Martigny

Thank you RCR ... This is more than my question was about. Thank you for your response though

That's exactly what I mean Walt. Thank you.  I had a big file I was working on today. In the end I had to copy the groups etc and paste them into AD 1 again. Now I can work on them easily.
Affinity? What were you thinking of?
 
 

But even with more visible icons, how would you distinguish between a Group and something else with child layers? 
I think that's what the question is about.

I have to agree, some things are best left alone (not broke, don't fix), and this is one case when less is definitely more. I think there are probably things that users have been pleading for that would have been better addressed than twiddling with the UI; after all, 'go faster stripes' don't improve performance or productivity one iota.

You’re welcome.
(I’ve added a screenshot to my earlier post to make it a bit clearer.)

Thanks.
That Panel is only available in the Liquify Persona or the Live Liquify Filter of Affinity Photo.
If you are in that persona or filter and can’t see the panel, use menu “View → Studio → Mesh”.

Hopefully the not too distant future Could really do with this feature.

Thank you Michael and Cineman
The text, insert, page break option works best for me. However, it would be nice to be able to break the text flow links to certain pages. All it seems to do it leave a blank page and continue the same flow on the next page. Odd that.

+1 for that

If I understand you correctly, try pressing  \  (back-slash), that should reveal the shapes, etc., and show/hide items stored off the page.

Thanks Walt. unfortunately that won't work for me at all. My documents are usually 17.25in x 8.75in and I'd lose most of the page. Perhaps this is something Affinity could add to Publisher. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to see one spread at a time.

You can do it by adjusting the height of your window, and your zoom level, so only one page at a time fits in the workspace. But other than that, no.

After a few days of using Publisher beta I'm finding some things a little frustrating. One main thing is that I'm unable to view a single page without the previous and next pages showing above and below it - see attached file. Is there any way to do this?
Single Page View.afpub

Thank you Jon. That's a big help to me.

If you want it to auto update you can enable "Automatically update linked resources when modified externally" in Preferences > General - If you don't enable this we will used the image as it was inserted, but the Resource Manager will show it as modified indicating the source no longer matches what we have in the document

Thanks for your reply v_kyr. I did actually try that and although it looks better it's not quite the result I want. I would ideally like the text to 'mould to the shape', if you know what I mean.

Hi,
Does anyone have any idea how to fit text to a banner so that it looks nicer than the example I've attached? I need it to fit between the red lines.
Banner.afdesign

You probably need something like the Mesh Warp tool in APhoto to do that (see attached quickie example)
But it's probably doable in Designer if you painstakingly manipulate each letter (curve) one by one.
 

You can for example also use instead of single positioned frametext letters here grafiktext and place it on a copy of the lower curve path, so it follows that path and move that onto your yellow shape. Further you can change font types and then adjust the whole "Dreamer" words character spacing and distance settings to your individual likes.

Hoping this is sorted. Can't work on a Beta for my project right now - too risky

We believe the issue has been fixed in 1.8.0  [Publisher betas currently available, others to follow].

Thanks for the information Patrick - this is good to know. Unfortunately, I don't have time to test this beta at the moment as I'm busy illustrating a book and can't risk losing anything. I look forward to 1.8.0 being released.

We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Cannot drag objects into Assets) of the program in the latest Windows customer beta of Affinity Photo and/or Affinity Designer. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below.
The 1.8.0.526 beta builds are in links at the top of these beta forum posts.
Affinity Photo 1.8.0.526 for Windows Affinity Designer 1.8.0.526 for Windows Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update/patch to all customers.

Hi all,

The attached file shows a recurring problem, which is:

I was tracing over an image and so set the opacity low so that I could see what I was tracing over. When I had finished, I removed the opacity on the slider so that it was 100%, but nothing happened, the opacity remained.

Copying and pasting to the same and a new document did not work, neither did opening it on another machine - both Windows and Mac.

There is no gradient or transparency set, all opacity sliders are set to 100% and no matter what colour I select, going from transparent to deepest black, the opacity remains.

The only solution was to retrace at 100%, which I did.

Any ideas?

Opacity.afdesign

Thank you Joachim ... not sure how that happened or while the opacity can be set from the effects panel. All sorted now though.