JeffreyWalther

Well... so it is not possible to start at the selection center and increase the radius? Current behaviour (starts top/left even with CTRL pressed while mouse clicking and moving): Desired behaviour (circle from center):

Hi, I do not get it work with any CTRL/ALT/SHIFT combination: Creating a circle selection, starting from the center (where mouse pointer was) instead from the left/top corner. Any ideas? Jeff

Hi, It is very annoying, that the scaling tool with locked aspect ration only works when a group is selected. If any other object is selected, you have to press ALT or CTRL to scale with locked aspect ration. It would be great it the behaviour would be the same for all kind of objects. Jeff

Hello Affinity, I want to ask you if there will be a convenient solution for content translation of Publisher documents in future? Let’s say I have done an entire book in Affinity Publisher, source language English, and I want to translate the content (sentence by sentence) into another language and I also want to have both (source and target) synchronized, i.e. if some sentence changes in the source, I want to also to see a difference/change in the target so I can translate it. I know that such tools exist. E.g. Madcap Flare which is a CHM/PDF documentation tool. They also offer a tool called Lingo, which imports the Flare project, where you can translate (side-by-side) all sentences and then export back a new target Flare project. Such a solution would be great for Publisher. Jeff

Whitebalance: So, if you was a wedding photographer having 300 pics to be developed, you really would tick WB each time after loading the preset? Sounds like unneeded efforts. GTX: It does not matter if GTX or any Quadro card or with new or the old drivers. It is a behaviour seen on notebooks having an intel graphic card and an additional GPU. If you open Affinity with the NVidia GPU you get that flickering, i.e the background color of the GUI starts flickering while working, e.g. when zooming in and out the canvas.

Thank you very much for your help and your efforts for guiding me through the process. Yes, the macro did work with the example above, but not in other tests. So it seems that I have to manually crop my pics until Affinity comes around with a new feature. But thank you very much!

Example: See first pic with its pink background surrounded. I am looking for an auto trim which automatically captures the uppler left color (or upper right or the bottom corner colors), and then trim/crop the canvas until something else appears (see second pic, for final result). I am asking because in Photoshop there is such a 1-click-solution which is the only feature that I am missing in Affinity Photo. Jeff Pic 1: Pic 2:

Thank you very much. It is not quite that I was looking for (e.g. that background, surrounded color should not matter - here it has to be white). But fo the moment, I can work with the workaround. Thanks!

Hi, I have a bunch of pictures with a lot of white space around the object. Is there a way to auto crop/trim the canvas? It is quite tedious to set the edges by hand with the Crop Tool.

Hi, I really often work on RAW pictures and I come across some annoying behaviour in Affinity, which shall be fixed in an update: If I want to stop working on RAW development without saving, you have to cancle the process by 2 clicks before you can close the project. I.e. you are asked 2 times before you can close the RAW file. This sucks. I just want to close the windows by x, say [no saving] and done. If I made my adjustments in the RAW development, I can save it as a preset. But for no reason it does not save the whitebalance checkmark. So I have to re-check it again. Every time after I load the preset. And in Affinity 1.7 it seems that the WB value is not properly saved as well. It just sticks to the last set value. This sucks. I don't like that all development settings cannot be saved in one preset. I.e. sharpness is separated and I have to use a second preset to load it every time for each picture. This sucks. Affinity has problems with GPU cards (Nvidia GTX). GUI is flickering while operation. Maybe these stuff could be fixed? Thank you. Jeff

you cannot save a preset for all adjustments and details made in your project. Each tab is threated separately :-( presets you save do not store the whitebalance :-( presets you save does ignore checkmarks you set in the adjustments (e.h. whitebalance) :-( overall: brush sizes etc. you select are not stored - they a all reset all the time once you switch tback and forth the tools :-( painful: if I want to close Affinity Photo while developing a RAW picture, I don't want to be forced to cancle Developing first and then again hit X again to exit the program and then again being asked to save my work. If I hit X, I want to select, yes.... terminate everything. Done. Why is developing RAW handled that stupid? Please, Affinity... fix it. Thank you. Jeff

Hi, It seems in our case that the PDF contains a black hidden bottom layer. In a PDF viewer, the layer is not shown. Which is correct. In Publisher, the hidden layers is displayed, so the bottom layers shines through. So.... the PDF seems not to be in a good state with such hidden layers, but Publisher may also have a closer look on that embedded layers in the PDF. I deleted the bottom layer from the PDF, so it was working in Publisher as excepted.

Hello, I've added a PDF with transparant background on my page. But the transparanet part is shown in black color. Jeff

Thanks, it is the right way. Have to check this. But it would be great to have those "symbols" globally so you can use it as single source in other Publisher projects. And all get updated at once.

But you cannot change it, once added to the asset panel. You also cannot apply any changes to all the places at once, where the assets have been added (without being locally changed). For example: You have a warning box that you want to use in 5 Publisher documents. Now, for corporate design reasons, you need to change the warning box. Those changes won't be updated in the assets that have been added on the pages. I don't want to do that on all pages and all 5 documents manually. :-)

1) Ability to insert global text variables in a text frame. Reason: Sometimes you want to share a piece of information several times in the overall document, or even over several Publisher documents. Once a change is needed, you only have to change the single source. 2) Ability to create text/table snippets that can be re-used (and also edited for a local version). Reason: See 1), think of "WARNING" boxes or similar that you want to style once, but use very often. 3) Ability to have global Master Pages/document settings/styling over multiple Publisher documents. Reason: If you need to change the style (e.g. CI change), you only have to do it once.

Hello Stuart, Thank you very much. It works! I've completed an entire camera brochure within 2h hours, while the same stuff in another crappy application took me days. Thank you! Jeff

Is there a way to define separator dots (..........) to fill out all blanks from the heading up to the set tab (where the number appears), independent of the character length of each heading? APPLES.........1 BANANAS.....2 FRIES.............3

Thank you all! View > Studio > Fields and using sections in the page panel seems to work (though I would like to see the current Heading 1 text (or any other by settings), in the Fields for a more dynamic build-up).

OMG!! That's it! This checkbox is so hidden due to the short table topic! Thank you very much to pointing me out.

Hi again, Is there a way to use text variables? I would like to insert a variable on a master page in the footer area that shall contain the current header name (Header 1). On large documents, this is important to give the reader a hint which section he is currently reading. Jeff

There seems to be something odd if you create your own style and then use this one in the TOC. Then the numbers are not shown up. If you use the standard Heading 1 for example, it works. With own styles not.

Yes, I do. I added a text frame in the master page and inserted the page number. The page numbers are displayed on the pages itslef, but are not inluded in the TOC (while the headings do).

Hi, Is there any hidden option to unhide the page numbers in the table of contents? Though my heading are all found, the page numbers are not displayed. They are missing. A bug in the beta? Jeff

Hi, I really like Affinity Photo (coming from PS after 6 years). But I really miss one important feature: Loading and editing RAW pictures without developing them, but save settings in a meta file (like XMP in PS). That way I could re-open undeveloped pictures but with the already made adjustments. This is also important if you want to forward RAW pictures with those settings that can still be adjusted. Please, also add global "presets", where all settings from the development persona are stored. At the moment, this is only available for each individual tab. Please, increase performance. RAW editing is too slow. Changes are slowly build up while adjusting settings. As well, development takes too long. Jeff