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No worries @Rufusbadger, I'll put some instructions together and get back to you.
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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:
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@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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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22 minutes ago, R C-R said:
no further fees required
until the next version (3 presumably).
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Also worth pointing out that you can get a no-obligation, fully functioning free trial here.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
I have a 50 page PDF and need to create a single page PDF and I need help please.
in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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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.
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.