MarcelJ

I have updated all Affinity programs to V2 and now the print options are all gone. Fortunately, I kept version 1 of the programs allowing me to compare the result of the two versions. See the capture screens below that compare V1 and V2 Print dialog box. To try to solve the problem I followed the following steps: Uninstalled and reinstalled the printer driver, Uninstalled all programs in Affinity V2, and reinstalled the three programs. I must say that this problem has been recurring for a long time in Affinity programs, and only in Affinity. Each time an update is made, I have to reinstall the printer driver (Epson Surecolor P600). I currently use several other programs in which this problem does not appear. I was hoping that this issue would be fixed in the new version and I'm very disappointed to see that it only got worse. My system: macOS Big Sur version 11.7.1, memory 32 Gb

Epson sugggested to uninstall and reinstall everything (printer and driver), which I did, and was happy to see the Color Matching options back into the Print dialog box. Therefore, problem solved! :-) Marcel

I've downloaded and installed the driver listed on the Epson support page for my printer, but I suspect that they did not update the driver for Mac OS Catalina, which might be the problem. I've contacted Epson to verify, and we'll see... Thanks Callum for pointing me in the right direction. Marcel

Hi, Thanks for the information, I understand what you mean and I have updated the Epson driver for my SureColor P600 and rebooted the system. Unfortunately, I still don't see the option to select the ICC profile in the Print dialog boxes, and the prints are totally out since the printer manages the output. This is really weird, and the timing is awful since I have to print some of my limited editions for clients who purchased them for X-Mas gifts. Marcel

Hello, I don't know what's wrong but I think since I updated my iMac to Catalina, I don't see the Color Management option anymore in the printing dialog boxes in all Affinity programs . Therefore I cannot select the ICC Profiles that I've created for different papers. Is it new? Is there any other way around? See the attached file. Thanks for help, Marcel

Thanks for your help Fde101. Problem solved! :-)

1) Opened a AffPhoto, did export it once in TIFF using the Export Persona; 2) Closed the AffPhoto; 3) Reopened the AffPhoto, and made a change; 5) Opened the Export Persona to verify if the "Continuous" feature will be active, and it is still greyed out. I might be missing something, but don't know what (?).

Thanks Fde101. To do the export from the Export Persona with the ''Continuous'' export feature on is a very interesting idea, which might work very well. However, I gave it a try in exporting a photo in TIF 16-Bit, and the Continuous feature is greyed out, and I need to understand why (?). If I get it to work, that might be ''the'' solution for linking and getting updates when changes are made in AffPhoto.

Hello Jon, It is of course not ideal! Files in Affinity Photo are big when they contain a lot of layers, which is the case in the project I am working on. The original file should be linked and only a good preview should be shown in Publishing. That way we can build large documents in keeping the file size manageable. Before Publishing came out, I was using inDesign (I've canceled my subscription when Publishing came out in beta) in which I've created a large size photo book with 130 photographs in Photoshop format at 300 DPI. All files were linked, and the inDesign file was kept small and easy to work with. I'm hoping to be able to find the same function in Publishing, which by the way I have already pre-ordered. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Aammppaa for the information. Let's hope that the feature will be added soon to the coming beta updates.

Version 371 does exactly the same thing. If I create a one page document, and place a ".afphoto" file which is 196 MB, the Publisher file will be 197 MB. The link function does not work. I should see only a preview of the file, not the full version.

The download link was at the top of the forum listing. I will install and try, and see if there are any changes.

I am using version 1.7.0.337, where can I download the 371 version? I'll give it a try and see if it fixes the linked issue. Otherwise, I will contact support. Thanks.

In Document Setup, Image Placement Policy is set to "Prefer Linked". However, files seem to not be linked, but always embedded. For instance, when I place a photograph in the default Affinity Photo format (afphoto), Publisher increase the file size, and it increases drastically when I place other photographs into the document. As an example, the first photo placed is 196 MB, and the Publisher file size is 197 MB. Adding a second photo, the size of the Publisher document goes to 403 MB. I have done a publication with 36 pages and the size of the file was up to 10 GB. Therefore, in these conditions it is impossible to use the program to compose large documents. Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks, Marcel