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Dan C, Thank you, but the problem seems to be elsewhere. I use Norton and all my drivers are up to date. I use a Logitech Pebble mouse, fed by rechargeable batteries. For whaterver reason, all my AA batteries seem too provide a too low voltage, they probably have aged, or something like that, no problem for years. I suppose the Bluetooth connection is becoming erratic, but I do not get warning message about this. No problem with the touchpad. I will try top quality non rechargeable batteries next week, and will use the touchpad in the mean time. Thanks any way. Regards, Philippe

Dan C, here two screen coîes Regards, Philippe

Dear, I use Affinity Photo 2.3.1 on a Windows 10 Dell portable (with all recent Windows updates) If I open Affinity, after clicking, Affinity freezes from 2 to 10 seconds, each time that the mouse is clicked. Other key, like ENTER or Keyboard Arrows have normal short response times. Same behaviour with other applications. If I leave Affinity, everything back to normal. Any advice ? Regards, Philippe

Dear all, Universities and Google publish regularly new image tools. The drawback is that code, when available is not easy to use. Here is a promising tool that encompasses HDR, denoising, fading colours, focus adjustments See https://bmild.github.io/rawnerf/index.html A state of the art Resizing Tool might be worth considering too. It looks like it goes beyond what we can do with Affinity, Topaz and others. May be a point for Release 2 ? Regards, Philippe

Dear all, I have made some time similar comments about IPTC and other metadata. Data entry requires to jump from tab to tabs. Multiple templates would help to manage different projects, from a data entry point of view. With templates, only required fields would be show, with an door to use optional fields Option to fill some fields with variables and formulas, e.g. filling the IPTC Text and Description with say "Photo 123", as the combination of the Text "Photo " and "123" being the EXIF file name. IPTC Author to be fill automatically with EXIF data. I am presently using the DAM tool called Daminion to do this job. Daminion for single user is about 100 USD/EUR/UKP, so in the same price category as Affinity products. Serif could find useful to look at this tool from a ease of use and fonctinality viewpoint. Serif may want to discuss a deal with the Daminion guys (or other equivalent tools in the same price category). Such integration could work for virtually all photo, video and PDF file formats. So useful for any Affinity Photo, Designer and Publish user. Regards, Philippe

I add this comparison of codecs https://res.cloudinary.com/cloudinary-marketing/image/upload/w_700,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto,dpr_2.0/Web_Assets/blog/Battle-of-the-Codecs_fnl.png

Dear Affinity support, According to DPreview and other information sources, it looks like an improved JPG comes to us (more compact files, visually better, etc) See https://www.dpreview.com/news/5829652105/jpeg-xl-image-format-promises-smaller-files-backwards-compatibility-and-more see also http://ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-xl-whitepaper.pdf For Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher this new codec looks like bringing a lot of benefits for images, but also potentially reducing PDF sizes, etc. Browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Edge already give some support. Any comment/statement/thought from Serif about JPG XL ? Regards, Philippe

Dear, Regarding languages and spelling, I think that a "language of document" should be available, regardless of User Interface. Possibly at in the Edit/Preferences/Auto correct screen. The way I do work: 1) Affinity User Interface always in English (Edit/General) I prefer to use "native" UI as there are some times strange UI translations. 2) Most of my documents are 100% French. Here I would use Edit/Preferences/Auto correct "French" as default value for all documents. Presently I need to force upfront any new paragraph to French. Extra work. 3) I am also making multilingual documents. The most frequent mix is French/English/Dutch. These documents are either French with quotes in other languages, or complete paragraphs in other languages, or multilingual documents with translations side by side. Again Edit/Preferences/Auto correct "French" as default spelling would be a solution for me, with quotes/paragraph changed to other languages. Regards, Philippe

Dear all, References to XNview and other tools looks like metadata management is important for many of us. This does not make these tools real DAM tools as far as I am concerned. Limited search capabilities do not help. I would suggest Serif managment to look at Daminion. See https://daminion.net/feature-tour/daminion-server/ The free version can manage up to 15.000 pictures per database. Paid versions ar affordable as single user. There are ways to upgrade for teams and share files management through the cloud. This is a powerful tool that covers JPG but also PDF and many other formats. It is geared to document files, but also to retrieve them by various search facilities Bulk functions are very powerful Regards, Philippe

