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On 3/28/2023 at 2:07 PM, Michail said:

I don't know "Pageplus", but I'm curious. What could you do with the "dual line option"?

Hi Michail

PagePlus was the desktop publishing app created by Serif and is the predecessor of Publisher. A lot of people looked down on it as being amateurish, but I managed to produce some very nice publications with it. I've attached a file with 4 boxes using the for different dual line stroke options, while you can only alter the total point size for the dual lines, you can't edit each line individual it was just a quick and easy way of producing a dual line. 

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13 hours ago, Ash said:

Thanks for this feedback - though getting a bit off topic from balanced dashed lines

It won't be in this update but a double line style is something we'll get on the list for future consideration. What we could also do with a a much better way to save any line styles you create yourself (with various dash patterns, arrow heads, multiple strokes in appearance, etc,) as well as us being able to provide a nice set of presets. These could potentially just be saved in other categories of the brushes panel within Designer persona. Again one for a future update...

Sorry for wandering off topic Ash but really pleased to hear it's under consideration for the future. Saving line styles sounds brilliant too.

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2 hours ago, Hangman said:

@Peter1959, I'm likewise not quite sure what you want to achieve, but if as per your screengrab on a solid background then this approach should work...

 

If not on a solid background then your approach should work...

 

If this isn't what you want to achieve, could you elaborate a little further...

Thanks Hangman

The post you replied to I was trying to get clarification of what Michail meant by consequences. Thank you for taking the time with your above demonstration. I confess I hadn’t thought of doing the three different alignments that makes much more sense. 
 

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4 hours ago, Michail said:

The consequence is that you see the background at this point. So this method is not universally applicable.

I don't know exactly what you want to achieve. With the Appeareance panel you can create as many parallel contours as you like.

Thanks Michail

The “consequence” is the result I wanted, a transparent gap between the lines.

What I want to “achieve” is for serif to put a dual line option in the stroke panel like pageplus had 20 years ago

 

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6 hours ago, Michail said:

Due to the blending mode "Erase", the middle contour is not coloured, but transparent - which has consequences.

and the consequences are? 

Do you know of  a different way of achieving this effect with the appearance panel?

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23 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Perhaps you could try out Designer's Appearance panel.

You're quite right Old Bruce but it's not an exact science for the type of dual lines I mean and takes some trial and error, the option I was referring to would be able to select dual lines inner line = x pt, offset = x pt, outer line = x Untitled.afpub

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Love the new balanced option on dotted lines, but one thing I would love to see in strokes is a twin line option, I know it's not too difficult to create twin lines uing two boxes but would be a real time saver if twin lines were available as an option, and if they could be independently edited that would be awesome.

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On 3/20/2023 at 5:38 AM, carl123 said:

Can you upload the new file you are having trouble with now?

No Carl I had to restore a recent back up 

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On 2/26/2023 at 11:12 AM, NathanC said:

Hey @Peter1959 welcome to the forums and apologies for the late reply,

Strangely, I've been able to open your File in the 2.1 Beta and then 'Save as' to a new file, after saving in 2.1 I could then open your file again in 2.0.4, I've attached it below in case you still need the file. 

 

Re-Saved File.afpub 148.08 MB · 1 download

Thanks Nathan when I downloaded the Beta I found I could do that too, but the same thing happened again this month but the file wouldn't open in V2 or Beta 2.1.1074

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1 minute ago, firstdefence said:

Welcome to the forum @Peter1959

Looking at the error message I notice the file is from X: which would suggest either an external; maybe USB, device or another partition, this can sometimes cause corruption or file opening problems.

Also which version specifically are you using, the latest v1 or the latest v2

Has anyone else edited this file and maybe has V2 over V1?

Any chance you can add the afpub file to your next post for us to check out?

 

Yes it is on a NAS drive Not had any problems with that when I was using V1, almost 2 years. Since using V2 there have been one or two issues with file not being found when going to save, if file has been stood for a while, but have got into the habit of closing the file. I am using the latest version of V2 and no one else has edited the file. 

March 2023 AFF2.afpub

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I have been working on a publisher file for a week, compiling a monthly church magazine without any issues. When I came to open it last night it wouldn't open saying the file contains features from a later version off Affinity Publisher. How can that be I'm running the latest version? Because I can't open the file I have no idea what feature that may be. I produce this magazine every month and have not had issues before. Your urgent help with this would be appreciated, the file is due to go to the printers tonight.