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confirmed that the files from gridcalculator.dk crash Affinity Designer. I'm not sure the file will work for you even if it did import correctly - as the grid is constructed with guides and they are not imported into Affinity Designer. The document can be set up in Designer though. Start a new document and use your document size - Document Units: Pixels - Dimensions: 1076 px x 700 px - DPI: 96 - click OK With the new document open go to the top Menu Bar and click - View - Guides Manager On the Guides window - Under the Column Guides enter: Columns: 12 - Style: Outline Rows: 1 Gutter: 20 px Margins: Left: 20 px - Right: 20px press the close button. Be sure to enable Snapping using the Magnet Icon. hope that helps

Just a heads up - The Sample file Lone Shine crashes Affinity Photo 1.7.0.178 - it loads correctly with Affinity Photo 1.6.5.135 . Using Windows 10 1809 17763.134, nvidia graphics

Hi r.rumbler. Yes it would be great to have the Fashion + Home Pantone Swatch colours included with Affinity products, although the Pantone Licencing might be restrictive for Serif. Fortunately for now the colours are available for viewing on the Pantone Color Finder ( Pantone Fashion and Home colors ) and in the android, apple Pantone apps

Thank you for implementing the change to Pointer Support, I no longer get the crash with my Huion tablets on my PCs (plural).

Thank you for implementing the change to Pointer Support, I no longer get the crash with my Huion tablets. Obviously if this change upsets Surface Pro users I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind if we had to disable the feature rather than Surface Pro users having enable it.

The image from the IrfanView main program or it's Thumbnail Viewer can't be dragged onto the open active document but you can drag the image onto either the open file name or Layers Tab (the actual Layers tab - not the list of layers) and a new document will open. or you could add Affinity as an external editor in IrfanView and then use the short cut listed in IrfanView to send the image to Affinity > IrfanView - Options - Properties/Settings - Miscellaneous - Set external editors - browse to Affinity Photo.exe. I think this is an issue with IrfanView as Dragging and Dropping a file onto an open image works as expected when using - Windows File Explorer, Corel Connect, Adobe Bridge, Zoner Photo, P3dO Explore, Microsoft Photo Gallery etc.. even the now defunct Serif PhotoPlus organiser can ...

From the screen shot - Windows Photo has the 'Automatically enhance your photos' feature turned on, so the image appears overly processed, which makes a comparison slightly more difficult, as it's not how the default RAW image looks.

I don't think it's people complaining. When the 'Plus' range was removed from active development an announcement was made that current Serif Customers would get a discount on the new Affinity Range, those customers are now asking if they will get the promised discount and if it's the same discount that is now being offered to everyone. Seems like a valid question. I also find it a little sad that you've used the term 'people complaining', those 'people' are your customers and for some of them it's been almost 20 years of being your customers

with the move tool selected, depress the left mouse button then the right mouse button and dragging over the items will select them - works for me. I can press the right mouse button at any time during a drag with the left mouse button depressed and the items are selected

Just to confirm this. If you open the Guilds Manager (View - Guides Manager) you will see the guides you drag across are listed but not visible on the artboard. A work around is to use the Guides Manager to add guides to artboard 2 using the paper symbol at the bottom of the Guides box, these guides will be visible

yes it should be Pi and either 'Pythagoras' constant' or the more elegant 'Pythagorean constant'

Windows short cut for smart quotes: Alt + 0147 opening quote ( “ ) , Alt + 0148 closing quote ( ” ) The Adventurer Light font that I have doesn't have those characters so the Alt + Unicode fails You could type two single curly quotes: which the font does contain, using Alt + 0145 opening quote ( ‘ ) , Alt + 0146 closing quote ( ’ )

I posted this in another thread in July on importing Affinity into CorelDraw but i'll put it here as well as this till seems to be ongoing: CorelDraw X5, X6, X7, and X8 can import up to Acrobat 9 (PDF 1.7), it can also import PDF/A and some PDF/X Corel say they support Adobe programs up to CS6 For information - CorelDraw can open an Acrobat 9 (PDF 1.7) that is exported from Serif DrawPlus, so I don't think it's entirely a problem with CorelDraw

Hi. my Windows 10 updated yesterday to Windows 10 1607 (Build 14393.105) and when saving affinity files I sometimes have to physically refresh the desktop to see the thumbnail, not always though. for me windows 10 has always occasionally nodded off so I've become accustomed to poking it with a stick every now and then to wake it up

For me a cold launch for Affinity Designer 1.5.0.11 is about 15 seconds, then about 9 seconds for any subsequent run during the day

It is indeed funky, I reported the swatches failure to apply correctly when version 1.5.0.8 was released and again with 1.5.0.10 I think it was. although for me the way the Recent swatch feature functions is slightly annoying, i hate that the last colour swatch is removed when replaced by a previously used colour and having it separated from the current Document swatch pallet just means you have to keep switching to get back colours lost from the recent tabs - lol think i'm just to finicky

Hi. they probably come under tablet hot keys or tablet Virtual Keyboard. Tablets already have virtual keyboards so you can enter ctrl/shift etc... when using photoshop, affinity etc I only know about MadLock as I found it while looking for Keyboard macro software as I use two keyboards (for typing and assigning hotkeys) A couple of others i quite like are - quickbuttons - https://www.mjtnet.com/quickbuttons.htm Funky Bar - http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/tools.php#funkybar There are also a few art specific add ons for AutoHotKey - like ArtDock for surface pro and Radial Menu - AutoHotKey is quite powerful but was more than i needed for own requirements

One option is madlock by Richard Shepherd - link: http://rshepherd.co.uk/modlock/

In previous betas Affinity Designer would auto generate a Swatch pallet for the document, has this been removed from 1.5.0.10 as it's no longer listed on the swatches drop down and one has to manually create a pallet from the document

> Fixed incorrect margins being retrieved from some printers On the canon MG5150 this is still retrieving the wrong margins Canon printer left / right 3.39mm top 2.96mm bottom 5.04mm affinity retrieve from printer left / right 12.8mm Top 11.2mm bottom 11.2mm

+1 I'm also getting this on the Canon MG5150. Nothing but issues with the Canon Drivers and Affinity :( Couldn't test our other Canon with this as it doesn't have the rear tray

Apply a Pantone > As per the Serif Pantone video - Create two objects, fill one using a Pantone swatch colour, select second object, click the previously used pantone swatch - colour does not apply Edit a Global Pantone > Fill object with Pantone swatch colour, click + edit to edit the colour on the swatch tab and nothing happens and fly out menu doesn't open so can't chose to edit the colour. But you can edit using the button on the Colours Tab

Affinity seems to be either ignoring or overriding the Canon Printer settings. On the Canon MG5150 & MG7750 if I set the page to print Border-less Affinity prints the page with the printers built in default borders. I've tried changing the Affinity document setting to let the printer control the output but it still prints with boarders. This is even stranger as Affinity fails to set up a new document using the 'Retrieve Margins from printer' command, but is quite happy to print these borders and ignore the printers boarder-less settings. Shrug

Not sure if bugs go here or in a new thread Seems to be something odd happening when selecting Pantone swatches: Select a Pantone swatch that is a Global Colour - change my mind choose a different colour - decide I actually want to use the first colour I picked - but when I pick the colour it is no longer a Global colour and can't be edited Is this how it should work? edit to add - One of the serif videos mentioned that pantone colours are always Global colours but quite a few of the swatch pallets aren't - so are some Glabal and other not? because that would be quite confusing after the serif video states that they all are.

You're welcome. We only use the little canon for previews and use our own page guides if needed, so happy to wait for future updates