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From following this discussion and my own preferences I do support this suggestion. d.

In the help file in german language there is a typo with warp groups. Searching for 'Verform' brings up as a result 'Verformngsgruppe'. The correct term should be 'Verformungsgruppe'. Note the missing 'u' between the 'm' and the 'n'. This wrong spelt term can also be found in the help page about layers. d.

@hy13, if it were accomplished this way in terms of options for users who are knowing what they are doing then I agree. But it should be something that needs to be enabled beforehand. Just like those checkmarks with the option 'Show this message always on...' d.

I expect many users will not be aware of an automatism of this kind. This will lead to documents saved all over the place and users will not find their documents again. I do support the idea of speeding up the process of closing multiple documents but in a very controlled way. d.

I think everyone will come up with their preferred file format to be included in the menu, too. But OTOH I think the idea is not too bad if you take it a little further. Make it a command like 'Quick export to predefined in preferences format'. This way your suggestion would remain a one menu entry thing and could improve personal workflows quite a bit 🙂 d.

Hello @913, there is a posting that explains how to participate in beta testing here: I assume, as long as you registered your version of Designer you should be eligible to participate no matter where you purchased your copy of Designer. Serif does not announce when version 2.1 will be released. You'd have to monitor these forums to know or once you start AD you are promted if a new version is available. My personal guess: since the beta popped up just a couple of days ago it may take several weeks until release. d.

I would think this is not how it is supposed to be but rather due to the fact that we are in a beta process where things are not quite finished yet d.

First off, thanks for a new step ahead. And I do appreciate you are signalling that you are listening to all the feedback about feature requests and road maps. To me this looks like a reasonable way of moving on. Downloading the new betas worked very well. First I installed AD beta. After a little time the install window vanished. Second I installed APh beta. To my surprise it started up after the install was finished and I got asked if I want to provide 'usage information'. I clicked YES. Third I installed APub and the app started after finishing the install. I was not able to start AD. I noticed in task manager that an instance was still running. Killing that one let me start AD (as V 2.1 beta). After that all three apps worked normally. In preferences I double-checked if 'send usage information' is checked and it was not. Even though I clicked on YES before. I checked this option and it was active in all three apps afterwards. Conclusion: install of AD did not finish properly for unknown reasons. This prevented 'send usage information' to be active across the entire suite. Did anyone else encounter install hiccups? d.

Da haben sich unsere Nachrichten gekreuzt. Prima, dass Du das Problem lösen konntest 🙂 Grüße, d.

Hallo @ChrisWal, ich habe bei mir (unter Windows) folgenden Versuch gemacht: Ein ICC-Profil besorgt, das ich garantiert bisher nicht installiert hatte (z.B. eines von hier) Dieses Profil habe ich entpackt (also aus dem ZIP-Archiv herausgeholt. Die Datei muss die Endung .icc haben. Ganz wichtig!) Dieses Profil in den oben mehrfach erwähnten Ordner ...\System32\spool\drivers\color kopiert. In APub eine Datei geöffnet und im Dialog "Document Setup > Colour" das Profil gesucht ... und gefunden! Es scheint also zu funktionieren. d.

Hallo @ChrisWal, sorry, beim Tippen verschwindet der Betreff aus meinem Blickfeld, deshalb habe ich das übersehen. Ich vermute, ohne APhoto gibt es den Menüpunkt nicht. Aber wie @thomaso richtig sagt, sollte es auch mit einer Datei im Pfad "C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color" und dem richtigen Farbmodus funktionieren. d.

Hallo @ChrisWal und willkommen im Forum, Du schreibst nicht, welche Programme und welche Versionen Du von Affinity hast. Ich beschreibe es für Publisher Version 2 (oder Photo): Starte Affinity Publisher Wechsle zur Photo Persona Wähle auf das Menü "Datei > ICC Profil importieren..." Suche im sich öffnenden Dateibrowser die ICC Datei und wähle sie aus > OK In Affinity Photo gibt es den Menüpunkt direkt im Datei-Menü. Ich hoffe, das klappt. Schöne Grüße, d. == Hello @ChrisWal and welcome to the forum. You do not write which apps and versions of Affinity you are using. I'll describe for APub V2 (and APh): Start APub Switch over to its Photo Persona Select 'File > Import ICC Profile...' Within the file dialogue search for your ICC profile file and click OK. In APh there is the same command under 'File'. I hope this works for you. Cheers, d.

