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Document menu > Resource Manager I think this is scheduled for the upcoming v1.9 update View menu > Snapping Manager > Include spread mid points It's obviously on the master page. Ctrl-click on the master page layer in the Layers palette and select Edit Linked, then you can disable the background, then click Finish in the red bar on top. Same for enabling it.

Sounds like a MacOS issue to me. Restart the Mac while holding the Shift key, a.k.a. "Safe Boot". That will purge most of the system caches. When finished booting, restart again normally.

~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Photo ~/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto.plist For apps purchases via App Store: ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto

+1! Essentially, all it needs is allowing negative values for First Line Indent. Workaround: Decorations! At least for bullet type of lists:

Oh yeah, that makes quite a difference indeed! Before switching to laptop, I was using the Wacom Intuos A5 almost exclusively as a mouse replacement as well, also for painting and drawing in Photoshop or in… uh, forgot the app name. That was with a PowerMac G4, initially on Mac OS 9. Actually I still have the tablet but my – still fully functional – model is unsupported on MacOS El Capitan (I'm looking at you, greedy Wacom!), and I couldn't make the user-hacked drivers work simultaneously with the equally "obsolete" and hacked driver of the more compact Wacom Graphire 3 A6. So occasionally I'm still pluging the latter in. But as for actual illustration work, in recent years I actually returned back to my beloved real world Jaxon oil pastels. Nonetheless, a few years ago I created an illustration in APhoto simulating my oil pastel style, and even got paid for it, haha. But, that experiment only confirmed to me that I need to have the real wax thing literally on my fingers.

Yeah, in the meantime I've noticed that, too. And eagerly waiting for v1.9 and its "select same fill" anyway…

System Events? I haven't tried that with the Affinity suite, but I've had quite some success via Keyboard Maestro to control other apps that are totally AppleScript-ignorant otherwise. E.g. the Izotope RX8 audio editor which is also a multiplatform app with non-standard MacOS UI. See https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/os-x-accessibility-inspector-uielementinspector-tool-for-ui-scripting/3443

I'd say so. On the other hand, take TextEdit, for example: It doesn't even show you Symbol as an option. It's essentially kinda "background system font". Probably also for historical compatibility reasons, as it's been already present back in the Mac OS "Classic" days, at least back to System 7! I just checked launching the Mini vMac emulator on which I have a System 7.5.5 running. Don't remember if Symbol already was in System 6; hey, it's been over 30 years ago… So, today's standard MacOS software usually doesn't ever need Symbol beacuse you can always simply insert any characters as you see fit using the global "Emoji & Symbols" palette. And if you'd want to type Greek, you'd likely simply activate the corresponding keyboard layout. Someone fire Clippy already!

Fair enough, not everyone is such a keyboard shortcut aficionado as I am. Especially as I'm working since 15 years exclusively on laptops, so the keyboard is always literally at hand. (For the record, yesterday I spent the best part of the day finally modifying all Affinity Suite shortcuts to match my needs and my highly customized Swiss German/Czech hybrid keyboard layout; shameless plug regarding the latter: https://software.sil.org/ukelele)

Also needed: option to replace a swatch you're deleting with an existing swatch. Something I've been using in InDesign very often.

Well, somewhat agreed, but at times it was also pretty annoying having to delete redundant swatches that got copied over every time. I guess for now we'll have to adapt to Serif's concept of: document palettes application palettes MacOS global palettes I, for one, am enjoying option #3 in particular! Swatches palette menu > Create Palette From Document > As […] Palette So the workaround would be creating a temporary application or global palette to use identical swatches between documents. That would be useful!

Also, if you need the same typeface for any other – non Greek and non-math – text, use Times. It's exactly the same.

Affinity Ph/De/Pu all only do the right thing: they display the characters that are not available in Symbol using a substitute font. Symbol mainly contains characters from the Greek codepage as well as mathematical symbols. Unless you actually type/insert those very Unicode characters, Symbol has nothing meaningful to display. See View menu > Studio > Glyph Browser It's a feature, not a bug.

When I open it in Photoshop CS5.5 while attempting to keep it editable, it's not displaying correctly either. Obviously APhoto doesn't know (yet) what to do with these complex new Smart Objects. Go to Affinity Photo > Preferences > General and uncheck "Import PSD smart objects when possible", as this is apparently a case of "not possible". Looks to me from your screenshot as if Pixelmator doesn't attempt to interpret these Smart Objects either, much like APhoto in the "not possible" mode. Preview only displays Photoshop's flattened "PSD backward compatibility layer".

Assign keyboard shortcuts to lock/unlock and you're even faster than that.

I haven't checked all but two freebies. The 2nd one does all I needed it to do so I'm already good. Open your PSD in APhoto or create your own layers there, then export layers to individual files – preferably likely PNG – via Export Persona as described in this post. Then you can create the GIF from these individual files. Works fine with PicturesToGIF, even though you cannot optimize the file size as perfectly as in Photoshop. Compared to this GIF I created last week via Phtotoshop which is only about 430 KB, the same animation I just created via PicturesToGIF is about 760 KB. But the result is otherwise identical, even with individual frame durations and everything. The whole process to recreate my aforementioned GIF from the layered PSD file took me just about a minute or two. To be fair, I had to search the forum first on how to export APhoto layers as individual files, as it's not really obvious at first glance. On the other hand, since I haven't had created an animated GIF in Photoshop since at least a decade, a week ago I also had to search Teh Interwebz on how to import individual files to Photoshop layers, which took me also maybe 10 minutes until I figured it out…

Search the App Store for "animated gif". I just randomly picked https://apps.apple.com/app/pictures-to-gif/id947857208. Not as flexible as Photoshop but, um, a few hundred $$$ cheaper…

+1 Wait. Strike that. +1000!

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Here you go: idml_tables_with_xml_tags.idml.zip idml_tables_with_xml_tags_imported.afpub.zip

Sure. I'll need to remove all private data first.

You've likely bought the Serif Store version.

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Thanks, this is a least a partial workaround. However, the lack of overprint preview is a "dealbreaker" anyway…

Alright, apparently those "Assign"/"Convert" buttons are only meant to be used when changing the document profile, according to this thread. As of now I suspect that Serif may even consider this to be a "feature". Oh well. The workaround is the same as with opening an exported Publisher PDF in Photo: Before copying between documents, make sure both have the same CMYK profile assigned. Oh well…