Thomahawk

Thanks Meb. I see. So this means, that option is only possible when working with one single page. Too bad.

Designer 1.7.2 on OSX Mojave Luckily, recently I stumbled upon "not limit to canvas" in "view modus" menu of Publisher (sorry if I don't have the right English equivalent on those, I see it in German). I was positively surprised and looked for that option in Designer. It is there, but I have yet to find in which situation it is getting available, because until now, its always grayed out and I can not choose it. Any idea why it stays not usable? Having the possibility to have objects placed outside for later use or trying things, would be a real big help.

I would rather suggest to make it working, then to apply an annoying beep on top of the problem. As it works with the same image just inside a group, instead of just not do anything when the users wants it to do something, why not make it work? And if, for some internal, for the user not understandable reason, its not possible to do it on just the pixel image, at the moment of using the glass, it would automatically put it into a group (maybe issue an assistent message to say what it did) and apply the desired transparency. This way it does not leave the user baffled, thinking about why the tool suddenly does not do what it is usually doing.

Sorry, walt. Yes, this was a mistake.

Publiehr 1.7.2 on Mac OS X I very like the fact that I can copy an object and when place it on another page, its placed at the very same location. Unfortunately, on double pages it does not work, it always places it on the left page, even when I make sure, the right page is active, or even when I select something on the right page, the pasted object from another page always lands on the left page. Greetings Thom

Thank you, MEB. Thats valued information. I will need time to adjust to all that. And then, despite being copy paste images, hence pixel layers, when grouped, the Transparency Tool works on them nevertheless. It's all very difficult to grasp. Regards Thom

Publisher 1.7.2 on Mac OSX I still don't understand why sometimes the transparency (glass) tool work on an image and sometimes not. And I dont see the difference, I always have the images embedded. Strangely, when I group an image, it suddenly works. I dont see the logic here. Also I dont understand, why many images I place on the page (often copy paste from af Photo) are not treated the same like embedded images. (I understand the difference between images in image frame and directly placed images - only image frame can place the images linked without increasing Publisher filesize, but its still all pretty confusing). Most images dont appear in the resources window. I dont see the difference here either between embedded and copy paste image... Has someone some insight on this?

Me too +1

Okay, some advice here for FreeHand users: As you certainly experienced, Affinity Designer can open FreeHand files, but the result is only usable for the most simple of files. But if you export your file from FreeHand in Adobe Illustrator format, Af Designer can open that and the result is very good. If you can get your hands on a copy of AI CS4 (it stills works under OSX Mojave, while FreeHand only works up to 10.6.8 or under newer versions inside Parallells) you can open FreeHand files directly with AI under Mojave, save as AI file and then open that in Af Designer and the result is very good.

Thanks Lee D, I placed a request in feedback.

Publisher 1.7.2 on Mac OSX I am often using the option key to quickly override snap (magnetic positioning) when moving objects. But just slightly hitting it to early makes it duplicate the object instead and that happens accidentally all the time. I really do not ever need such a duplicate function on that key. There is a command-key for that. As others pointed out in the other forum section, there seems to be no option to turn it off. So I would like to suggest such an option. Thanks, Thom

Well, the alternative would be if there is another key to use for quickly circumvent magnetic snap. But I had not found one yet.

Publisher 1.7.2 on Mac OSX I am often using the option key to quickly override snap (magnetic positioning) when moving objects. But just slightly hitting it to early makes it duplicate the object and that also happens all the time. I really do not ever need this duplicate function. Can I deactivate that somewhere? Thanks Thom

Thank you Dan. You were right. Despite I always set document colour right at the beginning, and I am sure I checked it again when I first had this problem – the document colour profile was wrong! Now it works. Thanks again Thom

I am exporting from publisher 1.7.2 for CMYK offset print. Document color setting is cmyk I set a global black 100% K only and overprint. Text color is set with that I Export PDF with cmyk separation, x-4 or x-1a, coated fogra 27 Check result in Acrobat, all text is a combination of colors like 71c 71m 65y 77k I have no clue why all of a sudden this does not work anymore! I have a document here that created before the 1.7.2 update and export still works fine with black separation... so I am really at a loss here.

Affinity Photo 1.7.2 / Mac Mojave Is there a possibility to set the initial zoom factor to, for example, 100%? Every time I open a document, it displays at different zoom factors, always filling the window. That is especially annoying with small images and makes efficient handling difficult. I could not find a setting for this in preferences.

Honestly - the interface in general ist not very user friendly. I have stumbled over such problems with affinity software countless times now. Things that are not logical not intuitive, not even to me who has been software testing for Macworld for 20 years.

Gosh. PixelPest, you are right. All this time, I checked that "Schützen" (protect) ist not active. Hidden on the right side >> I would never have thought that, I would not look for something I think I already see. There is another "protect" that is for transparency. I have used protect transparency before.

No, thats the brush itself. You see in tools, Brush is active, not selectionbrush.

That page in the screenshot had nothing on it, so, all transparent. On another image, I made a part transparent. Here it does paint over the image part, but not over the transparent part. Which should only happen if "protect transparency" was on. But it is not on.

After Affinity Photo update to 1.7.2 (on Mac os x 10.14.6 mojave) I can not paint anymore. I dont see any setting that would prevent this. No selection. Pixel layer active. No protected transparency. Brush and color set well. Nothing happens when painting.

I may have to specify: When I change left intend, which was autom. set at 6mm, it does not change the first line that starts with the bullet. That one still stays at 6mm.

Well, it does this autom. in Publisher, right. But the bullets are 6mm away. In my case that is too far. And as first line indent is not able to go negative values - I see not how to adjust this. Or is there another way?

Too bad. Morph, together with a real Warp Tool in Designer are enormously needed. These are really essential basic tools in a vector app! AfD is no real competitor to AI without those.

Is there a function to morph lines into each other? In FreeHand, make two or more lines, hit the "mixing" tool and get something like this: