cyberlizard

I don't think the problem is Affinity related per se'. I have a Raven scanner and for the life of me I cannot get it to scan in color (sort of). When scanning from my old 2012 Intel based Mac everything works as it should, black and white, greyscale and colour. However when plugged into my M1 Mac, I get the garbled colour scans, but greyscale and black and white work perfectly. Now on my M1 I use Sonoma and on my IntelMac I use Monterey. Now here's the kicker. If I use the Image Capture app on my M1, I can scan in all three. I'm beginning to thing the problem lies somewhere within the Rosetta translation lay, but I have no way to prove it.

I have a brilliant javascript for InDesign which flips text which is ideal for shorts burst of RTL text. Hopefully sometime soon we'll get scripting support and then I can hopefully modify it to work with Publisher.

As there is no sign of a text editor for editing long form text linked boxes, hopefully scripting support will be added soon so we can develop our own. Indesign had a story editor, heck even Scribus has a story editor, but Publisher, nope!

still no text editor and none in sight. hopefully if we ever get scripting support, one of us can develop it. as someone who works with long form text, it cannot arrive quickly enough.

It looks like we won't see an incopy type thing for affinity publisher any time soon. Maybe they could implement something like story editor which can allow for quick text based editing of (linked) text boxes. At least that way you could make faster changes to underlying text documents.

As someone who works with long form text, I find it frustrating that while I have the option to choose between linking or embedding images, but cannot do the same with text files. Having to re-place a text file after having made an amendment to the underlying document file is an absolute nuisance and unnecessarily time consuming. Does anyone else have the same frustrations or is it just me.

Is there any chance at some point in the future that we could have a DXF export filter for Designer. Thanks very much. Steve

i'm wondering if it is a Mac vs Windows issue as both the Babycham bottle and the men's 'ties' opened for me without any problem. I'm currently using 2.0.3 Steve

I hope they put a lot of effort into Designer as well as Publisher as Inkscape leaves it in the dust.

Linux is stuck really. People do not develop significant amounts of professional applications for the average desktop user and so less people are inclined to leap to Linux and so less people develop significant amounts of professional applications for the average desktop user and round and round it goes. Unless big players get on board, it is doomed to stay this way as a niche OS until the second coming.

I've only just noticed this thread. A little background. I was first introduced to Unix back when SCO and Xenix were a thing. I remember the frustration with my first version of Linux, which was Open SUSE, back when you had to manually start up the X Server. Since that time I have dabbled with Linux, but 99% of the time, I used Windows. My reason for never making the switch to Linux full time was the woeful driver support and lack of applications. Everyone says, look at GIMP, but I look at it and its interface makes Scribus look good. Anyway, recently I tried out Clear Linux from Intel. Very impressed, but in the end, I set up a dual boot with Windows 10 and Fedora 36 running KDE, which I am using to type this note on my laptop. My baseunit in the other room is where the grunt of my work gets done, and it is there (as well as on this laptop) that I use my Affinity applications. For me, in terms of priority, it's Publisher, Designer and then Photo. Publisher is missing features and so is Designer. But why am I telling you all this. On my laptop, I have installed Microsoft Office as a web app (PWA) (as I have a 365 subscription). This lets me run some of the office applications as though they were 'real' apps as opposed to web pages in a wrapper that can be used offline. Now my understanding is that PWAs are generally written in Javascript. I don't know what langauge Affinity-Serif use for their in-house coding, but it would be lovely to see the applications released in the form of WebApps as it would let me use the Affinity software in a platform agnostic situation. This way, I could ditch Windows alltogether and make the full time leap to Linux. Wishful thinking I am sure, but it would be nice if Affinity were to consider this as a viable option. Steve

As yet there is no support for footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes or table notes. It seems to be taking forever! I certainly hope they are included in version 2 whenever that may be. Steve

it's completely frustrating in terms of the delay in reaching the version two milestone. it is however understandable that Photo gets the most development as that would be the application used most by the masses, but Designer as well as Publisher both need a lot of TLC as the former lacks many features which the very free Inkscape offers at no immediate cost.

we can always live in hope.

the double click method only seems to work when the panels are not docked. is there a way to do it when the panels are docked? Steve