Chills

The biggest concern that many have is that there are legal issues with some usages of generative AI, such that some companies and clients forbid using it in the artwork being provided to them.
Consider that the "generative AI" is fed a bunch of existing images (stuff not created by AI) and it "learns" from those images and basically copies parts of them to produce the "new" work - meaning the new work is technically a composition of small parts of other works.
Based on that, if the original works were copyrighted, then you are now potentially in violation of copyright laws if permission was not obtained to use them.  If the copied parts of the images are trademarks (someone asked for a mouse and got Micky Mouse, for example), then you may be using someone's trademark without their consent.  If someone takes the work and tries to pass it off as the creation of the AI (or their own work), then you are largely ignoring that it is a derivative of the work of possibly many others, and denying them credit for what they did.
In some cases permission was not obtained to make use of the images that were fed into the AIs and thus copyright is a very real concern for many.  Even if permission was obtained from those who took the pictures, if any trademarks are involved, or if the images were photos which included people and model releases were not obtained which cover the arbitrary use of generative AI, you could wind up with a different set of legal issues.
Consequently there are many who ban its use, and people who work for clients are looking for options that help them to convince the clients that they are not using it, as some clients will not allow it due to those legal concerns.

I trust the fam will spank you for taking time away from the vaycay to look at your phone!

I'm on holiday in the Mediterranean so the only thing I can throw is some shade and shapes in the club 
 

I did just that and the problem has already been solved... (and the solution has nothing to do with Affinity!)  see 
 
 

Hi @Chills,
This has come up previously, we don't create embedded thumbnails for PDF documents, just native affinity files. We rely on the OS having built in support to preview that file type. This would be a feature request.
On a personal note I tend to use Acrobat as my default file associations for opening PDFs for proofing etc. and right click > open with when I want to open the PDF in affinity. You can enable PDF previews in their settings.

That would be a different issue, so you should create your own topic in the Bugs forum to get it addressed, I think.

This would be a valid argument and a helpful suggestion, except self-checking barcode fonts currently don't work because of a bug in Affinity.
So you can't just select the font and type in a number. Some surprisingly complicated pre-processing is needed for most barcode types (eg UPC/EAN).
 

Thanks, but I have been doing layout and book/magazine/newspaper design since the 1980s. What I was hoping for were actual templates I could tweak rather than advice on how to create one from scratch. But I will read his page and see what I can use of it.

I suspect he may have meant it when he said it but...   Things have probably been moving and changing a lot.  So any Q&A on a moving target would have been pointless. 
Added to which, having seen this sort of thing before, whilst Ash might have wanted to do it, and as Serif would have done it, Canva PR-Media team will have got involved and wanted to micromanage.  They move slower and with the changes mentioned above what Ash envisaged and where Canva PR were heading the lot ended up in the long grass.   There will be a Q&A but you can bet it will be a safe corporate one in months time not weeks.
 

This is a big problem for residents there; I work with folks on decommissioning issues, and we are all concerned that there are plans to keep old, embrittled reactors open for decades after end of design life.  Residents have good reason not to trust the NRC; I recommend watching the film Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island (https://radioactivethefilm.com).
The investor community is salivating over new small modular reactors, even though the only company that had a model approved, NuScale Power, had most of its potential customers drop out because of delays and cost (https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nuscale-power-uamps-agree-terminate-nuclear-project-2023-11-08/). 

@lacerto I've just uploaded a book to Blurb and they make indeed a preflight check after uploading, checking the files for technical errors. Additionally they create a preview pdf, where you once more have the chance to check your book, especially to make sure that all content is within the printable areas.
So the warning you where referring to, is about the content (text, pictures, layout) only. They do of course no spell checking, or look for an ugly layout or poor picture quality.

Yes, but this applies also when you use their plugin, as you can read here:
https://support.blurb.com/hc/en-us/articles/214844043-Preview-your-PDF-before-upload
And yes, they do a preflight as this page for error handling shows:
https://support.blurb.com/hc/en-us/articles/207792976-PDF-uploader-preflight-errors
I would also like to see something like the Blurb plugin for Adobe Indesign, but only because it simplifies your workflow.
Currently I use their calculation page and this works like a charm:
https://www.blurb.com/make/pdf_to_book/booksize_calculator
 
 

I'd be quite happy if the growing list of "known issues" (bugs) that we are continually being told have been "passed to the developers" were actually dealt with and fixed! (Especially the "silly" ones, like missing icons, incorrect labels/translations, UI problems and the like.)

