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occasionalpiece reacted to MEB in PNG - from white to transparent background
Hi JesperBechPetersen,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Which application are you using? Affinity Photo or Designer?
If it's Affinity Photo go to menu Filters ▸ Colors ▸ Erase White Paper. This may not work for all colour images without protecting the subject with a selection first.
If it's Affinity Designer (there's no filters here) select the layer, click on the cog icon on the top right of the layers panel to open the Blend Options dialog, then on the on the Source Layers Ranges graph (on the left), drag the right endpoint to the bottom and the left endpoint to the right until the white starts disappearing just around the borders of the elements (they become semi transparent) see screenshot below. You can also use this method in Affinity Photo.
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occasionalpiece got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.376
Thank you, thank you! I already put a blurb up on my blog OPQuilt.com, encouraging my readers to head to Affinity to purchase, and have pre-ordered my own. I was happy to help in my own small and puny ways towards this fabulous program; I am so appreciative for all your work! (And yes, I own all three Affinity programs--can't see why not!)
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occasionalpiece reacted to wezlo in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.376
The pre-order was completed without a second thought. You have no idea how excited I am for this release.
There may have been dancing.
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occasionalpiece reacted to AdrianB in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.376
Pre-order was a no-brainer! Thanks for great software with affordable prices.
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occasionalpiece reacted to rjvela82 in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.257
We're in the home stretch. I can feel it....
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occasionalpiece reacted to Läppä in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.249
Am I correct in assuming that we didn't have outer shadow intensity before…?
AND REGEX! TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY!
For real. I've been using the beta in maybe five production jobs (Oops! I did it again!) and I'd say when InDesign came out… it wasn't half as finished as your product. On the other hand, we didn't have social media then and they dominated the market.
Anyhow, great work again, kids. If you ever feel like hiring a Product Evangelist, let me know
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occasionalpiece reacted to Old Bruce in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.249
I will be busy. [big-happy-face emoticon]
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occasionalpiece got a reaction from Sean P in Spacing in between letters in PubBeta 238 for Mac
Will do.
I have a broken document from the previous iteration, but would rather send it privately. It lost its Master page in the transfer, and you can see all the font problems. But it is my work on my quilt pattern, and don't really want it out and about too much.
Elizabeth
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occasionalpiece got a reaction from A_B_C in Spacing in between letters in PubBeta 238 for Mac
True--sorry for the incorrect identification. The captions are Candara. The body text is Optima.
Thanks for looking at this.
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occasionalpiece reacted to Läppä in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.238
Hey! I noticed double clicking a text frame's edge now auto resizes it! THANKS GUYS! That was like, a deep embedded reflex carried over from ID. And now it works, too
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occasionalpiece reacted to Sean P in Missing table tools
Glad it is working now for you Jenny. We sometimes delay the auto-update rollout to ensure the build is stable enough to roll out to all users.
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occasionalpiece reacted to TheOtherRoland in Affinity Publisher Release discussion (split)
Q. for mods: Since the Affinity team was accurate in forecasting when the public Beta of APub would be ready for testing, I was wondering if they also had an "ideal" release date in mind, ie. "Summer 2019" or "When the rivers are aboil with eels, and the locusts have laid waste to the land, it is then I say, brethren, then...and only then, that the time of great release will be upon us." — Affinities 2 : 10
Anyone care to speculate as to when this pub will be open for business?
P.S. It already feels quite familiar, working in this new app. Hope to stop seeing those "Don't use this for serious stuff—or else!" warnings soon.
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occasionalpiece reacted to fde101 in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.238
It was never guaranteed that files created in one version of the beta would even open in the next version.
The fact that .238 can open files from .227 is already more than we knew we could rely on.
I could see asking to save in a format compatible with 1.6 (if there *was* a 1.6 version of Publisher), but expecting backward compatibility with previous betas that are not considered production versions of the software is going a bit too far.
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occasionalpiece reacted to mac_heibu in Unable to Duplicate Pages in Publisher .227 Beta
No, but certain combinations of commands, applied to certain specific files under certain specific circumstances may cause issues, which are very heavy to reproduce and to fix.
So just keep on working, until you meet the next flaw.
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occasionalpiece reacted to walt.farrell in Unable to Duplicate Pages in Publisher .227 Beta
How did you select it?
The button does work on Windows, and after selecting it the selected page's icon in the Pages panel has a blue border, and the page name is highlighted in blue.
But perhaps there is a problem in the Mac build.
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occasionalpiece reacted to walt.farrell in Unable to Duplicate Pages in Publisher .227 Beta
OK, thanks. Possibly a Mac-specific issue then as you seem to be using it correctly as far as I can tell.
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occasionalpiece reacted to rusty5 in Unable to Duplicate Pages in Publisher .227 Beta
I'm running MacOS 10.14.2 and have no problem duplicating pages either right clicking or using the duplicate button. Both produce the same expected results.
