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Self Explanatory. Cannot adjust the level of background grey in all three applications on Windows 11 desktop machine. Thank you.

Thanks Garry for pointing this out. I've been so distracted waiting for the Preview window (which seems to be related to the Estimated File Size) to calculate I completely missed the obvious. Shows just how easy it is to distract our attention from something right in front of our eyes. As the Preview window is so small I wonder why it needs to be there at all, especially as it seems to only display Page 01? I cannot seem to be able to disable it. Anyone know why it takes so long? I have a new computer with a 12C/24T chip, 64 Gb Ram and running the software off an extremely fast Samsung M2 drive? Thanks. Really impressed with the Software Suite 2.0.4 now that it comes with MSI installers.

When in Publisher about to export to PDF format adjusting various render options it would be so helpful to get a real-time calculation of the final pdf file size BEFORE rendering. At present I am constantly making various adjustments and rendering to find a large pdf file, having to go through the process again and again. I'm trying to obtain the best quality verses small file size. Thank you.

I have just requested a refund. There is already enough tyranny imposed on people in the world, I don't respect software companies that enforce this approach on their customers, it's not acceptable. At this point I no longer care if Serif issue .exe files and offer a formal apology. The damage is done already. In addition I find the changes introduced into V2 underwhelming and I am quite happy to continue using V1 which already fulfils my needs very nicely. I hope Serif learns some humility from this serious error of judgement.

You are correct. My mistake. I do apologise. will try again. Thanks for pointing this out. Long stressful day so far.

Opened a Publisher document created in version 1 and resaved it as version 2 file. Apparently everything appears OK. However when exporting all spreads to PDF instead of creating one small pdf file (i.e. 5 KB as in version 1) it splits them into individual page PDFs that total huge MB. Some major bug needs fixing here. And I'm sorry to say that I have not even begun to put this software through its paces yet.

Just bought the Suite and could not find the installation files so was unable to create shortcuts and worse unable to find a way to run the software! The only way I could launch the software was to double-click on the downloaded installation files which gave me the option to Launch from there. Total irritation and confusion. However in the meantime after much faffing about through the Forum I discovered to my dismay that these are "App" files and do not install into the Program folder of my C drive and do not appear in my Programs & Features... How do I uninstall them? I absolutely hate this unexplained change to installing/removing software and am not happy with the way this has been implemented, particularly as no advanced notification (as far as I could tell) was given. I very much like what Serif is doing with Affinity and love the software but cannot stand this insane change to the standard installation procedure. Please Serif fix this unwanted installation mess asap. and please retain some independence from the dumbing-down that Micro$oft continually applies to Windows in the so-called attempt to make it better. I sincerely hope you listen.

Worked for me too! Thanks for the information. All 3 Apps running perfectly.

Thank you CedarHouse, This is a fundamental issue we are talking about here -- fundamental. Affinity can have all the fantastic bells and whistles and bling you can throw at it but without fixing this issue Affinity Photo, as far as my work is concerned, is basically useless. It makes me very sad to have to say that here on this forum. I cannot understand why there are not hundreds, or more, users complaining about this problem.... I can only assume there are very few people here that actually work professionally for print. Everyone working with images should watch those Photoshop Lessons. I hate to say it but Photoshop has got this absolutely right. It's very clear, concise and very very user friendly. Affinity Devs need to take a lesson from this. Even something as as basic and simple as setting up a new photo document in Affinity Photo is confusion and clumsy. This resize/re-sample subject really does need some serious attention to fix this, otherwise, in its current state, no working designer in print can take this software as a serious replacement for Photoshop.

Surprised at lack of response so far. So let's make this as clear as possible. Using Photoshop: Create a new document 5" x 5 " (3000 x 3000 px) at 600 dpi. Save it and reopen it to check same details are correct. OK. Now change from 600 to 300 dpi WITHOUT re-sampling = size doubles to 10" x 10" at 300 dpi (3000 x 3000 pxs). Which is exactly what I want. Exactly the same procedure applies when using Corel Painshop Pro. Why can I not easily do this in Affinity Photo? I do a lot of stuff for print and that involves scanning images... which I always do at a higher dpi value so it enables me to easily enlarge the picture, and still hit above 300dpi if required and/or downsample if not. This is absolutely key to my work. As a busy graphic designer working with lots of text and images I need a latitude of flexibility that is constantly changing throughout the design process. It is not an exact science -- I don't know exactly how large (or small) the pictures are going to be until I'm actually well into the layout, I don't even necessarily know exactly how many pages I'm going to end up needing! So you get the idea. So scanning images with higher than 300 dpi is critical to my print work. So back to Affinity Photo. So lets create a new custom document 5" x 5" at 600 dpi (3000 x 3000 px). Now let's say I want to enlarge the output print size of the image (because I need a bigger picture). I open the resize document dialog box I change the 600 dpi to 300 dpi and DISABLE resampling, the image size should double to 10" x 10" which is exactly what I want, right. BUT I end up with a 300 dpi image STILL at the same size of 5" x 5" NOT WHAT I WANT. This makes using Affinity Photo for print work unusable for me, also I have lost confidence in the product as I cannot get to do what I want. Can someone please explain how I achieve this in Affinity Photo? Can it be done at all? If I'm missing something here please let me know. I really want to use this software, but at the moment I have to do ALL my resizing/resampling in Photoshop because it works exactly as I expect it to and Affinity Photo does not. Thank you in advance.

I scan an 11 inch x 8 inch BW photo at 800 dpi saved as a windows tiff file. Open it in APhoto select resize document to 300 dpi with the resample option disabled. Image size as displayed in dialogue boxes is now 31 inches x 22 inches (which is what you would expect). Click resize. Open document resize to check and it displays the original size 11 x 8 inch dimensions now at 300 dpi. Did the same procedure in Photoshop and it worked exactly as expected. So something appears very seriously wrong here. Anyone confirm please?

Hi Walt -- many thanks for pointing that out. I had missed the cog-wheel on the "Find" section completely but had opened and checked the cog options on the "Replace" drop-down. Very helpful forum, very pleased to be a member. Thanks again.

I know Point Size can be changed by various means (using the Character and Paragraph Panels for example) however using dual display monitors my second display is quite cluttered with floating menus so all the information I need is always available -- great detail. I'm finding that when I work with text point size it is more convenient for me to pop up to the Menu bar and click on the Point Size drop-down menu. However the drop down menu only displays point sizes larger than those I am currently using which makes it awkward and irritating to scale back the point size. What I am suggesting is that the drop-down menu contains the current point size centered with smaller point sizes above as well as larger point sizes below. Also can anyone please tell me if there is a quick key-stroke to change currently selected text up and down a point. Does it exist? And if not could it please be implemented. Thank you.

Just started using Find & Replace only to discover it does not have "find whole word" option. Big omission. Also a "search forward" / "search back" option would assist enormously. Thank you.

I like using the Dark UI but when I have several documents open at once the active document Tab is hard to identify, resulting in my closing down the document I'm working on by mistake. I've done this many times so far and is very irritating. The Light UI appears to provide more contrast and is easier to use. However I like the Dark. Might I suggest that the open project name in the currently active Tab could appear in colour (perhaps user defined in preferences?). Failing that then by adding a small red dot to the active Tab would help enormously. Thank you.