John Rostron

Photo does not allow stepping through by default. However, if you click on the cog icon during the recording process, then you can change parameters for that step. This is only possible for certain actions. There was a video tutorial on how to do this but I now cannot find it. I can only find the basic macro tutorial from @James Ritson. Every time I start a new macro project I had to refer to this tutorial to remind me how to set parameters during recording. John

Hello @Ruud .144, and welcome to the forums. For downloads, go to this link. John

@Dag Zimmer Same here. When I click on the [OK] button, Affinity Photo closes. The same thing happens with Topaz Adjust AI, but Sharpen AI loads OK. I am using Photo 1.9.1 What version of Photo are you using? What OS. I am using Windows 10. John

I really depends on the kind of drawing/painting she is doing. I suggest that she looks at the Share your work forum. This includes artwork created in both apps. This may help her/you to decide. Note that only some of the Photo artwork is digital painting. Some are purely raster-based images. John

@Jerry B, What would make life easier was for Affinity Photo to batch convert your raw files to tiffs. As far as I am aware, it can not. However there are other batch converters out there, as downloads or online. Converting to tiffs, then stacking might speed up your overall workflow. John

Hello @benbeara,and welcome to the forums. I've never heard of Fire Alpaca so I looked at their website. It looks kike a painting program along the lines of Corel Painter Essentials. As such, I suspect that it would have its own file format incompatible with any other software (such as Affinity or Adobe). It should, however, be able to export raster images, such as png or jpg or tiff, and these should be readable by Affinity. If it can export vector formats such as svg or pdf, then these can also be imported by Affinity. You need to explore these. John

I have just tried this in 1.9 using a set of 12 images, both of jpg and raw files. There were no problems. John

Hello @a.c, and welcome to the forums. If you bought the latest version, 1.9, you can download the earlier versions (1.85 is the latest) from here. I used this version for Focus Merge with no problems. I have not tried using it with 1.9 yet. You are advised to uninstall version 1.9 before installing 1.85. Your 4serial number/code will be as before. This is assuming that you bought your copy from the Affinity Store. If you bought from the Microsoft Store or thr Apple Store, then I cannot help you, but others might. John

As I said, you cannot. Equations will only let you make your image smaller, not larger. I did have a similar problem and, as I recall, the solution was rather convoluted and did not lend itself to batch or macro processing. John

Use Resize document and type 1200 into the box. John

I would find myself another printer. My local printer will print my four-page A4 newsletter onto folded A3 with no problems. John

It's not so much a bug as an inadequacy of the macros in Affinity Photo. The macro recorder translates any percentages or formulae into pixels. You can get round this if you are making the image smaller by using Filter > Distort > Equations, but your need is to make the overall image bigger. John

The forum software is an off-the-shelf product, not something of Serif's creation. Serif has requested some changes in this software (I can't remember what), but I have heard of no response. The upshot is that adding mandatory tags is not possible in the current version of the forum software. I would guess that splitting a forum would be possible, but Serif have chosen not to for the reasons that @walt.farrell explained. Personally, I would favour a split. John

But you cannot edit what you have done in a plugin. John

As I said, I'm not familiar with Acrobat. What is it that you show in the screenshot? Is it a layers panel? It could be that Acrobat is simply condensing the text for display purposes. (A foible, or just Acrobat's way of doing things.) This is something you need to be asking Adobe, not Affinity. As I said, if your pdf displays OK on-screen and in print, then what is your problem? John

I said a foible, not a flaw. John

I think that you will find that Serif plugin architecture complies with Adobe's published plugin interface. Some software makers seem to be able to exploit unpublished ways to connect a plugin, which means their plugins will work with PhotoShop, but not with Affinity. John

Then what is the problem? It seems to be a foible of Acrobat. John

Lovely merge. The extreme far edge is not quite in focus, but there is no sign of any halos. Well done! John

Hello @Greenguru, and welcome to the forums. I'm not familiar with Acrobat, but how does your text appear on screen or in print? John

If you are using a beta build (whether Topaz or Serif) you are warned not to rely on them for critical work. The betas are made available so the users can discover bugs, such as you are finding. John

Hello @Alyutza, and welcome to the forums. Try exporting from MS Publisher to pdf and then importing the pdf into Affinity publisher. John

Could it be that you used the magic wand to select then delete the background, with the contiguous box unchecked and with too high a tolerance. This would find and delete any part of the image too like your background. John

Hello @Felicia, and welcome to the forums. Could you give us some more infomation? What is your Operating System and Version? How much memory do you have. I presume you are using Affinity 1.9, but whih APP? John

I loaded the pdf export and the svg export as two separate documents and then picked whatever layer gave the best result and combined them in the final designer file. It was a long time ago and I was using Corel Draw X7 (vintage 2015). The most problematical was text on a path. The text tended to get fragmented John