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Try and see if you can get this sorted out. Those things do happen sometimes and you learn something from it. I did 🙂
If you need help with relinking your resources just come back.
Good luck!
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I'm sure some of the usual stock vendors do have something to offer. I'd look into istock.
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Hello @Kadveevn and welcome to the forum.
Maybe the most knowledgeable company to deal with IDML files is Adobe itself. You could either install a trial version of InDesign or even pay one month of CS to do your conversions. I read that you are not keen on subscription but as you are using it only for the converstion period it may be a good value for the money.
There is also conversion software by Markzware that is supposed to work reasonably good. But they do not convert CS3 version files.
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Speaking of which (zero multiplication)…
Something I've never noticed yet, but even in v1 you can stack multiple layer fx of the same type simply by grouping the object with itself and applying additional fx to the respective parents. The vector brush stroke below has now three inner glows:

I'm not at my v2 installation right now, but it would be interesting to check if it behaves the same as if you just stack them within one object.

Hello @cc7,
as was pointed out in the above thread rotation of single glyphs is not possible with in e.g. a text line. So there is no setting in the character panel.
What you can do is to
copy a single glyph from your text and paste it as a seperat text object into your layout rotate it according to your liking cut this single glyph and paste into the other text at the place where it is supposed to be Basically this single glyph is a seperate textobject within your text flow.
This also works with multiple glyphs and you still can edit them inline.
See attached sample file.
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rotate-seperate-text.afdesign

Yes, this is the way on how to do in in AD.
You could save a document with a coloured rectangle as a template file and start from there.
A nice addition would be if we could not only choose 'transparent' as a background option in 'Document setup' but also any colour.
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Hello @Gemini80,
a quick Google search did bring up quite a lot of not so bad textures as a start:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sand+texture+clipart&rlz=1C1VDKB_deDE1017DE1017&sxsrf=ALiCzsblTFSJh6zpLt6hQ5YdlDou0qoRGA:1672229052539&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitlKPVopz8AhUNIMUKHWZZBQ4Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1285&bih=919&dpr=2
Maybe you have to experiment on how to mix them in?
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This, of course, is the more clever way of doing it 😉 Thanks.
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Hi @LeviBenisty,
I did a test on my (Windows) system and if setting 'Retina rendering' to 'High quality (Slowest)' I do notice a little lag that might be similar to what you are seeing. Maybe you can check this setting?
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Something like
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischaugenobjektiv#Abbildungsfunktionen

No. Version 2 updates will be called 2.XX.X.
Just this week Serif released new versions of all three version 1 apps (to 1.10.6 > see here). From what I read version 1 apps could receive updates to keep them functional in future OS versions but development of new features goes into version 2 apps.
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No. Version 2 updates will be called 2.XX.X.
Just this week Serif released new versions of all three version 1 apps (to 1.10.6 > see here). From what I read version 1 apps could receive updates to keep them functional in future OS versions but development of new features goes into version 2 apps.
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No. Version 2 updates will be called 2.XX.X.
Just this week Serif released new versions of all three version 1 apps (to 1.10.6 > see here). From what I read version 1 apps could receive updates to keep them functional in future OS versions but development of new features goes into version 2 apps.
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Hello @Jolinar,
welcome to the forums.
File compatibility is one way only. V2 apps can open V1 files but not the other way round.
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Hi there Walt,

Thank you for your message here.

I have definitely been into the Notes Panel and have tried all sorts of different settings.
Since I last posted here I have found the solution.  Firstly, the problem was with the MS Word file that was imported.  Word sets up 2 text styles to do with footnotes, a character style and a paragraph style.  For some reason after importing the MS Word document across, the footnote text is very small at the bottom of the page.  My problem persisted even after trying to edit the imported text styles from MS Word, that they continued to stay the same size, about 7pts instead of 10 as it was in the text style applied to footnotes.  The solution is that I first set up a paragraph style for the footnotes below the text and then I went into the Notes tab and applied that to the footnote text below. It has finally worked so well that I can style the footnote text any way I like and it looks fantastic.  It took me a couple of days to work this out.

Thanks to everyone who has replied to my original question.
Regards to you all.

Hi All,
Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
Updates to V2 moving forward
Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
Updates to V1 moving forward
While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
Offer period
In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
Upgrade pricing
It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
A comment on no subscription
I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
All the best,
Ash

But becomes unmanagable if more export formats get added over time (as is actively requested by forum users).
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But becomes unmanagable if more export formats get added over time (as is actively requested by forum users).
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Hello @mmburke33,
look in the menu for 'Layer > Alignment'. There's also an icon on the icon bar:

 
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I can admit  I was a little disappointing initially.       But more I use it more I appreciate it .      People complain  about  former checkboxes was better than new dots  . Come-on , what a bull .
The new features seem a bit undercooked  yet  but I am sure we will see them fixed soon

Thought it would be nice if everyone could make a short list of three things they really like about version 2. Not necessarily ‚favourites‘ in a specific order and doesn‘t need to be new features either, bug fixes and improvements are fine too.
Here are three things that make me smile and that l‘m going to use almost daily:
Shape Builder in Designer — makes creating shapes so much more fun … Style Picker — great time saver in the drafting phase Upgrade price for everyone and Universal License — great solution to the ‚App Store Problem‘

I clicked on this topic because I thought it was a joke. And I'm quite surprised it is not. 
So for the OP I will paste here my thoughts I already expressed somewhere else. 
 
As much as I'd welcome some appreciation for existing users, I can hardly be mad at Serif.
How much did people think these upgrades would be? I believe the original price was around 60$ per app. And now we have all three apps for Mac, Windows AND iPad for 100$. That's 33$ per app for major upgrade. Come on!
Should I be jealous that new customers get the same 40% discount as me? Why? I myself want more users for Affinity community! The more people here and less people at Adobe the better. 😉
It's been known for years that free upgrades would only be available for all the versions numbered 1.x until version 2 comes out. And I think this is much better approach than the Adobe's way.
You can still be using V1 of all the apps, I guess forever (although without updates and much support I reckon).
But for this bargain price I won't hesitate a second to get the Universal Licence.
And I will keep using V2 with all the upgrades again until V3 comes out in a few years.
And then I will happily pay again for V3.
Seems fair to both customers and developers - they've put a lot of work to make all of these apps as brilliant as they are.
Big thanks to everyone at Serif! 👍🏻🤩🥳
 

Check 'Settings > Assistant' and there set 'Adding adjustment layer to selection:' to 'Add adjustment as new layer'.
This should work as you are asking for.
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Great apps.
... and at last the layers studio has Collapse All and I can tell if the Edit All Layers is  on or off.

Check 'Settings > Assistant' and there set 'Adding adjustment layer to selection:' to 'Add adjustment as new layer'.
This should work as you are asking for.
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