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Mac OS Monterey I attached the history, however yesterday it started to switch to the eraser on another app too, and I found it's a XP Pen drivers or pen problem. The weird thing is that it only starts happening when using Affinity Designer, so I wonder if there is any sort of conflict on XP Pen drivers related to the fact that I set specific buttons for another app only. I might try to set the pen and display's button functions for Designer too and see if it makes a difference.

Hi, Using the Vector Brush tool on Affinity Designer, usign an XP Pen Artist Pro, all seems fine for a bit until, all of a suddent, every time I get close to the display with the pen, I start getting an assistant's message and the brush switches (automatically) to some sort of mask painting.... As soon as this happens the first time, the only way to fix it seems to close and reopen Designer... what is exactly happening?

Thanks for your answer, @Seneca. I always find hard to accept the fact that your "maybe printed in the future" work needs to be tied to specific printer's guidelines. 😀 So far these are my takes, please let me know if I am off track: Publisher 2 seems good to put together lettering, panels, vectors, effects, arrange pages and export the final product. You might even adjust these elements at a later point if your requirements change, even if it could be a lot of work! For the actual drawing and inking, another software supporting 1 bit layers for lineart might be ideal, or traditional paper / scan. This way all the art can independently be made and available at a bigger size, then scaled down before or after being imported into Publisher 2. I did notice that imported lineart images retains their 1 bit (no antialiasing when zoomed in). Curiously, if I switch to Photo Persona via StudioLink, the lineart gets converted and it's antialiased. It goes back to 1 bit if switching again to Publisher or Designer. If I got it right, @Fixx did test the monochrome issue as well. I did some print tests on my home inkjet and, apart for possibly being totally irrelevant, I am not sure how to check if it is 100k. The last thing it's a question: Does sending a bigger document size to the printer improve even more lines sharpness? For example send an A3 file and ask to be printed to A4, or am I talking nonsense?

Even if this is an old thread, I stumbled on it some time ago and I think that, now that Publisher 2 is out, CartoonMike great answer deserves a follow up (hope your chemo went / is going well). I am plannig to keep drawing monochrome panels in Firealpaca (or other softwares) and then import them in Publisher 2 for page composition, lettering, and any other extras. I was surprised that Affinity itself promoted Publisher for graphic novels / comics in their V2 launch video. Pages and Book features solve limitations Designer had (tried to use Artboards - painful) before Published arrived. My goal is to have something that can be printed. What still puzzles me are a couple of questions, partially already mentioned here: monochrome I understood Affinity does not support monochrome layers. Does it matter when importing a monochrome image created on a different software? dpi I keep reading different opinions: most of the people say 600dpi for monochrome / lineart, and 300dpi for colour documents. But then here I see 1200dpi, or, when I spoke to a professional, I was told 300dpi it's more than enough. Confusing. I also never heard of different dpi for different layers. Colour Profile Not only RGB vs CMYK, but also all the various different colour profiles to choose from. This is another topic where I find inconsistent answers around: Option 1. Work on RGB, then export in CMYK Option 2. Work in CMYK Option 3. Work in RGB and let the printer do the work Thanks for any answer, and happy new year!