IndigoMoon

For compatibility with MS Office you have to use SoftMaker FreeOffice (or their paid version) or OnlyOffice. Both are available for Linux as well.
The main reason for incompatibility are the different file formats ODF (LibreOffice) and OOXML (MS Office), or rather the double conversion.

For compatibility with MS Office you have to use SoftMaker FreeOffice (or their paid version) or OnlyOffice. Both are available for Linux as well.
The main reason for incompatibility are the different file formats ODF (LibreOffice) and OOXML (MS Office), or rather the double conversion.

For compatibility with MS Office you have to use SoftMaker FreeOffice (or their paid version) or OnlyOffice. Both are available for Linux as well.
The main reason for incompatibility are the different file formats ODF (LibreOffice) and OOXML (MS Office), or rather the double conversion.

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Fixed subsequent view openings not honouring the 'Limit zoom to 100%' setting Fixed crash when text doesn't fill the frames Fixed PDF Import crash when nesting many empty layers Fixed IME crashes  Fixed potential artefacts in hardware acceleration on brightness/contrast adjustments Fixed TIFF files that have cm as resolution unit are calculated incorrectly Improved the noise in gradient fills Fixed double-applying of blend modes when objects are clipped to the blending object Fixed selection refinement and outputting as new layer with mask on a document with artboards Fixed Glyph browser failing to render bitmap emoji Fixed failure to load files with certain unicode characters in the path Added highlight for individual clauses when editing text via IME Fixed PDF Export failure with gradients that have large numbers of nodes Fixed vector export unnecessarily rasterising clips Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Fixed subsequent view openings not honouring the 'Limit zoom to 100%' setting Improved performance of Info panel samplers when hardware acceleration is enabled Fixed crash when text doesn't fill the frames Fixed PDF Import crash when nesting many empty layers Fixed IME crashes  Fixed potential artefacts in hardware acceleration on brightness/contrast adjustments Fixed lookup of Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (A025) lens profile  Fixed TIFF files that have cm as resolution unit are calculated incorrectly Added EOS 850D CR3 support Fixed creating a new LUT category not displaying the new category Fixed PSB import error Improved memory management of OpenCL resources to try to prevent out of memory errors (resulting in fallback from hardware to software) Fixed Apply Image results on masks Fixed the crop tool to allow portrait ratio presets Fixed incorrect lens identification with Canon lens and extender (identifying as Tamron) Improved the noise in gradient fills Fixed double-applying of blend modes when objects are clipped to the blending object Fixed selection refinement and outputting as new layer with mask on a document with artboards Fixed Astrophotography FITS Bayer pattern Monochrome crash Fixed Glyph browser failing to render bitmap emoji Fixed failure to load files with certain unicode characters in the path Added highlight for individual clauses when editing text via IME Fixed Patch Tool causing artefacts in LAB colour mode Fixed failure to stitch very large panoramas Fixed PDF Export failure with gradients that have large numbers of nodes Fixed vector export unnecessarily rasterising clips Previous release notes

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I'm lucky enough to fall into that category. If they are smart, they could release a consumer version and make some easy money off Affinity converts wanting to ditch Acrobat.

Hi @IndigoMoon, thanks for the tip. I have just tried for a key too. Waiting for the answer

Unfortunately, Packzview is only for labels/packaging companies for free. I've requested a product key, which has been denied. Well, I've told them it's a bit confusing to advertise it for free. Now they are pointing out on their website that's only for theses kind of companies, too bad...

Wow fantastic, thank you very much Walt!! 👍
It's not excatly what I want, but it works in my workflow as well!

Since you originally posted, I think they've added "double-click on a layer thumbnail in the Layers panel" as another "zoom to fit" method.

Hi @IndigoMoon,
When you've opened a PDF you can use Document>Resource Manager to check the the Colour spaces of the images.  Also if you've placed a PDF, using the Resource Manager would give you the colour space of the PDF.
 

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Further performance improvements Fixed hardware acceleration failing to use multiple devices with identical platform IDs (e.g. integrated and discrete from same manufacturer) Fixed hardware acceleration ignoring certain devices that should have been compatible Fixed Astrophotography Stacking failing with no warning Added ability to name Astrophotography Stack images Fixed crash when WMI is disabled Fixed crash loading user-specific PSD Changed line break algorithm to not break after dashes or hyphens if followed by a digit or close-quote Fixed loading of Nikon D780 and Nikon Z6 images (loading black) Fixed crash undoing replace of missing PDF resource Added multiple drop support to OpenAsset file imports Added additional file drag drop options when holding Alt key Previous release notes

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https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/measuring.html

You've saved my day, anon2 😉 Thanks a lot!
Including guidelines would be great, but well...

Select the object from which you wish to measure.
Hold down cmd key (probably ctrl key on Windows) and mouseover other objects to get distance measurements. This does not measure to guidelines, though.

Hi @IndigoMoon,
Thanks for spotting this. Issue logged. 

We could probably do this too  

Hey IndigoMoon!
We are surprised by this! Could you attach your image please? 
Ah, nevermind! Windows UI is behind macOS so we missed it. This will be fixed! 

Hey IndigoMoon,
This has been implemented. 

That works quite nicely with linked frames too if you don’t use spaces and get the settings right (up to a point).
Nice catch Alan. That might be quite useful in certain circumstances.

stepped-linked-frames.afpub

Playing around with this one of the problems I came across was the spacing of individual letters and getting them to line up in columns. I went down the power duplicate route with text frames, when I tried linking them spaces an d centering became a problem. If you leave them unlinked and add your letters individually in to each frame it works with power duplicate 

Stepped Letters.afpub

Here’s one way using a stepped curve, the Text On Curve functionality, and a massive character tracking setting. (Original curve has been kept for demonstration purposes.)
There may be others. I know I can do it by converting the text to curves and distributing the individual letters but the text doesn’t remain editable so that’s not a great solution.
stepped-text.afdesign

In my example with the black background all I did was add some black shapes between the foreground layers and the ‘echo’ layers.
In my example with the non-uniform background I converted the text to curves and manually broke the curves that make up the ‘echoes’ into sections using the Node tool so I could remove the parts of the letters I didn’t want. Lots more work than the previous way.
I’ve attached the (quite messy) example document for the black background version (text is in Cocogoose so it might not show nicely if you don’t have that font).
I don’t know where my other document has gone but it was just a bunch of curves so not much to see there anyway.
circular-sound.afdesign