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Hey folks, I've noticed a problem in Affinity Photo 2, affecting both iPad and desktop versions, where changing a layer's fill opacity via the FX options from 100 % to anything between 100 and 0 % doesn't hide the layers contents as expected. Instead, the contents remain visible 100 % at all times. This seems similar to a previously mentioned, but seemingly solved issue with the 3D effect in Affinity Designer, indicating a possible consistent rendering issue with layer effects and fill opacity settings. To reproduce the Bevel / Emboss visibility issue, follow these steps: Open Affinity Photo 2 on either an iPad or desktop and create a new layer. On this layer, draw anything using any colour of your choice. Apply the Bevel / Emboss effect to the drawn layer. Reduce the layer's fill opacity to 0%. Expected Outcome: The layer contents should become invisible, leaving only the Bevel / Emboss effect visible. Actual Outcome: Despite reducing fill opacity to 0%, both the layer contents and the Bevel / Emboss effect remain visible, suggesting that the expected change in visibility does not occur. I'm looking for insights or workarounds from anyone who has encountered this. Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers Dennis

Latest ticket template 9.4x 6.6cm. everything created in Designer apart from Elvis image and creating the page numbering in and printing from publisher. Size is designed to give me an n-up print of 9 to an A4 page on a colour laser.

OK, this is a bit freaky, coming from a lazy one who dislikes even blanks at the end of paragraphs. Imagine you have to work with long lists / tables of words no dictionary could possibly know, but you don't want the Spelling Mistakes to appear in the Preflight Panel. You can now mark every "wrong" word and ignore / learn it, which could be a tedious work with lots of spelling mistakes. The easy way: Just select the text frame or paragraphs and set Spelling to None in the Character panel. So all "wrong" words magically disappear from the Preflight panel. You can still set the hyphenation to your desired language or use this method within Text Styles. Drawback of course is, that there could be mistakes in your text.

I've been trying to set up an automatic Table of Contents in my book, and it has caused me to crash 3 or 4 times within a short period. I don't know if my book is simply too big (13 documents, totalling 295 pages), but performance tanks when it has to re-index the ToC and sometimes it crashes.

About a year ago, I used the FUTURA font in my title and when I clicked on "fix" PDF, AFP2 added a carriage return for each word. Yesterday I encountered a new issue, all the dynamics are wrong. The final note should have a dynamic marking of mp. After clicking on "fix", they all went wonky instead. iMac >>> Music created in Sibelius. Exported to PDF. Imported into AFP2. Asked to click on "fix" >>> Resulting font problem.

This is an update 1.1 of project Akili. Which version do you prefer? Thanks. Tools: Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher Let's connect: https://www.behance.net/bah-is-life https://www.instagram.com/bah_is_life/

I was working on a project and I saved and closed it and then reopened it, changed something and while saving it crashed and from there on every time I change something and try to save, it crashes. I attached the crash report. Hope you can help! 189e5f35-6d6f-4fe8-ad36-5d111f8fba79.dmp

Dear team and members of the forum, please help! Every time that I use the Affinity Publisher 2 on my computer it keeps crashing. I have used the Affinity Publisher version 1 without a problem, but it started crashing when triggering several functionalities (as saving, exporting, fonts, etc) with the updates after that. Totally useless. So, I upgraded to version 2 with hope to stop the problem, but I am facing the same problem, especially when activating the undo function. Probably I will find more problems with this version as well, but I am so tired of not being able to work with affinity that I need some proper help. Here is a video where I explain the problem, but for some reason loom didnt record the crash itself. I frost the last image of the app before it happen. https://www.loom.com/share/7ce06c640cca4118a6cd5b25136515ad?sid=8210f06d-017b-4610-b4cd-13ad1f117247 Here is what I have tried already: - I am using the new version of AP2 - 2.3.1 (I have installed it yesterday), despite I have crashing problem with APV1 (except when I used the version 1.10.4, but it doesnt have the features that I need) - Turned off the first three option when clicked the ctrl key during the launch, - Hardware acceleration was already turned off - Unistalled all problematic updates in windows 10 and 11 identified in other posts of this forum. Now, I have basically none windows update, what is not safe at all, right? - I installed the last version of .NET (8.0) from the link you have provided above - I checked the firewall but it seems that it is not blocking the app. - I have no idea what to do now. Please, help! I upgraded to AP version 2 to see if I could stop the crashes, but I cannot work at all with it as well. Please, find attached the crash reports p.s: bare in mind when send some support that I dont understand nothing about coding or technical computer stuff. So, I appreciate to send instructions in the more clear way you can. Thank you in advance 356307cc-ccde-42d5-bc95-78e3e9589171.dmp 7457a752-8ce7-4e7f-af4a-e109174e0bcb.dmp aaf74613-4e03-4453-ae7d-7de52a2f7d47.dmp ff6236d2-803c-4f38-be08-aa7d0d081dca.dmp 76f65e27-db91-48c6-a51a-5bc26c7616b9.dmp a62af3fe-2109-40ff-8443-454c1a8069ca.dmp

Something curious is happening when I generate pages from data merge. The content on the first page of my document shifts down by approximately 0.22 inches with every generation. It's only happening on the first page - which doesn't contain any data fields. I've tried the page with and without a master applied. Locking the content makes no difference either. It's not difficult to sort out, I just realign the content after the final generate, but it makes me slightly nervous about how reliable the entire layout is after running a data merge.

