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Thank you very much, this solved my problem. 👍

I am having a persistent problem with Affinity publisher 1.10.5.1342, which results in it crashing. This is the process: - Click the triangle to open the font dropdown menu. - Type letters to search for the font I would like. - Affinity Publisher crashes. Is anyone else having this same issue? Can it be fixed easily? Thanks kindly.

Hmm the dialogue box seems to point out there is a difference between my windows and the one that is supported. Is my version of Windows Pro supported then? I would assume that if SFC fixed the issues, my system would be fully functional now. I dont have the same issue using Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo (or indeed other softwares more graphics intensive - 3d modelling and rendering). So my conclusion is that this must be an issue specific to Affinity Publisher.

Ahh sorry I found the button you are talking about. It's switched off. If I try to switch it on, it says that my windows pro is unsupported, see attached screenshot. I have updated my windows with the latest updates last week.

I don't have a drop down menu called Preferences?

I restarted the computer and after 20 minutes of editing, it crashed again. I've checked the crash reports and this time there isn't any .dmp file.

Thanks kindly! I've just run it and seems to have fixed corrupted files.

Enclosed. Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500. c00f8d22-78a4-43c7-9dee-e815992489f9.dmp

I am having similar issues. Using a Thinkpad Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz w/8GB ram. Freshly updated to 1.9.2. Although the previous version 1.9.1 was also having this same issue, I was hoping the update would fix it. I am simply typing, and the software is lagging. There are no graphics or photo in my document yet. Every 15 minutes or so it just crashes on me. Very frustrating!

Yea I am going to chime in. This is basic functionality / usability. It's a real set back not to have this.

Stating my reasons above, I emailed Affinity customer support and requested for a refund on both Affinity Designer and Publisher. Affinity issued both refunds within a week. Despite asking numerous times in my emails, I was unable to ascertain any further information about the development of these 'select by' tools. I think it's safe to assume that Affinity is simply not interested in developing them, or discussing their development.

Surely it would take less than a day to write the 'select by same' script? Affinity I've already paid you my cash in good faith that your program works well. Now I realise it doesn't even do the basics properly. I'm wondering if Affinity plans on implementing this or not? And by when? I will make back the monthly adobe subscription fee in the productivity gain in just ONE simple function. This lack of functionality makes the Affinity product slow & redundant - and uncompetitive compared to the market leader. Has anyone from Admin / development got a reply? If not I might as well ask for refund, as the product is slow & uncompetitive. I can't use it.

Select same by colour fill, line colour, lineweight, etc... This is a very BASIC function! Its not even a feature. This was requested in 2014 and still not implemented?! Are you kidding? Basic productivity and workflow is important to any professional. Simple software that does simple things well. Come on Affinity - you have had 4 years already!

Thanks. Yes I tried again and seems to work just fine! Thanks

Hi sorry for the delay. I have just uploaded the files requested!

Sure. Will do. Just wondering are you a developer or working for Affinity?

I created a pdf using Sketchup Layout. The pdf renders perfectly in Adobe reader and Illustrator. However there appears to be some text rendering difficulties in Affinity Designer. Some text is missing and what is displayed is poorly grouped, broken and jumbled and it is difficult to edit. Please see the attached images. All the fonts are installed on my system. I have tried all 4 on/off variants of the checkboxes in PDF Options > 'favour editable text over fidelity' AND 'group lines of text into text frames'. The results vary - but none of them match the original pdf. Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a workaround?

Yes I think you are right - a developer who is familiar with the start up sequence might already have some insight as to why this may have occurred. I mentioned it because it was enough to put me off using the software, now that the clicking has stopped it's fine to use. If I can get the symptoms to repeat I will post again. Until then thank you for your help.

I suppose it may have been something to do with mouseclicking sound effect for the browser window / web content on the splash panel?

Hello again. I have been trying to recreate the error to answer your questions, but Publisher no longer makes the noises. I can only guess it may have been some sort of conflict with the other programs running (is that possible?), or some sort of calibration process that only occurs during the first few runs of the software? I will try again over the next few days to see if I can recreate the error. If you would like to hear the exact sound, you can go to control panel>sound and under the sound tab, scroll down the Program events list until you find 'start navigation', click on the test button underneath and it will playback. It is a.wav file and so the sound came from the speaker. The sound was not definitely hardware related /caused by mechanical error. The beat was two clicks, a pause, somewhere around 10 clicks (0.5second intervals), another pause, then another 8 or so clicks, then more pauses and clicks. That's all I can remember before it annoyed me enough to close the window. I repeated this three times to confirm it was actually the publisher software that was causing it. As I said earlier, now I cannot repeat the behaviour, but I will keep testing.

My laptop has no disk driver or moving parts. It's definitely coming from the speaker. The problem repeats at every start up of Publisher.

When I first open Publisher, I can hear the sound effect for mouseclicks repeating over and over, in a number of bursts. It doesn't have any pattern and eventually after a couple of minutes it stops. Not sure what is going on. For normal operation of windows on my computer, the sound effect for mouseclicks is switched off.