Norway4T

Using the Black and Alpha output of a Channel Mixer Adjustment
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This is using the erase white paper filter

 

Do you have an example fractal, so we can see what you are using?
Which fractal app are you using to generate these fractal flowers, Jwildfire, chaoscope, mandelbulber etc?
 
 

The solution presented itself with something thomaso said, I should check my language settings in Character Styles. I had made several Character Styles, but I hadn't done anything to set the language options in these styles. Simply setting them to English resolved (most of) the problems. There are a few error messages left, but I figure they are down to sloppy formatting on my part, so once I have formatted with correct styles, I should have a "clean slate" as to those pesky errors I got at the beginning.

THANK YOU THOMASO & WALT!!! 👍You're the best, guys!!!

I have a customized Mac with an English MacOS version and a Norwegian keyboard, since I am Norwegian. However, much of the DTP work I do on Affinity Publisher is in English. A big project I'm working on at the moment is entirely written in English. However, when I run the Preflight check I get a mile long list stating:
I have followed the instructions here 
but the problem is that I cannot find any dictionary named (en-NO). And I have switched on every Norwegian and English dictionary in System Preferences in my MacOS and restarted Affinity Publisher, but the error messages persist. Now I just want to exclude that type of error message, because in the first edition of the document I was working on, some important error messages had snuck in between the enormous amounts of "Missing dictionary for language (en-NO)" which I didn't notice. I enclose two screenshots, and as you can see, it is extremely difficult to spot the real important messages in the sea of nonsensical "missing dictionary" messages that reports on every page over and over.
Since the missing dictionary message isn't important, and the spell checking of the English text in the document works just fine, I would very much just get rid of the dictionary error messages so they don't inadvertently hide actual important error messages.

How do I do that? Is it even possible, or is there a workaround?

Go to menu Layer ▸ Geometry ▸ Add.
You can also add the boolean operators to the main toolbar right clicking on it and selecting Customise Toolbar... (you may need to scroll the buttons down a little to see them). There's a group there called Operations similar to what you find in Designer. Just drag them to the main toolbar on top.
This is only needed when you are editing a single shape composed by two (or more paths) rather than two separate shapes. You can also break it in two shapes using Divide then perform an Add operation as usual.

The solution presented itself with something thomaso said, I should check my language settings in Character Styles. I had made several Character Styles, but I hadn't done anything to set the language options in these styles. Simply setting them to English resolved (most of) the problems. There are a few error messages left, but I figure they are down to sloppy formatting on my part, so once I have formatted with correct styles, I should have a "clean slate" as to those pesky errors I got at the beginning.

THANK YOU THOMASO & WALT!!! 👍You're the best, guys!!!

If you make sure you don't have any text set to use en-NO then I don't think you should get those warnings.
But you could either:
Use the Preflight studio panel to edit the Preflight profile and turn off the Spelling warnings, which I think would also get rid of the dictionary messages (but I can't check easily):

  Or (possibly) make a copy of the English dictionaries and install them as en-NO dictionaries.

I am not understanding entirely yet.
– Have you set all used texts & text styles to English?
– Or is there anywhere "en-NO" appearing in the language menus within the Character Panel if you select with text tool a text passage which creates a missing message?
– Can you detect why a few Spelling Mistakes are not missing the dictionary and seem to report as expected?
– Workaround: Have you tried to rename a copy of existing dictionary folder/files in your macOS according to Affinities needs?
Apparently we cannot deactivate spelling messages selectively in the preflight preferences.
In case you want to deactivate spelling preflight completely: In the Preflight Panel click the hamburger menu right to the profile menu > choose either "Edit Profile" to edit the existing "Default" or choose "Create preset..." to create a new, custom set, maintaining the apps Default preset. In the next window select the "Spelling" option and click "Disabled".