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occasionalpiece reacted to Sean P in Unable to import custom color palette from Publisher Beta to Designer
Hi occasionalpiece,
Walt is correct, due to changes in the file format, 1.6 applications cannot understand any file created from 1.7. However if you were to import this into 1.7 Designer (currently in Beta) then it should work for you.
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occasionalpiece got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Testing Affinity Publisher (Mac) Auto-Update
Jumped from earlier Beta Version to 206: no problems whatsoever. (Christmas kept me busy)
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occasionalpiece reacted to AdamW in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.192
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Hi, Affinity Publisher build 192 is now available on auto-update and as a manual download from the link above.
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents.
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Updates and Fixes
General Menus / Studio
(Mac) Fixed Mojave rendering issue when editing certain context toolbar controls
(Mac) Fixed issue changing unit spinners on docked panels
(Mac) Changing the UI gamma now works in Mojave
(Mac) General fix for tabbing within UI tables on panels
(Mac) Disabled mouse wheel (but not trackpad) scrolling for certain panels due to conflict with mouse wheel behaviour on individual controls
(Mac) Fixed Guides Manager not populating with the current document's guides when first shown
(Mac) Fixed Effects Panel not changing background when scheme changes in Mojave
(Win) Fix for Colour Panel's colour picker being offset from cursor position
(Win) Fix for modifier keys not being shown in tooltip for tool shortcuts on Preferences dialog
Updated some shortcut keys
New / Open / Save
Fixed 'Actual Size' zoom dropdown on Document Setup dialog
Fixed overflow issue loading huge JPEG files
Fix for fonts being replaced on PDF Import when not requested
(Win) Fix for app locking up after exporting to external drive if drive removed
Main View
Fix for 'Show Grid' etc UI occasionally becoming out of sync with the setting in force in the view
(Mac) Fix for possible view tiles not drawing on switching documents
Pages
Fixed column guides not being assigned from master page when adding a page
Added an option to auto-scroll the Pages Panel with the main document view
Fixed issues with master page renaming
(Win) Pages tab now auto-scrolls on drag reorder
(Mac) Fixed issues entering a section name for the first document section
Picture Frames
(Mac) Fixed images dragged in from Finder not honouring placement policy
Fix for place panel not reappearing after changing tool then undoing
Double Clicking on a Picture Frame now reselects tool
Fixed Lock Children not functioning for Picture Frames
Fixed Picture Frames and multiple children being marked as content
Fixed Picture Frame furniture displaying in Preview Mode
Text
Fixed some story key bindings, (Cmd+) Home / End, Cmd+ Up / Down
(Mac) Fix for pasting from Excel into multiple table cells
Letter spacing now applies to spaces as well as other characters
Fix for letter and word space maximums not being honoured for 'Justify All'
- Note there is still a UI bug here on Windows
Fix for Greek uppercase and tonos
(Mac) Fix for Text Frame panel / Balance text columns not updating
Fix for possible text disappearing into overflow when 'Balance Columns' is used
(Mac) Fixed pasting characters into Bullet Text not being committed
(Win) Fix for rendering of certain bullet glyphs in Bullet Text field
(Mac) Fixed Draw highlight for Special Characters in Bullet Text field
Reverted width of Thin Space to be more standard
Fixed 'Show Special Characters' for hair space and medium mathematical space
Fixed Find and Replace character style does not correctly apply when also replacing text
Fixed Find and Replace All crash
Fixed Find and Replace on master page crashing after undo / redo
Fixed Find in Glyph Browser when Glyphs or Alternates were shown
Fixed Glyph Browser lock icon to more accurately reflect the state of the Panel
Adjustments / Effects
(Win) Upgraded to new shadows and highlights filter
(Mac) Fixed HSL Control crash / redraw on non-retina displays
Export / Printing
Fix for masks in embedded documents not being exported to vector formats / PDF
Fix for incorrect colours in bleed area when exported to Vector / PDF
Fixed issue with dashed / dotted lines showing hairlines on PDF export
(Win) Fix for curves printing incorrectly
Fix for potential issue when generating palletised PNGs for use in PDF Export
Fix for crop marks missing for N-Up Printing
(Win) Fix for potential crash when crop marks would be displayed outside of the print preview control's area
(Win) Fix for PDF failing to export when 'Preview export' is selected
Fix for 'Preflight check' warning about overflow in hidden text
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 174
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occasionalpiece reacted to jmwellborn in Spanish accents didn't work. FIXED on 1.7.0.58 release
There is another way to get these accents. Go to TEXT>SHOW GLYPH BROWSER and you will get a panel that you can drag over onto your workspace near your document. You can choose your font face, etc. and then scroll through all available type alternatives -- including necessary accented characters. In your document you type until you reach the accented character you want, find it in your Glyphs panel, double click on it, and it will show up on your document. It will also be included as a greyed out character at the bottom of the Glyphs panel. The next time you want to use the same accented character, just move over to the Glyphs panel, and double click on it. Works like a charm. Hope this description is not as clear as mud. But it works!!!