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Thanks for your reply, lacerto, and for the very good video, obviously a clean systematic solution! Though, my document has color elements as well. (It is just the QR codes and some parts of the text that are grey.) I guess I will just click trough all of them, and take the learning for next time.

I have created business cards in Affinity Publisher. The cards all contain QR codes that I had created with a command-line tool, and dragged them into the AP document, so they are now embedded. About 35 in total. The QR codes are dark grey. Now for offset printing, my printer shop recommended to use plain black instead of composite black, to avoid unwanted color effects if a color shifts a bit during printing. My document is CMYK / Coated Fogra 39, so I can nicely use, e.g., 0-0-0-70 grey for all text, but the embedded SVGs still produce composite grey, because they are RGB internally. Is there a way I can change the color of all embedded SVGs to CMYK 0-0-0-70, other than manually touching each of the >35 SVG files? A workaround I found is to apply a "color overlay" from "Effects" with "brighter color", and choosing a lighter grey (0-0-0-61) than what the RGB conversion would yield. This seems to do the trick, at the cost of being forced to use a lighter gray. And it does not look like a reliable solution to me. Is there any better option I have? (I looked at resource manager, but the single button that is not disabled is "Replace". Which means I would have to re-create the SVGs in CMYK and re-embed them, I guess.)

I agree that you can always say this is biased as any poll that you are trying to take. It will always be a minority of people that may or may not represent the total. The minority here might just be weird folks, not belonging to the target group of Affinity, or trying to derail things, or whatever. The minority here might also be people who feel a strong tie to Affinity products, and therefore invest their time to think about improvements, and to raise their vote. Whereas the majority often just leaves without bothering about giving feedback why they left. So, a "biased" user forum, though not a clear indicator, still might be a useful source of ideas, I would guess...

Indeed! Thank you! I just did not find it, it is so well hidden in the menu.

Sorry for writing in German, and thanks for offering to help! I have a group of a few rectangles and I want to "bend" the group so that they look like they were printed on a sheet of paper that is slipping away in the wind. A transformation like here, just with curved modification https://www.rgb-labs.com/inkscape-129-pfadeffekt-perspektive/ .

Ich frag mich auch grad, warum das nicht gscheit geht. Corel konnte das schon vor Jahrzehnten! (Zugegebenermaßen auch andere Preisklasse, aber ja, wenn sogar das freie Inkscape es schafft, dann ist das für Affinity eher nur mehr peinlich.)

Thanks for your reply! Yes this is what I have in mind. Are there any other settings that might get stored in this file (that I would overwrite), or does the file really only contain the list of custom template folders?

Well yes of course that is the manual way. But I want to alleviate users from doing that manually on each PC (searching for the folder, adding it). We do have computers to automate stupid and error-prone tasks, don't we?

My client uses a Affinity software on a few Windows PCs (in a AD Domain) with different user accounts. The have a custom folder for their templates on a network drive. Where are the registry settings for adding such a folder? I found HKLM\Serif\Affinity\Designer\1 but that does not seem to contain anything like such preferences. Nothing in HKCU. Looks like all this is stored in <UserProfile>\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Designer\1.0\preferences.dat – which seems to be a binary file unfortunately. How is this supposed to be administered in a networked environment? EDIT: Ah, I just found AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Designer\1.0\Settings\TemplateSettings.xml – I guess this one is my friend! If I overwrite this file for all users, would I just overwrite any custom folders the users might have added, or are there more settings that I would kill?

I am desparate with the Affinity guys here. What do they need to wake up? Bad reviews in the app store? A shitstorm on social media? (Still using the workaround DefaultFolderX, otherwise I would get mad with this. I would seriously use Corel nowadays, if I did not have a lot of Affinity files around.)

Yes, good point! I am missing snapping as well!

100% Agree. If I would start today, I would rather invest in Corel. But I am locked in with all my files in Affinity format...

Uhm, I have been suffering from the problem as well, so I guess I understand it. 🙂 I am NOT happy promoting DefaultFolderX, but it is the only (and yes, indeed very clunky!) solution that I have found so far. (Note (as it seems like you missed this): In the settings, there is this one little option "in Save dialogs, use the current folder of the file" (translated from German) – you need to enable it, this is the relief for the problem.)

Imo this could be resolved easily to make most people happy - see my old post

I, too, was so hoping for that nuissance getting removed at last. Looks like the key might be within criffel's statement – we are still buying it, so Affinity does not care. Adding features is helpful in advertising, while removing annoyances is not. (It would need a genius texter to create an advert based on "In V2 we have now fixed an everyday efficiency-killing stupidity that we have been ignorant about the recent 5 years"...)