DavidMac

Oooops. Managed to post before finishing. I am a pitiably inept typist. 🙁 Another crude option might be to link to an external pdf file(s) containing my ingredient and other descriptive pages. This would then (I think) open in another window and when finished could be simply closed leaving the reader at the same place in the main document. A bit like linking to an external page from a website. It's clumsy because instead of a single file the book would need to be a folder containing several files. Ho hum ..... back to the drawing board ......... 🤔

Thank you Mike. Although that is not quite what I had hoped to hear you have expressed it with admirable clarity. Your 'crude' option is maybe not so crude. It's definitely worth consideration. Another crude option that had occurred to me would be to link to,p

I am creating my first Affinity Publisher project which is a cook book. It will be exported as a PDF with live linking. At various places the reader will encounter special techniques or ingredients. I want to be able to provide them with a link to a page or section within the document which describes this in detail should they so wish. When finished I need to return them to the place in the document from which they triggered the link. The difficulty I am facing is that the one page or section linked to could be called from any one of many different places and would need to 'know' to which one it should return. In simple terms I need something equivalent to the 'back' button in a browser. I have looked at all the AP help files and tutorials on hyperlinks I can find but this is eluding me entirely. I really would appreciate some help with this.

It is eight years since I first posted this. Nothing has changed and no response ever, that I can see, from a member of the Affinity team. It seems to be a classic case of don’t hold your breath while waiting. What a shame …………. ☹️

Thanks Dan. No apologies needed. I know the last two years have been very difficult for you all. This is not let's face it a serious bug, which is why I hadn't pursued it for so long. It's easy enough to import my palette when I start. It's just one of those minor irritations one would prefer not to have. Hopefully next version. 🙂

AP on Mac OS Mojave This something I first reported years back in the very, very early days with first release of AP. Nothing has changed since then so I am tempted to believe that I may be failing to understand something rather than there being a fault in the app. I find having to keep switching greyscale and colour swatches rather tedious. So I created a swatch of my own that contains both greyscale and colour in a single swatch palette. It is set as an application palette. I saved this and on startup can select it in the palette drop down just above the swatches. So far so good. However the swatches menu has an option "Save as default", followed by the colour modes for which you would like it to be default. I set my new palette to be default but AP ignores this and always defaults to the grey scale palette. Now maybe I am misunderstanding but, to my simple mind, a default palette is the one that loads on startup. However I cannot get any palette, including the AP native palettes to load as default in any colour mode. I have tried every combination I can think of but AP resolutely insists on always starting up with the greyscale swatches. I cannot believe, after such a long time, that this can be broken. If that were the case then plenty more users than I would surely have reported it right from the early days just as I did, so I have to presume that somewhere I am missing something - I am often rather good at that.🤔 So what am I missing to get this feature working or am I misinterpreting entirely the meaning of "default".

Thanks Patrick. The last months have been topsy turvy for all of us, no matter where. Affinity forums are some of the most responsive on the web, particularly where the developers responding themselves is concerned. No apologies needed. I'll try what you suggest. Thanks.

Thank you. That admirably clarifies my confusion. Since I am basically a photo compositor ( http://www.cambiguities.com ) as opposed to designer my forays into AD territory are pretty scarce. In the end I have learned that this is one button I can safely ignore without feeling I am missing something critical.

I had sort of come to the conclusion that it was one those tools I probably could live without .............

Yes. Senior moment. I'm getting better at them with advancing years! 😆

Walt, R C-R, my apologies. I didn't state clearly that I am in AP. My fault entirely. Sorry to waste your time. 🙁

OK half way there. Thanks Walt. I don't use Artboards so that's cleared up. But I am not clear what you mean by tagged as Layer? I can't recall ever seeing this tag. (Image, Pixel, Text, Shape names, but Layer?) I hope I am not being forehead slappingly stupid.

This is a very old post but I am having exactly the same puzzlement as to the use of the button. I have set up a multi layered document. No matter which layer is active and no matter the setting of this button I can still select any and all of the other layers singly or multiply in the canvas by clicking on them or by marquee selection. I am unable to make this this button change selection behaviour in any manner whatsoever. Sorry to be so dense but, in really simple terms please, what am I missing here?

As plenty of users have pointed out you can do this in Photo with the perspective tool. You can do the exact equivalent of holding down the command key (Mac) in photoshop when free transforming. You can freely drag any corner in any direction. You can do this destructively using the Perspective tool on the tools menu or by applying the non destructive Perspective filter. It's a little hidden but once you have found it it's just as easy as in Photoshop.

Given that my query has gone unattended for five weeks I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a response. Affinity team are normally very responsive and helpful, one of the best for that, but they are overloaded at present. Looks like workarounds for now. 🤔