Wosven

Again, some example files of use of this mergin feature, instead of using a filter would be welcome. I don't see anyone really using this merge-and-blur as a feature when other means like filters, that can also be use with non integer pixels, more in the WYSIWYG way of today seems a real work flow.

Oh, and I would like to see examples of situations when this unexpected blur is the desired result, even if we can't see it before mergin some layers.

I don't know how other work, but when I'm rasterizing layers, this is because I'm already at the desired PPI. I wouldn't rasterize before augmenting... but the other way if there's vector objects to rasterize (or simply wait and export only the final work).
So we should assume the document's PPI isn't the problem and modifying it isn't in the solution.
You'll notice that by default, APub is set to whole pixels and move by whole pixels, when switching to AP persona. Doesn't it mean that at some point this problem of bluriness is aknoledge and they try to prevent it with those default settings?
We're talking about a specific problem: mergin down a layer causing unexpected bluriness. Since there's already other means like filters to achieve it, and since this result is completely different than the expected one (it doesn't appear before the merging down), it shouldn't appear.
Imagine if merging down was inverting the colours... It would be unexpected (and more flagrant), everyone would consider this as a bug.

Hi @David Cheshire
I spend years working on CMYK image. So, what I did first is what I would have done on a CMYK image, using Level ajustements. I did it directly on the RGB channels, but it's easier on the CMYK ones. And you can do it easily in AP.
 
You add a Levels adjustement layer, and it'll show you the color density for all channels, or for each channels. In CMYK, it's easier to understand: we want less Magenta and less Yellow in the white parts of the image.
Once the CMYK mode selected, it's displaying mainly peaks for black, magenta and yellow.

 
We can select the Magenta channel:

 
To get rid of the Magenta peak, we move the Black cursor "before" the peak.

 
We can do the same on the Yellow channel:

 
Nothing to modify on the Cyan channel:

 
On the Black channel, we can lighten the background, and modifying the other slider, we can darken the lines:

 
An old trick is to dupplicate the layer, to check if it improve the result. In this case, I did it and just modified a little bit the Black channel:

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Doing this in the RGB channels can add colors on the lines:

For corrections, I would use a Black and White adjustement to get rid of the colors, and another Levels (but it could have been a Curves or a Brightness and contrast layer):

Hi,
You can set it in the Text/Frame zone:

Affichage > Studio > Contenus
La traduction est inattendue, "Bibliothèques" aurait été plus logique

Hi,
It would be helpfull to be able to assign a shortcut to the right-click menu option "release mask", and better if we could select different objects and apply this action.
When importing some files from other applications, we can find a lot of images that are only a coloured rectangle with a clipping path. If we only want curves and no images in our  files, we'll need, to delete those images and only keep the paths.
For example, it can happen with text, and in this case, we need to release the paths to get back the curves, delete the coloured image and recolour the resulting curves.
Without shortcut, it can be time consuming (it can happen to each beginning and ending character of a part of text, or different parts of an illustration exported as EPS).

And that's strange and can confuse, since the primary is supposed to be the first (visible, on top), and secondary is usually... behind. Using "foreground color" and "background color" would have been simpler that this... strange denomination.

Hi @Bad_Wolf ,
Do this means that she uses another way for counting or others symbols for numbers that you want to draw? I'd like to see an example if you've got one or the name of a font, or some examples from your project.

We can't know if i's on the roadmap, and sadly, like using the file's origin folder instead of the last one used by the app, there's a lot of issues that impead day to day work.
It's worst when you use less the apps, and forget about all the tricks and issues you need extra clicks to avoid, and with time, you realize you spend more time using tricks/extra clicks than really working and being efficient

And I'll add that spread PDF or printing is only usefull with rare and small documents, when the copy writer want to read and add corrections on paper where it's easier to find errors for him/her and for the layout operator to read (similar to screen rendering). But it's usefull (spreads) 1-2% times against 98-99% pages PDF in a year. When you export minimum 2-10 PDF a day, it's important.

+1000
At least, it should be save with the export settings, since we use them depending of intend.

