Old Bruce

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.

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?

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?

Tip: Use the Save as Package...

As Bruce stated, this is the way it's supposed to work but it isn't ideal.
When you convert a path to Path Text in Publisher, the Path Text object inherits the path's fill and stroke which can be changed via the Text Frame panel. When you convert a path to Path Text in Designer or Photo, the Path Text object does not inherit the path's fill and stroke and they are lost. There is no way to change them in Designer or Photo. But you can edit them in Publisher. IMO, it would be better to fix the root issue and allow users to set fill and stroke for text frames and objects in Designer and Photo. But if this won't be done, then I think paths converted to Path Text should inherit the path's fill and stroke. If the user didn't want fill or stroke they could set them to none before conversion but it's frustrating to get it just the way you want it and then have it lost when you choose convert.

If you place the card titles in different columns in Excel table, and in Publisher, the fields are below each other, and assign a different text style to each field, it will work. If you need an example, I can record a video.

2024-04-11 19-14-44.mp4  

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.

Pledge 4 said nothing about paying for ideas. They're always accepted ideas. Perhaps now they'll try to implement more of them.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

Hi @RC Thunder and welcome to the forums,
Ensure you have Show Margins, Show Bleed, Show Column Guides and Show Text Flow ticked under the View Menu...