Murfee - Then I guarantee you will absolutely love "Primal Panacea" by Dr. Thomas E. Levy! It is a Gold Mine of information. I've worked with Orthomolecular Medicine since 1997, but even I picked up new knowledge by reading it. We've got nothing to worry about with this knowledge. Now I am working on pushing this message by using Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer!

Thank you again for your help with the tabs in the TOC! Have a great & healthy weekend!

Hi @Norway4T, have you tried going to the Text Style for the TOC? If you select or just have your cursor in the TOC text, go to the Tab Stop section, add a new stop and make this a tab stop right alignment, now you should be able to select the character for this stop.
Not sure why your Tab Stop was greyed out in the Paragraph section, I haven't seen that happen, I am on a Mac so perhaps it is a Windows issue??

To add to what Murfee said above, my attached image should give you what you need.
Note the change in the “Tab Stop Leader” character outlined in red.

Murfee - You too, Brother! As a matter of fact, the white paper I am working on is a synopsis of Dr. Thomas E. Levy's LIFESAVER of a book, called "Primal Panacea", with additional notes of my own. "Primal Panacea" explains the various properties and routes of administration of Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), and how medical doctors (trained in Orthomolecular Medicine) regularly use Vitamin C to prevent, put into remission, and even cure AIDS/HIV, Ebola, Encephalitis, Hepatitis, Herpes, Pneumonia, Polio, Shingles, Swine Flu, Corona vira including COVID-19. Research now suggests that Liposomal Vitamin C is even slightly more effective than intravenous Vitamin C. You should read the book. I have studied Medical Biology and Medicine, and even I find this book solid with nearly 1,300 references! If governments weren't bought by the pharmaceutical industry, the Corona virus COVID-19 would have been stop cold in its tracks with Vitamin C treatment.

You are welcome Norway4T, glad you are sorted. Keep safe and well.

Thanks Aammppaa, but TonyB wrote that 4 - FOUR - years ago... If they do pick up my idea, I've written a description on what I imagine they could add to go above and beyond the competition. However, taking into account how long this has taken, I'm afraid jstnhllmn (quote below) is right; -this was just a sales pitch. It's a damn shame. Affinity is reasonably priced, and Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, so far are looking fairly good for things you can solve in those apps. But they are too "skinny", and the "meat" isn't growing very fast on the bones.
 

In various other graphics editors it is possible to blend to shapes. For example you want to blend a red circle with a blue rectangle. I imagine this function would look like this in this imaginary function in Affinity Designer:

You place the red circle and the blue rectangle on opposite sides of the document. You want the blend to rotate 360° and you want the blend to arc through a specific point on the document.

You select the red circle and blue rectangle. You drag the "rotation center" to the side were you want the blend to arc. You type in 360 degrees in the blend tool dialogue box. You type in number of iterations, let's say 20. Then you hit the "Blend" button. Between the red circle and the blue rectangle there are now 20 shapes arcing between the two original shapes. Each shape - moving from the circle to the rectangle - becomes more like a rectangle, and vice versa. The color changes with each shape in the entire spectrum between red and blue, and the shapes in the arc rotates from the circle to the rectangle 360 degrees (negative values would rotate the shapes the opposite way).

Maybe it would also be possible to outdo the competition by making it possible to do more color combination along the arc/path. Maybe it would also be possible to place more "rotation centers" - points through which the blending would take place.

Have you watched any of the affinity tutorials yet? See my sig below for links to tutorials. This is a pretty cool tutorial on nodes: Cool Tut

What happens is where there was one node, now there are two at exactly the same location, one on top of the other, so visually there is no difference. But the top node can now be moved independently of the bottom one because the curve is broken at that point.

I agree totally with iriskin. A clone brush tool is not an advanced function. It's a basic function though. Not having this option, means I have to take my projects out of Affinity Designer and into a graphics program to do even the smallest touch ups, often going back and forth several times. Extremely time consuming and - to say the least - annoying. A Repair Brush tool and a Clone Brush tool ought to be a minimum standard for a graphics tool that boasts a pixel editing capability...