[Open and work on PDF in Publisher.]

I hope you're being paid...

[Border / Frame]

You'll need to start from scratch with an image that doesn't have an existing border (as yours does, even the cr2 layer).

When you Resize Canvas the default is to resize proportionally. If you want to add an equal (absolute) number of pixels to each edge of the image then you need to turn this off. In the Resize Canvas dialog, click the chain icon to unlink the two dimensions.

For a 30px border: click into both of the fields in turn and type +60  (that's 30 * 2) into each one, after the existing dimensions. Make sure the Anchor is centred. Click Resize. This will add the same number of pixels to each edge:

 

 

(My screen grab shows the input for the first field. You need to fill with the same +value in both.)

 

This will give you an extended canvas with an equal number of pixels (30) all round. You can then create a rectangle or fill layer behind the image layer which will extend 30 pixels on each edge (that's 60/2).

 

 

[Nine-digit numbers become phone numbers in a pdf]

You can find out about macOS data detectors here. Doesn't look as though they can be turned off in Preview. 

[Nine-digit numbers become phone numbers in a pdf]

In macOS Preview you can ctrl-click on the number and then choose Copy from the contextual menu:

[Nine-digit numbers become phone numbers in a pdf]

 

2 minutes ago, BugsJane said:

Are you suggesting Adobe Acrobat Reader for Apple Mac?

I have tried Acrobat Reader for Apple Mac with my test pdf and it doesn't display a phone number popup. 

[Nine-digit numbers become phone numbers in a pdf]

17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

your PDF viewer

MacOS Preview. It's clever like that. Not an Affinity thing.

 

[How do L shaped text frame in publisher?]

Or do you mean something like this:

 

 

I drew the L shape with the Pen Tool in Polygon Mode, then adjusted the text wrap using Text - Text Wrap - Edit Text Wrap Settings.

[How do L shaped text frame in publisher?]

Draw the shape with the Pen tool in Polygon Mode, close the shape then Layer - Convert to Text Frame. You can adjust the nodes of the text frame using Node Tool.

[Once again I forgot how to cut shapes in this terribly unintuitive app]

Also make sure that you have selected the layer that you want to cut from. 

 

 

(I rasterised my original Rectangle layer to turn it into a Pixel layer.)

[How do you move the center point of a Radial or Elliptical graident?]

25 minutes ago, goblynn93 said:

Care to provide instructions on how to CENTER the gradient?

Turn on snapping.

 

 

 

 

[How do you move the center point of a Radial or Elliptical graident?]

Is this what you want -

 

 

 

 

 

 

(using the Gradient Tool on a Radial gradient)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Photo 2 question]

The Basic tab in the Brushes panel (Window-Brushes in Photo v2) includes a number of 'feathered' or soft-edge brushes:

 

 

And hiding under the unobtrusive Edit Brush button is a plethora of settings:

 

[Strange color Issue with HDR Merge when "Automatically remove ghosts" is selected]

2 hours ago, Ian Tompkins said:

I don't see a clear way to check what color profile they have by default in AFP,

There's a camera setting for the E-M1 MkII that switches between AdobeRGB and sRGB. As far as I can tell, the only way you can check the setting in Affinity Photo's Develop persona is via

Window-Metadata-Raw Data and then scroll through hunting for the ICC Profile:

 

(This is from a Panasonic .rw2 file.)

But I have to confess I'm clutching at straws offering that as a solution. It may also be something in your RAW conversion settings.  If you could zip and upload the original .orf files someone might be able to double-check.

[Strange color Issue with HDR Merge when "Automatically remove ghosts" is selected]

One option would be to omit the outlying exposures (P2030016 and P2030019) and leave de-ghosting turned off when you do the HDR merge.

This will avoid introducing the blurred whisker in the long-exposure image:

 

(Out of focus? Camera shake? Cat shake?) 

 

With the following settings:

 

 

I get a tone mapped image like this:

 

You can then make further destructive tweaks in the Tone Mapping persona or non-destructive adjustments in the Photo persona.

Not sure about the reasons for colour cast, but it might also be worth trying with the original out-of-camera images, and checking the camera's Color Space settings. The files you uploaded have an sRGB profile but if the originals were shot using AdobeRGB the conversion may have caused issues. 

 

 

 

[Clone brush doesn't work]

12 hours ago, Denis Taylor said:

Wondering if this has beed [sic] addressed in V2 - Irun V1 in all three at the moment on desk top - as I am still concerned about the bugs I have read on this forum.

You could install the free 30-day trials and test things out. You have nothing to lose.

To say 'I visit here and see bugs, so everything must be wrong' is like saying 'I visit a hospital and see sick people, so everyone must be ill.'

[InDesign compatiblity]

You can get a 30-day free unlimited trial of Publisher (all functionality) if you scroll to the bottom of this page.

[Copy paste text full justify from Microsoft Word to Publisher]

11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I would call that very poor justification in your pasted example in Publisher

That's mainly because it's not hyphenated, and I haven't made any adjustments to word or letter spacing. Here it is with Auto-Hyphenation on (no other changes):

Turning on hyphenation in my Pages example has a less dramatic effect because the frame is much wider and the spacing can be more evenly distributed:

[Help/Support Wanted with Book-writing project using Publisher]

You might want to clarify 'Football' too  ⚽ / 🏈 / 🏉 

 

😉

[Copy paste text full justify from Microsoft Word to Publisher]

3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't understand how the shapes of the frames wouldn't come into play

What I meant was that the original shape (in Pages) and the new shape (in Publisher) don't have to be the same width: justified text copies and pastes from one to the other without any spacing issues.

Original text in a Pages text frame:

 

The text from Pages copied and pasted into Publisher:

[Copy paste text full justify from Microsoft Word to Publisher]

31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't think you can copy justified text from one application and expect it to be justified in another.

I think it depends on compatibility between Publisher and the source application, and possibly on the OS too. For example, pasting styled text from Apple Pages into Publisher seems to work pretty much perfectly - justification, indentation, leading etc are replicated exactly. Spaces between words are accounted for in the justification engine - the shapes of the source and target frames don't come into play.

I agree though that in many cases

47 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

The layout to get it justified will need to be redone by the new application, using its algorithms.

 

[Strange PDF import issue]

What happens if you Place the pdf into an existing Publisher document? I get all sorts of crud if I Open, but this if I Place test.pdf:

 

(Publisher is not a pdf editor...)

 

 

 

[Copy paste text full justify from Microsoft Word to Publisher]

No worries, hope my first suggestion makes your workflow easier.

[Where is my user interface?]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

unless we can see what's really on the screen

Or what's not on the screen...

[Where is my user interface?]

Press the Tab key. Alternatively, go to Window - Studio - and choose Show Left Studio:

 

[Copy paste text full justify from Microsoft Word to Publisher]

Good evening,

Personally I wouldn't rely on accurate conversion of pre-formatted text from Word.

I would paste the text into a plain-text editor, remove any and all formatting, copy and paste into Affinity and apply all the character and paragraph styles there. That way you know you're getting what you want.

(I'd also use Publisher rather than Designer for a newsletter, but that's up to you...)