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Windows 11 pro - up to date. Affinity Designer 2 - up to date. What happened to the thumbnails? Any .afdesign file I Opened or Created today, No Longer shows an thumbnails in windows explorer. But ALL .afdesign created previously show the thumbnail - as long as I haven't opened them today. I did the typical reboot - no joy. I read a LOT of posts - no help. Watched a LOT of videos - nothing. ALL the search results mention one drive - I've never used the one drive. Haven't even set it up. All my images are on an external hard drive that's velcroed to my laptop. It has worked like this for Years! PLEASE, I Beg You - How Do I Fix This? Affinity Designer is useless if I can't see the thumbnails in explorer.

Thank you for your reply. Sorry about the category mix up, I wish something read "AD v2 Windows", but I can't ever find one. Thank you for answering the question, I didn't remember that it was in Photo. I loathe AP and use AD for everything, I forget that is the reason AP is still on my laptops. Thanks again.

Win 11 / ADv2 I know I have done this a dozen times, but I can't remember how. I have a group of .png's in a file. I need to resize all of them. I know there is a way to select them all and resize them without manually bringing them all into AD one at a time, but I can't remember how. Anyone remember? Thanks.

You just keep believing that, I'm sure all that is true [laughing hysterically]

Just give it time, they'll dumb it right down just like their online software for morons. They'll start with "integration" and dumb it down from there. Serif doesn't have control over the software - Canva does. The "idiot software" people.

You must have missed the memo "acquired by Canva" - You didn't hear? Canva is worthless software for children. Now they have it, we may as well break out the crayons.

Folks, this is nearly a year and half old - Serif doesn't care. Affinity was acquired by that worthless Canva - it will probably become a subscription service or software for children like the Canva site. Either way, it's no longer serious software and there's no longer any point in talking about it. We'll all end up either going back to Adobe or finding something else. Has anyone else started looking yet? Suggestions?

Yes, I'm using Adobe Acrobat to view the pdf - that's the default. Does Affinity expect us to inconvenience clients by telling them to use something else to view pdf's - clients will just buy elsewhere. Anyone know when this bug will be fixed?

This is odder still. I gave the image behind the bunnies a shadow, now the shadow around the larger image is white - and the second bunny shadow is fine. Again - Only in the PDF export. All other exports and in AD2 it looks perfect. I can't imagine it would be "only the last image you apply a shadow" has an issue.

walt.farrell Thank you. That will work. GarryP You may want to consider a Snickers bar.

AD2/Windows11 I have an image that needs to go into my PDF. I have 2 bunny heads in that image. The first bunny, I put a shadow around it - everything is great. The second bunny, I do the same exact thing as the first but when I export to a PDF that shadow turns white. The image looks fine in AD2. If I export as a PNG - everything looks good. It's Only when I download it as a PDF and it's Only that 1 bunny head. I have a dozen other images in that PDF - the rest are all fine - it's just that 1. How do I fix it so it's a shadow and not a white shadow thing when it's exported as a PDF? Thank you.

AD2/Windows11 On the right of my screen there is a sidebar with a layers tab and a swatches tab and a strokes tab and so on - how do I get a Brightness/Contrast tab in that sidebar? Dragging it doesn't seem to work. Thank you

1. I spent an Hour going through Settings and Shortcuts, thinking I had hit something, but couldn't find anything. 2. I didn't know what it was called - so clearly my search brought no joy. 3. I did search Affinity Designer why did my Node Tool turn into a plus sign. I watched 10 videos - not one mentioned capslocks.

You're Brilliant! That was it. I was using Caps Locks for the text. I just tested it. When I turned on the Caps locks again it happened. That would have never occurred to me - Thank you!!

Thank you for your reply - Oddly it just changed back. I don't know what I did. If it happens again, I'll post some screenshots, but now it's working correctly again.