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Just wondering whether you have created any more of these spectacular trees? In any case, I thought that by refreshing this post, many of the newer forum members will see these beautiful creations, perhaps for the first time! Christmas 2019 is coming!!!

Very lovely. Beautiful colors!

Oops, sorry @DWright. This being a Sunday, I wasn't sure whether @benrymnd would have to wait until tomorrow, and so I floundered with this answer. Please excuse me. Did you buy it from the Affinity Store? If so, you should be able to log on -- affinity.serif.com then click on MENU, in the next screen click on My Account (left column) and there you will need to sign in to your Affinity account. From there you will be able to access your purchase of AP and download it again.

@carl123 this is such an excellent explanation! I think it should be tagged somehow for a permanent first page spot on the Questions Forum. There will be so many brand new Affinity users who will want to know exactly this!! @Patrick Connor What do you think?

Really elegant!!

@Jim Monson Actually, she was a wonderful Australian Shepherd. Brilliantly intelligent, funny, fiercely loyal, and unfailingly kind. As a child I always wanted a Collie and had to make do with terriers. Two Australian Shepherds later and its back to a smaller dog (my fault, not theirs) — this time a Lakeland Terrier. Funny, fiercely loyal, friendly to a fault, and pretty intelligent too, although not in the Aussie range. Nothing like dogs, wherever!

Oops. Back to the drawing boards.

Hi @Jim Monson. If you will go to Publisher HELP>Tutorials, you will find one a few rows down called "Linked Text Frames." At approximately 9:17 (minutes) there is an excellent demonstration of auto flowing -- exactly what you are trying to do, and what @walt.farrell has explained above. This does not work with a PDF file, and I don't have Word so couldn't test it, but it works like a charm with a TXT file. Just tried it. The entire tutorial is full of excellent tips and options, and well worth viewing. Hope it may help.

@walt.farrell you get a gold star for patience.

Could you look at your menu bar, then select VIEW>STUDIO> and see whether there are checkmarks beside Show Tools, Show Toolbar, Show Context Tool Bar (I think - I am on my iPad right now) and then click on Reset Studio. Hopefully that should populate your canvas again.

Thank you, Alfred. Actually, we are inland about 167 miles west-northwest from Charleston SC. When hurricanes come up the eastern coast they often reach Charleston and then make a turn, either to our direction or to the north-northeast. Thirty years ago, the trees in our town were demolished by Hurricane Hugo, which took an abrupt and unpredicted turn and thundered through the countryside and thwacked us at 100 mph. Smidges of green leaves were permanently embedded in every window frame. Many neighborhoods in Charlotte, NC were badly damaged by winds of 90 mph. Dorian had such a massive eye, and was traveling so slowly and with such a high wind speed that we were either going to be spared or smooshed. As it was, the sky was ominous all day, clouds raced by, but the wind never materialized to more than about 12 mph with slightly stronger gusts. All and sundry are hugely relieved and extremely sorry for the poor souls in the Bahamas!! Jennifer

Sooooooo disappointed! I was waiting for the "gay abandon" riposte. Oh well. We dodged Hurricane Dorian and are now having a bright blue, not-a-leaf-stirring day. Can't have everything!!

Ah Ha!! Great idea! Reduces a lot of growling at my desk!!

"Doesn't seem to have a q?" The font doesn't? I use Cormorant as my default font, and have just typed q's in gay abandon on a test page. What "q?" in Affinity do you mean? I must be extremely dense today.

Maybe you could get them to hurry up the process by showing them some of the assets you would like to import? How about making some screen shots to whet their appetites?

