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Hello all, When I close an Affinity Photo file, I see that the Layers panel remains, and the thumbnails of the layers are still shown. They are not editable or selectable, but remain visible until I quit and restart AP, or open a different file. This seems like a bug. There's no way to eliminate the display of the layers from the previous file, except by quitting AP or opening another file. I am using AP 2.2.1 on macOS Monterey (12.7.1).

Hello Chris26, Thanks for these tips. Very helpful. I suppose most book publishers will not be using Affinity Photo to create a KDP cover, of course, but perhaps this info will be helpful to others, too. I chose PDF for print, as you suggest. The cover image was accepted by the bots at KDP, at least as far as I know right now. Again, thank you for explaining this option-rich feature. :-)

Hello all. I designed my paperback book cover using Affinity Photo 2 (not Designer or Publisher as I am less familiar with them). Amazon KDP has specific requirements such as using their template, and exporting as a PDF. The Affinity Photo 2 form for exporting has a number of settings, and I am a bit confused. Here is Amazon's checklist for the cover: Save as a PDF. Your cover must be a single PDF that includes the back cover, spine, and front cover as one image. Flatten all transparencies. These can cause the file to print with missing or distorted content. Consult your software's documentation to learn how. Embed your fonts. Consult your software's documentation to learn how. Remove crop marks, color bars, template text. Crop marks are lines showing where pages should be trimmed. Color bars are strips with a series of patches used to ensure color balance during printing. Also, remove any template text, PDF creation guides, or software references. Ensure your cover image meets the minimum resolution of 300 DPI (dots per inch). Optimize PDFs. Optimization is useful to reduce your file size, allowing for higher performance when transferring, uploading, viewing, and printing the files. Questions: Should I flatten the entire PDF? If so, what settings should I use? How do I embed fonts? How do I optimize the PDF? Thanks.

As with others here, I am going to request that EPUB be added as an output format. I've been researching options for book layout and had already purchased the latest Affinity 2 suite, but it's disappointing to have to go from program to program to get the required format, especially if an error turns up and the whole process must be redone. Due to timelines, I can't hold off on creating the final output until there is an EPUB output available. If this is implemented, though, I'd be happy to use Publisher.