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I often do the same thing – have the Help open on a different screen – and I’ve had no trouble with it, on any Affinity application. I’ve tried switching the application and the Help round to the other screens and it still works fine for me. I don’t know why this isn’t working for you also. Someone might be able to help further but it might entail drilling down into the nitty-gritty of hardware and driver specs, which isn’t my forte.

In addition to masking, as mentioned above, you can also crop images by putting them inside shape/curve layers, see attached image where a copy of the Image Layer has been cropped (technically I think it's called 'clipped' in this instance) by a Rectangle Layer.

Welcome to the forums. If you purchased the application from an App Store then you can probably just login to that Store and download it again. If you purchased the application from Serif directly then you should be able to login to the Serif website store and download it again. P.S. Putting your name as the title of the thread makes it less easy for other people to know what information is in it.

You could export the document you want to refer to and then open that exported document in another application, e.g. Acrobat Reader or whatever. Then use whatever functionality your OS has (you didn’t specify which you were using) to set the two applications side-by-side on your screen.

You can crop anything by putting it inside any closed curve or shape but the cropped parts will still remain (while being ‘invisible’). You can remove parts of a shape or curve by using various Geometry functions (and others) but the best method to use will depend on what you have and what you want to remove using what shape. I can’t get a good idea of what you want by looking at your image as I don’t know how it was made, whether it’s the before or after image, or what you want to do with it. Can you supply a mock-up showing us, more specifically, what you want to do?

Forcing the document to be displayed in a certain way may not be beneficial to all the people who want to read it. For example, some people may not be comfortable with page transition animations (flashing images etc.). You might also want to accommodate people who need to use screen readers. It is often better to let the reader use their visual settings rather than enforce your own preferences. This document might be a useful starting point for more information: https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-overview.html

Welcome to the forums. Can you give us a bit more detail please? Which ‘edges’ do you want to snap to, what parts of the Picture Frames do you want to snap, and where are the Picture Frames in relation to the Text Frame (separate layers, pinned, etc.)? Could you show us a full-screen screen grab showing your Layers Panel so we can get an idea of what you have so far?

Welcome to the forums. Can you give us a bit more detail please? Is there a way for you to show us a basic mock-up – doesn’t have to be neat – of what you want?

I think you are going to have to supply more information. What, exactly, do you mean by ‘align’? Should the circles be ‘aligned’ individually or in the configuration shown in your image? Should the circles by rotated to coincide with the angle of the line at the point(s) of ‘alignment’, or not? Should the centre(s) be on the line or below, or above? Can you can give us a visual idea of what you want?

All of the Affinity applications have this functionality where the formatting of the last edited layer becomes the formatting of the next layer of that kind (or similar kind). As far as I know there’s no way to stop this but you can use the Revert Defaults and Synchronise Defaults buttons on the Toolbar to give them more of a ‘push’ towards what you want to do. Or you can create an Asset containing a Text Frame which is formatted exactly the way you want it and drag that over to the page when you need a new one. There may, of course, be other things you can do, and I’m sure you will get more answers.

In addition to the methods above, here’s another technique which might come in useful using a single Cog Smart Shape. You can alter the number of Teeth (in the Context Toolbar of the Move Tool) to change the number of segments. (You can use the Expand Stroke method as shown above to get an outlined version.) cog-x.afdesign

You’re welcome. If you have further problems with this then please feel free to ask more questions.

Nice work. How about “Waiting for Maurice” as a title?

It’s nice, but I am wondering where it would be used. At a small scale, for example if it was an App icon, a lot of the detail would be lost. Also, I think the ‘classic’ bee colours of yellow and black might help it to be more recognisable. I like the hexagon motifs but could they be used more prominently, or would that be too ‘stereotypical’? This certainly looks like it is an interesting design project. I’m tempted to try and come up with my own version, just as a bit of an experiment. Looking forward to seeing future iterations of this.

You're welcome.

This might be one of the quickest ways to get a 52-segment circle. It uses an outer Circle, and a Cog with 26 teeth. I don’t know what the easiest way of getting the specific dimension you wanted as I’m not totally sure what you want. segmented-circle.afdesign

Welcome to the forums. This is a popular question recently. Try Rasterising the Image Layer (right-click in the Layers Panel and choose “Rasterise”) to make it a Pixel Layer before pressing Delete.

It might be more helpful for other people who are looking for advice if you use the title of your threads to (briefly) ask the question or describe the problem. “Novice pensioner again” doesn’t give people much idea of what the thread is about and might waste some people’s time reading a thread they are not interested in reading or answering.

Thanks for giving the extra information. Do you want to make a pixel selection from what is visible of the blue box, rather than the whole blue box? You can make a pixel selection from a layer by using CTRL+click on the layer thumbnail, as I think you have done. You can add to an existing pixel selection by using SHIFT+CTRL+click on another layer thumbnail. However, I don’t think there is a keyboard modifier to subtract from the pixel selection in a similar way, but I could be wrong. (The above modifiers are for Windows and may be different on OS X.)

If you can give more explanation as to what you have and what you are trying to do with it, rather than what you are used to doing in another application to get what you want, then that might help people to give you a good answer.

If you can give a simpler explanation of what you want to do, preferably with some visual examples, someone may be able to help you quicker. E.g. Not everyone will know what you mean by “pocket folder”, “die line”, “die layer”, “spot coating”, “spot layer”, or “spot images”.

Welcome to the forums. There are probably many ways to do this depending on what you want to do with the shapes afterwards and how much work you want to put into it. I would suggest that you look at the Help for the Node Tool (experimenting with the Join Curves functionality, and others) and the Geometry functionality (menu “Layer → Geometry”), experimenting with Merge Curves. The number of things you can do with these tools/functions is very large so it would be difficult for anyone to explain them all. The ‘best’ solution would depend on exactly what you wanted to do afterwards.

If you are using the charts for your own private purposes then you could go to this page https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/crochet-chart-symbols , right-click on each symbol and save it to your local storage. Then you can Place the symbols in a blank document and create an Asset for each. Then you can drag the symbols from the Assets Panel whenever you need them. (The symbols on the linked page have white backgrounds so if you don’t want the background then you will need to remove that but how you can do it depends on which Affinity application you have. ) If you are distributing the charts to other people then you will probably have to look into copyright issues before using the symbols from the linked page (might not be a problem but worth checking anyway). Or you could draw them yourself as they don’t look particularly complex.

One option is to drag the layers in the Artboard to above the Artboard in the Layers Panel, then resize the Artboard with snapping, then move the layers back inside the Artboard.

It depends on how you did the Subtract operation and how long ago it was. If the last thing you did was the Subtract – and you haven’t closed the document since – then you can just use the Undo function. If the Subtract was done a while ago and you don’t want to keep any changes – to anything – after it was performed then you can use the History to go back to before the Subtract (as long as your document contains the History). If the Subtraction was a Compound Subtraction then you can remove the subtracted layer from the Compound layer. If you can’t do any of the above then you can probably use an Addition to fill the gap in again. If none of these things work then you will need to give us more information about what you have got.