Alfred

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, jangok. :) Tables and simple spreadsheet functions sound like something we might expect to see in Affinity Publisher.

A public beta test of Affinity Publisher is expected later this year. I think it would be highly unusual for any software developer to involve members of the public at the alpha stage.

Yes, but ... does Kevin deserve a medal? :P

A long one with a spelling mistake, and a short one without....

Affinity Publisher will be a page layout app, but the similarity between it and Adobe InDesign (or Serif's very own and long-established PagePlus) probably ends there. We've been warned to expect that the first release of APub will be fairly basic. Although Serif's intention to include a page layout app to the Affinity suite was announced pretty early on, the first announcements about its expected release date were wildly optimistic and they're being much more cautious now. I think some users have been wrongly assuming that the developers who are working on the Windows versions of Affinity Designer and Photo could have been contributing to the development of Publisher for the Mac.

Although the OP mentioned Serif PhotoPlus, I think MEB was describing an option which is only available for organizational layers in Affinity Designer. Like PhotoPlus, Affinity Photo only seems to allow us to create new layers as empty pixel layers, not organizational layers.

In a word, no. (OK, so that was four words, and it's even more now, but the answer is still the same!)

One of the devs or their QA colleagues may be along at some point this weekend, but you could try emailing support@seriflabs.com if you prefer not to depend upon getting a reply here.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, wheelhot. :) No, there isn't even an ETA for Affinity Publisher, so if I were you I wouldn't hold my breath!

Try installing the latest driver from the XP-Pen web site, as recommended in the OP to this thread.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, arene. :) From previous posts about this from the developers, it looks as though scripting support in the Affinity apps is going to be for JavaScript rather than Python.

Doesn't 'Accumulation Jitter' give you the desired control over the opacity of your brush strokes? :unsure:

What are your PDF export settings? Do you mean the DPI setting matters but the size of the artboard/export does not, or do you mean that neither the DPI setting nor the size of the artboard/export makes any difference to the result that you get?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Jarrnie. :) As MEB indicated, Option/Alt-clicking on the 'Subtract' icon results in a compound shape which gives you access to the individual components, so you would be able to edit the text at any time by expanding the Compound layer in the Layers panel and selecting the text layer there.

Very nice work, Kevin. B) (Let's hope the devs get the 'Expand Stroke' feature fixed real soon!)

I think the OP wants to do what we've been able to do in Serif PhotoPlus for very many years:

I think Miguel's comment about "strange tastes" was not about your reference to Plan 9 from Outer Space, but instead about your remark that you had "too much blood in [your] coffee stream". I suspect that he may have failed to unravel it sufficiently to understand that you were really just saying you didn't have enough coffee in your bloodstream. ;)

As indicated earlier, the Rotation field in the Transform panel in the 1.5 versions doesn't use the rotation centre in the workspace. To work around this, place the first star at the required distance directly above the centre of the document, draw a straight line (with the Pen Tool in Line Mode) between the centre of the star and the centre of the document, group the line and the star and then click on the bottom centre point of the alignment control in the Transform panel. Duplicating this group, setting the rotation of the duplicate to 360/13° and then power duplicating will give you 13 stars spaced equally around the circle. If desired, you can finish by ungrouping everything and deleting the lines, although this isn't strictly necessarily if those lines have no stroke and/or no stroke colour.

If you don't see a dialog with a 'Clear' button, you're pressing the Ctrl key too late or letting go of it too early. Press it and keep it held down while you launch Affinity Designer, continue to keep it held down until the Clear User Data dialog appears, and then release it and press 'Clear' in the dialog. If the problem persists, try again but press 'Select All' before pressing 'Clear'.

No, it's not just you. There are at least two of us! :lol:

I think Andrew ('verysame') must have customized his keyboard shortcuts. I use D on its own for 'Set Fill to Black and White' but I'm pretty sure there is no default shortcut for this. Affinity Photo doesn't have an icon that you can click on to reset the colours.

Just a quick note to point out that Mac users need to use Cmd+J (⌘J) instead of Ctrl+J.

You need to open Greg's file in one of the version 1.6 betas.

Ah, OK, I misunderstood what you meant by "two sample images"! It sounds as though the forum software isn't picking up the appropriate format from the clipboard. For what it's worth, when including attachments with a post to any forum I always save a screenshot to a file rather than trying to paste from the clipboard.