Brian_J

Google Material Icons are now designed as variable fonts, and include 3 fonts with 4 design axes. There are over 3000 glyphs in each font, and each glyph has 84 variants. You may be better off just downloading specific Material Symbols as you need them from https://fonts.google.com/icons. More info on Google’s Material Design Icon GitHub repo: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons

There are techniques for turning a photo into a Pencil sketch. If you want a vector graphic, and trace apps don’t provide the results you’re looking for, like v_kyr mentioned, you’ll need to “draw” it by hand. Google search: affinity photo turn photo into line drawing How to Turn Any Picture Into a Pencil Sketch Affinity Photo Turn Your Photo Into Sketch in Affinity Photo Pencil Sketch Effect Tutorial Turn Any Photo Into a Pencil Drawing | Affinity Photo Tutorial How to Turn Photo to Sketch // Affinity Photo Easy & Fast Tutorial Realistic Pencil Sketch - Affinity Photo

To cut the white outline from the red swoosh: Duplicate all the white outline and the red swoosh layers. You’ll perform all the following steps on the new, duplicate layers. Expand the stroke of the white outline layers. Move all the white outline layers above the red swoosh layer. Select all the white outline layers and the red swoosh layer. Use the Geometry Subtract Boolean operation to subtract the white outlines from the red swoosh. Joining objects with Booleans https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/join.html Expand stroke https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/CurvesShapes/expandStroke.html If you’re using Affinity Photo instead of Designer, the Boolean operations are in the menu: Layer > Geometry.

@philipt18 Here's another example file for you to check out. To avoid duplicates in the TOC, I added actual section headings within the main content. The Running Headers (top of pages above the main content) are created with the Running Header feature: Text > Insert > Fields > Running Header. Here's info about the Running Header feature: Page headers and footers — https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Pages/numberingPages.html Running Headers (Affinity Publisher) — https://youtu.be/Amb1dIIU2ig A few additional things to note: There are only two Master Pages — one is for the beginning of each chapter, the other one is for all other main content pages. The cover and TOC pages do not have a Master Page applied to them. The running headers don't have to include the page number... that's just my personal preference, page numbers can remain on the bottom of the pages. A single text frame is used on each page. Text flows from one page to the next on all main content pages. Chapters start on right-side pages. This is accomplished in the Heading 1 Chapter Text Style — Flow > Start: On Next Odd Page. Baseline Grid is enabled, which I recommend using for certain types of documents, like books. All Paragraph Text Styles are based on the 'Base' Text Style. This makes it easier to edit and manage Text Styles. Another benefit is that it's much easier to see which attributes are unique to each Text Style, because only unique settings for each style are listed in the Style settings section at the bottom of the Edit Text Style dialog. Example Document with TOC.afpub

To add to what Walt suggested, you may want to include pages 1-4 in the file you provide so we can more easily address the issue you’re having with the TOC page being included in the TOC. I’m guessing the TOC page has the same Master Page applied to it that’s used for the body of your document. You may need to create a unique Master Page for the TOC — or simply remove the Master Page from the TOC page — so that the Text Style applied to the TOC heading can be changed to one that’s not included in the TOC.

It sounds like maybe the heading of your TOC has a text style that is used to populate the TOC applied to it. If that’s the case, remove the text style applied to your TOC heading and refresh the TOC. If what I suggested isn’t what’s going on, can you provide a file showing the issue? Regarding sections, I can’t speak to why the first section can’t be deleted, but as you’ve discovered, that’s how it works. There has to be at least one section, and the first section is the required one that can’t be deleted.

I just wanted to make sure that forum members who aren't familiar with how DPI works in raster graphics — a confusing topic for many — understand that what Pšenda mentioned is correct...

One option is to create a Master Page with no page numbers, and apply that Master Page to the section pages.

@jkolko Just an afterthought… If the “block quote” text style will always be applied to only one or two lines of text (i.e., it won’t be applied to multiple, consecutive paragraphs), you can make two changes to the Block Quote text style in the example file I provided so that when typing text, pressing the Enter/Return key will automatically switch to your desired paragraph style after the “block quote“ style. In the Edit Text Style dialog: Style section — change Next style to the text style you want applied to paragraphs that follow “block quotes.” Decorations section — uncheck Combine identical.

Does this help?

@crownfield The Color Panel help page provides the info you’re looking for: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/clrPanel.html. In the Color Panel Preferences (hamburger menu), select Sliders. Use the drop-down menu (to the right of the lock icon) to select RGB.

If a file is resampled when changing the DPI, the change in resolution effects file size and image quality. But DPI on its own has no effect… i.e., if DPI is changed without resembling.

Drawing Scale set to 1:10 in your document. When you create a new document, in the New Document dialog, disable Drawing Scale and that should resolve the issue. In an existing document, in the Transform panel, tap on the 1:10 to disable it and that will fix it in files you’ve already created.

You can do that with Text Style Decorations in Affinity Publisher. In the attached .afpub file, take a look at the Block Quote text style. Block Quote.afpub

One option is to apply a Levels adjustment and drag the Black Level slider to the right. https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Adjustments/adjustment_applying.html

Grid and Guides are in the Toggle Preview Mode drop-down menu. If you’re looking on the Affinity help site, make sure you’re viewing help for V2. Most of the time, Google search results include V1 articles — you can often simply add a ‘2’ after the app name in the URL. https://affinity.help/photo2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/guides.html

Saving the files with the Save As Package command will create a folder that includes linked images and fonts. https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Publishing/aboutPackaging.html Alternatively, you can save a copy of the file to share and change all the linked images to embedded in the Resource Manager, and change the font to Arial.

It sounds like you’re using the Color Picker Tool. To select/load a color without effecting any objects in your file, make sure no layers are selected before selecting the color. There’s also a color picker in the Color and Swatches panels. This Affinity help article provides some info: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Clr/samplingClr.html.

Yes, there is a 30-day trial button at the bottom of the pages that describe each app on https://affinity.serif.com. For example, Affinity Designer: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/.

If Windows Clipboard History is enabled, press Windows key + V to view clipboard history content.

The issue also occurs for File > Open when that last location I saved a file to no longer exists (i.e., the folder was deleted) — the System32 folder is opened. I thinks I’ve run into the issue when saving a file, too, but I can’t remember for sure. Windows 10 22H2 Affinity 2.1

In addition to the options Walt provided, you can create heading text styles in your document (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.). Heading text styles don’t have to be imported or copied from another document in order to qualify for inclusion in the TOC. If you import the default heading text styles from another document, you’ll likely want to edit the styles, so it may be just as easy to create the styles from scratch.

In the Paragraph panel, there is a Desired Word Spacing setting in the Justification section. https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/paragraphPanel.html

There are several ways to add a Layer Mask. At the bottom of the Layers Panel there’s a Mask Layer icon — click it to add a mask. (Sorry I’m not at my computer to take a screenshot.) See the To create a mask layer section in the Layer Masks help page for additional details: https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html

lepr posted a comment in this thread with a link to Serif’s comment about the issue.