benwiggy

Awesome, @GarryP. That's pretty much it.

I'm trying to create a rectangle with a diagonal striped fill in Designer. The only posts I've found talk about making a bitmap, but I want a vector pattern. I've also seen a video about creating a Pattern Layer, but there's no explanation of how you then apply this to a rectangle. I could just create a repeating series of thick lines, but I'm hoping there's an easier way. Thanks

Other people have reported a number of memory leaks in Affinity apps, so I think this does warrant a look. A linked PDF that is less than 1Mb in size should not produce a document 10,000 times that size!

I have a fairly innocuous document in Affinity Publisher on Mac Ventura. It's 78 pages, around 55 of which have a single PDF placed on them. (Content is mono, text and a few lines.) The remaining pages have one text box each. (It's the kind of document I would have run on an Mac with only 1Gb RAM, 20 years ago!) I'm currently using 9.5Gb of memory, according to Activity Monitor! That seems excessive for such a simple document, and if I quit and re-open, it goes down to 5.44 Gb. If I close the document, AP is still holding onto over 5Gb of memory. ("Real Mem" is also over 5Gb.) I've waited a while to see if it will go down, but no. If I open a smaller (2pp) document, it goes down to 2Gb. I've got 32 Gb of RAM, and the RAM Usage Limit in Settings is set to use all of it. Is AP just being extravagant with the available resources, or is it a bit leaky? Lucky I'm not doing something with layers and transparency and all the bells and whistles!

Well, then I can't find a way to select the frame and not the image. However, the Crop tool seems to work to expand the frame.

Has this changed/improved over the years? I can't find a "Properties" button in the toolbar when I have an image selected.

Ah: they were hidden by another panel. Thanks.

In Publisher, I used to be able to make a new paragraph style from a selection, but I can no longer find the option. It's not in the Panel menu for TStyles, and Paragraph doesn't have one. The drop-down list in Paragraph panel has nothing apposite either.

It seems to be setting that value in .indl imports. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have set such a thing in InDesign, even if it existed. Even so, anything that negates the behaviour of another attribute should have some kind of 'flag' showing that the overridden value is currently not taking effect. Workflows often involve multiple people, who may not realise what someone else has done.

??? Surely if it's due to the last few OS versions, then startup times for earlier OSes than those would be faster. (And indeed, I remember they were.) Bu I don't have this problem with any other apps, and if it's not a universal experience, then that should suggest it can be fixed.

I've just been tearing my hair out trying to work out my leading wasn't working -- and all because of "Leading Override" in Character style. What on earth is the point of that? And any reason why it sets it own arbitrary value when you've expressly set the leading in the Paragraph panel?

Is anyone NOT seeing this bug on Mac? That would be useful data. Affinity staff and apps are always showcased in Apple's 'announcements'. You'd think that Affinity would have some clout to get Apple to have a look at this problem which only affects their apps.

Ah! There it is! Thanks so much.

I have a document that is in Italian and English, and I want to use the same Paragraph Styles in each. How can I set the language outside of the Paragraph Style dialog? Or do I have to duplicate the Styles? Thanks

Thanks. So there's no way of "100%-ing" a text frame, if you've accidentally sized it using the blue anchor that's very slightly near the other blue anchor.....? 🙄