Dear all, As part, of the 1.9.1 Affinity Photo announcement, there is an updated list of camera and lenses. It is better than the Lensfun one as per Github. Some lenses widely sold like Sigma 24-70 zoom of the Art series are missing, etc. The present list is an improvement. I think that Serif should make clear where this new list comes from. The reference to Lensfun is misleading, as the Lensfun database is not updated for 2 years. This new list might be a license of the commercial PTlens list, which is "old" Lensfun + recent updates. The PT lens service is interesting, as you can get a lens profile of your lens (if not part of the data base), should you provide a series of pictures, as per instructions of PTlens maker. Serif/Affinity Photo could be clearer, provide some kind of single point of access to this topic (e.g. direct link from Affinity Photo through the Help or the Studio links) with explanations. The Help section should be updated end extended for clarity I mean not just a list of the lenses available, but also how it works and how to request a new lens to be added, etc Regards, Philippe

Dear, There are a lot of threads about missing lenses and cameras. Is this a surprise ? I do not think so. According to the Github Lensfun site, the last update is 2019-02-16 ! The guy who ran this Github site now runs a private business and sells updated lens databases Some lenses of the free Lensfun database were already missing two years ago, like half of the Sigma Art series, the best Zeiss series, etc. Affinity competes with other software companies. Some of them use an updated lenses list and refresh it regularly. Affinity Photo is an ambitious photo program, the present lens database is a weakness and helps people with an old kit. Metadata management and picture organization (DAM) are also weak. Hopefully release 2 with come with fully fledged solutions for these three points and be worth the investment. Regards, Philippe

Guys, I have to stick to PagePlus. Spelling is very hard to manage with Affinity Publisher. I want a simple thing: 1) the user interface is English or any other interface language supported by Affinity, regardless of the computer OS set-up. 2) Uncouple the spelling languages from the Affinity interface language; e.g.interface in English, spelling in French 3) Please provide: - a single command to define the spelling language for the whole document. This should be used as initial set-up or to overrule language settings of imported PDFs Note: PDF imports from Pageplus which are correct in French are not understood as such by Affinity and are shown as incorrect because English is used as default spelling language by Affinity. - a command to define the spelling language by page (right click on the Master page and the Page views - adjust the spelling language on the spread dialog) - a command to define the language by text block (right click) - it should be easy to manage multi-lingual documents and toggle spelling by page/blocks of text etc, in a WYSiWYG way 4) BUG ? if you change the spelling language in the Preferences/Auto-correct, whatever you do, it always go back to English and the change of spelling language does not occur. Note: the spelling Help explanations are not clear and do not seem to provide practical help for the spelling questions. Regards, Philippe

Dear all, My printing company is changing its recommended ICC profiles. I have to do some reprints. It was ISO coated V2 (ECI), it becomes PSO Coated v3. Can I "just" go back to the .afpub file and export it as with the new profile ? This would be a matter of seconds. Do I need to go back to each picture and do something ? Then replace existing pictures with new profiles ? This would be matter of hours or days for large documents ? By the way, I might have the same issue with old Pageplus X9 files that I need to reprint. Regards, Philippe

Joachim, Thank you. My layer name and the colour name are OK, with the _ underscore. But the channel name not (see the screen pictures). I have checked and rechecked my design and still get the problem with the automatic tool of the printing company. I will check with their staff,probably at cost. Regards, Philippe

Sir, In order to produce stickers, in am in touch with a German Publishing company. In order to get stickers cut around my design, a layer with the compulsory name "Cut_KC" must be created. I will be the path for the machines to cut around the design. The VolltonFarbe / Solid colour must be also called "Cut_KC" It seems that Affinity Photo (latest production version on Windows) gets rid of the underscore. So my PDF files are rejected by the printing company. It costs 80 EUR to ask this supplier to fix the problem,..... It seems that the Colour Channels are not properly named (no underscore) This might be the naming issue in the file generated by Affinity ? Please advise See attachments Regards, Philippe Colour_name_bug.afphoto Colour_name_bug_message.afphoto