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    Bryce got a reaction from jmwellborn in Affinity Workbooks   
    I do wonder about the energy/environmental impact.
    Once the book is made it's done with any negative impacts.
    On the other hand the digital file may not cost much upfront - not counting the cost of constant upgrades of electronics, required to read the file, and will easily outlive the many devices you will have, but it must continue to use energy every time the file is opened. Even 100 years from now, if it's even able to be found/opened/formats changed will require electricity. The book, however, will still sit nicely on the shelf and will be retained - possibly for hundreds of years, without ever using any more electricity to be read.
    When it's time to discard the book permanently, it will gently go back to the dirt - clay coatings and all, while the device(s) must be recycled and cost much more. Most are not as we know but thrown in landfills, heavy metals, lithium batteries, lead, and more.
    Which was more environmentally friendly?
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    Bryce got a reaction from PaoloT in Affinity Workbooks   
    I do wonder about the energy/environmental impact.
    Once the book is made it's done with any negative impacts.
    On the other hand the digital file may not cost much upfront - not counting the cost of constant upgrades of electronics, required to read the file, and will easily outlive the many devices you will have, but it must continue to use energy every time the file is opened. Even 100 years from now, if it's even able to be found/opened/formats changed will require electricity. The book, however, will still sit nicely on the shelf and will be retained - possibly for hundreds of years, without ever using any more electricity to be read.
    When it's time to discard the book permanently, it will gently go back to the dirt - clay coatings and all, while the device(s) must be recycled and cost much more. Most are not as we know but thrown in landfills, heavy metals, lithium batteries, lead, and more.
    Which was more environmentally friendly?
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    Bryce got a reaction from chessboard in Wasted 209,33€ because of —your— app bug!   
    One of the best tools in Designer is Slices. You should not have gone back and created a new document and copy and paste in to it as that can cause problems - just like it can in Indesign or Illustrator. I would assume that the resolution is the issue. I try to keep all at 300 no matter what. Never let programs guess what resolution it should be. I have a strange issue with logos between documents that sometimes the stroke will get very thick from one document pasted to another. I don't know why but it does. 
    I just tried to copy and paste between documents and I couldn't get it to change size even though the documents were different resolution and size. I tried rasterizing the object and it made no difference rom copy and pasting.
    Here is the solution I would do in your case:
    Use artboards for each of the graphics in the same file. Name the artboard what you want the file name to be. Go to Slices and select all 3 artboards then choose the PDF for Print export (or PDF X/4) then choose export slices. It will name them all for you and keeps everything nice and neat.
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    Bryce got a reaction from jmwellborn in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from PaulEC in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from Andy Somerfield in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from Chris26 in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from Move Along People in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from MattP in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce got a reaction from Dan C in Thank you Serif!   
    I just want to tell you my appreciation for Serif listening to customers, even when it requires patience on our end. I use the programs everyday. For 90% of our work it has completely replaced Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised that once PDF passthrough is enabled and works that we will be at 99% for creative production and newspaper. 
    Unfortunately there is no replacement for Acrobat and the plugins that we use all the time.
    The ability for Serif to be able to have all three of their programs ready for a new platform on day of release of the OS is a testament to their dedication for their software and customers for the future.
    Adobe, on the other hand, hopes to have Lightroom by the end of the year and Photoshop out next year. Nothing about Indesign or Illustrator. I'm sure it's a mess of code because of years of just adding in without making sure was optimized. 
    Thank you and God bless!
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    Bryce reacted to walt.farrell in text conversion to curve   
    Thanks, Hokusai.
    But part of the reason I asked is that I'm not sure why one would need to convert all that text to curves. For example, if one is exporting to PDF and needs the text as curves there, one can leave it as curves text in the Designer document and just convert to curves in the PDF during Export.
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    Bryce reacted to Jens Krebs in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.9.0.2)   
    C'mon guys ... Affinity Designer is $50 and you have been getting large, free functionality updates since 2014(!!!).
    I don't think it would be fair to even ask for ANY special pricing or discount after getting THAT much for a small one-time price.
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    Bryce reacted to walt.farrell in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.9.0.2)   
    I'll disagree, at least with respect to the Help info. Not everything can be completely obvious and self-explanatory. In fact, any complex function will have aspects that the user won't fully understand without reading the documentation, or performing extensive experimentation.
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    Bryce reacted to Herojas93 in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.9.0.2)   
    "Select same" for me will be the best...
    Please introduce select "all text objects", even if them are grouped or blocked.
    That will increase the workflow for me when I have to convert text in curves.
    Thanks, great job!!!
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    Bryce reacted to Frozen Death Knight in Masking problem in a 1.8.4   
    I think clipping feels better after that update, yeah. However, one point of criticism that I hope you guys over at Serif will consider for a future release is that you add better indicators for when you are doing a clipping action or some other thing.
    For instance, instead of the highlight being the regular blue colour when doing a clipping layer action it is instead shown in a different colour; i.e green or yellow (just to take colour blindness into account). Would make it a lot easier to notice what kind of action you are taking at a glance. Alternatively you do it like Photoshop by changing the cursor icons for those types of actions. Considering the amount of modifier shortcuts there are for the Layers panel (i.e. alt clicking the thumbnail to isolate it), you could make several icons for the cursor indicating what is going on. Would be a fantastic quality of life change.
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    Bryce reacted to Old Bruce in Font Sizes wrong   
    Without the document there is nothing I can suggest other than just off the top of my head to select some of the letters and check the Character Panel for Horizontal and Vertical resizing. Should be 100% for each.

