jmliss

I see. Thanks - I need to study this some more.

I see channel mixer. pdf now in the forum. Walt, I would appreciate you looking at it, as I believe it is either a bug in the software or in the help page. I had not tested this feature on previous versions of affinity photo.

have added, again, the channel mixer.pdf file I created from word what includes my experiments and explanations. There are some screen shots in the file. I am running the latest update of Affinity Photon on Sonoma. The sliders seem to work opposite of expectations and opposite to what the online help says. The file I attached is only 9mb so I don't understand my you don't see it. Channel mixer.pdf

I'm either not understanding how the channel mixer works, or the help page, which seems to be accurate, does not match the behavior of the feature. The attached PDF explains what I see. It seems that the algorithm is opposite of expectations. Increasing the green slider, in my example, seems to decrease the green contribution. Decreasing the green slider, in my example, seems to increase the green contribution. If this is the way the software is supposed to behave, then the online help is wrong. Let me also state that Pixelmator pro, has the same feature and their help page is similar and their software behaves opposite to the current version of Affinity Photo.

I'm sad that this request never got a response. Publisher is still fragile. The other day I lost hours of work as publisher would not successfully open a saved file. It kept crashing. Even after a reboot. I had to revert to an older Time Machine version, but fortunately I had an exported PDF that I was able to use to restore text. Makes no sense why the suite of tools does not leverage a wonderful Apple feature. Is Apple preventing non Apple apps to use this ?

Nice Canadian accent, eh ?

1970 Fortran in high school then followed by Basic. Unix in college. Time Sharing in Grad school. It blew my mind when I saw I=I+1 -> 50 years later AI patents I hope my age doesn't make me forget your hint and I might post this as a bug again in the future They really do need to clean up the GUI's

MikeTo, thank you for responding. I appreciate what you wrote. May I refer you to Hangman's suggestion and my response to him? What he/she reminded me of was exactly what I was looking for and thought was removed in this latest version. I do appreciate your very timely response (not the first time, I might add).

Hangman, you D' man (or woman) ! - thank you so much for this. I use to do this and it worked and I forgot about expanding the PDF with the Greater than sign ! and I couldn't figure out how to pick multiple pages. As such I thought it was a bug in this new version. In the 1970's I was a Unix Ninja, I could spin shells with the best of them and I rewrote Many unix commands, including the CU command. At that young age I did not have an appreciation for GUI's (they didn't exist). Affinity Tools are powerful, but too many cryptic tricks. I no longer wish to be a ninja. I wish for easy to use GUI. I certainly wish they would add AI (I have a few AI patents) and of course wizards. A wizard to walk through adding PDF would be helpful for the times when a feature is not used often. Think of the new cross reference, which I used extensively to cross reference figure captions. I need to remember anchoring, cross referencing, use an appropriate style, and then grouping the caption text box with the figure. How much more convenient it would be to have a wizard. Affinity Photo is a hodge poodle of features that were thrown together. Time to clean up the GUI's.

My goal is to place all the pages of a PDF file, one page per one page in a publisher file. I do place tool, choose the pdf file, then place the first page, and it works, however the place tab closes w/o giving me the opportunity to place additional pages. So I need to cycle the process again. I feel this is a bug and the place tool should remain open to give a multi page PDF file, the opportunity to have more than one page imported. I can understand it can't import all pages in one click. I want each page as image, not editable pdf objects.

Enhance the save option to cause Time Machine to store version numbers. This would be helpful for the entire suite. All too often, for example, Publisher crashes during a save and I am left with a corrupted file. I usually save to a new file name, but the revert option would mitigate my concerns. Finally, Pixelmator Pro supports this feature -

Understood. I just need to reference a page from a previous chapter. What I did was create a separate cross reference for the page number. Anyway, the introduction of cross referencing, combined with auto numbering lists for Figure numbering is something that was sorely missed and now makes publisher a much better tool. Next separate issue is tables, need a way to import data from a spreadsheet so that pagination works. Maybe you cover that in the manual you sent, I need to read. Thanks again Jonathan

I should also thank you for the manual. My production document is about 1000 pages over 4 chapters. Even affinity publisher can't render in one shot from the book, so I render each chapter to pdf and then combine pdf's using finder The 1000 pages have about 900 linked pngs

Excellent - good that you tested the remaining fields. I did not try text anchor, but at least I may have a work around now

Walt, Somehow my 3 test files got corrupted. So I recreated them and saved/closed them and reopened and the problem I described persists. I am including those files (again) and some screen shots. The screen shots below, shows test 2 cross referencing into test 1 and I made two cross references to the same target with the second has : around the expected page. The page object is not somehow in the cross reference but the chapter (Test 1) and "Figure 01" is from the objects on Test 1. I hope this help better than my first attempt, to describe the issue. Of course this is a test bench I created to reproduce a problem I see with a different book and different chapters. I thought maybe that product book, if you will had other issues, so I isolated to this test bench. Thank you again for helping. Jonathan Liss Test .afbook Test 2.afpub Test 1.afpub