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What happens if you use the pipette & click on the shiny highlight on the headboard?

I don't think so, or at least I have never found it if there is.

That will depend on the setting of Preferences > Tools > Move Tool Aspect Constrain. The possibilities are Automatic (based on selection), Constrain by default, & Do not constrain by default. What kind of mouse are you using? Like @firstdefence said, if you are using an Apple one with touch sensors instead of physical buttons, it could be that you are clicking too near the center of the sensors to activate a primary click reliably.

I am almost certain that it does.

I don't know what is wrong or how to fix it but I get the same error.

That menu should appear only if in fact you do a right (or control) click on the canvas. Otherwise, with the Move tool selected as the pointer moves to one of the control handles (what you are calling nodes) its shape should change to arrows indicating the direction a resizing, rotating, or sheering drag will produce & dragging the pointer from that area should perform that action. If it does not, my guess is you have some third party utility or mouse driver set to do a control-click with the button you are using as the primary one, or something similar is causing a primary button click to be interpreted as a secondary button click. (I am saying "primary" & "secondary" because the Mac OS allows users to reverse the left & right button functions in System Preferences > Mouse.)

Preferences > General > Import PSD text as text rather than bitmap.

Us lol! No kidding, don't underestimate the incredible amount of support the staff & user community offer through this forum. It isn't unusual for someone to post a video or even fully worked example for a 'how do I make/do this?' question, more often than not within a few hours of the time the question is posted. Another plus is that both the Mac & Windows versions are built using native OS code, which can greatly improve responsiveness for some operations & integrate very well with other OS level features.

To begin with, I suggest watching the Affinity Designer - Complex Gradients & Affinity Designer - Transparency Tool video tutorials. Note that you can also work on the gradients on the canvas using the Gradient Tool, for example clicking on the gradient line anywhere along its length to add a new color stop, to move a middle one, or to move the midpoint color marker between two stops. The 'dedicated' panel in the video allows precision (numerical) settings, but otherwise I find it easier to do everything on the canvas. You can also use the Color Studio panel to set the color or transparency of a selected stop (using the bottom slider in the panel labeled "Opacity" to set transparency), & of course you can use the Transparency Tool to set transparency independently of anything else. To move the end stop beyond the object, use the Gradient Tool on the canvas. It is also (I think) the only way to rotate or otherwise control the 2D properties of the 2D gradients (ellipse, etc.).

That is what I was thinking, too.

On his personal website @MEB has created a handy Quick Reference categorized list of links to resources in the Resources forum. One of the categories is Styles. You could also do a web search on ".afstyles" (include the leading period) to find a few more that you can buy.

I can't think of any good reason not to update to the latest Mac Affinity Designer version ASAP after it is released. If you don't you will miss out on the improvements to the PDF exporter, various bug fixes, & several new or improved features. (For example, see the change list for v1.6.7 here.) Don't be too concerned about getting used to the changes in the latest version. Almost everything in the older versions works exactly the same in the latest one, just with a few new options & capabilities you don't have to use unless you want to.

As I understand it, @fmotta wants to avoid using any & all cloud services. Personally, given Apple's current obsession with maintaining user privacy, I have no problems using the Apple-hosted iCloud Drive service for this, but to each their own. Anyway, assuming copying Affinity files between an iPad & a desktop Mac is acceptable, the third method MEB mentioned in this earlier post using Airdrop does not require sending anything to any cloud service, nor does it even require internet access.

So what happens if you have (for example) a 32GB iPad? Is the limit lower?

Is it true that the brush names appear in the Brushes Studio only if a brush is assigned to a particular brush tool, or am I overlooking a preference or option to show the brush name for all brushes? If only assigned brush names are displayed, are any plans to add a preference to show the names for all brushes?

Could this possibly have anything to do with Object defaults settings?

Are you using a Mac or a Windows PC? On a Mac, the sample files accessible from the Welcome screen go into a normally hidden folder, a subfolder at path /private/var/folders/. The full path includes a long alphanumeric string that is likely different for different users and/or OS versions, but it is easy enough to find with one of the sample files open using the Affinity File menu > Reveal in Finder item. I think there is an equivalent 'Reveal in Explorer' command on the file menu for the Windows versions, but I am not sure of that or of its exact name because I don't use Windows PCs. FWIW, on Macs the private folder is hidden because the OS manages its contents. Users generally should not modify anything in it directly to avoid problems. Geeky Mac stuff: According to the HIER(7) man page, /var/ is used for "multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files," & /var/folders/ contains "per-user temporary files and caches." (If you want to see the 'local copy' of the man page for the Mac OS version you are running, you can enter without the quotes "man /usr/share/man/man7/hier.7" in Terminal.) The sample files are treated as temporary items & will be deleted eventually, usually whenever you restart the Mac.

You need to start by telling us which app & which platform you are using.

Does the Display mode (Open GL, Metal, etc.) make any difference?

1. Do your fonts show up in TextEdit when it is set to use the Rich Text format? If not, the problem may not be with Affinity Designer. 2. Does running Validate Fonts in Font Book on all your installed fonts show any errors or warnings? 3. If you open the attached a few fonts.afdesign file, do you get any missing fonts warnings? The file just contains filler text in a few different text frames for some common fonts that should be installed by default on your system.

Probably because svg supports embedded bitmap elements as well as vectors, shapes, etc.

That might be true if the developers see it, which is not guaranteed if you post here in Questions. This form is mostly monitored by other staff members who do not do any development, while the developers themselves monitor the feature requests forum.

Since it is possible to be visually impaired yet still have physically excellent eyesight, why would you consider this to be tautological? Not to nitpick this to death, but would you agree that at least logically, a subset is not necessarily the same thing as its superset? This is not unlike the "pixel is a pixel" fallacy. What about pointing out that an adjective was used where grammatically a noun should be?

FWIW, it is possible to be visually impaired without having physically poor eyesight, so this is not as meaningless a distinction as it might seem.

It is definitely font related. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height. "x-height" (sometimes also written as "xheight") is one of several terms with a specific meaning in typography. It is not the same thing as the X value in the Transform panel & elsewhere in the UI. In practical terms this means you can waste a lot of time trying to tweak the sharpness of text in an image with little or no benefit to anybody.