Giovanni Pietri

Hello. I make a stop in my work to tell you that I have also installed version 2.0.3, so far everything is fine and I'm working without problems, I have seen solved a bug related to the UI, page selection, let's see what else has been solved. greetings

I just installed patch 2.0.3 and I can see that this problem has been solved, congratulations and thank you, Serif.

Hi Lee I have this data from my system AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor 3.90 GHz RAM 32.0 GB GPU - AMD Radeon RX 5700 - VRAM - 8176 MB - GDDR6 1750 MHz I have a doubt about the performance. Why Affinity does it use the GPU and not the CPU, this seems so strange to me and I confess that I don't know why it doesn't use the processor capabilities and all its power. I don't use the process acceleration with OpenCL, I disabled it because I noticed that the program was working very slowly, so it improved by disabling this option. I attach a screenshot of this data

Pyanepsion, yes, I just made sure that the export option is active by default in all cases. I understand that this option serves to keep the whole document when exporting to PDF, but the disappearance of the text in my case did not happen in the PDF document obtained but in the middle of the layout process. Thanks for your guidance

I just realized that this has also happened to me two or three times in V1 and , I haven't really used the select and delete key combination, plus, on the keyboard the options are quite separate and I hardly use shortcuts or key combinations in Apub. Of course, I have gone back to searching for text using the cursor and keyboard, selecting with the mouse pointer which is only at the start of the text box. I've also activated the View - View Mode - Crop to fit to canvas options, to see if I accidentally moved the text outside the page area (which should only affect one page), then confirmed that I didn't accidentally change the text color from black to white. I also tried Ctrol-Z to undo the actions and nothing happened, my conclusion is that the text has disappeared and with it also disappeared footnotes, styles and other editing work. I haven't tried looking into the layering thing you suggest, Walt, that's a good point. Of course, I have a master page for the texts that make up the main body of the magazine properly pre set. Thanks for your feedback.

Hi all (and Devs) I am working on a magazine of archaeological research, I have separated the chapters into sections and now I have the unpleasant surprise that all the text of a section that I have worked on disappeared, and that happened also in V1, I do not know how to duplicate the problem because I have no idea what has happened, but I am sure that I have not touched that part in any way. Has it happened to you guys, I would like to know before I start fighting with the developers.

Adjusting the width of the table, columns and cells only works when ALL the table is selected and appears shaded, if I try to adjust any part when it is not selected, the whole program freezes and the WIP icon (blue wheel) appears and if I click outside, the program goes to shaded mode and the No Response warning appears. It is not possible to do the command using ESC, the only way to continue working is to use the Windows task manager, close the program and log in again... with the consequent loss of data already placed and the time invested in filling the tables. Hopefully the developers are working at full speed to fix these bugs and can release the first service patch for the program very soon, as it's not a matter of whether or not some are flirting with Affinity to see if they work with the entire suite while continuing to produce with their safer InDesign or Qxpress, there are a bunch of us here who have already made that decision since version 1. I came to Affinity after using for years (since 1990) a very old but exceptional quality software called Ventura (Xerox Ventura Publisher until the version of Ventura 10 that Corel left in the abandonment) which was the first editorial layout program for Pc, as old as Aldus PageMaker on Mac. I've tried the other programs many times, never quite liked them (especially the 4d0bE ones) and when I did my evaluation to see where to go with this issue, I went so far as to purchase Affinity Publisher in 2019. I think Serif should be seriously concerned about the defects that gravely affect their users in this version 2, because the errors damage our work and that also translates into unjustified delays, a big drop in professional efficiency and of course, economically.... nobody works here for the love of art! greetings

🔍I was looking for the same thing, multipage tables and also tables nested in other tables, etc, thank goodness that for the moment there are few annoying tables that I have to work with... Serif, when will the tables requested by the users be ready? are they at least in the planning stage?

Thankyou for that info, because the other languages aren´t considered important by Serif, lol. I just need to install the hyphenation dictionaries for spanish language. C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\2.0\Dictionaries that works. cya

If you have a file of many pages, I think the preview functionality is a waste of time. It does help when you have a brochure or tri-fold, something simpler. I just exported a book with full page photos, it has 316 pages, all the photos (TIFF) are linked, so I used the export to PDF X/4 functionality, 300 dpi resolution, bleed 3 mm per side where needed, converted all fonts to curves: embedded color profiles. I also exported the same file to low resolution digital PDF for monitor view at 72 dpi. Result: It works in both cases, although in the first case it took more than 30 minutes; I have checked the resulting file and it weighs almost 7 Gb (in version 1, the resulting file was 1.7 Gb and took no more than 10 minutes, I'm talking about the same book), when opening the resulting document with Acrobat Pro, everything is in order, there is no loss, the colors are correct when checking them in the CMYK separator. I clarify that I have not used any transparency or gradient colors. I have monitored the performance of the PC with Windows 11 and found that the program has requested almost 100% of the RAM (32 Gb) and almost nothing or absolutely nothing of my GPU and Processor, which has left me with many questions about the performance of the program. The truth is that I have not read anywhere the technical requirements of the computer for this version of Affinity, so in my case it has been a matter of pure luck, I say this because for sure the program is less stable on less powerful machines.

I AM GOING TO ADD THE SAME ERROR HERE SO AS NOT TO OPEN ANOTHER MESSAGE OUTSIDE. The same error occurs here, in the bottom selector, when you type the desired page number, it always opens the two facing pages... not the single page you want to work on.

Yep, this file opens correctly in v2, close and open 3 times, same results, all´s good...

Ok, James. Having clarified the matter, I can say yes, I agree with the idea of Affinity Publisher's power to do this kind of work. Best regards!

LOL

Hi there James You have a menu with a huge amount of dishes there! I hope that constructive criticism is not unwelcome, but I must say that I see it too bloated and I find it confusing, the purple and gold color bars make it look even heavier. I do not find the hierarchy of the brand and contact details and social media, I think you need to work there... The fonts should not be stretched like that and there is too much information. if i were the client i would come out a bit dizzy. I would also separate the photos a bit so that they are distinguishable from each other. I would use a single style for the incisors, like the silhouette that looks like a leaf, also in the coupons. On the positive side, I must say that I like the idea of the coupons on the sides and the use of serif fonts in that section. I'm not usually "Politically Correct", but I like to help and this menu card is quite improvable; that's why I say so.