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You will need to simplify your original significantly. I switched to Edit in Designer (not sure why you went into Publisher for the second attempt) and ungrouped. Then, I identified the individual layers by name: Background circle, Lower White Circle, Upper White Circle, Lower Punch Circe, Upper Punch Circle, Lower White rectangle, Lower Punch Rectangle, Upper White Rectangle, Upper punch rectangle. I changed the fill on the "Punch" shapes to something other than white and changed their blend mode to Normal to make them easier to see. I changed the fill mode on all the objects to Alternate (even-odd). Some were Winding (non-zero) which initially gave problems with the following steps. I dragged Lower Punch Circle down to immediately above Background iCrcle in the layer stack, selected both these layers and applied Geometry - Subtract I did the same with Upper Punch Circle and Background Circle. I dragged Lower White Rectangle down to immediately above Background Circle, select both layers and applied Geometry - Add I dragged Lower Punch Rectangle down to immediately above Background Circle, selected both layers and applied Geometry - Subtract Same process for Upper White Rectangle and Upper Punch Rectangle. This gave me a single Curves layer with transparency: I exported this to SVG (purple shape for contrast only.

If I have the Pen, Hand or Colour Picker tools selected, those options are greyed out. I haven't tested everything, but if I switch to almost any other tool (Move, Node, Clone Brush...), the Flips and Rotates are all available. Not sure if that's a bug or a feature.

With a trackpad (macOS) a two-finger twirling gesture (easier done than said, ) and command and drag. Not sure with a mouse but you there are options to turn it off in Preferences - Tools:

View menu - Reset Rotation should fix it.

Hiya @Adam Bennett and welcome! Yes - export in a format that supports transparency (such as .png). This is how a .png exported from your .afdesign file opens in Affinity Photo (transparent background enabled, the checkerboard is the transparent area):

Hiyai @mnsbrh and welcome! I have that profile installed in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended And it's available in Affinity Designer: \ You might also want to try it in /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles/ As I have a few .icc profiles in there that are also available to Designer. Hope it helps! H

Just a guess, but... Is the original imported from a .pdf? If so, is that really a text box or is it a picture of the text (which would be uneditable using text tools)? To check this, select the object and look in your layers panel. If it says "image" or "pixel" then it's not editable text. Similarly, if it says "Group" in the Layers panel then it may be that the text has been converted to curves. In Affinity Designer that's very easy to do with an accidental Cmd-Return, but you don't say which program you're using. That command is also in the Layer menu in Publisher. Again, this would make the text uneditable. It may also be that the text box is part of a group, and the text remains editable but you're selecting the group, not the enclose text box. Without a screen grab of the layers panel, with any group expanded, it's hard to tell. Quickest way out is to delete the offending object and retype the whole thing...

Salut @Fanny34 et sois la bienvenue aux Forums! En englais malheureusement... System Preferences - Security & Privacy Check that Designer has full disk access. (Vérifie que Designer dispose d'un accès complet au disque.)

@Labyrinth777 If you could post a screen grab it would help. We can't see what you are seeing so any suggestions are basically guesswork. Cheers, H

Hi @Sayre and welcome! It's your bottom margin setting. It looks to be around the same depth as the page, but it needs to be in a similar range to the other three margins. With similar settings I get exactly the same as you. To illustrate, here's a Guides setup with the bottom margin approximately half the depth of the page: The bottom margin is measured from the bottom of the page. Cheers, H

For placed images there's a field in the contextual menu that displays the percentage enlargement/reduction: If the image is distorted, the pop-up next to the image size displays further detail about the x and y scaling: This information is lost (or at least not displayed) if the image layer is rasterised. Not sure what would happen with 'vector logos', but a placed pdf has the same info in the contextual menu until rasterised. (Image from Unsplash.)

Assuming you're using a raster brush (eg in Photo, or Designer's Pixel persona), another option is to increase the size jitter and link it to Velocity. The faster you move your mouse (or finger on a trackpad) the broader the stroke. Linking the size to pressure and using a drawing tablet is probably going to give better results though.

It's a standard macOS security alert which pops up quite frequently when you run an application for the first time. By clicking "Don't Allow" you're preventing Publisher from opening files on your desktop, and probably from importing them too. If at any point you decide that you do need Publisher to open/import from files on your desktop, go to System Preferences - Security & Privacy - Privacy. Click the lock to make changes, then click Files and Folders and grant Publisher whatever permissions you decide. Click the padlock again when you're done.

Absolutely not @MEB. My comment was just a rather feeble attempt at humour, which I should have remembered tends not to translate well over the internet. I've attached an .afphoto document with the history saved. The original isn't heavily pixelated and at anything up to 100% magnification the lines are quite smooth. I also reduced the size of the screen shot in the forum software which may have contributed to the smoothing. Anyway, it's not the effect @Gregory Dubus wanted in any case 😃 Best, H 1359488935_Originalimage.jpg.f3f9ab3af19520abf80bff7bd315f217.afphoto

Not me honest guv - I just saved down the image and applied the effects I described.

Try... 1) Document menu - Convert Format/ICC Profile. Set the Colour format to Grey/8 and the Profile to Greyscale D50: 2) Apply a Brightness and Contrast adjustment. Set the Brightness to 100%, the Contrast to -100%, the blend mode to Reflect: I'm only using your uploaded .jpg so the quality may not be the same as yours, but I get this:

The small dots are sometimes called 'marching ants' and are an indication of the area that you have selected. Anything you do when you have a selection (delete, paint...) will only affect the selected area. They're a typical feature of all image-editing apps. To remove them, choose Deselect from the Select menu.

I don't think there's any way of doing this automatically. (A purist might argue that it would lead to typographical inconsistency and, given the small type sizes, a perceived diminishing of the importance of longer names. Who's more important? One alternative might be to design the data merge document based on the length of the longest name, possibly allowing for two or three lines of text for really long ones.)

If you're on macOS I can drop you an AppleScript that will generate a .csv for the ticket numbers (any starting number, any number of tickets) which could be used as the basis of a data merge.

Ah well. Times change.

Ah yes, hadn't thought. If you're on macOS you can export as PDF and then use Automator, without sending your text to be read by an online converter:

On Big Sur, Affinity Photo 1.9.3, MacBook Pro 2018 15", command + option + two-finger drag on the trackpad acts as a zooming shortcut. If you're using a mouse you may need to experiment, like I did.

I think you'd have to specify which software produced the 'gridded' image, and upload the file itself (as opposed to what you see in Publisher) if you need any suggestions about solving the problem.

Cut (or copy) and paste is the only way as far as I'm aware. 😒

Have you tried the Isometric panel (View - Studio - Isometric)? I chose a 1cm isometric cube grid setting, drew the axes with the pen tool, drew a circle, centred it on my axes, then with the circle selected I set the Current plane to Side and clicked Fit to pane. Hope it helps, H