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OK, this is a bit freaky, coming from a lazy one who dislikes even blanks at the end of paragraphs. Imagine you have to work with long lists / tables of words no dictionary could possibly know, but you don't want the Spelling Mistakes to appear in the Preflight Panel. You can now mark every "wrong" word and ignore / learn it, which could be a tedious work with lots of spelling mistakes. The easy way: Just select the text frame or paragraphs and set Spelling to None in the Character panel. So all "wrong" words magically disappear from the Preflight panel. You can still set the hyphenation to your desired language or use this method within Text Styles. Drawback of course is, that there could be mistakes in your text.

This is a quick and "dirty" method to achieve a feathered border around an image. This method has its limitations, but it is very fast to get quite nice results. 1) Create a shape and drop it onto the preview icon of the image layer in the Layers panel. 2) The image has now the form of the shape. Now select the shape in the layers panel and add / activate Gaussian Blur from the Layer Effects icon in the Layers panel for this shape. 3) Use a radius of your choice. Voila! You can tweak the feather effect by adding a stroke for the shape. Vary the width here or use dashed lines (even with arrowheads). Have fun with your experiments!

To make a Layer appear in the hierarchy of layers in Acrobat you have to add a Layer e.g. from the "Add Layer" button of the Layers panel. In the export options make sure, that "Include Layers" is ticked. Why the spot colour is not shown as a spot colour in Acrobat is strange. Best would be to upload a sample Affinity document (not the PDF).

Oh dear. I have to apologize. At some point I must have imported the contents of the retail version into the Beta without thinking about it too much (if there was thinking involved in any way). Everything is sorted now. Feel free to delete this irritating, embarrassing thread.

Personally I think, that this is a BAD idea. After your post I checked again and saw that assets are also shared. Does this mean beta and retail use the SAME data? Or copied data? So working on the beta can damage the assets or not? Not sharing anything between beta and retail has the benefit, that I can test the beta to its limits, without worrying to damage something. If data is really shared I have to think over, if I am taking a risk using the betas. Yes, I know. Backups are a must. Recovering backups during work take their time.

Windows 10.

Nothing spectacular, something I noticed and surprised me. When I installed and opened the RC1 today, the recent file list was the one from the retail version. Same for AP and AD.

This was nearly 6!! years ago and just a maybe. 😭

Something I am waiting for since the first release of APu. Perhaps in v3?

Hmm, again no problem on my side.

Not for me on Windows. Do you have a sample document for us?

Using Notepad it goes from 0 to 1 byte. It makes no difference for 1.10, 2.3 or 2.4, file size is 1,71 MB. EDIT: This is interesting. After a complete reset of AD 2.4, the file has 9,28 KB. EDIT 2: As soon as I copy Settings & Content from Release Apps the file size rises to 1,71 MB. empty-231b.afdesign

An empty RGB A4 document from scratch with nothing in it gives 1,71 MB. No complaints from my side. It is as it is. In the old days with my first 20 MB harddisk I would be worried, but not nowadays with TB SSDs.

a) Place the hop beneath the magnifier and put a copy of the hop into an ellipse and distort it with the Liquify Tool (when you have AP installed). Unfornately the magnification is rasterised. b) Place the hop beneath the magnifier and put a copy of the hop into an ellipse and simply scale it inside the ellipse. Still vector. I guess there are lot more clever solutions out there.

If you scroll down a bit in the PDF export options, there is a checkbox called "Include bleed". You can use this only if your document has bleed, otherwise this option is greyed out.

Maybe already reported, can't find it. 1. Create A3 document. 2. Print on A4 paper with Fit Type "Shrink to Printable". 3. Add "Include crop marks". Result: The preview indicates, that the crop marks are outside the paper and they are indeed not on the paper when printed. If something does not fit to a paper this will be normally shown with a red area. Printer was Color Laserjet M751. See attached image.

Beide Varianten machten keine Probleme.

Da bin ich jetzt etwas ratlos. Ich hatte bisher nie Probleme mit Schatten beim Druck - egal wo. Tolino gefragt woran es deren Meinung nach liegen könnte?

Embedded means, that the images are part of the document and not external files. When you open the package document you can see, that the image is still embedded.

Probedruck bedeutet was? Auf welchem Drucker gedruckt? In einer Druckerei oder zuhause? Ich habe die Datei auf einem HP Color Laserjet Enterprise M751 ausgedruckt und der Schatten ist fehlerfrei.

Not free of charge, but an option for Mac and Win: https://markzware.com/products/idmarkz_se/

The best things will always be silently removed. In V1 it was possible to apply an arrowhead to a decoration, in V2 you can select an arrowhead, but it vanishes right after selection. Arrowheads in Decorations are in fact not completely removed in V2. Just copy arrow decorated text from V1 to V2 and the arrows appear in the Stroke popup of Decorations. You can change the size of the arrowheads, but not their type. Expected behaviour that arrowheads were removed?

I am happy with the Universal License containing all three apps for Win / Mac / iPad. Perhaps something you should think about?

Affinity Publisher has pages, Affinity Designer not (short version).

APu crashes while learning or ignoring words. But there seems to be a difference. If I jump to the word from Preflight to a "misspelled" word and try to learn / ignore with a rightclick I don't get the options and the app crashes. If I rightclick the word directly - without Preflight - I get the options for learning and ignoring. Crash report attached. a927335d-3f92-433d-8469-e2ec9e2277fe.dmp