Christoph Daniel

Right, I should have just waited a few minutes and read the help file more. For future reference: Edit -> Preferences -> User Interface -> Show brush previews disables the feature. Cheers, Chris

Hi there, when I use the paint brush tool, Affinity Photo not only shows the cursor, but also a kind of preview blob of ink that shows what would happen if I were to start drawing. This is usually helpful, but in my case, it is not, so I was wondering whether that ink blob could be deactivated. Background: I'm currently filming educational videos in which I record my screen as I write on a virtual whiteboard. So far, I've been using Microsoft's Whiteboard tool, which works very well, but doesn't allow me to hide its various buttons and tool bars. I thought Affinity Photo, while not especially designed for this use case, would work beautifully. However, while the mouse cursor is not included in the screen recording, that ink blob is, which makes the recordings unusable for my purpose. Any ideas? Cheers, Chris

Isn't that included in Publisher? I believe it's an option somewhere in the text styles. Not sure if it's already fully working, though.

I bet that most photo management applications provide this feature since it's essential for choosing the best among a number of similar shots. Lightroom, which is the only management software I've used so far, certainly has a comparison view.

I did, but I didn't get the central idea. Your explanation made it clear to me, thanks. Using LaTeX all the time anyway, I will in fact read that paper. Thanks for the reference!

That's excellent, I was looking for the same feature. And we can even decide which format and language to insert dates and times in. Well done.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is a paragraph-based composition engine?

That's already on the roadmap.

Nach einem solchen Feature haben schon viele verlangt (inklusive mir), und die Botschaft scheint angekommen zu sein. Ich glaube, die Entwickler haben das Feature schon in Planung.

It is. The method @A_B_C suggested is just an additional method for you to use.

You should think about having a bot auto-reply to such threads, seeing how often people seem to request a Lightroom alternative.

@Metin Seven, that doesn't seem to do what I want it to. Take the following screenshot, for example (the image itself doesn't include the border you see here): Gimp's autocrop will collapse the image's borders towards the centre as long as there is no colour change, thus yielding the following result: This is what I was referring to.

+1. Something like Gimp's Autocrop feature would be brilliant.

Andy, sorry for derailing, but QX 2018 is one possible purchase option for me if Publisher turns out not to be enough for my projects. Why are you so eager to dump QX 2015? I'd like to take your opinion into account when I decide.

As I already posted in another part of the forum, this wouldn't only be great to create new documents, but also to open recently used ones.

Hi everyone, not sure if this was requested before (I certainly wasn't able to find it), but I'd like to suggest adding functionality to the welcome screen shown when the applications start. Right now, it allows us to directly go to the new document screen. What would be helpful as well would be to list the most recently used files for us to open. Cheers!

As Fixx already mentioned, you will find more options through View -> Studio -> Text frame, including controls for the gutter. One of the tutorial videos also explains this quite nicely.

...or the area of the current selection.

Care to enlighten us?

Yep. Just kidding, but to be honest, I like the icons very much. Very distinctive, too.

Depends on the background. If you have a plain white background, why not simply place two white rectangles over the picture? If you have a more complex background, I'd try placing the whole image first to see what area it would cover. Then place three image frames over it, add the same picture to each, and move the part of the picture visible in each frame such that it is exactly the part that should be visible there.

If I understood other topics in this forum correctly, master pages cannot hold text frames to be filled in the actual pages. You need to add a page based on the master page and add text frames to that concrete page.

Nice, thanks a bunch for the info. Very much looking forward to what they'll come up with!

Just a couple of ideas to add to my simple "me too!" above... As far as I was able to find out during my InDesign trial, it allows you to setup a row-column grid with gutters within the page's margins. That's a powerful feature, but what seems even more flexible would be to not limit the grid setup just to the body, but to the area of the current selection. In my case, I needed a very particular grid for one small part of my page, but a comparatively loose (or even non-existent) grid for the rest of the page. Not sure if other would find such a feature helpful. Might just be me who's just starting out in DTP.

Exactly what I'd love to see as well.