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Jamesx1

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  1. Thanks - ah yes, it is up for me, in the Universal feature box - I was just looking on the home page. Appreciate your help.
  2. Hi, couple of things: - Can someone please link me to the 30 day free trial of the V2 suite? I know that's simple request, but all I can find are purchase links. - Will the free trial lock in the discount pricing for that 30 days while I test it out? I'm sure this has been asked before and I've seen various opinions, but I'd appreciate any clarity on the confirmed situation for V2. Happy to pay for the upgrade at the discounted rate, being a V1 user, but need more time than these dying hours to try it out. If not, can I request this manually somehow as a V1 user? Any info is welcome. Thanks.
  3. Sadly, there are few places where I have seen more entitlement. Imagine if that energy was spent building a profitable business such that this tiny cost would not even enter your mind. But that thinking is what separates those at the top from the rest. Anyway, a couple of points: - Studio Link - It's awesome. Try to live without it.... - It sounds like a lot of people have never dealt with Adode support before. Serif provides white-glove/silver service compared to Adobe. Adobe literally have the most useless, incompetent, clueless support I have encountered in my life. They still charge the earth though. - Happy to pay for the upgrade. But I do like the 'asset bundle' gift gesture, as a little something for V1 users, whenever. May I suggest a really nice bunch of professional icon sets?
  4. OK, thanks for the info. Glad they are able to work around it (V2). Just deciding whether to uninstall the W10 updates or upgrade Affinity. I too am interested to know how it is a significant leap forward. Publisher needs a better table system, and backwards compatibility is not there either. Not wanting to complain, but I just have no idea at which point in time certain things will be improved. Anyone know when the 40% off ends?
  5. Well, I'm stumped. I tried really hard but can't think of a more basic function than font selection. Coming back to Designer to do a slew of font work and V1 is unusable. Buck passed? Guess I'll need to upgrade to V2 then. Is V2 better than V1, overall, anyone? At least I can type a font name without a complete crash...?
  6. Understood, but I am assuming that it is not actually that hard to create a simple checkout or account function that can validate against the licensing server whether a valid V1 license exists or not. If this is impossible for some reason, then just do it for direct purchases.
  7. V2 is still a great deal and Serif does excellent work to provide a true alternative to Adobe. But seriously, just make one change: The 40% discount for existing users should not have an expiry date. Putting time pressure on V1 users is not a good call. Surely this is simple to implement. This gives everyone plenty of time to organise their own transition to V2, and everyone can also settle down with reactionary comments as they come to see that Affinity is a great deal. They should ask themselves - "What if Affinity didn't exist at all?" (Having said that, let's talk Linux availability....haha kidding - I know no one wants to talk about that anymore. Should run in VirtualBox Win10 no problem, right?)
  8. Update: I followed your steps and realized that in fact I was doing those steps. If I'm careful enough, I can avoid affecting the entire paragraph, but the ability to edit the drop cap styles after it has been created still eludes me. At the moment, I need to create a brand new character style for every change and then switch to that, because when I edit the drop cap character style, it accepts the edit but absolutely nothing visibly changes....
  9. I created a print document (booklet) with facing pages, with the 'Start On' setting in 'Document Setup' set to 'Right'. Most of it uses a master spread which I use to keep a repeating layout throughout, except obviously the actual text and images are replaced on each individual spread of the booklet which uses that master. Works great. However, I no longer wish to start with one page on the right. I wish to start with a double page spread like the rest of the document. When I change that setting from 'Right' to 'Left', the master spread I created gets re-applied over the top of my existing work (ie. the master is applied a second time over the top of itself), but mainly for the images only. I deleted or added pages to ensure that the document was no longer offset by that odd first page, thinking that it caused the problem. Everything lined up as it should again, most text was still successfully replaced (except for one section), but most master page elements are reapplied over the top. The fact that this affects images more than text might be explained by replacing images vs text styles...I don't know - but I don't think that is too important - the main issue is a second instance of the master over the top after simply changing the start page from right to left. How can I stop this from happening, or manually delete the second instance of the same master being overlaid on top of itself (which contained my changes)...? I hope my explanation is clear enough. Basically, I just want change my layout to start left instead of right, and I don't want any issues with the master or anything else. I'd really appreciate any assistance/thoughts.
