walt.farrell

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If you Embed then the file would be immediately larger, rather than growing, so I didn't see that that would help. As for why Designer doesn't have the problem, this is all speculation at this point since you haven't told us anything about what your files contain and how big they are. But as far as I know the memory management for both applications would be the same.

That's what I was meaning, too. Initial loading will require a certain amount of memory/RAM. Shortly after, if you have Linked files in the document, the memory usage will increase as the full Linked files are loaded, I believe.

In fact, it's MSIX-40: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=msix-40

I don't think it's about thumbnails, Hangman. I see thumbnails for the files mentioned in that screenshot. I think she wants an Affinity icon on the thumbnail, like you can see the Acrobat icon here for a PDF file: I think that's a known problem when using the Affinity applications installed using the default MSIX installer rather than the alternative EXE/MSI installer.

Do you have a sample .afdesign document that has the problem, and the exported version, that you can share with us so we can see the details, and see if we experience the same problem?

Why would you do that? Migrate implies that you're deleting the A content, and you've already said that the text frame setup on B is not appropriate for the content derived from A.

Thanks. For the initial storage increase (in about 5-10 minutes), if your document contains Linked documents, then it contains low-resolution images of those documents when it is saved, and initially when it is opened. Then, as part of the work that happens, the application will be reading the actual documents to prepare the high-resolution images that it will need to display as you scroll through the document. That will certainly require the use of more memory, but how much will depend on the number and size of Linked files you're using, and this might account for part of what you're seeing.

I am surprised that it would allow dragging a .afdesign file into the Assets panel at all.

It's a known issue, probably with OneDrive itself, on Windows that the thumbnails don't show up. Perhaps they have the same issue with their iPad app?

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It probably won't work if you try to color-pick outside the application window.

As David mentioned, you need to use Adjustment layers. That is what the Export LUT process uses.

The Z 8 has several modes for storing its raw images. They can be uncompressed, or they can be compressed in a basic fashion, or they can be highly compressed ("high efficiency compression"). That latter mode is not supported in the Affinity applications. You should choose a different compression setting in your camera, or use another application to process the files before Opening them in Affinity Photo.

You can also save that "sample" document as a Template, and then rather than using File > New and starting from a Document Preset with the default Text Styles defined, you can start from your Template and have only the set of Text Styles you wanted with no need to import them.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. We'll probably need more information. What kind of work are you doing in the application when this happens? For example, how many files do you have open, and how big are they? Or, is this happening spontaneously even before you have opened or created any files? What version of macOS are you using?

Sorry, @PanGad, but I don't know anything more than the information in that topic. Perhaps Serif staff know more, but if so they haven't said anything that I've seen.

If you're using V1, and you're on Sonoma, then you have the problem described in that other topic, and there's no workaround other than using drag/drop as mentioned in that topic:

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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. It's not an S, but a Section symbol, and represents "End of Story" in Affinity terms. It won't print, or be visible in any exports, but if you don't want to see it you can turn off the visibility of Special Characters:

That might be possible using the Optical Alignment settings, but I haven't tried it with those specific characters or in a TOC.

In the case of a Rectangle, though, it will no longer be a Rectangle but a Curve (Curves?) object. But I don't think there's anything else you can do.

Clicking More from the Insert menu you mentioned earlier should have taken you to that panel. You said, though, that "nothing happens" so I thought perhaps your Studio was configured incorrectly.

If you want that, make a Feature Request, or add on to an existing one with information on how it would benefit your work. Mentioning it here will have no effect on the development of the programs.

That sounds like one of three possibilities: 1. You don't have the language set properly in the Character panel. Or 2. You don't have Automatic Hyphenation enabled in the Paragraph panel. Or 3. You don't have the dictionaries downloaded or installed properly.