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Yes, I create Japanese materials all the time, and am slated to be producing a significant number of books in Japanese in the next few years. I absolutely love your product, and can't imagine switching to something inferior for this. Please, please include vertical writing features! You will open up your product to over a billion more potential customers if you do!

Yes, I would also like to see a barcode feature added to the QR code tool. It would be useful for those of us involved in book cover design. It could be as simple as including a checkbox or drop down box to allow users to toggle between creating a bar code and a QR code. I know there are barcode fonts available, but it would be nice to have a native generator. UPDATE: a couple possible interface options... - a toggle similar to the one between artistic text and frame tools (@Alfred, you might like this one...) - another entry in the "type" drop-down in the QR code data dialog (@Chills, you might like this one...)

Thank you so much for your help, Lee! This is exactly what I was looking for. Your suggestion worked perfectly!

I’ve got a lovely stippling pattern created from a simple stroke coupled with the dense stippling brush from the “patterns” brush set. I would like to expand my stroke so that I can apply a gradient fill to the various stipples. Does expanding strokes stop working whenever you apply a brush to a stroke? If so, does anyone have any advice on how I might be able to apply a gradient to my stippling? (Hopefully without a bunch of microscopic work…)

Yes, I saw that too. However, unless Affinity is willing to put in coding that will allow us to mathematically manipulate those numbers (e.g., K+1), this custom formatting is not terribly useful. I understand that following the Unicode standard is a good general principle, but if Affinity wants to avoid providing additional programming capability, a few tweaks are going to be needed to make this custom formatting meaningful.

In your "custom date formatting" section, I would suggest one modification: This number would make more sense if the output values were 1-12. (i.e., We would never say 0 AM. We would say 12 AM.)

Yes, thank you @lepr!

I'm sorry, because this outline was accidental, I have no idea what the original value was set to.

@thomaso, thanks for this. I will do some more testing, and submit a bug report if it's possible to replicate the problem. Thanks as well for your PS. I'm a pretty new user for Affinity, and don't really understand a lot of the color side of things. Can you tell me where I should go to change the text fill colour to 100 K only? Right now in Affinity, I've got it set to 0 on the "greyness" dropdown, but I guess that's not the way to do it...

@thomaso, actually I didn't do a find and replace as you'd mentioned there might be problems with it. I did a manual search, which was pretty easy because I have used text styles for everything. When I tried to do a find and replace on the original file, APub v2 crashed. I tried a few variations of the find/replace search term to see if I could get it to work, but it consistently crashed.

@thomaso, thank you so much! The information you provided was exactly what I needed. The screenshots really helped. I deeply appreciate all of your time and help. Spanish Captive Set Free v7 excerpt.pdf

@thomaso, thanks for finding this. I wonder if you can help me find where this is present in the Affinity file? I've never come across anything like this before. Is it something within the file? Something that happened on export/print? I'm inclined to think it's within the file as the white stroke appears to be somewhat selective (e.g., not touching the headers or attributions for the endorsements), but I have no idea where to look next.

(Sorry, @walt.farrell, please see above.)

Yes, of course. Here it is. Spanish Captive Set Free v7 excerpt.afpub

I've got a book file that's fully formatted, apart from a final pass-through, but when I go to export to a PDF, the font color comes through light and patchy. Please note that I've been using a level 0 on the greyscale, so I've no idea why this isn't on the darkest setting--or why it's patchy! I'd appreciate any help you can provide, and am including a sample file below. Please note that the copyright page, endorsement attributions, and the page headers seem to come through alright. I can't figure out what's different between them and the rest of the text! Spanish Captive Set Free v7 excerpt.pdf