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    GryphonArt reacted to photo16 in Tools / palettes disappeared Affinity Photo   
    Have found the command. View / Studio / Studio reset. Now they are again visible.
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    GryphonArt got a reaction from NotMyFault in Affinity Photo 2.2 - suddenly some rgb images wont convert to cmyk   
    OMGosh - THANK YOU. Thank you. thank you- that's exactly what I had done - I had unchecked it. Love you "NotMyFault"
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    GryphonArt reacted to NotMyFault in Affinity Photo 2.2 - suddenly some rgb images wont convert to cmyk   
    In Export you can activate „Convert Image Color Space“.
    Please provide a screenshot of your PDF Export Settings.
    https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Publishing/exportSettings.html
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    GryphonArt reacted to oskarbravo in Publisher v2.2.0 constantly crashing   
    Hi all,
    Affinity Publisher keeps crashing. It mostly happens when I try to select a new page.
    By creating a new document, adding pages and then selecting one of those pages, publisher instantly quits.
    I tried it with V 2.2.0, 2.1.1 & 2.0.4. 
    Unfortunately it's impossible to work with.
    Do you have perhaps a solution?
    Crash report is attached.
     
    Thank you very much,
     
    Fränz 
     
    My System: 
    Windows 11 Pro 22H2
    Systembuild    22621.2428
    Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22674.1000.0
     
    13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K   3.00 GHz
    64.0 GB RAM
    Geforce RTX 4080 (Driver 537.58 Studio)
     

     
    d910204d-bfc5-45ea-88f0-8ea670130447.dmp
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    GryphonArt reacted to wwdileii in Text not appearing after 2.2 update?   
    Hi, had been doing lots of work on publisher before the 2.2 update, but after updating to 2.2, text is not appearing when I create a text box?  The opacity is set to 100% in both color and text layer.  Have attached a file to show this if anyone can help! 
    Thanks so much in advance :).
    test.afpub
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    GryphonArt reacted to John Rostron in Vexillomorphic transformations (Flag-Waving) in Photo   
    This is an extension of my tutorial on Trigonometrical transformations using Filter > Distort > Equations. This one is focused on simulating flags waving in a light  wind. Flags have an advantage in that they have a standard shape (width is twice the height).
    Edit: I have been told that this is not true. I stand corrected.
    To get the desired waving, I apply a sine transformation to each of the x and y-axes. The equations to apply are:
    x=(x+20*sin(360*y/h))/c-100*b
    y=y+a*(h/10)*sin(2*360*x/w)-(x/w)*h/10
    I add a sideways sine wave to the x-axis as a function of the y-position. When the flag waves, the visual width is decreased, so I have added a parameter c which scales the width of the flag. The parameter b is an offset, since the left-hand corners of the flag can otherwise move outside the canvas.
    The y-axis also has a sine wave, depending on the x-position. The parameter a determines the magnitude of this sine wave. The final expression (-(x/w)*h/10) ensures that the fly  (RHS in this case) is below the hoist (LHS here). (Definitions: hoist is the part next to the flagpole; fly is the part flying free.)
    Here is the UK Union Flag, plus a bit of extra space above and below to create room:

    And waving in the breeze:

    And here is a macro that implements these transformations:
    FlagWaving.afmacro
    And a macro library containing the single macro:
    FlagWaving.afmacros
    The parameters should appear when you run the macro. Parameter a controls the vertical wave; parameter b controls the horizontal offset; parameter c controls the overall horizontal scaling.
    This macro will not simulate a flag in too strong a wind, where the parts overlap!
    John
     
