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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by Alfred
I would be interested in your experience in affinity.studio (it isn't Affinity Studio, the A is lower case)
The ‘a’ in the logo is lowercase, and (like all domain names) ‘affinity.studio’ is lowercase, but Affinity is written with a capital ‘A’ everywhere else on the site.
Hi Alfred, I didn't look at the line spacing on the tests I did at 12pt but is was noticable that the the Arial superscripts were smaller than the Verdana when inserted into a Verdana paragraph, and did not increase the line spacing.
I think the bottom line is that sometimes it’ll work without tweaking and sometimes it won’t. It all depends on the font metrics.
It looks like the Energy 4 is Verdana and the ideas 4 is Arial.
Thanks for your observation, Joe. I think you’re right, and that difference explains the issue which the OP has been struggling with. If I place the cursor in a block of text set in 36pt Arial and choose the ’Paragraph…’ option on the Text menu, the default line spacing is shown as 42.750 pt; if I do the same with a block of text set in 36pt Verdana, the default line spacing is shown as 44.250 pt. Changing the line spacing from ‘Single’ to ‘Exactly’ allows me to set the value to 42.750 pt, and the lines close up accordingly.
Is there a workaround to prevent WebPlus from adding space above the line to accommodate superscripts in "text, character, superscripts"? In the image below "Organic Energy" has a superscript from Arial a year or two ago, but "Physical Energy" has a new superscript added today. Notice the extra linespace above the superscript "4".
I can’t reproduce the extra line space here, but looking more closely at the screenshot I can see that the superscript 4 after “Physical Energy” isn’t the same as the superscript 4 after “ideas”.
it's still a lot of work to move all the numbers into one place, in the selected character line at the bottom of the page
The place to which you move them doesn’t have to be that ‘selected character’ line. You can simply insert the numbers into a text frame, and then move the frame to the pasteboard or the Assets tab.
BTW: as far as I tested it, it does have new problems.
Did you mean to say it doesn’t have new problems? If you really meant ‘does’, it would be very helpful to know what problems you’ve found so far.
Apparently WebPlus X8 is not Unicode compliant.
Both PagePlus and WebPlus had Unicode support added at version X5. To insert a superscript 4, type its Unicode hex value U+2074 (or simply 2074 without the leading ‘U+’) and then choose the ‘Toggle Character Code’ option from the Text menu; the keyboard shortcut for that command is Shift+Alt+X on my WPX8 installation.
A welcome dialog or ‘splash screen’ is standard, but what is non-standard is the inability to suppress it.
Like many Affinity V1/V2I users didn't get on the Canva train.
“V2I”? I’m guessing that you had finger trouble there, Chris, and that what you actually meant to type was “Like many Affinity V1/V2 users I didn't get on the Canva train.”
To be usable, you need photo with a dark UI and publisher with a light UI.
Depending on the kind of photo work you’re doing, the ambient lighting may be more important than whether the UI is light or dark. But DTP definitely needs a light UI option (preferably on by default for most of us, although if it’s a ‘set and forget’ toggle then it doesn’t really matter what the devs choose as the installation default).
PaoloT wrote:Light mode removed from the UI…
Extremely annoyed about that!!!!
A retrograde step if ever there was one!! The fact that the Light UI Mode was warmly welcomed when it was added to the original desktop Affinity apps, together with the continual complaints from those of us who want the same option in the iPad apps, is a clear signal that users want more such options rather than fewer.
Is it ok to show fliers etc that I have done in Affinity photo also? Vicki
I can’t see why not.
EDIT: Doh! I found it the second I posted ...
’Twas ever thus!
Can't wait to get my new glasses from Specsavers!!!
LOL!!
ErrkaPetti wrote:Pretty annoying that we have to wait +8 month for the iPad version of the new 3.0 of Affinity by Canva…
Ash said early next year, so where did you get 8+ months from?
Eight months from now is the beginning of July, but even the beginning of June isn’t what most people would regard as ‘early’ next year. I wouldn’t expect to be kept waiting beyond March or April.
Before and after trick-or-treating:
Change size to around 8pt.
That’s too big, of course, if it’s in a block of 8 or 9 point text! Generally speaking, superscripts and subscripts should be around 70% or 75% of the size of the body text.
How did you download 2.6.4? I only saw 2.6.5 downloads as being available.
Please see my post here.
'the intention was always to roll the three apps into one eventually.'
Hmmm, I don't remember them telling me that when I coughed up for the three seperate apps...?
No one has said anything about the stated intention! 
I wouldn’t get too hung up on version numbers! With Serif’s original ‘flagship’ DTP application, PagePlus, PagePlus X2 was version 12 and PagePlus X8 was version 18, but (because of their slower pace of development) WebPlus X8 was version 16 and DrawPlus X8 was version 14.
The important practical point here is that — just as DrawPlus X8 can open files saved from DrawPlus X5 and X6 — Affinity version 3 can open files saved from versions 1 and 2.
It reminded me of Dr Watson ... It's a brilliant touch, though - smacks of the old Serif you and I know.
LOL. Why am I reminded of Max Headroom? 
Also, as noted, the change in file format. It isn't Affinity V3 format, it is a new Canva format. Affinity V2 formats were a progression of V1 the new af format is completely different.
Perhaps I’m missing something here — it wouldn’t be the first time! — but I don’t see a substantial difference in practice. Serif Affinity version 1 apps can’t open Serif Affinity version 2 files, and none of the Serif Affinity apps can read the new Canva Affinity format.
Some of the later versions of Serif’s ‘Plus’ applications were patched to enable them to open files saved from even newer versions — so that, for example, version X6 could open files saved from version X8 — but I can’t imagine anything like that happening with the Affinity version 1 or 2 apps.
Image taken on a Samsung S21 Ultra and enhanced in Affinity Photo.
Good composition and a great end result, Vicki! It would be nice to see the ‘straight out of camera’ version to enable fuller appreciation of the work you put into it.
Hope this is what this topic was for.
This is exactly the kind of thing this forum is for: sharing any work where AI tools were not involved in the process.
Oh, OK, so slightly more general than Crafter Syndrome! 
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