Martin S Taylor

It is baffling that Affinity are letting this drag on so long without resolution, or even comment. If it's Affinity's fault they should fix it. If it's Apple's fault they should keep pestering Apple until Apple fix it. Martin

Certainly you need a driver, but I'm pretty sure there's a driver for Canon printers built into the MacOS. I never installed anything from Canon onto my Mac – I just plugged in the printer-scanner and it works (except with Affinity, which is why we're here). You certainly don't need Canon's tools for scanning – Apple's work just as well, though you can use Canon's if you prefer them. I don't understand what you mean here. MST

Better still, use Apple's "Image Capture", which comes as standard with all Mac software. Martin

I'm getting the same problems with my Canon TS8350 under Monterey (MacOS 12.0.1) Martin

Turning hardware acceleration off makes no difference. I get a similar result to Wilfred Hildonen, but only scanning in Black and White at 200dpi. Other resolutions, and colour scanning are fine. However, it won't scan at all if I set the scan to 'Text': "Scanner reported an error An error occurred during scanning." No problems using Image Capture. Martin

I don't know if this is the same bug, but scanning at 200dpi doesn't work – or rather, it produces weird results which other scanning programs don't produce. See the attached file. Martin Scanning bug.afphoto

For some reason they used the control key for this in Affinity Photo. The option key works as you described. Yes, it does. But one of the huge strengths of Macintosh has always been consistency between applications. For example, in 1980, to Quit a program sometimes it was Quit, sometimes it was Exit, or Stop, or Leave, or QQuit.... Apple put an end to that by saying it had to be 'Quit'. Similarly, all programs use Cmnd-X for Cut, Cmnd-V for Paste, etc. This consistency is worth maintaining, and I, too, would prefer it if Affinity marquees used the same keys as every other Mac program, sc. hold Shift to add to a marquee, Command to subtract from it. MST

Hi: I have a Canon TS8350 printer-scanner. If I use it to 'Acquire Image...' in Affinity Photo I can scan documents directly into Affinity. However, the box which allows me to control the parameters of the scan (resolution, image size, etc.) has an option for Image Correction. If I use this box to correct the image using the scanner software (or possibly MacOS), Affinity scans the image but then immediately crashes. Consistent and repeatable. Martin S Taylor iMac Pro, MacOS 10.14.6; Affinity Photo 1.9.3

I set up a document with A5 pages and print it as a 'booklet', ie. two-up onto A4 paper. In the Print dialog I set 'Document Layout' to be 'Booklet'. If something is selected in the documents, then under 'Range and Scale' I have the option to print just the 'Selection'. If I take this option and then try to print, Publisher crashes. Consistent and repeatable. I'm on an iMac Pro running the latest Mojave. Martin S Taylor

Thanks, done. Also, there's an advantage in having a pop-up menu if you right-click the title of the document: you can see where the document is stored in the Finder without actually having to open a Finder window and leave Affinity. Only a small advantage, but it's there. MST

What's the protocol here for saying "I agree"? Do I say "Me too"? Or "+1"? Or post a graphic of a thumbs up? Whatever, I strongly agree with WestSlopeGuide. Please allow right-clicking on the title of the document to reveal the current file in the Finder. Consistency across all Mac apps is (well, used to be) one of the biggest advantages of using Macs, and we really should do all we can to maintain it. Martin S Taylor

Thanks, haakoo. We knew all this. The problem is that moving the line segment repositions the handles at both ends of the line segment, and that's not what we want. anon2 has shown how to do it.

Yes, I'm sorry, you're right, of course. I forgot to hold down the option key. I find it a bit weird that the pen tool works in such a totally different way if a node is selected. I still think it would be more intuitive to have this function devolved to the Node Tool (isn't this exactly the kind of task that the Node Tool is for?), but you've at least shown me how it's possible to do what I need to do. And between us, I think we've corrected a lot of misapprehensions on the part of others in this thread. Cheers, Martin

Yes, and thank you anon2. That, at least, is a way to do it. But you first have to use the Node Tool (to select the node), then go the Pen Tool, then possibly reverse the direction of the curve (is there an easy way to see which way round the curve goes?) then opt-drag out the selected node, then (very likely) go back to the Node Tool to make some fine adjustments. The other awkwardness is that if the node currently has no handles, you have to add two handles and then delete one of them, which seems a bit ridiculous. I'd simply like a way of using the Node Tool to add one handle, and since opt-drag doesn't currently do anything different from ordinary dragging, it's available for this purpose.

Let's give this one more shot, shall we? Have a look at this diagram: I want a second handle which extends from point A, so that the line C will bulge upwards some more. I don't want to move point A, point B, or any of the handles you can see in the diagram at the moment. (Please don't anybody tell me that's not what I want. I do want it. That should be enough.) If I click on A with either the Node Tool or the Pen Tool, with or without modifier keys held down, I either smooth A (which I don't want) or move A or its existing handle. If I drag the line at point C (which, I think, is what Alfred is suggesting) it will disturb the handles at B. Again, I don't want this. All I'm asking for is that I can use the Node Tool together with an unused modifier key (eg. option-drag) in order to 'pull out' a second extended handle from point A. Point A will then be a sharp node with two handles: the existing handle (which will not be moved by my proposal) and a new handle which will affect the shape of curve C but will not affect the handles at B. I hope this is all clear – people seem to be making such heavy weather of it.