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I like the version of @AdamStanislav. And the original shot, that tell a story with those sleek and modern cars in from of building mixing past —bricks, decorations on the right building— and today's modernity —middle building. The building verticals send to the black line of the cars. To explain about the red car one, I'll give a B&W version showing why I found too much "white particles" making it difficult to read: It makes it more a study about patterns, hightlights and reflections, making one forget the subject—the car—, so I would crop it or perhaps better (but no time for test), cut it to put it on a dark background:

Really nice pics. I'm just not sure about the red one. There's 3 disting parts that try to get each one our attention... the bricks wall, the car and the grainy asphalt... The car is so shiny it's slipery and I end up focusing on the asphalt... Perhaps if it was a little blured it would send back to the car. On another image, I would say there's too many lights and the eye can't focus.

And to complete about InkScape: it's using different libraries for PDF/EPS. You can see the Poppler one at work when opening a PDF and needing to convert the text as curves. Here an interesting (but old) list of Tools used: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/PDF_Tools

Sure that being able to store different paths and alpha chanels in a file is useful. You just need to select the right one as path or mask when needed, or none. Also, no need to modify or embed the file, simply a menu and a dropdown list to select mask/path and the ones available.

As already said, each format hqs its own specifications. But Adobe tend, like Microsoft did long ago with HTML, to not respect those spec'. It's not a problem of you use the same program to open the files, but with others apps. I'm sure there's options when exporting from Illustrator to get spec' compliant files —it's certainly important with some specific apps —, but those options supposedly give a warning about a different result since more "advanced" features can't be reproduced with this type of file, etc. If those sites asked for at least a version with specified specifications thay other apps could read, it would be better. Now, you can use an online app like Photopea to convert some of those EPS files to SVG (it won't be perfect, but can help).

It's not about knowing the program, it's about the app being slow each time you do an action, as simple as copy-paste text, select all, cut... go to another page and paste, etc. It takes me hours working on text of a 200-250 pages book badly formated, doing simple operations. It was the same with earlier versions (for the same reasons as @MRose, when I need to work, I do it in ID). The app remind me of time when for playing a new game you had to buy a new computer with the best specs available... at least if you want to work efficiently. I'm not sure if the app redraw every page of the book between each action, but it need seconds each time to be responsive again.

You'll notice that important suits of apps, to solve this possible problem of rewriting/deleting a file in use, found solutions to help the users.

You can also, if you've got AP, type the text, duplicate the layer, use the grid tool to modify it, and use it as base/model for modifying the text layer onve it's converted to curves. Or, when needing a simpler design, draw curves as guides and modify the text converted to curves to follow them. I did this in a work posted somewhere in the forum, but I'm not on my computer to give examples now.

Je ne comprends pas votre réponse. Les Calques agissent donc comme des calques d'autres appli, à contenir plusieurs objets (nommés "calques" sans cap dans la doc, ou selon leur type, ex. "rectangle"). Rien n'oblige a les ouvrir, les objets se positionnent automatiquement dedans dans l'ordre de création.

Like @firstdefence said, I would test also. Tiff is raster image —in some app only the preview is used for display and real data like vectors are used for exporting the file—, so a tiff preview in APub could be lighter that a full vector format like SVG. But in the past I had a project with only vectors and text and APub was terribly slow (and it keep on on my computer with 350 pages book of text with few images...)

From another thread, it's possible it only occurs after some time, when the computer is lacking ressources or memory... and can't save. I had this problem working some time on a document... I had to reopen and redo part of my work, but saving every few minutes wasn't a problem.

Ok, did you try resetting the default object style? It looks like the bug when people create new text frame and it's got a white background like the last object used from an APub document, and there's no way to modify a text frame background in AD.

Yes, that's it. I mainly use it for adding copyrights, since illustrative images don't need caption, and the ones I uses had sometimes French & English captions, so it's best to copy-paste and shorten them to get only the needed language. It's strangely a feature I wasn't able to automate with a script and have to set manually (live caption) in each document. It just need another option to select also an Object style beside the paragraph style for the text.

