Alfred

Thanks again for the feedback, folks! If anybody else has got recommendations for any alternative brand or model of entry level graphics tablet that might be worth my consideration, I will gladly take those into account too! 👍

@Alfred, my friend, believe me—no one is kicking me harder than I'm kicking myself over this. The cruel irony is that I actually have one in my camera bag!! 😭😅

However, traffic was even more horrendous than we anticipated, and the crowding by other eclipse chasers was over the top. By the time we got to our destination and I got most of my equipment set up for my multiple projects, I completely forgot that I even had a remote shutter release—which I'd actually rehearsed using over and over again.

I learned a lot from this first-timer eclipse experience. Everything that can possibly go wrong probably WILL go wrong if you don't have enough time to set up prior to the very brief moments of totality.

It sounds as though you need to treat yourself to a remote shutter release!

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Duncan.
What you’ve described isn’t actually a bug. The ‘Character > Positioning and Transform’ route positions and transforms glyphs for the regular characters so that they’re smaller and (for subscripts) lower than the originals. The ‘Typography > Subscript’ option uses glyphs for the subscript characters where available, but there will usually only be numerals plus a few alphabetic characters, and the font designer may have chosen to make those glyphs look different from their full-size counterparts.

Just to add to what Walt has said, you can also use APh as the abbreviation for Affinity Photo. This makes it instantly clear to the reader that you’re not referring to Affinity Publisher.

My post above includes a quote from the Affinity and Canva pledge, which uses the wording "over the coming year" - this is all we have to share at this moment

While not guaranteed, I did see a comment from @Dan C that they wanted to implement as soon as possible. Also, they add these tags right before features go into beta.

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→→→→edited the post and changed to "side"
</pedantry>
 
P.S As a full stack dev @alfred, I would like to point out that you were not pedantic enough and forgot to use indentation for the text between the <pedantry> tag, necessarily 4 spaces.
Just kidding, have a nice day @Alfred🖐️

I applied Drop caps and a character style:

Maybe Im wrong but I don't think the OP meant justification because he wrote, quote: "option to adjust character spacing.... to adjust different words to the same width"
 
If my intuition has not failed me, you should be interested in Tracking.
Tracking involves adjusting the spacing throughout the entire word. Tracking is generally used to fill a space that’s larger or smaller than currently suits the type’s parameters or to make a single word seem airy and impressive.

You can adjust the [Tracking] using the character panel wchich you can bring up by going to Menu bar → Window → Text → Character or by pressing CTRL+T
Character panel is available in all of the three affinity apps and the shortcut is the same for them as well.
See the screenshot of character panel ( tracking option marked by red rectangle)↓

 
@JKSeiner I hope this is what you meant and I helped solve your doubts

Double tap the last point.

Although the screen recording. doesn’t show it, I end each line segment by a double tap rather than a single tap.

RPReplay_Final1712912197.mp4

My „must to have” list, if met in V2, will make me stay on this boat.
Straight from the head without any prior writing down.
Kidding. I have been building it for the last half a year, working intensively with the V2 version.
Higher on the list = higher priority
 
Common for all apps (ADe | APh | APub)↓
Less bugs, better performance
Finally take control of the redrawing process so that this problem doesn't keep coming back
Better UI
More readable (better contrast)
Better dialog layouts (size, alignment, well grouped options etc).
More advanced guides
Selecting individual or multiple guides
Change their position using transform panel
Align them to page, spread selected object
 
Distinct for each app↓
Affinity Designer
Better svg export/import
The svg structure must be better organized,
Better support for feaures of an svg format is needed,
Unwanted elements such as <rect> representing artboard surface shouldn't be created
True vector brushes
Vector pattern / fill objects with created vector pattern
Blend tool
Mesh gradient
Symbols panel
Ability to create and manage symbol libraries.
Making it global for every document.
Affinity Photo
Better rendering engine
Smooth zooming in/out when in quick mask mode or when activ pixel selection present
Instant refresh | update of regular and mask thumbnails after changes made
Better procedure for resizing selected pixels (no need to be in quick mask mode)
Align to pixel selection (marching ants) bounding box.
Affinity Publisher
True, professional object styles
Dedicated dialog
Clear | replace all object settings or just specific ones
Setting for position
Setting for choose (honour) first and next text style in a text frame
Setting for text frame size
Span | split text across columns
Span | split footnotes across columns
GREP styles inside paragraph styles
Muliple spread managment
Move page(s) command with dialog
Moving page inside current document
Moving page to other opened documents
Move master pages to other documents feature
Support for Variable fonts
Insert tables in text frames
option to set „space before” & „Space after” for such a table
Tables across multiple pages
option to repeat table headings
Find and Replace the attributes and effects applied to objects, graphics, and text frames.
Find and Replace — replace text with contents of clipboard for allowing Replacing text with icons
Table styles accesible for every document (global)
Story Editor for proofreading
It's an ambitious list, but that's probably a good thing.
So, dear team, now Canva team, the ⚽ is on your side. What will you do about it?