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    GryphonArt reacted to Leigh in Hyperlink to email address not working   
    Just wanted to let you all know that these issues have been logged with our developers.
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    GryphonArt reacted to thomaso in Image size and exported PDF size   
    You cant calculate with the PNG file sizes for the exported PDF. Not only Affinity PNG are relatively large (compared with other software) but also the JPG compression you can use for PDF export may result in a quite different file size.
    Generally there is no need to resize the images before using them in APub, instead the downscaling and recompressing happens on export ( … unless you would deactivate any resampling & recompression in the export settings).
    You have three choices to influence the output file size:
    • If you don't tick the checkbox "Convert image colour spaces" the RGB images will be maintained in RGB and get their profile added for correct CMYK conversion in the printers pre-press process. This will result in about 20-25% smaller PDF file size compared to have all images converted to CMYK. – Check the expected / required profile and PDF version with your print service.
    • Reducing the export resolution will reduce the output file size. Though 300 dpi are standard, depending on the image content also less may give sufficient results, e.g. 280 or 250 dpi. A test will show you the difference, for visual comparison on screen view the results at about 250 – 350 % (because a screen doesn't display with 300 dpi like print but rather about 72 – 144)
    • Also reducing the export JPG compression quality leads to smaller file size. The most file size effect happens between 100 and 85 % quality, below the effect gets smaller and possible compression artefacts may get visible, again depending on the image content. An export with 100 – 95 % compression quality results in an obviously larger PDF than 85 %.
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    GryphonArt reacted to TanyaMc in Delete selected area of a layer   
    Thanks. I understand what you said, but once again, disappointed long time user. I don't understand the reason for the change in basic things nor why you'd want to rasterize.
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    GryphonArt reacted to DWright in Publisher - Missing Page Sidebar (Panel)   
    From the View menu go to Studio then click Reset Studio and this will restore the missing studios
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    GryphonArt reacted to PaulEC in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    In the Context toolbar, (just above the document window) where it says "PDF Passthrough" there is a drop-down, change it to "Interpret".
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    GryphonArt reacted to frindley in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    One possible solution or factor to consider [and which I now see that Jens has mentioned above]… 
    At the moment I'm designing a series of books that typically include 2 to 3 full-page ads supplied as PDFs exported from InDesign. These ads are relatively complex and large in their own right (10–20MB). I found that changing the setting for these placed PDFs from "pass-through" to "interpret" reduced my "small" PDFs from 36MB to a much more acceptable 3MB with no loss of quality.   
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    GryphonArt reacted to Nightjar in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    I still find Publisher PDFs quite huge. Is there a tutorial out there for great compression? To use other PDF size reducers is cumbersome.
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    GryphonArt reacted to Jens Krebs in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    Fonts unfortunately still ARE the issue, and especially converting them to curves increases the file size significantly for me (my projects tend to have a lot of text). The problem I am reporting here is that even if I specifically select to embed fonts, the text is converted to curves anyway.
    I have resolved to printing and then saving as PDF for this project but cannot use AP for anything until this is fixed. I need high-res print files with crop marks and low res web files without, embedded fonts and reasonable file sizes for both and don't have time or patience (nor have my customers) to fiddle around with workarounds, experiments or helper tools. 
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    GryphonArt reacted to Jens Krebs in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    Answer found, but not a solution
    I played around with the two files I uploaded above and discovered that Publisher ALWAYS (independent of the PDF settings) creates curved text when using some particular fonts ... when I switch the entire publication to Arial, the file size (including embedded fonts!) shrinks down to 0,3 MB.
    So, the answer is, that Publisher apparently cannot embed all fonts (InDesign, Quark and all other DTP applications I have used throughout my career do) which, unfortunately makes it unusable for me -- it is an absolute dealbreaker not being able to provide my customers with files that come at a reasonable size for downloads / web publishing.
    What I don't understand is, that the early beta versions DID embed fonts (see old file 1-2019 above), so the feature must have been removed or deactivated somewhere between the first betas and release.
    Can someone from Serif explain, what happened, please?
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    GryphonArt reacted to Trevor J Richens in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    I had the same issue with PagePlus so I would imagine it's the PDF library Serif use.
    There are online PDF compressing tools but I purchased NX Powerlite Desktop which appears to reduce files to roughly 20% which works for web downloads and in many cases works for sending to printer with acceptable reduction in quality but YMMV of course.
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    GryphonArt reacted to Jens Krebs in Smaller PDF Files, please!   
    I really like the PDF export and am fine with the speed and everything, but the file sizes are SO MUCH BIGGER than from the competition, that it starts hindering my workflow.
    I don't mind the size of a high-res print file, but there should definitely be a setting equal to other applications "smallest file size" -- many of my customers want to have their publications online for download on their website and large files are just really inconvenient. I have tried setting the image resolution and JPG quality down, subsetted fonts and restricted the Acrobat version to 8 (my normal tricks to save a couple bytes), but the files are still monstrous compared to ,other software'.
    What exactly is blowing up the file size? Maybe I'm just missing a setting?
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    GryphonArt reacted to carl123 in Publisher - How to see the percentage scaling of an image   
    The 1.9 beta now shows that information in the context toolbar for embedded/linked documents
    Can't do a screenshot at the moment (watching Porn) ☺️
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    GryphonArt reacted to big smile in Publisher - How to see the percentage scaling of an image   
    Odd that doesn't show for me, this is what I see:

     
    The image is an afphoto file, does that make a difference? 
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    GryphonArt reacted to MikeW in How to scale images using percentages?   
    Might be basic math, but it is a whole lot nicer/faster to simply know that information.

    I don't work in teams anymore. But I do receive files from others where an image might have been manipulated to fit a given space. Happens all too frequently.
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    GryphonArt reacted to trichens in Preflight   
    Very true Walt.
    But having corrected everything, or accepted that the errors can be ignored, you can't continue directly on to the Export dialog.
    When the export process runs and it finds problems, it will offer the option to either view issues, ignore them or cancel, but having selected review you then lose the option to ignore if it's actually OK.
    I'd just like to review the issues, say "that's OK" and hit an Accept and Continue button on the Preflight dialog.
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    GryphonArt reacted to Joachim_L in Publisher: moving text down by one line   
    Difficult to solve without seeing the document. My guess: Look at panel Paragraph and the value for margin after paragraph.
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    GryphonArt reacted to Wosven in Ignore Text Wrap for specific text in Affinity Publisher   
    Hi,
    You can set it in the Text/Frame zone:

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    GryphonArt reacted to thomasbricker in Ignore Text Wrap for specific text in Affinity Publisher   
    I'm thoroughly enjoying experimenting with the release build of Publisher.
    (Its fascinating how you can switch back and forth between the apps.)
    One thing I cant figure out is, in Publisher, if I have set type to wrap around a particular object, is there a way to allow other text (Like a large headline) to ignore that wrap setting?
    Im sure it is probably possible but I dont see where to set that up.
    transfer test.afpub
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    GryphonArt got a reaction from loukash in How to save my own Pdf preset?   
    Yes I have a Time Machine backup- will revert to my husband who is the IT expert.
    Bugger - bug huge Thanks
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