Seneca

Its not the stock sites. Its how DESIGNER opens them. 
EPS files open in INKSCAPE , ILLUSTRATOR fine. not DESINGER.
Gary
 

I'm not sure I should even ask for a sample EPS nevermind thegary providing a licensed one  
I've just exported an EPS from Illustrator with a gradient using the default EPS export settings and it opens in Affinity with a Layer and a Curve layer nested underneath which is expected.
I'm not sure what to include in the Illustrator export to make the EPS open as an Image Layer. If I could get a sample I would be happy to query it with the developers. I am entertaining this simply because thegary claims Inkscape can open them without issue and I wonder if there's something we can actually do.

Possibly, though you can activate guide visibility, via the menu or via a keyboard shortcut and drag new guides onto the canvas with the Guides dialog window open and clicking the 'add new horizontal or vertical guide' buttons effectively achieves the same thing. If you don't have any guides set then the addition of a checkbox isn't really going to add anything as there will be no guides to see...
Not opposed to the idea, just wondering how much value it adds but agree, having one would make it consistent with the Grid settings dialog window...

Hi @Seneca,
Thanks for your report! I can confirm that I've been able to replicate this issue on macOS and have reported it to our developers to be fixed.
I hope this helps

I’d prefer a visual cue, but maybe that’s just me!

Hello @philipt18,
I hope I'm not misunderstanding you but you can do it already.
Just right-mouse click on the number in a footnote, select Notes -> Go to Note Reference from the menu that appears and the cursor will move to the end of the footnote number in the text.
 

Hello @philipt18,
I hope I'm not misunderstanding you but you can do it already.
Just right-mouse click on the number in a footnote, select Notes -> Go to Note Reference from the menu that appears and the cursor will move to the end of the footnote number in the text.
 

Hello @v_kyr,
You are getting slightly unreasonable here. The team has stated, in numerous posts, that because the APIs are going to be the same for both C and JavaScript that they will keep the documentation in one place. There will be a lot of people for whom JavaScript will be the most important part and they will not regard this as garbage. They will concentrate on the JavaScript part and you can concentrate on the C based APIs. And they lived happily ever after. 🙂

I would respectfully suggest to read (again) page 17 of this thread before jumping into any conclusions.
 

Apps: Affinity Publisher
Platforms: All
On the Index panel, you'll find new options that provide increased control over the presentation of index entries.
In addition to being able to customise the words that precede cross-references within an index, five new options are available: After Topic, Between Items, Between Ranges, Before Refs, and After Ref.
Here's the Index panel, on which we've customised each separator's text.

In several cases, we've included spaces as well as visible characters. In fact, that's all the After Topic box contains.
Here's how our custom text looks in our publication's index.

Inserting special characters
Commonly used special characters are easily inserted into your custom separator text. On desktop, click the arrow at the left of the box. On iPad, tap the Insert icon at the top left of the on-screen keyboard.

Special characters can also be inserted using your operating system's feature for typing emoji and symbols, or by copying and pasting.

@SenecaI can see why you would like  to specify a range for a cross reference but i feel that would be too much work to fit into this cycle. It would be a USP for this feature

I see the issue with point 8 now and have logged an issue for that

Thanks @walt.farrell,
that works because each field is separately accessing each page independently, which I have had that working initially.
I was hoping that I would be able to combine that into one preset like the one below.
references2.afpub
but I don't think this is possible at the moment.
What the Affinity Team might consider is to allow combining saved presets into more complicated presets.
For example having saved presets below: 
Begin Span
End Span
We could then combine them like:
Begin Span – End Span.
But ideally, we should be able to do it all in one preset.

Apps: Publisher and Designer
Platforms: macOS and Windows
From the select menu you will find a new option of "Select All on Current Layer" with a default shortcut of shift-cmd-A on macOS and shift-ctrl-A on Windows.
This was requested as a quick way to achieve the same result of unchecking "edit all layers" in layers panel and doing Select All. A good example would be if you want to select everything on an artboard, you can now just click on the artboard label and hit shift-cmd-A.

Apps: Publisher
Platforms: macOS and Windows
You can now include URLs, file locations, email addresses and anchors (anchors new in build 1931) in your data merge dataset and use those fields to create an active link in your merged result.

As an example you could have a data set like this:

And then set up a data merge layout like below, using those fields:

Once you have done that you can now select the <Twitter Handle> field and Insert Hyperlink. You will now see when you insert a hyperlink in a data merge document you will get an additional option to take the URL from a data merge field, which will activate a drop down to select which field you want the URL to come from. In this case I want to set the URL to be set to the "Twitter Handle Link" field:

You can also do the same with a link type of email and set that to = the <email address> field.
So then when you generate the merged result the hyperlinks will dynamically generated to be correct for the record in question. So for example clicking on the @Joe link will take you to https://twitter.com/joe.

