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Just found these & thanks!

Hello @v_kyr ...thanks for the reply but as i said to @Pšenda the vector brushes are very basic and am struggling to get the same effect

Hello @Pšenda thanks for the reply ...i have tried vector brushes clipped into the image but the brushes are very basic and am struggling to get the same effect ...are you able to explain how you would do this please?

Hey gang Am looking to try & get a stamp effect similar to the one attached ..done with circles of colour vectors, then rasterized & then brushes with blend mode set to erase. I would like to make the cracks transparent but more pronounced and still in vector mode & can't seem to do that with the brushes ...any ideas?

Hello I have been speaking with @v_kyr & @walt.farrell on this thread ... The chaps have now said to log my problem as a bug so am doing so Can you get what you need from reading the above thread or do you need me to explain again or do anything else? I have posted on the Apple thread as we think that is where the problem seems to be!

Hello @v_kyr I have just confirmed that my Taiwan team have the lastest version 1.7.3.481 (Same as me) and still have the same problem! Do i log a bug now?

Ah cool, yes that's it thanks @GarryP ...i never even had Character showing! But i do now Cheers for that!

Thanks for the quick reply @GarryP Standard leading is the vertical gap between lines ...i mean the width between the actual letters, so not squeezing them but moving them closer together or farther apart!

Hey gang Is there such a thing as horizontal paragraph leading? ...either with artistic or/and paragraph text? There was always this option in Coreldraw & it was quite useful? I can thicken the outlines to create this effect but just wondered if there is a proper way? Cheers

Fantastic, just what i need to know ...very kind of you indeed thanks @Callum

Hello @Callum ...just a nudge in case you never saw my reply, i use a mouse but can't seem to make the pressure work!

I am using 1.7.3.481 (which i think is the latest version) & i assume Taiwan are as well but i will check! None of us are using Beta!

I apologise @v_kyr ...the correct image is now attached (Image 3) that was the one from earlier today! Taiwan can relink each file from the Assets folder individually but without any files highlighted the "open" button is grayed out & they cannot relink anything ! And yes, all the images are internally linked to the right underneath directory!

Thanks again for the reply @v_kyr & @walt.farrell Ok we have simplified things to try & solve the problem We first moved the assets folder into a single test folder with just the Afpub English brochure file (attached image 1) I opened it here & relinked all the images (as we had moved the assets folder & so lost the links) So we have it working fine here! We then spoke to Taiwan & asked them to access it hoping once they relink, it would all be good! They opened the file & it came up with the Yes, No & Resource folder options as we wanted. But when they clicked yes & tried to link it came up with the same problem (image 2) where the "Open" is grayed out so they have to relink every single file in the Assets folder individually! We were hoping their Apple Mac's would find the relative paths instantly anyway!

Thanks again for taking the time to try & sort this problem out @v_kyr & @walt.farrell Our current set up in Googledrive is: 12G SDI V2-5 Brochure main directory: Assets directory (with all images) Chinese standard directory Chinese Traditional directory English directory Japanese directory Korean directory Each directory has a copy of the brochure "saved as" from the English one & translated into each language ...but all images for each come from the assets folder! As I created the initial brochure on a pc in the UK I can open everything ok, but when anyone on a Apple Mac in Taiwan does it, then they have to relink each time! And they can’t seem to relink all in one go (see attached image) so they have to relink each image separately! Does this directory set up look as if it’s ok and should work to you guys?

Thanks for the reply Just a mouse, so how do i do that?

In Affinity Designer how do i use the brushes to get a tail on my lines? I want Brush 64 (Image a) to have a tail like its image in the brushes folder tab But when i draw a line i just get a straight 'ish line (image b) with no tail!

So in this scenario, if i had created the brochure on an Apple mac & uploaded the files to Googledrive, the company in Taiwan would not have this problem?

I will double check with them again tmrw (they never replied to me on Monday & i was off work yesterday) Thanks very much for you help, it's very much appreciated @v_kyr

@walt.farrell said "One of the Serif staff said something similar: that both the relative and absolute paths are saved, and that Publisher first tries the relative path." @v_kyr ...the IT chap here (at work) thinks that the problem is because the Apple Mac's in Taiwan aren't finding the relative paths to the files in Affinity! But If what Walt says above is correct it shouldn't be a problem should it?

Hello @v_kyr ...thanks for the suggestion but the original images are 2 or 3 mb each, so fairly large & there are lots of them! Also if we did this then we would lose the "link" functionality wouldn't we? ...for updating etc!

@walt.farrellI tried what you said & it works fine for me (on my pc) but I have just tried that with our Taiwan branch (ref my initial problem above) We are creating a brochure & everything we have is stored on googledrive with an assets folder for the brochure. But when Taiwan try to open the brochure's (i created here in the Uk on my pc) they have no links to images! They all use Apple Macs & when they did as you suggest they can't open the folder as it's grayed out (See attached image) & they can only highlight one image at a time! Any ideas at all?

Great thanks very much Walt!

Is there any kind of pack & go scenario with Affinity? ...as this would perhaps solve the problem! Also is there any way to re link multiple files as we currently have to do them all individually!?

Just a thought but someone has just asked me is there some kind of "Pack & Go" scenario (that bundles the assets and creates a bonded asset folder) with Affinity that we could use to solve this problem?