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EDIT: I am on Windows 10 I have a pretty large afpub document I've been working in since before 2 came out. It had a working table of contents before this. I am familiar with the basics of how to make and use a table of contents and I have poured over youtube videos and the help manual looking for a solution for this issue. Issue: When I tried to update the (working) TOC, it returned to me the "no entries found" message. Ever since then, I have not been able to get a new ToC to populate. Here's what I have tried: - Restarted AfPub 2 (multiple times at this point) - deleted the text frame the toc was in, and started a new one from scratch - painstakingly changed every option in the ToC panel one at a time to see if any of them are the problem - searched the internet for every variation of "affinity publisher toc won't populate" that I could possibly think of, but none of it turned up anyone who is having this issue. Also this is weird, so I'm mentioning it in case it's possibly part of my problem somehow: Over in my text styles panels, new ToC styles keep appearing. I have no idea how these are cropping up, especially since I have not successfully gotten the ToC to work yet. In the screenshot of my text styles panel you can see several variations of TOC 1: Entry. When I first started trying to get my ToC to populate, the only things there were the [no style] options (nothing else at all.) Eventually TOC 1: Entry turned up and I was hoping that meant the TOC would work properly, but unfortunately that hasn't been the case. I have no idea how the two TOC styles labelled "accent text" were created. I don't think this is related to the problem but I thought it wouldn't hurt to mention it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.

Edit: Sorry, I've posted this in the wrong forum. Not sure how to move it. What are the pros and cons of creating the text frames for a long document on the master page versus creating them on the pages? I like the advantage that the text frames are in exactly the right position on every page based on the master, but I am finding text frames on master pages a little troublesome. Specifically, flowing by Shift + Clicking on the red triangle doesn't always seem to work. Might it have something to do with the "Unlinked Attributes: Text" message on the right-hand text frame layer?

Good day, I need your help in identifying this font. Here's a bit of history with this font. I bought this font package over 15+ years ago when I was using Adobe Indesign and running a windows machine. Over the next decade, I switched over to Mac computers and approx. 2018 started using Affinity publisher... I lost track of the whereabouts of this font package and would like to buy a copy to use with A. Publisher. Here are a few examples of some of the unique letter designs of this font package that I screen captured from an old document of mine. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and thanks for your help. All the best Greg

Is it possible to view two pages (facing pages) without checking Facing Pages in the Document Setup? I don't need two-page masters, and I'm hoping that single-page masters will avoid this problem which Affinity has not explained. But I would still like to see facing pages on my monitor for convenience.

I think I have the leading set exactly to 26pt, so why is there a text override on the style? Thanks in advance for educating me.

I've created a facing master page with data merge, which almost works as I'd like it to. Because the first page in my document is on the right, the Publisher always generates the second record first. I've tried changing to a negative record offset, but that doesn't work. Is there a way to show the first record on the right hand page?

Latest brochure for our local in door Bowls club. Work mastered in Publisher with the use of APhoto as well

Hello! I've got a question and I am hoping someone here can help get me started / point me in the right direction - either with an existing resource or some tips on where to start! Using Affinity Publisher on Mac OS (latest version of both Publisher and MacOS). I am re-designing and updating a member directory for a church - their last one was from 2016, so everything is changing. But I'd like this new one to be something that's relatively easy to maintain, update, and reprint each year going forward. I am assuming the best way to do this would be with Publisher's data merge capabilities and an exerternal spreadsheet they maintain (so I can export as a CSV and merge into the Publisher doc that I'll keep myself). I've attached an image of the 2 of the 3 types of sections in the directory to give you an idea of what I'm looking to do. First section: An alphabetized (last name, first) grid layout, with each cell containing a photo, followed by the names of the people in the photo underneath - Parent(s) with last name on one line, with first names of kids below. I am hoping the photo can be brought in with a path to the image in the CSV like possible in InDesign? Second section: An alphabetized (last name, first) grid layout, with each cell containing the names of the family members, their email(s), physical address, and phone number(s).This needs to start on a new page, regardless of where the first section ends. And it will be separated alphabetically by each letter of the alphabet, but only if it exists. IE. I don't want a title section for "X" if there are no entries that start with X (See attached image for example from last directory - I'd like each letter to follow the previous one as in the picture). Third Section: A list of birthdays followed by anniversaries separated by each month. This will start on a new page, regardless of where the first section ends. I learn quick and I'm technically savvy, I just don't really know where to begin here - I'm reading up on data merge capabilities and watching some videos, but I'm struggling to figure out some of the more complicated things. Is this possible with Publisher? I'm happy to set up the Excel spreadsheets as required to generate the CSV files properly etc. Thanks in advance, Mike