 
Anchors
You can also choose a data merge field link to an anchor in your document. Additionally you can also now create anchors from your data. This gives powerful options enabling you to have links from one record to another. e.g. You could have a record set like this:

Then insert an Anchor = <Record Anchor> and also create a hyperlink which links to <link to Anchor>, so in this case you could have a link in record 1 which links to record 5, 2 to 6, etc. and then record 5 linking back to record 1, etc.
Insert Anchor dialog now has option to create from a data merge field

 
Hyperlinks to Anchors can also now be created from data merge fields

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Apps: Affinity Publisher
Platforms: All
The ability to insert cross-references from one part of a document to another—for example, "For more information, see page 24"—has been added to Affinity Publisher.
Cross-references are managed on the Cross-References Panel (Window > References > Cross-References).

To insert a cross-reference, create an insertion point in a text object, and then click 'Insert Cross-Reference' (the circled plus symbol) at the lower-right of the panel. Inserting a cross-reference is also available from the right click menu when you are editing text. On the resulting dialog:
- Select the cross-reference's target, which can be an existing anchor, paragraph or index marker.
- Specify the text to be displayed by the cross-reference.
- Optionally, apply formatting and limit the amount of quoted text displayed by any field you've inserted into the display text.

Selecting a target
Use the upper part of the dialog to select a target. Choose the target's type (Anchor, Paragraph, or Index Marker) and then select the required target in the list below.
If too many targets are listed, use the Filter text and Filter style options to limit what's listed based on target text and/or paragraph style.
Specifying what a cross-reference displays
The Text option specifies what your cross-reference will display This can be a simple attribute of the target, such as its page number or quoted text, or you can enter complete phrasing into the box, e.g. "For further information, see 'Deciduous varieties' on page 264".
Click the downward-pointing arrow at the field's upper-left corner to insert an attribute of the target or a commonly used special character.

Using presets
Phrases can be saved as presets for use across all your documents. Presets also ensure your cross-references adhere to a publication's style guides.
Fields in cross-references are automatically hyperlinked to their target when you export to PDF.
Limiting quoted text
Character style and other formatting options in the lower part of the dialog become available when the insertion point is immediately before or after a field, or when a text selection encompasses a field. (If more than one field is selected, the formatting options affect only the first one.)
The Page Number, Above/Below and List/Note Number fields display the corresponding attribute's value in full. All other fields display text that might be lengthy, such as a full paragraph. Use the 'Limit displayed length' option to restrict them to a sensible amount of text.
Quoted text can be limited to a number of words or the first instance of an 'end character', whichever occurs soonest. You can also choose whether to include an ellipsis or encountered end character in your cross-reference.
More about the Cross-References panel
When you insert a cross-reference to a paragraph, Affinity Publisher creates an anchor at the paragraph's start and uses that as the target. You can rename the anchor, if you wish, via the Anchors Panel.
The Source Spread option allows you to narrow the scope of cross-references listed on the panel, e.g. to the current spread or a specific spread.
With the insertion point at a cross-reference or target in document text, options at the foot of the panel allow you to instantly focus the document view on its counterpart.
Finally, changes to a document may result in out-of-date values in cross-references. For example, changing pagination, section names, or paragraph text at a target. The foot of the panel also includes options to update them individually or all at once.
We would love you to try out this new feature. Let us know what you think of it, or if you encounter any bugs or unexpected results.

Apps: Publisher
Platforms: All
There is now a new option to go to your previously viewed spread in Affinity Publisher. So, for example, if you are on page 30 and then go to page 400 to edit something, clicking on previously viewed spread will jump you back to page 30 (and hitting again will jump back to page 400 – so you can switch between the two pages quickly).
You can find this option in the Document menu (Previously Viewed Page) for which you could optionally set a keyboard shortcut for as well as using the new button with the rest of the page navigation options in the bottom left of the UI as highlighted with arrow below:

 
On the iPad version you can find this option at the bottom of the view menu:

 

Apps: Publisher
Platforms: All
The find and replace panel in Publisher now includes the ability to limit the scope of the search to document, current spread or page, current story, current selection or current section. Also included is a result count to quickly show the number of instances your search criteria fulfils.
Desktop:

 
For iPad the scope option is available from the Cog button next to the search field:

Apps: Publisher
Platforms: All
Previously Publisher only gave options to open document file types from File->Open. There have been a number of requests to extend this to allow image files to be opened in that dialog, especially for those who now directly edit images and other graphics work using studio link functionality in Publisher so this has now been added.

