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Yes that seems to have done the trick. THANK YOU very much 😀for your help I would never have thought a simple font would cause so much trouble It seems from first play that Affinity is working great again

Thank you for replying. I looked at the performance tab and nothing stood out and I thought I had identified a font but then the next time that font worked fine so it seems quite random. Also if you see on the screen recording when I open a blank page at the beginning it takes ages to load. My laptop is quite high end as its a gaming laptop so should have plenty of power Designer freezing.mp4

I am having a lot of issues with affinity designer when I open a file and if I try to browse for a font it freezes for a while before it continues. This can happen over and over and is making it very difficult to use

This needs deleting

OK thank you 🙂

Thank you but that still doesn't answer if I can create a preset from a previous document I have open. I have a T-Shirt design that I use often and I used to have it as a preset. When I installed Ver 2 of designer that seems to have gone but I still have the old T-Shirt designs so I thought no problem I will open one and then save that as a preset for future use but I cannot see how to

Thank you I did not see that - so is there a way to save a document you have open as a preset ?

I know this is going to be a daft question but I cannot seem to find a way to create a preset document. In other versions I would just set up the page dimensions and then save or create a preset from that but I cannot see how to in Version 2 ??

This should be sorted by now and even Microsoft is getting rid of IE next year. I just had to do the reset thing again as it went blank again https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21372487/microsoft-internet-explorer-11-support-end-365-legacy-edge

I just had to do this again.... Microsoft is getting rid of IE in 2021 so hopefully Serif will sort this once and for all 🙄 https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21372487/microsoft-internet-explorer-11-support-end-365-legacy-edge

That worked for me to.... thanks Why still using Internet explorer for this its outdated now

Thanks for all the hard work with the update 😀

Very impressive to even get an update at all - Thank you

Sorry for ignorance but I still cannot see how to do this with the pencil tool I can now do it with pen tool and I can join the node by dragging but how to I add to a line already created with the pencil tool ? This is not as intuitive as the old DrawPlus software 2019-11-05 22-59-23_Trim_Trim.mp4

That is very useful thank you - Never noticed that Add New Curve.... option at the top there. How do you do this with the pencil as I see no button at the top for that ?

Anyone else got any advice or help for this.... So annoying simple thing that should work I assume its just me not doing something right. I select a line and make sure node is selected then draw a new line to add to the current one and it just puts a new line. It wont connect it to the previous line/node

Sorry I don't know what you mean ? I have just about given up trying to connect anything with the nodes and now just use the add shape options to connect and then alter after.... its just way more fiddly than it needs to be.

OK I came from Drawplus which just worked for me but that another subject I am trying to add a hand to a figure I have already drawn in Affinity. I did originally draw the hand separate but gave up trying to join it to the drawing as nothing seemed to work but now I am drawing the hand again from scratch onto the arm and I can start at a node by selecting it and using the pen tool but as soon as I start the end point node disappears and I cannot join it there. I have tried the join node tool etc but it does nothing what am I doing wrong. As I said in Drawplus this used to just work and was brilliant to use

Does perfectly clear work with this now ? Anyone want to try - its a free plug-in that is good but would not work on older version ( I don't have a trial any more to try myself) https://eyeq.photos/perfectlyclear# So want to jump ship from photoshop but things I use on there are not on affinity like the perfectly clear

Yeah I think with the limitations of Affinity Photo I (No Auto mode in RAW, no support for some filters and actions, No bridge type of feature) it looks like I will unfortunately have to stick with Photoshop for now. I use Photoshop for my business so cannot have software that will slow down my work-flow But as I said I will keep on checking back to see if and when these features will be added as Affinity photo looks great and its brilliant to see software out there that takes on Photoshop. I use Affinity Designer and its excellent. They just need to also make an Affinity Web Design Software (So miss WebPlus )

I use bridge to go through the RAW photos and choose which to develop into photos and also bridge gives me info on the photos such as the tech details etc

Thank you - it was really in the RAW developing I wanted the auto function. As I said it just gives you that start with your photo then work from there. I never use the auto on its own and that is the same with filters like perfectly clear they are just handy tools which come in handy Its a shame as apart from the cost difference Affinity photo looks very good and powerful and I reckon the heal function works better than the one in photoshop Affinity photo also needs something like adobe bridge so you can see your photos at a glance and decide which ones to work on etc. I did contact Affinity about that a while ago and they said they had no plans to implement it which is also a shame

Oh plug-ins arn't the must have thing but they can be time-saving at times. But the RAW auto adjust is very good at getting a base layer and then working from there I have not discounted Affinity photo and will check in the future for sure. Maybe it will update again before my next yearly payment to adobe

OK thank you for your answer Shame - looks like it will be photoshop for a good while yet then. I will have to check it out again in the future Affinity designer is excellent thought I use that a lot

No one ?