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RobWu

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  1. What about a HSL adjustment op top, and play with the Hue Shift?
  2. When using a lot of fonts, I also recommend using a font manager app: Best Font Manager for Windows 10 & 11 [Out of 15 Tested] (windowsreport.com) There are several 'brands' out there, and most of them work without issues with the Affinity suite of apps. So you don't have to install all your fonts, just activate some when you need them. I have a separate folder setup with fonts I used over the years, so when I need one again, it's just click and activate. I used to use 'Extensis Suitcase', but switched to 'Proxima FontExpert' after my licenses ran out and couldn't justify the new schemes. But as the link above shows, there are lots of them. Just be sure they're working nicely with Affinity, especially with 'activate and use directly' functionality.. rob
  3. I still find it baffling these things still pop up. One should expect to be able to save a file remotely, disregard where the folder 'lives' on the network/intranet. I really would like to know what throws a Affinity app off so badly it corrupts the file when saving on a non-local disk... 🙁
  4. It's often good to see if missing fonts come with copyright issues. Especially with Adobe ones. Not sure if this one is copyright free tbh. When you search the web for this font, there are several websites where you can download it. Still... Not sure if legit
  5. Just to finalize this one... It ended up being an issue with the anchors in the document. Some were old anchors that were still being 'there' after changing a heading title. As this was explained to me: Create a heading 1 title named Apples. Generate the TOC - you have an anchor named Apples. Edit the heading 1 title and rename it to Oranges. Generate the TOC - now you have an anchor named Oranges but you still have an anchor named Apples That is a known bug for Publisher apparently. The other issue was some weird copy/paste issue between OneNote and Publisher, generation lots of anchors for the imported text paragraphs. These anchors showed up in the anchors panel, and were easily deleted after I knew where to look. Hope it helps someone when they run into the same 'shenanigans'. rob
  6. <pedantry> I know, I was just explaining both 'regular' locations for .exe Windows applications within Windows. Otherwise somebody could start looking in the wrong folders again... </pedantry>
  7. Hi Walt, After some more ideas popped up in my head, I did some extra testing before sending out a file. It looks like the copy/pasting text from OneNote had some weird side effects in Publisher. Or it seems like that? First I fiddled with the existing content and styles on the brochure, even deleting/rebuilding text frames and TOC. But still gave me weird results in the PDF TOC, like double chapter headers etc. There was some more fiddling, but I won't bore you with that.... But after this testing with the styles, text frames and text, I reverted back to the beginning and tried just completely redo the current text in the existing text frames for one chapter. And just to remove all traces of formatting, I used Notepad to strip it all down within the route from Publisher and Notepad v.v. After pasting the original flattened text back, and re-applying all the styles, the PDF TOC finally shows me just the chapter list. In the brochure, the text blocks in the other chapters that are not replaced/fixed this way, the PDF TOC result is still the same with chapter and text in one 'block'. So it is really has something to do with the previous pasting of text out of a OneNote Notebook. Now I know what -more or less- is going on, I will rebuild the rest of the pages doing the same thing. Although it's a bit of pages already, re-doing the text as stated above will still be fixed fairly quickly. Or if this sound familiar, any tips are welcome to avoid this in the future. rob
  8. Hi Walt, That might be the best route to go here. I'll prepare a file later today for peeps to have a look at. Like I said, I probably am doing something wrong style wise, or overlooking some other setting. I'll be back.... rob
  9. As the links from @Pšenda will tell, is that the MSIX apps are a different 'beast' from the old .exe installers most of us are used to. So simply said, every MSIX app (from the MS store) runs in the C:\ Program Files \ WindowsApps environment, and is heavily locked down by the OS after installation. Good for preventing shenanigans from stuff like viruses or trojans, maybe not very practical if you want to acces the folder as a user. If you don't like this behavior, switch back to the .exe installers Affinity is still providing for the v2 software. That will 'move' the application back to the regular Program Files or Program Files(x86) environment. rob
  10. Hi, This one is slowly getting to me now after several tries to fix it... I have a brochure with some basic pages, some text styles and a separate TOC page. So far so good. Chapter headers are a separate text frame/style apart from the text frame paragraphs. No text flow between the two. When exporting the brochure, the PDF comes out fine, and I have perfect pages and a nice page thumbnail list. But when I look in Edge at the List view for the TOC, or in Firefox at the Document Outline (same thing, different name), I see my chapter headers listed, but -also- all my text from the following text frames. So imagine a looong list, instead of just the chapter headers. I also tried to create the chapter headers as a artistic text, but with the heading textstyle attached it does the same thing in the export. I looked at my all my text styles, document and export settings, but cannot seem to find out what is causing this? I probably overlooking something very basic here. edit: oh... Win 11 and Publisher 2.3.1 MSIX Anyone has a tip or idea? cheers! Rob
  11. This.... A lot of times these videos will show you a basic way of copying a certain look, but the original artist may have come to that look a completely different way. There could be several plugins involved for all kinds of tiny details for all we know, in combination with additional manual tweaking like smearing, blurring etc. Isn't it the journey to take a video as a basis and see if you can make it even more interesting? The fun of using PS or AP is that it isn't cookie cutter filters from e.g. Instagram.
