Mr Lucky

I have Photo and Designer so am an existing customer. When I go to the Affinity publisher free trial download page and add my email address as Existing customer, I get a notice saying We cannot find an Affinity store account with the email address you entered. Same happens if I go the the purchase page link for Publisher in one of those emails However this is the same email address I get all the emails and marketing from "Affinity Team" Can anyone please help how I get the trial? Thanks

But sadly it is not fixed in 1.7.2 Did the developers not care about this?

I already have posted this here: Sorry for double post but I now consider it a showstopper bug as this bad usability cannot possibly be intended. Mods would it be possible to merge the threads to make it a bug report? I am still unable to use the updates, I really need my Mac finder to be light and for Affinity to be dark, this helps my poor eyes. But choosing dark for Affinity causes the finder window to be also dark when searching for files to open or location to save as from within Affinity.

If I have several shapes and I want to change them all to a different color, I would expect I'd be able to select them all and then change the color in the fill box at the top left. But this box disappears as soon as I have more than one shape selected. So how would I change them all at once (assuming I don't want to group them or use FX colour overlay) Thanks

Understood, but the box opens up when needed so I don't see size or parameters involved as an issue. angle of gradient would be a simple wheel showing degrees? just a thought.

Thank you, that was a bit counter-intuitive as you'd think it would be done from the normal fill box at the top left where you can do a gradient, but only L/R

I have filled a curve with a gradient. The gradient is horizontal (left and right) How do I make it vertical? (top to bottom) Thanks

Bit of a newb question. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question, but is there away to make the selection softer or feathered with the Flood selection tool? Or is this something I should be using brush selection tool for ? Thanks

That is fine, I wouldn't care about the print dialogue - the big issue here is the finder obeying Affinity rather than your Mac preferences.

This is the point. I have Mojave running in light mode, Affinity 1.7 in dark. But when I go to open a file in Affinity, the finder window is in dark instead of light as defined in Mojave system preferences. If I wanted it dark when browsing for files to open I would have set dark on the Mac.

It was not an issue with 1.6, that's my whole point - it was working fine. Or is this a classic case of mending something that isn't broken? If someone wants a dark background for viewing the application they could do that. If they wanted a light background for viewing the finder windows they do that. Now the Affinity dark/light preference encroaches on the Mac viewing presences and very bad for useability, especially people with not perfect vision. So there is now a superfluous setting also, which is to set Affinity the same as the Mac system. What is the point if it does that anyway (changes the open/save finder window) when you set the Affinity preferences. Seems like someone hasn't thought this through and made changes just for the sake of fiddling with something that was fine.

Before upgrading to 1.7 I had a dark interface, but Affinity Photo still used the system light interface for the open or save finder window. But it seems in 1.7 the finder window is dark also. This is very bad news unless I can find the setting fix this is my eyesight is not great - I need dark in the Photo inr=erface but dark for the finder window is very difficult for me to find anything. Please how do I get it it the way it was before? Thanks

OK, but I had metal on with 1.6.7 as well due to a previous bug, so I need it. Also, the preferences for 1.7 only has metal, I can't choose anything else.

This is a real showstopper! I have narrowed this bug down, it is caused by having a level adjustment. On 1.6.7 it looks fine. In 1.7 the levels adjustment is causing the outline to show. In 1.7 if I disable the levels then the outline disappears and looks as it does in 1.6.7 Attached is test file , also video showing toggling level on and off (with no settings altered in levels) levelstest.afphoto levels1.7-PT2.mp4

I just updated to 1.7 and I cannot use it as the image I'm working on now has a strange outline and looks blurry. See screenshots: 1.6.7 is OK But here you see the outline, same file opened in 1.7

Many many thanks, that is perfect! I owe you a pint now

OK, but I don't know how you did that

Someone said to do that in order to not get the white background. If it worked that would have been OK, but not ideal as it would be best to keep it as text. I thought I was using clipping. If I use it as a mask, then it just shows what's inside the rectangle, the opposite of what I want. I have no idea of what compound boolean means.

In Photo or Designer Well that would be be great if it worked for me but sadly it doesn't. Looks like it No because I want it to cut out that shape I understand I could do this, but then I am left with just one layer that is a curve, but I can't edit it as before, e.g. by moving or resizing the erase rectangle, and as mentioned ideally I'd still like to have the possibility to change the font so although by converting to curves and subtracting I can end up with something I can export, I want to be able to export while I am still working on differentiations things (there is an acid engraver who is asking for .SVG so he can test the viability of different designs and sizes I think he is using Corel or something) I have to say my brain is beginning to hurt now reading through the thread again.

I open the SVG in Photo (or Designer) It is definitely a white area (plus has lines on it I have made a different thread about) And designer. I'm getting the same issue with both.

Except that it isn't working for me, even if I convert the text to curves, I still get the white background with SVG

What makes no sense to me is that exporting to SVG or PDF the white background is created. BUT, exporting to .png retains the transparency. I can only think the white background is a bug in the software.

Yes, the PDF was uploaded before the edit. I solved the issue since that PDF Please explain, I used that method as I didn't know any other way to remove part of the curve. Can you please explain the mask position ? Thanks. Will it do the same thing?

I'm trying to create some text for a logo which is "cut through" with a line or other shapes to expose whatever background is underneath. I just used a copyright symbol as an example, same issue happens whatever the letter is. The logo I'm working in is confidential so I just used an example of the © What are the neater ways of doing this? (I got this method. from a tutorial post on here) Even if it is forced to rasterise, why would that need to affect transparency Same issue when converted to curves. Besides at this stage of the project it's best to keep to text as the font may need to change.

When I export this file to SVG, the text gets a white background. What am I doing wrong please? I have attached the affinity file and the SVG export linethroughcut.afphoto linethroughcut.svg