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That's a good point. In some other input boxes this works already. It would be worth to post this as a seperate feature request. d.

Hi @moonliiner, you might want to join the discussion about this topic over in this thread: Cheers, d.

Yes, this is irritating and should be improved. d.

Hi @G13RL and hello @gyalogosdesign, this is a very good tip. Especially since you can move the Transform Origin point to the inner border of the donut and it will snap there at one of the horizontal or vertical axises. If you then move the entire donut the Transform Origin snaps to the grid. Thus you accomplish what you've been looking for. d.

Hello @gyalogosdesign, @1: With the Move Tool active look at the toolbar for 'Show Alignment Handles' (see screenshot). Once turned on you can use these handles to drag them to snapping points like the grid. @2: when you hold ALT and click on one of the green rectangles you 'drill down' the stacking order. Thus the first ALT+click selects the donut. The second ALT+click selects a green rectangle. @3: I'm afraid there is no way to snap to the inside of a donut. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Cheers, d.

Hello @andrea k and welcome to the forum. The answer is no. The eyedropper only works with colours. Cheers, d.

Hello @Rog08, without any doubt, yes. I did read your first post yesterday and decided not to comment just because of that: your right to participate here. We are really equal no matter our post count (except perhaps for the moderators). Only after the second post I decided to comment with a certain criticism that was hopefully worded in a non offensive manner. And this, also, was the reason for me to provide some further information on the topic for you (both) to start finding your way around in the forum. We all are just guests with Serif here and as these we are invited to wholeheartedly discuss all and everything, positive and negative. But we have to keep in mind that Serif is offering a lot in the first place. Cheers, d.

Hi @joel.o.d, I did not see bad intentions from your side just a little lack of appropriateness. Let's get over that No, it's not possible to go back and forth (and readjust the settings). I assume this is something that will come at some point, especially with the Develop Persona, but this is just an assumption. At the moment one has to establish a certain workflow that first finishes the basic settings in one of the Personas and then contiues to finish in the Photo Persona. It is possible, though, to use adjustment layers and live filters and mimic some of the Develop Persona's functionality. Cheers, d.

Hello @feste, IDML support in APub is relatively young and chances are that it is not perfect at the moment. You could post and report this in the Affinity Publisher bug report forum and also include the file (If it is possible with the file). Then the moderators can inspect the file and perhaps forward it to the developers. Another solution would be to look into this offer by Markzware: They are giving away their IDMarkz for free for a limited time. It would be worth a try to see if this helps to transfer your file (unfortunately the converter is only available for MAC OS). Cheers, d.

First off I want both of you to welcome at the forum. But, with all due respect, I have to say I am a little disappointed by your contributions. Serif has just opened the whole suite of three programms for free use (trial) for three months. They are opening you and anyone else to an enormous amount of features to explore and to learn. And the first thing you do is to make the effort to create an account at the forum and to complain about what is missing. You may want to look around in the forum and try to find out that there are some ways to use an external digital asset management tool (DAM) to work together with Affinity. You may start in this thread below - currently 10 pages long - where you can vote (if you want) and also find that there is a big demand for such a functionality. It is inevitable that Serif has taken note of this. So the reason that is not here yet is a matter of capacity and not an unintended ommision. I am looking forward to reading from you some more contributing posts. This will help everyone. Cheers, d.

This is most likely the case. Some around here have the habit of resetting the whole text that was imported from external wordprocessors and start completely new. Long grown Word documents can carry a lot with them d.

I just tried this and it works as expected. I did: Assign all paragraphs a newly created paragraph style that only changes the font. Assign a couple of words in the middle of a paragraph a new character style that changes the colour and sets a different font family > font colour and font family look different than the whole text. Go back in the character style (Edit character style) and set font to 'No change' > the font immediately looks the same as the whole text but the colour is different (because I did not change that). What might be different with your setup? d.

As we all know there are many PDF editors. For this particular case (splitting a multi page document in single files) there is a little utility that does this very good: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/pdftk_builder_portable d.

There are other tutorials that export the the pattern as an image file and then apply this as an image fill. If you are interested I can look that up. Of course this is not as flexible and speedy as a full flegded pattern fill tool (or whatever it may be called). But it's not bad, either. There's also a neat tutorial on how to apply such a pattern to a real photo and the result looks pretty good: Cheers, d.

Within the Affinity range it doesn't matter too much if you are working on an iPad, Mac or Windows. The UI looks a little different but the technique is the same. You have two choices: adapt to this technique now and get your things done or wait until a tool comes at some time in the future. Of course it is a valid request to ask for and to discuss about such a feature. It just does not add much to the status quo. Cheers, d.

Heißt es nicht "mühsam ernährt sich das Eichhörnchen"? Ich glaube, wir haben im Moment alle zu viel Zeit um solche Fragen zu stellen ... myself incluced 😮 d.

There is an official FAQ that includes the following question: Do you plan to have Web site design/Digital Asset Management/animation/video editing products too? The answer is: We’re not sure yet! but we are very interested in adding a DAM solution to the Affinity suite in future. So, I would not hold my breath to see this any time soon. You all better investigate existing software (see a list of alternatives here). You can read the whole FAQ here (yes, it's a rather old post but to my knowledge this hasn't changed): d.

Thanks for explaining. Now I understand. This is more or less related to what is called around here 'isolation mode' and is discussed e.g. over there (and in some other places, too): Unfortunately this is not available completely. You can ALT+click on an object in the layers panel and this displays just this layer. This does not work for multiple layers. It is in effect currently mainly a preview of one object. This can be usefull e.g. to edit a mask or a single object. Many find this behaviour limiting. Cheers, d.

Hello @FKF5482 and welcome to the forum. I do not understand what the advantage of hiding all layers is. Then everything is invisible. Can you please explain a little further or give an example what you have in mind? Thanks, d.

Good to see I had set up the dashes slightly different. The value in the first field I set to 0 and the value in the second one to 1. This works. Cheers, d.

Hello @anthony pinna and welcome to the forum. It seems to work for me (see screenshot). I wonder how you are doing it? d.

Hi @tonyri, glad to hear that this was solved so easily. Cheers, d.

Hello @tonyri and welcome to the forum. I think the first step to solve this is to analyse why the colour changed. It would be worth looking at an album in CS5 and check what the text settings are, especially the colour and the colour space of the document. You could also check if you have the same paragraph style applied to all text. Then, with the IDML file in APub you can look at these settings to find out, why black appears grey. It is completely unclear if this is cause by a bug in the IDML-import or perhaps by some setting that get's wrongly interpretated in APub. Make sure that the settings in APub and CS5 are as similar as possible. Ideally you would have all the text assigned with the same text style and you could change the colour accordingly. This should fix it everywhere. Or you could do a 'Find and Replace' across the whole document and search for text with the wrong colour and replace it with black. Maybe some of this helps? d.

Hello @kimmarcussen, I am not quite sure if I understand your question correctly. Left and right brackets work well on english keyboards because they are directly accessible. See this illustration (right or letter 'P'): On many other language keyboard layouts the brackets are accessed through a modifier key and then this does not work too well. I for myself (working on a german keyboard layout) assigned the keys '<' and '>' and this works quite well. You can customise keyboard shortcuts at 'Edit > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts'. I hope this helps. d.

Hello @SVM, What you can do is to make the one letter in question the same colour as the background (or transparent should work, too). Then place the same letter as an extra element exactly on top and rotate it. That way the spacing is exactly the same. This is only a workaround and would work only for occasional rotated letters. But it should give you what you are looking for. Apart from that I support your request 🙂 Cheers, d.