walt.farrell

Correct. I wonder if there should be a Preference for that overwriting, as there is for PSD documents. Also, of course, improved documentation on how it actually works

Possibly this will help:

I don't know the details of the resources enterprise admins have, but they already have access to more information and management resources than we individual customers have from hints I've seen here.

First question: Which OS, and where did you purchase. Next, just to make sure: Do you use both the retail release and the beta release? I ask because if you do, it is possible that you installed things into one of them, and are now trying the other one. The applications are completely separate, and brushes, assets, etc. that you install in the retail version will not be in the beta version, and vice versa. They also will not be in Photo if you just installed them in Designer or Publisher, if you have multiple applications, which has confused some users. For the free assets you downloaded from the Affinity Store, did you download them manually, and install them manually? Or did you Register your app and then install them via the My Account dialog? You might open the My Account dialog (green icon on the right side of the Toolbar) and see what the status of your registration and signin is, and of the content packs. If you're not signed in, and you installed via that dialog, you might have set it up to remove the items until you sign in again.

@Alfred and @MEB: Thanks. I hadn't thought of simply going back to the main shortcuts page; I was looking for some explicit "save" action of some kind, and getting confused when I couldn't find one.

After that, I must be missing something that actually saves the shortcut, but I can't figure out what.

Because this forum system is about using the Affinity programs, and this particular section of it is for sharing work made using them. And that makes us curious which application was used so we can learn more about what is possible with each of them.

Can you give us a screenshot and a sample .afpub document that shows the problem? It is possible there is something else wrong, that we might help you correct.

Is it added by ID and saved in the file, or added by Publisher when importing the file?

For your desired workflow, assuming you're working with pixel layers: Select the pixel layer you want to affect, using the Layers panel. Add the kind of adjustment you want, using the icon at the bottom of the Layers panel, or using the Layer > New Adjustment menu, or the Adjustments panel. When you're done with the adjustment settings, click the Merge button in the adjustment settings. The Merge button won't work for vector items, though. But it sounds like you haven't yet come to grips with where you drop items in the Layers panel. If you have specific examples that don't work, we can help with that.

Certainly that will work for several of the raster formats (png, jpg, tiff), but perhaps not all the raster formats. I'm not sure it will work for any of the vector formats.

You're welcome.

The FAQ below will help you find the "user" folder where the various files (assets, brushes, presets, etc.) are stored and which files are relevant. You should be able to move each file that you want from one Windows machine to another, or one Mac to another. The file for that one is doc_spread_presets.propcol, @Bryce.

Generally I would suggest Justify Left rather than Justify All.

If you mean the Selection Brush Tool, that creates a pixel selection. What you're talking about needs a vector path (or curve). I think you'll need to use the Pen Tool, or use an app that can do vector tracing of a pixel image. (If that's not what you mean, please provide a screenshot of your application window so we can see your image and what tool you're using.)

I don't know. But a separate beta-forum topic discussing that would allow it to be explored properly.

It is certainly getting much closer to duplicating the copyrighted original design you showed us in your first post. What do you intend to do with it once you're done? If this is just for learning, and you're not going to try to sell something with that image in it, that's fine. But if you intend to sell it, it's still someone else's copyrighted design and you need to purchase an appropriate license in order to do that.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. The Affinity applications have no support for RTL languages, and Serif has stated that it will be a big job to add such support, and it will not happen soon. You can find a lot of discussion on this if you search the forums for RTL, for example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=RTL&quick=1

It is often the case on the desktop (and possibly on iPad) that changes made to the Affinity applications (Preferences, or addition of Assets, Brushes, etc.) are not saved unless the application is closed successfully after the change is made. So, if you add some brushes, and then the application crashes before you have closed it successfully, I would not be surprised if the brushes disappear.

Thinking further, and with your examples, @Lagarto, I think it would be better to have a separate topic in the beta forum, rather than discussion mixed into the announcement topics.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Which Affinity application (and release) are you using, on which OS (and release)? What Export Preset are you using, or which options have you chosen in the More... part of the Export dialog? Can you provide a sample Affinity document and the PDF file you generated from it that cause this problem?

"Save As" in the Affinity applications will only save in an Affinity native format, e.g, .afdesign, .afphoto, or .afpub. If you want to save in some other format and change the name you need to use Export.

Can you give an example of what you'd like to see?

That's why having your IDML file would help.

It's also a comment on the new implementation, which may be useful in making further improvements to the new code. Especially if the % encoding in the middle is an error for mailto addresses.