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Close, but no cigar! That gives you the desired texture in place of the black, but the white remains white. If you want the white to turn transparent, go to the Layers panel, select the B&W image and apply the ‘Erase White Paper’ filter. Now drag the texture layer upwards and drop it on the black/transparent thumbnail layer. (There is no need to set the layer blend mode to ‘Screen’ for this method.)

XP-Pen Artist tablets have been mentioned in a few other threads. There’s a 12″ model (similar to iPad size) and there are larger sizes such as 16″ and 22″.

Completely off topic, Dex, did you notice that your current reputation score (1038) is exactly one third of your post count (3114)? No?? I thought not!

You can only export text to PSD as a bitmap image from the Affinity apps, but you can set your preferences to import it as editable text.

I have to confess that it isn’t my rendering! I got it (and ‘αℓƒяє∂‘) from here. Please note my caveat about potentially inconveniencing other users who want to tag you in their posts.

Thanks, Јэииіfэѓ. I’m afraid I succumbed to pressure to make it easier to ’tag’ me in forum posts, which essentially means sticking to Latin characters for at least the first half of my username. It’s too soon for me to change my display name again, but I might consider restoring the ‘яє∂‘ version of the second half at the next opportunity.

I wasn’t finding fault, I was asking a question! I’m in awe of what you’ve achieved with fonts like Lekhana, and for all I knew you might have been planning to add different ornaments to substitute for ‘longs’ and its ligatures in a future update. Thank you for the link to the discussion on precedence of OT features.

Is it by design that hist and hlig are applied before ornm? If I choose ‘Ornaments’ when Historical Forms is turned on, I get a ‘longs’ instead of an ornament, and if ‘Historic Ligatures’ is turned on I get the ligature shown against Ornaments in your screenshot.

Serif staff do take note of all improvement suggestions, but they don't routinely post to feature request threads.

But it isn’t, and that’s the problem! If you draw two vertical lines side by side and apply perspective projection so that the tops of the lines look as though they’re further away from the viewer, the lines change from being parallel to converging towards the top (like a road going straight ahead into the distance). Exactly the same happens to a circle: it becomes more pointed at the top, unlike a true ellipse where the top half is an exact mirror of the bottom half.

As @R C-R has indicated, you can use an expression in the Transform panel. There is no need to produce a table.

The resemblance has been noted in an earlier thread: For what it’s worth, I agree with those who think the differences outweigh the similarities.

Opening any Affinity file in any Affinity app (Mac, Windows or iPad) is generally painless. The Affinity apps cannot read Adobe’s proprietary Illustrator format, so they can only import the content from the PDF stream in AI files which have been saved with the option to include that stream.

Yes, you did, but you aren’t the first user to have found it!

Isn’t the toolbar flyout quick enough for you, Gary? One of the features I particularly like in DrawPlus is the ability to select a QuickShape (a parametric shape like the ones created with the Shape Tools in the Affinity apps) and swap it with another one via the Context toolbar. For example, you might start out with a star but subsequently decide that you want the extra flexibility of a cog; in DP you can replace it in a couple of clicks, but in AD you have to draw a new shape, resize and position it appropriately, and delete the original.

Something (womthing?) tells me Rick bashed out that sentence just a little too quickly!

I haven’t checked but I’m pretty sure that we can only use *.otf, *.ttf and *.ttc font files, not *.eot, *.svg or *.woff.

What do you see when you go to ‘Settings > General’, scroll down the list on the right and tap on ‘Profiles’?

Really?? I thought variable fonts were not yet supported by the Affinity apps! I’m looking forward to a fix for the Windows versions.

Beta builds usually last for a month from their date of release. Trial versions of retail builds expire ten calendar days after the first run.

Try this link: Request a refund for an App Store or iTunes Store purchase

If it really has worked, you should see one or more new configuration profiles under ‘Profiles’ in the Settings app.

The published roadmap is for version 1. Anything on that list should be provided in a free update, but any other suggested features could be added in a paid-for upgrade (i.e. version 2, 3, 4, etc) if it fits in with Serif’s plans for the app.

Broken link: the ‘.html’ isn’t included.