[Hidden characters in Designer]

It's in the 2.1 beta so you will have it soon when you upgrade your 2.0

[Expressions not dealt with correctly in batch processing]

1 minute ago, David in Яuislip said:

I don't consider this to be a bug it's just  hard to work with

I think it's a bug

The batch job recognises

w*2560

and

max(w, h)

when entered separately,

so why not when joined, as in... w*2560/max(w, h)

 

[Tone Map]

Please upload a screenshot showing an image in the Tone Mapping Persona and the Windows menu expanded

[Zoom 100% (CTRL+1) does not fit]

7 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

How not?
Care to explain why 300dpi in pixels are not the same in mm and why the zoom acts different when the units are different?

When I suggested trying 300DPI I was using pixels and that does give a different zoom for CTRL+1 and CTRL+8

But not for mm, etc

There is another "complicated" thread below with a similar issue to which a fix was announced yesterday for the next beta release, so hopefully this particular issue will be resolved in Publisher shortly

 

[Clip a group into another group]

1. Duplicate the Flag Group
2. Rasterise that new group
3. In the Layers panel drag that Rasterised Layer to the thumbnail of the Grunge group

 

[Zoom 100% (CTRL+1) does not fit]

28 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

To me these are both the same but I have my scaling set to 100%

Try a document set to 300DPI

[Affinity Photo-HSL adjustment circle]

A known bug if you have 2 screens

Move that dialog to the other screen then back again - that usually cures it

[Margin Maximum = 400px?]

I think the margins in the Guides dialog are the same margins that the document has

and in File > Document Setup you can set margins larger than 400px, which then show up in the Guides dialog

Not sure why you can only do it this way to get values larger than 400px

 

[Cannot for the Life of Me Get the Color Replacer Tool to Show Up on the Tool Menu]

That tool is in APhoto not Designeer

[The width and height of the exported file is one pixel more than the set pixel.]

[Problem exporting in Photo V1]

Goto...

Edit > Preferences > Performance 

and switch off Hardware Acceleration

[Window Copy/Paste problem]

This has been raised before and logged by Support

The issue is that it does not occur in V1 but does in V2 (same clipboard data)

I see the issue in V2, V2beta but not V1

(Windows 11)

[Affinity designer GUI is not made by a graphic designer #101 (How to make curves with pointy sides?)]

For straight lines you can use the Arrow Tool

The Arrows are adjustable as shown below

 

[Photo latest Beta is not working anymore. Crashing at starting up.]

19 hours ago, Hangman said:

There's appears to be something wrong with your testefile.afphoto file as it is only 8KB in size. I can open it in the latest Beta .1713 but it's just a blank 72dpi 1,920px x 1,080px document containing no layers...

Possibly just a quick blank file uploaded to show the opening issue

[All Affinity applications: Warning Sound on saving (CMD/CTRL-S)]

I'm not getting a bleep on Widows 11

May be Mac specific

[How to blend a mottled background (retouching an old photo)]

An alternative method for a blank damaged background is just to create a new background from scratch

Separate the background to a new layer
Sample dark brown colour from top of background
Sample light brown colour from bottom of background
Add a gradient using those colours to the new layer
Add noise to layer as required (to age it a little or a lot)

Quick example attached, would need to spend more time refining the separation of the background layer in the first step
 

 

[Publisher: table row alternating background fill + rows "escaping" from table after import from .indd]

On 3/1/2023 at 8:20 AM, Sophie Gauthier said:

the main frame (black arrow selection) is rightly positionned but the "inside frame" (with the rows and text and stuff -white arrow selection-) is shifted up and out of frame.
I can't seem to be able to "shift it back into" main frame.

Your 2 tables are pinned to 2 text frames but it's the bottom of the tables that are pinned to the top of the text frame which is why they are "out of frame"

Can't see any reason why the tables need to be pinned to text frames so the easiest solution seems to be to Unpin the 2 tables using the Pinning Studio. Delete the (now) redundant text frames then position the 2 tables where you want them on the page.

