[Affinity Photo Machine Learning missing in settings]

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

So the missing notifications just might have been a temporary glitch of the forum software.

A couple of additional possibilities (or, at least, relevant points):

1. 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.
    
2. 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.)

 

[locked text frame]

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

[Export of PNG from Affinity Photo]

20 hours ago, dangerous2a said:

I found that some  exported PNGs were very dark

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:

1. 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
2. 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.

[Affinity Photo Machine Learning missing in settings]

8 hours ago, thomaso said:

Odd: this thread has posts of about 13 authors – but only 5 followers are listed. (e.g. Walt and @Komatös aren't)

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.

[Affinity Photo Machine Learning missing in settings]

18 minutes ago, Alfred said:

As I noted in my reply to Thomas earlier, I didn’t get a notification when you made this post:

Do you get notifications for my other posts?

Also, did you get one for this post, where I quoted you?

[Affinity Designer File Corrupted]

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.

[Affinity Photo Machine Learning missing in settings]

7 hours ago, thomaso said:

thank you for clarifying!

You're welcome.

7 hours ago, thomaso said:

By the way, your reply didn't trigger a notification or email. Any idea why, or is it related to the iPad forum?

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.

[Affinity Photo Machine Learning missing in settings]

16 hours ago, thomaso said:

I'm wondering, because the aforementioned, linked Tech Specs page does not exclude the iPad 10th generation (2022), but rather states "iPad (2017 onwards)," which, in my understanding, would include a 2022 model

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:

 

 

[Is there a way to change transparency of "Bleed" erea in Designer?]

17 hours ago, kirk23 said:

Or rather have it fully transparent?

I'm curious why you'd want that.

[Affinity Publisher tools]

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

[Very disappointed]

18 hours ago, Alfred said:

but more often than not we don’t even know whether an issue has been reported as a bug to be fixed or an improvement to be implemented

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. 

[Frequency seperation weird colored lines]

You're welcome. Thanks for confirming it worked.

[Sharing/Linking brushes between AP and AD]

21 minutes ago, CaroleA said:

So the Photo app, has no additional persona

It has several, as you can see on the Toolbar, or in the File menu, but not ones relevant to using the brushes we're discussing:

Further described in the Help for Photo: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Introduction/about_Personas.html (and similar pages for the other Affinity apps).

[Frequency seperation weird colored lines]

Welcome to the Affinity forums, @rc1982.

(Just as a comment: It is usually better to provide screenshots taken by your OS, rather than using a camera to photograph the screen.)

What kind of GPU do you have on your Windows system? Also, do you have Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) enabled in the Performance tab of Photo's Settings (Edit > Settings)? If so, please disable it, restart Photo, and see if that resolves the problem.

[Sharing/Linking brushes between AP and AD]

18 minutes ago, CaroleA said:

But if I look at Publisher (which I never used), I don't even see a Brushes panel. Are those brushes created in Designer really used in Publisher? If so, where?

In the Designer Persona of Publisher you'll find a Brushes panel. 

[Table of Contents formatting]

Welcome to the Affinity forums, @JohnPio.

Forum usage hint: You'll usually have better results getting answers if you express your question directly in the post, and if you provide screenshots as JPG or PNG images so they, too, are directly visible in the post. That way, for example, users who may be interested in helping won't have to download/open a file before they can even confirm that they are interested in helping, and have an answer for you  

(I will defer to someone else for the answer to this one.)

[Missing Plugin support for certain file formats...]

3 hours ago, Alfred said:

You could have asked here before making the purchase, and/or you could have found out during the (woefully short) seven days of the trial period.

And the file formats that are supported are shown in the Affinity Store pages before purchase. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/full-feature-list/

 

[Can I have macro know document size somehow?]

11 hours ago, Alfred said:

There are variables such as spreadwidth and spreadheight that you may be able to use.

Affinity Designer 2 Help: Expressions for field input

Yes, there are variables, but typically when recording a macro it is the results of the calculation that are recorded. This often means the macro will work only for images with the same aspect ratio and/or the exact same size as the one used for the recording.

Macros are very limited in this area.

[Contour Tool creating curves with straight lines]

2 hours ago, Alfred said:

Are logged issues ever removed from the issue tracking system??

I suspect Callum meant that it is logged and has not been marked as Fixed, nor Closed as "by design".

[Musicscore notation Fonts required in publisher , which to choose ?]

1 hour ago, h_d said:

It's a manual process, so it might not be convenient if you're working with tens or hundreds of pdf pages.

There is a less manual workflow, though, using Autoflow:

Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Media/placeImagesAutoflow.html

[Monitors turn black and images become 'corrupted' on export (Affinity Photo 2)]

Welcome to the Affinity forums, @bluefinity.

This is almost certainly an issue with or related to your NVIDIA 5090 GPU. If you open the application Settings, and look at the Performance tab, if you have Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) enabled then please disable it, restart Photo, and see if that resolves your problem.

[Metadata in Designer 2.6.3]

4 hours ago, AD-Lukas said:

We do have Publisher, but in my humble opinion, that’s not the way to go.

Unless the creation of the PDF files involves using the Export Persona of Designer, you might consider doing all the work in Publisher. If you do need the Export Persona, then it's pretty easy to use File > Edit in Publisher to move the file to Publisher, use the Fields panel, and then use File > Edit in Designer to get it back to Designer to use the Export Persona. (Though, for complete safety, a File > Save might be useful before using File > Edit in ....)

In any case, as far as I know the only choice you have are to use Publisher, or to use your other tool to make the change after the fact, or to switch software entirely.

[Musicscore notation Fonts required in publisher , which to choose ?]

19 hours ago, AdrianusvdPol said:

I tried to merge PDF documents containing text and music score notation characters (like repeat bar, coda character, music notes..etc).  When loading the documents in publisher the music score is interpreted. It did not find the correct fonts

For merging PDF files it is probably better to use a PDF-specific editor, not the Affinity applications.

But you could try creating a new document, and then Placing your existing PDF files into the new document using Passthrough mode which won't do any interpretation.

[cancel subscription]

Just now, Ali said:

Are you sure that it isn't a Canva subscription that you are being charged for? If so, you need to contect them, not Affinity. 

When we've seen this before it's often been from some other company named Affinity, sometimes (as I recall) a water company. Unless @Sharon Cruz is willing to share a screenshot of the bill she's getting we won't be able to tell.

[Can't open files saved in previous versions]

Can you share it here publicly? If so, one of us (users) can try to help you.

If not, you'll need to wait for a Staff member to provide a private upload link.