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  1. R C-R
    I did but when I used a custom paragraph Text Style I created named "Weird Text Style" based on no other style & applied it to a block of text, all the attributes of that block changed to its attributes, but that block still showed "No Style" for its name in the Text Styles panel, not my "Weird Text Style." What am I doing wrong?
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    As I said, it doesn't always cause problems but it is a well-known problem that does affect some users from time to time.
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    But does it copy the name of a named text style defined in the Text Styles panel (Body, Heading 1, whatever) & apply it using this tool? That seems to be what the OP is asking for.
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    There are dozens of posts about this. Try searching the forum on "corrupted files" or the like for many in depth discussions about how Affinity's unique way of serializing & only loading parts of documents at once, its need to have continuous access to the document on the disk, & so on creates a potential risk ... & how often we have complained that they still have not found a way to reduce the risk to zero.
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    1. Visibility does not affect if a selected item's bounding box is visible or not. 2. In your screenshots, the status bar shows that 3 objects are selected, so one of them must be farther down in the Layers panel. If you mean that you scrolled the view then what went down was the document, not its contents. I do not know if this has anything to do with it but it might help if you could clarify what you meant by content & where the mouse pointer was when you used the wheel.
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    I assume you are aware of the potential issues Affinity apps have when actually working on files that are not stored on the startup drive. The recommendation is to copy the file to that drive, work on it there, & then move it back to the other dive for storage. Yes, this is certainly a PITA & some users never seem to have problems working directly on external ones, but there are many examples here in the forums of files that have become corrupted & unusable when working that way. Also, what interface do you use to connect the NVME drive to the Mac? Some can become temporarily overloaded if too many different devices are trying to access the same shared buss at the same time, & even if the drive itself is extremely fast, it can cause errors particularly in Affinity if the drive is not immediately & continuously available.
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    What has changed? Can you share a screenshot of the soft proof dialog showing this profile in its list of profiles?
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    AFAIK, this is how the Style Picker Tool is designed to work: it just copies whichever of the attributes that are enabled in that tool's context toolbar, which could be a subset of those used in a named style, or possibly a mix of ones that are & are not in any named text style. If you want to apply a particular named text style to selected text objects, I believe the intended way is via the Text Styles panel. Also maybe refer to the linked Using text styles help topic....
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    What tabs are you referring to? Do you have several documents open so you would normally see a tab for each of them or something else? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "menus" in this context. Do you possibly mean the Toolbar or Context Toolbar that normally appear across the top of the UI?
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    Could you explain more about how you scrolled all the content down in the app? Do you perhaps mean you dragged it down on the canvas using the Move tool, or dragged everything down in the Layer panel? BTW, it is better to provide screenshots of the entire app UI (or in this case at least the entire Layer panel) rather than just tiny segments. This is because something might be obvious from the full app UI that would help explain what is going on.
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    No, not unusual if you are saving to attached & mounted external volumes, but you would explicitly have to choose to do that & you might run into permissions & other issues if for instance the volume is used for Time Machine backups, isn't available for one reason or another, & so on. Thus my questions about that file path & if saving to the local startup drive user's home folder works.
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    @Skegnas, jusr curious but what is the name of the app you referred to as "the native iOS PDF viewer"?
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    It would help if you could post an example file, one with just the un-sculpted curve you are trying to sculpt in it. This might reveal something we can't tell from just the screenshot.
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    It is unusual on Macs to see a file path beginning with /Volumes/. How did you set it to that & why? This may cause some permissions issues unless the file path is to some folder you have write access to. Also, is "Main HD 8TB/" the name you have given to your startup disk or something else? If you instead change the save location to somewhere in your current user's home folder do you still get an error?
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    Try saving the file to your local drive. I know almost nothing about the Merch by Amazon thing but it appears to be a service, possibly one that you subscribe to? Is it known to be compatible with iCloud service?
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    Calibrating your monitor is independent of adding a soft proof layer -- as has been mentioned, a calibrated monitor is necessary to get the most accurate simulation possible on the monitor, but it will not have any effect on the soft proof itself. What is the name of the Canon paper you are using?
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    That seems to me like a very odd, inefficient way to work, one I would never use. It would be particularly annoying for any even moderately complex shape that is not composed almost entirely of sharp nodes, like this simple curve.afdesign that might be used as a starting point for a cartoon head.
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    The display profile has nothing to do with choosing the printer profile, other than if it is properly calibrated (as has been mentioned!) your soft proof will most closely (but not exactly!) simulate the printed results. So please do not keep bringing the display profile into this -- it will only confuse you until you understand that the display profile is not used for printing, period. As for the paper & printer profile, if you get & use the proper profile for the Canon paper you use, it will be the appropriate one for your printer as well as your paper. One source for these profiles is https://www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/canon-g5020-g6020-g7020-printer-color-profiles.html. Note that they are for Windows only. It is a 16 MB zipped file & that includes all the profiles & instructions for how to install them. The site also has an installation instructional video here
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    Where is this export folder? What is the full file path to it?
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    At least on my Mac, the only way I can make that happen is to explicitly choose McIntosh HD as the export location in the export dialog -- IOW, the apps never do that by themselves. If I do that, I do get a 'con't be created' error message. That is because even admin user accounts do not have write access to the top level of the HD, so the message should say something about not having permission to create the file there. But regardless of that, I cannot think of any way the app could set that as the export location unless the user did that either intentionally or by accident.
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    If you do that, an alternative is to drag all those layers above the artboard layer, then just delete the now empty artboard at the bottom of the layer stack. It is probably a slightly safer way to do it than the cut & paste method.
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    @Jhjennings, the simplest way to understand what soft proofs are that I can think of to explain it is to remember that they are intended to simulate on the screen what an actual print would look like. They are an alternative to an actual 'hard' proof (IOW, a physical printout) intended to save the cost of wasting printing supplies the physical printout would use. But you must keep in mind that they cannot somehow magically make the printer print any color it is incapable of printing.
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    Yes, assuming the ICC profile is the correct one for the printer, it's inks, and the paper you are printing on. But you need to understand the basics & limitations of soft proofing to get the most from them. So maybe read this & see if it helps.
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    No. But please keep in mind that except for documents that have only somewhat muted colors, the printed output will never -- repeat, never! -- give you a totally accurate representation of the printed output. This is what soft-proofing is used for -- to show you what the print will look like so that you can make adjustments to the document to minimize the limitations of the printer.
  25. R C-R
    RGB is not a gamut. It is a color space.
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