The 2 tables will now line up as regards the rows of the table but they will go out of sync again as Row 15 on the right-hand table has an extra Return character at the end of the text (So, just delete that Return character)

Note: Should the text frames be important for any reason, just unpin the tables reposition the tables then re-pin them to the text frame. They will now be correctly pinned from the top of the tables to the top of the text frame

 

@stokerg may be able to advise you on why this has happened after he has looked at the IDML file

 

[invert color is inverting the entire page and all layers instead of the item i've chosen to invert.]

31 minutes ago, T R E N T R E K E R said:

your reply is far kinder than mine to walt, NMF.  thank you for your thoughtfulness.

NMF was not replying directly to Walt's post(s) but to the related issue of the "insertion target" not being sticky and thus has to be reselected each time you want an action that is not the default action for a new layer

Walt's answer was correct as to how Affinity does things and what you can expect. The fact that Photoshop does something different is irrelevant

You can find more information regarding the issue raised by NMF here...

 

[I can't sign into affinity photo v2 after installing getting error "there was a problem connecting" to the server what should I do?]

On 2/22/2023 at 12:53 PM, Mikkel Barfoed said:

I am having this same issue on a corporate Win10 PC. 

My IT operations dept. has confirmed, that both proxy and firewall allows me to connect to:
https://affinity.api.serifservices.com
https://affinity.serif.com

I've also tried the ipconfig/flushdns fix, but nothing works.

What to do?

1. I assume your PC can also go directly to those URL's (the 1st one will redirect, which is fine)

2. Most mobile phones allow you to set them up as an Internet hotspot so your Win 10 PC can connect to the internet through the phone thus bypassing the corporate network and any issue that may have. I've had to use this to test/prove where a problem lies in the past

If you were a home user I would say try this but since you are in an office, you may be breaking a few rules and could get in trouble for it. So you might want to run it by your (friendly?) IT people first 

 

 

[Showing Affinity icon for file thumbnail on Windows 11]

Well, I don't know what to suggest

If works fine for me in V2 and the V2 beta using Windows 11

I can switch on/off the file icons, at will, by adjusting my Windows settings

You may want to compare your Preferences setting in V1 & V2 to see if anything there stands out

Or check Windows updates etc to see if a "recent" update caused issues for other users regarding these file icons

 

My Windows updates are always, deliberately, postponed for at least 5 weeks so never uptodate

[Masking in Photo]

10 hours ago, Clayton King said:

Any thoughts?

It's a very easy cut-out to do using the selection brush and then the refine dialog

But if you set the output to Mask you get the white outline you describe

But if you set the output to New Layer with Mask or just New Layer then there is no white outline

(It's possibly a bug with the Mask output option but I would need a lot more time, that I don't currently have, to confirm that)

 

[Showing Affinity icon for file thumbnail on Windows 11]

Those settings can be specific to certain folders or folder types

If you're not seeing file icons for other programs (non-Affinity apps) then it's still Windows 11 where you need to "fix" the issue not the Affinity apps

 

[Showing Affinity icon for file thumbnail on Windows 11]

1 hour ago, Sonny Sonny said:

So windows 11 is the problem.

It's not a Windows 11 problem it's a Windows 11 setting

Switch on "Display file icon on thumbnails"

Search Google to find how to switch that on

 

[Batch job to upsample images?]

You can use a simple macro to change the resolution to 300DPI and attach that to the batch job

There still may be a bug whereby recording such a macro in the current versions of APhoto does not work. But an older version of that macro has been uploaded several times to this forum so you should be able to find it

 

[Publisher 2.1.1713 beta]

35 minutes ago, beckywc said:

Since this new beta when typing the text is doubled.  For example, if I type 3 I get 33

Do you mean typing in a text box or some dialog field?

Please be specific as to when/how this occurs