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Would be nice if we could edit the presets from that dropdown when adding a new artboard. Or at least give more variety, some print presets too.

@giaco51 I didn't see those videos. Where are they? I made some tests for myself, experimenting with the Data Merge feature, and all works well on Windows. I used a single .xlsx file, and a simple product catalog layout, with prices, product names, discount values and a photo for the products. I suppose the text data merge function works well for you. For the images you need to have the source path for the images in the spreadsheet document. You need to add an image frame into your design on the existing Data Merge Layout. Select your image frame, then double click the image path field on the fields panel (View>Studio>Fields). Is this what you're looking for or something else?

If you missed it somehow, Data Merge is available in the latest betas.

Have my vote for the feature. An offline, AI based solution for quick background removals would be great!

@serif, any chance you'll add the Symbols panel to Publisher? That's an important feature of a DTP software.

Also this makes almost impossible to use assets downloaded from stock sites... Most .EPS files have many artifacts, due to the hairline problem in case an asset was flattened before upload.

All these tips are good, but this should look good without any workarounds

Yes, we need this Affinity... nondestructive workflow can work with a "crop to selection" functionality too. I don't see any problems with that. Just implement this feature please

@Serif Plaease make this happen. This feature is very important. That's the first thing I set when I install any Affinity apps on Desktop. It would be nice if we could do the same on iPad. That light background is not good for battery or late night drawing / design sessions.

I don't have to touch Suitcase to reproduce the problem. Check the recording I sent to Affinity Support in mail: http://cloud.movavi.com/show/7uAMkmX9xBCOKd3rUqNz0FJgEb8swZWL As you can see all Affinity Apps crash when I try to access the brush panel. I'll attach a font that almost always cause problems. If it's activated, apps crash, if not (and there are no other problematic fonts in active state), apps load. Of course if the brush panel is not open by default, or if I do not open it, everything works well. Fonts were activated way before I recorded the video, so there are no fonts activating in the background. Let me know if I can provide any more information. Thank you for your time. Problematic Font.zip

Yes, the problem is present with 1.8.2 too. Suitcase indeed can autoactivate fonts when a certain app is starting up, but I do not use that feature, because I use all the affinity apps, so It's better to keep activated what I need all the time. So in my case Suitcase does not activate any fonts during the startup of Designer, Photo or Publisher. I was testing my font collection, but the results are inconsistent. Sometimes a font causes problems, sometimes does not. The weird thing is that, when the apps have started and I activate the fonts afterwards, everything works well during that session, all fonts are working. But if I restart Designer, it crashes (in case the Brush Panel is open). What's the connection between the brushes and the fonts? How come everything else works, including the fonts themselves, the character panel, the paragraph settings, but if the brushes are activated, the app crashes.

Update: 03.24.2020 Looks like the problem now is generated by certain fonts. I'm not sure what is happening. Sometimes if a font is active, affinity won't start if the Brush Panel is open or crashes if I open it from a closed or collapsed state. Other times those fonts do not generate any problems. It's worth to mention, that I'm using Suitcase Fusion v19.1.1. I've been using this without any problems in the past. Anyone using this font management tool?

This still seems slow to me (in Affinity Publisher 1.8.2). Compared to how this forum scrolls for example (and anything else actually), the pages / spreads studio scrolls way too slow. Looks like it scrolls only one line at a time, disregarding the global scroll settings.

@farbenfeuer see the above. The app just does what you tell it to do. However I still think this is not how it should behave, especially on export persona. @R C-R If the exported image wouldn't contain the 1px empty lines where the rounding happens, it would be a much better option. So if a file is 2344.45px wide, it should be converted to 2344px instead of 2345px, and the white lines would disapper.

I can confirm. This works much better now with 1.8, even on very small scale objects too. Good job Serif!