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Thanks @Old Bruce. I'd love to say that you have changed my Affinity life, but your use of "convoluted" is most accurate! My goodness. I think I'd use the word clunky, and I'm fairly certain that I will rather change what I'm doing in the future than have to repeat this process. But I'm not shooting the messenger; far from. Thanks again. @,,,, thanks for the heads-up. I have found this page about the Point Transform Tool, but I cannot fathom for the life of me how it might be useful in the context here. ?

Hi, I create a square. I create a smaller square wholly within the larger one. I subtract the smaller from the larger to create shape A. I create a new shape B. I cannot get shape B to snap to the inside, so to speak, of shape A. Snapping candidates only appear on the outside of shape A. Any and all ideas welcome. Thanks in advance.

And so, with due respect, I still don't know of a use case requiring the export of URLs that aren't clickable. And if there is such a use case, perhaps it would still be preferable to have a corresponding checkbox default to enabled rather than disabled. Ah hang on. Just thought of something. Does this box change the formatting of the links on export? Perhaps omitting an underline if one is otherwise used in the Publisher doc for hyperlinks?

Really? If I export a PDF that has clickable links, then the very process of printing makes them unclickable on paper! I don't need to turn them off for export. Do I?!

Thanks @miketo for investing the time to help me here. The morsel I needed from your last comment is: It is indeed very easy to miss to the point I didn't even know about it! When I tick it, everything works a treat, even in Preview. Thank you 🙏🏼 I guess Firefox wasn't rendering any links because there weren't any. And the behaviour I saw in Chrome must have been its partial success in interpreting some strings as URLs and making them hyperlinks accordingly; at least that's my guess. I haven't done as much thinking about the use cases of Publisher as those who design it, obviously! But I'm intrigued. When would someone wish to export a document that has hyperlinks so that the PDF renders the string of the URL but does not render them clickable?!

You beauty! Thanks @RM f/g.

Actually, it appears results vary for Chrome. It looks as if links that span multiple lines and break at a forward slash, a question mark, or underscore are malformed, i.e. Chrome thinks the hyperlink is described only by the first line. If the line breaks at a hyphen, the link works as expected. The links are entirely dead in Firefox though as reported. Let me try Safari. Perhaps unsurprising, Safari suffers the same odd behaviour as Mac Preview.

Thanks @MikeTO. I have now opened the same PDF in Firefox and Chrome. None of the links are clickable in Firefox. The same thing happens in Chrome as happens in Mac Preview.

Ah I see. The Indent to here is working for the lines with the Notes numbers. But when the Note includes a para break (as here before each of the URLs) the Ident to here has no effect.

Cool. There's so much to learn! I have no idea about any of the options in Text > Insert > Spaces and tabs. But I found Show Special Characters to see, well, er, the special characters, and copied the character representing Indent to here and pasted it into the Notes panel box so it looks just like your example here, and now I have (see screenshot). So nearly, but not. I played with Left indent, but that just indents everything on the line, rather than everything to the right of the Notes number. How come your numbers are to the left of neat left-aligned text, and mine is still messy?!

I created the endnotes in Publisher v1 manually. It was a real pain as you can imagine. So thank goodness v2 has the Notes capability. I have found a bug however. When the note includes a URL that spans lines, the hyperlink is truncated to the first line. See screenshot. I've titled this topic "Possible bug" because it could be something I'm doing wrong of course.

Thanks @RM f/g, although I don't understand your reference to what exactly it is you pasted. It's in this box right?... (I've shown the dropdown options)

So after some trial and error, I have nearly finished my endnotes. The screenshots below show what they look like in Publisher, and how that looks when exported as PDF. Now I just need to left-align all the text with the note numbering standing out to the left of the text for ease of visual reference. I know how to do such things with Bullets and Numbering, but of course this isn't Bullets and Numbering! I can't see any clue in the help docs either. All I can see is how to add a space or two, or potentially a tab, after the numbering. Better than nothing, but not what I'm looking for. Any ideas most welcome. Thanks in advance.

