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subetha

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  1. Yesterday I bought a clipart file which was delivered as .ai - when opening it in Designer (1.8.3 and 1.7.3) it was shown as an empty canvas, both on Mac and PC. So I re-activated Adobe Illustrator, which opened it correctly including some kind of conversion. The saved file then finally could be opened with Designer. 

    I can't upload the file here publicly because this would infringe the copyright, but maybe the developers would like to have a look?

    Axel Hess

     

  2. 11 minutes ago, carl123 said:

    If you also have Publisher you can use that to change all embedded documents/images to linked documents/images in your designer document and to also specify that any new documents/images will also be linked by default.

    Other than that there is no other easy way that I know of to do it using Designer alone

    So you open the designer file in publisher, make changes, save it and open again in designer?

  3. I'm searching for a solution to the same problem. Is there REALLY no possibility to place a designer document into another without embedding???  I am working on a corporate design for a client, including quite a few different media items. If for instance i change some detail of the logo or another repeatedly used graphic object, of course I want it to be updated in every file where I placed it - no problem in Illustrator or Indesign. Do I REALLY have to update the file manually everywhere??  That would not only be tedious, but extremely prone to errors.

  4. I completely second Keito64's wish! The main reason for me is the buggy version 1.8.0 of Publisher on Windows right now - it did not even start after a few times of usage. I had to downgrade the complete Affinity suite on two computers just because of that - not only on that Windows machine, but also on my mac to still be able to work with both computers on the same files. Luckily I noticed the problem before converting all the recent files... else I'd really had been f***ed!
    I can totally understand that problems in new versions of any software may occur - but in that case it's an absolute necessity to have some kind of interchange of files between versions!!! Maybe a possibility to import newer formats, or a separate conversion app?

     

  5. I opened the same file with artboards in Designer 1.7.3 on both a Mac and on a Win 10 machine. On the Mac I can freely select any object I want, regardless on which artboard it is placed. On my Windows PC I can only select objects in the active artboard which I have to choose in the layers panel - anything outside of that is unavailable unless i activate its own artboard. Why is it like that?? Did I change some setting accidentally?

  6. Thanks Walt for providing the direct links! 
    I'm REALLY annoyed they are so difficult to find in the website's backend! And also because it is not possible to have different versions installed at the same time. or to open files from 1.8 im 1.7.
    Because of the buggy version 1.8 of publisher I  just had to re-install 1.7 of all 3 programs on both of my computers. Six times uninstall plus reinstall - thank you very much Serif for wasting my time! Would have been even worse if I had already saved work in the new file format, than I wouldn't even have been able to open it! This can not be, Serif!!!

    Axel Hess

  7. I just imported an IDML into the beta, worked on it for a bit and than saved it as afpub. When trying to open it again in the retail version I can't. How can I get around this? What use is it for me to play around with the beta when I am not able to use the files in another context again??

    BTW will there a possibility to also EXPORT into IDML format to exchange files with Indesign users, or will my designs be locked inside the affinity ecosystem forever?
    How about exchanging files with other users who own lower/older versions in the future, thinking about Publisher 2.xx? One of the annoyances Adobe provides to its Indesign users are the constantly changing file formats, will I have to expect the same from Affinity?

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