[I have a 50 page PDF and need to create a single page PDF and I need help please.]

This isn't specifically Affinity-related but hopefully it will help someone...

NB: in the course of setting this up, if you get dialogs asking if you want to give Automator permission to run the Finder or access files/folders, you should OK them.

1. Decide on or create a folder in which to create the single pdfs. (I created a new one on my Desktop called PDFs.)
2. Launch Automator from your Applications folder.
   
   
3. In the first dialog, click New Document:
   
   
    
4. In the second dialog, click Workflow:
   
   
5. This will open an Untitled workflow window. On the left hand side is the Library, which lists categories of ‘Actions’ - the building blocks of your workflow.
   
   
6. Click the Files & Folders category of the Library. The next panel across will show a list of Actions specifically related to working with the file system:
   
   
7. The right-hand Workflow panel is currently empty. Drag and drop an Ask for Finder Items Action into it from the list of Actions. You could set the Prompt to ‘Choose a multi-page PDF’, but there’s no need to change any other settings or options.
   
   
8. Now drag a Filter Finder Items Action into the right-hand Workflow panel. This will link up with the first Action so they will work together in a flow.
   
   
9. Set the conditions to Kind is PDF. This will mean the workflow will ignore anything that isn't a PDF.
10. Click the PDFs category in the Library window. Drag the Split PDF Action into the empty area of the workflow panel. Again it will chain up with the preceding two Actions.
    
11. From the Save Output to: pull-down, choose Other and then navigate to the PDFs folder you created in Step 1. (You could also create a new folder at this stage if you wanted.)
12. You can tweak the other settings in this Action if required to give the pages custom names or replace existing PDFs with the same names. Up to you.
13. Save the Workflow (anywhere you like) with a File Format of Workflow, giving it a meaningful name. I called mine PDF Splitter.
14. Click the Run button in the top right. You will be asked to choose a file. Navigate to your multi-page pdf and Choose.
    
     
15. The workflow will run, and the individual page files will appear in your PDFs folder, numbered sequentially.
    
    There are all sorts of other things you could do - save it as an Application (drag the big pdf onto it); save it as a Quick Action (right-click on a PDF and split it). But those are the basics. 

[I have a 50 page PDF and need to create a single page PDF and I need help please.]

No worries @Rufusbadger, I'll put some instructions together and get back to you.

[Affinity Photo/Wacom: can you adjust the Force pressure curve for the Paint Brush, or is that just the pen?]

If you double-click on any brush and then open the Dynamics panel you can modify the controller (Pressure, Random, Speed Tilt etc) and the curve for the brush attributes:

 

[I have a 50 page PDF and need to create a single page PDF and I need help please.]

@Rufusbadger are you on macOS or Windows? If the former, Automator can split multi-page pdfs into singles. Post back if this would be useful.

[Publisher 2: Table panel display bug]

If I open the Table panel in Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 and display the Baseline grid settings, it looks like this:

 

If I click the chevron to hide the settings, it looks like this:

This persists through a restart of Publisher 2, and isn't affected by turning off 'Use Baseline Grid'

 

System details in my sig.

 

[How can I "distress" the stroke on lettering?]

It depends on how you've 'created lettering'.

You could try:

Use Artistic Text to write the words and colour the text:

Duplicate the layer in case you need to revert. Then select the top layer and Convert to Curves from the Layer menu:

 

Select all the individual letter curves in the Layers panel, then Layers>Geometry>Merge Curves:

 

With the Move or Node tool active, apply a stroke to the merged letter curves from the Stroke pull-down:

 

 

Change the stroke style to Texture Line Style:

 

With the merged letter curves layer still selected, play around with the Vector Brushes until you find something that works for you:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Creating a pattern with precise selection in Affinity Photo]

13 minutes ago, CaroleA said:

I am not sure how to make a precise vector rectangle. Where are those settings?

Transform panel, also under Window.

My variation on a theme, with a 400px x 400px .aphoto document (it doesn't need the Info panel):

Draw a 100x100 square with the rectangle tool, using the transform panel to set its precise height and width and x and y coordinates. Duplicate it three times, arrange the four squares and set their colours:

 

Select the top layer in the Layers panel, right-click on it and choose Merge Visible. This will create a new all-in-one Pixel layer with your design directly on top of the individual squares:

 

With the Pixel layer selected, go to the Layers menu and choose New Pattern Layer from Selection.

Adjust the size of the Pattern layer to suit:

 

If you decide you don't like it, you can delete the Pattern and Pixel layers, rearrange the squares, rinse and repeat.

 

 

[Creating a pattern with precise selection in Affinity Photo]

33 minutes ago, CaroleA said:

Or is there a place where the exact cursor position is dynamically displayed?

Yes - the Info panel. If you're using Affinity Photo 2, it's in Window - Info. Among other things it shows you the precise x and y coordinates of the cursor.

[My affinity 2.6 working fine now suddenly won't offer PDF for export JPEG only option]

Hi @sltak and welcome.

Do you mean that you don't have a PDF option when you click the pull-down at the top of the export dialog:

 

[Help with the Move Tool and Rectangle Tool]

17 hours ago, boelens218 said:

Is there any way to change the speed in which a layer moves with the cursor key based on the zoom level?