We can't know if i's on the roadmap, and sadly, like using the file's origin folder instead of the last one used by the app, there's a lot of issues that impead day to day work.
It's worst when you use less the apps, and forget about all the tricks and issues you need extra clicks to avoid, and with time, you realize you spend more time using tricks/extra clicks than really working and being efficient

And I'll add that spread PDF or printing is only usefull with rare and small documents, when the copy writer want to read and add corrections on paper where it's easier to find errors for him/her and for the layout operator to read (similar to screen rendering). But it's usefull (spreads) 1-2% times against 98-99% pages PDF in a year. When you export minimum 2-10 PDF a day, it's important.

While I was art streaming last night I made this quickly for fun. Felt pretty happy with the art considering the short time put into it.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ooev1k
 

Obsolete.

Sometimes, ID's files can be corrupted and bugged... the first reflex is to save as... and if it's not enough, we try export to IDML. This can take longer depending of the file. It's also possible opening the file or IDML with another ID version will correct the problem.
I didn't looked at the resulting IDML, but it's possible it's checking and deleting any data or propertie unused by the document, or causing trouble, as a repair mode.

Or that AP keep on using unwhole pixels when resizing, moving and cropping pixels.

Wosven,

Who thinks the readability is better? Do you have data establishing it as so? And what about design?

Designers at Random House agree with me.

See below from p. 42, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike, 1989, Random House. This is a matter of art, not history.
 

Illustrator can export as PDF, but usually save in its own format, with the possibility to include a PDF preview. That's a big difference.
Affinity apps can't read the .ai format, since there's no documentation about it to read it properly, but if there's a PDF preview available, it'll use this to display the file.
 
PDF is a "final render display" of a file. That means it'll only export on specified area how the page should be, in vectors and raster data, locking everything in its final position. That's why it's perfect for print (exporting as PDF). Every superfluous data used by the app is deleted. Some app can open and modify PDF, butthey won't know anything important, only where each item (character, image...) is positioned, and offer to modify them. Some apps like Affinity ones, for example, try to deduce lines and paragraphs from a PDF page, when and where it's only successive informations about where each character is describe and positionned. That's why it's not always accurate.
We can compare this (Illustrator or another app's file) to an Excel table, with lot of columns with complex formulas processing each data you enter, to calculate and automatically input the results in some other cells.
PDF would be the simple text file resulting of displaying the final content of the columns. No way to understand or read the formulas, to modify some line and have the result updated.
Over time, new features were added to PDF, but those are limited and specific, and don't cover the extend of functionnalities of the different apps that can produce them, it's not its purpose.
When you create a file in APub/inDesign/QXPress, etc., the important features are text and object styles, their relations, the master pages, the colour palette to use, variables, etc.
Nothing that will be found  in a PDF. You can open a PDF in APub or another app and try to deduce them, but you'll only have part of the datas.

Hi,
I don't know if you've looked at the sample from Affinity: Menu Help > Welcome


 
You can download it and look at the properties of the document and of the spread, to define your own document.
For example, there are  3 pages by spread, delimited  by guides, and the second spread show an interesting way to use the internal pages we see when it's opened, since that's the part we always see unfolded. (like a center spread in a magazine with clips, where you don't mind writing where it folds).
With this, it should be easier to set up your document. Don't forget your first page will be the one at the end of the first spread, and the last page is the second one of this spread.
 
And be careful with the order of the pages. Depending of the content, you'll want to put important informations on the page visible when it's folded (contact informations, a map, adds, etc.), page 4 for Z-fold or 6 for trifold.

trifold.pdf
 
 

What we are missing without the original feature, is to colour easily bitmap B&W and greyscale images in (a) Pantone spot colour. Unless we use  vector, those above will be CMYK.

Bump! Again.
At least the apps should remember the last setting, or display in alphabetical order (All pages/Toutes les pages would be first).
 

@Wosven BRILJANT! I had the same issue as @edee, and now I finally can open EPS files with AD, due to the work around with Photopea and saving it to svg! Thank you

There are some related topics in Publisher's Feature Request Forum which contain this and other improvements for the pages panel.
You might want to add your vote there and bump them up this way, for instance: