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  1. Archangel
    I figured they were catering to people with larger monitors and higher resolutions, however, it would be nice to see them make allowances for people with smaller resolutions who use the software as well. Thanks for your help.
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    The TAB key may work, but I would be working blind to work out which button was being highlighted. The upper x close option fails to implement the reset. Wouldn't a scroll bar on the side of the dialogue/requester which allows one to scroll through the options be more useful?
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    Using the CTRL loading option on Affinity Photo brings up the reset dialogue on my Lenovo T430, but unfortunately, the dialogue is too big to fit on the screen. I am unable to access the buttons at the bottom of the dialogue to effect their operation. 1399 x 768 is the maximum resolution on this computer. Is there a hotkey to access the button to okay the reset? I see no other way to achieve the appropriate result.
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    You are possibly correct. I haven't used an e-reader for a while, but my old Amazon Kindle supported mobi-pocket and PDF as ebook formats. No e-pub though.
  5. Archangel
    Try again, I've uploaded a better image
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    Continuing my work with Affinity Photo and DAP Pro 7 I created this portrait version of a photograph that came with DrawPlus X8. The painting effect was enhanced by the use of Tone Mapping and the development persona to give it an authentic painted look. The small JPG was exported from Affinity Photo. I hope you can see the paintbrush textures.
  7. Archangel
    Excellent work.
  8. Archangel
    DAP messy felt tip painting affinity photo file imported from PSD. Each layer will demonstrate how the artwork is compiled based on an original photo. The Affinity Photo file is half the size of the imported PSD and yet retains all the detail. This should be enough to illustrate its usefulness as part of an Affinity Work Flow. Enjoy playing with the files. 061218k0024_DAP_ALL__FeltTip_V7(FeltTip_V7_Messy).afphoto
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    True. It appears only to run as an emulated application for Mac. I don't know how well the emulated app works.
  10. Archangel
    Pizza1_DAP_Vegetables.afphotoI have been experimenting with Mediachance Dynamic Auto Painter Pro and seeing how its output can integrate into an Affinity Workflow. I processed an image from my DrawPlus X8 samples directory and painted a new image based on a vegetable collage. DAP allows an output in the form of a multilayered PSD file which will import into Affinity apps very well. So if you are interested in using this painting app with Affinity, then you can see that it will be a very useful addition to your creative library of apps. Here is an example of the output and an Affinity Photo file which I saved from the process for you to examine and see if it would be useful for you. There are three layers in the simplified Affinity Photo file based on the simplified PSD. You might like to experiment with them. Other painting styles are supported with quite a bias toward Van Gogh and Benson. Enjoy.
  11. Archangel
    You already have a fixed layout e-book format in PDF. Surely reflowable would be more useful to implement first.
  12. Archangel
    The question is why are we limited to Hunspell hyphenation dictionaries? Are there no other free-to-use dictionaries that could be implemented in Affinity in a supplementary fashion?
  13. Archangel
    I recently transferred this image from DrawPlus X8 as an SVG file and found the quality to be very good indeed. It worked very well in Affinity Designer and the other apps, so well done Serif. It is quite a large (complicated) SVG but retains all the details from the original DrawPlus sample image file. This we can work with. A low-quality JPEG is also included so you can see approximately how it should look. This is only included for demonstration purposes (fair use) and not for any infringement of copyright. I am impressed with the compatibility. I would love to know how to create this, or something similar, from scratch using Affinity Designer. Teddy Bear.svg
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    They are totally unrelated, except that they originate from the same company, which is obviously a relationship. I would have thought that the SMF format could have been brought forward into the Affinity suite, as it obviously was created to provide high-quality transfer of images between applications. Unless that is, they have developed something better, in which case importing their own proprietary legacy format would have been a useful addition Mind you with the Mac being the primary platform for Affinity that may not have been on their minds.
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    I think it is about time Autofit (text to frames) functionality was added to Publisher, and possibly Designer and Photo. It is a quick fix for many people who wish to knock up quick layouts and make them look reasonably professional very quickly. PagePlus had impressive functionality in this area and it would be a boon to Affinity. Mind you some may find this feature a little bit (amateur) in use as well thought out publications would not rely on on-the-fly text size adjustment. It should definitely be developed before V3 becomes a reality.
  16. Archangel
    Or RawTherapee
  17. Archangel
    A new feature request may be required with a link to this thread.
  18. Archangel
    Maybe its time to implement a feature that will optionally allow cutting and pasting to keep cross-references attached.
  19. Archangel
    Ashampoo have a free Photos app which may be worth investigating. They also have a paid-for Photo Commander app. I think that these are windows only though. Note I have lined to the free software page only. https://www.ashampoo.com/en-us/free-downloads?category=0&os=21&language=0&type=free
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    I have asked the author if he will provide the app as a plugin for Affinity Photo and he is willing to do so. He just needs the Affinity team to provide him with the information necessary to write the appropriate code to work with Photo. For me, it replaces the Instant Artist feature that was included with Photoplus, Serif's older graphics software.
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    Absolutely, maybe Publisher could get the facility to accept plugins. Including an internal offline grammar checker would also be useful.
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    This is very sad news indeed, but one has to go where the market leads, Pageplus and the whole Plus range were always seen as a toy set of products by most professionals and only useful for the home consumer and small charity outlets. It is a shame that they missed out on some very good software. Maybe linking Affinity to their Plus range would be to brand their new software as inferior to the Adobe, Quark and Corel offerings. Something they do not wish to do.
  23. Archangel
    I use QR Code Generator Pro available on Microsoft Store (The Pro version is paid for but allows SVG export.)
  24. Archangel
    I agree that Serif would benefit from creating a media manager Lightroom alternative, another option would be to allow Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher to link to an already existing alternative such as Faststone viewer, XnViewMP, Darktable or Digikam. Of course, this might be difficult to achieve with Serif's software development policy.
  25. Archangel
    Perhaps, if you post a thumbnail of the poster so people do not have to download and open it to see it, you will get more responses. That way more people will be able to react to it without downloading. Maybe like this?
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