walt.farrell

It's better to install the MSI/EXE first, then uninstall the MSIX, in my opinion. When you first run the MSI/EXE version, if it finds that the MSIX version is also installed, the MSI/EXE program ensures that all your Settings, installed content (Styles, Text Styles, Assets, Macros, Brushes, etc.) from the MSIX program are made available so you don't lose anything and don't have to reinstall any content you've added. I'm not sure that will all work properly if you've uninstalled first, especially if you don't use the standard Windows Uninstall function.

It is possible to invoke a program that is installed under WindowsApps (an MSIX-based program) but most 3rd-party applications are still using older methods that won't support that. Some do support it, but generally you'll probably find that you need to use the MSI/EXE installer, rather than the MSIX installer, unless you are lucky with your choice of 3rd-party applications and choose one that knows how to deal with MSIX applications.

The capability is already provided. If you would prefer that each document start with a Layer, and with that Layer selected so new objects go into it automatically, you can accomplish that. Just make a Template, put it into the Templates folder you've configured in the application, and start new documents from the Template rather than using the New Document Presets.

Yes, it seems like a moderator should do that, and perhaps one will. Thanks for making the suggestion.

A couple of additional possibilities (or, at least, relevant points): One of your earlier screenshots shows that for "Followed Content" you have requested notifications via email, but not via the notifications list. That means that you would not see any sign of my reply (or other users' replies) to this topic when looking in the notifications list (the bell icon), as you would only get them via email. I have specified both forms of notification in my settings, so I always see them in the motivation list, too. One of the Serif staff mentioned to me that, as they understand the forum software, if you happen to have a browser window or tab open to the topic when a new post is made, you won't get an email. If that is correct, then if you had a tab/window open on that topic when I replied, you would not get an email. (However, this would not explain why @Alfred didn't get a notification for my post, without additional info/research.)

But just so you know: That Text Frame was on a document page, but it was inherited from a Master Page. The green-dotted line indicates that you've changed some aspects of the item, and hovering your mouse pointer over the name or object-type field in the Layers Panel should reveal what has been modified and unlinked from the parent. When working on a document page, to modify aspects of an item inherited from a Master Page (such as the item size or position) you need to use the Edit Detached function on the document page, or make the change on the Master Page (which would affect other document pages, too). Help for Edit Detached: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Pages/detachLinkMasterPages.html

It's possible that you're Exporting in RGB-32 format when you really want to be exporting in RGB-8 format. If you're Developing RAW images that's especially easy to trigger accidentally, because prior to 2.4 Photo did not support 32-bit PNG files, and automatically exported them as 16- or 8-bit files. If that's happening to you, then you might want to take one of these approaches: Change your Develop Assistant Settings to Develop to RGB-16 rather than RGB-32 (In the Photo Settings, this will be under Assistant, then under Develop). or In the PNG Export options, change the Pixel Format setting from "Use Document Format" to RGB-8 or RGB-16 instead. You should be able to make your own Export Preset to do this, I think.

Perhaps not that odd. For example, I have my preferences set to not automatically Follow topics just because I post to them. If I want to be Following, I will explicitly click the Follow button. But even then, I often choose to hide the fact that I'm Following a topic. I will still be notified by the Bell icon, and can use the notifications there to get to the topic when needed. Often I simply scan the list of Unread topics/posts, and if it's shown as one I've posted in I will select it to look at.

Do you get notifications for my other posts? Also, did you get one for this post, where I quoted you?

Welcome to the Affinity forums. Sometimes, depending on the kind of corruption, using File > Place to put it into another document can work. But often that won't work, either. If you can share the file publicly then either Serif or another user can look at it and see if it looks feasible to recover it. If you cannot share it publicly, then one of the Serif staff can provide a private upload link so you can share it just with the Serif team.

You're welcome. No idea. You seem to be Folling this topic, but of course as a user I can't see what your Follow options are. Lack of emails could be related to not having chosen the email option when you Followed the topic, but even then if you click the Bell icon at the top of the page you should be able to see a notification.

Based on the screenshot you show, the 2022 model is supported by Photo as 2022 > 2017. But that does not mean that all functions of Photo are supported on it. More details are supplied elsewhere, including on the page that Nathan linked to (in your quote) which says (under 2.6): And the ML System requirements page shows:

I'm curious why you'd want that.

I would deselect the selected object before trying to draw over it.

Generally if the bug tag starts "APL-" then it was reported as a suggested improvement. Tags beginning "AF-" (or the older range "AFD-", "AFB-", etc. which are slowly migrating into the "AF-" numbering if they are still unfixed) were reported as suspected bugs.