Old Bruce

I think that the problem is the Ellipse is now a Frame Text Text Frame which has a Fill which can be changed in Publisher but not Designer. I would try and make a new Ellipse with no fill and paste the text into it.

It could be that there is an issue with flowing text and Page/Frame/Column breaks in your Word DOCX file. Turn on Text > Show Special Characters. Also check for the overflow indicator on the Text Frame. That is in the lower right side of the text frame, it is a little triangle. After I click on the little red triangle I can draw a new text frame and it contains the remaining text.

Why? It appears over the transparent background as though nothing was under it. All the blend modes with the exception of Erase show the rectangle exactly the same. It is there with the colour it has. The white area is not showing the colour burning rectangle as invisible, the colour burning rectangle is actually colour burning the underlying white to white.

For what it is worth I don't see this in Mac OS 12.7.4 Photo 2 2.4.2 The group is deleted from the Resources window when the last copy is removed.

Ah, that is a problem. Affinity doesn't make actual circles.

10 out of 10 topics with 16 bit cmyk in the topic title from the last 8 years have been started by you. Could you not just choose one of the your already existing topics and restate your desire for this?

States are great for turning on/off bunches of layers. Say you have designed a book cover. The publishing house wants one title for the European market and a different title for the US market. Two states get set up, one turns on the EU title and turns off the US title, the second state turns off the EU title and turns on the US title. Everything else remains turned on. Maybe there is a photo of a boat with the titles overtop of it. Now the publishers want a green shape added to the cover. So you add the green shape and now when you chose the first state the EU title is shown with the green shape, you then choose the second state and the US title is shown, also with the green shape. Queries are for selecting things to be turned on/off. A good deal of planing should take place before starting to work. Layers should be appropriately named. Colour tags should be chosen and applied etc. The states are really useful when you have visibility and or effects that need to turned on/off to show for example text that needs to be in two or more different languages. Have a French state, an Italian state, and a Spanish state. Or a half dozen sets of adjustments that consist of a dozen layers each scattered in a bunch of different groups. The groups have items that must remain on so we cannot just turn off the group. States are great for that. The non update for the number of layers could be a bug.

No bug. It is how the three applications work. In all three applications the path is converted to / considered to be a Text Frame. And as such the Text Frame Panel can be used to set the colour and width of the path. Publisher is the only application that has the Text Frame panel. We can open a Designer or Photo document in Publisher and then use the Text Frame panel to set the colour of the stroke (and/or fill) of the path.

Pixels are squares* that hold one colour and only one colour. They can be any physical size. A 100 x 100 pixel image can be any size. Using that 100 x 100 pixel image make two paper prints. The first will be 1/4 of an inch square the second will be eight feet square, there will be 10,000 pixels in each paper print. The DPI/PPI will be different. In the first case it will be 400 DPI/PPI and in the second case it will be a teeny bit over 1 DPI/PPI**. * Unless we are talking about video but we are not so they are squares. ** 1.041666666666667 according to my calculator. If the second paper print was 8 feet 4 inches square then the DPI/PPI would be exactly 1.

Use the node tool and lasso the selection of nodes to select them, then hit the delete key.

Welcome to the forums @TheZBillDyl, Would not applying a Paragraph or Character Style to the various Data Merge Fields not work for you? Just set the Style to use the colour you want.

The additional/coincident nodes would be present on the original stroke, not the expanded version.

Set your "AA Table Body" Paragraph Style to use whatever leading value you want/need. I use Exact for the leading type. As it is setup here in this screenshot from one of your earlier posts you have applied some overrides as indicated by the + symbol in its name. If necessary you may need to set up many Paragraph Styles for your table. Always use the Edit the Paragraph Style and avoid the use of the Paragraph Panel to override the Paragraph's applied style. Overrides should be used rarely if at all, using overrides is always a last resort.

But would your heirs?

Walt probably means you would take the Publisher file and export it as a PDF. Then in Designer you open that PDF and it will have each PDF page as a separate Artboard. Now in Designer you can set up a pair of export formats to generate each Artboard (the original individual pages from Publisher) as a JPEG and as a PDF. You do this in the Export Persona of Designer. The hard part is the naming of the Artboards.

I think the problem is that we cannot choose Master Pages. This would be a good feature request, "Please add Master Pages to the list of things we can select." Until then you can name everything on your Master Pages with unique and descriptive names and use those to toggle on and off the various layers. We all really should be naming each and every item on our Master Pages with unique and descriptive names anyway. It is simply a good best practice.

The topic's title is user-defined bullets. So I guess the fact that some Police officers are armed and therefore have bullets.... Wow, we are well into the weeds here.

alfa.afdesign This will show you a bit better. From the top Each is a group, No Blur, Preserve Alpha on, Preserve Alpha off. As an exercise for the reader find out what would happen if the circle had a gradient fill.

Let us say I come up with a truly brilliant idea and post it here. Affinity decides to run with it and agree to pay me a penny a copy once they implement it. All good. Oh no. People from Adobe and Quark are reading this forum. They have stolen my idea. They are using it and not paying me. If or when Affinity includes a raster to vector tracing tool or command who should get the money? Several people have suggested it. Same for true Vector brushes and also for a Digital Asset Manager. Autoflowing Tables in Publisher. Over the years I have given away song lyrics and comedy routines to people who could use them. If I wanted to get paid I would say so before I offered up the lyrics or routines. And I've gotten paid gigs just by saying "I can fix that, but it'll cost you." Your best bet is to take your idea and write it out and set up meetings with several software companies. In closing there is the, probably apocryphal, story about a movie studio executive who paid Orson Welles for his latest great idea for a movie. The executive's friends pointed out that he had just paid money for Macbeth.

I beg to differ. There are groups in the group with the hole in it. From the post where I only quoted the text: You can try it yourself. Drag an empty group into an empty group.

Perhaps you should uncheck the "Preserve Alpha" in the Effects window. Just like it is unchecked in the Effect applied to the group layer.

Yes. So a Group Icon with a hole in it means there is something in the Group but there is nothing to display.

If you click on the disclosure triangle you may find out. A group with a mask in it. Note that it is not masking the group, the mask is just in the group.

Perhaps I should be charged for the R&D costs of implementing my idea until it starts making money, and then I get a farthing for each copy sold. Less the costs of fixing bugs caused by it.

They don't really 'end up' anywhere.