I'll bet I am a whole lot older than you are, so I thought I'd answer part of your questions with what I've found. I am a writer, not an artist or photographer, but I amuse myself with both. And definitely am now using both for my own devices with Affinity. First, your question 2.) There is a learning curve, but it is mainly finding where all those goodies are, not figuring out what to do with them. The Affinity developers have produced many splendid official tutorials, plus there is a whole section of these forums devoted to Tutorials. There are many splendid ones from which to learn the "tricks of the trade." Your question 1.) I don't know about the Photoshop files, because I never used that app, but for InDesign files the easiest thing to do right now is to export them as PDFs and then place them in Affinity Publisher. They can be edited very nicely after a little fiddling around at the beginning to link text frames, etc. I used InDesign after years with Aldus Pagemaker, and rather hated it. Recently, after using Affinity Publisher for a year -- from the original Beta issued on August 30, 2018 to the release version (now 1.7.2), I opened InDesign on an older computer just to check on something. Ugh! I was immediately reminded about how I actually rather loathed it. There was a learning curve with Publisher, but it was WORTH IT. I also have Affinity Photo and have been amazed at what I can do. The other day I brought life and brilliance to a moonlit ocean view scanned from a 35 mm slide from 1974. Almost the first time I used Affinity Photo I was able to extract a vanished right eye from a c. 1880 portrait which was severely splotched and sepia-stained. My niece, who is a professional graphic artist, tried and failed with Photoshop. The best she could do was to duplicate the left eye and then reverse it and dump it into the face. (Not desirable). Your question 3.) I believe that Affinity Designer is the vector-based design program that is the equivalent of Adobe Illustrator, but it has the added charm of being able to switch from pixel to vector all while working on a single document. And then there is Studio Link, enabled if one has the latest release of each of the three apps -- Photo, Designer, and Publisher. One can flip back and forth from app to app, depending upon what one wants to do at the moment (mesh warp, paint, type pages of text, adjust an image, create a design, etc.) all while in the same document. No saving, closing, opening another app, placing the file, saving, closing, opening the previous app --- etc. I was absolutely livid back in 2015 when Adobe told me that my $700.00 purchase of InDesign was my tough luck and I could now rent the right to access my own files. In perpetuity. Rent, that is. Instead, I fired Adobe and waited. I am extremely happy with the Affinity products, and am sure that you will be too. And . . . there is really nothing like learning something new to unclog "the little gray cells," a là that great detective, Hercule Poirot!

Hang on! @Dr_No. Publisher has so many tricks up its sleeve, and is a real joy to work with! These forums are littered with "how do I?" questions and there is always somebody who will be glad to help. I know. And by the way, in the beginning I was stumped by that spacing between paragraphs thing too!!

Phooey. Wish it had helped.

That is so kind. George is the genius with the incredibly inventive mind. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler and would give my right arm (left-handed) to be able to draw what I see in my head! On the other hand (left hand), I am told that I learned to talk at 9 months, and -- obviously -- have never stopped! H'm'm'm'm.

It may not help, but have you tried VIEW>Studio>Reset Studio? On my MAC they automatically appear on the right side afterwards.

Right. 19 and 15 are temporarily out of the "once upon a time" category -- although they'll get back to it when a bit older! How about borrowing an art class of local elementary school children (aged 8-10 or so) and read it to them but also give them free rein to suggest another ending? You wouldn't have to use it, but I'll bet they would have some fun thoughts! No matter what, the hard part is sitting down to the writing. All those wonderful ideas bouncing around in one's head, but "the leaves need sweeping up," or "better tidy my desk," or "just going to finish this book first," or "got another eejits idea!" inevitably get in the way. Called Writer's Block, but actually Writer's Procrastination. I have been suffering from the same thing recently, so I have been writing moronic ditties for some of your previous little eejits, instead of getting to work on my Airedale Terrier story. Anyway, I predict that your book is going to be as delightful as are your little creatures. They are so full of life, and all have such a charmingly unhurtful aura! Even the grumpy ones like bah humbugium! Jennifer

Beat me to it! Here is one ver'r'r'r'y smoothly blended can. Love your dog, @Humbucker !

You can definitely specify a font in Publisher by type, size and leading by using the Text Style Panel (VIEW>STUDIO>Text Styles). You edit the text style by right-clicking on something like "Body" which opens an entire menu of preferences. Rename the style and then proceed to set your parameters. For leading you open the Position and Transform option. When you want to duplicate the font format, just import it from one document which uses it to the new one. Hope this helps.

@eejits Bet your children could help you with the ending. Or some children in your local elementary school. As long as it is a happy one, and the baddie gets his come-uppance, or transforms into a decent chap, you can’t go wrong. The illustrations will sell the book!!

So funny. KNEW you were a “problem” in school!! yourself!