Can't save files to any local folder

[Can't save files to any local folder]

Have a look at System Preferences - Security & Privacy - Privacy and make sure that both apps have Full Disk Access:

 

Also check Files and Folders (same prefs panel).

Cheers,

H

[Two page Indesign spreads import as a single page]

Hi @Robert B. and welcome!

Have you tried creating a new master page set , portrait orientation to the size of one of your original single pages, with facing pages? Something like this:

         

 

Then apply this master to your existing pages.

Not entirely sure what will be the result for left and right folios so maybe try it on a backup first.

Cheers,

H

 

[unintentional rotation of artboard]

View - Reset Rotation should do the trick.

If you want to turn it off, go to Preferences - Tools - Enable canvas rotation with trackpad and uncheck it.

Cheers,

H

[Grep styles in Publisher]

I don't entirely understand the question, but if you click the magnifying glass you have access to Recent Finds:

 

 

[Creating a data merge spreadsheet]

2 hours ago, typeglyph said:

 

 

My Mac Harddrive is called MacintoshHD and the folder is called Documents2 within is a folder called Jewelry and another folder called images

I've tried: MacintoshHD/Documents2/Jewelry/images but the images do not get linked.

                  MacintoshHD:Documents2/Jewelry/images

 

Is your hard drive really called MacintoshHD? The default name is Macintosh HD (with a space), although of course you may have changed it.

And has the folder really been created 'flat' on the hard drive?

In most cases I would expect it to be somewhere like

Macintosh HD/Users/your_user_name/Jewelry/images/

One way of finding out for sure, in Finder, is to click on the folder and then type Cmd-I (the letter, for Get Info). This will bring up a window like this:

I've blurred out my user name. The shows you where the folder is. The path for this folder would be:

Macintosh HD/Users/myusername/Documents/Affinity Stuff/

However, you can make it easier on yourself...

Just place the csv file in the same folder as the images. That way you can just use the file names, including the .jpg (or whatever) name extension, without the full path. I have a test Numbers spreadsheet with dummy data which links to Affinity Designer files in the same folder, like this:

 

The exported .csv is kept in the same folder as the  ".afdesign" files and they link fine into Publisher.

Post back if you need more info.

Cheers,

H

 

 

[appearance palette query]

If you have a lot of panels docked together, the name of the Appearance panel can get abbreviated to Apr:

Hover over it and the full name will pop up. If that doesn't work, maybe try View - Studio - Reset Studio.

Cheers,

H

[How to change background colour and colour of pencil drawing]

Assuming you mean in Affinity Photo, here's one way.

Add a Channel Mixer  Adjustment, choose the Green output channel and adjust the green slider until you get a pink background:

Now add a Recolour Adjustment. Your background will change colour temporarily, but drag the Recolour Adjustment below the Channel Mixer Adjustment in the Layers panel and all should be well:

You can now use the sliders in the Recolour Adjustment to set the colour, saturation and lightness of your illustration:

I expect there are other ways too..

Cheers,

H

 

 

[Grep styles in Publisher]

11 minutes ago, anto said:

Publisher has not GREP.

That is not the case.

Cheers,

H

[Bulleted lists: How do I keep paragraph text aligned]

Like this:

 

First set the Tabstop for the bullet, then set the Left ident to the same measurement. This will automatically adjust the First line indent to the same value. Reset the First line indent to 0.

[Text frame problems fill and stroke. Designer and Publisher]

I would suggest creating a separate shape (not a text frame) for the star, apply the brushed stroke in Designer Persona, and then back in Publisher persona position a text frame without any fill or stroke over the top:

 

Cheers,

H

[New Overlays in 1.9.1]

Hi @Dan B and welcome! From the Affinity Photo menu choose My Account:

 

 

If you bought Photo from either the Apple or the Microsoft App Stores, you'll need to create an account with Serif and register your app. This is free. If you bought Photo (macOS or Windows version) from the Serif store, you'll already have an account - the details are not necessarily the same as those you used to sign in to this forum.

Once you've got that set up, you can download the overlays, and as @jmwellborn says, they'll be available in your Assets panel.

Cheers,

H

[Export preview scale/size - where?]

On a Mac it's Cmd +. Presumably Ctrl + on Windows.

ADD: on my MacBook Pro I can also zoom in and out of the export preview using a pinch in and out on the trackpad.

Cheers,

H

[Publisher - How to add tables to text frames.]