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    Bryce got a reaction from Old Bruce in Font Sizes wrong   
    That window helped. It was not that but the new text was defaulting to subscript. Thanks for helping me find that!
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    Bryce reacted to Andy Somerfield in Mac Transition to Apple Chips   
    Morning all,
    Further to the comments made by Dan, I'm pleased to report that the transition to Apple Silicon has been completed. We will, of course, use the time between now and any Apple hardware release to test what we have internally - but I see no reason why we will not be available on day one with all three apps.
    To address questions regarding ongoing support for Intel based Macs: We will support Intel based Macs as long as they are supported by Apple (ie. until the last Intel based Mac is considered "obsolete" by Apple). This will be years after the last Intel Mac has shipped - and will only mean that we stop providing updates - not that the app will stop working.
    Hope this helps,
    Andy.
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    Bryce reacted to Mark Daniel in Show/hide bleeds   
    There are a few view options that affect this
    * If you have Preview mode on (View -> Preview Mode) then nothing will show in the bleed area.
    * If you have Clip to Canvas Off (View -> View Mode -> Clip to Canvas)  and Show Bleed On (View -> Show Bleed) things will show right out into the pasteboard but a grey line will show where the bleed box is
    * If you have Clip to Canvas On then Show Bleed will toggle whether items that go off the edge are shown are clipped at the Trim Box (page) edge or the Bleed Box edge.
     
     
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    Bryce got a reaction from Jowday in Please Lightroom Replacement!   
    Have you tried Capture One? I have both licenses but only use Capture One because it is so much better in nearly every way.
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    Bryce got a reaction from os design in how to get PANTONE color   
    Just click the swatches palette and choose the color

    How to PMS.mov How_to_PMS.mov
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    Bryce reacted to Alfred in Is Affinity Photo one-time payment ?   
    Just to clarify: an upgrade fee will only be required if you want the new features and bug fixes that come with version 2. Version 1 will continue to work as long as your operating system supports it.
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    Bryce reacted to Eugene Tyson in CMYK document > default Black is not 100 K   
    I suggest having the CMYK swatches as default for all print docs. 
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    Bryce reacted to thomaso in CMYK document > default Black is not 100 K   
    In a new CMYK document a frame text appears as black by default. That's fine. Unfortunately this Black appears in the cmyk slider view of the color pane not to be = 100 K but mixed 87 C + 78 M + 65 Y + 93 K, which additionally is a rich Black with 323 % print color. This complys to the default Black definition of an RGB document.
    Any chance to fix the default Black for all CMYK documents to 100 K?
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