Wosven

The fun part is that most of those programs work the same, and learning one is like learning the others. Features could have slighty diferent names or be placed in different menus, but there's not so many ways and logic to implement them. That's the same with coding. I had fun learning Bash script in Linux, to realise I could do it also on OS X with slighty different cvommand sometimes, and MS-Dos or Shell script and Windows became easier.

Hi @Natalie King Did.you try cutting and pasting the selected object (97....pdf) on top of the design? [edit] Affinity apps always paste at the same position. You can also check if it's in the Master pages: in this case right-click the Master page Layer to modify it.

Did you check the color profile used when expirting the file? Some apps will be able to use them, and other not. Try exporting with a simple sRGB profile.

I would add that all but the last font are characters designed individually. Long ago, character painters ("peintres en lettre", in French), would have been able to reproduce any character/font with brush strokes, but stickers cut by machines replaced them today. The last one and the Supercarver one seem easier to draw with brush strokes, like calligraphy, you just need to learn the shapes.

You should be interested in this help section: https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/Pages/applyMasterPages.html

You should understand the use of the 3 panels first. There's 2 panels to modify the proprieties: • Character panel will modify the properties of a portion of selected text, at the character level (for example space between characters, width or height of those, etc.) • Paragraph panel will display and permit to modify a paragraph properties: leading, drop caps... Those modifications will apply "locally", only to the current selection, or paragraph. When working on a document, instead of modifying all the text locally, you'd rather use Styles, that retain thoses properties and are easy to apply to selected text or paragraphs. And easily be modified later (for example, to get all the Header red instead of black, or using a different font). Those styles (Paragraph and character styles) are added/listed/modified in the Text styles panel. Other apps usually use 2 distinct panels for Paragraph text styles and Character text styles).

That's certainly a problem with a plugin or extension used with the browser. Trying to disable them or lauch it in safe mode (or the one that disable all plugins/extensions) would help and narrow the problem.

Perhaps you can use some files provided by other users to create patterns: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=pattern &author=Mensch Mesch&search_and_or=and

Hi @Maria Ramos Perhaps it's due to the rotation: -90° . Did you try entering -2000 instead of 2000?

But you can keep the panel open while working, no need to close it (if you've got space enough on you screen), or use the Colors panel to choose colors.

You're helped because people on this forum are nice and help freely, but this doesn't mean you don't have to be nice also and follow sound advices. Affinity fikes can be corrupted easily, and the recovery isn't always effective.

Yes! But that sort of a calendar book, with details about each day's celebration. A script will use regular expressions to apply the right paragraph style to each paragraph, and GREP will apply the needed character styles inside. It needed a little thinking to find all the reccuring patterns, but once done, I could use it each year with just few updates (you can't get all the patterns right looking at one year book only, since it's on 4 years rotation, but I learnt this later), but it's fine and simple enough that another coworker was able to do it by himself without difficulties -- from what I heard! -- this year with just a step by step "how to".

I suspect it's just an old habit, when providing specs for the web. They usually work more with specific size in pixels, especially for ads, and I'm not sure they check resolution like we do in layout apps. (Size in pixels, 72 ppi and a maximum file size can be specified, even if size can vary a lot with jpg compression and isn't really relevant... but it can help avoiding 6000×4000 pixels pics people tend to give sometimes when asked for "good quality" )

Nest styles havr nothing to do with the parent-children way paragraph styles can be created. They are properties of a paragraph style. It's some sort of simple GREP styles (also properties of a paragraph style). Nested styles are conditions to apply a character style to part of a sentence, the same way you can apply a character style to a drop vaps or the first words of a paragraph. For example, you have different dropdown list to chose from: • Apply [choose a character style] to [enter a number] [characters/words/lines ] The options can vary: • Apply [choose character style] until [insert a character] ... A GREP style will work with a regular expression: • Apply [choose a character style] to [enter/write a regular expression] The interesting part is thay you can have many of those in a paragraph style (I once reach the limit of GREP styles in a paragraph style but can't remember how much it is).

Sadly, the apps tend to keep some values in memory and "adapt" them to other objects, depending of their size, and we can't really do anything about this, unless setting paragraph/character styles (but this only apply to text).

Hi @Lorox It's difficult to find the problem without a file to searh the problem... Perhaps the element was inside another frame and hidden, or it was on the grid, but the text disappeared because it wasn't able to be on the grid...

I'll add that the problem with Android devices, like with Windows ones, depend of the screen technology, to have stylus and screen working properly and able to use pressure, tilt and other features that are native to dedicated devices. Especially since Apple licenced a really nice technology, and other OSes can't use it, and need to use not so efficient workaround (at least, it was this way few years ago, and it doesn't seem to have improved). That's why tha apps will work best with Apple or some Windows tablet devices with stylus, but it would be difficult on Android (at least for the drawing part). Perhaps it's a good reason to wait instead of developing for Android now...

Hi @Kevin Jacobs Why don't you simply open the PDF in your PDF viewer and print it? There's no logic in opening it in APub.

In ID, you have different kind of variables, able to retrieve datas from the file or from imported/placed documents with metadatas. For example, you can add automated variables, and if the text frame containing this variable touch a picture frame with a linked content, the variable will automatically display the data (if it touch 2 or more images frames, it'll inform about "multiple links" = the app isn't able to choose which one to display). When you create such special variable, there's a panel with different options: • Text before (simple text field) • Metadata (dropdown with all the metadatas possible for an image: copyright, comment/caption, title, author, keywords... or the file's name) • Text after (text field) • Position (above, below, left, right of the image frame) • Object style for this text frame • Paragraph style for the text If you set a shortcut to add the text frame with this variable, it's really easy. You can also have usual templates for magazines, with Lorem Ipsum and false images, and caption or copyright text frames with variables already on the pages. The wonderfull part: if you replace an image by another one, the variables will be automatically updated (no need to search for them, copy them and zoom on your small text frame to past them and check the result). On Windows, you can right-click an image, check its properties and modify/add important metadatas without opening them in another app. It give you a simple workflow. A lot of sites for galleries manage also metadatas, so it's possible they are exported in columns and used this way with data merge.

Hi, It's usually possible to add diferent gradients (using multiply or back/white to transparency) on the same mask like you would use different brush strokes to obtain/draw the mask you want... in other apps. In Affinity apps, a gradient replace another, if my memory is good (I'm AFK ).

Perhaps you can try using a gradient map done from another portrait with similar skintones. Or two gradient maps, I think another one for shadows could help too.

They added puns on the packaging. For example, puns about dating (and the 06....... field for completing a phone number) « J'ai eu un coup de [P]oudre pour toi », instead of "foudre" for this cocoa powder. "I fell for you" (We use "to be thunderstruck" for meaning "falling in love at the first sight".) « T'es dispo pour un petit [vert] ?» "vert" (= green) instead of "verre" (drink): "Are you available for a drink/green?" It look like their newer packages, since now there's pictures on the packagings.

I suppose it's the same in Europe. But like legal notices in some ads, a magnifier doesn't suffice to read, it's more like a microscope! There's rules for the size of those texts, they should be readable (especially if there's a checkmark about not keeping personal datas with coupons). In the last years, in France, Monoprix brand distinguished their products using only text, a funy (?) sentence (pun) and different colors on their packages.

It look (at least for me), like unnecessary, since on a computer you just need to use keys already on the keyboard for this, or swipe with fingers on tablets/phones. PDF viewers will include thoses or plugins in web sites will add special areas in the pages' borders with effects to simulate turning a page. Buttons would be redundant.

*Bump*