mwilliamanderson

Personally, I'm cautious. I use Affinity to design, but as an educator, not as a designer. I used to be a designer and I can remember the days of QuarkXpress, then the fledgling program that was InDesign… programs come, programs go. It is the way of things. So, for me, as long as I can download V2 in perpetuity, it does all I need it to do. If a subscription model is introduced, I will have to think hard about the cost… at the moment, without discount, the cost of the one-off payment for the suite is £160. If a version last over, say, three years before the next version, then over 36 months, on a subscription model, I would only expect to pay approx. £4.50 per month. So, when you look at it like this, then the prospect of subscription isn't so bad. However – and this is a BIG however – subscription models don't allow you to own the program as an entity in and of itself. The payment needs to be made to have access to the downloaded program. That is the issue I have with subscription models, mainly because I'm old school – if I'm going to contribute to your pension pot, Mr. Hewson, along with Canva's shareholder profits, I want something tangible, not a license… sorry, terribly old school, but someone has to begin the push back against the subscription model.

Brilliant. Thanks for the reply, Ali. Much appreciated.

Brilliant. Thanks, LondonSquirrel. Very helpful.

Are you saying that Affinity Publisher 2 now has a word count function?

As the subject line asks, is there now a wordcount feature in Affinity Publisher 2? Academic style footnotes and side notes have been added, which is a step in the right direction for those of us who write academically (and still design to fund research projects), but when writing theses or papers, I really need a word count. So, I wondered if that has been added to the new version?

I'm having a similar problem at the moment with all the Affinity suite, which I use to create invoices, which as you can imagine at month end is a headache! Anyway, now whenever I try to export a file to PDF, either Publisher or Designer crashes. If I reset the application using Clean My Mac, the export function works once and then crashes. If I delete the preferences folder from Library/Container, again, the export function works once, then crashes. Admittedly I'm using the public beta version (2) of MacOS Ventura, which is why I think the crashing is happening, so it might be worth pre-release of the new MacOS in the autumn (around mid- to late October) to patch this issue sooner rather than later.

Thanks, Patrick. One of the Affinity team helped me out earlier in the week.

I really appreciate this link, Adam. I'll try it and see. Kind regards, Mark

Hi Sean, Thanks for the message. And also for the escalation. I'm happy for the support member to either email me or call – either is fine. Have a good day, Mark

It wasn't an issue for me with the pre-1.8.1 MacOS version. The text in PDF files made from that version of Affinity Publisher were fine; no problem at all. The issue has come with MacOS version 1.8.1. As I said, it renders the program useless to me, simply because there is no way to work with clients through the highlighting of text. I use Affinity Publisher for large documents and multiple authors, so this feature is incredibly important. I don't quite know what I'm going to do in 10 days' time when my trial version runs out and I have to revert to my paid version, which may not be working by then...

It definitely rounds down to 21pt… that said, as Joachim kindly helped with, there are the preferences to check. But even pre-developer download, the MacOS 1.8.1 version was rounding down to the nearest number.

Oddly, before I downloaded a trial version from the developer site this morning (twenty minutes ago), my MacOS 1.8.1 version of Publisher was still rounding down the point sizes of my type, even though the Decimal Places for Unit Types preference was set to 1. Now, after downloading the trial version to save out PDFs where the text was unhighlightable, the issue has corrected itself on the MacOS 1.8.1 version of Publisher. Perhaps by downloading the trial version, it has affected the preference files embedded on the Mac, so that every time I open Affinity Publisher, whichever version it is, the preferences for the developer version overrule the MacOS version. If so, this is still a bug. But then, if you, Joachim, have a MacOS version and are running Catalina, and you've not experienced any issues, perhaps the fault lies with me? Even so, I still unhappy that there are bugs with the MacOS version that there aren't with the developer version.

In the MacOS version, when I want type to be, say, 21.5pt, I type that into the type dialogue box. The type changes but the type size in the dialogue box rounds down to 21pt. So, while the type is 21.5pt, it doesn't register this in the type dialogue box. Yet, on a version downloaded from the Affinity site, the downloaded-from-developer version does register, and holds, the type size as 21.5pt in the text dialogue box. I'm sorry to say, but as someone who naively thought that the MacOS version would be the same as the downloaded-from-developer version, I'm not impressed. Haven't I paid the same for the MacOS versions as the downloaded-from-developer versions? If so, I expect both versions to be the same. Indeed, I don't expect either version to be different. Can someone message me directly so I can discuss getting a product key for the downloaded-from-developer version and cancelling the MacOS version. I'm not willing to accept that there are two versions that have different bugs that affect functionality. Even if this is a quirk of the Mac App Store, it should have been sorted before 1.8.1 was released. Kind regards, Mark

Hi Sean, Apologies. I get so confused between the two programs, mainly because I don't associate the name "Publisher" with my field of design, and Affinity Designer seems more like an illustrator's program. Semantics aside, thank you for the move. I was also speaking to someone on your Twitter feed yesterday, and so, these files may be of use to them. Do you have any idea when there is going to be a patch for this? Only, without sounding dramatic, the program is useless to me without this important designer-client feature. Kind regards, Mark

When I've exported a simple text-only PDF from Affinity Publisher 1.8.1 and sent it for review to a client, they cannot highlight the text in Acrobat Pro to show where changes need to be made. Stickies can be applied, and other non-Affinity generated PDFs work, but none when produced in the new version of the program. I've uploaded a test .afpub file and the resulting PDF, which was exported as a PDF for print (with no other modifications). Text_Text_File.pdf Text Text File.afpub