This works for me, as per carl123's suggestion:

[Indention of bullets]

I think @gary danang probably means Publisher's Text Ruler:

Which as far as I can see is not available in Designer.

[Hanging indentions in Publisher]

Two suggestions here.

[Updating via Mac App store fails]

28 minutes ago, CatonaPC© said:

My understanding was that upon registering my App Store copy of Photo, I'd get any updates direct from Serif.

 If you bought your original application from the Apple App Store, then you will get your application updates from the Apple App Store.

It's that simple.  If (and only if)  you register your Apple App Store purchase and ownership with Serif, then you will have access to any free content (incredible or otherwise)  that Serif choose to distribute.

 

 

[Convert photo to B&W logo]

Maybe use the Pen tool, draw a closed curve to trace over the area that you want to use as a logo, then delete/hide the background image:

 

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[Updating via Mac App store fails]

1 hour ago, CatonaPC© said:

And I think, in all fairness, as a customer from almost the very beginning, I could have been accorded a complimentary product key

 

Thing is that when you buy any software from Apple or Microsoft, you are their customer, not Serif's. Apple/MS transfer a proportion of the purchase price to Serif (minus marketing, distribution, tax...) and Serif benefit from world-wide distribution, marketing and sales networks that they couldn't hope to emulate themselves.

But Apple and Microsoft don't pass on customer details to the software developers, so even if they wanted to (for sentimental reasons or whatever), Serif couldn't transfer your Apple/Microsoft licence key to their own store, let alone turn you into a marketing prospect.

However, consider the case of extra content (brushes, overlays, backgrounds, macros...) 

Serif could have gone down the road of in-app purchases from the Apple/MS stores for this,  but right now they ask for an optional registration to their own store for all the extra goodies. And this is a smart move, because it gives them direct access to customers who have bought their products from the Apple/Microsoft stores.

For example: I bought Photo and Designer from the Apple App Store, and Publisher from the Serif Store. I thus have an account with Serif. When Photo 1.9.0 offered me free content (fog, snow, clouds etc) I logged in to my Serif account and downloaded them. Serif now know that I have Photo, even though I didn't buy it from them. And they can target their marketing accordingly.

Prime example of British ingenuity...

 

[Blur tool doesn't seem to DO anything?]

4 minutes ago, R C-R said:

did not change the display mode from Metal to Open GL

I was fiddling. Doing what you did works for me too.

[Blur tool doesn't seem to DO anything?]

2 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Have you tried using it with Metal compute acceleration disabled?

Just tried that (Big Sur, AMD Radeon Pro Vega) and the Blur Brush works as it should with Display set to OpenGL. It's not a tool I use very often, though, so I'll switch Metal back on and hope Serif fix it 

[Blur tool doesn't seem to DO anything?]

It's knackered in Big Sur too.

 

Cheers,

H

 

[Find name of applied LUT in Affinity Photo?]

If you choose a preset (rather than Inferred) or import one then the name should appear in the Adjustment controls:

This is on Big Sur, I would hope Catalina would work the same way.

You can also manually rename the adjustment layer in the Layers panel, although it's a bit more of a chore:

If you're processing a lot of images in the same way, then using a Macro coupled with a Batch Job might be the way to go.

3 hours ago, Sofa Gas Rue said:

If this post is in the wrong forum, then please let me know, and I will submit it in another.

Seems right to me 

Cheers,

H

[Formatting Tables]

If you don't need the automatic updates, you can also use File-Place to drop an Excel spreadsheet into your Publisher document. It will come in as a table which can then be formatted. As I say, there's no link back to the original spreadsheet, but the upside is that the content is still editable.

[Advice and guidance for my daughter]

10 minutes ago, cutout3 said:

So whenever they come out with a 2.0 version we will have to buy again if we want it?  Correct?

Yes.

10 minutes ago, cutout3 said:

The next upgrade may be 2.0 then?

Who knows? We may get 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 before 2.0 appears.

 

11 minutes ago, cutout3 said:

If true that means if I wanted that, I'd go ahead and purchase again?

Yes.

12 minutes ago, cutout3 said:

Or I could just keep using 1.9? 

Yes.

[Cursor and spacing issues]

Try displaying Special Characters (Menu bar - Text - Show Special Characters) and see what shows up:

This will display paragraph marks, word spaces, section breaks etc.

Also select the text "AOM" and check the Baseline settings in the Character panel: