Bryce

HI @Bryce,
Definitely not forgotten, i've updated the exiting issue to reflect the fact that it still affects 2.2.0 and the thread has been tagged, if there are any further updates on the issue the Serif info bot will automatically update the thread.

@walt.farrell
This one:

@walt.farrell
This one:

Hi All,
We have just begun rolling out a new beta build - version number 2.2.0.1931 - which should become available to you on auto-update over the next hour
Three new features are included in this build:
Object creation data entry Move tool data entry OCIO v2 support added And some other feature improvements which are worth drawing your attention to:
Find and Replace now includes the additional scope options of 'Section" and 'Page' 'Hide Effects" and "Greyscale' view mode options are now available as optional toolbar buttons. Additionally these view modes (as well as all other Designer view mode options previously only available in Designer) have now been added to Publisher. You can now both insert anchors and link to them from data merge fields. There are also a lot of fixes which have gone in since the last build which will be listed on the bug fix list post .
Important: PDF Password feature
While this build does include many fixes for PDF password, we have decided to drop this feature from 2.2. The feature is still available in this build, but will be removed in the next one. For that reason we're going to hide the feature thread and ask that no more reports are made on this feature. 
Apologies if this causes some disappointment, but we feel we need a little more time to solve some of the problems being reported. We certainly anticipate this will be available again at the start of the 2.3 beta and that it can make the 2.3 release.
Thanks,
Ash

Tried to replicate this on an Windows 10 machine using Designer 2.11 …
Works – i get the strokes as separate curves – until i try to undo with CTRL-Z: Crash.
Greetings

We could distinguish:
Colour model is the general "language" in which colours are defined in an image. — https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/ClrModels.html
Pixels can be defined either:
by only a bit each (solid black/white only) — FWIK, this is not available in Affinity. by a byte or two (gray scale/8 or grayscale/16) — which means that the range from 0% to 100% is represented by values between 0 and 255, or 16535.  by a byte, or two, for each of the three colour channels RGB by a byte for each of the four CMYK channels by two bytes for Lab colour space  
Colour spaces are representations of all the different colours reproducible (gamut) in a certain colour model, for certain circumstances or devices. — https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/aboutClrSpaces.html 
You could compare it to a dictionnary…
They are specified in the Colour profiles (hence a common confusion. But sometimes, the term Colour space is also used in place of Colour model…)
 
Colour profiles specify which "flavour" (which accent, like Scottish or Australian, if we think about colour model as a language) of the colour model will be used and then ensure comprehension. — https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/ClrProfiles.html
They can be generic, standard or device specific.
They will match colours indicated in the document to an absolute reference colour space, according to their own colour space.
They are used to determine which exact value(s) (between 0–255) will be used to represent a specific colour in a certain colour space, corresponding to a specific technique (e.g. sheet offset printing with US inks on uncoated paper) or machine.
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Actually, not exactly. 
Last century, usual workflow was to require prepress operators to separate images in CMYK values, leaving them this responsibility. 
Since colour management systems were better understood, RGB workflow — up to the last export — has been increasingly common, but there are still old printers, old machines, and old habits! 
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My practical advice
You coud certainly ask your printer to make himself the RGB-CMYK conversion (I agree with you it's a task to leave to professionals mastering it), but then you should offer him a special fee for this extra task. He will generally do it benevolently but will nonetheless appreciate your proposition… 
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BTW, about the "mathematically impossible 300%"… I give you a full bag of cherries, a full bag of plums and a full bag of apples. You then have three full bags…   
If you have 75% of ink coverage for each of the CMY colours and 100% of black, you'll have 325% total ink coverage on the paper.
Adding blue and red inks under black is used to reinforce the darkest parts of an image: you'll get a richer black, with profound nuances. 
But this is not recommended for tiny elements, like text, for registration problems (misalignments between colours).
More than 300-330% (or about, depending on the paper, inks, etc.) of total ink coverage will not dry correctly and maculate.
Colour profile used when converting from the RGB colour space to CMYK can check and manage this. 
 

Crashed instantly on win 11
2.1 and 2.2 beta this by selecting all objects>expand stroke.
If one at a time it works without a hitch.

Ah - it was extremely easy to figure out what was causing this crash:
Inspect visually whats special about these ellipses... Two seconds later... Aha! Make new document and create an ellipse and from the appearance panel add an additional stroke (Result: 2 strokes, one fill) Duplicate Select both Expand stroke  💣  💣  💣  💣  So expand stroke crashes when it tries to handle several objects with at least two strokes.

If you have Acrobat you can view the separations and your ink percentages in your PDF before you send it. I recommend letting the printer do the color separations unless you know how the subtractive spectrum and printing work. Keep your "darks" in your picture to no more than 300% if printing offset.

This is a definite regression, like you say, it works correctly in v2.0.4.

Hi @Bryce,
Thanks for following up with your sample file and recording, this definitely looks like a regression over 2.0.4, I've now replicated and logged this with the developers.

Hi @Crying Bird and welcome to the forum.
Yes, you can do that with Affinity Photo. There are several options here. One of them is to use the Selection Brush tool . With this tool you select all the areas that you want to keep. With Refine the selection can be adjusted even finer. The second option is to use the Pen Tool . Here you select the outline of the object and then create a selection mask from it.

Hi @Erik Steinmeier and welcome to the forums,
You can still undock the tools in V2 so it is floating... View > Dock Tools... What made you think you couldn't?

This is exactly how it works today with APublisher and StudioLink.
You buy APublisher, only Publisher persona works for you. If you decide to purchase the APhoto module/app, Photo Persona also works for you.

Like you show in your recording is also the way it works in version1.
 
2023-07-11 21-16-13.mp4    

Should be attached.
Fairview Elem Perf vinyl.afdesign

I'm using Affinity 2.1 on MacOS 13.4.1
Here is what mine shows:

I think it looks the same. When I press the keys it leaves the program to another window, but not like command+tab. 

I will attempt to try that! thanks!

Is there a way to use this for the end of a text block frame that would automatically add "Continued to page 3" with the linked block on page three starting with "Continued from Page 1"? This way page numbers would be fluid and update depending on where you put them?

Do you have any plans to add "Presets" to the Guides manager?  Like there is for Grids.

Thanks for the suggestion! Before I read it I modified all system settings I could find to accommodate my external screen's native resolution (increased font sizes where I could) so I could use that and now I'm experiencing significantly less lag since macOS doesn't have to deal with a scaled resolution constantly. It turns out going with a native resolution whenever possible does bring significant benefits with it, from less stutter to less overheating and battery drain.

mystery indeed as this does not work for me either anymore except in Affinity 1.

If in macOS:

Hi @Bryce,
I'm assuming that your Live Warp Filter isn't a nested layer? If so, this is a known bug with all Live Filters.
If you nest the Live Filter in your graphic layer then the file should export with bleed correctly...

Hi @Bryce,
As Hangman's mentioned there is a known issue with live filters causing the bleed area to export completely blank when it isn't nested, i've bumped the existing issue with your report. 🙂