Apps: Publisher
Platforms: All
For any date fields you can now apply your own custom formats to them. For example below a current date & time field has been added. If you right click on the field / long press on iPad and choose "Edit Field" you will now have the option to switch between preset formats, or include your own custom format:

 
There is a lot of flexibility available, the full list of format date field characters available is below:
 
Symbol Meaning Pattern Example Output Notes G era designator G, GG, or GGG
GGGG
GGGGG AD
Anno Domini
A y year yy
y or yyyy 23
2023 Q quarter Q
QQ
QQQ
QQQQ
QQQQQ 2
02
Q2
2nd quarter
2 M month in year M
MM
MMM
MMMM
MMMMM 9
09
Sep
September
S L stand-alone month in year L
LL
LLL
LLLL
LLLLL 9
09
Sep
September
S Some languages depending on the context will require a different spelling of the month. These can be accessed using these. For example in Polish MMMM will give you lipca for July, but LLLL will give lipiec. w week of year w
27
W week of month W 2 d day in month d
dd 2
02 D day of year D 184 F day of week in month F 2 (2nd Wed in July) E day of week E, EE, or EEE
EEEE
EEEEE
EEEEEE Tue
Tuesday
T
Tu e local day of week
e or ee
eee
eeee
eeeee
eeeeee 2
Tue
Tuesday
T
Tu i.e in the US a Monday will be 2, as a week starts on Sunday. Where as in the UK a Monday will be 1 as the week starts on Monday a AM or PM a, aa, or aaa
aaaaa PM 
p B Flexible time periods B, BB, BBB,BBBB or BBBBB at night i.e in the morning/in the afternoon/at night/noon h hour in am/pm (1~12) h
hh 1 or 12
01 or 12 H hour in day (0~23) H
HH 0 or 23
00 or 23 k hour in day (1~24) k
kk 1 or 24
01 or 24 K hour in am/pm (0~11) K
KK 0 or 11
00 or 11 m minute in hour m
mm 8 or 59
08 or 59 s second in minute s
ss 5 or 59
05 or 59 z Short/Long Timezone z, zz, or zzz
zzzz BST
British Summer Time O Time Zone: short localized GMT
Time Zone: long localized GMT O
OOOO GMT-8
GMT-08:00 V Time Zone: short time zone ID
Time Zone: long time zone ID
Time Zone: time zone exemplar city
Time Zone: generic location V
VV
VVV
VVVV gblon
Europe/London
London
United Kingdom Time x Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm
Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hm
Time Zone: ISO8601 extended hm
x
xx
xxx

+01, -0930
+0100, -0930

' escape for text 'Today is' EEEE Today is Tuesday Must surround the text you wish to input with apostrophes ' ' two single quotes produce one 'Today''s date is' dd/MM/yyyy Today’s date is 03/07/2023

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
Holding onto any tool shortcut will now just put you in that tool temporarily until you release the shortcut key - at which point you will return to your previous tool. So for example when you are using the pen tool you could hold V to change to move tool to move your curve, and then on release be immediately back in pen tool. Another useful example would be when in Brush Tool, you could hold E to put you in Eraser and release to toggle back to Brush.

Hi All,

Below is the list of all new feature and improvements which are included in the 2.2 beta.
To learn more about these features please click on the link to go to each feature's dedicated post. To give feedback or report bugs against any of these features please reply to that same post (also check out bug reporting and feedback tips).
Features and improvements affecting all platforms
OCIO v2 Support (new in build 1931)
Custom text variables (new in build 1903)
Additional keyboard shortcuts for brush tools (new in build 1903)
Alt-click new layer automatically adds selection to that new layer (new in build 1903)
Cross References added to Affinity Publisher
Greyscale and no-FX view mode options added
Change guide colour
Long press tool shortcuts
Custom date formats available in Publisher
All supported image files now available from File->Open in Publisher
Find and replace includes scope and result count
Go to previously viewed spread
Create symbol option added to Layer Menu
Additional options when creating indexes
Windows and macOS features and improvements
Object creation data entry (new in build 1931)
Move data entry (new in build 1931)
Data merge allows fields to set URLs, File locations, emails and anchors (anchors new in build 1931)
Delete node added to right click menu
"Select All on Current Layer" option now available
Grid presets and favourite fonts now sync between apps on device
iPad features and improvements
Decimal place accuracy preferences added to iPad
"Prefer to keep selection" preference added


Getting the 2.2 beta
If you have not enrolled into the beta program yet and would like to take part, you can do so here. This will immediately give you access to the latest 2.2 beta builds to try for yourself.
If you are already enrolled in the beta program you have two options:
If you still have the 2.1 beta installed, you can now run up those beta versions and you will be prompted to update them to the 2.2 beta. If you have uninstalled the 2.1 beta, you will need to go back to Your Account -> Downloads and product keys and find your previous order for the Affinity Beta Software Program, and you can download the 2.2 beta from there. Thanks,
Ash

Hi - we have now added this to the 2.2 beta which is available now.
 
If you'd like to give it a go you can join our beta program here - be great to get your feedback.

Hello @Myra and welcome to the forum.
Please remember that you are not limited to Paragraph Styles when working with Running Headers. You can assign a Character Style to the relevant text and only that text will be pulled out to Running Headers. While slightly more laborious, that option will work as expected.
You can employ Find & Replace to assign a Character Style to the relevant text within the Paragraph Style and that should be a fairly quick fix.

I don't think this is a bug.
You added so many returns to the text so the text actually occupies the whole of the page.
If you delete all those returns you won't have that problem.
This is an edge case, I agree, I'm not sure whether it's a bug.