, I created one for image editing and another one for painting in Photo. And one for layouting and one especially for text formating in Publisher. It's a verry cool feature, I think.

[Designer lost personalized settings at launch.]

Hi Philip,

I'm not sure how the Affinity Apps behave normally if you only change the layout and restart, but if you save your layout as a new Studio Preset (menu "View" > "Studio Presets" > "Add Preset"), you should at least be able to reload your layout from the menu "View" > "Studio Presets".

But I think, normally Affinity Apps should always load the last layout you used.

[Easily add calendar]

Yes, if you use the script, you don't need to create a new document first. Go to the "Extras" menu as I said above and you will get a panel where you can choose the language, if it should be a calendar for the whole year or only a month, if weeks shall start with sunday or monday and if you want an image frame. After that the panel appears in which you can configure the format settings. Then the calendar will be created and you can do the design and add images or export the document as PDF and open it in Publisher to do the design and add images there. Should work, but as I said, I didn't test it. So without warranty.

Edit:But, not to forget, you have to do the text formating manually. If you want a special font for the whole text, you can make your life easier by choosing this one as the basic font in the preferences of Scribus.

[Easily add calendar]

Hi LaraJ,

there is a Calendar Wizard in the free open-source-software Scribus (menu "Scripts" > "Scripts for Scribus" > "Calendar Wizard"). You could create the basic calendar there, export it as a PDF and open the PDF in Publisher, to manipulate it the way you want. I never really tested it, but I think it should work.

You could of course create the whole calendar in Scribus, but it is not verry handy and a little limited. Not as covenient as Publisher.

[After straighten image canvas resize and image are at rotated at different angle]

Hi aamitab!

Are you sure that the image is rotated? Could it be that only the Preview of the document is rotated? Go to the "View" menu and click on "Reset Rotation" (or so), then you will see.

The Preview of the document can be rotated by holding Alt and scrolling the scrollwheel. Maybe you did it accidentially?

[Textstil als Standard]

Hallo Connymaus!

Ich habe das selbst noch nicht gemacht, aber hast Du es mal mit den Funktionen "Textstile als Standard speichern" und "Textstile importieren" (davor natürlich die bewussten Stile exportieren um sie zu sichern) versucht? Beide findest Du im Menü "Text" unter "Textstile".

[Brand new user needs help writing a book with Affinity!]

I don't know much about Kindle and E-Books, but as far as I know E-Books don't have fixed layouts. It's more like websites, variable, depending on the zoomfactor and so. I'm not sure if Publisher is the right software to create E-Books. Possibly something like Calibre would be the better choice. But without warranty.

[Hep needed]

Hi Graham!

I think we need a litlle more information what you want to do. Can you upload a screenshot with closer descriptions?

[Publisher - Table Text Fades Out]

Hi Phil!

Did you accidently use the Fade Transparency Tool (the one with the glass-symbol)? You can see it if you select the tool. There would be something like a path on your table, that has a black and a white ending point.

In that case go to the context bar of the tool, open the menu "Type" and choose "None".

[Can't capture results of Divide blend mode]

Hi!

Rasterise your stock images before merging (rightclick > Rasterize image). I'm not sure that this is the reason, but it's worth a try.

Sorry, I'm in a hurry.

[No brusches at all!]

Just now, R C-R said:

So did I. At least for me, in the Mac version there must be at least one visible character or the name reverts to whatever it was before I try to rename it. Space characters alone will not be accepted.

I think that is the better solution. Who needs nameless categories? It only causes confusion.