You need to structure more your master pages to use less of them on your pages, life will be simpler. Use margin, grid, and work on the paragraph styles, as said by @Old Bruce. Don't forget to check lines ending with a simple character, it usually mean there's a new line by error, etc. For example: (I moved the images since I hadn't the font and the text take more space and pages) sample.aaia_v2.afpub

Bonjour @Bibouk En fait, il y a les Calques (capitale), qui fonctionnent comme des calques, et ensuote, chaque objet est malencontreusement appelé "calque" (minuscule). Ajouter un Calque, avec le bouton en bas de la palette ou du menu va créer un "vrai" calque contenant d'autres simples objets (inDesign/Illustrator font de même, sauf qu'on ne trifouille jamais ces objets, on se contente de déplacer, rendre visible/verrouillé, etc. les Calques). Avec les appli Affinity, les objects (calques) sont visibles par couches, et bien plus faciles à visualiser et gérer, mais ça peut prêter à confusion.

I had this problem earlier, but now, saving every ±5 minutes, it didn't occured. I didn't check the ressources used while working, but as you said, it's probably a memory problem...

You can create an A3 document and import side by side 2 occurences of your first design. You'll just have to dupplicate the first and align with 0 between them.

...and supposing there'll be a next one, that'll be the lastest in the futur

Here a file from the preliminary search on a project (it takes longer since at some point APub beta refused to save the file and I had to redo modifications 🥵 ) _example_file.afpub

I had nothing new to install for the last Betas and last releases to work out of the box. I hope you'll find the problem.

When I had to do this, I end up doing it with a high resolution image, and since I needed to resize it a lot depending of the above frames, it was efficient and keeping the smaller and darker part. It was only the shadow at the bottom, not on the sides, so it could be use in a more dramatic way increasing opacity and height, for example, or only half side for specific frames.

Also, I would add it's not a surprise since changes are listed in the new version, and footnotes/endnotes didn't appear in the list or on any pages of the site or video about version 1.10. Such major addition will certainly be announced with fanfare and trumpets... but before this, it'll be tested in the Beta version, and you'll read a lot about this in the forum prior to final release, like we can read a lot about the lack of this feature today...

Same question a @carl123, If I add text on path or objects, the fill is transparent and the only options are about text. If I add text on path or objects with coloured fill, the fill become transparent and the only options are about text, it's become a text object in the layer panel. The object should be duplicated to keep a version with the coloured fill. The two objects need to be selected before modifications to keep the same shape.

A sample file, like asked by @firstdefence would help. I see problem in this page, but I'm not sure it's the ones you are talking about. "leisure" should be on the preceding page, not a widow on this page. It seems there 2 paragraph styles, one with indent of the first line at x value, one with tabulations with indent at y value. It would look better using the first line indent everywhere. The space between paragraphs are only on the ones using the 1st paragaph style (indented 1st line). You need to use this style on each paragraph, and if you don't want space before/after the paragraph, modify this style. The last paragraph is incomplete.

Not sure it's about this. The problem can be tested without a server and different people working on the same file: Open a file (i.e. Test.afphoto) in AP and modify it, you can also open the same file in AD an modify it without warning and also in APub and modify it without warning... You can alternate modifying the file with one of the app and check the display in Explorer, it'll look like the last saved done in the last app used. When working alone, you usually avoid this, but when working with other people on servers, you want to be warned that a file is already in use and somebody's work won't erase somebody else work... Especially when sometimes you can only open a file just to check some proprieties or layers, modify visibily to check something else, and hours later, when thinking of closing the file, if it asks you to save it because it was modified (and since the history will have been modified), not remembering if you did something important, you'll save it. Probably erasing other people work. Strangely, I was able to save few times in each app, until at some point AP noticed the file was different. From this point, the other apps provided the same warning. So, next test: I close the file in one of the apps with the warning, and re-open it. I modify the file, I save it without problem, not knowing it's already in use by another app, without warning in this app. If the usual lock system with a warning about the file being already used by someone else/some other app existed, it wouldn't happen. As it is, it's not a problem when everyone work on servers on an open space, you just need to ask: "Who's using this file? I need to modify it also...", but with people working at different places, you begin dupplicating files, and sometimes for no reasons and it begins to be a problem, since the last one saved isn't always the one with the meaningfull modifications (i.e. only history modifications).