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Hi @NathanC, That's perfect, thanks for logging this as an improvement... I was curious as to whether this may (or may not) help in situations of possible file corruption and/or 'failed to save' error messages by allowing the problematic file and/or containing folder to be renamed while the file is still open effectively creating a live copy of the original?

One use is to isolate and restrict Select All to the selected artboard rather than selecting items across all artboards...

Layers are a very constructive way of working as they give you a lot of flexibility. You can Group logical objects to keep everything organised or use Layers (Capital L) as mentioned above if you wish to control the visibility of different elements in an exported PDF file... As also mentioned above you can Merge Curves or use Add New Curve To Selected Curves Object though based on the example you provided these options aren't going to work... I would advise keeping everything in logical Groups or Layers and also taking a look at things like Global Colours along with Select Same and Select Object as options which may be helpful when constructing your map... https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Clr/globalClr.html&title=Global colours https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/selectByAttribute.html&title=Selecting objects by attribute If you have any specific, 'How do I do?' questions please feel free to ask as there are many here willing to provide help and suggestions as to the best way to achieve things... Layers in Affinity Designer Translated into Toggleable Layers in a PDF File Map.mp4

Hi @MEB, Thanks for confirming and for logging...

Thanks for confirming... Just for clarification, Edit All Layers works in the Export Persona it's just the icon that doesn't get a highlight when it is selected like it does in the Layers Panel of the Designer or Photo Personas...

Hi @NathanC, Many thanks for logging...

Hi @Jason Oates and welcome to the forums, If you genuinely want elements to appear on the same Layer (Small L) then try Layer > Geometry > Merge Curves... If the plan is to be able to show and hide the respective Layers via an exported PDF file then you need to work with Layers (Capital L), created using the Add Layer icon in the lower right of the Layers Panel or via Layer > New Layer. This type of Layer can be shown and hidden in PDF Readers allowing you to show or hide your Trees Layer, Coast Layer City Layer etc.,

A minor issue which I couldn't see logged anywhere... There is no visual indication to show when Edit All Layers is active or inactive in the Export Persona of both Designer and Photo in either Dark or Light Mode...

Bonjour @Delphine34140 et bienvenue sur les forums, Je soupçonne que le problème concernant les couleurs est dû à l'affichage de fichiers PNG dans un document CMJN. PNG ne prend pas en charge l'espace colorimétrique CMJN... Si vous changez le document pour utiliser un espace colorimétrique RVB, vous ne voyez plus la disparité de couleur entre le canevas, le panneau Calques et le gestionnaire de ressources... Cela dit, je ne sais pas pourquoi le zoom sur la toile corrige la couleur, cela peut être un problème de redessinage de l'écran... Je ne vois aucun problème à l'export du fichier au format PDF ou PNG, les couleurs attendues s'affichent et je ne vois pas de carré apparaître à la place du visuel du document ou à l'export mais encore une fois, cela peut dépendre du format et des paramètres que vous avez choisis. exportent avec. Je ne suis pas au courant d'une limitation de taille de fichier pour les fichiers Affinity Designer, mais vous aurez besoin de suffisamment d'espace disque dur et de RAM pour gérer des fichiers très volumineux. Espérons qu'un membre de l'équipe de modération pourra clarifier les points soulevés ci-dessus concernant les problèmes d'affichage des couleurs et les éventuelles limitations de taille de fichier. _____________________________________ Hi @Delphine34140 and welcome to the forums, I suspect the issue regarding colours is caused by viewing PNG files in a CMYK document. PNG has no support for the CMYK colour space... If you switch the document to use an RGB colour space you no longer see the colour disparity between the Canvas, Layers Panel and Resource Manager... Though having said that, I'm unsure why zooming in to the canvas corrects the colour, this may be a screen redraw issue... I'm not seeing any issues exporting the file to PDF or PNG, the expected colours are displayed and I'm not seeing a square appearing in place of the document visual or on export but again, this could depend on the format and settings you are exporting with. I'm not aware of a file size limitation for Affinity Designer files though you will need sufficient Hard Drive space and RAM to handle very large files. Hopefully, someone in the Moderation team can clarify the points raised above regarding the colour display issues and any file size limitations.

