Move Along People

Never! "Adobe is going to make Serif an offer they can't refuse."
Who knows what will come. Personally I was surprised that PDF Passthrough is coming before 2.0.

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So, https://affinitysoftware.com.au/ are legit resellers for Australia/New Zealand and neighbouring islands but their website should not be accessible to users outside of those regions. Also, the 'Multi-Platform' wording is also incorrect. We'll speak with them to get access and the wording corrected - thanks for bringing it to our attention 👍

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I haven't had a problem with any I have tried so far...Have you tried rebooting the Mac? I find it can often resolve some of these problems
It is early days and I am sure they will get it sorted for all of us

Yes that too .... more caffeine needed again 😂

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Yes! We are still working on aspects of our PDF importer that converts PDF to native Affinity, not least the lack of support for embedded fonts, and it is the PDF importer that is used to create the on-screen representation. The alternative is to embed the placed PDF data directly into the exported PDF, i.e. simply ‘pass it through’. Since we are not manipulating the PDF data in any way via this route we expect good results.

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Hi haakoo,
Thanks again. Issue logged to be looked at.

I can confirm all of the behaviours mentioned above.
Best regards!

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Hi haakoo,
Thanks for pointing this out. Issue logged to be looked at.

@haakoo Thank you! That does work.

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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Fixes
Added initial support for hardware acceleration (must be enabled in Preferences | Performance, "Enable OpenCL compute acceleration") Added benchmark capability (Help | Benchmark) Added Text on Path Added more filter support for masks / adjustments / spare channels (Add Noise, Perlin Noise, etc.) Added ability to edit a spare channel in the Channels panel to edit it like a layer (single click the channel) Improved Blend modes to work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.) Added a new Divide blend mode Added "Create from centre" for the Elliptical Marquee tool Added ability to snap to the bounds of the pixel selection Added ability to create brushes from the current pixel selection with one click 1.8.5.703 release notes

Thanks for pointing that out dominik. I keep forgetting about that. It’s a much quicker method.
I’ve attached a new video showing how to do it the way you suggest.
2020-09-16_09-44-30.mp4

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Thanks for the prompt and thorough reply..
I am not trying to use Artboards, that is just way it works, isn't it?  They are automatically created as a file is dropped into Designer.
So if I then shrink it and copy it to a second, it is on an Artboard because Designer is not intelligent enough to know it can't really do what I am about to do??  If it shouldn't do something, why does it do it, create a nasty looking error, yet NOT put up any flags whatsoever to tell the increasing exasperated user what they/it shouldn't have done?  Not very good at error catching..
Your answer sent me straight back to the programme and I found out, quite by chance, that I could delete an Artboard and keep the objects ,, BUT each A4 picture (they actually came from .pdfs so that explains the way there were handled by Designer.. We learn summat everyday ... ) consisted of 2 Artboards side by side .. When I went to delete the 2nd Artboard but keep objects, all that was deleted were the objects from the first..    Your answer explained a lot, thanks very much .. but also revealed that Designer is probably becoming too complicated.  Middle Aged bloat catching up maybe..
 
Thanks again.
Richard
PS  A correctly labelled picture is worth a 1000 words, ain't it??    So Y can't we label 'em? If this platform displayed the captions of pictures it might have been (much) more obvious what I was doing ... 

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could be clearer

Thanks Haakoo, that helps. 

No
They are not, we are on a different road wide awake.
That has been asked and answered by other staff here, I have no contribution to make to that. 

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