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It's worth noting that many users are only changing the UI Gamma because we don't even have a simple XOR switch for a light UI option!

If I click on '<' in the General settings, I go back to the icon overview. If I then click on '>' button, I go forward to General again. I think it would be more useful if those buttons allowed us to click through the different settings panes, since the third button already takes us back to the icon overview (and the dropdown menu next to that button allows us to jump directly to another settings pane).

Why don't you download the customer beta, Mark? It won't affect your use of AD 1.4, and you'll be able to open files saved from either the Mac or the Windows beta of AD 1.5.

What are 'text avoidance areas', Dave? This sounds a bit like wrapping, but I presume there's more to it than that.

In which role you would presumably expect us to be hanging on your every word! :P

Sorry, Mark, I should have said: I'm using the default 100% ('Smaller') display setting with a screen resolution of 1366 × 768.

With the donut and the left-hand triangle selected on Layer 2 of the attached version of your document, press the 'Divide' button on the Geometry toolbar. You can then click on the overhang section and get rid of it by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. Select the two pieces of the donut and press 'Add' to join them back together again. Now select the donut with the Node Tool and drag upwards on the part where it crosses the left-hand triangle (so that you get a good overlap between the two shapes). Select both shapes and press 'Add' to join them back together again. You will already have a node at the left-hand end of the curve that you want to remove. Click on that node and press the 'Break Curve' button on the Action toolbar. Click at the other end of the curved section to add a node where it intersects with the edge of the right-hand triangle. Click again on the left-hand node and press Delete; you may need to repeat this a few times to delete coincident nodes. Let me know if I've missed out any crucial steps! Logo test 1 redux.afdesign

Yes, that too! I've lost track of the number of times I've clicked on a thumbnail, only to get a huge screenshot that may look fine on a Mac with a 27" retina display but needs to be shrunk to about 17% to fit in the browser pane on my humble Windoze laptop. ;)

That's on your Desktop. You'll need to press the 'More Reply Options' button and browse to the file so that it gets uploaded for attaching to your post.

Glad to help, Mark. Sorry it wasn't as straightforward as it might have been!

1. Draw a closed shape with a fill 2. Double-click the Fill swatch in the Colour panel In the Colour Chooser dialog that pops up, the colour well and the eyedropper are cut off.

Apologies for the rather hurried post this morning, Patrick! The target colour should have been your #ad42e75 with the extra digit, and you don't actually need to switch to the Pixel Persona. Try this: 1. New RGB/8 document 2. Draw a rectangle 3. Double-click the Fill swatch in the Colour panel 4. In the Colour Chooser dialog that pops up, change the '#' value to ad42e75 5. Click in any of the other input controls, or press and hold the 'Close' button 6. Observe that the '#' value changes to FF2E75

Please see the AD 1.4 file attached to MEB's post. :)

You really ought to persuade your web guys to tweak things so that all *.af* files are acceptable. And *.7z could do with being added as alternatives to *.zip and *.rar, since 7-Zip files are often a small fraction of the size of the other common archive formats. While they're at it, perhaps they could fix the CSS so that we don't have that almost illegible mid-grey text on a light grey background in the search box.

Dave Harris' post explains why it isn't possible to convert Frame Text into Artistic Text, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of converting in the opposite direction. Having said that, it's easy enough to select the text in an Artistic Text object, copy it and paste it at the text cursor in a text frame.

How are you going to undo anything if 'Save History With Document' was turned off? :huh:

Thanks, Chris. On a related note, I'm still struggling to understand why a document is classed as modified when you've rolled back any changes, but from Mark's reply in my thread here it looks as though this is 'by design' and therefore unlikely to change any time soon. :(

If I switch to the Pixel Persona and try to set the colour to #ad42e75 in the Colour Chooser dialog, it gets changed to #FF2E75. [Edited to correct example colour values]

If I create a new document and paste the contents of the Windows clipboard, I am prompted to save the document when I close it. If I use the 'New From Clipboard' option, I am not prompted to save on close.

The build number on the splash screen gets smaller just before the application window appears, but startup is so much faster now that you don't get much time to notice it!

Thanks. The thumbnail image looks like nothing very much, but when expanded to full size it looks amazing!

Click on 'More Reply Options' and look for the 'Attach Files' section below the message composition area. Browse to your saved image file or Affinity document and then (very important, but easy to overlook!) press the 'Attach This File' button.

You need to be in the Pixel Persona to see and use imported Photoshop brushes.

I can see a slight difference if I draw a 'V' shape with the chain link brush, but I can't quite figure out what it's trying to do. Older versions of Serif's Windows-only applications allowed you to add a WMF (Windows Metafile Format) border to the bounding box of an object. The corner pieces were separate there, too, and the settings stored in the Windows registry included things like rotation of the corner graphics.

Me three! :D