Dazmondo77

I'm with Walt, although, I really don't understand all the app switching malarky when studiolink is such a workflow revelation - I do all my vector work, photo work and layout work all in Pub and only need to open Designer once, when there's an update, so pub can access all designers features (apart from export persona) and only use Photo for working with RAWs in develop and tone mapping personas and the occasional liquify, everything else is done in Publisher it's just great to have 95% of the full suites features and tools all in one app

I'm on Monterey which works great. I wonder why postscript and CMYK isn't supported in Sonoma? Surely it's enabled in Acrobat pro?

My guess is you're having colour shift problems because you're printing from Affinity and Apple preview which print decent enough to consumer inkjets but pretty poor printing to laser printers or anything with a postscript rip. I'd recommend printing your pdf from free Adobe reader which can handle CMYK properly.

To be honest Walt, it was a bit annoying to use at times as there was no window tiling / snapping and when opening lots of files, some would sit under the top tool bar, and when trying to resize windows, which needed to be done manually, most of the time, windows would tab together with no way to switch it off. All it needed was a few tweaks and it would have been a pleasure to use

I set tickets up on an SRA3 sheet and auto number them via Bullets and numbering in the paragraph panel which works really well see vid: Screen Grab 2024-07-04 at 4.06.38 pm.mov

I think this is maybe to do with when Designer was Mac only, and separation mode was always the standard mode on mac, even back in the 80's, and from what I gather, windows needs apps to be contained within an application window (I've not used windows for years so I could be wrong?) so I'm guessing for cross platform consistency in V2, they made the choice of downgrading the mac version, to match Win and iPad, I'm pretty sure someone more knowledgable than me has previously raised this in a early V2 post after mac user complaints.

I just discovered this tip from lacerto which is a workaround for getting around manually renaming a spot colours Affinity global name, if you need to see pantone spot numbers in your document palette

Although separation mode in V1 wasn't perfect, it was really handy when working on lots of jobs, when using mission controls application windows shortcut (I have F10) which Like PS, minimises all affinity files to previews, allowing an easy way of finding and switching to what you want which was so handy. I hate having to ctrl tab through 30 affinity tabs to get what I want to work on. I also often need side by side comparisons, and float view is horrible to work with, separation mode was much better and more natural, all it needed was a way to tile / arrange windows and switch off the annoying auto tabbing when moving widows around

lacerto -- nice tip, which I'll steal, with your blessing?

If you want to keep everything vector, duplicate the group, select all in the group and boolean unify, set fill and stroke to zero and drag your shadow inside what is essentially a clipping path which you should then group with the original group see vid grab: Screen Grab 2024-07-02 at 10.59.19 am.mov

I use a Magic Mouse and using Alt + scroll works great for me for zooming in and out and just seems second nature

Not seen anyone mention proper inline, flowing tables or printable/PDFable slug area.

STUDIOLINK?!?!?!

I'm super chuffed that serif announced that multipage spreads is somewhere in the pipeline, which will make life so much easier for me and I'm sure many other users. In the meantime here's a trifold template (workaround) I knocked up quite a while back, the bleed is setup in the page area with master guides and all the trim and reg marks ar set within 12mm bleed so as long as you output with 12mm bleed your pdf should read as expected Trifold 12mm bleed.aftemplate

I remember reporting this when the appearance panel was first introduced years ago in v1 as I always start a project with a set of globals, I've just got used to creating additional strokes on separate layers as a workaround, so not a massive deal of me, although It would be really handy if it worked as expected and also would be great to be able to have multi strokes on text