Hi, I have an interesting problem. I needed a shape in Publisher that wasn't available in the available shape collection available in Publisher, but does exist in OmniGraffle, so I created an OmniGraffle document, dragged in the shape from OmniGraffle's stencil collection, copied it, and then pasted it into my Publisher document. Surprisingly, it worked, but it was imported as a group of three objects ("Curves", "Curve", and "Object"). By experimentation, I found that only one of the objects allowed me to insert an image inside it in Publisher, so I deleted the other two unneeded objects. This is working fine, with the exception that when the shape is "right side up" in Publisher, its rotation property shows a 180 degree rotation. Visually, this doesn't pose a problem, but a side-effect of this is that when I set the shape's text wrap setting to "Jump", the effects of the "Distance from Text" values visually work the opposite from what one would expect (increasing "Top" would push text away from the visual "bottom" of the shape. As a workaround, I solved this problem by inverting the shape in OmniGraffle before pasting it into Publisher, but I'm curious as to whether there's a way to "reset" the rotation of a shape from within Publisher, so intuitive behavior of the "Distance from Text" would occur for a shape that's being used inverted from its typical orientation. Thanks, Ken RightSideUpShapeWith180DegreeRotation.afpub

Hi, Sometimes text are revised after having been out in page. The comparison between the amended text and the older one is to be done manually. However, Affinity Publisher could compare the placed text and the file containing the amended text. It could the update the existing text with the file, and preserve the text styles already applied. Identical text will get the same styles. Similar, but changed text will be recognized by fuzzy matching, and preserve the allied styles. The above procedure might even be redundant if Publisher could export a DOCX file containing all the text styles. This document could be immediately sent to the original author, and be the one that would eventually be edited. The exported document could even preserve all the unique features of the placed text — bookmarks, side notes, page breaks, sections, cross references, and so on. Paolo

Hi all, I am starting a project with 60 pages and several hundred images. I would love to be able to get them all into the Assets panel and then drag them onto pages from there but, when I go to Place and grab a load of images, it demands I add them all right away. If I could get them into Assets first and then drag them on from there, that would be a great way to ensure they don't get added twice, if you see what I mean. Is this in any way possible?

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Hi folks! I wanted to report a bug I encountered yesterday and found my fix for. Upon launching any of the three programs, they would get stuck with just the splash screen saying "Initializing..." until the following message appeared: Naturally, this was confusing, as all Affinity programs were working just fine the day before when I'd updated them, and I've never touched my firewall settings! My setup and required details: Computer Specs OS: Windows 11 Home, version 22H2, OS Build 22621.3007 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz RAM: 16.0 GB System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Using all three programs, Photo, Designer, and Publisher Using the latest release versions (2.3.1) Yes, I reproduced it, and found the issue + workaround (see below) What I tried (without success): Restarting my PC Uninstalling and re-installing all Affinity Products Once with the MSIX installer and "app" Once with the EXE installer and "programs" Adjusting and opening up my Firewall settings Today (as I post this) I have found the issue: Hidden Folders! Many programs on my PC have created folders on my PC at C:\Users\[my username] that start with a dot; as I understand it, these are common with cross-platform programs and normally get hidden by Mac OSX and Linux machines, but not necessarily by Windows, and they were starting to clutter my User directory, so I marked them and the contents inside as hidden. Shortly after, my problem above began. As soon as I un-hid the folder C:\Users\[my username]\.affinity, lo and behold, the programs started right up, and when I hid the folder again, the issue returned. My other PC running a different AMD setup with Windows 11 had the exact same issue when I hid and unhid the .affinity folder. Possible cause in the program: According to a Stack Overflow page I found while looking up how to hide the folders in the first place (as well as another page with further details linked from there), it appears that if a Windows program calls CreateFile with the CREATE_ALWAYS flag but no definition for FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN, operations will fail on hidden files. While I can't speak to what the Affinity programs are doing while initializing, I imagine the issue could be this, or something similar. I hope this is helpful for others who have a similar problem, and for Affinity developers to hopefully fix the issue when it's possible to do so.

In publisher, if I search for a text, the found text is highlighted in grey: If, however, I select the text myself, it's highlighted in light blue. On my Mac, the system highlight color is set to orange. So where is Publisher getting the grey and blue colors from, and how do I change them? Thanks.

Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 Windows 10 22H2 19045.3930 With pad/merge AP will attempt to add/merge pages to maintain correct left/right page layout between chapters (or at least that's what it appears to do). One would expect that when AP adds a page that the new page would have the first master page from the selected style source chapter applied to it. But this does not happen. To the contrary, a completely blank page is inserted to pad which really just ruins the layout of any particular book rendering the Book feature a non-feature. The tool should at a minimum apply the first master page found in the style source chapter to the new page inserted to accomplish the padding. A better option would be to allow selecting which master page should be applied from the style source chapter. This seems to be a basic oversight on the part of the feature planning department. Its hard to imagine actually being able to use the Book feature in its current state to go directly to a published book. PS. I have read the several threads in the other forums regarding a number of issues with the Book tool. This one fix would seem to address several of the symptoms described in those threads.