Ross B.

+1 Upvote. I would like to welcome someone from Affinity to join the topic party. To all our present-company response credit, we search before requesting. Popular topic, since many, many more who want the feature will not go to the forums. Each of us represents a few hundred or thousand, and more with time, actual users of Designer, Publisher, and Photo. Adjustments and macros before previewing / printing / press / distribution / sharing are on request, including hiding and showing layers, updating variables, an export log, etc. It is a mess to manually do the same actions for every sample, share, or edition.dot.revision. The only automated workaround I can think of is to "tag" layer(s) in Affinity with something identifiable by third party software and use that external PostScript/PDF software to update, replace, or exclude (delete). I used Serif's PagePlus, DrawPlus, WebPlus, PhotoPlus from X4 to X7 and X8. True, Affinity has the visual fluidity of Adobe, though I always argued for Serif for features and presentation. The present reality is that Serif Affinity is not at a baseline of feature parity of Serif Plus. Life lesson: keep your old systems and software for import and export tweaks. Newer is nice, but not always better, faster, and easier in every way.

+1, and P.S. Make it great!

See also: Scanner Problems from July 18 with an Epson ET-3750 scanner / printer. Canon scanner seems to work fine?

See also: Color Scan Unsuccessful from December 24. Does this issue date back to July 18 (still unresolved, and not reproduced by Serif)?

Note: As OP, Affinity Photo version is 1.7.3 since Mac App Store updates automatically.

This is a bug report for scanning color documents into Affinity Photo on Mac. Moderator: I was registered on the legacy Serif forums, which did not automatically transfer to Affinity forums. I can reproduce when attempting color scans. (Note: Black & White, aka, gray-scale scans, however, import correctly.) Yes, this happens with a new document. Environment... OS & Version: Mac OS X Catalina (10.15.2) Expectation: Color scan will import / acquire from flatbed scanner correctly in Affinity Photo (attached: see color preview in 'Acquire Image' dialog) Actual Problem: Color scan is rendered in 'color bars' [sic] (attached: notice that the acquired Affinity Photo document renders in color bars) To Reproduce: Launch Affinity Photo on Mac, and access "Acquire Image..." from the "File" menu with a color sample loaded into the flatbed scanner; click the 'Scan' button (attached: screen capture with "Acquire Image" dialog showing the sample Screenshot attached. The scanner is Xerox WorkCentre 6515 with Mac OS drivers installed. Thank you, Ross B. --- Serif user since PagePlus X4 (in 2009), Ten Year Serif Anniversary Desktop Publisher since Mac OS 7.5.1 (1995)