Old Bruce

Actually you were quite clear and concise.

In addition to what MikeW has said, set the DPI of the 24 x 36 inch document to 300 dpi.

Hi and welcome to the forums @lkling, Open the black icon and use it to mask a layer which has the colour you want.

Not sure how you are doing what you do but for me I find the following to work well Just click on the ellipse to mask unmask.

Hi and welcome to the forums @TomI, It is just redundant, but useful in that we can change the size of that pixel layer or deform it and rasterizing 'resets' the pixels. I will occasionally do it if I have place a hi density image and then once I like the size and location I will rasterize it so as to cut down on the file size. (sadly not by as much as I hope [sad face emoticon])

Hi and welcome to the forums @Kingroy23, The template will open as it was saved (page size, number of pages, Paragraph Styles, plus many more things) but be an unsaved new document and have a "Untitled" name and when you save it it will be a .afpub file. This way we cannot overwrite the template files.

On my Mac it is Command + ` (AKA Tilde) that is the key above the Tab key and to the right of the 1 key.

Probably a copy paste carry over from some time in the past.

Pointing has no effect. If I have a selection made from the bottom right and copy it that will get pasted into the bottom right of the document I want it in, then sometimes the the second document is much smaller than the one I copied from and the pasting happens outside the canvas. I will frequently have to zoom way out to find the thing I pasted, you are not alone.

Odd, I cannot get more than 250% for those settings.

Hi and welcome to the forums, When you say template do you mean document? Are you making a new document then placing photos in it? Which application are you using, Designer, Photo or Publisher? What sort of photos are these, I mean what is the file format, PNG, TIFF, JPEG or .afphoto or some other type?

This is down to a Text Frame being resized using the lower right blue dot which is outside the frame. Delete the frame and draw a new one is the only (quickest) way to fix it.

Sounds like you have a corrupted file. As these are 'legacy' machines it may be down to a bad font. If you can open the file replace what ever font you are using for the occasional page numbers and then do a Save As...

That is because we cannot change the colours of the guides in Designer, Photo and Publisher. It is an oft requested feature.

Looks like you have set the Justification to Full Justification. Try putting a Right indent tab in instead of a space.

Try turning off this layer:

There is a Pixel Work preset in the presets in the Snapping dropdown on the Toolbar.

First thing I would do is to try adding a page after or before the problem page and then delete that spread.

Doesn't crash here, but I too am on Mac. Copy paste works fine. A couple of things, one is that the pictures are reported as 17 and 29 DPI for their placed size and the document is 240" by 265" That is 20 by 21 feet. Seems very very weird. If I copy the images and make a new document from the Clipboard I get 5 DPI and 9 DPI and a pair of images that are Yards and Yards wide. I am guessing they were somehow resized incorrectly. Plus the other weird odd thing is that there is a stroke with arrow heads applied to the Rectangle you use for clipping the top photo. Edit: Okay here is a crash report, I closed the document from the previous post (by Ingrid) then I quit Designer and I had a crash report. As mentioned I had copied and pasted the pictures. Affinity Designer_2020-07-13-150051_Mac-Pro.crash

You may need to crop the image.

Go to View > Show Toolbar and make sure it is checked.

I have sometimes had no obvious effect with the Shadows and Highlights in the Develop persona and it is just because of the type of lighting, exposure range and contrast in the particular image. Do you see this in a variety of images? I am on Mac. Translated by DeepL.com Ich hatte manchmal keinen offensichtlichen Effekt mit den Schatten und Lichtern in der Persona "Entwickeln", und das liegt einfach an der Art der Beleuchtung, dem Belichtungsbereich und dem Kontrast im jeweiligen Bild. Sehen Sie dies bei einer Vielzahl von Bildern? Ich verwende den Mac. Übersetzt von DeepL.com

You'll have to manually crop the image's top. You will also have to decide whether you want the top to be at the top of the first letter "m" or to line up with the ascenders later on in the text's first line, there is a 'd' and an 'f' there at the end. There is no automatic way to do this.

Hi and welcome to the forums @JuttaU, Not to my knowledge, and I could be mistaken but I don't think PDFs can do that. At least I have never come across that in any PDFs.

If you really want to get to grips here is the Wikipedia page which will confuse and confound once you get past the first sentence "Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting." ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_unit