  10. Just wondering whether there is a way to export printer spread PDFs now? Is there maybe a PDF preset buried in the settings somewhere that has been added since this discussion? Appreciate a yay or nay on this from someone who knows for sure....This feature would give great control.
  11. Awesome, thanks @LibreTraining. I use drop caps a lot so I really appreciate you telling me how to use it properly. Cheers.
  12. The problem I'm having with drop cap styles, is that once created, it cannot be changed without changing the entire paragraph to that style. Even if I specifically select and edit only the drop cap style, the entire paragraph is changed to that font. Basically, if you don't blindly get the drop cap right first time, you can't change it. Seems there's no way to separate the editing of drop cap and paragraph styles. Obviously it is designed/intended to be independent, but I can only assume there's a bug here....?
  13. Hi @NotMyFault I came across this post today. I am interested in knowing the best method for 'thickening' up an existing font for use as a logo or slogan (i.e. increase font weight). Often, you find fonts that are perfect in design by don't have the appropriate weight (ie. they'll be too thin, etc). For this usage scenario, what is the best method to increase weight via Affinity Designer? Your thoughts would be much appreciated.
  14. It's based on an original that I made previous changes to months ago in AI, and I'm coming back to it. Perhaps a couple of extra nodes, but nothing horrible. I do appreciate your offer to check it out, but I've resolved it to satisfaction for now. It's pretty hard to create/modify a serif typeface, which I guess is why everyone seems to avoid it and just type brand names with a sans font. I hired multiple genuine experienced designers, but what they came up with was very poor. So as a non-designer, I did it myself. The S is the most 'borrowed', everything is else is from virtual scratch. (Who the hell can easily make a serif 'S'?) Overall, the typeface looks way better than the 'professionals' and is 100% as per the brief, so a couple of extra nodes is not a big issue to overcome and not bad for collateral damage. I can see the improvements still needed, but I don't have the necessary technical skills to achieve perfection. The professionals no doubt had the skills, but had the 'creatives' complex whereby they believed that what was in their head was superior; I caught them out not reading the brief; they just want job in/job out; no conceptual imagination. At the end of the day, this is correct. People should be able to expand a stroke on whatever shape they want, whether sourced from perfection or not. If the stroke renders nicely but the expansion renders noticeably different, it's a bug. Thanks to everyone for their help.
  15. Thanks @anon2, that was it. I was just doing it casually at a small size before, assuming that vectors are vectors, but the bug explains it. Also had to pick the right butt ends to minimize issues. There were a couple of very minor things to clean up, but overall, all good. Was my first use of Designer having to work with nodes, coming from casual AI use. I had the design pretty small when I was doing it, assuming maths was maths. Bug explains it. I just made it bigger. Would've been nice, but good luck sending a stroked file to various companies printing labels, sales material and packaging and telling them to be careful of correct stroke ratios and to deal with all the extra nodes.
  16. Hi - thanks very much for your reply. Are you saying I need to fix every letter manually, me with a mouse, trying to perfectly fill in the missing curves of letters like 'S'? Surely there's a tool or technique to achieve this cleanly as per precise vector requirements...?
  17. Hi I have a custom typeface (vector shape). It is too thin, so to make it uniformly thicker, I assume that adding a stroke is the best way. When I do that, it looks great. From what I remember of AI, the next steps are to simply expand the stroke, and then merge it with the original shape to make one clean shape. However, when I expand the stroke in Designer, the corners become jagged/broken - unusable. Is there a stroke setting I have neglected to configure? I'd really appreciate guidance for making letter forms thicker/heavier cleanly. Is the process as I described? If so, how to resolve the jagged/broken form? Thanks The stroke applied: The stroke expanded (notice it is broken in 2 places): Zoomed in on the problem:
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