Hi @Terlyon and welcome to the forums, I do believe this is by design since AFAIK you can only paint using the Foreground colour and selecting the brush activates the Foreground Colour which is always the uppermost of the two colours, X or Shift X (depending on how you have your shortcuts set) will switch the foreground and background colours.

Hi @NathanC, I've just retested this in both v1 and v2 and your comments are spot on, apologies for any confusion I was convinced that I had been able to rename a folder in v1 and still save the open file in the renamed folder but I can't replicate that now... Out of interest, is there any reason why Affinity apps don't follow typical macOS behaviour which do allow both file and folder renaming with open files?

Whichever way I create É, 'Option E, Shift E', 'Shift E 2' via the Glyph Browser in Publisher or via copy and paste from the Finder the value is always U+00C9 and this always appears as 'E´tiquette', i.e., U+0045 U+00B4 for the Printers Marks on macOS...

Normally you’d type Option e to generate É and Shift Option E to generate É… I’m slightly confused by your reference to U+0045 U+0301 when your on page representation for É shows U+0039…

I appreciate the file name isn’t using Foundation Mono but I assume to create the É, you’re either typing option e or holding the ‘e’ key and typing the number 2 or selecting É from the pop up… I noticed that with with caps lock engaged, option e creates the Mille glyph with Foundation Mono… I’m not within reach of my Mac right now but that doesn’t seem normal… I think shift option e would normally produce É… I’m wondering how you’d type É as two separate glyphs in the file name other than via copy/paste? Edit: @Jordan Becker has just confirmed the use of a single character…

A minor cosmetic difference... Artistic Text is named as Artistic Text for the Artistic Text tool but as Art Text in the Layers Panel when hovering over the Layer icon...

There does appear to be a scaling issue based on two factors: Whether the source text starts as Frame or Artistic Text Whether the Frame text fits or is initially larger than the text bounds Artistic Text.mp4

Hi @Cabanik and welcome to the forums, I've just downloaded an SVG barcode from qr.io and opened it in Affinity Designer without any issues on macOS... Which URL did you use to generate the barcode?

You're not alone, I've spent quite some time trying to figure out a formula and when I thought I'd found one I then struggled to recreate it but having played some more, simply switching between Frame and Artistic Text without any scaling will trigger the same outcome and the more you switch between the two, the more exaggerated the outcome... Scaled Text v2.mp4

I'm not suggesting this is how it actually happened so this is a wildly exaggerated demo of how it can happen... Scaling Artistic Text, Converting it to Frame Text, Resizing the Frame Text frame, Resetting the Horizontal Scale for the Frame Text back to 100%, Converting between Frame and Artistic Text then using the backspace key to restore the text to its original layout results in the seemingly exaggerated kerning... Scaled Text.mp4 The key point here though is that despite the Frame text being reset with 100% Horizontal Scaling the kern values between characters are still identical to the original... Kern Values.mp4

What happens in that instance when you delete the lock file, will the file open then... Don't forget, there is a 5 minute timeout on the lock file after a crash...

I'm not seeing this but maybe I'm doing something different here... I'm able to move the file after Publisher crashes and reopen it resulting in a lock file in both locations... If you do see the problem deleting the original lock file should overcome the issue... Lock File.mp4

Could you not overcome this using a combination of auto-correct and abbreviations, certainly for the most common instances and then add custom combinations as appropriate, e.g., set An auto-correct to change jj to J.J. along with an abbreviation set to J.J. An auto-correct for am and pm for a.m. and p.m. plus an abbreviation for a.m. and p.m. An abbreviation for etc. Abbreviations.mp4

The Page Information text is converted to curves on export, I'm guessing because it uses Foundation Mono which isn't going to automatically be on everyone's system, though the Glyphs for accented characters do exist as part of the font so it looks as though the conversion to PDF isn't picking this up...

I can replicate the issue but only after the initial Frame Text has been previously scaled, is that something that would have happened at any point before converting to Artistic Text... Creating the Frame Text from Scratch without any scaling doesn't initially appear to exhibit the issue...