PaulEC

I assume that this is the same sort of thing that Jaspero is talking about - I've always found it odd that if you start with a publication with facing pages, put a photo across a spread, then change the document set-up to single pages, the picture is only on one of the two pages. I would have thought that it should still show on both pages.

It really comes down to what you want to do. Very basically, if you're only doing single page designs, Designer and/or Photo will probably do all you want. If you need to create multipage publications (books, booklets etc) Publisher is better. Personally I'd say that (Especially at the current price,) cover all eventualities and get the whole suite. If you want to produce web pages, look elsewhere!

Strange that using a computer, rather than a tablet, is now old fashioned! I remember when a ZX Spectrum was considered quite advanced, and my first actual PC had a 1GB hard drive! 😀

I really don't see any point in displaying this information all the time, it's not like it's suddenly going to change all by itself! As for the "problem" of "pulling up the Resize Document dialog. Every damned time." Just how many times a minute do you need to change size/dpi etc? Is hitting Ctrl+Alt+I that difficult? It's really quite a good idea to learn how things work in the Affinity apps, rather than complaining that they are different to the equivalent Adobe apps. Also. I see no reason to assume that the way the Adobe apps do things is the right way, and anything else is wrong.

I suppose it depends on how you work, but personally I don't find it anymore difficult to place guides accurately when using inches than I do when using metric (I use both, depending on the project). 😉

I'd agree that it looks more "traditional" to have varying height marks on inch rulers, but I'm not sure if it makes that much difference to accuracy. You don't really need different height marks to tell the difference between half inch and quarter inch divisions. If you zoom in the divisions change, so it's quite easy to position guides manually, (if you don't want to use the Guides Manager). You can also use "Snap to grid" to help position guides accurately.

I was thinking more about the original post, referring particularly to photos. 🙂

I think one problem is that in Photo you often simply open an image, rather than starting off by creating a new document, as you would with Designer and Publisher. I would agree that being able to set default units in Photo would be very handy; I do get a bit fed up with continually having to change the units from pixels to cm.

Welcome to the forums. This is a question that really needs to be asked in the Serif legacy forums, rather than here, which is intended for the new Affinity range. Alternatively you may find it better to contact Serif directly. However, AFAIK, it is no longer possible to download MoviePlus. This has been raised before, and apparently there are problems with third party content in MoviePlus which Serif are no longer able to make use of.

Before getting my current PC, I had a very old laptop with thousands of fonts installed. It could easily take several minutes for Affinity apps to open (any time). I found the easiest solution was to start up the app, then go make a cup of coffee! 😀

This may help: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/99511-faq-how-do-i-download-workbook-resources/

This seems to happen with other apps as well; why not just use the Taskmanager?

This thread is for Windows, the mac version has already been updated to 1.9.3.

Maybe a silly question, but are you sure you are using the Paint Brush. It's not unknown for someone to think there was a bug because they were trying to paint with the Colour Replacement Brush! (FWIW - I can paint on the mask of your image with no problem.)

Have you tried deleting the thumbnail cache, as per "Method 2 - Fixing Corrupted Previews" in this link? https://www.wikihow.com/Enable-Image-Preview-to-Display-Pictures-in-a-Folder-(Windows-10)#

If you have a landscape format picture and want to print it as portrait then the only way to do it (if you don't want it distorted!) is to crop it.

When you open a new document there is an option labelled "Image placement policy" change it to "Prefer Embedded" instead of "Prefer Linked".

The "blurry" images are low res versions of the original images. As the original images were linked, rather than embedded, you will need to locate them, as per the message. If you want to use linked images in a project you really need to leave them in the same location that they were in when you linked them, so that APub can find them.

It looks OK to me, have you tried using a different PDF viewer?

I'm just guessing/hoping, but I would assume that version 2 will have some major additions and improvements to encourage people to purchase the apps again. If they don't need or want them, there's nothing to stop them continuing to use version 1. 😉 I'm also hoping (nudge, nudge; wink, wink) that Serif may introduce a small discount for people who buy all three apps at the same time. (Which I assume you'll have to do if you want to use Studio Link.)

Add the adjustment layer, right click on it and select "Mask to below".

You could try: Edit - Preferences - Performance - untick "Hardware Acceleration: Enable OpenCL compute acceleration". Having it enabled seems to cause various problems for some people.

Versuchen Sie, einen Punkt anstelle eines Kommas als Trennzeichen zu verwenden.

I'm sorry, I think we have to agree to disagree! 🙂

I don't know much about coding, so have no idea how easy it would be, I just don't see what use it would be! 🙂