[Crash trying to import Excel .xlsx file]

Confirmed. Attached the crash report. @FredB Alternatively you can simply place the spreadsheet.

818af0da-3e6b-4ff3-b3ad-bc05d7363d05.dmp

[Find function marks occurence only once]

I have to admit, that this is a very constructed scenario.

1. Type rababer with the Artistic Text or Text Frame Tool somewhere (once).

2. Use Find and Replace to find rababer.

Result: rababer is found, the text frame is selected and shown in the layer hierarchy.

3. Deselect the the text frame.

4. Use Find and Replace to find rababer again.

Result: rababer is still found, but this this time not selected or shown in the layer hierarchy.

[Affinity Publisher crashes when scrolling in text styles]

@Christian5 Turn off Show Samples / Beispiele anzeigen in the the Text Styles panel (through the small hamburger menu top right). Perhaps this helps already.

[The file requires a password.]

15 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Personally I would be much happier if Serif do not enable any Affinity apps to open encrypted files.

This was possible in the past obviously?!? So this is why I am asking. On some occasions I am locking PDF myself to build a hurdle "borrowing" content easily, but I would like to add my protected files where I know the password. ID allows this, asking for the password.

[The file requires a password.]

Reading a thread from August 2020 it was said, that the Affinities do not support encryption like 128-Bit AES and above. Currently 40- and 128-Bit RC4 won't open too.

Does this mean encrypted files are not supported anymore?

[Find and Change Text]

Menu View >> Studio >> Find & Replace or Ctrl+f

[Pinning - option to put the object in the background]

My fault, I had the object pinned inline and not floating. With floating it works as ever.

[Pinning - option to put the object in the background]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Holz!

Yes, I see the benefit behind you request and additionally I like to request to put a text wrap on the pinned object.

Interesting, I have to revert my request, because what I wanted is possible, but with a "strange" workflow. To add a text wrap to a pinned object you have to click on Edit Wrap Outline first, then you change the behaviour in Show Text Wrap Settings. Maybe this is the way text wrap was meant to be?

[Is this a bug?]

Any chance that you upload the Affinity file and the PDF? And is it correct, that the text on the helmets is mirrored?

EDIT: I am simply to slow in answering ...

[View objects outside artboard.]

1 hour ago, Adventor said:

Please fix this!

What to fix? MEB said already that elements outside the page are gone in a PDF. Affinity and e.g. Inkscape are only able to read the PDF part. I wonder if there is any application (affordable, not high priced) beside the Adobe universe that is able to open an AI without the PDF stream?

[Keyboard shortcuts in text styles of Affinity Publisher crash the program.]

2 minutes ago, SPaceBar said:

Ctrl + r

Because already shortcutted for Show rulers perhaps?

[Editing Lightroom Photos with Affinity Photo]

From the help files:

To create a luminosity mask:

1. On the Layers panel, click on the layer's thumbnail with Ctrl and Alt pressed.
2. From the Layers panel, click Mask Layer.

And for dust and scratches removal: Filters >> Noise >> Dust & Scratches

Maybe not enough, because I don't know the dust removal dialogue from Polaroid.

[Keyboard shortcuts in text styles of Affinity Publisher crash the program.]

Maybe the problem is language related? At least works for me on a German system, with English GUI and HWA on.

[Remove frame breaks - how is this done?]

6 minutes ago, TheOtherRoland said:

Anyway, thanks again. Or better yet, danke schöen.

Gern geschehen.

6 minutes ago, TheOtherRoland said:

That worked nicely. Is that instruction in the manual as well?

Here: https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/specialCharacters.html?title=Special characters and glyphs

And here: https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Text/find_and_replace.html

[Alt Gr modifier deletes the Strg (Ctrl) modifier]

2 minutes ago, Komatös said:

You know you're old when your family doctor refers you to the archeologist.

So I am old, as last time she wanted to take a picture from me for a palaeontology magazine. :(

[Alt Gr modifier deletes the Strg (Ctrl) modifier]

4 minutes ago, Komatös said:

Alt Gr is a combo key that combines the functions of CTRL+ALT!
For example, if you press CTRL+ALT+Q, you get the @, just as if you pressed ALT GR + Q. 

Never getting too old to learn.

[Remove frame breaks - how is this done?]

a) Menu Text >> Show Special Characters

b) In the Find and Replace panel click on the small triangle next to the loupe >> Special Characters >> Frame Break

[Define all colors used in a document as a palette with global colors possible?]

2 minutes ago, PeterB. said:

but I haven't seen anything like it in Affinity Designer

A similar approach would be Select >> Select Same >> Fill Colour and pick the colour of your choice from a saved default palette.

[Can text styles be saved?]

6 minutes ago, pauldev said:

If I open a new file, I have to start again, unless I import.

Set up your preferred text styles and then in Text Styles panel from the small hamburger (3 vertical lines) pick Save Styles as Default.

[Alt Gr modifier deletes the Strg (Ctrl) modifier]

When I want to set up a keyboard shortcut the key Alt Gr causes problems. The combination with Shift works, but pressing the Ctrl and the Alt Gr key makes the Ctrl key vanish in the shortcut.

Asked this already ... locale aware keyboard shortcuts would be nice. The English Ctrl+[ should be on a German keyboard Alt Gr+[.

[Brushes, Symbols, Styles etc. should be imbedded in document.]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Aren't Symbols were local to the document in all cases?

Yes they are. I would like to see the contrary, symbols globally available. Right now copying from one document to another.

[Text frame displays as red and can not be made transparent]

Have a look at the Text Frame panel. This text frame has a red stroke. Just remove the line there.

[Constraints + Compound = Strange result]

I am not sure if that what is shown in the video is a viable workflow for ... whatever. But the result seems to be incorrect in any way.

[Empty compound layer]

Maybe there is a sense behind I do not get right now.

1. Add two elements to a compound.

2. Release both elements.

Result: Elements are released but there is still a compound layer in the Layers panel.

By design? And wouldn't it be nice to release all elements at once by simply releasing the "compound group" by right-clicking + Release?

[Switching Indesign Files Into Affinity Publisher]

In the following thread is a batch converter script.