Iztok

Fonts convert in curvels open from InDesign couse mess, and isn't in group layer, and layer panel became messy

Problem is confusion of layers, if you have 1000 letters in one page and make it on curves, the layer panel is cofusing totaly, every letter have its own layer, i suggest that text is somewhat combine in groups, to  be page easier to work with.

I mnissed in Affinity designer, toggle preview mode, the same option as in Publisher, it is simple

Hi @Iztok,
There's already an internal improvement request to add a Feather FX to Designer/Publisher. This however must be approved first by dev team/management to be implemented and as such there's still no guarantee it will be addd at the moment. You're not the first user requesting it.

@Iztok We do have a similar issue logged with the developers regarding panels remembering their position, I'll update the report to include yours.

I have pallete on second monitor and I select one photo and clck Photo persona, first in photo persona i like to increas resolution of image, but I cant and I have no option to Yust right clik and command open in Affinity photo, second when I go to photo persona and back to Publisher all may palette was all over the main monitor, so I suggest that I could castumizen position of palette and save it not only one as many as I like, second, or on assests or linked panel command to open photo direct in Affinity Photo not just option Photo P.ersona, which is also great but not for all 

I agree. I was trying to set up in my Affinity palettes to match my InDesign workspace, and couldn't find the Links palette. The Resource Manager is nice, but really needs to be a dockable palette, since I use it every single job, throughout the job.
Ditto on the Gradient Map popup.

do it better Affinity

Hello 3Dshark,
I agree with you that the Affinity line of applications are very nice and competitive. Well, potentially so. However, the more I delve into the Publisher persona, the more roadblocks I encounter. I don't think Publisher is ready for massive, labor intensive publication production. It is definitely a nice program to use for advertising brochures or books/novels, but the multifaceted world of newspaper building just doesn't seem to have been taken into consideration. 
I have figured out the color tint process, which I do contend is not very intuitive, it can be managed and applied. Unfortunately, I have run into other issues, so far, that really are holdbacks to making a switch. Two current issues involve the asset panel. One, the assets in the panel do not display as names only, and the thumbnails either are undecipherable when viewed with "Show As List" turned off, or they are gargantuan and hog my workspace when "Show As List" is activated. I have shared this concern with their support team, and they're taking it into consideration. The other asset panel issue is even much worse and a deal breaker if there isn't a workaround. The issue involves my not being able to place assets in the panel that contain graphic or photos. These images are linked but every time I attempt to place them in the asset panel I am given a warning saying "embedded graphics cannot be placed in the asset panel." Sadly, this is a HUGE deal breaker. In newspapers, many article bylines/features use mug-bugs. Not being to have quick access to these is simply unproductive and renders sage of the application impractical.
I have relayed this issue to support too. We shall see if there is a remedy to this.
Affinity is, indeed, very open to suggestions and feedback, and, it is quite possible they will be open to remedying these problems. Unfortunately, until they do make these fixes, I am not going to be able to make the switch I need for our publications. 
I will continue to share my questions and suggestions with support. 
Thanks for the well wishes. 🙂 

OK. This NOT being able to apply a percentage for a tint of a particular color is crazy. It is SO basic. Why isn' this allowed? I mean, I NEED this ability in my everyday world of CMYK printing. It does me no good to tell Publisher to create cloud chord tints when I need the flexibility of determining my own. There are many times when I need 6% of a solid color or 13%. 
Does Affinity plan on changing this? Opacity is NOT the same thing as I need a solid fill for many of the things I do. Yes, I use opacity from time to time, but when I need drop shadows or inner/outer glow effects, I need that object filled with a solid color. 
I REALLY want to get away from Adobe's world of greed and drop Indesign, but I have a small list of issues that I'm jotting down that are adding up to our having to swallow the bitter pill of keeping with InDesign, I fear. I bought the Affinity Personas, but I am worried I won't be able to witch over to Affinity full time because of my list. 
If anyone hears of anything I may have missed regarding tint flexibility, please shout. Thank you

Well, if you have 10 photos in one page and want to have feather ages, then you need to do mask at every photo instead to select all and then just click feather.
One isn't problem

One library is in hidden files, but under the spelling isn any folder  fr_FR witd .aff and .dic document

In your explanation you have terms as Character Studio, I cant find in menu, I have last version 2.4.0. and i like to install . dic and . dat for Slovenian language,  in MOnterey library/ Spelling doesn't exist anymore, so can you help where and how to install in Monterey, maby you can do some script for anyone to install this take time to you and us and is constant problem, big problem is can't use hyphenation in my language it is then anusable to design book and make corrections on every row. hyphenation is enough to eork, but explain simple pleas youst step 1 step 2...

