Ray S.

Hello JGPorter,
I've downloaded your file and it works just the way you've described. Doubleclick on the front book cover layer, and Photo opens a new document called "Embedded" where you can add your design.

If I drag a JPG-file on the Publisher-Icon on my Windows-Desktop it opens. I find this is the simplest method to open a jpg-file. Maybe you should tell us how you are trying to open that jpg-file, or provide a screenshot or a short capture-video. You could also upload the file so others can prove that the file isn't corrupted.
Besides that, there is no need to yell and not every program in the world can open a jpg-file.

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I've had a hard time adjusting the brush to act in a natural way for drawing. I've compared with mainly photoshop and sketchbook pro and posted numerous reports about this. There are a few issues like jagged lines on low zoom levels and general inconsistent behaviour of hardness and size. Things you only notice when drawing or writing by hand on a tablet or Cintiq.
Now I think I found what causes the latter! I was able to isolate what is going on by setting the shape to a narrow ellipse and the stroke to large spacing. Look what the preview shows. There are 2 things going on here:
1 Inconsistent size toward the beginning/ending of the stroke, causing a sort of 'arrow head' effect
2 The increase of the amount of dots towards the ending is too steep. Meaning the spacing between the dots in the end is near zero and in the middle pretty large. Some decay in spacing is useful since the relative spacing between dots should stay the same. But it seems that AP does not take the dot size into account and at certain settings the decay is much to steep, causing too many dots to overlap. I noticed that in photoshop and sketchbook pro this decay is far less and generally in better balance with the shape size. This presumably results in their smoother line behaviour. One result of this steep decay in AP is that soft lines are much harder in the endings than in the middle and pressure sensitivity feels a bit 'off'.
All in all this explains the strange behaviour I was experiencing. This arrowhead effect is nearly invisible in the preview when the shapes are rounder, but in practice I always notice the inconsistent line behaviour because of this. 
Affinity photo:

A drawn line to show it's not just the preview:

 
photoshop:

sketchbook

 
lastly look at this soft line and how hard it gets near the endings. The steep decrease of dot spacing is what causes this. 

 
In all examples these are the dynamics settings:

In my opinion two things need to change:
1 The arrow head behaviour is just off and needs to be fixed.
2 The spacing between the dots needs to be rebalanced in order to have a consistent line behaviour throughout different settings of spacing, dynamics, hardness etc. Generally speaking the dot SPACING needs to be in balance with the dot SIZE and SHAPE. E.g. the thinner part of a pressure sensitive line should be equally soft as the broader part of the line. Also when pressure sensitivity is set to linear, the line thickness change should also be linear. This is currently not the case and my guess is the inconsistent dot spacing causes this. 
I hope this helps refine the brush behaviour for AP!
 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.2
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.1) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized artboards or groups Fixed crash with Vector Brush Tool when the Appearance panel is open and undoing a brush stroke and selection changes to an object that had no linestyle  Fixed failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory Fixed specific Print Profile crash Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected  Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects  Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers  Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang.. Help and Localisation improvements Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer Windows update announcement 
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.2
The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.1 are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
General
Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash Fix for Replace Image moving Picture Frame content unnecessarily Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.) Open PDF swaps top and bottom bleeds Failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups Fixed crash when placing assets containing Artboards Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode Asset Pack list sorting improved. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Data Merge Manager could crash on 'Generate' under certain circumstances Several stability improvements in response to issues with specific documents  Create palette from document was only using the current spread Fixed possible crash reparenting anchors in the Anchor Panel. Bleed was not honoured for placed Artboards Scaling issues with placed Artboards Tool not updated correctly when Zooming (Win) Added F15 / F16 shortcuts for Tablet Zoom (Win) Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) (Win) Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings (Win) Fixed crash when embedding a document listed as missing content in the Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash when attempting to open a file with links to images containing disallowed path characters (from e.g. macOS) (Mac) Fixed gradient transparency not working with images on M1 (Mac) Showing a studio page should unhide the application UI (Mac) Fixes issues with numeric entry fields in some non-English locales. Document /Spread
Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI Business card templates shouldn't be facing page Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread Fixed Bleed inconsistency that could occur when 'Adding Pages from File...' (Mac) New Document Templates are now alphabetically ordered (Mac) Fixed bleed / margin colour tooltips Text
Grouped Text in Assets could change scale when placed Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]" Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work Implemented OpenType Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitutions (e.g. Iosevka Font) Fixed crash when a custom wrap shape outline has been converted to text Pinned nodes could be wrongly moved into overflow Redraw issue resizing Table with insets RTF Import: Paragraph style from footnote destination was leaking into main text Typography Panel fails to display certain properties Improvements when copying text as Unicode. Also renamed 'Normalize Breaks' to 'Preserve Unicode Breaks' in Preferences (Mac) Font Size drop menu now sends updates when keys are used as well as mouse  (Mac) Hyperlinks containing spaces at the end of the URL broken (Mac) Hyperlink button can be incorrect disabled (Mac) Anchor dialog doesn't display correctly on older macOS (Mac) Edit Text Style dialog list truncated on Big Sur (Win) Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows Import / Export / Resources
Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document Missing Content Status for placed PDFs Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies Linked Documents (EPS, SVG, AF) sometimes displayed the PDF Passthrough options Fixed crash when replacing Image Resource with Raw Fixed issue replacing Picture Frame images for Master Page Frames (mac) Prevent overwriting a Package on document close (mac) Fix for Export More > Preset menu being disabled  
Changes, improvements and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Publisher Windows update announcement 
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.2
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.2 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.1) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Improved hardware acceleration with live filters Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Fixed Canon D90 + EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens not being identified  Added lens corrections & LensType mappings for Irix 11mm F4 and Irix 150mm F2.8 lenses  Added support for Adobe Lens Correction Profiles  Improved performance of Export and Merge Visible for documents with lots of live filters by working in larger tiles Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard. Improved Lens Correction identification Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as ".afluts" files Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory Fixed specific Print Profile crash Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected  Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects  Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers  Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo Windows update announcement 
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.2.1014 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update from the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Fixed crash when replacing Image Resource with Raw Fixed issue replacing Picture Frame images for Master Page Frames Grouped Text in Assets could change scale when placed Create palette from document was only using the current spread Bleed was not honoured for placed Artboards Scaling issues with placed Artboards Creating an Asset Category whilst using 'Name' sort order will cause subsequent subcategory to be created in the wrong category Asset Pack list sorting only happens on asset creation and not rename or import. Tool not updated correctly when Zooming ---
Release Notes for 1.9.2.1009
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Hello seacat,
in the toolbar go to the Alignment Button, there you'll find the options for how-to-align-to what.

