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Thanks! I can't wait till they fix it! It's damn annoying...

When cropping an image, the original frame remains visible. That wasn't the case before, so maybe I checked or unchecked something wrong. I find it very annoying because it makes it difficult to put the cropped image in the right place, especially if I reduce or enlarge it again. I thought it had something to do with "Properties", but I don't see that button in the Context Toolbar anymore. What am I doing wrong? (Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.6.0)

@Markw : Thanks! I can use that.

A project in Affinity Publisher 2: On a silver background I want to put a text that looks like it is engraved in that silver. I can't manage to get this to look right. With the Bevel/Emboss settings I don't get a result that really looks like it. Anyone have any advice on what settings I should use?

Quite often I get the beach ball showing when I do something in Affinity Publisher 2. For example, only a simple A4 document is open and then when I click a tool or the like, the beach ball appears for some seconds. I do not have this issue with other apps. Irritating! What could be causing it? System: Apple mini M2 (2023), 16 GB, 1 TB SSD. MacOS version 15.1.1 Apple Studio display 3 external HDs Affinity Publisher 2.5.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.6 Affinity Photo 2.5.6 All apps are installed on the SSD of the Mac mini

I need to translate and edit an existing PDF. I opened this PDF document in APu2 and I am editing it. That document did not have its own master page, so I added a master page. Added a page numbering on this, but the page number is behind the existing layout and is therefore invisible. Now how can I put the page number field at the very front? (so before the existing layout) Apparently I can't specify that on the master page? Update:: I found a solution: For each page, I select the existing layout and put it at the back. Problem solved!

thanks for the help!

They turned out to be files created with a previous version AF. In my current version, settings already had thumbnails checked. Just resaving didn't help, I had to rename the file, but then both the icon thumbnail and the preview were visible.

In the windows of my Mac where I see the .afpub and .afdesign files, some of those files (most of them) have an icon with reduced image and a thumbnail (preview). Why in other AF files do I only see an AF icon? Might that have to do with the version in which I originally created the document or is it something else?

I want to change the text style "Box". Now the background is gray and the border is black. I want the background to be white and no border, also I want the box tighter around the text. Can't find how and where to adjust this.

In the meantime, I had done some work on the document, but now all are the same in terms of content: 1. Document with only linked parts, size 135.6 MB 2. Document with PDF maps, the rest the same as under 1 (so everything linked), size 776 MB 3. Document as under 2, but now with all parts embedded, size 1.23 GB Download speed 1. 1 m 41 s 2. 1 m 10 s 3. 1 m 13 s Activity monitor (memory( 1. 23.70 GB 2. 22.80 GB 3. 23.87 GB when opening each file I got the disk limit warning So conclusion: it does not seem to make any difference how you format or save the document. Advantage linked parts: you can always change something in the individual part and it will be copied to your document.

Update: It does not matter at all whether the parts are embedded or linked. The download time of both is the same. File size embedded is 1.23 GB and with linked parts 776 MB. Activity monitor gave a memory usage for Embedded 23.74 GB and for Linked 22.68 GB With both documents I was now getting a Disdk Limit Warning. So it all makes no difference...

Apparently I don't make it very clear how I put the document together, therefore a further explanation. The project or document (whatever you want to call it) is a book of bicycle routes. In addition to some introductory pages, the document now contains about a hundred pages of a bicycle map. On each page is text (with tips and explanations) plus some icons that point to a POI, give directions, etc. These icons are linked. Also on one such page is a bicycle map. In my first setup, this bike map was a PNG file (image) that contained the same icons that were also linked plus place names. So such a map only could contain as many as 10-15 linked items. This caused very slow saving and frequent Disk Limit Warning. For the revised document, I have now created an image in PDF format for each page of the bike map with its linked parts. Now every page except for the information that was already on it shows the bike map in PDF that is linked. So now the number of linked parts per page is about 6, so in the old document there were about 10-15 linked parts.

@thomaso No, the whole document does not contain any embedded files. The roadmap required for the document is a file I create with linked parts, but that is of no consequence because I export it again as a PDF. So the project document only imports an image in the PDF format and it is thus linked. With about 100 maps (so 100 PDF images) I save about 500-600 linked parts and you can notice that! By the way, I think as a trial I am going to add embedded parts to the whole document. Am curious to see how big the document file gets then and if it saves a lot of time downloading and saving.