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Short answer: No. Longer answer: Search the forums for selection path and/or selection shape and see what answers people have already given to similar questions. Alternative answer: If you can give us more details about your precise requirements then someone might have an idea of what you can do in this particular case.

You’re welcome; fingers crossed that someone will be able to give you better news.

Thanks for the screen-grabs. If the font you are using is this one https://elements.envato.com/groovy-retro-font-8M4TS9R then that doesn’t look like a ‘simple’ font so I don’t know how well it will work in the Affinity applications, and I don’t have an envato log-in to download and test it myself. Someone else should be able to though so I’ll leave it to someone who can help better than me.

Thanks for the extra information. Unless I’m missing something, it looks to be working okay to me. The geometry of the smaller donut is wholly ‘inside’ the geometry of larger one so all you get by adding the two geometries together is the larger donut.

Can you show us what your Glyph Browser looks like when you are trying to select one of the glyphs you want to select? Also, is that font a variable font or a static font?

Can you show us what the donuts looked like before you used the Geometry Add function? A sample document is often useful in these situations.

If you read the discussion I linked to in the post before your last one you will see that there seems to be an agreement between some users and some staff members that Artboards should (by default) be pixel-aligned upon creation and that a 'ticket' (AF-2093) has been logged for development to have a look at to see if this could be implemented. However, some posts in that discussion also give information about some problems that could occur by making this change, so it’s probably not a trivial change with no possible negative repercussions. In other words, it's something that needs to be properly investigated before any possible change is implemented, to be sure that any knock-on effects don't make things worse.

On Windows it’s a little bit farther to the right but not by a lot, maybe about half its width or so - see attached image. The space to the right of the visibility button is used for the tag colour bar - see attached image. Also on Windows, you can click that icon by clicking anywhere above or below it within the height of the layer ‘rectangle, not just on the circle itself. (Same with the lock button.)

Did you look here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/79067-affinity-photo-program-will-not-close/ You cannot move a thread but a moderator might do so for you if they happen to be strolling by and notice this.

And here we go round the roundabout...

It looks like the thread has been moved to the ‘normal’ bugs section. You probably shouldn’t be using the beta (unless you are doing so for very specific reasons) since the commercial release of 2.4.0 is, as far as I know, identical to the 2.4.0 beta, and the 2.4.0 beta software will probably expire soon as it only has a short ‘shelf life’ (about a month or so if I remember correctly).

My point was that Serif have had various requests to make the default export location various things by various people in lots of varied situations, including options that would allow the user to specify their own choices which could be used at different times depending on what they wanted in the circumstances they found themselves in at different times. Try doing a search for default export location , reading all of the threads with all of the different requirements, and then try and then coming up with a solution that no-one will complain about. What’s ‘best’ for you, or some people, may be ‘a disaster’ for others; there's no win-win scenario.

Welcome to the forums @Spagra This has been requested many times. You can find some of these requests by searching the forums for the word dimension Please search the forums, as per the forum guidelines, before posting requests which duplicate existing requests.

This sort of thing has been requested, discussed, and sometimes argued against (for various reasons) since 2016 at least. See, for example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/198288-export-folder/ Basically, Serif are aware that different people have different – sometimes diametrically opposed – short/long-term expectations/requirements for the default export location.

Welcome to the forums @nomaditerranean If you do a web search for affinity publisher text wrap you should find all the information you need, for the basics at least. If you watch the videos and read the tutorials and still don't know what to do then tell us which parts you don't understand.

OP = Original Poster – the person who started the thread. If you can tell us what you want to ‘tidy up’ – we don’t know what you were trying to achieve – then we should have some suggestions.

Since you are using Publisher, when you create a new document you are creating a new Publisher document, which is possibly why the application switches back to the Publisher Persona, as a reminder of the type of document you are creating. When I paste an image from the clipboard – via menu “Edit → Paste” – the application doesn’t change the Persona. I’m not seeing a bug here.

This has been requested before, for example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/102607-pdf-export-initial-view-options-publisher-feature-request/ (and probably others) I’m not against having the option to do this, I’m just saying that such a setting might not be all that useful in many circumstances, and that could be a reason why it hasn't been implemented yet.

Do you have a question about that or are you just showing us a ‘work in progress’?

The title of this thread says "Designer V1 - upgrade" but, since V1 hasn’t been updated on Windows since 1.10.6, I’m wondering what the OP is 'upgrading' from and what they expect to be 'upgrading' to. Wolfchaz: What version of Designer were you using before you had the problem that caused you to come here asking for help?

Welcome to the forums @Beranek The software that each user uses to open the PDF – Acrobat Reader, web browser, OS, etc. – can override any setting like this, as per their individual preferences. Because of this, unless you have control over the users’ machines, your default won’t apply to everyone who reads the document.

If you try searching the forums for some keywords in the message you might find the information you need. For example, try searching for currently opened wait .

If you are not using the beta version of the software, you would be better-off posting issues in the non-beta sections of the forums as there are more people ‘hanging around’ in those sections. More people = (potentially) more answers and/or quicker responses.

Welcome to the forums @TechX V2.4.0 has been commercially available as an upgrade to the V2 applications for a while now. Is there some reason why you are still using the beta version of V2.4.0 (which, I think, will shortly expire)? There's nothing that I know of in the beta that isn't available in the commercial version.

In your image you still have non-brown colours (e.g. the grass is still green-ish) so that’s not what I would call a ‘traditional’ sepia image. You might want to add a Black & White Adjustment (as an option for the user, if they don’t want it) so that the start point is greyscale, maybe with an explanation about why the user might want to use it or not.