Aristocrates

Great, that works! It would still be good for there to be a more intuitive copy and paste pages tool, but glad there's at least some way of achieving it.

We're now on version 2, and there still doesn't seem to be a way to paste pages from one document to another (unless I'm missing something).

Tried separating the Affinity Design file so that it has only one artboard per file. The behaviour does not carry over to this scenario, so presumably the error is due to a conflict between which artboard Publisher thinks it is looking at from the Designer file. 2023-01-14 11-22-34.mp4

When I try to switch and .afdesign document layers on and off from within Publisher, I'm ending up with some very odd behaviour. I can't even quite identify where the problem lies. Please see attached video which demonstrates the problem. I have several artboards within the afdesign document, each with their own layers which I want to turn on and off within publisher, depending on what it is I'm trying to show. I'm wondering whether there is some sort of conflict because there are several artboards, so I'm next going to try separating the artboards into their own afdesign files, and see whether this solves the issue. However, this is clearly a bug, since this is definitely not the expected behaviour. 2023-01-14 11-08-28.mp4

I'm really pleased that this feature has been introduced in Affinity Designer 2. I have yet to try it out with a live project, but just importing a DWG file seemed to work as expected, and I could set the drawing scale and both measure and draw using my scale units, rather than on page units. Well done Affinity.

I should think there are quite a lot of people who like me have all three desktop products installed on their computers. When there's an update, all of these have to be updated separately. Is there a possibility of an update package which updates all three at once? I frequently decide not to update because they are too frequent and take too much admin when I'm trying to get something done, so any way this can be sped up would be great.

OK. That worked. But I don't really want to keep hardware acceleration permanently disabled. But thanks.

Just to say that I had the same issue with it crashing whilst trying to apply an unsharpen mask in split screen in Windows 10. Not at 100% though. Not sure what scale it was. It seems that it was when I pushed up the radius slider it crashed. When I kept the radius slider low, it was ok. Not sure why that would be! Attached is image I was working on.

If it's available in Publisher, can you say where it is? In neither Designer nor Publisher have I been able to change the background colour of a text box. I did manage to create a text box with a background colour, but only by drawing the shape first, and then converting it to a textbox by clicking on it with the text frame tool. Any help gratefully received.

This sounds like the type of thing that would work and be helpful. And yes, it perhaps is more of a Designer feature. I've not really used Designer all the much, but perhaps I need to have a bit of an explore and see what it can do.

Have just watched the Publisher launch video and am so impressed with the look of StudioLink. Can't wait to start using it! Just one thing: I'm an architect, and therefore one of the things I used Affinity for is creating presentation versions of technical/scale drawings (see the attached planning drawing, scanned in and then coloured in Affinity Photo). However, it's difficult to maintain scale, since everything is done by the pixel or print scale dimensions. What I would love to be able to do is set a particular image up as, say, a 1:50 scale drawing, and then be able to type in dimensions in mm (i.e. if I was drawing a wall that I wanted 300mm thick, I would type 300, and it would appear on the drawing as a 6mm thick line). I don't expect Affinity to become a CAD program - I know this is not a tool that most of the user base will want, but I do think that if this feature was available, it would probably double the amount that I use Affinity products, and I'd be recommending it to all my architect friends! Again, love your work. Keep it up!

Thanks for the reply. Just so you know, the reason I used syncing is because I wanted to ensure that all the picture frames were the same size and formatted the same (so if I added a border to one, I could add it to all the others at the same time). This is why I made the frame on the master page, and then was intending to only change the one thing which would change - the image - on each page. Perhaps there is another way to do this? If not, I think this would be widely beneficial feature. I'm used to PagePlus X8, where I used to make the whole template on a master page, and then promote the elements I was changing for each page. I don't think that system was ideal, but I understood it!

I've created a document, and inserted a number of images. However, I now want to link those files, rather than have them embedded, so I went to resource manager to do that, but the images don't appear. To test, I tried just dragging an image directly into the document. This one appears in the resource manager. I also created a frame directly on the page, and then dragged an image onto this. This appeared in the resource manager too. So the fact they don't appear must be because of the process I used: I created a master page, with two image frames in the positions that I wanted images. I created a number of pages based on this master page. I turned off syncing and unlinked the master page layer on each page. I dragged images onto the frames to populate them. There must be something about this process that means that the images don't get indexed into the resource manager. Please can this be corrected?