[Fine lines in pdf, don't belong there]

Turn off Antialiasing / Smoothing images in your PDF reader (don't know the exact term in English). Printing the PDF should give no problems

[Working with the Vector Crop Tool is an image adjustment?]

Haven't installed the latest beta, so this might be fixed.

1. Place a PDF linked and as Passthrough.

2. Adjust it a bit with the Vector Crop Tool.

3. Note that Preflight is saying "Placed PDF has image adjustments applied. The PDF will be rasterised on export.".

Result: Indeed, the output is rasterised. Erm, until now I thought the Vector Crop Tool is vector and an adjustment is something like the Vibrance Adjustment?

When the PDF is embedded and you crop it, it is not an image adjustment.

[Publisher: PDF import with missing fonts]

14 minutes ago, zeeloop said:

So it's actually a cropping bug.

You are correct. I saw this too right now. Just one thing I would like to know: The PDF you place, are the crop marks automatically added by the creator application or made manually? If the crop marks are from the creator application select TrimBox from the Page Box dropdown in the context toolbar.

[Publisher: PDF import with missing fonts]

2 minutes ago, zeeloop said:

Very disappointing!

Could you upload a sample PDF that looks bad after export? Something the developers might me interested in.

[Freehand Selection Tool not working]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @RoToR!

a) If you finished the selection, just release the mouse button. No need for click or double-click.

b) Is there any value in the Feather box when you are on the Freehand Selection Tool? Setting this to a lower value or 0 might help.

[Pixel Tool became a circle]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @NapoleonIVBonaparte!

Maybe Preferences >> Miscellaneous >> Reset Brushes could help?

[Designer crashes when I try to place a .tif file in the document]

I am able to produce greyscale 16bit images with no profile and they do not crash AD. The missing profile to blame was my first thought.

[Designer Stile & Effekt Vorlagen (Makro)]

30 minutes ago, Devshack said:

Aber mal eine zweite Frage hnter her, kann man eigentlich neben pt auch mm Werte angeben wenn man eine Rahmestärke möchte oder so?

Einstellungen >> Oberfläche >> Linien in Punkt angeben den Haken rausnehmen

[Installing assets fails]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Namuras!

For me the assets are instantly available after downloading through the application's My Account.

And they are not greyed out ... they are grey/white. Just drag them to your document's canvas.

[German wording "Als Paket speichern" not correct (IMO)]

To make it clear: This is nit-picking, but my eyes are always rolling, when reading "Als Paket speichern" (Save as Package). Tststs ... Germans.

First of all, a "Paket" means to me something closed, which is not true here, as the folders are open. If the "Paket" would be (automatically) zipped, then I would agree.

Second, the APu video tutorials (German) are saying here "Sammeln von Ressourcen" (Collecting resources). But we are already talking about "Sammeln" in "Ressourcen verwalten" (Resource Manager). So Serif should have an idea on consistent wording.

Third, when you finally determine the folder to save in, the button is called "Paket", which is no verb (Packen). See image.

How about "Projektdaten sammeln" (Collect project data)?

[Designer crashes when I try to place a .tif file in the document]

File crashes for me too, but I cannot see the reason. IrfanView reports nothing special about this 16bit Greyscale. Resaving in AP or PS seems to heal the file.

[need objects placed centrally on din a6]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @VictorBat!

Draw your first circle somewhere top left. Have it selected, then CTRL + J. Move the created copy with the Transform panel with your desired distance to the right. Then press CTRL + J four more times. Now select all horizontal circles, CTRL + J again, move the copy now vertically. Then press CTRL + J eight more times. Select everything and move the whole selection until you snap into a middle horizontal and vertical line (or do the position with the Transform panel).

[Open QuarkXpress files in Publisher]

Or this for Mac: https://markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz/

Markzware should really also develop a Windows version or maybe better offer a paid service for online conversion.

[Font size randomly changing]

3 minutes ago, Grga said:

Have you maybe figured out what is causing it and some better way to solve it?

No, sorry. The developers have to figure it out and Old Bruce already told you the best method. I consider this to be a bug, so this thread should be moved. Are you using Mac or Windows? And could you upload the IDML for the developers to test?

[Font size randomly changing]

19 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

This is usually the result of using the Scale Handle on the Text Frame instead of the handle actually on the corner.

Usually it is not ... Working now quite a while with APu, but to me, this happened when opening PDF or IDML documents.

[Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.10.0.1085]

12 minutes ago, uneMule said:

windows key + ;

Depending on the keyboard layout. For a German QWERTZ keyboard it has to be Windows key + .

[Contour tool on image leads to unexpected result]

20 minutes ago, Sean P said:

Do you mind attaching the tiff please?

No problem. And you are right with the transparency, without a transparency it looks better.

bummy.tiff

[Contour tool on image leads to unexpected result]

I placed a TIFF and used the Contour Tool on it, which looks funny. To emphasize this, I added a outline to the image. HWA on or off makes no difference.

[Designer Stile & Effekt Vorlagen (Makro)]

Die einzige Applikation, die Makros kann ist momentan Affinity Photo. Aber ist das in deinem Fall überhaupt nötig? Was spricht gegen ein Template, welches ein Dummy-Bild enthält, das nur noch per Bild ersetzen ausgetauscht wird?

[Spot Colors are not Exported to PDF]

1 minute ago, Hartmut Nörenberg said:

my own dummheit

Not necessarily. Select the greyscale image and click on the spot colour in your Swatches panel and make sure, that there is no fx applied on the image.

[Superscript characters]

11 minutes ago, reflexibel said:

What am I doing wrong?

Nothing I guess. It depends on the font itself if you are able to superscript it from Typography. But you can try from the pulldown in Position and Transform.

[Spot Colors are not Exported to PDF]

@Hartmut Nörenberg The spot colour is created correctly, but you applied a) to a colour image and b) applied additionally an overlay effect. Both won't work. What I did was converting the Masks.tiff into Greyscale with a Black&White profile, replaced the file you had in your document, removed the effect, applied the spot colour to the greyscale image and exported as press ready PDF.

Attached you'll find the Masks.tiff i converted.

Masks.tiff

[Spot Colors are not Exported to PDF]

1 minute ago, Hartmut Nörenberg said:

Hopefully you can help me.

What export preset do you use if any? Is it one honouring spot colours? This can be found, when you click the More button in the export dialogue. If this fails, could you do a screenshot of your Swatches Panel? If this fails could you upload an Affinity sample document?

[PDF Import Window not visible]

5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You do not get the PDF Options dialog when Placing a file. It is only for Opening a file.

Shame on me, yes you are correct and I changed my comment, but my question remains.

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The question is whether @KK Mac was trying to Open the file by dragging it onto Affinity Photo, or whether they were trying to Place it into an existing document.

If I understand it correctly KK Mac drags the file and drops it onto the AP UI and later on he/she/it talks about opening a file.

[PDF Import Window not visible]

1 hour ago, MEB said:

We don't display the PDF Options dialog (import window) when you drag and drop a PDF in a document.

Why not? On the one hand it would be consistent, that opening files has the same approach everywhere. On the other hand there would be a flexible way without an extra dialogue. But perhaps it was impossible to develop consistent?