walt.farrell

You would not have brushes to import unless you have downloaded them; none are supplied for importing with the programs. Everything that is supplied are installed automatically, or must be downloaded. OK. Try this, please: Start the Affinity application. Start Windows Task Manager. Find the entry for the application in the Task Manager listing. Expand that entry by clicking the > at the front of it. Right-click the second line of the entry, and choose Open File Location. You will get a File Explorer window. Is it for a directory within "Program Files" or within "WindowsApps"? If you're not sure, you may be able to right-click in the location bar at the top of the window and choose Copy As Text (or something like that), and give us the info that way.

"Occult"? That's not an English term that applies to files or folders. Perhaps "Hidden"? Or could you provide a screenshot of the setting you changed?

Sorry; Clear is right for that dialog; I misremembered. I see that in your screenshots you don't seem to have any documents open. Does this also happen when you have a document open? Does this also happen in the Pixel Persona (no brushes) or is it only in the Designer Persona? Did you install using the default MSIX-version of the installer, or did you download the EXE/MSI version?

Also, what location are you exporting the file to? It is best to export to a folder on your local disk, that is not managed by any Cloud service (iCloud, Dropbox, etc.).

Yes, though you can do it from the panel preferences (Burger menu) of the Book panel. It's also important, in my opinion, to Save As using different file names, so you have multiple backup copies. But I have not yet figured out a good strategy for doing that with files that are part of a book, except possibly for using a version control system such as Git.

As it's a .afbook file, how are you trying to Open it? If you aren't doing it from the Book panel, I would try that. By the way, a .afbook file has relatively little information. Most of the information is within the .afpub files that contain the chapter text. I hope you're Saving those, too.

@Gerald Lee Wall: have you run each of the applications since you upgraded to 2.3?

Could you share a sample .afpub when it's in that state?

Are you selecting all the text that you want to change? And how are you specifying the text style? Some screenshots or a recording would help us see what's happening.

That's odd. Usually a Reset of the Brushes takes care of that. You might try doing a Reset again via the Ctrl key, but in addition to Reset Brushes leave the first three items checked.

Thanks, but you've secured the Move Tool. The View Tool would be better for what I wanted to see. You might have installed the wrong G'Mic plugin. You need the one for X64 architecture.

What categories do you currently have? Can you provide a screenshot of the Brushes panel, with the category pulldown expanded?

Which one don't you have? Please show us a screenshot of the complete application window, with the View (hand) Tool active, and that layer selected in the Layers panel.

Unless you Paste Without Formatting, pasted Text will always keep the style it had in the source document you copied from.

Do you have a Pixel layer selected? My guess is no, but we can't tell, as you haven't shown the complete application window, with the Layers panel visible. Also, what is the color format of your document?

No.

@Mikeymcg: If you are missing the various brush categories you'll probably need to Reset your brushes, which will set them back to their "factory" state. Any brushes you've added yourself will then need to be re-added manually, or recreated. Make sure that none of the V2 applications are running. Start one of them while holding the Ctrl key. Release Ctrl when you get the Clear User Data dialog (on Windows, you might need to click the application icon in the Taskbar to get that dialog to show up). Uncheck the first 3 items in the list. Check Reset Brushes. Press Reset. This will reset the brushes for all the Affinity V2 applications.

Where are you quoting from?

There's a known problem in V2: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=APL-1517

Sorry, no idea what that means in the context of the Affinity applications. As far as I know they aren't installed via Homebrew.

Your V1 purchase from the Microsoft Store is still in your Microsoft Store account, and you can look in your purchases there to find them. But, by default, the Store has a Filter set to show only programs installed on the computer. You need to change that Filter to see your older purchases that are not installed. For more, please see the FAQ:

I think Mike uses Sidenotes, which will do what you've described.

What kind of objects?

That means you downloaded a .jpg from freepik. If you really had a PDF (or a true EPS, not something created by InDesign pretending to be an EPS file) then it should have still been editable.

There are command-line argumentts that control which application is opened, so if CTA5 lets you specify them, you can still use aflaunch. If it doesn't, then perhaps you should install the EXE versions instead.