Sam Neil

I am sorry but Serif has been rather pathatic on the communication front and rather than coming up with childish memes - communicate with the users - Without them they have nothing. It is not politics - It is basics rules of any company! Very disappointed with Ash & his team - to have such a promising product and yet so bad at communicating and worst of all the silent treatments. I would not be surprised if Canva wrap up Serif operations soon...

This is what I use Affinity suite for

When I started to use computers, they were using Serif PagePlus and I have never used Adobe in my computer life (Ever for PDF I use NitroPDF) So natually I migrated to Affinity and despite some serious options missing I love these trio and they are damn easy to use. The mail merge option is APUB is a dream as an example - The issue with Affinity is their lack of transparency and communiction and an unclear roadmap - The darling of creative software has now become an unloved child that seems to not matter a bit for its new parent.

It makes no difference - The fact of the matter is there is NO support!

That is correct. I too have been waiting for RTL support - It will never be introduced in version 2 or 3 for that matter. Best ti find an alternative solution rather than waiting for any non-latin based language support. Serif have expressed ZERO percent interest and never designed the software with that in mind.

If I have grouped two or more objects and copied them - when I paste them They should remain grouped until I ungroup them. Simple as that!

Here it is - Basically if I have grouped these two or any objects - When copied and pasted it should preserved the group status. (At least what I would like to see). Video_2025-05-02_113133.mp4

Noted and corrected Alfred

They are all WINDOWS (2.6.2)

Yes and also between Artboards in AD and pages in APUB

Maybe you are right - I have been doing it wrong. I think I need to make a video. Will post one as soon as I get a chance

Well Said Alfred - My bad I should have said layers - Yes I group two or more layers and paste them in another page and they are no longer grouped. Is there anyway to maintain this status with layers?

What I meant is simple grouping between the object (The trio of applications - Windows ONLY) When I group two obejct and lets say I paste them in an new page, they lose the connection and have to regroup them.

Is there anyway to maintain the grouping once the objects are grouped? It keeps losing the group and becomes undone!

Big things for who? Canva or Affinity?

This was my point - Because it was not thought out correctly with a global audience - It is too late for version 2 or indeed version 3. What is important is the lack of transparency and interest from Serif and putting the head in the sand. Ash & his team have really gone the wrong away about Affinity and simply don't have the man power or expertise to continute. Canva will regret their purchase as it does not even fit their portfolio - They cater for a "fast food" style of clients who don't give a s--t how it is done but it is done. I work for a printing compnay and 60% of our customers use canva and don't even have a clue about basic things such as bleed and crop marks! As mentioned here do not be surprised if Canva off load Affinity soon.... As @grafkom has mentioned 1500 view and as usual the "Silent" policy rules....

Indeed - I afraid they have left so late that I would imagine would be impossible to retrofit this into the current text engine. Canva is happily doing its own think and pushing the "office" alternative and no mention of Affinity and its future - All they mentioned was AI...

Support for RTL fonts which has been vital to my and many other's work - Completely igonred by Serif.

Just Updated to 2.6.0 and works like a charm!! Thank you!

Oh! my bad - I am on 2.5.7 I guess I just have to wait. Thanks again.

Yes but Patrick's instrustions are not clear - I cannot see On the context toolbar, click the Data field. Set Type to Data Merge.

I have 120 URLs which need to have a QR code. Is it possible to mail merge QR codes? Cheers

It would be good if Serif would consider doing something like: https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/ which offers TOTAL customisation

Indeed - Very odd and I cannot say for sure what I did to end up with the issue but thanks to you all sorted.

GarryP - Thank you - That seems to have done it! Thank you Mike for your help