dean shultz

Not to pile on, but. As someone who's lost many hours to AP v2 crashes, in front of a client, all I can add is, I feel your pain and you're not alone. I didn't post then, bc of deadlines. I can add a bit now, but not as much as may be needed. AP crashes for me in more than one file. When it did, 'what i was doing', does not appear to have a common cause. The crash behavior was initially, the app hung for about 30 seconds first. Afterward, crashes were ~5 seconds on open. Performing a quick save as sometimes gave me a usable again file, not always. In one case, I did check into the resource manager and replaced quite a few embedded files. Work seemed to be normal. Another time, there were no embedded files but the file still crashed. Another time, i read the log and thought maybe a Calibri file was erroring. The file wouldn't even export to PDF. I thought it was a Word imported style sheet, which I rebuilt the 11 styles from scratch, in a clean file. It crashed. No idea why. From some forums, the idea seems to be user error. That may be. For me, I can say, AP 1.x did not crash nearly as often. Not nearly. I know Serif is a smaller developer. Limited resources, I get that. But, instead of sending me the 50% off marketing promotion today, I would like instead for all of the 3 titles to allow me to mark 'F4' as a Layers... shortcut key, an omission that has been know more than long enough to either fix or make comment. Additionally, I would like AP to again be a tool in which I am not afraid to place client work. And as a tiny aside, when I don't update to from 2.03 to version 2.04, don't do it for me. Downvote, boo the post. Everything I say here, I've read on other posts. I don't care. There was a big rush to buy v2 before the discount expired, which I did. I supported Serif. Today, when I received the 50% marketing email, but still don't have a reliable piece of software, I feel more than a little burned in the transaction.

Thanks to all. came here looking for this exact issue and pending solution. a huge shortcut user. look forward to the update; thank you for your work. i'll wait and hope the fix is sooner than later.

I was looking to post my experience and found your message. Problem is repeatable and constant. Here is what I can add: ver: 1.8.0.584 On a Windows 10 VM client. Host is Mac Mini, Catalina 10.15.3 delete Master, screen freezes. No menus or controls respond. Other than deleting Master, no other action needed to trigger freeze. When screen is locked, can save work if right-click and close from task bar. Windows prompts for a save. As I was typing my response here, I tried something that appears to correct the problem. Perhaps it may help you. I had a graphic on my Master pasteboard. I recall graphics being a problem from other threads during beta, so i deleted it. Now, the pub responds, no freeze and work can be saved. The screen is responsive. hth.

+1 Preference Having said that damn, we get a lot for $39.99

First, I only recently discovered Affinity products. Big fan. After i started this post, i realized there are two errors. Both relate to a pasted image from another program. There are 3 images in the problem description. Image 1: is a cybersecurity image copy/paste from paint.net image 2: placed image of a micrometer squeezing coins, from local directory image 3: re-pasted image 1, from paint.net I am using beta 1.7.0.384. I looked for a similar report, but did not find one. What i did: Copied/pasted a screenshot from paint.net (image 1) onto a Publisher Master Page (left), new document. One text frame on each of two Master pages. Added text to actual pages, about 50 pages of Lorem Ipsum to learn text auto flow. From Master, adjusted text wrap of image 1. Placed a second, different image 2, on Master Page. Adjusted text wrap. Updates reflect correctly in thumbs and actual pages. What broke: Adjusting text wrap or moving the pasted image 1 did not update in thumbnail preview or actual pages. Image 1 cannot be removed from the actual pages. Second error: Pasted again image 1 (now image 3 ) onto Master. It was moved off the page to the pasteboard area (at nine o'clock). From Master, 'select all' will outline its position. Deleting image 3, then saving the file will crash the program. Image 3 remains in the file. How i tried to fix it: Deleted image 1 from Master. Thumbnails/actual pages did not reflect update. Saved/reopened the file. Image 1 is no longer on Master. However, image 1 is on all actual pages. Cannot remove. Delete image 3. Save file crashes program. untitled.afpub