[APu closes instantly after start screen]

5 minutes ago, Sean P said:

Had you already updated Designer or Photo

Yes, both of them without problems. VF works with AD 2.5.2514.

[APu closes instantly after start screen]

The betas for AD and AP open fine. Reset was already made. Crash report attached.

6bb8d8fe-dca9-4a10-b987-144938457a0e.dmp

[QR Code Tool]

Unexpected. I mean the fact, that this feature was implemented so rudimentary. Not very comfortable to type in (long) commands into a tiny field, when you know little to nothing about the structure of a QR code. Maybe this feature will be enhanced one day.

[32Bit depth tiff images crashing Afinity Photo]

15 minutes ago, jmatthes said:

Nothing obvious sticks out to me as to why PS and Affinity crashes trying to load this but this gives me a route to go down and investigate.

PS 2024 is not crashing, it just refuses to open and maybe I found the reason. I compared your file to one I made in PS 2024. The difference between yours and mine is, that IrfanView did not see a resolution in your file.

[32Bit depth tiff images crashing Afinity Photo]

10 minutes ago, jmatthes said:

I also wanted to ask if Affinity Photo V2 has support for 32bit greyscale images?

No, I would say. With "correct" code they will be opened as RGB 32. I say "correct", because your attached image cannot even be opened by PS 2024.

[text alignment]

9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

someone will chime in and say if my faulty memory is right (meaning we can still do this somehow) or wrong (meaning we cannot do this anymore).

Arrghhh ... You have to group the rotated hexagon first, then Geometry > Add ... one step less in v1.

[text alignment]

22 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Use the Shape tool to create your hexagon and rotate it (30 degrees or 90 degrees) so it is the way you want it to be aligned. Use the Boolean Add in Layer > Geometry > Add to change it into a Curve. Now you can make it a text frame and the text should line up properly with the flat top edge.

Not in v2 on Windows. In v1 on Windows your recipe works. 🤔

[Assigning font to table is buggy]

2 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Tables are still a bit buggy

A bit? 😄 Tables definitely need more love from Serif, erm Canva, Carif? Serva?

[Assigning font to table is buggy]

1. Create a table. Default font for the table is Arial (on my machine). Do not write anything into the cells.

2. Select the whole table by using the row-/column-tabs or selecting all cells with the table tool.

3. Now pick another font for the table.

Result: The font selection jumps back to Arial.

Repeat steps 1 (but now write something into the first cell) to 3.

Result: The font has changed for the text in the first cell and the font selection did not jump back to Arial. Write something into another cell. It is now Arial again.

Tested this again with a completely resetted Affinity installation. Same result.

[Designer, exporting PDF with Pantone tint]

2 hours ago, THIERRY.S said:

I tried to follow the advices that were given before, and it worked with the Pantone 7499 C, but it didn't with my color.

The creation and managing of colours in Affinity is still a joke. Not sorry to say that.

The following Pantone colours are spot right from the start: Metallics, Pastels & Neons, Formular Guide Solid and Goe. You see a spot added in the Swatches panel, when picked.

Maybe there are faster ways to create a spot from a specific Pantone Colour that has no spots in the Swatches panel.

1) Add a document palette.

2) Select the Panone 2311 CP from the Pantone pulldown.

3) Add current fill to your document palette.

4) Pick Add Global Colour from the Hamburger menu of Swatches panel.

5) Select Swatches from the pulldown in that window and from there Pantone 2311 CP.

6) Click Spot checkbox and rename the colour to PANTONE 2311 CP and then click Add.

7) Delete the non-spotted colour.

Or Add a Global Colour and use the colour values (if you know them) and make it spot.

What a joyride ... not.

 

[IDML specification]

1 hour ago, Tom Robinson said:

That's correct, there is probably an instruction in our IDML that Affinity Publisher needs that InDesign doesn't. I'll file a bug report as you suggested and post the outcome here.

When I copy the mimetype file from your Indesign IDML into the other IDML, the file opens.

[Panel option "Initial Words" looks strange after inserting a \t as End Character]

4 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Does it also happen if you select Tab from the preset menu on the left side of the field?

Sorry for being not precise enough. I picked \t from the preset menu.