Settings-Tools-Nudge distance:

 

 

The Modifier above defaults to the shift key. You can change either of the distances and units to suit your needs.

I don't think there are any other options.

 

[Bug Report - Decaying Spiral]

8 hours ago, R C-R said:

Would you mind posting an example of that? Does it still occur if you do not set the ends to arrows or such?

Without the ends set to arrows or circles, a 0-turn spiral displays nothing.

With them, I get this:

 

.afdesign doc attached.

In the course of setting this up I've had 'the crash' a couple of times with similar settings, both with unsaved documents. When I relaunched Designer, the toolbar, context toolbar, tools and Studio were all hidden. Pressing tab did not restore them - I had to re-display them individually.

spoiral.afdesign

[Bug Report - Decaying Spiral]

I tried repeatedly to make Designer crash after replicating the settings in @Michael Mooney's  screenshot as closely as I could.

I'm on Sonoma, not Ventura, with an Intel chip. I have an AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 doing the heavy lifting, with an Intel UHD Graphics 630 on the chip. Retina Rendering set to High quality (slowest). Metal compute (ie hardware rendering) on. Everything else as per specs below.

I have had just one hard crash dragging the Turns slider to 0. That was when I had the end point of the stroke set to Origin, Alternate and the start arrow set to Curved. I've tried repeatedly to replicate that crash - so far without success. I cannot set the Turns value to anything other than integer values greater than or equal to 0, either by dragging the slider or by keyboard input. They always pop back to the closest integer.. 

When it doesn't crash (most of the time)  I get some seriously freaky results with the Turns slider set to 0:

 

In the immortal (but probably misquoted) words of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott: "She canna take any more, Captain! She's gonna blow!"

As @Michael Mooney says, 

31 minutes ago, Michael Mooney said:

It certainly isn't a show-stopper.

 

 

[Moving to Mac OS]

22 minutes ago, R C-R said:

no further fees required

until the next version (3 presumably).

[Mini Booklet printing]

9 hours ago, ronc said:

hopefully the developers are looking at this and looking into adding it as a feature

We can all dream.

[I am trying to figure out why an old file I thought set at 20% opacity is showing 100% in the layers panel.]

I reckon you had the brush opacity set to 20%.

[General Questions]

Also worth pointing out that you can get a no-obligation, fully functioning free trial here.

[A more Advanced Shading Tool would be awesome!]

9 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

What's the name of the software shown in the video?

I would guess it's...

 

Which suggests it's an internal development.

[Affinity Photo: Liquify Live Filter - Split View "Before and After" Has No Effect]

Same with me on Mac (spec below) - using the Liquify Live Filter, 'Before' and 'After' both show the modified image in Split and Mirror views.

In Liquify Persona rather than the Live Filter, the 'Before' in Split View seems to go back to the previous Liquify action rather than the original image. Mirror View shows the original image.

So @Callum it's not Windows-specific.

[deleting locke shape]

If you're using Affinity Publisher, the crosses suggest that the text frame is on a Master layer rather than the actual page.

Select the frame with the Move tool and then try 

Layer>Master Pages>  Edit Detached

or 

Layer > Master Pages> Edit Linked

 

 

Alternatively, you could edit the Master, cut the object and then paste it into the actual page.

 

 

[Using Nik Software v4 - specifically Silver Efex Pro 3 - with Affinity Photo 2]

11 hours ago, stuck said:

Today I got an email, all in German, with a link to download Nik 6.  The email also included an activation code.  The first thing the installer Did was to ask for the language I wanted to use,but English seemed to be the default.  It then recognised my Photolab an Affinity Photo installations.  It completed without error and when I opened Photo, all the Nik 6 plugins were available within Photo.

Yes I too got a similar email last night - haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but as you say - Result!

[Export/Faded Edges]

Running macOS Sequoia 15.6, under Settings - General, the default Window background is 52% grey, 100% opaque:

 

(This is a png with transparency in the bottom right corner exported from Affinity Photo 2.6.3).

If you change the Window background  to pure white:

 

 

 

You'll get a better Preview of the transparency.

As @lepr hints, you can also choose Show image background from the View menu:

 

 

With that menu option selected, you can no longer modify the window background colour in Settings.

[Using Nik Software v4 - specifically Silver Efex Pro 3 - with Affinity Photo 2]

2 hours ago, mopperle said:

@ADW At least here in Germany, currently via some magazines the Nik Collection 6 is promoted for free. So maybe you can use this link to get v6 for free:
https://heft-dvd.de/forwardnik6/ You have to enter an email, but not sure if it still works, seems to be limited for a certain periode of time.

 

Not any more it would appear - even after submitting an email address, the link just leads to the DxO shop, which (at least for me in England) doesn't have any free offers, just paid-for products.

[can't open .idml file exported from Adobe Indesign]

18 minutes ago, zoeyou said:

have now got it working, thanks for your efforts

 

 

Would be interested to know how? 🙂 

[can't open .idml file exported from Adobe Indesign]

In Finder, select one of the .idml files and type cmd-i (get info).

Does it give you the option to Open With Affinity Publisher:

[can't open .idml file exported from Adobe Indesign]

And...

Have you installed Affinity Publisher in your Applications Folder or is it still in the temporary disk image that you downloaded?

It should be here: