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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from debraspicher in Yeeeesss Affinity .. You did it.. !!!   
    Well i installed just the newest Beta of Affinity Photo .1.7  0231,   and looked at the Changes..   Affinity even didnt mention it there i think.. 
     
    But very very helpful and important for me was a very tiny shortcut missing...     additiv in the Layermanager select pixelselections..    So Serif listens to us.. 
    Shortcut is in German:
    STRG+Shift+ Leftmousebutton click..      /    or  :     cmd+shift+ LMB  klick..  
    this tiny shortcut will reduce selectiontimes on big documents with many masks where you all the time have to select many layers, (in Visualisation compositings of Architectural visualisations for example) ,  enormously.. 
    So many many thanks..

    But !  i cant find a way to deselect from a Selection..  this is still missing,  maybe this could be implemented too ? 
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from nezumi in Release date estimation   
    Well it realy depends to the Task that you have to do... 

    i had to deal with some 2GB Images, created out of an Architectural Visualisation Process..    Splatterd with dotzens and dozens of Masks, effects, Layer..  (about 100 and more)  and you Need them for Architectural Big Scenes.. 
    Here i realy have to say,   Affinity Photo is very slow..  compared to Adobe Photoshop, which pans  Images like nothing,   new Areas of an Image that come to your Screen by paning, in Affinity have to be rebuild..   it sometimes kills a smooth workflow..   also using Brushes  has some time lagging.. 
    I hope this is the result of missing gpu boost ?  
    If so,  one of the Big hadaches befor bringing Affinity to our Company will be gone.. 
     
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Cotterpin in Locating/Replacing Linked Files   
    Yes...

    exactly..  this was hurting me too...   there are several funktions that have to be improved here...    replace from folder,  open file in Windows explorer would be good too..     copy embeded files to the following folder and link it from there...     also i just dont understand, why  a document with linked files got the same size as a document with embeded files..   as far as i have read, the files allways stay in publisher, but it recognises that theres some lets say master-file out there, so when this changes, the file in publisher can be reloaded from there...  This is a behavior that can lead to very big files, and thats not what i would think, linking should do...
     
     
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Medical Officer Bones in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    I don't believe an official feature request place exists, but you could try these:
    https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
    https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-funboard
    https://blenderartists.org/
    The last one is visited by developers, but the first one is probably your best bet.
     
    PS Spitznamen sind oft ein Wirrwarr in verschiedene Sprachen. Als Kind habe ich immer Raumschiff Enterprise aufs Deutsch ferngesehen. Später musste ich mir dann an die Englische Version gewöhnen. War nicht leicht. Die Deutschen Stimmen von Doris Day und Quincy hören sich noch immer besser an.
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Medical Officer Bones in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    Yes, all true, excepting one thing: Next Gen wasn't the first feature length animation done in Blender. The same studio produced Ozzy with Blender in 2016. Even before this time Plumíferos, a feature length Argentinian animation film,  was released in 2010 in Argentina. (And before that the production team of Secret of Kells, released in 2009, used Blender for a number of scenes as well, but only for small parts.)
    Anyway, yes, I wholeheartedly agree that Cryptomatte support in Photo would be great, but I am afraid it is too 'niche' for Serif to do so soon, if ever.
    PS The Blender devs are finishing up "industry standard" mouse and keyboard controls, so you should be able to seamlessly transition from Max to Blender 2.8 soon. 2.8 is looking great!
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    Tom Schülke reacted to AlanH in Images linked or embedded?   
    Just doing a test document with several images. I pull them in, and as explained in the tutorial, by default they are embedded. The afpub file when saved is ~45MB.
    Following the tutorial instructions, I then set each image file to linked in the Resource Manager (multiple select not working - mentioned elsewhere).
    I then save the afpub file again and surprised to see it's still 45MB.
    Do a Save As with another file name, but afpub still 45MB.
    I then delete all images from the document and resave, this time it's 15kB.
    Looks like the embedded files are being cached in the document somehow, even though marked Linked in Resource Manager.
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Medical Officer Bones in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    For those who want to try this out for themselves, the upcoming Blender 2.8 (beta can be downloaded) includes Cryptomatte as well - for free! And with the built-in compositor it is easy to convert these cryptomattes to masks.
    Download the 2.8 beta here: https://www.blender.org/2-8/
     
     
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Mark Ingram in Workflow, and again workflow   
    Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
    With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Jon P in Footage not showing up in Ressource collector.   
    I should have been clearer but that was what I meant by the term "detached", by placing a picture in a frame that comes from a master page it essentially "detaches" the frame from the master. It continues to inherit the width/height/position of the frame from the master but the content is "detached".
     
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Wosven in Problems to sort Master files...   
    All right Mick Rose,

    I have some Template Files here, my company is using for Beamer Presentations for example..  Here very often, differing Pages  that are predefined have to be loaded, and this is done via the Masterpages Pannel inside of Indesign...

    you finde here some 30 Differing Pages, that you can apply per drag and drop to your Presentation indsingn file..    to be able to change order would be very appreciated.  which in indesign is possible .
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Old Bruce in Suggestio for far improved "Pages" Pannel   
    Hi
    I just recreated a Document for my company that they use for our Architects, when they make Layouts for Beamer Presentations (most time the produce pdf´s)
    I Found that they not only use the Masterpages for Structuring Layouts and Design elements, but especially , to Copy predefined Contend from the Masterpages because the Presentations mostly reuse Informations about our company, but also have to be flexible adopted.  So they just Copy paste what they need to the document pages.
    So some suggestions from me. Realy not polished. Maybe some of the ideas doesn´t make sense, when i look deeper.. but it s open for discussion and maybe for an improved Pages Pannel for Publisher 1.9     :-)
    Better Organisation of Masterpages with Categories and Subcategories Ability to set Pathes on your Serverstructure for all users of a company, to load typical Masterpages from this location if needed .  Also the possibility to set such a path for all copys of Publisher when Installing the Software from our IT Team. ( So typical Users only load the app, and the pathes are allredy set to the right place...   also for Colors, Assets and so on good) Drag and Drop of Masters as in the layers pannel of affinity Photo, to reorganise the Masterpages... Highly useful. Set Colors for better recognicion of differing Categories or / And Masterpages. Heres a Screenshot of a Mocup... i created.. 

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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Michail in Problems to sort Master files...   
    All right Mick Rose,

    I have some Template Files here, my company is using for Beamer Presentations for example..  Here very often, differing Pages  that are predefined have to be loaded, and this is done via the Masterpages Pannel inside of Indesign...

    you finde here some 30 Differing Pages, that you can apply per drag and drop to your Presentation indsingn file..    to be able to change order would be very appreciated.  which in indesign is possible .
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    Tom Schülke reacted to AMO in Linked Pictures still increase afpub filesize   
    HI all
    I am using the affinity publisher first time, and I am impressed about the good functions in this app! Congratulation to the dev team.
    One thing I has seen is: If I place some pictures, and set them to linked (not embedded), I finally get anyway a big afpub file. I have all my pictures in one folder, the total amount ist about 142 MB, and if I place all these pictures the final afpub is more that 165 MB. It seems the pictures are still embedded and not only linked?
    I am currently using the 1.7.0.206
    Thanks and kinde regards
    Andreas
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Nested Masters ! A Bug ?   
    Hi...  
    I Tried to nest a Masterpage with some guides into the secound Masterpage, to ease some of the workflow..    Now the Guides alone of the first Master doesnt appear as expected as dotted points on the secound master..  

    Is this a Bug ?  Or did i miss something.. ?

    I put two Screenshots, to show what i tried 


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    Tom Schülke reacted to Dave Harris in Is there a way to....   
    You can show styles in a hierarchy using options in the Text Styles panel hamburger menu. We had hoped that would be sufficient - it was for PagePlus. We're aware now that customers want folders as well, so we'll probably add that at some point. I can't say when, though, and it likely will not happen before release.
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Creative Art in Assets should be much improved.   
    Hi ,
    While this for sure is not on the highest list, i think the assets at the moment are not developed enough..

    1. As far as i have seen,  you can only make a folder and a subfolder. If you need to make a deeper three as iwould have to do for our corporate Designs, that we use for our comuication stuff, this is not enough.
    2. Drag and drop at last from an opened document to the Assets pannel should be enabled..
    3. This should of course be possible for several Objects at a time.
    4. Drag and Drop from outside of an Af Publisher file should be possible.  for example from the Windows Explorer.
    5. You should be able to define folders on your network, to be able to share content for the whole company.   and.. 
    6. You should be able to define Pathes for this,  that you also should able to set while network installation , so everyone starts his new copy of shining Affinity Software, and can jump in from the start whith all footage he/She needs.
    At last a feature i would suggest, that this should also be possible ( for the corporate Colors to load them and also for usual Styles, that one should be able to load as templates or that should be predefined at hands. )

     
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from PaulEC in Assets should be much improved.   
    HI Roland,
    Problem is, you first have to make your folders on the left in the Hamburger menue..
    After this you go to your folder in the assets.   then you bring some footage to your document, you select it, and in the Hamburger menue you now can say...  something like...  get your asset from the selected contend...  (dont remember the exact command.)   but exactly this is horrible cumbersome, without any drag and drop, and only works for stuff you allready have  inside your document..

    so drag and drog would be welcome as well as navigating to a predefined folder on your networkstrukture..
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from fde101 in Is there a way to....   
    Is there a way to ge rid of all unused Styles in a document, when you have finisedit ? 

    i could need this , while preparing templets for users, that from time to time will use the predefined Styles. But while creating the template there i have many styles, i only tried out. So at the end a one click , delete all styles i dont need, would be very nice to clean the document up.. 
    And by the way, why cant i organise my styles in folder for better understanding..  maybe i still dont understand the way of organising styles in publisher.  But especialy as a beginner in such software, a folder aproach would ease the learning cuve extremly..   hmm..
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    Tom Schülke reacted to eluengo in Is there a way to....   
    Styles in afpub isn't really an easy thing.
    As doesn't in ID neither in Word or Pages.
    But in afpub the interface doesn't help so much.
    My personal solution...
    -- deleting all styles EXCEPT both "no-style" styles, the paragraph one and the character one (and I send you with this text an afpub file with THOSE styles' characteristics). AND making this the default Styles in afpub (selecting it in the little menu appearing from the upper right corner of theText-Styles panel).
    -- for every proyect.... creating (or not) a base page with the styles I will use (or not).
    -- understanding that every Paragraph-Style has a Character-Style implicitly, and that Character-Styles mean only modifications to this base Implicit-Character-Style (so... using any character styles to different paragraph styles will make the general style structure of the document confusing, cumbersome and sometimes with an erratic behaviour).
    I don't know if this can help you, but it was for me.
    Emilio
    A4v.estilo nulo[afpub].afpub
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Old Bruce in Is there a way to....   
    Not just the learning curve I think it would increase the overall usability of the Styles. That would make it more productive in the long run.
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    Tom Schülke reacted to StuartRc in wishes and Questions.   
    Interesting.. I wasn't sure you could exchange style formats in Apub...but  digging a bit deeper it is pretty straightforward.
    1. If select text...and then select the 'create paragraph style' at footer of text styles you can attach the existing formatting to a new style (so you can pick up the style and name it)
    2. Find and replace has the option of exchanging Paragraph and Character Styles from any existing one in the style panel/s (select the cog icon and choose your style)....I didn't know you could do this.......brilliant..that is really useful!..
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    Tom Schülke reacted to Andy Somerfield in Macro to work arround missing important shortcut, Fails !!   
    Hello,
    This is a very sensible request - we will add it soon in the 1.7 beta
    Thanks,
    Andy.
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from MEB in Macro to work arround missing important shortcut, Fails !!   
    @MEB
     
    Hallo MEB,  is there allready someone working on this very simple but totaly nessesair Shortcut, that could boost your Software a great step ahead ?      Such a smal thing with such a workflowimpact...   
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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from Rick G in wishes and Questions.   
    Hi,  i have at the moment to    "reconstruct  a  master-layout for everything in my company  A4   megadocument."
    This worked only by importing the pdf of the indesign original file...     Now of course everything is formatted,  and the aim is to reconstruct styles, layout and everything, so later on we will get a template for our company, to build up on.. 

    1.  is there a way to make an empty new style, and tell it to get "All"  Attributes from the line or word, or what so ever..  like a pipette tool for textstyles ?   ( it takes long time to make a new style, swith to the textstyles, look everywhere for everything, goback to your new style, fill in the attributes by hand..   look again for paragraph attributes and so on and so on...   so. this would be handy..
    2. the other way round..  if i have a style and want it in many sections of a document.     i  have to open the frame klick in the text, search again for my style,   search the next textarea for the style, repeat repeat repeat...   wouldnt it be nice just to have a  style-brush-icon  and functionality...   Open Office or Staroffice once had something available... very very handy.. 
     

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    Tom Schülke got a reaction from lepr in Macro to work arround missing important shortcut, Fails !!   
    Hallo MEB  Sorry, i didnt see your answer earlier..

    exactly..  Please Please Please...  this is such an important Shortcut. When you work in big documents, this smal shortcuts to add layermasks, or to subtract them ore mix..   are one of those shortcuts, you desperatly need to work fast..
     
    In Architectural Visualisation you have to deal with dozens of layers that are mixed, grouped combined..   and often you have to aply masks ore effects to many of them at once.  having this shortcut would improove usability of Affinity for my company very very much. And i am sure for everyone else too.
    Please implement this in the 1.7..     it should be done ease wouldnt it ?

     
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