[help please... from webplus x4 to what next?]

Try (Alfred's site):

 https://punster.me/serif/

or:

https://alternativeto.net/software/serif-webplus/

[This is so disappointing]

I can't wait for the new beta forum — so that I can start complaining about what it doesn't include and start looking for bugs that haven't been fixed!

[Over saturated images]

I'm not sure why you say that all your files are now useless and there goes your Etsy shop! The problem seems to be the way the files are displayed in Affinity. The actual files have not changed and, apparently, still export correctly. If they used to display correctly then obviously something has been changed and it's just a question of finding out what!

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This would appear to be a PDF file, not an original APub file, so the "spreads" are actually now single pages. (IOW: Although they may look like two page spreads, they are really just two of the original pages side by side on a single page). You can tell this by the page numbers under the pages. If you no longer have the original APub file, the only choices are to start from scratch, or to split the double pages into single pages. It can be done using APub, but it would be quicker and easier to use a third party utility, such as Briss. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/) 

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Just a thought, but are you working with the original file, or have you opened a PDF version that you previously exported as spreads?

[Canva]

Tilting at windmills? "To dream, the impossible dream..." 😉

[Canva]

10 minutes ago, bbrother said:

It worked quite well, at least in the movie

But probably not in real life!

10 minutes ago, bbrother said:

 

P.S BTW @PaulEC that picture was a joke

Yes, I did get that, my comment was rather tongue-in-cheek! Hence 😁

[Canva]

Looking at that picture, what I see is:

On the left: something that is realistic, functional and practical, that works well and accurately.
On the right: something that is pure fantasy, which is so overblown that it will never actually work properly

😁.

[Canva]

34 minutes ago, William Overington said:

@PaulEC Could you possibly explain please your reasons for laughing at my post?

I am puzzled as I wrote that post as a serious contribution to this discussion about Canva acquiring Affinity and the situation going forward.

I would be interested to know your thinking please.

William

Sorry - I didn't realise that this was a serious suggestion!

[PLEASE READ THIS: Sharing Guidelines]

I don't particularly wish to discuss this yet again! You posted in this thread, mentioning a picture in your second post here!

As far as your first post here goes I think Alfred made it clear, it is "Share your work", (not just pictures) using Affinity software. so I can't see any reason why it should not include Publisher. There are people who share posters, flyers and so on, but images probably tend to lend themselves more to sharing than do text based items. I would think that there would be no problem with sharing a particularly well produced booklet or other document, that showed good use of Publisher. However, I doubt if simply pasting a bit of text you generated with AI into a document would be considered sharing your work, or a significant use of Affinity software!

[PLEASE READ THIS: Sharing Guidelines]

27 minutes ago, William Overington said:

For the avoidance of doubt, I did not claim the production of the picture as my work:

I repeat: " "Share your work" is for sharing your work created using Affinity! "

There are plenty of other places that you can post random images etc that you happen to "like" of think "interesting"!

[PLEASE READ THIS: Sharing Guidelines]

1 minute ago, SolidSnake2003 said:

Sorry if I added to this problem. I just use AI to help me in my creations cause I can't find a suitable image that works with what I have in mind.

Personally I don't like the use of generative AI at all, but, there is a big difference between using it as part of a work you create yourself, and just taking a single AI generated image, resizing it, putting it on a larger canvas, then claiming it as your work using Affinity.

[PLEASE READ THIS: Sharing Guidelines]

This is the same old argument!  — "Share your work" is for sharing your work created using Affinity! 
IMHO, you need to have done a bit more that type some words as a "prompt" in another app, then changed the size of the result and placed it "prettily" into an Affinity document. The work is not your own, and the use of Affinity is minimal and basic.

[Square Brush doesn't allow me to change its shape. HELP]

14 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Isn’t that unnecessarily limiting? It seems analogous to restricting the shape of a Round Brush so that we can’t make it into a thin ellipse.

Be careful what you say! – They might solve the anomaly by restricting the shape of the Round Brush as well! 😉

[Bug(s) with Perspective Tool]

There seem to be a couple of inconsistencies between the Help and the actual tool settings. According to the Help, the grid should be on by default, it isn't. If using the live adjustment, rather than the tool, you have to reenable the grid every time you adjust it (maybe not actually a bug, but very annoying, why not make the setting sticky?) 

Also, the Help says that there are Horizontal and Vertical Flip buttons, there aren't! (There are only the rotate buttons.!

 

[AI discussion (split from Canva thread)]

Obviously it's up to you where you choose to get the images that you use. Personally, I would never employ a graphic designer, I would just use AI. (or, maybe use Canva!)  😁 
 

[AI discussion (split from Canva thread)]

2 hours ago, Bartek said:

it makes no difference whether I use a purchased photo or AI-generated graphics

It makes a difference to the person who owns, and chooses to sell, the images! If the images are free the person who owns the images chooses to allow other people to use them.

[AI discussion (split from Canva thread)]

Generative AI is quite unreliable, for example, producing images of people with extra fingers. So why assume that when you ask it a question the answer is accurate?

[Windows 10 - Publisher & Design open in Photo only.]

Right click on an afpub file, click on "open with", click on "Choose another app", choose Affinity Publisher, tick "Always use this app", then "OK". Then do the same with an afdesigner file. (Except. of course, choose Affinity Designer!) You only need to do this once with each file type.

If you open any file type in a different app to the one you usually use, Windows may change the default file association. This is just the way Windows works!

[Crop tool in Affinity not working]

22 minutes ago, KarinC said:

Maybe I'm missing something but I can crop an image in Designer (in Windows)

As Alfred said, you can crop in both Photo and Designer, but the Crop Tool works in different ways.

[Problem with Photoshop plugin loader]

5 minutes ago, chip2 said:

Affinity claims to be able to load Photoshop plugins.

Serif have never claimed that all Photoshop plugins work in Affinity Photo, some do, some don't!

[Happy Easter]

Happy Easter to all.

[Canva]

I don't think there's anything wrong with new (to the forums) users deciding to contribute now, this is obviously an issue which everyone is going to be affected by, in one way or another. I'm actually more inclined to have doubts about people who continually change their nickname and avatar!

[Canva]

@Patrick Connor In that case I honestly apologise, that is not how it came across in the newspaper article I read, which gave the impression that they bought the company when it was cheap, waited until they could make a huge profit, and then left. That just proves that you should never take newspaper reports at face value! Again - apologies.

[Canva]

I must admit that (going on reports linked to in this thread) I got it wrong! I had always thought that when Serif was bought back (from the American company that purchased it,) the new owners had real faith and interest in the company and it's products. It would now appear that they were just a couple opportunists who saw a good business deal and, having now made a "made a killing", couldn't care less what happens to the company. I honestly think that Ash and the rest of the staff are being as honest and positive as they can be, but I am still very concerned about just how much control "Serif" will now have over it's own future. Businessmen (like politicians) make all sorts of promises, then "circumstances change" or there are "outside forces, over which they have no control", so they backtrack or even do a complete reversal of what they had promised! (As we have already seen!) I really hope Canva do have a genuine interest in the future of Affinity, but once they "float" and have public shareholders, who are only interested in dividends, (rather than the shares belonging to owners/management who have some real involvement in the company,) nothing is certain.

I do hope for the best, and I have no intention of deserting Affinity at the moment. Having said that, I won't be investing any more cash in addons etc, and I will be checking out possible alternatives to Affinity (I'm a bit of a "belt and braces" person!), until I see exactly which way the wind is blowing!