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Excellent! Many thanks. S

Hi, I hope that someone will be able to offer some advice on how I might fill an irregular shape with a striped fill. I have attached a screen shot of my starting point along with the Affinity file. I wish to add two further parallel stripes making three in total. Each stripe should end at the boundary of the yellow shape and the distance between them should be equal. I have tried to have the two object snap together but have failed despite playing with the snap settings. I wonder if it is possible to have the yellow box act as a constraining frame or mask but again I can't see how to achieve my aim. best wishes S BlackYellowStripedFill.afdesign

Just tried the cog tool, I can't find a way of filling individual segments but that could just be me.

I was 3 minutes behind you. The donut tool is certainly the better way of creating the circular segments and as you say allows for duplication and resizing. Thanks again, S

Great, thanks for the help. Now redrawn with a good overlap and the self inflicted issue is solved. Now I'll try with the donut tool. best wishes S

I am not experienced with Affinity Designer and have run into an issues when merging two shapes. Following the merge the new shape still shows an internal stroke line at the point of join. I suspect that the issue is to do with the complex method at arriving at the two shapes. Both shapes were constructed from using the pie tool to create a thin wedge that was itself "cut" using a circle with a smaller diameter. Once a single shape was created it was duplicated and rotated about the centre of the original circle forming a ring of shapes. The process was repeated creating a second inner circle of shapes (green). Please see the attached screen shot. I wish to merge a couple of the inner and outer segments creating two larger shapes. When I select an inner and outer shape and press the add button the two are joined but the inner join line remains. I have cut two pieces out should anyone care to try and reproduce or fix the problem. I have confirmed that simple shapes may be added without internal stroke lines appearing. best wishes S MergefailureExample.afdesign

Well, when I last checked the Affinity apps were graphics intensive so it is useful to know of other users experiences running the applications on different hardware to help decide if it is worth spending hundreds of pounds for an upgraded computer. Sorry if you feel I have wasted your time. Lastly I no longer need portable computing which is why I'm considering the mac mini range of machines. Thanks for the link, I've only managed a quick look but will have a more detailed review later today. It looks like the base M2 will be plenty powerful for my needs. Thanks.

Thanks for your experiences. Based on them, reading further about what Apple has designed into the Silicon and the fact that I have used Macs for decades I will be getting a mac mini. I'm just trying to decide if I need the extra power of the pro or should stay with the cheaper M2.

Maybe! However there is no harm in knowing what the alternatives are. Mind you I'm not convinced that SSD failure is a massive issue especially in my use case. It seems that Apple provide two recovery partitions and as long as one of those is functioning the machine will boot from an external boot drive.

Hi, My late 2013 machine is showing its age so I have been looking at the new M2 mac minis. However, forum user Chills comments in another thread make a case against the new macs on the basis of single points of failure meaning that when the SSD fails the machine is pretty much destined for recycling or landfill and this may occur in only four years depending on how much disk thrashing occurs. So I'm thinking of possibly going to a Windows machines and wonder what the key specifications are for editing 20 MegaPixel camera raw files in both Affinity and DxO Photolab?

I apologise if this is answered elsewhere but my searches have not found anything definite. My daughter is an art and design student and is twisting my arm so that I buy her an ipad pro. My issue is that I'm not an ipad convert so have not followed their progress (not enough ports for me) so I wonder which options I should be looking at. My daughter also has an M1 Macbook Air so there is no reason why she can't archive older project/files to disc via airdop and her laptop The price of an ipad is driven by the SSD storage and starts at 128Gbytes and I am think of getting her the 256Gbyte machine; is this a wise choice? The next question is which screen size 11 inch or 12.9 inch? Is there much difference in portability between the two? I imagine that a larger screen is better for graphics work but having seen neither its hard to decide so what are your thoughts based on real world use? best wishes Simon

Hi, First thanks for the replies and Paul the template. In the end I have created a template that splits the A3 into eight cells by declaring two rows and four columns. The "zine" she wants to produce is only printed on one side of the A3 sheet as the sheet is first folded in half along the longest crease leaving the eight zine pages on the outside of the fold. Next it is folded in half and then half again with the creases made in both directions. Open the sheet out and make a single cut from the middle of the long crease exactly one page width in both directions or a cut that is half the length of the page centred on the page. Next remake the long fold and hold the sheet at the left are right edges and slowly bring your hands and the sheet together so that the crease in the middle facing you comes toward you and the crease on the other side creases away from you. Keep moving your hands together until you form a cross when viewed from above. Lastly form the booklet by moving each arm of the cross into your left hand. Its harder to describe than do. best wishes Simon Template-Zine-8pg-A3.aftemplate

Hi, I have been asked to produce a template that so for my daughter who is an Art and Design student so she may create what she calls a "zine" on a single sheet of paper. The zine is created by printing eight "zine pages" onto the paper and then cutting and folding the A3 sheet into what I would call a booklet. The obvious approach is to create a template that has defined eight page zones that she may drop her creations into. The minor issue is that four of these zones will be inverted when on the template. Each zone will be A6 sized and be printed in the following order on an A3 sheet : Top row (all inverted on the screen) : z7, z6, z5, z4 ; bottom row z8, z1, z2, z3 . I wonder if there is a method where I define eight A6 pages and have publisher print these out in a defined order and orientation onto the single sheet of A3 sized paper? best wishes Simon Locked down owner of an A3+ printer, Affinity publisher and occasional Art Tech

Curious, when I last read the thread the post from Old Bruce was missing. Thanks all for confirming that there is no option to gang info panels.

Thanks for your reply. My question is can the two (or more) locked targets be ganged together to show numeric data from the same pixel at the same time?