Hallo @Larry123 and welcome to the forum. Best thing would be to use the trial and see if you can achieve everything what is important for you. V1 and trial versions work alongside. Just make sure you keep copies of your V1 files in case you do not want to upgrade. d.

Could you copy and paste the entire text into a word processor and save as .docx or RTF and then import into APub? d.

I tried this with your file, but it does not work that way. Sorry that I can't be of more help. d.

This is why @GarryP mentioned that there may be no easy way to make the path look exactly the same. Sometimes, when things go bad, we have to do a little extra work to iron out what went wrong. I'd recreate the path (it doesn't look too complicated) and retype the text. I personally don't think that for this special occasion it makes sense to make a feature request. I'm not at my computer right now. But did you try to highlight a single letter and try to flip it horizontally? Is that possible? If not you could combine your text of single letter text objects and copy and paste them into the curve. Then you should be able to flip each letter individually. d,

I can confirm this. Flipping the line with text horizontally (Layer > Transform > Flip horizontal) does recover the text readable. d.

Hallo @JKSeiner, nein, schräge Hilfslinien sind nicht möglich. In einer vergleichbaren Diskussion gibt es einige Tipps, wie man trotzdem "Hilfsobjekte" erzeugen und verwenden kann. Nicht perfekt, aber ein Versuch wert. Translation: no, diagonal guides are not possible. In a related thread you can find a couple of tips on how to make helper objects act as guides. Not perfect, but worth a try. d.

Hi @igolfchip, good to hear the speed problem went away which also emphasizes observations made in the past that I was referring to. I doubt that there are bandwidth limitations as you assume. Those are hiccups related to the global distribution of the files as was explained some time ago. d.

Hi @typopoint, to sort out if this is a problem with the file itself or with the connection to your NAS I recommend to copy the file to your desktop and try to open it from there. If that works this is a hint that it might be a problem with the configuration of your new NAS. You also can try to open different files with different applications (e.g. text documents) to see if the same problem occurs. We have seen problems with files on network drives. But I am not sure at the moment if those problems have been resolved. d.

My intention is not to talk something away. I just point out that this has happened in the past and went away after some time. I am not a representative of Serif and cannot help you with what is going on behind the scenes technically. Usually Serif staff monitors this forum and if there is something worthfull to contribute they chime in. Different internet providers may point to a problem on the server's end. I'm really sorry the download is so slow for you. I myself experienced this once or twice. Still, I am sure this will be different the next time an update becomes available. d.

16 hours is ridicoulous. It may well be that it is a Affinity server mishap. It may as well be, that if you stop now and start over again it is back to normal speed. But I do not suggest to try this 🙂 Since you are the only one at the moment who is reporting this chances are that it is just your bad luck this time. If you encounter this with a further update it would be worth looking into the case closer. What do you mean with 'different internet locations'? Different providers? Different cities? d.

We have seen occasionally slow updates in the past. It turned out that after a couple of hours the problem went away. This may be due to distribution via Amazon's networt (if I remember correctly). d.

Hi @Pyanepsion, this is not possible at the moment. But it could be a feature request. From my own practice I don't mind to use a browser interface and download images from there. But I do not use this very often and I understand that an integrated solution can be useful. d.

I doubt that it is related to the way of installation. The internal program code that get's installed is exactly the same both ways. Another way to create a mask from an adjustment layer's mask is to CTRL-click on the adjustment layer's mask. This creates a selection. Next you create a new mask from the little icon at the bottom of the layers panel. This mask inherits the selection's properties. d.