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My comment was not specific to Serif, nor to Affinity help files, but to the challenges in assembling non-linear help files. A technical book is a major undertaking, but easier to manage than help files. Easier, at least, to assess coverage. There are good, common sense approaches to attempting to manage coverage in help, but those I have seen are simply disciplines, and depend on the use of separate tools, usually search tools, for their success. I will continue to assert that the quality of documentation has deteriorated in the industry at large, since printed manuals ceased to be produced. Most help files are designed for reference use, not for learning. To that degree, Affinity help is better than many I have seen.

I had not found all the settings, but the key item seems to be setting Controller to Pressure. Thanks!

I do. It is an XP-Pen product, with the latest driver installed. Works fine with Krita, which doesn't specify support for my model, but does list other XP-Pen products. With Affinity Designer 2.2, it does not respond to pressure.

It is a sad reality, too, that the non-linear composition of help files all but guarantees skimpy exposition and poor coverage.

Will there be support in future for pen pressure when using tablets other than Wacom? This would seem to be a driver issue, largely external to the application. I know that tools such as Krita support a broad range of tablets. Asking because my need for a tablet is not sufficient to justify paying for a Wacom.

OK. Unknown territory for me, so I must feel my way through. Thanks for the assistance!

Good. And how is it done?

The exact content is not essential. The attached scan should be sufficient as an example. In this instance, I want the pencil lines isolated to a layer, but if the ruled lines may illustrate a different aspect of the technique, then I would like to see with those, as well. Thanks for your help!

I am quite new to using Affinity Photo, sorry if this is something which should be obvious. I have a photo of a drawing with hand drawn lines on paper. The paper also has ruled lines on it. I want to separate the hand drawn lines and move them to a layer. The contrast in the image is poor, but using auto contrast lifts background noise too much. Frequency separation seems promising, but I have not yet found anything which will isolate the lines I want without a large amount of tedious work. Thanks,

There are varieties of color blindness. And though I am sure there are color blind users of Publisher, I cannot but wonder how effective they could be in working with Designer or Photo, and without regard to icon colors. There are work areas in which not all can be capable, despite current fashion.

Just installed Affinity Publisher v2 and did not find it stated anywhere whether placed text can be a linked resource, or must be contained in the file. I am hoping it can be linked, but suspect not.

Yes, from the perspective of book and layout, and being able to focus more on the writing than on the formatting. That said, publishing on certain services is a <cough> challenge. When a service specifies that they accept PDF, that is only the beginning of a specification. If they really mean PDF/X-1a, then they should plainly state that. If a file is uploaded which is no to that standard, telling the producer that it has "interior corruption" is not a useful response. I lost a month trying to guess the real issue, or even to get an actual technical response.

I just published a 480 page technical book using LaTeX, and the kaobook template. It was not without challenges, but once I learned the way to handle things, I was able to obtain a very nice result. And it does not look like a textbook. Early on, that was a common complaint, as the handling of styles is intended to make spontaneous alterations difficult, in the interest of a coherent design. You need to visit ctan.org, and also search for templates. There is also abundant peer support available. I would really like to use Affinity Publisher, but I need footnotes, and in this book I also used marginnotes.

Slow as I have been on my own book, I could not wait. Won't rent Adobe, so have been using LaTeX. I've learned more of its internals than I wanted, but the results are very pleasing to me. And yes, I would prefer to use AP, but I need the features of ID, so I had few options.

Though it looks useful, on my machine the dragging of a pin seems not to work. When I click the pin, it immediately is inserted at the top left corner of the text frame to which it links. When I click on the placed pin, I do not see the circle that would indicate the drag is enabled. Could this interact with some other settings? This is under Windows 10, though I would be surprised to learn that it works on Mac and not in Windows....