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Everything still works fine. It’s staying up-to-date with new OS requirements down the road that has me worried. Here’s a plan: Set up a spare computer with the best specs you can afford (future-proofing) and purchase and install a spare copy of Affinity Suite. Add updates as they are released. That way, if Canva does the worst and the licensing servers for perpetual V2 go down, you won’t be in fear having a hard drive failure and no way to reinstall, because you have a backup machine ready to go. In fact, set up two backups for good measure. That should give a few years of good service even if Canva changes everything later. By then, other options will probably be available. That makes more sense than jumping ship now, while everthing is still working fine. It’s exactly what I have already done, in fact. And if Suite V3 comes out with perpetual license and the ability to work offline, I will happily buy it and stay onboard. The price could be a lot higher, even;I could justify that. Affinity IS an incredible product at a bargain price,after all! And no, I’m not a joined-yesterday shill. I’ve been using Serif since DrawPlus X3. But take away my ability to work offline and I am gone in a heartbeat.

Exactly! He is very careful to say that we can continue to use our perpetual licenses, but not saying that new licenses an be activated nor that V3 will be perpetual. Huge tell in that omission!

I have purchased every version of Serif's software since DrawPlus X3. Congratulations to the team that brought us this far. Well done! Now it remains to be seen what Canva will do. Drastically raise the purchase price for V3? I'll groan and pay it. Switch to subscription-only? I'm GONE. Will not participate. The only reason I came to Affinity in the first place is for perpetual ownership. With any kind of subscription requirement, I'll rush to Adobe as fast as I can.

THANKS to Seneca and LibreTraining! The workaround is simple indeed: for my (rare) underlined bold characters, I'm using Times Bold. It's virtually identical to Times New Roman but has the non-bold underline. It's working for my application (language curriculum, TNR is needed for the special characters) but it wouldn't work for every case.

How can I make text bold but keep the underline regular(non-bold)? I can do it easily in LibreOffice, but when I import the text into Affinity Publisher it makes the decorations as bold as the text and I can't find a way to change it back. I can change color, yes, but not style.

Thanks JMatt! That's actually what I've been doing lately. I hope this bug gets fixed eventually. LibreOffice works fine out of the box, and MS Word can be configured to work. Let's hope Affinity eventually catches up.

Thanks for your help, Joachim! My project is school curriculum, with lots of "fill in the blank" exercises. Underscores are too light, and in certain fonts (required for the material) they aren't continuous. Besides, I'm copy/pasting lots of existing exercises from LibreOffice files, and I'm not keen to redo all the blanks. Maybe I'll just have to, though. I tried to use PPX9 instead, but that's even worse, with the underlining appearing/disappearing from view at random. One workaround I discovered: set tabs to a narrow length and use regular Ctrl+U underlining. Works great, but not for copy/pasting existing work. Continuous underlining seems like such a basic text function, I can't understand why it doesn't just work like LO. Anyway, thanks for your help!

Hello, I'm migrating from LibreOffice. In LO, I can underline spaces, as in . In AP, this only works if I place a period or other character after the blank spaces. So I can't underline trailing spaces, only inline space. MS Word has a way to resolve this in Settings. How can I do it in AP? btw, I'm not looking for alternatives such as underscores, etc. My project requires underlined trailing spaces.