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Hey, @kenmcdso, with the otf the font rendering shows the same artifacts as before on low quality settings. EDIT: ...but settings "rasterize everything" and "text to curves" alleviates the problems! Thanks everyone for your helpful replies! Since the font was rendered trashy only on low settings I have now no problem for the print version and can set the low quality PDF to "curves". Does transforming text to curves any problems for printing, btw? Is that advised against for some reason? Kinda seems to me to be a failsafe fallback solution...but I don't really have anything like a solid foundation in DTP

Thanks, Laurent, my hand hovered over that checkbox during export already. I just wasn't sure about it, lol. But that might also be a remedy, right?

Thanks for your reply! Question about "And it look like you have applied a stoke outline to the text." This implies there are various ways to go about that and I can't tell you what I did other than on the graphic text menu I made changes to the contour tab. Are there other ways which are safer? The .otf version (thanks for all your efforts!) can be used freely license-wise in case I see it works better right off the bat? One thing that made me wonder and which might get relevant when editing this: sometimes I want to change several elements of the same type (say five text frames or three rectangular image frames) all at once, e.g. setting a contour line or the like. But when I have several selected the element specific menus in the toolbar disappear and are replaced with more generic ones. This makes batch editing impossible. Am I missing something?

sorry forgot to add: while editing the magazine, all the fonts are rendered correctly, of course. Problems shown are only in the PDF export. Also: this mis-rendering seems to occur in the (digital) Profile only. While this is kind of a relief for the upcoming export of the print version, I would really like to be able to publish a compressed little PDF of the same magazine with correctly rendered fonts, so I am still interested in resolving this problem

Hi, I am compiling a magazine, right now. 28 pages. I use the font "Magneto" as a graphical headline, white font colour, red contour. Throughout the magazine, some of the headlines are rendered like in this screenshot Most of the headlines are totally fine. It does not seem to have to do with size, because on the same doublespread another headline the same size looks right. What might be going on, here?

I see! Well, as this new situation is the "smooth running" configuration I am not going to change a single thing about it for the next 3 years...🤣 Thanks a lot for your help!

Aaaaand update: That seems to have done it! Using the Dreamphography brushes which are pretty large and it works like a charm! Thank you!

Hi Dan, I am updating my drivers right now - seems I have neglected those for quite a while, but otoh everything was running smooth and I'll be damned if I thought that was the right moment to install new drivers, lol. Anyway, while I wait for the downloads, I actually never unchecked "windows ink" before. Not sure what that does when it's checked/unchecked. Can someone explain?

Thanks David!

Hi, when I add an image from the Stock tab from e.g. Pexels there is a pop-up showing the creator credit by name. Even though I do not deliberately close that info it disappears once I leave the layer. Is there any way to access these credits later on if I want to possibly list the credits for a photo on a page or document my usage and add info later in another context be it websites or similar environments?

Hi Dan, Thank you very much for getting back to me about this - I completeley understand delays in the wake of a big update! Please find the two screenshots below. I use the German localization, but I guess you will be able to make sense of the entries. I use a XPpen artist pro 15.6, which is connected to the computer (sysinfo first post!) via HMDI and USB. Other software I use with this setup is Clip Studio Paint which of course also lags should I use giant brushes on a high dpi monster canvas, but it always stays responsive. There's other software I use with this setup like Blender or Sketchbook Pro, but CSP is closest in scope and application. In general I would say that compared to Clip Studio Paint my main problem right now is that I can't tell what is going to happen at which brush size when I use Affinity Photo. I know when I ask much of CSP's engine and can act accordingly. In Affinity I am not only like "Really? This brush sends you over the edge?!", but also once it happens, I am stuck with the unresponsive brush preview and have to close the app. thanks for looking into this!

I tried that too, but it is still unusable with big brushes. It keeps the brush preview loaded at all times, UI is unresponsive and I am stuck with a sticky brush preview that does not paint. So, it is not only laggy. It is broken. Only way out each time is to close the Application. It seems there is no actual crash. If I close it, it asks me nicely if I want to save. There is something really wrong with the brush engine. Is there any way to get support to take a look at this?

I see. Thanks for your replies, everybody🙂

Thanks for the hint, I will check and report back...using an Nvidia graphics card, btw

I see. Unfortunately, it was already set to low precision. I have to say, in the current state the brush engine is unusable for me. It's a pity, because I actually really liked using affinity for illustration and digital painting...😞