Old Bruce

This photo is an excellent candidate for the Hue Range Mask.

Well, it is a Beta, after all… 😂
Anyway, thanks for the laugh and the historical architecture trivia, I had never heard of Fonthill Abbey (interesting name, by the way, seeing how variable fonts were always the proverbial hill I was going to die on 🙃)…
Looking at its design, it makes me wonder if it served as an inspiration for the design of Sauron's Barad-dûr, and reading the text, all with the tower collapsing twice before finally being made out of stone and surviving and whatnot, it also reminds me a bit too much of Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Swamp Castle and makes me think it might've also been a true source of inspiration for the latter's troubled development legend… After all, Terry Jones was a historian and, despite having specialised in the Middle Ages, he surely would've been no stranger to that kind of cultural reference. 😉

Each entry has a host of overrides applied. One of which is for the paragraph alignment, it is overridden to be Centred.

When it starts you'll know because they'll post the details. 

From the notes panel. Window > Reference > Notes.

 

This is probably due to the font chosen for the note number in the text. I would suspect that you have a Character style applied to the Number Style.

It will stay forever, this is the Internet after all. Don't worry about it. Someone may have the same problem as you and find this topic which will solve it for them too. So having this stay around is a good thing.

Works here on Mac. Thanks for the tip joe_l

Having links to online help = Good
Having no offline help at all = Bad
Having both = Good
I get that there are benefits to having an up to date online guide on every feature, especially when it gives additional context to how they can be used. That said, I agree with fde101 that it's a bad idea to scrap offline Help. Even I as a long time user of Affinity sometimes open up the current Help guides to find simple descriptions of specific features I haven't used in a while, since they aren't always easy to find on the interface. The Help section doesn't need to be full of videos and highly descriptive tutorials for it to be useful. Just as a simple lexicon can be useful, offline Help should remain for such a purpose.

How does this file open for you?
tall dog.afdesign
 

Yes now it works. Before I first change in to curve --> this was the mistake.

It won't do this if you dock the Layers panel to the left of the UI rather than floating it......

Arrghhh ... You have to group the rotated hexagon first, then Geometry > Add ... one step less in v1.

Use the Shape tool to create your hexagon and rotate it (30 degrees or 90 degrees) so it is the way you want it to be aligned. Use the Boolean Add in Layer > Geometry > Add to change it into a Curve. Now you can make it a text frame and the text should line up properly with the flat top edge.

Yup that was it! Thanks so much!

I like the place panel but I would like it to be persistent. If I drag 20 images and start placing them one by one (not autoflow), I cannot stop the process or switch to another tool to make a small adjustment, otherwise the place panel disappears and I loose track of what images have already been placed.
Making it persistent like any other panel would be very helpful when working with imported assets

I hold a Master's degree in Commercial Arts and Design, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Graphic Communications. However, the tools I currently use in my work were not part of my formal education. My expertise lies in old-school software like Photoshop, Freehand, Page Maker, and Quark Xpress. What sets me apart from the new generation of graphic designers is my experience of being there when copy-pasting was a manual process. This real-world experience allows me to create and compare with a depth of understanding that others may lack. Despite my educational background, I believe that graphic designers without formal education should not be treated as inferior. Many of them possess impressive skills that could make me question my own accomplishments. Education certainly has its merits in today's world, but it is not a guarantee of success in the field of graphic design. In fact, platforms like YouTube have nurtured numerous talented designers who make a comfortable living from their craft.

Thanks, that and the comments of others is very reassuring particularly when one feels alone in technical matters. I am continuing to place images via the linked method.

The warp feature in Affinity is quite rudimentary compared to Illustrator and VectorStyler. The biggest omission as far as I can see is the lack of constraint and no way to snap to guides nor grid, this makes the warping process clumsy at best.
There are no centre nodes to move, so again you have to guess the centre of the text. All of these missing features should have been included by default along with the ability to save presets.
Report card: Affinity-Canva needs to try harder. C-
 

You're trying to move the pixels outside the Pixel layer, which was originally clipped by its parent Artboard and created with a size limited to the size of that Artboard. When you enlarged the Artboard you did not enlarge the Pixel layer, and the pixels you're moving become invisible when you move them outside their layer. 
I can't say for sure whether it should work that way as far as visibility of the moved pixels goes, but it's one legitimate way to handle pixels that are moved outside their layer, I think. 
It's similar to painting outside the canvas when you have a canvas rather than an Artboard. Anything outside the canvas is invisible, unless you enlarge the canvas by Unclipping it. 

Yes, please consider this because it will reduce the amount of scrolling needed to see all of your posts. For me, it is annoying enough to have to do that that I often just skip to the next topic.

@wVanDyck,
Wow, your experience is very very close to mine. For computer use I started with Aldus Pagemaker on a Mac+ then went to Ventura Publisher before Deneba Canvas back on Mac. That is excluding the Letter Press work followed by phototypesetting using Compugraphic equipment with its 6 bit instructions and data code punched into paper tape.
Seeing as I am here I will wish all of the Affinity team best wishes going forward. I am optimistic. But I would be remiss to not mention that I will bail on any subscription model.

Best results:
highpass with 1px radius to eliminate colors almost completely curves to boost global contrast hsl to desaturate again exposure to boost light colors  

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Duncan.
What you’ve described isn’t actually a bug. The ‘Character > Positioning and Transform’ route positions and transforms glyphs for the regular characters so that they’re smaller and (for subscripts) lower than the originals. The ‘Typography > Subscript’ option uses glyphs for the subscript characters where available, but there will usually only be numerals plus a few alphabetic characters, and the font designer may have chosen to make those glyphs look different from their full-size counterparts.

Then it would be another related feature request...  ideally with its own thread, like each feature request should have.
The notion of a drafting persona kind of makes sense if you are trying to use Affinity Designer as a poor man's CAD application (in spite of there being *real* CAD applications which are even free and open source).  When working with a CAD program there is a difference in how you interact with tools to accomplish the same things as you would do with the tools we already have.
For example, in a typical drawing program, you create a circle either by dragging out from the center, or by dragging from one corner of its bounding box to another.
In a CAD application, you might also create a circle by specifying two or three arbitrary points on the circle, or create a line by telling the application to run parallel or perpendicular to an existing line or shape and give it a point along the line.
Adding stuff like this would not be unreasonable in and of itself, but it may create some expectation that other aspects of a CAD application will be covered, and I'm not sure Serif really wants to get into that market segment on top of everything else they are doing.
I would not be opposed to it, but I don't know that I can really support it either unless Serif comes out and indicates this is something they want to involve themselves with and that they are going to take precision more seriously (among other requirements for proper CAD).
In my opinion, if you want software that works like a CAD application, you should use a CAD application, which Affinity Designer is not.