
Martin S Taylor
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I'd just like better documentation. I had no idea what a 'Signature' was in this context until I had to research it. I have a document comprising five A5 pages, and I want to print the first four pages on a single sheet of A4 – pages 4 and 1 on one side, and pages 2 and 3 on the other. Surely not a ridiculous request? Yet selecting the 'Booklet' option prints all the pages, with half of each sheet blank in a way I can't understand. Fortunately for me the 'Book' option does what I need, but still – some kind of explanation in the documentation would be helpful, no?
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I tried setting the RAM Usage Limit to 16384 MB, and things were much improved. I've gone over a week without any Affinity programs crashing. This morning, though, I turned on my computer to the familiar report of Publisher having crashed, but in addition there was a system message to say that I'd run out of application memory (screenshot attached). I'm not using anything that chews up ridiculous amounts of memory, and there's 64 GB on the machine, so I'm starting to suspect a memory leak somewhere. Martin
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As promised, I'm reporting that Affinity Publisher crashed again today. I wasn't even there! I left the machine to go to sleep on its own, and when I woke it up this evening there was the crash report. I've now turned off Metal, as MikeTO recommended and we'll see what happens. If it still crashes I'll try downgrading to 2.4.0 Martin
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I do have Metal on, so perhaps that's the problem. I doubt that it's our settings of Affinity, as these crashes affect all the Affinity programs - Photo, Designer and Publisher. I also wondered if some background programs I run could be causing the problem, so I've disabled them. If this makes no difference I'll turn off Metal and see how that goes. I'll report back, in either case. Martin
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(Following the reply from Dan C, I'm starting a new thread, as requested.) As per the title, all three Affinity products (Photo, Designer and Publisher) crash at random times, usually when I'm not using them, and often when these apps have no windows open. I would say on average I get about one crash a day. As Dan C recommended, I reset Affinity back to default settings, but the problems are persisting. Latest crash report attached. Martin MacBook Pro M1 Max. MacOS 14.4.1 Affinity versions 2.4.2 Affinity Publisher2 crash report.txt
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As per the title, all three Affinity products (Photo, Designer and Publisher) all crash at random times, usually when I'm not using them, and often when these apps have no windows open. I would say on average I get about one crash a day. Crash report attached. Martin MacBook Pro M1 Max. MacOS 14.4.1 Affinity versions 2.4.2 Affinity Crash Report.txt
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Ordinals in Garamond Pro
Martin S Taylor replied to Martin S Taylor's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
Aha! Thank you. It was the option "Superscript ordinals as they are typed" which confused me. It seems that this option forces faux-superscripts in appropriate places. Thus when I type "18th", it uses the faux-superscript 'th'. But If I select the option under typography, I get weird results because Garamond has a 'proper' superscript 't' but not a superscript 'h'. Martin -
I'm having trouble getting Ordinals to work properly. In my chosen font (Garamond Pro) , if I type a phrase like "19th Century", the t of '19th' appears as superscript, but the h doesn't. In Times New Roman the superscript goes very weird, as you can see from the screenshot. For what it's worth, "Superscript ordinals as they are typed" (in Settings) is switched off, but "Ordinals" (in the Character Palette), is on. Martin S Taylor Sonoma 14.0; Publisher 2.2.0
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I have a Text Style (called 'Listings') set up exactly how I want it. The text is in Garamond Regular (ie. not italic). However, I need the last few words of each paragraph to appear in italics. Easy to do, either with a Character Style or a local Italic override. But now I hit <Return> to start a new paragraph and the text continues to appear in italics. I'd like all that local italicising to be cancelled, so that the new paragraph begins, automatically, with the text style 'Listings', exactly as I've defined it – without italics. It's easy enough to cancel the italics manually. Or there's a stupid workaround, where I can define two identical text styles, 'Listings' and 'Listings 2', each of which is followed by the other. But this is a bit daft. Am I missing something here? Is there no way to clear local formatting automatically when I start a new paragraph in the same Paragraph Style? Martin
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CURIOUS PRICING
Martin S Taylor replied to E9B6's topic in Customer Service, Accounts and Purchasing
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CURIOUS PRICING
Martin S Taylor replied to E9B6's topic in Customer Service, Accounts and Purchasing
Seems straightforward enough to me: if you buy in Jersey, the price is £89.99; if you buy in mainland UK, the price is £74.99 + VAT. Serif can charge what they like in different countries. If you prefer your extra £15 to go to Serif, buy it in Jersey; if you prefer the £15 to go to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, buy in the mainland. Martin