Star, thank you. I was previously setting the paragraph style to No Style, and I can see clearly in your video now that you are setting the character style to No Style. So partial success! The second note is now no longer styled as a hyperlink. But it's still very large to begin with. It defaults for some reason to a Style called references+ rather than simply references. I appreciate this means that it's based on my references paragraph style with a one or more tweaks, clearly font size, but why that should be I don't know. Not a huge deal ... I just manually (re)apply the style. So all in all, clunky, but hopefully the bug will be resolved by the time I have to go through this again! Thanks again @MikeTO

Thanks again. I set the Note Body Style back to the references style, and both notes changed accordingly, albeit the second adopting the hyperlink style inherited from the end of the first note. So then I deleted the second note and manually removed the style of the first note (setting it to No Style). And then tried to add a second note again. No luck, as you can see. BTW, do you know why my notes have square brackets around them?

No luck I'm afraid. I deleted note 2. Set note 1 to No Style. Set the Notes Panel to use No Style for note body style. Created a new note and get ...

Every time I think a problem is not PBKAC, it is! And now I've humbly suggested it is, and it isn't. 😆 Thanks @MikeTO

When I manually select the second reference, I can set the style manually of course. But then when I type in or paste without formatting, the text has some hyperlink styling. I really don't know what I'm doing do I?!

The screenshot here shows the first note properly styled per the Notes panel [style: references]. When I insert a new note, I'm taken to the Endnotes page as expected, but the note is not being styled per the Notes panel. I'm certain it's a PBKAC issue, so any and all comments most welcome. Thanks in advance.

May I offer some feedback @Tatom, although I recognize you haven't explicitly invited any! Anyone who interacts with a system of any kind has a right to reflect on how it could be better by any definition of the word. Such freedom of thought is closely followed by freedom of speech ... share the idea / the observation / the question! Depending on the context, the communication may warrant excitement, or perhaps disappointment, but regardless, we all communicate ultimately with the hope that we might make some small difference in the world. You have expertise and experience that any system designer will hope to cherish, but the potential influence of your feedback here is, I think, tarnished by its inference that you want perfection and you want it now. That is an unrealistic expectation of any system design team, as much as I'm certain the Affinity product team would love to achieve as much. They, like you and me in our day jobs, always have a long to-do list. We all have to make decisions about priorities. We all have resource constraints. That's just life. Yet give them some love in the process and perhaps your ideas / observations / questions will get lifted, and so too your agency in the world. Best wishes.

Thanks @G13RL ... reckon that's going to be the best way for me to proceed. Saying that, the joy of this forum is learning new things about Designer ... in this instance, @Lagarto is taking things to places I've not yet been. I know I will find time to explore 😁 .. thanks.

Thanks @Lagarto @Alfred. I had a couple of really clunky ways to proceed. I think your ways are less clunky, but still not approaching ideal as I know you know!

Hi, I'm planning a home refurbishment and wish to show which parts of various walls are tiled. In engineering drawing terms, this is known as hatching. I understand that Affinity Designer does not have a hatching "fill". It does have a bitmap fill however, and I thought this could be used for the purpose. However, I'm struggling to apply it consistently. While I can save the bitmap fill as a swatch, exactly how that fill is applied is not part of the swatch. In other words, I haven't figured out a convenient way to get two distinct areas using the same swatch to look the same without lots of small fiddly tweaking. So then I thought I would fill one rectangle and simply duplicate the shape for use elsewhere. Unfortunately, the aspect ratio and scale of the fill changes with changes to the shape. So this doesn't work either. Any and all ideas welcome 🙂 ... I still consider myself an Affinity Designer learner, albeit a keen one!

Thanks @vivera but it's just happened to me again. The file above was a Publisher file with some images. This one is a Designer file with no images at all. This never happened to me before the 1.9 update (related?) but now I've lost a total of 5.5 hours work. This truly sucks.

Working on a 10MB file on an iCloud sync'd local folder. Same problem as listed here. Cannot now save the past three hours work. Really. What's the fix? This is seriously not a good look.