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Hi @Caio and welcome! Affinity Photo - Preferences - Tools... Cheers, H

Take care and best of luck @R C-R

Same here on Big Sur (EDIT: 11.2) with 1.9.0

Confirmed on macOS 11.2: Seems like an odd but fairly harmless bug, or an unimplemented feature. As I understand it, the three Affinity apps have a lot in common under the hood, and the Symbol functionality in Designer is very similar to the Layer Link functionality in Photo. Keep it quiet... 🤐

Hi, I hope I've got this right... This is my data source, tab-delimited, one row per player, (random names and numbers): This is my initial design for a single box, inside a single-column, single-row data merge layout: I then use the Data Merge Manager to apply records fields to the individual text frames in the layout: This is how my document page now looks: I then duplicate the data merge layout to create my (somewhat basic) page design: I then generate the data merge: Am I on the right track? I've attached the data source and the two .afpub files. Cheers, H sporty base.afpub sporty generated.afpub sporty. people.tsv

Definitely - you can create as many single-column single-row data merge layouts as you need, positioned wherever you want on the base document: Data will flow in as expected, and you can reposition the individual frames in the generated document if required: Cheers, H

No worries, glad you've worked it out.

If you use Artistic Text to create the text box, you can shear/skew it with the cursor: Screen Recording 2021-02-14 at 12.51.25.mov Cheers, H

You're viewing the image at 18% (approx one-fifth its actual size). Press Ctrl-1 (for Windows) and then increase the noise as required: This is 18% with your noise settings: And this is 100% with the same settings.

Code-a-lay-hee-hoo!

Hi @unformedehb and welcome! Enabling auto-hyphenation in the Paragraph panel will help the spacing in the second example. You can also use the Justification settings in the same panel to adjust word and character spacing. To align the upper-case "I", you can use the Optical Alignment settings in the Character panel. Set to manual, add the letter, increase the left alignment gradually: As far as I'm aware, the only way to close up the space to the right of the "A" drop cap would be to place an invisible (no fill, no stroke) graphic object with a run-around and then overlay a separate letter A with Ignore Text Wraps set in the Text Frame panel: This of course makes the text slightly less amenable to editing. Plus a bit of free proof-reading: it's "colour palette", not "pallet". Hope this helps! H

I think this has been an issue in previous builds but it persists/has returned in 1.9.1. After initially creating a document, if I repeat the process the "Press Ready" presets window is blank: Clicking blind in the window displays a few presets: And switching to Templates and back again to Presets displays them all: It's an intermittent glitch and seems quite random in occurrence. Cheers, H

At a guess... Paragraph panel - Drop Caps - check Enabled - uncheck Auto - set Characters to 2: But you'll need separate text styles for single- and double-character drops.

I'm not seeing it any more after logging out and in again, so it may be a one-off. I'll keep tabs on it.

Hi @StarGrazerRose and welcome! You may need to increase the bleed area to get this field clear of the trim marks. On your master pages, create a text frame. Bring up the Fields panel and double-click on the required fields to place them in the frame. Then drag the frame into (but not above) the bleed area: When you export the PDF you may get a "Bleed Hazard" preflight warning which can be skipped. In the Export dialog choose to display Printer's Marks and Bleed. This is a grab of the PDF: Hope it helps, H

Hi, Attempting to modify any field in the Fields panel (Author, Last Edited By, Tags, Comments etc) leads to immediate crash in AfPub 1.9.1 (and 1.9.0). macOS 11.2, MacBook Pro 2018. I can upload a crash report if you can give me a Dropbox link. Cheers, H

Works fine for me @R C-R (Photo 1.9.0 & 1.9.1.219, macOS 11.2, MacBook Pro 2018). That is until I enable Cheers, H

If you use the Data Merge Layout tool to draw up the layout, you can set the flow order using the buttons in the Context Toolbar: Cheers, H EDIT: Just realised that @sweethoss was asking how to create an 'unbalanced' layout with eight cells down the left and four down the right. This appears to be possible by creating two single-column data layouts on the layout page, setting up the text frames, images and fields in the first one, and then duplicating the text and image elements to the right-hand data layout. On a very brief test, this flowed the info as required. One page, two data layouts, five rows on the left, two on the right: My data is in numeric and alphabetical order, so is the generated document: Not sure if this is a documented feature but it's pretty damn clever

According to the Help (Layer operations - Finding): Layers can be tagged with a colour to make them easier to locate and organise via the Layerspanel by right-clicking on the selected layer and picking from the choice of available colours. From memory it has never been possible to change these colours - it certainly isn't now. Cheers, H.

Publisher's data merge needs a structured/delimited data file such as .csv, .tsv, .xsxl. It doesn't read tagged text. You would need to construct a structured data file from the documents that people send to you before you can import it as a data merge into Affinity Publisher.

Hi @PaulWall and welcome! You have to have a document open before you can drag in a stock image - either a new blank one or an existing image of your own. Dragging from the Stock panel into an empty workspace doesn't create a new document. Hope this helps, H

Apple Photos can be used to create basic but quite stylish looking slideshows and comes free with every Mac.

If you use Gaussian Blur in the Effects panel it will affect the whole image layer. If you select the pixel layer, draw a marquee and then use a live or destructive Filter, only the selected area will be blurred. You don't need an extra pixel layer. Cheers, H

This works for me, requires Affinity Designer 1.9. My labels all have the same colour text. This will be important later... Turn off Transform Each Item Separately and group each item with its label (on re-reading, you may not need to make these groups, but I've done all the screen shots and I'm not going back...) Select all the groups: Use Layer - Transform - Flip Horizontal to create a mirror image of the whole thing: With the layers still selected, Ungroup: Click on just one of the labels and choose Select - Select Same - Fill Colour (this is why you need Designer 1.9, it's not available in earlier versions): This will automagically select all the labels . Group the selected labels and choose Layer - Arrange - Move to Front: Expand the labels group and select all the individual labels, but not the group layer itself, by clicking on the top label in the layer list and then. shift-clicking on the bottom one: All credit to @GarryP for the next bit. Switch on Transform Objects Separately, drag in a vertical guide to the left-hand edge of the object that is selected for manipulation, hold down Command (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) and drag the right-hand handle of the selected object to the vertical guide. All the labels should flip in place: Screen Recording 2021-02-12 at 13.20.12.mov It's going to be quite tricky with more objects than just three, but it is possible. Cheers, H

Within the last couple of hours Serif have released a new public beta of Affinity Publisher 1.9.1 for macOS which includes a number of fixes for issues with the paragraph panel. I don't know if your specific problem is solved by this, but you can download the beta and test it without affecting your original installation. I've tried the Space Between settings in the beta and as far as I can tell they work as they should. Cheers, H