Some of the reason for the pause in information is a change I made to the @Affinity Info Bot posts which used to tell users that a bug had been fixed and {is/would be} available in a beta available {already/very soon}. However I decided that going forward the bot would only post here once a beta build is actually available. So without starting a 2.6.0 beta, the regular nudge nudge of coming fixes has been silent. Sorry but I felt this change was necessary, as I knew that it would be a long time to tease users that their particular issue was theoretically fixed, but without a 2.6.0 beta to download that same fix was not available to try. I thought that would be incredibly frustrating and cause a lot of users to demand a 2.6 beta started before it was ready. Until now 2.6 has not been ready, and we're still a little way off.
So let me explain why there has been this extended period with no significant new beta..... We recognised that, by introducing multi-page spreads in 2.6 (so more than 2 pages per spread), we were making a significant change that would require a long internal testing period. The rearchitecture of spreads is nearly complete. As soon as we're ready with this and the other new features, we will announce the 2.6 beta in the beta forums and a flurry of over 200 bug fixes will be announced by the Affinity Info Bot.
The changes and improvements in 2.6 will, as Walt says, only be public once the beta starts. The multi-page change is unusual in that it has been discussed early.
 

You should go play somewhere else, I asked a question and if anyone knows the answer thanks
apparently it's not you
You should have a nice glass of wine and calm down. ?
bye

Coming back to this.
I know the Blurb Plugin for Indesign is extremly helpfull and I also miss it, but Blurb gives a lot of help to create books with Affinity Publisher. Check this article from their knowledgebase:
https://support.blurb.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044955872-Affinity-Publisher-PDF-Dateien
And if you would like to use White Wall, they are offering something similar:
https://www.whitewall.com/uk/editor/pdf-coffee-table-book/create

This is depressing,. Keep coming back and googling for the same answer years later. 
 

I was wondering if it is now possible (with the new version 1.9) to install indesign plugins on affinity publisher?
Blurb.co.uk has a blurb indesign plugin as book creating tool to facilitate creating books and magazine up to their specs : 
blurb bookmaking tool
Would be wonderful if it was possible. Otherwise, I will try to lobby to them for adding templates and specs specifically for Affinity Publisher users.

Governments and their contractors are working on a lot of stuff that does not get into the public domain.  Some of it is in the public domain, but usually only in very small circles who are cognisant with that niche.

You know that someone is now going to do a doctorate to disprove that 🙂

I think the definition of ‘artificial intelligence’ has changed over time. Fifty years ago it was all about modelling human thought processes (e.g. creating systems that could pass the Turing Test).
<pedantry>
*The maths is still the same
</pedantry>
The noun ‘mathematics’ is what’s known as uncountable. There is no such thing as a mathematic.

These increases hit small businesses, small teams and individual users the hardest.

Same problems.  I have three late 2012 [intel] MACs  The problem is Apple fix it so you can't run later OS on older hardware.  Also, the apple Shop only sells the "latest" version and those tend to only work on the latest OS version.  Therefore, I am on the last version of OSX that will run on my hardware and is stable for CS6.
I then changed to PC's for publishing, video and photo work. So I think I will be OK for the next decade,   Certainly with BMD Resolve and Affinity  (assuming V3 is OK) 
I wouldn't like to predict any further than a decade. YouTube and face book aren't even 20 years old yet.

And there we have it. Refusal to accept reality with "so-called "facts""  Sorry, but they are facts. However, as you admit, there are no professional tools on Linux.  Not strictly true, there are a very few.
You then have the fairy tale/propaganda that if the tools were available, lots of people would jump ship.  With absolutely no evidence other than the religious zeal you find in most cults.  If there was *ANY* truth in what you were saying, Adobe would have a Linux version of their tools.    Resolve would support more than just one current distribution (and version) of Linux.  
No matter what the Linux cult would like to believe, there is no commercial argument for doing Linux versions for Affinity, or Adobe or many others. 
BMD did Resolve on Linux because they ported it from another POSIX OS to ONE version of Linux when the cost of a single seat was around $250,000, and you had to buy the hardware desks to go with it. None of the users wanted Linux per se, they wanted Resolve, and it came with the computer it ran on that just happened to run Linux.   When BMD  went to a stand-alone Resolve that was $1000 and did not need BMD hardware, they did MAC then Windows (but NOT Linux).  It was some years later they release the stand-alone Linux version because they already had it.  Otherwise, there would not be a Linux version of Resolve.  BMD created their own Linux market on ONE SINGLE DISTRO of Linux.
There are also many solid technical reasons why Linux is a very poor choice for an OS for anything. This involves the architecture.  I mentioned it before but the Linux Devotees don't seem to understand OS and RTOS architectures.  Tanenbaum explained it very well and undergraduate level. It is a complex subject, and it is difficult to explain it at a lower level than that.

Unfortunately, it is usually the case with Linux supporters.