dominik

Hi @affinityfan & hi @B13eL,
would you please be so kind when posting '+1' posts indicating what you are supporting. Is it a 'Shape Builder Tool' or a better named thread or 'Feature Request' in general? Otherwise your postings have not much meaning to others. You could do this by quoting the part of the message you want to '+1'.
And, of course @affinityfan welcome to the forum 🙂
Thank you both,
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Better yet, don't post at all - just like the post in question.
 
Quote part of it if you only want to express agreement with that part, but the meaningless "+1" posts just add clutter otherwise.

I have no idea when this may happen.
What I have found (on Windows) is an 'api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll' file in the program's directory.
I assume Serif won't comment on that 🙂
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I have no idea when this may happen.
What I have found (on Windows) is an 'api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll' file in the program's directory.
I assume Serif won't comment on that 🙂
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I have no idea when this may happen.
What I have found (on Windows) is an 'api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll' file in the program's directory.
I assume Serif won't comment on that 🙂
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This is an excellent suggestion. For this project I have numbered the objects (one layer of postal code regions and one layer of labels). These are locked base layers. Any 'to be changed' layers will be on top or in between and always be distinctly one purpose, e.q. dynamic sales territories or regional marketing campaigns. It would be nice and safer to be able to sort on the tags involved in the stacking order (Z-axis). 
 
In due course I will upload a screenshot of the finished project. Thank you both for your thinking this through.

While our loved Affinity Designer still has a long way ahead, and it has plenty of bugs and issue, I would like to thank those developers who are, I believe, working hard to make the best they can, during this hard time almost everywhere.
To all members here, Take care, stay safe.
Thank you

Studios are one of the core features throughout the Affinity Suite. To access them they are burried in the menu 'View > Studio' which requires three points and clicks.
I would suggest to have a toolbar icon to access a list of the Studios available in each application. Preferably in combination with a keyboard shortcut.
(I searched the forum but did not find a similar suggestion. I may have missed it).
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Thanks very much for your feedback everybody, at this point I haven't tried your suggestions, but hopefully will do soon,
In the meantime I thought it might be a good idea to show a better example of how I used feather in Illustrator....
I like how the top layer blends with the bottom.. (this example was done very quickly, without much detail...)
Thanks Lindsay
 

Thanks that helped

Hi @StuartRc,
I cannot thank you enough for providing us with these patterns and styles. Great work. Thank You!
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Hi @StuartRc,
I cannot thank you enough for providing us with these patterns and styles. Great work. Thank You!
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Maybe you could create a version within your AD file where all text is converted to curves? Then hide the original. Then you spare the extra step of exporting to PDF as Walt suggested.
You could keep these seperate in two folder layers. One contains the original design, the other contains the vector only version. This should not be too much of organisation.
I assume hidden layers will not get exported from APub.
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Hi there!
I just wanted to share a list of sites that offer Public Domain Pictures in good quality. Some of them are listed in this thread, but I wanted to add more and publish a list of this kind of content (CC0 License, and also a High Permissive Licenses sites). Also, consider that there may be additional restrictions implied on these pictures, like brandings, buildings, people, etc.
Also, please read each site's Licensing in order to ensure what can and can't be done.  
Edit: Since I crated this Topic, some things have changed, so: I removed non-working links and added a few more:
[CC0]  http://freeforcommercialuse.net/ [CC0]  http://publicdomainarchive.com/ [HPL]  https://pixabay.com/ [CC0]  http://jaymantri.com/ [CC0] https://magdeleine.co/license/cc0/ [CC0] https://isorepublic.com/ [CC0] http://www.1millionfreepictures.com/ [CC0] http://realisticshots.com/ [CC0] http://startupstockphotos.com/ [CC0] http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/?medium=image [CC0] http://jeshoots.com/ [CC0] http://www.designerspics.com/ [CC0] https://negativespace.co/ [CC0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/ [CC0] https://www.pexels.com/ [HPL] https://unsplash.com/ [HPL] https://barnimages.com/ New:
[HPL] https://pikwizard.com/ [HPL] https://gratisography.com/ [HPL] https://www.splitshire.com/ [CC0 and HPL] https://burst.shopify.com/ [CC0] https://libreshot.com/ [CC0] https://picjumbo.com/ [HPL] https://goodstock.photos/ Best regards!

Project Brush Set 14 Organic Patterns (Organic Pattern Brush Set 01) 
A set of 30 raster brushes from the Camouflage II Project set added to resources. 
Project set 14 consists of 180 organic texture brushes using over 200 seamless base patterns and a lot of new nozzles!
Sample set as below:

Organic Pattern 01.zip

Camouflage Pattern Styles
Added 25 new Styles based on Camouflage II
1. Again! import files are larger with 800 x 800px and 400dpi (.png) to avoid blurring on scale
Sample Sheet as below: 


Camouflage-II-Pattern-Styles-02.zip

Organic Brushes
Added a special set of Organic Brushes but using only the monochrome style patterns (4 layer single pattern)
All brushes are set to 100
30 variations of the same pattern as base texture
Base texture set at 400x400px
Nozzles at 200 x 200px
Samples as below:
 

Camouflage - Organic Brush Special.zip

Monochrome Styles
Added a new greyscale/Monochrome Style Asset based on the variation of a single pattern. 


 
Camouflage-II-Pattern_-_BW.zip

Camouflage II Pattern Styles
Created a new set of styles using some of the base textures built for the organic pattern Brushes Sets I and II using multi layer symbols to extend the effects

30 independent styles (set with maintain fill aspect ratio/wrap)
File size is Larger than usual! ....Exported the .png but a t higher res (400dpi)
Sample Sheet as below with .zip file for assets:
 


Camouflage II Pattern Styles.zip

Yes, this was really stupid by me. Please excuse this. I removed the quote.
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Yes, this was really stupid by me. Please excuse this. I removed the quote.
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And yet by quoting him you have arranged for the email address to stick around in a place where that user can't edit it?

I've replied several times on the DXF / DWG thread, and many other feature request threads (and I would prefer that this particular thread doesn't turn into a duplicate of a particular feature request), but... 
When we released Designer originally (5.5 years ago) it was marketed as "Vector illustration and design". At no point did we mention CAD, or technical illustrations. A lot of the complaints that we receive with regards to this seem to be along the lines of "I've just switched from product X and I'm disappointed to find that you don't support DXF/DWG!". We recommend that potential customers evaluate the software (via the trial or reviews) to see whether it meets their requirements, and if it doesn't, please stick with whatever you are currently using. I appreciate that people would love to have this functionality in Affinity Designer, and trust me, it's something we discuss internally, but we need to focus on the core features (and bugs...) that people expect for vector illustration and design. Since we released Designer 5.5 years ago we have been providing free feature and bug fix updates over that time, so it's possible DXF/DWG and/or other feature requests may be added in future versions, but we don't make any promises until the code has been added, else it will lead to disappointment if we promise a feature and don't deliver it or don't deliver it on time. We recommend checking the beta forums to find out what features are arriving in future versions, and feedback to us in order to guide the development.

Excuse me, this is the definition of global colours.
If you want to have global colours that are restricted to just one artboard you have to adapt your workflow. You can define the same colour multiple times and e.g. call them 'corporate red artboard 1' and 'corporate red artboard 2'. That way you can change them seperately for each artboard for multiple objects.
Cheers,
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Please don't claim that there are no new features in 1.8. This is not true. Please see here:
 
If you find bugs you might want to post more precisely so that the developers can look into (and hopefully solve) them.
Cheers,
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