  12. I don't understand your issue here. The PS video does -exactly- the same thing as in AP. You would already have figured it out in AP, instead of posting comment after comment.. The examples given should give you enough to start yourself.. AP isn't PS. Differences can cause confusion and changes in workflow.
  13. Aaarrghhh.... Overlooked that one multiple times Thank you kind sir, for easing my suffering! 😉 rob
  14. Hi, Still getting the hang of Publisher here, but I created a little double spread A4 (landscape) document for the first time. With a single starter front page, some double page(s) content and a single back page. If I now export this PDF, any reader will show the double page content as a single page. This can be nice, as some could improve reading, but it's not something I expected to happen. Normally you can switch between one or a double page in a reader and it will show accordingly in the viewer. Is there something I overlooked here at the start of the master pages or in the export. Running Publisher 2.2.1 on Win11.
  15. Thanks. It is a bit silly though, as the PDF exporter does allow checking hyperlinks as a option from Designer. But workaround it is.....
  16. Hi, Is this already possible in Designer for v.2.x?? Cannot find anything on this.... I -can- open the file in Publisher and add hyperlinks there, but it would be nice to have this functionality in Designer as well... rob
  17. 1. What ICC profile problem do you have, so the devs can look into it.... It changed a bit, so you might watch the videos on this for the new 2.2 release. 2. Probably yes, un/re-install.. 3. If you have issues with any version, please be more elaborate so ppl can help you edit: found your other posts on this, maybe link to them as a reference in future posts, so people can have the backstory too
  18. A bit late, and maybe not what you want to hear, but... Always save a file in multiple versions, especially when it becomes one in which you put in a lot of time and effort. Also, be sure to have backups, LOTS of backups so you can (hopefully...) revert back to a previous version before the data corruption occurred. But good luck on retrieving (most of) the data. This stuff always sucks when it happens.
  19. LOL!!!!! 😆 Sure mate..... Whatever floats your boat. 👍🤷‍♂️
  20. Dude, you made your point....... But denying this will not have an impact on things is just silly. Like @u84six said about the new Photoshop AI driven tools, it's going to be disruptive. It's not you thinking this AI thing is all nonsense, it's companies expecting you to start doing the work in 30% of the time because they saw the demos too. Or get their own copy of PS, because photo editing starts to become down to their 'level'. I already had conversations with lots of people ranging from text writers, web designers, 3d artists, photographers and editors. And they are all worried. Not that AI will take over their work, but it will be expected to do the work in less time. Hence, less income and more stress. Also, lots of clients will go for 'good enough', and that's where AI is getting better and better at. Looking at the latest iterations of Dall-E or Midjourney just shows that. And when tools like ChatGPT get access to the web, this will also go faster. I understand 'art' for a lot of people means made by humans. But what if the casual viewer cannot tell it's done by a real person or a complex set of rules in a software program. Is the image less interesting or beautiful? Unfortunately most of us are creating art for a living, and AI will have a impact on our income for sure. Go with the flow, don't try to swim against the current..
  21. Yes... You made it clear you hate AI....... 🤷‍♂️ But you can hold your breath until you see blue in the face, but that will not change things. For some of us it will just be another tool to do the work, or crank out several variations quickly. For others it will become a huge threat to their work. This AI thing is in 'avalanche mode' atm, and unless governments will put a full stop on this, we ALL will face some consequences work wise. You can already generate all kinds of written content, blogs, social media posts, create stock footage, imagery, videos, website and logo design, concept art etc. etc. Companies will see the financial benefits of this, and will start using AI to cut down on cost, and move through certain tasks way quicker. Anyone who thinks AI will not be influencing them are very naive, of very much sticking fingers in their ears and go "lalalalalalalala...'
  22. Hi Walt, Thanks for the reply and thoughts. I did check if anything was changes in the preferences of the apps, but all seemed to be the same. A 'desperate measures' act was to reinstall/repair everything, and that seems to have worked. I just checked all versions of the applications, with and without existing files, and it all seems to work as expected again. I can drag layers and/or mask around without the applications crashing on me. No idea what caused it, it could be the latest Windows 10 feature update. No video driver updates lately, so that would be an no. But .Net could be a possible suspect as well, no idea what a Windows update changes for .Net stuff. Luckly it all works again, now back to work I guess...
  23. Hi all, Running into a major issue right now. ALL my versions of Photo and Designer keep crashing the moment I try to move a layer in the stack. This happens with both 1.x and 2.x versions of the applications, and in new or existing files. I did receive a Windows 10 update this weekend, but I cannot imagine to have such an effect on the Affinity apps. Anyone else seeing this popping up? I'm dead in the water right now, and have to deliver final images this week cheers for any tips, thoughts etc.... rob Edit: it also happens when I try to add a mask to any layer in the stack. Something is really wrong here
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