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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

GarryP, thanks for your question. Sorry for the delay in response. My notifications somehow got mucked up. Here's the visualization you requested. Here I've used the following configuration for my callout: Here, I've created a bubble-based callout, with bubbles that gradually decrease in size according to the decrease in the callout tail, assuming a 4-bubble setting. The space between the first bubble and the callout is equal to 2/3 the vertical size of the first bubble. All other inter-bubble spacing is the same as this. In this case, I've assumed the bubble size will be defined by the callout tail width. There is equal space between the bottom of the last bubble and the bottom of the tail as there is between all the other bubbles. When we take away the original callout box, the bubble version looks like this: It's first thing in the morning for me here, so I've just done a rough approximation based on vertical height for the bubble distance, but a case could be made that it would be more accurate to do a diagonally-based calculation. But I don't have the brainpower right now to get into that, and I think this version looks pretty good

Oh! I figured it out! Special characters were not toggled on, but your comment about editing frame text layers got me thinking. When I detached the frame from the master, I was able to move it out of the way and see that Affinity had somehow created another layer underneath the Master. At one point when dragging Masters onto certain pages, there was a strange advisory that Affinity was going to automatically flow text to frames not originally designated for that purpose, but I didn't really understand what was happening or why, especially since Affinity didn't tell me where it had put the text. I suppose this was the result. Thanks for your help! Without your comment, I never would have thought to try detaching layers.