[Setting bleed per (master) page in Publisher?]

11 hours ago, KC Honie said:

if you will look at your (pdf) page width, you will see that it is 3mm wider than it should be...  It adds that 3mm to the inner side when you export (as a pdf) to all pages.

I do not see that. The bleedbox and trimbox are both the original A5 size. Of course same 3 mm is added to each side but page objects are cut at 0 in the inner part.

It is task of the imposition software to remove unneeded parts.

[Can the pen tool stroke make pixelated lines?]

I guess you can draw your lines with pen tool and apply threshold adjustment layer above. Note that you have to have a solid layer (fill, image or pixel) below lines as threshold does not apply to transparency.

[Can the pen tool stroke make pixelated lines?]

Pen tool in Photo makes bezier curves... you can use Pixel tool to make pixelated lines. You can find it as Paint Brush variant (click the little triangle at the bottom corner of Paint Brush Tool icon at the Toolbox).

[Setting bleed per (master) page in Publisher?]

8 hours ago, KC Honie said:

Unfortunately that makes no difference whatsoever.  You still have to export the file to pdf as single pages (All Pages).  When you do that AP adds a bleed to the binding side that is the same as the outside edge.

Not true:

[loss of photo quality when using develop persona]

I tried to develop the file in AP:

Not sure if it is much better... but I do think it is about sharp enough.

[TG]

You can also open one image and drag the rest from a folder in to an open document (if you do not need to do any automatic alignment in which case use stack). You can also drag layers from open documents to another one.

[Vectorial copy paste to InDesign]

Hmmm... when I copy-paste from Designer to Indesign I get OK vector art... it is just not editable in InDesign.

[Basing text operation on MS word is a BIG mistake!]

8 minutes ago, kanihoncho said:

I don't feel that I should have to create styles every time I open a document, especially on new projects.

Usually creating styles is the way to go, just after document setup. 

[Paint thickness.]

I think that the exposed steel does not look fully natural. Would not matter so much if the wear effect were in smaller areas.

Good looking machinery though

[Publisher spread exporting]

I think spread view is just PDF reader app functionality. It is though possible to force initial view to a document with Acrobat app.

[Placing AD artworks in AP ignores bleed]

OK, I made a little mistake. 

On 5/21/2020 at 11:25 AM, belief-begin-conjoin said:

If you create an artboard in Designer with bleed

The whole issue is artboard related, artboard bleeds are not modifiable in Publisher, when in normal placed Designer documents they are. This may be considered as bug as they definitely should behave the same.

[Placing AD artworks in AP ignores bleed]

And .afdesign placed in Publisher, first with TrimBox, then copied and changed to BleedBox:

(File is not scaled, bleedbox just shows more content. Could have selected more obvious graphic...)

[Placing AD artworks in AP ignores bleed]

Mac version AD document with bleeds:

 

[Affinity Chirographer - Font Designer]

Probably too small a market and there are some good tools already. See https://alexjohnlucas.com/type/software and https://typedrawers.com/discussion/858/should-i-switch-from-glyphs

 

[Placing AD artworks in AP ignores bleed]

23 hours ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

If you create an artboard in Designer with bleed and place that artboard into Publisher and choose Page Box to be Trim box. The bleed area is empty? 

Yes, if you choose Trim box, you cannot retrieve content in the bleed area. So why not set Page box to BleedBox? You can manually then crop extra with crop tool if needed. It just does not work vice versa.

[Purple line problem]

Also, you can temporarily remove purple lines by pressing SPACE.

[I know this isn't a *new* request but can we please get a better shortcut for Brush Hardness?]

13 hours ago, randomjames said:

I'm not sure how SHIFT + [  /  ]  aren't universally usable, could you explain that to me?

[ -glyph in my layout is ALT + 8. SHIFT + ALT + 8 just is not the same as SHIFT + [.

[File Format Specification]

On 5/15/2020 at 2:03 PM, Sam Phillips said:

I do think it would be in your interest to help us pull thumbs and previews out of your files as it would aid the spread and adoption of your software.

There should not be any special trick getting basic system readable preview images out of affinity files. Maybe @Ben can help here.

[Basing text operation on MS word is a BIG mistake!]

6 hours ago, PaoloT said:

I find importing styles useful, to preserve most of the original text. An easy workaround to prevent this to happen, is to open the original text into a text editor that can save in plain text format. Then, it will be easy to import text with no styles applied.

But you lose local formatting that way. Not good.

[I know this isn't a *new* request but can we please get a better shortcut for Brush Hardness?]

13 hours ago, randomjames said:

In Photoshop, the same keyboard  [  and  ]  buttons are used to control the brush size, and SHIFT + [  or  ]  can quickly modify the hardness. A similar or the same key combination in Affinity's apps would be highly practical and greatly welcome.

But those keys are not universally usable – not all layouts have them. Of course, if we have keys to access, we can also reassign them at will, Affinity preferences allow that.

[Unsharp mask]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

Try reducing the pixel dimensions (especially the width).

Or is there some new user restriction in this forum software?

[Missing text editor ?]

10 hours ago, jrkay said:

All I can say that anyone who has experience with a separate word editor, either in PagePlus or InDesign and with a multi-page books,  knows full well what the advantages are.

If the people who confess that don't know why we want it could confirm that they have had this experience and have used either of these programs themselves we would maybe more sympathetic to their suggestions which do not seem to be based on any practical hands-on relevant use.

That is a complicated sentence.... I did use text editor in PageMaker and early InDesign, and the reason was that editing and tagging text in layout was too - s - l - o - w -. After macs got faster it was no problem.

Now, I can understand there are users who prefer to edit text in editor. For some workflows it may be ideal. And an editor window is not really problem for other users as it goes away when you do not need it.

[Basing text operation on MS word is a BIG mistake!]

Or maybe the fact that importing a Word file brings along its style tags. That is usually a nuisance – basic text import should discard original styles and keep only local formatting. In very controlled workflows mapping Word styles to Publisher styles may be useful, but keeping imported Word styles as they are: never.

[Affinity Photo - a bit confused!]

If you place a pixel image to existing Affinity document it will be placed as "encapsulated" "image layer", i.e. you can scale, rotate, shear, adjust with adjustment layers and mask it as you will and it will keep original image data intact. Transformations will be calculated only when exported, or when flattened. This is called non-destructive editing.

All operations though cannot be done non-destructively. In that case layer will be rasterised, i.e. calculated to pixels as they are according to document settings, when such operation is done. 

See if you can find threads about differences between image and pixel layers.

[How can I set up Affinity Publisher to print out a pamphlet document that looks like this? (link in the post)]

You need to print booklet.
See https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Publishing/print.html?title=Print 
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