[Black font is not output in pure black during Pdf export with output profile PSR_LWC_PLUS_V2_M1_v2]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @MichaMainx!

Visit Document Setup and ASSIGN the output profile PSR_LWC_PLUS_V2_M1_v2 and try again to export with this profile.

[Problem: Fonts in PDF not rasterized (or converted in Curves)]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Pakun!

Opening a PDF means AD is interpreting the file, means makes it editable and when there are fonts used which are not available on your system ...

How about placing a PDF? There you have the choice to select Passthrough (as is) or Interpret (editable). Once placed you can rasterise the file.

[Placing a multi page PDF is completely broken in 1.9.4.1065]

PDF with three pages and all printer marks was created in APu 1.8x and then placed as Passthrough in AD. The result is, that the top left corner shows the printer marks and right and bottom side are cut off. No problem with a single page PDF.

Additionally pages 2 and 3 are shown as empty, when changing.

threepages.pdf

[Bullets disappear when export to PDF in Publisher 1.9.2.1035]

5 hours ago, CatLady said:

There seems to be no way I can get the bullets to show up in the program that created the .pdf

When you export the PDF do not use Subset Fonts, you'll find this setting under the More button in the export dialogue. Doing so and opening the file again shows the bullets properly.

Membership-2up-Form-nosubset.pdf

[place with crop marks]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @chanart!

When you place a PDF (still selected), have a look at the context toolbar at the top. There is a pulldown called Page Box. There you can e.g. select CropBox to show crop marks.

[Can't replace missing fonts globally]

If there are some font leftovers, couldn't you use the Find and Replace panel? Click the cog, then Format, right pulldown and select Missing there. Then replace with the font of your choice. Or easier: Upload your file for the developers to examine.

[Data Merge window accidentally enlarged, can't resize it.]

26 minutes ago, SirWillibald said:

This is kinda annoying...

Doubleclick the title bar again would have been a good advice, but not if the window was closed once. Otherwise there is no way to resize the window indeed. Is there any reset for application windows possible or only just this hacky way?

Close APu and edit "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\1.0\Settings\Window.xml" and change the width and height values for DataMergeManagerDialog to 0. Next time you restart APu the window gets it default size of 680 x 470.

 

[Publisher. Text fades to nothing on part of page.]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Charlie Bucket!

It seems to be, that you applied a transparency to the text frame. Select the text frame and click the Transparency Tool and change Type to None in the context toolbar. Or simply click the Revert Defaults button (icon which looks like a cloud with a red line).

[Beschneidungspfad]

@PascalJesser EPS-Datei geht auch, allerdings frage ich mich warum man auf EPS als Dateiformat besteht? Was spricht gegen ein TIF oder PSD? Ersteres lässt sogar eine Komprimierung zu. Ich würde außerdem behaupten wollen, dass es die Kurvennäherung in Affinity Photo nicht braucht, denn "kurviger" und somit optimaler geht es nicht.

[Beschneidungspfad]

Willkommen auf den Affinity-Foren @PascalJesser!

In Affinity Photo kannst du den Pfad mit dem Zeichenstift erstellen. Wenn du damit fertig bist, schiebst du den freizustellenden Bereich in den Pfad. Du kannst das Ganze dann als PSD exportieren (da bleiben die Ebenen erhalten) oder als TIF mit transparentem Hintergrund ... verkürzt gesagt.

[purchased windows version but have mac ios icons and layout tools]

11 hours ago, morgandene said:

I recently purchased for affinity designer for windows.   I seem to have mac ios keyboard and control icons.  is this normal?

You mean the assets? Yes, this is just a "gift" from the developers. If you don't need this, just delete the category from the Assets panel.

[Exporting Issues]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @DesignerJB!

What are the problems with your export? To which file format you want to export to? I exported the flag as PDF and cannot see a problem at first glance.

[PDF Export does not retain layers when opened in Illustrator]

Maybe @DanBieranowski should post an ADesigner file here. What I noticed is, that if in the Layers panel a layer is called (Layer), then Acrobat does not show this name in the layer sidebar of Acrobat.

[Sharing Affinity designer files between Windows and Mac users]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Rogermcarey!

6 minutes ago, Rogermcarey said:

is there any cross-platform compatibity between the Windows and Mac versions of Affinity designer?

Yes, files should open on both platforms. What can cause problems are linked files (different storage paths) and fonts.

[Opening a DNG file - unable to quit (normally)]

@matt.baker On 1.9.2.1035 the file opens within 2 seconds on my average machine and hardware acceleration off.

[Affinity Photo Windows Customer Beta - 1.9.4.1065]

3 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

which were not shown in prior versions (except you decided to statically increase then number of digits to be displayed

Ok, understood. But is this an enhancement? If the decimals are shown anyway, why do we need a preference for decimal units? I have to confess, that the current beta is not installed on my machine, so I cannot test myself.

[Affinity Photo Windows Customer Beta - 1.9.4.1065]

14 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Love that the transform panel now shows fractional positions

What are fractional positions?

[Downloading single pages impossible]

What are the specs of your machine? Are files linked or embedded? Turning off / hiding everything that needs real-time calculation might help on a weaker machine (the devs have to correct me here): Navigator panel, Text Style Samples, Stock panel, reducing snapping options to a minimum, live preflight. Set View Quality to Nearest Neighbour, do not use Precise Clipping, set Retina Rendering to Low Quality, turn of hardware acceleration. Make vectors clean and simple by e.g. merging curves etc. pp.

HTH

[Export individual page to individual file]

2 minutes ago, MEB said:

Go to File > Export and set the Area dropdown to All Pages.

I guess the OP wants to have 200 separate files.

[Text indent]

Have a look at the Paragraph panel. Left Indent and First Line Indent have different values. Change the values to 0 for both (or use the Revert Defaults button).

[The file requires a password.]

The option copying text, images, other content and output help for visually impaired has to be checked to get it open.

rc4-40-copyallowed.pdf

[The file requires a password.]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I am able to Open PDF files that use 40- and 128-bit RC4 encryption.

Good luck with the attached one. It is 40-bit RC4 encrypted.

rc4-40-highresprintexceptpages.pdf

[Blend mode Erase and Selection Only gives wrong result in Export]

1. Create a document with a non-transparent background.

2. Place two different images on each other.

3. Set the top image to blend mode Erase.

4. Select both images.

5. Export as PNG or JPEG with Selection Only and show the Preview.

Result: The top image is not erased.

Workaround: Use Selection Area or Whole Document.

[Cut out - Geometry Tools on Affinity Designer/Photo]

Set the blend mode to Erase for the inner image. To get the boolean buttons (back) visit menu View >> Customise Toolbar.

[Crash trying to import Excel .xlsx file]

3 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Confirmed: But if I simply open the xlsx file and resave it (no changes) it then works fine via drag and drop

Seems to be something inside the spreadsheet. Resaving in LibreOffice Calc APu still crashes.