Tracking with shift by 10 doesn't work, only by 1, leading work OK

Hi @Iztok,
That's because you are trying to change the size of an Artboard. To do that you can use the Transform Panel or simply click and drag the Artboard's resize handles...

There are various workarounds for the S5 ii.  Silkypix or Adobe RAW converter to get a .tiff or .dng respectively.  They aren't that good though IMHO.
I have found the best fix to be to use DxO PureRAW 3 before opening in Affinity Photo.  DxO already fully supports the S5 ii and all of its lenses.  It does the lens corrections and produces a superb .dng, reducing noise, but improving the image even if none is actually needed.  The sharpening option is really good.  It auto-sends into AP's Develop Persona after processing and I can proceed with post-processing as usual.  
It's a shame the AP team can't keep up with other developers, who seem to be able to update equipment support much more often.
ACDSee's DAM software and Topaz Labs are the same in that they don't support the S5 ii yet either.
I guess you get what you pay for!

Hi @Iztok,
If you drag the Image layer on the respective pages so it sits beneath the Master A layer in the Layers panel then your logo will appear on top of your photos.

I figer out, you must go to page in documet and master is in back, so you must put it to front of layers

I agree and I believe this has been requested before. Colour management is an area many users would like to see improvements made and has been discussed at length in the forums...
Having live swatch value updates would be a very welcome addition and makes perfect sense, hopefully, we will see some improvements to the colour management features across the Affinity apps in a future release.

If I have big shape in page and small icon in palete I can't see colour precise, so it is necessary that I can change the colour in swatch and at the same time in page, also numbers of colour must change to proper value. It is example in InDesign. I like Affinity, but some minor inconsistences trouble my work. I laso miss in Designer, path to jpeg and asspecilay picture expand to vector.
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Affinity Publisher uses the Hunspell Engine for spell checking and it also allows for additional Hunspell dictionaries to be added. You can download additional dictionaries from LibreOffice's GitHub page here but you can find direct links in the below post. 

Once you've downloaded the correct file(s), you can use them in Affinity Publisher by following the below instructions:
Please note: There are some differences between how you install Hunspell dictionaries for macOS/Windows, since we use the default spelling dictionaries available within macOS but it's also possible to add custom Hunspell dictionaries too.
macOS
You may already have Spelling dictionaries available but not active within macOS. To check, go to:
System Preferences >  Keyboard > Text and select Set up... from the Spelling drop down menu. Please check the required language if available. If it is, check the required language and restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionary to appear within the app.
If the required language is not available within macOS, you can install standard Hunspell dictionaries for use with Affinity Publisher. Hunspell dictionaries consist of two files, xx_XX.dic and xx_XX.aff. Copy both the .dic and .aff files to: ~/Library/Spelling
Once you have done this the language should become available to select from the Spelling drop down menu in System Preferences >  Keyboard > Text. Once you've checked the required language, restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionary to appear within the app.
Hyphenation dictionaries can also be installed in a similar way but they must be installed into a subfolder. Navigate to ~/Library/Spelling/ as above and create a subfolder with a name in the format of xx-XX ( substituting xx-XX for the locale id ). The dictionary comes as a single file with a name in the format hyph_xx_XX.dic - this file should be copied to the subfolder. Now restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionary to appear within the app.
Windows
You can add additional dictionaries and hyphenation dictionaries by going to Edit > Preferences > Tools. The default Additional dictionary folder used by the app is C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries but you can change this location by clicking Browse... - Please make sure that you specify a folder that holds all subfolders for each locale and not one specific locale folder as this will not work!

To copy any downloaded dictionaries and hyphenation dictionaries to the Additional dictionary folder click Open... but before copying your files to this folder you will need to create a subfolder with its name in the format of xx_XX ( substituting xx_XX for the locale id ). Once you’ve done this you can copy your xx_XX.dic, xx_XX.aff and hyph_xx_XX.dic files to the subfolder. Now restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionaries to appear within the app.

Please note: Any changes to dictionaries require that you restart Affinity Publisher