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Really excellent point @R C-R! The howls of anguish would probably be legion from people who bought new hardware. Which reminds me, could you tell me how you have fared with upgrading to Mojave? I am desperately clinging to Sierra because everything works so seamlessly, but sooner or later Apple is going to deep-six supporting my compatible Safari.

@boughton editor have you entered "Linking Text Frames" in HELP? You say "clicking on the circle above the box" - do you mean the little circle attached with a line at the top center of the text frame? That circle allows you to turn the text frame to the left, right, on a 360 degree circle. Actually, you click on the small blue or red triangle about 3/4 the way down the right-hand side of the text frame. It will be red if you have overflowing text, blue if the text is all within the one frame. When you click on the red triangle, it will link to a new text frame. If you have already drawn your text frames and want to link them, you first click on the right hand blue triangle, and in the next text frame you click about 3/4 of the way up on the left side of the frame. (Clear as mud). See attached. If you have not already found it if you go to TEXT>and scroll down and place a check-mark beside Show Special Characters you will be able to see all that all your links are correct. I have attached a small portion of the Publisher HELP section so you will see what you are looking for. Hope this helps.

Are you on Windows? If so, I cannot help you. I just tried this with three separate single-page documents created with Publisher, and did not have this problem. I used FILE>OPEN and selected all three documents at the same time. They all three came into Publisher and I checked each document to see whether I could use the Text Frame Tool and change something in one file without disturbing the others. Does your Context Toolbar look like the attached? (except, of course, for the name of the files).

What a great site! They seem to have a very precise search engine as well. Enter "tiger" and you get stuff with stripes. Not pictures of bazaars in Calcutta (or wherever).

@Engine44 Here is a way that I have done this. (And a bit sloppy around the edges, because I left out step 6 for File One.) Not nearly as sophisticated as the method @GarryP has shown! Two separate files: File One: 1. Place image (either PNG or JPEG) on a new transparent document. 2. LAYER>New Mask Layer, and be sure that the mask layer is a child under the image layer. 3. Select the Brush Tool and a brush from the Textures category (I used Grunge pattern 01). 4. Paint with black around the edges of the image with whatever size brush you choose to remove all sharp edges, while bobbing and weaving to get the desired irregular look. 5. Use Crop Tool to bring the image down to a size that includes all of the brushed area, but eliminates as much of your unwanted canvas as possible. 6. Zoom in on the image layer and if you find any remaining hard edges, rasterize your image layer, then use the Erase Brush Tool and either with a soft round brush setting, or with your same Texture setting, carefully erase any bits and pieces of hard edges still showing. 7. Group all layers in the Layers Panel. 8. Export as PNG, Selection Without Background. File Two: 1. Create New Document. 2. Place the PNG created in File One. 3. Use the Rectangle Shape and draw a rectangle over the image layer. 3. On the Layers Panel, drag the rectangle layer underneath the image layer. 4. With the Move Tool, click on the rectangle layer and drag it to the correct size to frame your image. 5. Go to the Context Toolbar, click on Fill. 6. Select the color you want and optional noise. 7. In the Stroke box, choose the size you want for the stroke and any color you wish. (Or if you want a paper texture, you can use the Gradient Tool, go to "Type" on the Context Toolbar, select Bitmap, and locate one of your texture files.) 8. With image layer highlighted, go to Layer Effects (fx at bottom of layers panel) and choose Gaussian Blur to soften the edges between the image and the rectangle. 9. Highlight all layers in the Layers Panel. 9. Export as PNG without background.

@Don Lee At the rate the stock market is going, it would be a ver'r'r'r'y long time at best! By then, I will possibly be too old to totter off to the beach. Think I will just have a "pretend" cottage such as yours.😇

Party pooper.😏

@StuartRc do you want me to report the issue I had in the bug section? Hate to waste your time again.

How lovely. Wish I had one just like it!

@walt.farrell Yup. I wonder why there is an Edit Profile section? Anyway, problem solved.

This is definitely not an urgent matter but I have tried several times both yesterday and today to edit my forum profile to show that I am now using 1.8.2 rather than 1.7.3 for all three apps. The Edit Profile section shows my corrections. Click Save. Then back in the Forums, and nothing has changed. Just in case others are having this issue, thought it might need looking at somewhere down the line. Stay well!!!!

@carl123 “words, words, words.” Guess I will never make it.

@Multi4G this is really wonderful! So clever. Thank you so very much. Just what I needed for some “once upon a time . .” stories!

@StuartRc Thank you. I will look for the email.

@StuartRc I must be doing something wrong, but I have tried several times and failed to make these lovely pencil brushes install. Any ideas?

Hi @Ash. Just wanted you to know that I was contacted today by the Wall Street Journal to ask how I was coping with working at home with the COVID-19 quarantine, and I decided to let them know about Serif's extraordinarily generous reaction. I took the liberty of quoting your first five paragraphs and explicitly stated that I had absolutely no financial involvement at all, and that I already have all three desktop apps. Hope they contact you. When the world is struggling with a major mess, it is good if one nation learns what those in another are doing to make things better. Attached is what I wrote. ---

Stay well, all of you! Photo, Designer, and Publisher are making self-isolation a piece of cake around here. So glad to know that you are all working from home!!!!!

@G13RL Really nice shortcut! I have been going the rectangle, gradient tool, bitmap, place PNG route for ages. Plod, plod. This is gr’r’r’r’reat! (As Tony the Tiger said on the cereal boxes.)

Beautiful. Most especially the blonde lady with the lilies!

That is exactly what happens here. Shift+Return (line return marker) creates the last line as justified all the way across the text frame with equal spacing between the words. Return (paragraph return marker) causes the last short line to be justified left, as long as the icon up on the Context Toolbar is set to Justified Left. Perhaps Maudie 1942 could turn on TEXT>Show Special Characters, to see whether she has a paragraph return or a line return? Her attached file is a PDF so I couldn't check that.

@firstdefence those are mystical wings!

If you now highlight the Screenshot (image) layer you can move the image within the circle, so you will get the top of the gentleman’s head too.

If you are actually referring to Page Plus then you are in the wrong Forum. If you are using Affinity Publisher, Photo, or Designer, then you can go to VIEW>Studio>Assets and click on Assets to put a checkmark beside it. Your Assets Panel will appear on the left side of your desktop. Hope this helps.

I have not yet upgraded to 1.8 and am whizzing along — flawlessly — with all three apps still at 1.7.3. If you can successfully re-install that version you should be fine.

Magnificent!