I turned off the Hardware acceleration box and hey presto it's working again. 
I would like to thank everyone for their time to help me with my problem and putting up with my lack of computer knowledge.
Thank you all, Robert

By the way: you seem to be using AP as the abbreviation for two applications (Photo, and Publisher). That is confusing
If one must abbreviate, APub and APu are the terms accepted by the forums (as shown by the underlining when used, and the Tooltip explanations for them).

That’s an obvious inference to make, but it seems to be at odds with this:
 

10 out of 10 topics with 16 bit cmyk in the topic title from the last 8 years have been started by you. Could you not just choose one of the your already existing topics and restate your desire for this?

There's something productivity-focused about CorelDraw. It is not interested in throwing UI at you (even when you expect it most) and seems to push you straight to work more quickly and it does indeed seem plausible to create things much quicker than in AI. However it could also be an InDesign replacement depending on the complexity of the document.
The problem I've had with AI is that it required subscription-based plugins to actually do most technically challenging things very quickly. So not only we would be paying for Adobe, but also the plugins. Vectorstyler in this respect seems to look at the most popular baseline programs and seeks to address these shortcomings.

When it comes to the desktop apps, I'm way less concerned with the design of the application versus how it's tools are setup for use. Illustrator has the most confusing and unintuitive selection, node editing and bezier tools of any vector editing application I've ever touched. The white arrow tool is a mess compared to the almost standardized dedicated node editing tool shared by Affinity, Inkscape and Corel. Illustrator needed a dedicated isolation mode on double click added a decade or so back because their selection tools were just that bad, a band-aid they've never bothered to take off (and it's frankly starting to smell). Corel draw's interface could look like windows 95, but the app will still be way more productive to work in than Illustrator. 
As for Affinity's ipad app... I use the iPad version of Designer just as much, if not more than the desktop version... but for completely different use cases. I'll use the desktop version for layout and design work since mouse and keyboard input just make more sense for graphic design, but for my illustration work and cartooning, nothing can beat the interface setup and the apple pencil functionality. I'll do full illustrations on iPad and never touch the desktop app a single time when working. After you get used to the placement of the functions on ipad and which icons mean what, it really is a fast and efficient setup, but i agree, there is definitely a learning curve since the menus use an icon-centric layout, some memorization is required for sure. 

Good catch, Alfrd.   
😛 

@Hangman @Alfred This is indeed what I was looking for. Thank you very much.
To all who responded, thank you for taking the time to try and help me. Much appreciated. 

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Mike.
Hardly a waste of time if it did what you needed it to do!
Not bad at all, although I have to wonder why the copyright symbol © is superscripted like that in the ITC Bradley Hand font.
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Flickr, not Flicker
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Nice Strelitzia, by the way.

From the linked thread, there was some missing ‘mimetype’ information:
 

As @Alfred said...
Assuming all your images are the same size, JPEG, PNG or TIFF files... Mine happen to be square so I'm demonstrating using a 210 mm x 280 mm document...

Images.mp4

An A4 portrait page is 210 mm wide by 297 mm high, so for a row of three pictures you need each one to be no more than 70 mm wide (and each row must be no more than 74 mm high). If you’re using an A4 landscape page, the maximum width becomes 99 mm and the maximum height becomes 52.5 mm.
Create a new A4 document, place the 12 pictures on the page at the desired size, and use the Move Tool to arrange them in a pleasing layout.

Hi @JasonClark,
Issue #1
There is a bug in the Affinity apps relating to the DPI setting in the SVG Export window... subsequently entering any value there is ignored and so you need to set the Document DPI according to the DPI used by the software you're importing your SVG into...
Illustrator incorrectly uses 72 dpi, Inkscape correctly uses 96 dpi as do many other plotting, laser cutting, die cutting and CAD software...
What document dpi or ppi is the SVG file shown as in Illustrator when opened? Based on the 18" x 18" you mention that would suggest your Affinity Document setting is 130 dpi but that conflicts with the size when opened in Inkscape which is what I'd expect to see if your Affinity document is set to 300 dpi...
(300 / 96) x 100 = 312.50%  | 10" x 312.50% = 31.25"
If the software you're using to open the SVG file uses 72 dpi then you need to set your Affinity Document Setup to 72 dpi, if, as they should, the software you're using to open the SVG file uses 96 dpi then you need to set your Affinity Document Setup to 96 dpi and export the SVG from Affinity apps using the Document resolution...
Issue #2
The short answer is I don't know as I'm not familiar with Onyx CutServer but I noted that your Affinity SVG export uses a colour fill, style="fill:rgb(35,31,32); unlike the Illustrator exported SVG. Does Onyx CutServer accept Fills or only strokes?
What happens if you export your shape with a stroke and no fill using the relevant Affinity Document DPI, does it work then?