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I see that this problem has been tagged AFD-6178 in a topic for iPad:

Worth to note that if the text appears blurred in Affinity Photo, it's saved as vector and is crisp when viewed in Designer or Publisher or when it's exported in formats that support it (like PDF).

EMF, as WMF and BMP are formats from Microsoft and don't exist on Mac. Here are the Export formats for Affinity on Mac: For the conversion, I would personally use Graphic Converter. Initially dedicated to this task, it's now known as a Swiss army knife for image treatment. It's a shareware that you can test for free but I think it's worth its reasonable price.

Yesterday evening I left a navigator tab open on this old topic, wondering if it was worth to bump it with a link to this one or post a feature request (probably not a bug report?) about this small problem. Given your experience on these forums, I would be interested to have your advice, given that the problem was sort of acknowledged by a staff member.

@Louise Cloutier This help page will help you to learn the names commonly used for various parts of the user interface: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/interface.html And this one is a very good starting point for the rest: https://affinity.serif.com/learn/designer/desktop/quickstart/ (I hope it will match your language… I've had to tweak its URL, otherwise it was in French). You can also retrieve this page through the Help menu in Designer > "Quick Start Guide"..

Drag and drop it where you want it. (It's a bit capricious… You'll probably have to circle around near the place you want until it gets blue or the place "opens", then drop it.) If you want to move only one tab, drag it by its label. If you want to move the whole group, fetch the || .

You must have a dropdown menu named Gray [in fact it's called Greyness in English] where you can choose RGB instead…

They are there in your screenshot. Just look at the edges & midpoints of the blue bounding box.

Making a screenshot and posting it here is really fast and easy. If you're using a Mac: Press Control+Command+Shift+3 and paste in the forum answer dialog. For Windows, I think there is a keyboard button Print Screen but I don't know more…

Have you tried to click on one of the buttons I indicated? It could bring back your familiar environment. If not, click back on the presently highlighted button…

Could it be that you changed of Persona? (One of the buttons on the top left, right aside the red/yellow/green buttons on OldBruce screenshot.)

I don't know how to interpret this but here is what I observed: When I open your PDF with Apple Preview, all 3 squares appear the same color (both visually or with Apple Digital Colorimetre) but when I open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader, the left square (vector rectangle) is different from the other when "Use Overprint Preview" is checked in Page Display settings. If not, the three are the same color.

On my Mac, it doesn't do that when I select "Always Show Scroll bars" in the System Settings/Preferences > General > Scroll Bars. Otherwise, it does.

Hi @Keith Landis Go to the menu View > Show Toolbar… and/or Show Context Toolbar…

If you can't open the file, try to create a new file with the same size and use "Document > Add Pages from File…". Sometimes it helps. BTW, it would be interesting to know where this file was stored? On the startup disk, an external disk, a NAS or in any folder synced with a Cloud service?