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  1. Suggest that Preferences>Auto-Correct includes an option to Ignore Capitalised. It doesn't know all the place-names in the world and these crop up as errors, needing attention to shorten the list. 


    The Word exclusions would be a good idea too -
    image.png.1904dff73634fe0f0bda90d0df7f783c.png

    Cheers!

    David

  2. - and it's not AffPub's fault! I thought I'd mention this in case anyone else has the same problem.

    I tried to Place an Image but could only select the file: after a moment AffPub crashed. Repeatedly.

    Turns out it's a Windows/User problem: the filename was too long -

    'Microsoft Windows has a MAX_PATH limit of ~256 characters. If the length of the path and filename combined exceed ~256 characters you will be able to see the path/files via the Windows Explorer, but may not be able to delete/move/rename these paths/files.'

    I couldn't even shorten the filename - had to open it and resave with a shorter name. AffPub likes me now.

    David

  3. Well, I honestly didn't think it would, but it has!
    image.png.d47ddd0b3c48a23a6b71d62b4f153b89.png

    PDF on the left, AffPub on the right. Thank you VERY much Dan! Colour picker picks up a VERY slight difference but insignificant.

    I really did not see how it could be a screen problem, so good job someone knew better than me (not for the first time)

    Isn't this an excellent forum? When I'm advising people to try Affinity products I always mention the help we get in the forums.

    Take care,

    David

  4. Hi all,

    This is apparently a simple problem but I've no idea of the answer. Basically, why do I set one (RGB) colour in AffPub but see another on screen? And, before you leap to tell me, I don't think it's what you think.

    Here's my partial screendump.

    image.png.a118fe72bae0e93223d9cf6729d3300b.png

    You can see I've set RGB 70,22,100, but the colour picker sees it as 75,6,100.

    If I export the page to PDF the purple changes to blue —

    image.png.b74130bf2db851ea5055e584f26144ea.png

    — which the picker sees as 33, 0, 100. Noticeably different, but in fact this is what the AffPub RGB settings I used SHOULD produce. 

    What I sent to my mate for discussion is this —

    image.png.abc3efa9e14217e6180a263e97ac854b.png

    These don't actually look much different but they are. 

    I initially assumed I needed to adjust my screen settings but now, having talked it through with My Mate Mike, since I can see the difference on the same screen, and since he can also see a visible difference on his machine, and has also checked the visible colour difference, I don't see how it can be that.

    Incidentally, if I use (a very old version of) Paint Shop Pro, RGB 70,22,100 produces this —

    image.png.0b7af351218b1e4ab547e40e068bac4e.png

    — just like AffPub does, and if I save a pdf I get —

    image.png.b3e3c10fecc0954fdbaf7f5436c3b425.png

    —so maybe it is something to do with my setup after all?

    This all arose because I couldn't seem to produce a nice purplish purple in the PDF I want. It's easily remedied, by setting a redder purple, but now we both want to know —

    — has anyone else come across this?

    — how do we make it right?

    Thanks in advance.

    David


    [If I produce a rectangle with the same RGB settings in AffPhoto I get —

    image.png.57a6a751fa59caa045305385955544cd.png

    — and the picker sees this as 74, 0, 101, which is quite different from the AffPhoto setting.]

  5. I've just exported to a pdf and the colour came out wrong. My Colour settings are —
    image.png.07120cb9a13b07f69b5d13d2c5c4384d.png
     

    The problem is this —

    image.png.8e21256523772d9de3bda7c3e2b2698d.png

    In the background, Publisher, on the left Foxit Reader, on the right, Adobe Acrobat Reader. To be honest, the difference doesn't look so marked here, so I've uploaded the file too (Capture.jpg): the pdfs are much bluer. This is with the new 1.1 update, but it first appeared without it. Actually the purple you see in Foxit Reader isn't what I wanted — the pdf came out blue originally and I had to mess around to get a pdf approximately what I wanted. I have n't always had this problem, it's cropped up in recent months.

    No doubt it's a setting I need to change (I haven't knowingly altered anything) so if someone could advise, I'd be grateful.

     

    David
     

    Capture.JPG

  6. This is how PSP does it—

    image.png.e5c8cb482defebf678afa6549a88916a.png

    —and I can select the whole of the white area if I want, or save it ... I'm not saying it's better, just what I'm used to, and I'd like to be able to do it in Photo.

    For instance, I quite often post books on Facebook. I copy the front image and add add white margins to left and right (which PSP does with Image>Add borders, nice and easy) so it's a suitable format (wider than tall) and just copy it in. That seems a much more complicated process with Photo.

    With Photo I open an image (just one layer, so it's selected of course), I click on Rectangular Marquee Tool, select the area I want, press Ctrl-C, and does it copy it? No!. If I paste it, it's copied the whole image. Why???? Is this normal? It works with PSP!

    So why use Photo? I want to! 

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