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The ‘Core Skills’ download for the Affinity Photo workbook is here: https://affin.co/photocoreskills

As I understand it, if a user reports seemingly buggy behaviour and a member of Serif’s QA team agrees that it’s a bug, it gets logged as such for the developers to investigate. If it’s thought that it isn’t a bug as such but a change in behaviour would be beneficial, it gets logged as an improvement issue. ‘By Design’ means what it says: it’s working as expected, so there is nothing to fix.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Nina. Please see: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/clip-license-id-does-not-match-the-device-in-the/516d78bc-5eb8-4670-8d57-a82b7a128a47

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Susan. Your screenshot clearly identifies both products as trial versions. If you installed and ran the trials when you ordered them a month ago they will have expired already, but otherwise you should still be able to use them now. If you purchased the retail versions from the Affinity Store but can’t find your product keys, Serif staff should be able to help you. If you purchased the retail versions from the Microsoft Store, your purchases will be tied to your Microsoft account and you won’t need product keys for them. Simply sign in to the Microsoft Store (using the same email address as you used at the time of purchase) and install the products from there.

Can’t you put nine in one group and the remaining five in another group? Then all you need to do is keep one group visible and hide the group that you don’t want to work on.

No, it isn’t necessarily confirmed, it just means it’s been logged in their issue tracking system. In the present case it’s clear from @NathanC’s comments in this thread that it’s been reported as a bug rather than an improvement issue, but the developers may reject that assessment and choose instead to resolve the issue as ‘By Design’.

@Pšenda’s screenshot suggests otherwise. There are two fills but only one stroke.

Indic scripts (such as Devanagari) which are LTR but have complex shaping behaviour.

I see the same. Please note that I didn’t say “in my tests here I have only seen one of them”, I said “in my tests here I have seen only one of them”. In other words, I have seen two (as in this case) but I have also seen only one.

Serif also calls them panels now, but — like the ‘Tabs’ in the Plus range — the ‘Panels’ in the Affinity suite are arranged in groups within one or more ‘Studios’ (although there was only one Studio in each of the Plus products).

I suspect that the “bad” assumption you made was this one: For whatever it’s worth, I read “mrs” the same way the first few times I saw it, but then I came across a post where one of the images had a copyright notice attached. It became clear from that that “mrs” is Manuel-Remus Stanca.

I understand that in order to see a stroke there must be two strokes applied, but in my tests here I have seen only one of them: I don’t always see either none or two.

For this one: Draw four squares and use the Corner Tool to adjust the outside corners. In my example, each square is 176 px, so I set the radius to 88 px (i.e. half of 176 px). FullSizeRender.MOV

I’m not Callum (obviously!) but the first pic is just hexagons without curved corners. The others are mostly variations on donut segments, circles, or round-cornered rectangles.

You can add custom shapes to the Assets panel, but you can’t add your own parametric shape tools.

Doesn’t that depend on the width, alignment, and colours of the two strokes?

Except that the sides are curved. If you choose the Corner Tool you can do this: FullSizeRender.MOV

Thanks, Nathan. As I understand it, the OP is specifically looking for a way to have a white artboard on a white background, with only a coloured stroke separating them.

I can’t see a problem with consistently calling it the pasteboard. Am I missing something?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @gpaolini. What you’ve described is not normal. The trial shouldn’t end prematurely unless you reset your computer’s system clock.

There may be a mismatch of document DPI here, but you really don’t need a separate document for a simple piece of text with a border. Create a filled rectangle for the background colour and a smaller rectangle with a coloured stroke for the border, and put a text layer on top.

Hmm. In the past, Serif always used the term ‘pasteboard’ for the area around the pages or the canvas. It’s similar on iPad: ‘Preferences > Interface > Background Grey Level’. As you’ve indicated, Garry, it can be any colour you like as long as it’s grey!

If you look at the Layers Studio you can see that the artboard (i.e. the background) definitely is an object! FullSizeRender.MOV

Check the available options for your printer driver. You may well find that there’s a tiling option built in.

You may well be right, Seth — you usually are! I’ve hardly ever used the Healing Brush Tool.