[Publisher export per page to JPEG and PDF with file name from Data Merge]

22 minutes ago, get in shape said:

Do you mean that after this Data Merge operation we have to bring it back to Affinity Designer again?

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.

[APub — Why 'Master Page' layers can't be selected using query in States panel?]

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.

[user-defined bullets]

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.

[Why am I unable to apply a Gaussian Blur Filter to this Layer?]

41 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

What does that do again ? (apart from completely undoing any effects I've just added)

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.

[Canva]

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.

[What does the round dot in group icons in the layers panel mean?]

1 minute ago, Return said:

There are no items inside the group but only nested in the mask position.

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.

[Why am I unable to apply a Gaussian Blur Filter to this Layer?]

5 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

Only letting me apply a blur if I add it to a group layer

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

[What does the round dot in group icons in the layers panel mean?]

5 minutes ago, DarkClown said:

You mean like this?:

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

[What does the round dot in group icons in the layers panel mean?]

17 minutes ago, DarkClown said:

Has anyone got an idea what this one stands for?:

 

5 minutes ago, DarkClown said:

Nope, thats a different Icon ... the one I postet is a group icon with a hole in the middle ...

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.

[Canva]

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.

[Is there a “Linked (Remote)” resource ‘cache’ on my hard drive and, if so, how do I clear it?]

23 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Thanks, but I asked where they ‘end up’, on my machine, not where they came from.

They don't really 'end up' anywhere. 

[Is there a “Linked (Remote)” resource ‘cache’ on my hard drive and, if so, how do I clear it?]

4 minutes ago, GarryP said:

When I open a document with “Linked (Remote)” resources, where do the resources ‘end up’ when I load the document?

The "Linked (Remote)" resources will be read from where they are. 

[Canva]

14 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Because software companies rarely if ever pay for nothing more than ideas about features users would like to see implemented.

Most corporations don't pay for ideas offered up by the public. Especially when a lot of the ideas from users are along the lines of "Company X has this thing why don't you?"

[regular expression tables, caret ^ not woking?]

The caret is for the beginning of a Paragraph. Not necessarily the start of a Line. I would guess that the table is A Paragraph with Line Breaks to start a new row.

[Die Datei scheint beschädigt zu sein. Die Datei ließ sich nicht öffnen]

1 minute ago, iconoclast said:

save them as a text file (file ending *.txt)

<pedant on>

save them as plain text (file ending *.txt)

<pedant off>

Other than that I wholeheartedly agree.

[APub — Why 'Master Page' layers can't be selected using query in States panel?]

I would think it has to do with the Master A being a default name. Try it with another name, one you type yourself.

[Affinity Publisher (Mac) Formatting Issue]

You have pasted it onto the Actual Page's applied Master Page. To remove it you'll have to right click on the Master Page layer and choose Edit Detached from the context menu. Then you can either delete the rectangle or Cut it and then if you have nothing selected in the Layers panel and paste the rectangle again it should be pasted into the Layers panel above the Master Page. Alternitivly you can use Edit Detached to select the rectangle, in the layers panel, and move it above the Master Page.

[Assigning properties to large amount of objects]

Be aware that if you select several objects you should toggle the item you want to set for all of them from off to on, or from on to off to on. This is because the "first" selected object's setting is the one that will show for all of the objects. At least I think it is the first selected, it could be the bottommost (in the layers panel) layer's state.

[Stroke overlap]

I am just guessing that the problem is due to coincident nodes. There are two nodes overlapping* on the stroke where the problems are occuring. This is most likely a problem with the way the font is built.

 

* or so close that they appear to be overlapping.

[V2 - Lasso Tool - Lasso+Alt Duplication is Flawed]

1 hour ago, JackattackIndustries said:

But imagine you have a complex drawing...

It is also a bit too much if I have a simple drawing. There has to be something wrong with the way it is currently (not) working. I cannot believe that this is the way it is supposed to work.

[V2 - Lasso Tool - Lasso+Alt Duplication is Flawed]

Weird. I find that if I use the move tool and click away from the newly duplicated red 'blob' and then click it again I can move it and have the original remain.

[copying and pasting from word missed black line]

2 hours ago, tzvi20 said:

I copied and pasted text from word to publisher, and it missed the black line from word under my contact information, but everything else transferred.

 

41 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:

I can't upload the document, but placing missed a black line that I have under my contact information since it is my resume.

This could be a Decoration of the text in the MS Word application for which Publisher has no equivalent. 

[Why is this software using up all the space on my C: Drive ???]

I cannot offer any worthwhile advice for the large amount of space being taken up by the "backupstore" file but for those of you missing out on the eclipse for whatever reason; give the first Dan Aykroyd movie a look, Love at First Sight (1977). It features a solar eclipse as a plot point and a cameo appearance by the Kentucky Fried Colonel Harland Sanders. 

[Publisher V2. duplicate text with link on same page]

Photo has the Link panel. If you have a Text layer you can link its content to another text frame.

[pixel brush width tablet v mouse]

4 hours ago, jsampson45 said:

I notice that pixel brushes in Designer 2  are wider when using the tablet than when using the mouse. Should this be expected?

Could be tht there is a pressure value applied to the size with the Wacom.