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As a quick-and-dirty ‘work-around’, or merely as a curiosity, if you have Publisher (only for the Frame Text Inset functionality) and Designer then you can use Constraints to get what is demonstrated in my attached video and document. The corners don’t look particularly nice, and the whole thing ‘breaks down’ under certain circumstances, but someone might find some use for it, maybe on a ‘quirky poster’ or something like that. P.S. If you relocate the coloured rectangles you can get something like that in the image at the bottom of the post, which might be of use to someone. 2024-04-13 09-44-15.mp4 constraint-frame-text-border.afpub

There’s no need to ‘faff around’ with brushes and/or macros to get a simple re-usable watermark. You can create one quickly with a Rectangle, some Artistic Text, Photo’s Pattern Layer functionality and Assets. See attached video for a quick run-through. Note: I feel sure that this isn’t the first time this technique has been posted but no-one else in this thread has posted any links to the tutorials they mentioned/used, or given a run-down of what they did, which makes it difficult for anyone reading this thread to know what the possibilities are. 2024-04-13 08-39-56.mp4

Welcome to the forums @Markus Gärtner It’s probably not good to display personal information like that in a public forum. People can cause all kinds of bother with the right information and a malicious intent. You can edit the post, to remove the information, by pressing the ‘three dots’ button at the top-right of the posting and choosing “Edit” from the menu. (Or a moderator might do that for you before you get a chance to.)

Thanks for the screenshots. Assuming that the button you are referring to is the ‘tick mark’ button at the top of the screen (top-left-ish in first screenshot, top-right-ish in second screenshot) – I don’t use the iPad software and had to look through the online Help – then I would, at first blush, agree that it might be better if it was consistently placed. However, I don’t know if there is/was a good reason for it not being consistently placed. To have ‘proper consistency’ it may need to be in that same place for all similar functionalities but doing so might have a deleterious effect on other things that I’m not aware of. That said, if it’s a good idea then I feel sure that the company will at least think about it.

Welcome to the forums @brittleton Can you show us some visual examples of where the “apply filter check box” moves?

You can if you want to but, if left undeleted, other people might be helped if they can find it when searching with similar requirements.

Welcome to the forums @Gubble Have you looked at using Symbols ?

I’m not entirely convinced that this functionality is working exactly as it should – the mouse pointer sometimes seems to change when I wouldn’t expect it to – but I don’t use it enough for me to have any strong opinions about it either way. Like I said above, I hardly ever use this Tool, so I’m happy to leave this thread as not comprehensively answered but answered enough for me to get on with other things. (If other people want to continue with it, to ‘get to the bottom of the problem’, then I have no problem with that.)

That’s pretty much the answer to the question I asked in my original post after the question you quoted earlier, i.e. I think I’m over my initial worry now.

That sort of makes sense to me now that you mention it. I can’t find any large files that aren't mine in the 'hidden' folders that I can find so I’ll just assume that the linked remote resources are only in stored memory, unless anyone tells me otherwise.

Thanks, but I asked where they ‘end up’, on my machine, not where they came from. Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough.

I don’t have the document open and don’t want to open it again. Basically I want to clear my machine of whatever was in that document, if I need to and can do so.

I don’t seem to have a: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\2.0\temp ...folder (I have one for 1.0 though), but I can find a: C:\Users\USERNAME\.affinity\Publisher\2.0\Temp\AffinityDownloadCache ...folder instead, which is empty apart from a “Files.json” file, which is only 1KB.

When I open a document with “Linked (Remote)” resources, where do the resources ‘end up’ when I load the document? Are they just in memory or do they get saved on my hard drive somewhere in some kind of 'offline cache'? If they get saved to my hard drive, how do I remove them? (I’ve looked in the Help, and tried searching the forums for various combinations of linked , resource and/or remote , but couldn’t find anything relevant.)

@princesitaneko The document opened for me on my Windows machine but with some missing images and fonts (as might be expected). However, it's working very slowly as it tries to find the images. As Hangman mentions above, I think the problem you might be having could be to do with you using lots of large external images marked as “Linked (Remote)” in the Resource Manager. I’ve attached a version of the document with all of the images replaced with an embedded ‘red cross’ image, just in case you cannot get the images moved to a local drive – not what you want but better than having to do the whole thing again. Agenda personalizada Coni 2024-without-images.afpub

Welcome to the forums @laagparb A Curve cannot have a bifurcation; it can only have one start point and one end point, meaning that it cannot ‘split’ anywhere along its length. As mentioned above, you can Merge Curves to have more than one curve in the same layer but the points on each individual curve in the Curves layer will still behave in the same way as you have seen – each curve will still have just one start point and one end point. I don’t know how Figma does it but the Affinity applications do it this way.

Interesting. On Windows I cannot get the Style Picker to Load from any type of layer* that has no Fill and no Stroke, even when the layer is already selected. Sometimes I can click on where the Stroke should be and the mouse pointer changes to ‘loaded’ but when I click on another layer that clicked-on layer flashes but nothing else seems to happen. * I’ve only tried Rectangle Quick Shapes, Rectangle Quick Shapes converted to Curves, and Curves drawn with the Pen Tool so far.

You have posted this thread in a section of the forums which is for the beta (testing) release of software. Does this issue only relate to the current beta, or is it also extant in the commercial release of the software?

I’ve never used the Style Picker with text layers – I’ve only really used it today, for this one thing, and might hardly ever use it again – so I don’t know how it’s supposed to work.

Find the layer in the Layers Panel and press the Toggle Lock icon to the right of the layer name.

The ‘X’es usually mean that the layer is locked, or it’s on a master page (and you’re not currently editing the master page).

I’m not sure of your exact requirements but I think this is already available in Designer via the Appearance Panel – see attached image.

I don’t know if I would go so far as to say it was a bug, ‘minor edge-case short-coming’ sounds better to me. Maybe this is related to the situation where the user cannot select such a layer from the canvas without marquee dragging.

I think that sounds like the better way to get the job done but I’m still curious as to whether the Style Picker should work in the above scenario or not. Maybe someone out there has the answer.

I don’t seem to be able to Load the Style Picker from a layer with no Stroke and no Fill, but I might be using it incorrectly. After Unloading, I’ve tried: clicking within the boundary of the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer; clicking on the bounding box (if I can see it) of the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer; marquee-dragging the picker around the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer; clicking on either the name or thumbnail of the no-stroke-and-no-fill layer in the Layers Panel; ...but nothing seems to work, nothing seems to be ‘picked’ and the mouse pointer doesn’t change. (All of the above was done with all of the settings in the Context Toolbar set to ON.) Is there a ‘trick’ that I’m missing, or does it just not work? Note: I don’t actually want to do this, I only got into this situation when trying something as a possible answer to another user’s issue. (I did a quick search of the forums for style picker but didn’t find anything relevant in the first five pages of results.)