Dan C

No, It doesn't.
There are separate propcol files for all sorts of settings, the filename tells it all. (scnsht AffDes.v.1.6.1)

All the best,
C.L.

It may be a bit out of date, but according to this old post by @Leigh the fills.propcol file only stores custom application palettes, while custom object styles are stored in the objectstyles.propcol file.

I think the problem with 1.6.1 is the font used in the chart. In the beta, it is listed as ".SFNSText-Bold" with the leading period that normally indicates a hidden file. I'm not sure how you managed to use it to begin with -- not only would it normally be hidden, Apple's "SF" (for San Francisco) font families are not licensed for general use.
Anyway, if you don't want to try the beta, Spectrogram2 font fix.pdf should open without issues in Affinity Designer 1.6.1. To create it I opened your original in the beta, & at the 'missing fonts' warning substituted Arial Bold for the Apple font, & then exported it back to PDF.

I know well: they're not perfect, but don't have the patience to work for longer!! 
Some files from analogic film and digital shot mixed together with A.P.
I love that software!!

Hi JorgenH,
Welcome to the forums
I've compared Affinity's & PS's sliders and there certainly seems to be more granularity to PS's. The exact reason for this I'm not currently sure of, but I'll be sure to bring this up with the relevant team. 
Unfortunately there isn't a setting in the current build to change this, so I'll move this to Feature Requests for our devs to see and coniser!

Hey! I've been taking pictures for quite a long time but now I'm more into photo manipulation and retouching. I like the software and its "Live Filters" feature makes the process so much more flexible.
Here are my first composites made in Affinity Photo.
Hope you enjoy it!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/167401184@N05/

Many thanks for your feedback, it is appreciated. I'll be certain to pass it through to our development team.
We're currently developing version 1.7 for iPad and we hope to bring batch processing and macro creation to the iPad in this version, we'll have more information available shortly.
Filename retention and export presets have been requested previously on our forums and our developers are currently looking into this, many thanks for your continued patience here!

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Hi requiredusage,
Welcome to the forums
This is possible in any Affinity app, using the Combine Boolean operation. I've created a quick video showing this below, after loading my background I created a white semi-transparent rectangle then typed my text above this. I then converted my text to curves and Ungrouped the auto-created group in the Layers studio. I selected the recently created rectangle, along with the aforementioned curves and used Layer>Geometry>Combine. This created one curves object that is semi-transparent, with the wording 'cut out' to be transparent. I hope this helps! Transparent Text.mp4

Ok, I figured out I had to open a picture first then it can be accessed and the changes there will stick.
This can be closed, sorry for the noise!

As already advised you will need to start with the Displacement Filter but after that you can "distress" it further to get whatever result you want.
 
 

Thanks for the input Dan C and Wosven, it was helpful.  The brushes I'm using were intended to be used as tool presets (with ALL of the tool adjustments included) rather than just rubber stamp brush shapes so they take some tweaking to get their intended effect.

I think it would be best if you kept your clothes on. 

Got it solved by removing preferences and re-installing. Feel free to close this.

This is really help thank you very much.

Hi Woody-TH,
Welcome to the forums
When using the export Persona for iOS you need to 'Select' the folder itself that you want to export to.
For example, in your screenshot provided, when Files opens to prompt for a save location go up one folder layer to your Documents folder. Here click Select, then select your slice folder and click Done in the top right. I hope this helps!

Be aware that the trial period starts when you first open the app & ends 10 days later, regardless of how much or little you use it, so it is a good idea not to open it until you have enough spare time available to test it thoroughly before the trial ends. In case you were wondering, any Affinity format documents created while running the trial will open fine if you decide to buy the app, so you won't lose any work.

Thanks Dan. Worked it out, with your help. Would never have got there otherwise.
Could I ask a supplementary question of you. My tree image has numbers of small areas that are of the background I want to make transparent. Can I force the flood tool to deal with all areas of the same colour even when they are 'separated' from the major areas of the background? I can also see this as being very useful when dealing with text: o, r, d b etc.

Dear Dan, no need to apologize; I thank you for your attention .-) I think I have my answers. I hope it will be of help to others who find this topic. Thanks again. Best regards.

Edit > Preferences > Colour
Unless it's different on a Mac (I don't have one of those)
Oh, and you may want to upload some sample images and a APhoto file so we can see what you are seeing 
 
 

First six stages of vector portrait Crystal Reed as Sophia Falcone in Gotham. 100% vector, zero pixels. Created in Affinity Designer. Work in progress. More detailed progress sequence: https://communicats.blogspot.com/2019/05/crystal-reed-100-vector-portrait.html
 

Stage 7. Progress will be slower as I wish it to be due to a lack of time.
 
 
 

Stage 9 - working on accents and shadows
 

Stage 12 - accents, highlights, shadows & lip creases
 

Stage 13 - hair background drawn
 

Colour testing
 
 
 
 

Ok, that was a bit of an adventure, but I think I got there.
This is just an experiment (really).  I turned the attached PNG file into a “Textured Image” brush, and then made a stroke with the new brush.  The PNG consists of a combination of a fill and several strokes from standard-issue AD vector brushes - not that I could tell that by inspecting the PNG file.
So, thanks to Alfred and Dan C, your guidance helped me a lot.
Now I have to figure out if I really have a practical use for this.  That brush stroke got some laughs here; fun, but I’m not sure anyone is going to appreciate my artistic talents.
Thanks again!
Lionel
Custom Brush Stroke.afdesign

Both Affinity Photo and Designer support the same selection tools, so you do not need Designer to do the above. If you're looking to adjust images I recommend Photo over Designer, but the choice is ultimately yours

Hi Vimaleon,
Welcome to the forums
I can see your design contains a Colour Balance Adjustment, when exporting to PSD the same values are kept, however Affinity's & Photoshop's Colour Adjustments aren't exactly the same, meaning unless these adjustments are rasterised (either before or during export) then your image may appear slightly differently in PS. This has been raised with our developers previously and it's been marked as working as intended.