Ctrl+Shift+Alt + V is pasting with no format, have you tried Ctrl + Shift + V or Ctrl + Alt +V?

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.2.1009 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update from the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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More fixes for Replace Image transform issues Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash ---
Release Notes for 1.9.2.1006
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Hello Greg,
what OS (Mac or Win) and what app are you using? On Win10 with designer 1.9.1 and photo 1.9.1 the canvas rotation work as excpected.

You don’t actually need a rectangle or other additional curve. Select the existing curve and press ‘Add’ to add it to itself (or ‘Intersect’ to intersect it with itself, if you prefer).
Tip courtesy of somebody or other!

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Fixed crash with Vector Brush Tool when the Appearance panel is open and undoing a brush stroke and selection changes to an object that had no linestyle  Fixed failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory Fixed specific Print Profile crash Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected  Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects  Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers  Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Benchmark thread - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/137515-benchmark-1920-results/Changes
 
Improved hardware acceleration performance Improved Lens Correction identification Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as ".afluts" files Fixed LUT Adjustment being slow to respond after importing LUT  Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory Fixed specific Print Profile crash Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected  Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects  Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers  Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang Previous release notes

@Patrick Connor
ah ok, so I have misinterpreted the rules. Thank you for clearing this. It was not my intention to bother anyone.

@Ray S.
Wir haben diesen Beitrag genehmigt, da er keine der Richtlinien verletzt. Jürg Peter bietet eine Zahlung für Hilfe an, was in Ordnung ist, und bittet nicht um Zahlung für Dienstleistungen (was nicht der Fall ist).

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.2.1006 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update from the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Fixes
General
Fix for Replace Image moving Picture Frame content unnecessarily
Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.)
Open PDF swaps top and bottom bleeds
Failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight
Added F15 / F16 shortcuts for Tablet Zoom
Text
Implemented OpenType Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitutions (e.g. Iosevka Font)
Fixed crash when a custom wrap shape outline has been converted to text
Pinned nodes could be wrongly moved into overflow
Redraw issue resizing Table with insets
RTF Import: Paragraph style from footnote destination was leaking into main text
Typography Panel fails to display certain properties
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Hello Jonesy21,
I'am not sure if I had understood your first question correctly, but you can change the "selection-behavior" in the preferences.

 
To cut a line: you can delete segments (the part between two nodes) by pressing Ctrl (or its aquivalent on mac) and clicking on that segment when the node tool is used.
To rotate the artboard you have to hold down "alt" and scrub the mousewheel.
And finally: here is no limit to ask questions, so if there is anything to ask do so. 

Connect the two straight lines with the boolean add (layer/Geometry/add).

@Ray S. Thank you for this suggestion – and the roundabout reminder to update to 1.9 as I couldn't find those options in the Select Menu. I think these options might help with some of my confusion.

Also try the "Select same..." and "Select Object..." Features under the Select-Menu.

It is wholly unfair to compare Affinity to all of these powerhouse companies, which, considering the resources and workforce they have to hand then include the longevity of development these companies have invested makes it a disadvantaged comparison at best. 
Maybe Affinity should sell version 3 of each app for £300 in line with Corel and give you what you want, would that be acceptable? or maybe the the £500 that Corel is asking for there suite of programs and then the push to subscription when you want to upgrade or be pushed to pay full price again for the next major release.
What about a Pro version with all the bells and whistles a pro could possibly want for £600 per major release would that be worth it?
I doubt it. The offers Affinity were putting out at approx £75 for all three desktop apps were amazing value.
Affinity bang for buck are way ahead of the market, workarounds included.

Hello ConnieR,
you have to "rasterize & trim" after you have cropped.

@Maan, you should post it in the "feature requests & suggestions"-section.