Move Along People

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If everything was ‘free’ it would already be there. It’s not that you’re saying something nobody thought of - it’s that for the simple case it works fine, but it doesn’t scale... with a large selection, do you really want the UI to slow down because it’s establishing if any of the items in the selection has a contour, or one of the nodes in the curves has a corner radius just so it can light up a button? It’s this kind of thing - that’s not ‘necessary’, just ‘nice’ that leads to slowdowns. I don’t want us to get slower for something that doesn’t matter most of the time. If I’ve got a contour on my object, I can see the bounding box doesn’t match the visible area. Clicking the button produces a change and I can see it did it. If you press the button and there was no work to do it does not make a change so it just doesn’t matter. Same with corners.
Regarding ‘baking’ - well I’m sorry if it makes people hungry 😋 but I thought the term was quite nice and it has been there years in the corner took. If it’s because you’d like it to be more specific (‘bake contour’, ‘bake corners’) then I agree (versus ‘bake appearance’) which again was done simply so the string could be shared across many common actions - reducing translation overhead and resource size.
Whether you or anyone else sees the ‘method’ on our apparent madness, it’s worth asking about on the forums for a sanity check, but don’t assume the worst from the start - innocent until proven guilty and all that  

To my mind, 'baking' the appearance of applied effects is an excellent term. Far more intuitively suggestive of the concept of committing to something than is 'expanding' it. What am I 'expanding' when I 'nail something down'?
JET

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If version 2.x does not bring any significant improvement over version 1.x - then who and why would buy this "upgrade" from existing users? So assuming that Serif will just change the main version - to make money, is very short-sighted. For the release of version 2.x (if it should really have a financial benefit) it will definitely have to offer a lot of functional changes and improvements.

Hi All Affinity geeks , wanted to share with you with some of my Explanatory illustration frames I done inside Affinity Designer.
Hope you like it

Yes, unfortunately a scaling percentage is not revealed for an embedded/linked document, only for an embedded/linked image file.
Scaling factors of width and height of any object could be additional fields in the Transform panel. Maybe one day.

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As you have learned PNG is not vector, so that will never work. 
If you purchased these vectors then I am 99% sure they were originally created with Adobe Illustrator as it is the standard in vector work. The 2 main formats for Illustrator is .ai and .eps. I would try and open the .ai file in Affinity as that is most likely the original file from which everything else was exported from.

How else is the app to determine what it should display?

It would be better if it was in Publisher natively. Especially when using automation software to go through multiple pages. Having to switch to Studiolink first adds unnecessary complexity. 

I suggest this painless workaround: select the two objects from the art board, group them and immediately ungroup.  You will see that the two objects are now next to each other in the layer hierarchy. You can then go ahead and clip. 

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Nice! That's about the last thing I miss from Illustrator. Will give the BETA version a try. Cheers, Bruce
 

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Hi y'all thanks for the hints.
Yes, I found about the export function in as I googled. But my "export" option was not on and was wondering what was wrong.
And the prolem was that I didn't have an opened document yet. I thougt I should first open the document as I export the file.
But the problem is solved. Thanks @GarryP & @haakoo
 

I think I can recall that it is also an option to change SHIFT+click into RIGHT click.
I found both methods very handy.
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Yes, I was talking to Ash about Mesh Fills, not geometry distortion/warping... They're obviously very similar concepts, but a mesh fill has less consequences for the document structure and rendering so is easier to slide in without any architecture changes...

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Sorry, haakoo, I'm not sure what you mean.
Publisher and Designer work identically for me. In the right-click menu for the Layers panel, Lock is a toggle. And Ctrl+L is not shown as a shortcut key because if it were shown, that would mean that one use of Ctrl+L would Lock the layer, and a second use would Unlock it. But that's not how it works. To Lock you need to use Ctrl+L and to Unlock you use Ctrl+Shift+L.
In any case, those shortcuts do not invoke the action in the right-click menu; they invoke the action in the top menu, Layer > Lock or Layer > Unlock.