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Changing filetype should not matter, internally Photo still works like using .afphoto file. 8 GB is a bit low RAM for big project but maybe someone can check if it should be enough for mentioned project. (I have also mid-12 MBP but 13" so I have upped RAM to 16 GB ages ago...)

The basics are usually taught first year graphic design classes.... maybe this explains some: https://www.psprint.com/resources/difference-between-raster-vector/

what kind of work flow asks for constant knowledge of word count? 🤭

You should not have hours between manual saves. I prefer to save manually as I sometimes need easy way to revert if I do some experimentations.

Looks like Designer Document setup? No such feature there.

I do not really miss those "chops" from early '90s but otherwise "+1"!

I you want to set white point I use curves or levels adjustment.

Sure you can do forms in InDy, there is even the old way and the new way. It seem not to be optimal tool anyway.. Creating industrial strength forms is a bit an art this moment and there seem not to be really good tool for it. Thus Publisher would fill a need here if it offered such tools. On the other hand creating forms is demanding and adding features for it would not happen by allocating 2 weeks of coding time. It would take serious commitment to make forms tools right, otherwise it would be just another halfbaked toolset. My company is in the process converting old "paper" PDF forms to electronic live PDF forms, but I can see there are problems making them really smart..

Engineer thinking says more is more and 1-bit graphics is so '80s anyway. We will get 64-bit graphics before 1-bit, I am afraid.

Mesh Warp and Perspective tools do almost what we need... if devs added just some options to behaviour it would be perfect.

It is a problem if people keep asking what is happening in this dialog box.

Clip art is not a filetype and not very useful tag anyway. Any kind of pixel or vector graphic can be a clip art in some application. If application is digital scrapbooking it may give some cues what is needed.

Modifying a preset clears preset name in the selection box. It is a UI problem, not a technical one. This is discussed there:

This is an old bug devs have trouble squishing. Seems only way to handle it now is to start application with control key down and clear user preferences.

Would be wonderful feature.

You can simply use crop tool if you just need a rectangle crop.

Imported PDFs should import as passthrough in the first place. Opening as editable with text as curves should be merely an option.

Now, certainly Affinity should allow gamma slider to go all the way to 11! I usually handle gamma corrections with curves but gamma slider (are we talking about levels tool?) should allow more extreme adjustments. Maybe entering numbers greater than 2 even when slider ends would be enough as Affinity allows that in some other tools.

That allows you to adjust to what greylevels each colour translates to. Useful, and you get greyscale lookalike, but technically document is still RGB. You can convert format after that and that makes it true greyscale.

Even easier is to hit CMD-D

Check that you have right physical size applied. Document>Resize Document... untick Resample and enter right values with units set to millimetres.

Gotta say that FF pro is usually 80 % off and $399 is just marketing ploy.

A normal press quality A3 PDF with full image should be somewhere 3-8 MB. Affinity definitely makes them bigger. Possibly there is less image compression applied than in other tools?

I think your printers just wants 148mm x 210mm PDF document with 3 mm bleed areas. When you set your document thus, there will be some extra area around the page to contain printers marks. Exact printer area does not matter as imposition software will handle that. Recheck you printer instructions.