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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.

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?

Thank you @MikeTO You are a legend.

Yes it looks like this is a necessary development the Affinity needs to embrace. So +1 from me,

Cheers, Mike. This is excellent .

An acrobat that does not have to be licensed from Adobe. Very well done.

Serif is concentrating on print publishing and not e-publishing in any form, at least not in the foreseeable future. They provided support in their previous DTP software but I believe they are more focussed on printed output hoping to get that done to the best of their ability. I do not know if they have e-publishing in their distant road map. You will have to wait for a staff member to comment.

Here is Freetone, a PANTONE alternative if anyone is interested. https://culturehustle.com/products/freetone

Someone has provided a Freetone Colour Palette which may interest you.. https://culturehustle.com/products/freetone

We have to admire the spunk of the OP in bringing this to our attention. (P.S. It also means pluck.) At least it isn't German filler text, there could be far too many sixes in that source text.

Fotosketcher 3.90 is now available with a new painting style and scripting support. It also has the ability to use multiple painting styles one after the other. https://fotosketcher.com/1

Cool. Personally I use QR Code Generator Pro on Windows. There is a free version without the Pro label. https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PB220Q9NZZR https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NQZGS8WZLH2

Green Street Publisher also had this functionality. Maybe Publisher could support plugins/extensions which could add extra functionality like barcodes.

I don't want to put you off using Publisher but have you looked at using either Only Office, or LibreOffice instead?They may gave the facilities you require built in or enabled with extensions.

Do you think the Data Merge faculty could be co-opted to provide a flexible bibliography if the information had been entered on a spread sheet and exported as a csv? Or has data merge not got the required flexibility? It's not something I have used myself.

I think they would need someone more professional than me. I only use the layout software for my own creative content which I can only do part time as I look after my father. You would need someone with a more dedicated work flow and probably access to broadband. All my internet is done over LTE functions on my phone. Broadband is far too expensive. Downloads are not fast and uploads are even slower, reminiscent of dialup I would think. However, I will keep it in mind. If things change then I may join the beta testers.

Well, if they need extra time to get it right then good luck to them. Better a fully working feature than a feature which is only partly or shoddily implemented. It means they are taking the feature seriously and that can only be a good thing.

The one thing I was really looking forward to in the 2.1 release of Publisher were the long awaited cross references. It seems it didn't make it into the final release. Still, never mind. I love the running headers. Mind you considering PagePlus X9 had problems with cross references, maybe the wait will be worth it. Hopefully they will add captions and tables of figures as well. That would provide a really powerful facility.

My favourite locomotive from the steam age. Streamlined and powerful. Very well done sir.

Congratulations, the static fonts are downloaded with the variable fonts but are in the static sub-directory.

Well spotted

Just, had someone attempt hacking my phone account via sending a code. Not sure if it is related but keep aware guys/

Well if you downloaded the font into a download folder and unzipped it. you should be OK to right click on the filename of the otf or ttf file to install it on windows with the context menu option. I just tried it and windows installed the files correctly.

This is unacceptable. Although I blame the hackers more than Serif for the attack. Security online is a minefield of problems, It is scary.

This is not a silly request. Adding this sort of functionality to a suite of applications which includes all you need for creating print publications is really a sensible idea. Implementation of a full font editor persona into Affinity would perhaps be preferable to simply allowing a basic export of designer vectors into a simple font file. However, it sounds like a major effort of system designer and programmer time to implement it in a high quality and professional manner. If it were successfully implemented then Affinity would become a suite with serious clout in the creative field much more than it currently has. Although the purchase price of the software would also have to increase substantially. Plugin support maybe the way to go for this to allow third party programs to fill the gap.