Alfred

It would be good if a brief message were to pop up when you use it, rather than leaving the user to think that

If you only want a partial ellipse, it’s probably easiest if you add the text after trimming rather than before.

Are you perhaps referring to the E-13B MICR symbols?

There is no such raster/vector dichotomy in the Affinity apps. Affinity Photo 2 Help: Layer masking Affinity Designer 2 Help: Layer clipping

Although Lorem ipsum filler text is based on Latin and therefore looks like Latin, it isn’t actually Latin.

Since it’s a monospaced font, it follows that the space character will have the same advance width as all the other characters. Given the context, I’m surprised that the answer isn’t glaringly obvious! Abelmoschus esculentus

You left out the space bar!

If your intended output size is A4, there’s no good reason to change the document dimensions from 210 mm × 297 m. What you need is more pixels per unit of measurement. Try changing the DPI from 300 to 600, or even 1200, and then check the result at 100% zoom in your PDF viewer.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Sara. That’s because only the basic brushes produce pure vector strokes. All other ‘vector’ brushes produce vector paths with raster textures laid down on those paths.

JPEG files can be either RGB or CMYK, but the PNG file format only supports RGB. However, a PNG image with alpha transparency uses 8 bits for the alpha channel, so that’s a total of 32 bits.

Why is the trial period so short now? The standard trial period used to be ten days, and many prospective users felt that wasn’t long enough (especially for those who have a full-time job); even if you add on the 14-day money back guarantee period for purchases from the Affinity Store, you’re still talking about less than a month in total.

The ‘Purchase options’ page at https://affinity.serif.com/affinity-pricing includes an ‘Upgrade from V1’ link which takes you here for 25% off the regular price of the V2 Universal Licence: https://affinity.serif.com/store/upgrade-offer

Which would in turn necessitate extensive testing to make sure that those changes don’t break anything. All in all, a huge investment of time and effort (and therefore money).

Yes, it is, on both OSs. In version 1, an unclosed curve is automagically closed before the ‘Add’ command is executed, so the result is very different.

Bedankt

Confirmed here. And it doesn’t work in version 2 on iPadOS, either.

Menus don’t have buttons, they only have entries or options. Can’t you simply post a screenshot? Why are you so reluctant to show us what you’re trying to work with??

At 96 ppi, 168.6 mm is 638 px (i.e. 2 px less than 640 px). Maybe that means something, or not!

@NotMyFault has pointed the way:

It will be a Curve object rather than a Curves object, because it will consist of a single closed path. Neither do I, for what it’s worth.

Select the object, go to the Layer menu and choose ‘Geometry > Add’ (or instead of going to the Layer menu, click on the ‘Add’ button in the Geometry section of the main toolbar). The selected object will be Boolean added to itself, maintaining its shape and orientation but resetting its rotation to 0°.

Set the ‘Left’ indent to a larger value than the ‘First Line’ indent.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @vanbrandenburgf. Check the options on the Context toolbar to be sure you're making a new selection.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @cinew. You can use the Rectangle Tool to create a flexible cropping window. Draw a filled rectangle anywhere on top of the photo, make it semi-transparent so that you can see the part of the photo that lies underneath, and then alter its size and position (zooming in or out as necessary) until it covers the target area of the photo. After changing the fill to fully opaque, drag the rectangle layer in the Layers panel and drop it onto the thumbnail of the photo layer to execute the crop.

People seeing your links will either ignore them or click through to view the linked posts. The first of those scenarios guarantees that they won’t see the backstory, the second doesn’t guarantee that they will. By using links like mine (the default mode here) you automagically give the reader the first three lines to pique their interest.