PaulEC

"I put Famous old ship into BIng and it gave a list." That's why they ban the use of mobile phones during quizzes! 😁

I think, as pioneer pointed out, you have to remember that these sort of "pub quizzes" are intended for a team of mixed players, not individuals. Everyone will have different interests and ranges of knowledge. It's hardly surprising that individuals may struggle with any general knowledge quiz. After all, what exactly is "general knowledge"? Some subjects may be familiar and seem like "common knowledge" to some people, whilst other people see the same things as strange and unusual. For example, I'm usually OK with questions about the arts, history and so on, but I have virtually no clue when it comes to sport, contemporary music or reality TV! On the other hand, I'm sometimes surprised by other peoples apparent complete lack of knowledge about some things that I would have thought were common knowledge, yet they turn out to be experts on things that are a "closed book" to me! It's more difficult than you might think to come up with quiz questions that are not either unfathomable by some people, nor idiotically simple for others, and try to get a balance that everyone will enjoy trying to answer! (Which is, at the end of the day the purpose of these quizzes – to enjoy them!)

There are, of course, plenty of templates available for Affinity, it's just they they are not provided for free with the software. For example: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/20-top-class-templates-for-affinity-publisher/

I'm not sure how many of the millions of users are forced, unwillingly, to use it by their employers; but at least the employers are (presumably) happy with it! Actually, my last employer gave me the choice of Adobe or Affinity software and I chose to use Affinity!

One does wonder why they would use Affinity if they are not happy with it! – Seems a little perverse to continue to use software that you don't like! If, like the OP, you feel that the lack of a feature, such as ready made templates, means that Affinity is not suitable for your needs, there are other alternatives. Indeed, if you would rather pay a monthly fee for Adobe, because you get a few free templates, rather than buying Affinity for a, one off, very reasonable price and then purchase templates separately if you want them, that's your choice!

Serif's old PagePlus software came with, literally, hundreds of templates, personally I never used any of them! This was for two reasons. Firstly, that none of them was ever exactly what I wanted and it seemed easier just to start from scratch. Secondly, I didn't want my work to be like all the other publications that other people produced, using the same templates. I have no problem with Serif producing templates if there is enough demand for them, but I do feel that they should be sold separately, not included with the software. Someone has to be paid to design templates (just like anything else) and I don't want either to have to pay for something I never use, nor to have resources diverted from developing the actual software.

Just being pedantic (nothing new there!), but if the book title is what I think it is, then it should not start with the definite article.

The original post was actually answered in the first couple of posts following it. The OP then asked (rather vaguely) about poor quality scans, but apparently objects to being asked to provide screen recordings that clearly show the problem. Therefore "random folks" are doing their best to help, with what little information they have been given. I am a little surprised that so many "random folks" actually bother to try to help some people in these forums, when all they get for their efforts are rudeness and insults!

The easiest thing would be to create a document with two, single, A4 landscape pages, and put a vertical guide in the centre of each page for the fold. You don't really need a booklet feature for a single sheet of paper, folded in half!

When you are using the Eraser you have "Wet edges" set!

I seem to remember that another reason given for removing the larger presets was that Serif decided to only list sizes that could be printed on a domestic, desktop printer. Considering that the Affinity software is aimed at professional users, I'm a little surprised that they (apparently) think that professionals only produce work to be printed on domestic printers!

Personally I would prefer to do it the other way – rename, and change the icon, for the Vector Crop Tool. (The Photo version of the Crop Tool is more familiar to many users and works in a similar way to most other photo editing software.)

I assume you mean kerning as you want to adjust the space between two letters, not a paragraph of text (which is tracking). If so, you need to place the cursor between the two letters, not highlight them. https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/trackingKerning.html&title=Tracking and kerning

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you’re not the only person to suggest having one piece of software to do everything. But, what about the people who don’t want or need all three apps? If they just want to edit photos, or produce illustrations, why would they want one big app that is full of functions that they might just find confusing and why would they want to pay for it? I really don’t see much advantage in one app, rather than the three integrated ones that we have now. It obviously depends on how you work, but I tend to do a job in one app at a time, I rarely need to keep changing from one app to another. If I do need to do so StudioLink and “open in” work perfectly well.

I would have thought that the best thing would have been to contact Vectorstock(?) and tell them that it is described as being on a transparent background, not a chequered one, and that is how you expect it to be supplied! As it is it's not as described, nor fit for purpose!

I've said this umpteen times: it's quite beyond me how and why Serif decide to make some settings sticky (like the number of pages in a new document), but not others (like always exporting as single pages). Why on earth can't they just let the user decide what defaults they want?

–1 for this idea! The last thing I want is for edited photos to be saved in the same folder that I opened the original from. I'd much rather it defaulted to whichever folder I last chose to save a project to. I always rename edited photos, I never overwrite the original, and I don't want them mixed up in the same folder. Rather than having a set default just leave the choice to the user!

To be honest, the first screen grab looks like it's more or less full screen, but the second one looks like it's just the File Explorer window, not full screen. As v_kyr says, you can change the global text size in Windows, but I can't see how this could affect some windows and not others.

Just to be clear, are you saying that the text in the File Explorer window is smaller if you open it when you are using Affinity Photo than it is when you are using other apps? If so, would it be possible to attach a couple of full screen grabs showing this?

The OP said "I would like to be able to switch between the two to compare how the crop looks. I have never discovered a way to do this." Rather than using two layers as was suggested, the easiest way is to click "Reveal" so that you can still see the whole image beyond the crop area. I really can't see what else is remotely complicated about cropping!

RIGHT! – Sorry, I was trying to be ironic. but it seems that some people think that principles of design are more important than usability in software!

Great, so just get rid of the option and everyone will be happy! (Except, possibly, the people who do find it useful and think that usability is more important than principles of UI design.)

Some brushes do not support hardness, try using one of the basic brushes.

Thanks, but I think one of us is getting confused between the Asset's Panel and using Place with multiple files!