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Transparency over Pantone does not work in any application, I think. There clipping path method is the way to go.

...especially as Affinity applications do not support line art. Autotrace would be working solution around that obstacle for some users.

We wish devs would supply the feature. That said, TIFF with clipping path is a bit old skool as most designers use PSD-files with transparency nowadays. Legacy files would benefit the feature of course.

Clipping mask is different from clipping path... but essential information is that clipping paths seem not to work but layered TIFFs (both layers and masks) seem to work.

I would also like this to be a normal panel in View>Studio, but it behaves like one anyway, doesn't it? Maybe size could be more adjustable.. Passthrough PDF: Productionwise – yes; as implemented code – no. There is no readymade library from where it could be activated easily.

'cause making them passthrough is not simple. Making them editable with some fonts issues is halfmeasure and halfbaked – we just hope devs can get to fullbaked before long. And yes, if you have a lot of ads Publisher is not going to cut it until then Colour profiles in another issue... maybe someone else can parse a convincing explanation. .You mean this? Document>Resource Manager...

In Mac Lightroom it renames files. Very handy.

I do not get it why JPEG export should make this hilite visible. Export should export the image just as it shows in AP working window.

So don't hit Ctrl+Enter.

No, Merge Curves does not guarantee you can fill areas, and it does not really join path to another so that node would really be a part of another path. Generally in graphic applications paths have starting and end points and path can be closed also. They generally cannot fork. Path does not need to be closed to have a visible fill though.

That is the it should work. Devs are aware how crucial this feature is.

Clone does not try to match new painted material to what lies underneath and if you use soft brush (feather) it will soften out the original texture (in brush border area). IMHO.

It would be a great timesaver. It would be even more helpful in perspective correction where there routinely appear transparent strips in lower corners.

Why are you uploading affinity files? If you want to share them with coworkers you can zip them. If you want to use them as visual objects in your website you must use format that browsers can display, i.e. JPEG, PNG, or GIF. Export them.

TIFF pages and TIFF layers are different things. Both are though addons to baseline TIFF specification.

Practical solution would be to use higher rez PNG and scale it to desired size using HTML.

Did you export to PDF? If you just set the text as a mask to the filling image it should output as vector shape with image fill.

If you use spiral binding you need bleed in spine part... otherwise bleed should be 0 towards spine.

That should not happen when you open an image. When you have existing document and you add (place, drag&drop) an image to it, it will be placed as image layer, which means you can do all kinds of operations to it nondestructively and it keeps its original resolution within the file. It also means you cannot copy&paste a part of it, only the whole layer. That is problematic behaviour and I wish there was some built-in automatic procedure around it. You can rasterize the placed layer to document resolution and after that it is normal pixel layer and selections can be copy pasted normally.

It should be sticky; as you set it once with one text frame as top (Text>Vertical Alignment) next time you create a text frame it should be aligned top.

OK, check if you have "Area: Whole document" selected in export dialog. It makes difference.

Guys, it is not as simple as you say and you haven't managed to answer OP question. I can draw a design with vector shapes, save it as TIFF with affinity layers. Result will open as simple pixel image in Photoshop. I can open the TIFF in Designer and I get the original vector shapes just like they were when exporting. Why this does not happen with OP is the question.

Separated mode is nice but it tends to lose bars and panels in multiple monitor systems (Mac)...

Why don't you just design the booklet as normal facing pages publication and let printer do the imposition. If you do the printing yourself your printer (the machine) should have booklet option available, or you can use some cheap "imposition" software like Create Booklet 2.

In my view JPEG is delivery format. Sometimes though TIF is preferred delivery format but that depends how big is the job and how much storage and bandwidth is available and of course customer preferences. TIF and PSD are good archive and exchange formats. .afphoto is preferred work format when you are working on an image, having repeated saves and nondestructive tool layers. RAW is the source format and if you have capable raw converter/DAM it is also a good archive format (save original and development sidecar/db instruction set).