Clayton King

@MikeTO, I completely agree. I guess ultimately, I'm old school and used to build my stylesheets (aging myself there) from the top down (i.e., Heading 1, Body, Bullet 1, etc.) and adjust from there. And because I did that, I inherently knew the values of things. You're right - ideally, we'd see both.

Is it possible to change how Affinity products display entries in styles. For example, in Paragraph Spacing, it is not particularly helpful (at least to me) to see "[No change] in the field as I have no real idea what that is. I know I can look at the style settings at the bottom of the window, but that requires reading through and finding what I'm looking for. Rather, it seems it would be more helpful to see the actual value in the field which is visually more immediate.

Don't know if this thread ever got any traction with Serif. I'm assuming not since there wasn't anything in this latest release. Just today, I came across yet another use case for a repeat comment (CTRL-D Illustrator, CTRL-R CorelDRAW, F4 All MS Office). I have a document with 12 artboard, each has an object centered in it. It was determined that each object needed to be scaled up 105%. Rather than clicking on each one, typing in 105% in the transform panel, selecting the next, rinse, repeat, it would have been VERY fast to simply make the first change, then select each of the next artboard and press Repeat.

I'm on Windows 11. Any update on this? I can't open HEIC in Photo or Designer.

This has long been a frustration for me, but I'm finally taking the time to put it out here and ask for advice. My type library is huge (it needs to be cleaned out if I'm being honest). But I do have several typeface families that include multiple fonts. On my Windows 11 laptop, I use High-Logic's Maintype to manage fonts. In the example shown, this little file uses Noto Serif which is missing. So my questions are: 1. Is there an actual type/font manager (like in Publisher) for Designer wherein you can call up the dialogue? 2. Is there a way for Designer to tell you what "flavor" of the font you're looking for? In this case, there are 68 variants of Noto Serif (i.e., light, light condensed, bold, etc.). I'd prefer not to install all 68 fonts.

I searched for HEIC but didn't find anything relevant. Will search differently.

I honestly thought I had worked with HEIC files from my iPhone in Designer and Publisher, but out of nowhere I'm getting errors that says HEIC format is not supported? Does anyone else have this issue? I'm on Windows 11, Affinity version 2.5.6.

Not sure exactly how to describe the problem... at least once a day, the I-beam cursor will disappear when the text tool is selected and I'm moving my mouse. I believe it only disappears when hovering over a text frame. I first noticed it several months ago when I was trying to select some text and realized the cursor wasn't visible. Closing the app and restarting is the only thing that brings it back. Has anyone else experienced this?

Is it possible to use a linefeed as the stop point?

I boneheaded...

Certainly. I guess my question is when would you have a document with multiple pages per spread AND facing pages? Or is all of this because it's a workaround right now?

I hate to be thick headed, but I truly don't understand the use of facing pages in a multipage spread. You are literally defining individual pages (I keep using the trifold as an example) which is made of up of three individual pages in a single spread. Which pages are facing which in this case? The goal is simply to print the spread with all three pages in the order in which you set them. If you export spreads, that layout should export. If you export pages, you should get three separate pages. My gut tells me software engineers and not designers are developing this implementation.

Thanks for taking the time, but I'm not clear on what it is you're doing here. I have two issues: 1. If I manually page number the pages as in my post (see red numbers), printing is simple. However, if I want to print a PAGE, not a SPREAD, that isn't possible in the current print dialogue. 2. I can't export pages - only spreads - to PDF. And because of that and the issue above (i.e., page numbers are apparently assigned left to right, regardless of settings), I am unable to export a pdf of pages in order (red numbers) for sharing to read online.

This seems like an unnecessary step. Besides which I pretty much despise using Acrobat for printing - particularly imposed pieces. We have invested in a very high end color printer with binding and folding capability. On a simple trifold, we currently just print it, albeit manually laid out. My hope was that multi-page spreads would allow for both proper placement and output capability that was direct to printer so this additional step would be unnecessary. For example, below is a trifold done with multipage spreads. The document has six pages and two spreads. When I print, I would like it to follow the conventions in red (i.e., page 1 cover appears on the right, page 2 appears on the left, etc., so that system page numbers correspond with the actual placement. Then, when exporting for an online pdf version, the pages are exportable as separate pages - not spreads. This option is not available in the current export dialogue (2nd image).

Thanks. But I'm not exporting - I'm printing. So for example, if I want to print my trifold on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, how do I do that?