Ros. Riha

Thanks, @emmrecs01, for the advice, and thanks, @Callum: you were right, it was the driver. It was not possible to uninstall it as Jeff suggested, uninstall always resulted in BSOD. To whom it may concern: The culprit was the app Duet Display. Once I uninstalled it, I was able to update the GPU driver and everything works as it should from then on

Thanks for the advice, Callum. That is what I already did, as mentioned in the original post: I made sure my drivers are up to date: Once the problem occured, I checked and updated the driver. Just to clarify: Affinity products did work flawlessly prior the Windows update. I am using HP SPectre x360, Intel HD Graphics 520. Any other suggestions?

After Win 10 updated, none of Affinity apps works: It opens, but there are no icons, no toolbars...nothing. Hovering mouse over places, where menus are, causes them to pop, but none of commands works: I wanted to open preferences to fix things, but nothing happened. Affinity Photo opens as a white screen, mouse button makes "ding, ding", once I hit escape, I can at least click upper right corner and the app closes... Tried to reinstall/uninstall/restart/install to no avail. My OS is up to date, so are drivers. I tried to open the app with Ctrl button to no avail... please, help, I am lost. Please, find attached screenshot of the Publisher: achieved by doubleclicking the older file, that made that opening advertisement to go away a enabled blind-hitting of the menu

Thanks, Dominik - it works, so consider this topic closed

Once I select the linked document in the Layers pane, it highlights which is fine. It would be even better there was command in the rtclick menu, allowing to zoom to that document. At least in my workflow it is quite frequent sequence: Select linked document in the list, zoom to it and work on it... zooming as works now is quite cumbersome in this situation, it is quite easy to lose focus...

Once I make changes in linked files, such changes stay in the copy of the file, saved inside the afpub document. Update via Resource Manager overwrites such changes. I would welcome the ability to save changes I made inside Publisher out to original files, to update them back - it is one more button in the resource manager and an indicator, showing the file was changed inside the Publisher

Did you have a chance to test out the file I provided? Is the speed issue caused by the document, or is it Publisher? Are there any recommendations how to avoid this in the future? I just tried quick test of PDF/X export of the same data - it is much faster and the resulting PDF is almost 10times smaller...

as above, I was warned against the use of any PDF/X by printing company. Once I see them, I am going to ask for reasons.

For me, the holy grail is not to bother with any command-line utilities, to worry what might get lost in translation... I think everyone wants to get the result in one step instead of two... that is the whole point of using software, is it not? Thanks for the advice anyway... it will sorely be helpful - Ghostscript is something you can bet on indeed...

400 dpi, rest as attached

Thanks for quick answers. What is the reason for this functionality? Is it because planned exchangeability of files with iOS app? Otherwise it does not make sense to me: as there is always user input needed (one has to hit update manually), I do not see the reason why not all files are linked as default.

I have a document, that consists of multiple overlaid raster images, using transparency. Export to PDF takes more than one hour on my i7 16GB RAM Windows PC, running Win 10. Similar document, created in inDesign, takes fraction of that time using similar settings. The document contains linked files and can be downloaded here. I feel one hour is too slow. Is it the not-yet-that-optimized beta, or something else? If you need any additional information or data, I will provide gladly Thank you

I use the Publisher to create assembly documents - bunch of raster sketches, originally created as PSD files, then opened and converted to the native format in the Affinity Photo. A sketch typically consists of one/two layer(s) with linework and one layer with the white mask underlying the linework. Sample sketch could be downloaded here. It is grayscale, some 6000x4000 pixels, some 60+ MB. Originally, I just dragged all files into the Publisher document. I ended up with the document od some +1 GB of size. Then I found I can change documents to "linked" so I proceeded, expecting dramatic decrease in the file size. I was wrong. The document still is +1 GB. You can download it here. How comes the document is still that big despite fact all its files are linked to it and the document itself contains literally NO DATA except links? The above workflow is the same I use with inDesign and Photoshop - the size of the similar IDD file is less than 10 MB.

All PDF export options produce layered PDFs, which are difficult to read by certain RIP printing machines. If it was possible to add the option to export old, non-layered PDF (PDF 1.3), it would be helpful. Thanks