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In the latest update (1736) we have now made it so single click adds a mask and alt-click gives the expanded drop down...

A feature request for dashed strokes...
It would add additional flexibility if there were an option to both positively and negatively offset balanced strokes on a per dash/gap pair in a similar fashion to baseline shift for text, this would then provide an option for creating more advanced twin and triple dotted strokes and many other variations...

Ok, I think probably the best compromise right now is that we just make it that:
- Single click: adds a mask
- Alt-click: opens the menu
The vast majority of the negative feedback with the V2 change was requiring two clicks to add a mask, so at least we get back to that behaviour. Only negative vs. what we have in the beta right now is will now require two clicks to add an empty mask (as that will be part of the menu options, along with range and compound masks)

The other possibilities of right click and long press I think we just want to give more consideration to, as both things we don't really have elsewhere on action buttons such as this.

Does this sound alright for now?
 

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
A few new features have been added to the stroke panel...
1. As has been commonly requested we have now added the ability to 'balance' dashed lines using a new toggle button on stroke panel. This means that the dash pattern is automatically rescaled between any cusps in a curve - making things such as corners of a rectangle or the start and end of a stroke look correct.

2. An additional dash and gap have now been added to build up more complex dashed line patterns (now giving you 3 dash and 3 gaps) making, among other things, two dot chain patterns possible. On desktop you can also click-drag the dash and gap indicator as shown to adjust the value. 

3. A new button has been added to clear any arrowheads on a stroke - just making it more convenient than having to open the drop downs to set both ends to "None".
 

 
 

thanks I will seek it out and correct that

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.
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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. 

Yeah the thing with that (and this applies to a few other suggestions) is that our guides - at least as it stands - are not selectable things. This was a deliberate design decision at the beginning, but could be something we review at some stage. The reason that impacts this is that clicking on a guide does not select it (or remove your selection from whatever you currently have selected in your layers panel). Therefore hitting cmd-J will just duplicate your current layer/object selection.

There is other feedback we have had like being able to group guides, or reflecting currently selected guide position in the transform panel for example. All of which would mean switching to making guides selectable which is quite a big fundamental change and isn't something for 2.1.

I should say we also have a different kind of guide feature in our minds for the future - effectively guide layers which would allow the creation of any guides from any objects, and could be manipulated like any other object (grouped, power duplicated, anything else you can think of). But that's probably quite a way off...

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. 

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.

No problems here. I also didn't have issues with the usage information box. (Which I also clicked yes)

No install hiccups here.

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.

Following on from my previous rather flippant remark.
I would just repeat, in all seriousness, that you should not be embarking on this work unless you are being properly paid for it and unless you have the skills and knowledge to accomplish it. If you don't, then I hope you have the strength to tell whoever asked you to do it that you will need more help/training/support.
You should not expect Affinity Publisher to offer an immediate solution. First and foremost it is not a pdf editor or a data management tool. But it goes deeper than that.
As far as I can see you are being expected to unpick someone else's laborious work and to recast it into another format.
In my opinion you should first be looking at ways of extracting, categorising and structuring the original information into a database or a format like .xml.
Once you have control of the structured data, then you can present it in any number of ways. Affinity Publisher may be helpful then. 
But what you cannot do is take .pdfs, or Word docs, or any sort of pre-formatted text of this complexity, and expect Publisher to sort it out for you.
It can not.
Publisher is a desktop publishing application. It is a page layout tool, not a data management tool. 
Again, and with all respect, control the data before you start on the presentation.
 

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.

Just like A. Photo v1.
And if you press Ctrl+Alt+Mouse_Click on a pixel layer you load the luminosity as a selection that can be used to create a mask.

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.

Hello @Lisbon,
you can drag a mask on an adjustment layer with the mouse and drop it between layers. Then the adjustment layer and the mask layer are independent from each other.
Also note: adjustment layers are different from regular layers in regard that they have their own build in mask. As soon as you paint on an adjustment layer the mask becomes visible in the layers panel.
To delete a mask from an adjustment layer you drag it away from the adjustment and then delete it. Another way would be to fill the mask with white. The mask does not disappear but it has no effect anymore.
d.

Hello @TrevReav,
welcome to the forum. Unfortunately this is not possible. I miss this, too. Maybe it is coming in a future version. We do not know.
d.

You have done everything you can to dance around putting in a real lens flare tool, which is what is desperately needed. I know brushes are there, but they are a totally sad and desperately inadequate answer to not adding in a much needed customizable lens flare tool. 

Hello @arturoacevedob,
I don't think there is a way like drag and drop of columns (yet). But it is relatively easy to mark a whole column (or row), cut it (CTRL+x) and paste it (CTRL+v) at a new position into a newly inserted column.
d.

Not sure which apps you have, but you can...
Clone out the existing text
Add new text
Then a combination of Warp Group (Designer) and Live Perspective Filter (APhoto)
New text remains editable
File attached
 

somethingelse.afphoto

Thanks for your try. It is simpler and more efficient than mine. Learned something 🙂
d.

Hello @albertkinng,
you are correct, the export persona is only part of Designer and Photo but not part of the respective personas in Publisher.
My interpretation on how Serif spreads different functionalities across different apps is:
Designer and Photo are more specialized and feature equiped in their own domain (vector art and pixel art)
Those are the tools to create artwork that then can be exported seperately for different tasks. Publisher is the overall application that offers very sophisticated vector and pixel manipulation via the personas.
But Publisher exports the final document as a whole and rather not as subdocuments that should be used further. I know this interpretation lacks a lot of use cases but for me it works as a starting point for my workflow. And explains to me why there is no export persona in Publisher.
d.

had a go too, you can move text around if you select both text layers, you can change the font as well.

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