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Dear, regarding the next beta version, I would suggest to add say five languages to test spelling and cursor behaviour: - a language with accents French or German or Smnish or Nordic - Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese to test cursor behaviour and text tools Regards, Philippe

Dear, regarding the bleed area, I initially thought that it did not show up. Why ? In my case, with a black background, a tiny white line shapes the external bleed rectangle. A red line would provide a better contrast, as grid lines are white as well. But it works well, thank you Regards, Philippe

I did the same exercise with a French dictionary from Github. Also problems. Process: - download dictionary from Github - copy file into Affinity (as per previous mails) - reboot - Set Affinity without any form of spelling check - Open Affinity. Load a file with a 100% correctly spelled text - Affinity shows the text not underlined, as spelling check is off (this seems OK) - apply spelling check - no underline (everything seems OK, i.e. the French words are recognised as correct) - change one word so that it is mispelled (this word only is now underlined, which is OK) - if you spell correctly this word, all words are now shown as incorrect. The English spelling check seem to take-over the French one. Installing a dictionnary file is not enough. Note: In the Document Preferences Auto correct you can select a short list of languages, you can select French and save this option, but if you go back to this screen, it shows English again, regardless of your previous setup in French. This is may be the problem. All this despite the Additional dictionary folder of Tools still points to the French dictionary, ...

Dear, 1) canvas and bleeds If you intend to print say in A4 plus 2 mm bleeds on each side, the limits of the printed A4 would be shown (say in red, 210 x 297 mm) , as well as the bleed box, (say in blue 214 x 301 mm ) It would help to design while visualizing print and bleed boxes 2) Grid manager 2A) some bug: if you use the grid manager, you can toggle between different presets. The preset " 1cm square with 1mm subdivisions" shows only once. And does not "come back" after another preset. It comes back as a " 1cm square without subdivisions" 2B) differenciate bleed box and print box on the grid. Visualizing print and bleed boxes in separate colours Regards, Philippe

Dear all, this topic is not precise enough. Do you mean that the user interface will be in English only for the beta version ? Do you mean that the all spelling dictionaries are not yet available ? It seems impossible to change the spelling dictionary, say to French. The present set-up is hard to test in non-English language, texts are hardly readable, hence not practical to manipulate What about accented and special characters from other languages ? How to deal with multilingual documents ? If in practice the above mentioned features are not available, I would consider the product as alpha, .... and not worth testing. Regards, Philippe

Dear all, An Affinity DAM would be welcome, for sure. But what is the point of an enormous program requiring artistic and librarian skills ? Personnally, I would just: 1) add to Affinity Photo the capability of registering basic EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata. No frills. Say a limited set of 15 metadata fields, like date taken, date processed, title, description, author, country, city, keywords, category. All this in UTF8 format, in order to deal with special characters and to be a real global product that is usable by anybody on earth, in any language. 2) In a separate product, called Affinity DAM I guess, we would have a 50 USD/UKP/EUR tool with a data base, powerful dictionary and search feature, complete matadata fields management, picture versions, import/export of metadata lists, conversion tools, etc. May be the ability to share the data base would be an extra option to offer. If you work with agencies or the press, it can make the difference, but this is complex for a small shop or a standalone photographer. Good DAM systems like StudioLine Photo Basic 4 (free), IMatch 5 (40 USD/EUR) and Daminion (depends on license set) will be hard to be beaten. Nice challenge for Serif. Regards, Philippe