[Panel option "Initial Words" looks strange after inserting a \t as End Character]

Activate Initial Words for a paragraph and add e.g. \t as End Character. This area widens suddenly and the representation for \t is invisible. To make it visible again, delete some of the first End Characters.

[Canva]

Personally I feel joining the Canva family was a bad move. Getting the information about the acquisition first from a Canva source a PR disaster. For private and work use I will stick with V2.

[How to Create a Sepia Tone in Affinity Photo]

14 minutes ago, Enea said:

To make "traditional" sepia, it might have been to be brought a bit further to the left, and probably also set the optical density of the lense filter adjustment a bit stronger (I set it only at 65%).

Or use Recolour and Black & White Adjustment, Live Filters Add Noise and Vignette. The imperfections were made with a Nik filter. Thank you for your video and inspiration. 👍

[Editing SVG files.....How??]

4 hours ago, __phil said:

There is no Edit Document button in V2

There is. You have to embed a linked SVG first or open it instead of placing it.

[How to delete path after text is alligned]

4 minutes ago, JackieDe said:

Any hints? Thank you very mucht!

Just turn off the stroke in the Text Frame panel.

[Possible to use same AP file in AD for 2 place images?]

32 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

As for "why Layer layers": If the dropdown in the Context Toolbar needed to list every separate layer (all the rectangles, triangles, pixel layers, etc. it would be unmanageable).

Not my point. I would be of course ok, if all the rectangles, triangles ... would not be listed, but the Layers (with the uppercase L). It often leads to confusion that layers are NOT Layers. Best example (not a 1:1 quote): "I said Include Layers in the PDF export, but the layers do not show up in Acrobat! Where is my fault?".

To me, layers (lowercase) are elements, which can be moved to Layers (uppercase).

["Zeilenabstand" in Version 2.4.0 funktioniert nicht]

Du musst im Panel ZEICHEN, nicht ABSATZ schauen

["Zeilenabstand" in Version 2.4.0 funktioniert nicht]

In deinem Dokument IST die Abstandkorrektur eingestellt.

["Zeilenabstand" in Version 2.4.0 funktioniert nicht]

11 minutes ago, Zotti said:

Wenn ich den Zeilenabstand anpassen möchte , passiert nichts.

Ist vielleicht "Abstandskorrektur" im Zeichen-Panel eingestellt?

[Possible to use same AP file in AD for 2 place images?]

20 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Is this a V2 feature?

I think so, don't know which version introduced this. For the rest ... no idea. I already expressed my dislike the wording of Layer and layer. The layers I would call elements. And requested turning on / off "layers" from AP files.

[Possible to use same AP file in AD for 2 place images?]

27 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Since linking will show you the file in its current state at the time of editing, there’s no way to use one file for two images where different layers are turned on or off.

Yes, you can, but you won't like the workflow.

1) Work on your image in AP.

2) Edit in Designer.

3) Add Layers and move the image parts into it.

4) Save as .afdesign or PDF (Include Layers).

5) Place this file in AD and from the context toolbar you can turn on / off the layers from one linked file.

But maybe I misunderstood the original question? 🤔

I would love to see this behaviour too for PSD, TIFF or .afphoto. I could possibly understand, that there might be problems for the first two file formats, but for .afphoto? Serif has the full control over this file format. In Indesign it was quite handy to turn on / off layers of PSD.

[Crops & Bleed Not "Placing"]

1 hour ago, saltwater.nights said:

Am I doing it wrong?

Did you notice the Page Box pulldown in the Context Toolbar when the PDF is selected? There is all you need.

[Rahmentext beginnt nicht am Rahmen]

43 minutes ago, Gawainios said:

Ist eher unpraktisch oder gibt es da eine globale Lösung.🤔

Der Abstand zum Rand ist auch immer abhängig von der verwendeten Schrift. Siehe angehängtes Beispiel in APu und Indesign mit Arial Black, Calibri und Clarendon. Die optische Ausrichtung kann man in einen Textstil einbauen, aber das ist m. E. sehr aufwändig. Persönlich halte ich die Abstände nach links für vertretbar, aber jeder Jeck ist anders. Wenn es dir nur um das erste Zeichen einer Zeile geht, könntest du mit Initialen (limitiert auf eine Zeile und ein Zeichen, an linker Kante ausgerichtet) tricksen. Das kann man auch in einen Textstil mit aufnehmen.