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Ok, cool, makes sense I spose. Thanks.

Thanks Walt. Toggling that Edit all Layers means I can only edit what's on the canvas - not on the peripheries. ....ah..Ok..so the stuff thats created off the canvas lives on one "universal" layer? Ok...I think I understand. RE my second question - about shape expanding not working on fills. Does the same rule apply - not everything works the same way when not on the active canvas space?

Hi Carl, Thanks for the response, I didnt see it until I made my second comment. I checked the layer > insertion and it's set to "default". I set it to 'inside' but its still placing new items at the top...?

Another issue Im having is "expand stroke" is only converting the line and not the fill into a shape. The Line is not closed, its a shape and the fill adds to it, I want the entire shape of that to be axpanded into a new shape...Im sure it used to do that, but I could be misremembering.

Hi all. Im working on logo on an artboard and find that when I add a new shape or pasted element it places the element at the top of the layers column and not just on top of the layer I had already selected. (I have many iterations of a logo so a lot of layers .) Also when I 'cut' the item and select the layer in the layer column to 'paste' it there, the item doesn't paste back on the artboard where I cut it from, it pastes it in a seemingly random spot elsewhere. Have I disabled some setting or has something changed with a recent update as I never had this issue before. Please help.

Hi all, new to publisher2 and having this issue. First save of the doc was fine. Second was slow and now it's just ridiculous. Takes 30 min to export a 60odd page graphic novel and the resultant file is over 500Megs. Are you saying it's the font thats causing it? Im using an anime comic font. I tried the 'switching to embed linked files back to link linked files and resaving'. not working. Currently waiting for the file to count down backwards from 500megs at .2 megs per second. The thought that I have to go thru this if I just add an apostrophe somewhere is too much to bear. Please say there is a fix. (otherwise the app is wonderful)

Thanks for the replies, appreciate it, Im using a Mac, any idea where I might locate that file package in iOS?

YESSSSS. Please, it's only the second time Ive mistakenly done it in two years but I work on multiple projects and having the open recent library is super handy. Pretty Please can you include a simple "confirm clear?" pop up. The two options are right next to each other and both times Ive accidentally slipped my mouse onto the 'clear' instead of 'open more'.

Cool, thanks Walt.

Yes, palletised seems to be the default setting 😛. Deselected that piece of specialised-tech and it's exporting in a couple seconds now. Thanks Notmyfault

sure thing, I tried exporting this one just before sending it...its took over a minute but did actually export (I dont know if a minute is normal export timeframe?) but some others take longer than that and I I eventually abandon the idea and just export to jpg 😛 36.afdesign

The images were drawn in procreate. Ive imported them as PNGs and placed them as th bottom layer, adding speechtbubbles on top of that in Affinity.

They are 7016 x 9921 px, colour profile (admittedly I know not much about the why's and wherefore of colour settings) but it's set to RGB/8 (must be a default? )

Im putting speech bubbles into a 40 page graphic novel using affinity and trying to export each page to png but so far Ive not managed the patience to wait out a full image export...I did delete a bunch of layers for one page, so there was just a some vector lettering I made on a visible layer (hid all other layers) and that exported to png in a relatively little space of time. But the full images just take too long. Is there a setting Im missing? Im using a Mac mini M1 with the latest iOS and latest Affinity. We are uploading the comic to a site and the dev prefers pngs - Ive resorted to jpgs for now but please advise.

Ah thanks. Not very intuitive imo. I just assume you select the "orientation to" before the alignment option, so experienced the same problem. Why are the options not accessible regardless the order of your operation? I even had to reread your reply a few times to figure what you meant. 😛