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Welcome to the Affinity forums @Frank Webb! What do you mean by several copies? PDF would be the best choice. How should the PDF used further? Online? If online there are PDF presets for Digital Small Size and Digital High Quality. In any way I would export as pages, because a spread export puts 2 pages next to each other and makes it harder to read / print.

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Steve Ellaway! Have a look at the top of the denoise window where you can set the brush size (and other settings) or maybe I did not understand your problem ...

Welcome to the Affinity forums @JimK! You are not missing anything. PSD is not a documented format and Serif has not found out yet how to keep text layers editable, so this is right now expected behaviour.

APu tries to be clever, sees the DPI of the image and scales it according to the document DPI. A way could be to place the images in picture frames of 42 x 29,7 cm. To make your work faster you could save the picture frame as an asset. EDIT: I think you mean the image size is 389,5 x 275,4 mm not cm.

I also use the Google version and the plugin starts up with the neutral preview. Could you post a screenshot?

There are some pitfalls. Especially the handling of tables in APu is different (not good would be a good description). But IDML import works well to a certain degree. ID has some benefits over APu with e.g. tables, forms, multipage spreads, footnotes to name a few. In the end APu is even now a good alternative to ID depending on what you need, for the rest you have to work-around.

Sarcasm? Reading jwardzala's latest comment it sounds to me that the problem is still not fixed.

Wenn die Dateien leer in Affinity geöffnet werden, dann sind sie unbrauchbar. Mit Illustrator die Datei öffnen und mit PDF-Stream speichern wäre eine Möglichkeit, wobei wir immer noch keine Feature-Gleichheit haben (z. B. Mesh) und die AI-Dateien selbst mit PDF-Stream in Affinity immer noch nicht wie das Original aussehen. Möglicherweise gibt es noch andere Nicht-Adobe-Programme, die mit dem Reverse Engineering des AI-Formats weiter sind und bessere Ergebnisse liefern. Da du es schon ahnst ... Ich habe noch nie eine Kennzeichnung gesehen wie "Wurde mit PDF-Stream gespeichert", also trial&error. Wer eine Marktdominanz hat, der nutzt sie auch aus und das Adobe die AI-Spezifikationen offen legt ist eher unwahrscheinlich.

Or adapt and save the Preflight Settings to your needs e.g. turning off spelling errors if you are sure everything is written correctly.

Welcome to the Affinity forums @lasleym! Try to deactivate hardware acceleration under APublisher's Preferences > Performance and try again.

Or perhaps @Mithferion wanted to ask for a Pain Bucket Tool? 🤔

To me it sounds like a hardware acceleration problem. Turn it off it is not already turned off in Preferences > Performance.

Excellent study! 🤣

An unladen swallow would make the journey in 5 minutes!

What about using templates? Creating new from templates, inch as unit is preserved (if the document unit were set to inch).

You don't need to, but for quality reasons you should. If your images are low resolution and you do not expect any improvements with resampling, leave the resolution as it is. I guess Amazon and others won't be upset about quality / resolution, they print your stuff at whatever quality and sack the money.

Maybe you should turn off the samples in the Text Styles panel? Maybe you should adapt the snapping settings? Finally, close the panels one by one to see if it gets better.

Expected behaviour? RAW files will be inserted as Pixel Layer, other bitmap formats as Image. When you add a linked TIFF and rasterise it afterwards, the TIFF is now a Pixel Layer and is removed from the Resource Manager.

Sorry, I can't provide you an answer, as I never used symbols in Illustrator. Maybe other users know more?

Welcome to the Affinity forums @MrSmmo! The AI file format is closed source so the Affinity applications can only read the PDF stream of an Illustrator file, if the file was saved with PDF compatibility. But even saving with the PDF stream does not mean the document looks the same in Affinity Designer.

Welcome to the Affinity forums @aimlink! No crashes on my end, but I have to admit, that the fonts you use are not on my system. Maybe a corrupted font? To help the developers you can upload a crash report here. Instructions below.

Welcome to the Affinity forums @hearhisvoicepoetry! Why do you want images to be forced to 300 dpi? Sometimes this does not give you any improvement. You have to judge your material if it is worth the effort. In ancient times working in prepress, we found that 240 dpi were sufficient for offset printing. Never tested this, but in theory you can resample to higher resolution in the export dialogue. Just set Above DPI to e.g. 72, pick your Resampler and have checked Document Resolution or set your own DPI.

Have a look inside the Affinity application under Preferences > Performance if the option is selected. Just upload the file to the forum. I am not an expert, but this crash report does not contain any vital security relevant information to my knowledge.

Could you upload the .afpub file with the "bad" image?

Must be Mac only, on Windows you have to use RightMouse. Ctrl on Windows means to place centered about the drag start point. Apart from that, this centric approach is an annoyance for me. Who at Serif thought, that placing images centered was a good a idea and WHY?