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That’s a total of ×64, not ×128. It probably doesn’t make much (if any) difference, but was there any particular reason for the uneven steps? It seems more natural to do ×8 twice.

I’m pretty sure you meant to type ‘using Drag and Drop’, but I just wanted to Czech!

Thanks. I probably saw it there when I first visited the thread, but that was way too long ago now!

Honk ‘Shadow Length’ (SHLN) doesn’t work. It should be able to do what you see in the GIF near the top of this page (see the latter part of the animation):

I wasn’t looking in the right place! You need to go to ‘Text Studio > Character > Variations’.

You’re welcome! And yes, they’re all free. https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq

Try here: https://fonts.google.com/variablefonts

It works to get the typeface installed, but all I see here is a choice of individual weights/styles. There’s no UI for the VF axes.

I’ve just tried again with AnyFont. It responded with the following message:

I don’t think there is another way at the moment. I got the same message from iFont when I tried to install Inter earlier this evening.

That is probably the single most important question here! This in what your sample word looks like when I choose Sarabun:

One could argue that it is actually an Affinity issue. The controls for OpenType ‘registered’ axes such as wght, wdth, and opsz are labelled with human-readable names — Weight, Width, and OpticalSize, respectively, for the above examples — so ‘foundry-defined’ axes (identified by uppercase letters) should be treated the same way, wherever practicable.

They’re also too close together. Each of the ß and À characters in that screenshot collides with the characters in the line immediately above.

When one of the Shape Tools is active, a ‘Keep selected’ checkbox is displayed on the Context toolbar. Make sure there’s a tick in that box.

The Export Persona is complicated because it’s so flexible. If you don’t need that flexibility, you can simply choose ‘Export…’ from the File menu to export all or selected parts of the current document.

Of course it can! ‘Community led’ simply means that decisions are informed by views that members of the community have expressed. There is no obligation on company officials to inform community members about the nature of any decisions or the process by which those decisions were reached.

Too many occurrences of the word “that”! And rather lacking in punctuation, too, which results in the reader having to do a lot of work to unravel the meaning.

Not necessarily. The way Adobe seems to do things is that you can reactivate your subscription as and when the need arises, so that instead of paying for a whole year you can pay for just a month or two. The cost per month will be higher, of course, but the overall cost will be significantly lower than it would be for a largely unused annual subscription.

Ash has always been refreshingly ‘hands on’ in the software development side of things, right back to the days when (as Sales and Marketing Director, if I remember correctly) he pushed through his idea of a digital scrapbooking product which became hugely popular as Serif CraftArtist.

SWOP = Specification for Web Offset Publications

“Spell check won’t save you!” *then start As I’m sure you know, you need to hold down the Ctrl key while starting the app, since it won’t work if you release the key too soon. But I’m sure the OP knows this, too.

*Creative Another tiddler: the Spanish version says “Sesiones de Creatividad de YouTube…” with a capital C (cf. “Visite los foros de asistencia…”) Correctly capitalized (i.e. initial cap only) in APub 2.4.2 on Windows.

There are various ways of desaturating an image. Did you apply a Black & White adjustment, or an HSL adjustment with the saturation dialled all the way down, or did you use a different method? Are the adjustment layers nested to the top copy of the image, or grouped with it? Does that step produce no result, or simply an unexpected result? (I can’t imagine that you’re unable to get past that step in the literal sense of being blocked from doing anything else to the image.)

Speak for yourself!

In any workflow where deleting artboards is needed — whether commonly or not — the single extra first step of either deleting the contents or moving it off the artboard will leave you with an empty artboard, rendering the retention question moot.