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Channel Mixer Bug ?
jmliss replied to jmliss's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
I see. Thanks - I need to study this some more. -
Channel Mixer Bug ?
jmliss replied to jmliss's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
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. -
Channel Mixer Bug ?
jmliss replied to jmliss's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
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.
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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 ?
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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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
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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
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I created a new book, I created 2 chapters (files) on Sonoma 14.0/Mac Studio, latest Affinity apps. Chapter one has a figure on page 1 and on page 2, I created a reference including the page number of the anchor for the figure. All good. I used same reference for chapter 2, page 1, and pointed to chapter 1 as target. All fields except page was linked. I attached the three files, the book and the two chapters - I'm sure this is an easy fix relative to creating the global cross reference internal table. I even tried to update cross references on the book. The fact that some object were identified, leads me to believe this was an oversight. Pls check to make sure all objects/fields, besides the page one get checked. Test 2.afpub Test .afbook Test 1.afpub
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Publisher 2.2 Request or Bug ?
jmliss replied to jmliss's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Walt, as always, I appreciate your quick feedback. Since I first entered the post, until now, I have figured out how to do what I wanted and so I do appreciate your time. I thought I had both chapters (book files) opened. In any event, I think I am happy now. The cross reference feature is feature rich and I will need to re read, perhaps a few times, the help page. I think this is the salient paragraph in the help that I missed: Updating cross-references in books When a document is a book chapter and contains cross-references to other book chapters, ensure the book is open on the Books panel before updating cross-references. The Books panel's Preferences menu includes options to update cross-references: in all of the current book's chapters immediately, and when outputting (exporting or printing) books. I'm sorry to have wasted your time. This is a great feature. My document is over 1000 pages, divided into 4 chapters, because Publisher (the previous version) would crash on export. I am on a Mac Studio. So I divided and conquered, I create 4 pdf's and use the finder shortcut to combine into a final single PDF. Again, thank you so much for your very quick and accurate feedback. Jonathan -
I am quite pleased that the cross reference feature has been added as I was a beta tester. Unfortunately, as a beta tester I didn't test the following use case, but I did today, with the official 2.2 release. Unless I am doing something wrong, I feel there is an important aspect missing. I have a book with multiple chapters. I expected that an anchor say in chapter one, could be cross referenced from a location in chapter 2. This does not seem to be the case. I need to be able to refer to shifting page numbers and figure numbers from any chapter in my book not just within the same chapter. If I am doing something wrong, please educate me, else kindly consider this as an enhancement, to somehow make anchors a global option. Thank you, Jonathan Liss
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Cross References
jmliss replied to Ash's topic in [ARCHIVE] 2.4, 2.3, 2.2 & 2.1 Features and Improvements
Walt, You the man ! - you saved me again - thank you so much. I tried the example and it seems to be exactly what I need. Thank you so so much. And yes, I see the top group can be moved around as well. For my own learning, I duplicated the group and moved the duplicate and verified the list numbers updated. Of course I wish the software made it a bit easier to add "automatic labels" to frames, but this is definitely a very good solution in support of that need. I think checking the global box was what I was missing. Thanks ! Jonathan -
Cross References
jmliss replied to Ash's topic in [ARCHIVE] 2.4, 2.3, 2.2 & 2.1 Features and Improvements
I appreciate the response to my question about cross referencing to an image by "adding a title" so to speak to an image or figure After toiling to figure out how to use the cross reference feature (need better manual entry/help page or a video), this is still not meeting my needs. I want to be able to put a title below an image with an automatic numbered list. I can do an automatic numbered list, with a custom text and cross reference it. But I cannot position the text under the image which is in a picture frame. The picture frame is placed over a large text Frame that covers the entire page via the master. So I put the picture frame in another group and added a text frame in that group that seemed to work, however, the list started to renumber even when I clicked manual renumber only. It shouldn't be this hard to be able to add a title to a frame, be it a image or table, such that the title moves with the image or table frame and that it automatically gets numbered so that cross referencing works across pages, and even documents. I have an 800+ page document that is across two publisher files and is part of a book. I want these features to work across all files within the book. -
Cross References
jmliss replied to Ash's topic in [ARCHIVE] 2.4, 2.3, 2.2 & 2.1 Features and Improvements
Yes, cross reference is something sorely missed. Now, if there is a way to auto number Figures, with cross reference to the Number, that would be a complete solution. -
My afbook on Ventura, latest version of publisher will crash affinity publisher if, the child documents are not open. So the child documents first need to be open, then afbook works as expected.
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My MAC OS Ventura Network->wifi->TCP/IP->Configure IPv6 is set to "Automatically" - I'm not sure why this would change, perhaps a function of the modem/router ? I have a mesh network. I'm only guessing now. But as I said, if I wait some time, that error message goes away and it eventually works. I suspect we (you) beat this to death with your image capture -> AP2 suggestions - as I am now a happy camper.
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Well, I view it more as a timing bug in and around the api call, because if I wait a few seconds, click again, or switch to another scanner and then back, it works. That is why I said earlier that the environment in and around calling the api is different. Anyway, your second suggestion, simply outputting image capture to AP2 is fine. Doing it twice creates a 2nd tab which is ok, so the image can be modified, then copy/pasted to the first tab. This is a good enough solution for me and it is out of the box, w/o having to create custom code (automator) that perhaps can break in a future OS upgrade. AP needs to fix the underlying issue as the fix might expose other issues. I can make Affinity Publisher crash for example and had to identify work arounds - so what I'm saying is that their qualification/system test processes need to be enhanced - yes, every piece of code has a bug, its just a matter of time for it to be exposed .....