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Publisher paragraph indent style
thomaso replied to macsnapper's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Not only if you're typing. – For existing text choose the "Then Next Styles" option from the style's the burger menu. This menu option appears once a style has a "Next style" set in its style definition. -
Remove Background
thomaso replied to GSPS.Wales's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
@NotMyFault, very nice solution with the channel mixer. – But does it need the duplicated + merged layer? It seems to work non-destructive without this steps, too. -
publisher move files
thomaso replied to namron006's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
If Walt's suggestion doesn't work for you: • The files you loaded from Corel seem to be placed in APub as "Image" layers. If this images are already stored on your disk you can send the according folder(s) to the freelance lady. • Alternatively open APub's Resource Manager window -> select all items -> press the "Collect…" button to get all placed resource files copied into a new folder on your disk. • If you want to send her all data (images + .afpub layout file) choose menu "File" -> "Save As Package…". -
Remove Background
thomaso replied to GSPS.Wales's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
In this case of straight edges + similarity between blue & green the Pen Tool appears to be a fast solution. -
A more safe workflow in Affinity is to keep both export options "as document" and adjust the document colour settings before export instead. If your document contains black text you may have assigned 100 K (with CMY = 0). To preserve colour values already set in the Swatches or Colours Panel choose the option "Assign" when selecting a different profile for your document. Simply spoken they adjust document colours according to the printing process (machine / paper). For instance a coated paper may require less ink compared to an uncoated paper, a yellowish paper requires less yellow ink. – Introduction to the ICC profile format: https://www.color.org/iccprofile.xalter – What is FOGRA39? https://www.color.org/fogra39.xalter – Fogra Characterization Data: https://www.color.org/chardata/FOGRA39.xalter
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In my understanding of the use of Column Guides a limit around 48 wouldn't harm, regardless of page size (assuming that larger page dimensions use larger object sizes). As you mentioned, for more the Grid option may be more useful than Column Guides. In my examples of 700 or 1500 the rendering speed was massively reduced even for just panning the page (while no object was created).
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It depends… 😄 Essentially, a group style helps when you want that a bunch of related styles (all based on a common parent) can be grouped in the style panels when using hierarchical presentation of styles. Its main advantage is that any formatting applied to the group style is propagated in all the styles based on it, excepted for overridden formatting in each style. (To have an example, you can look how the paragraph style Body and the group style Base interact in Affinity's default style sheet.) A Group style is identical with a Paragraph style but just has a slightly different user interface: • Clicking on a Group style does nothing whereas • Clicking on a Paragraph style applies this style to a selected text or text frame. In this aspect a Group style is less effective but more or less efficient, depending on the user's habits. To apply a Group style you can use its burger menu: Group + Paragraph + Character styles can get displayed collapsed | unfolded as soon they have styles that are "Based on" them. They list them as hierarchical child entries, regardless of par- or char-styles. Also each style type may 'contain' other Group, Paragraph or Character styles. The ability to assign a paragraph style to characters only (~ as character style) + the ability to create a Group style based on a Character style increases the flexibility in potential effectiveness, efficiency, complexity and confusion. Thus it is just up to the user to achieve the "best" setup: • To reduce confusion it can be useful to avoid the "Based on" or "Next style" attributes but sort the style entries in the panel by their names only. • To increase efficiency it is required to use the "Based on" or "Next style" attributes. • While "Based on" is indicated in the panel interface as child entry, the "Next style" attribute doesn't have a visual indicator and thus it appears quite useful to mark a "Next" style by its style name (or number). • If a Group or Paragraph style has 'nested' styles defined, for instance as "Drop Caps", "Initial Words" or "Bullets and Numbering" it can be useful to define those as "Based on" to achieve hierarchical presentation in the panel – but this also creates dependency between the parent & the character style which may disturb if these character styles are meant to get used for multiple parent styles, for instance if the character style causes a different colour only that will be used for various highlights across the document. • Since a Group style is a paragraph style it doesn't have to get a further paragraph style nested and may contain character styles only or even no further style at all. You can switch a style between Char | Par | Group style type at any time with the according consequences to its possibly dependent style properties in other styles.
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Maybe because… • size is an explicit arrow head attribute while opacity is not? • transparency is an issue for arrow heads anyway, independently of pressure or brush settings but with just colour opacity? Compare this question regarding an transparency issue of arrow heads: (interestingly this thread appears to have been moved by Serif to the Feature Request forum / and the OP's question got no Serif response but another question did.)
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In facing-paged documents with the cover printed separate (e.g. different size or material) it is a quite common solution to create cover spread and content pages in two separate documents. If you want to keep cover pages and document pages together in 1 layout .afpub just start a new section on page 3 with page #1. Alternative: • Set the document properties to start with page 1 on the left. • Start a new section + page numbering on page 4 with #1. • Create also the cover as spread of 2-facing pages. • First make sure this page order will match the required export (e.g. export for online vs. print / export as spreads vs. single page / export for an imposition process)
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Affinity does not support .dng
thomaso replied to BIGEYE's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Maybe this mentioned Samsung update helps? https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/samsung-s24u-expertraw-looks-like-8bit-jpg-promode-dng-completely-broken/td-p/14396675 -
Accidentally hit the tab key
thomaso replied to LeaS's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Instead of removing the shortcut or adding a dialog it is lot easier simply to change the shortcut. I use OPT-TAB since years without issues. It would help already if the existing dialogs would work as expected ("Cancel" -> "Cancel") with a consistent UX + UI (wording: "Cancel" <-> "OK" <-> "Yes/No" / default: highlighted <-> not highlighted & left <-> right button). For instance when switching personas in APhoto: cancel confusion afphoto.m4v -
... and text files (TXT, RTF, DOCX etc.) without losing text styles applied in APub if the resource gets updated.
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Affinity does not support .dng
thomaso replied to BIGEYE's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Alternatively you can try converting the Samsung .dng with the Adobe DNG Converter to a more universal DNG raw file before opening the image in APhoto: -
Outline part of mask?
thomaso replied to Gatada's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
With symbols it may be even easier: The hill-mask gets auto-updated if you modify a hill. hill-symbol-mask.m4v -
Preflight for CMYK 0,0,0,100?
thomaso replied to mykee's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
With certain settings you can export a PDF that contains the K ink channel only. This post has a K only profile attached, note @lacerto's hints above and below this post: -
Outline part of mask?
thomaso replied to Gatada's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
You can but in several steps: Edit the coloured hill layers then copy + move them as mask + delete the previous masking hills. -
Outline part of mask?
thomaso replied to Gatada's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Yes, indeed simple! It appears in the written recipe 'a' and 'b' are confused (not just opposite to my use of 'A' + 'B'): … or I was confused by the use of "parent". To me the larger is the visual parent but the hierarchical child – while the smaller is the hierarchical parent + visually nested.