walt.farrell
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks. No one seems to know why that's happening.
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1 hour ago, AdrianusvdPol said:
Can someone advise what fonts i need to load so publisher can interpret these correctly .
Looks like you need Opus, OpusSpecial, and OpusText that might be your music fonts.
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You're welcome, @PhoDesPub. Did one of those suggestions resolve the problem for you?
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3 hours ago, john-in-cornwall said:
There are a number of 'Marquee ' Tools allowing you to outline shapes and when I first opened the latest version of Affinity Photo the tools called 'Rectangular Marquee Tool', 'Column Marquee Tool' & 'Row Marquee Tool' all failed to actually generate any outline, failed to define any area. The other Marquee tools 'Eliptical' & 'Freehand Selection' work but not the ones generating straight lines. At least they didn't start working until the mode had been changed from 'New' to 'Add' a couple of times. Now seems all sorted.
Thanks; I understand now.
I'm not sure why that would happen, unless it's an issue with the Feather setting as Carl suggested.
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17 minutes ago, Jetro said:
but for now what I'd really like to have is a way to collaborate with InDesign users while using Affinity programs.
As long as you don't expect perfect fidelity, and are willing (on both sides of the collaboration) to rework things as necessary each time you exchange the files, IDML could be feasible. It's not clear to me how much rework would be needed, though, especially when IDML users may include InDesign-specific features, and Publisher users may include Publisher-specific features. And even where there are features in common, the implementations may differ enough to throw off the layout of the pages significantly.
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Next, to get help with issues like this it is best to contact the Serif team directly, which you can do by using the contact form at https://affin.co/get-support
On that form, when you describe your problem, you can provide your email address securely.
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@Ethanfozsk: Please edit your post (click the ... icon on the upper right and choose Edit) and remove your email address. It is sensitive information that you should not expose here publicly.
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A couple of things to look at:
- With the Affinity applications closed (not running), look in Task Manager and make sure they really are not running. Check both the top processes list, and the Background Processes list. If any are running, right-click on them and choose End Task.
- Please follow the directions in this FAQ post:
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1 hour ago, john-in-cornwall said:
but don't remember ever needing to use CNTL+ number and, while I often used return image to %100 or enlarge I've never had need to reduce opacity of the screen image,
The default Zoom shortcuts have always been Ctrl+a number (or on macOS Cmd+a number), and "change opacity" has always been pressing a single digit or pair of digits.
By the way, that is not "reduce opacity of the screen image", but "reduce opacity of the object/layer" or "reduce opacity of the brush" depending on context.
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1 hour ago, john-in-cornwall said:
the partial failure of the marquee tool, which stopped working on Rectangle, Column & Row?
I'm not sure what you mean by Rectangle, Column, and Row in this context. Can you provide a screenshot (complete application window, please) or recording to demonstrate the issue you're having?
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5 hours ago, Nicole Ind said:
i have the same problem as the first comment on this issue. I recovered a bunch of files after it was deleted accidentally. please help me open the files i have. most pf my files that cannot be open are only affinity related files.
Can you upload one of the files here, publicly, so we can examine it?
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I like your suggestion, @Flicker24.
In the meantime, at least on Windows (I have not tried on macOS yet), if you Float (Window > Arrange > Float) both the source and destination documents and arrange them so both are visible on your screen, you can:
- Click in the source document to make it active. Then
- Choose the Move Tool and Drag an Object from the Layers panel onto the window for the destination document.
This will copy the object into the destination document. But the functions provided in the Affinity applications to arrange the floating windows are rather primitive, so that will take more work than it should.
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6 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:
Functional lock on master pages
More problematic still: when a QR code is placed on a master page, its link cannot be modified on the associated pages
Not even by using Edit Detached? If that works, it's probably better than manually placing the QR code on the document pages.
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You're welcome.
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Please provide screenshots of the complete application window, and also show us the Window menu pull-down, and the Window > Studio menu pull-down.
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2 hours ago, bblackmoor said:
This is a bug.
It's only a bug if the panel is supposed to show that information at all times.
As far as I can see, the exact function of those fields is not explained anywhere in the Help. For me, they appear to show information (W, H, D, and A) only while I am making a pixel selection or moving a pixel selection. So, if that's what it's supposed to be showing, then it's working as designed and there's no bug.
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To provide screenshots, @Egil Odegard, please just paste them into your post as a JPG or PNG image. That way they will display directly in the post, and we won't have to download and open a separate document to see them.
If looks like you've hidden the Tools. View > Tools should restore them.
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What kind of GPU do you have, @Linktros?
In your application Settings, what do you have in the Performance section? If you have Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) enabled there, please try disabling it, restarting Photo, and seeing if that resolves your problem.
By the way, if I copy that layer and immediately paste it back into the document everything works properly on my Windows system.
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Thanks. No, there's no possibility of a keyboard shortcut for operations using a panel's Settings dialog.
I would expect Publisher to remember your Pages panel thumbnail size for each document where you've set it, though. If it's not doing that, I would start by seeing if that failure to remember a document setting is a bug.
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2 hours ago, jjonker said:
I think this is a Windows issue. Some programs have a grey of missing icon in the taskbar. This happens with my current Affinity Apps on WIndows 11. But also om my windows calculator. I first had more app with 'grey' icons, but I managed to fix that by rolling back a windows update but now I have some empty icons instead of grey icons... I am hoping the next windows update will fix this issue.
You might also try rebuilding the Windows icon cache, e.g. as described here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-rebuild-icon-cache-clear-thumbnail-cache-in/1e45604c-c8e2-4d6b-9e32-77f07e07bc17
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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.