mcribble

Hi @djudd Tried your workaround which I managed to get working - many thanks for the tip. There was one wrinkle - after typing *.bat the bat file didn't show up - but I clicked on open anyway and it then did show up in the file list. So all OK. Thanks again. One file thought - in attempting to solve the issues I now have ownership of the file with the .exe file sonot sure whether these workarounds are because I've changed the permissions or whether I can revert the permissions backto their original stae which I feel I'd like to do as which in other threads some users in other threads have expressed some concern over. Regards Martin

Another follow up. I've done a shut down and restart in case there's anything odd about that process in respect of permissions but the system appears to be as prior to shutdown. DXO - Although the drop down list only shows .exe files I manually typed the name of my batch file (Walt's batch file) into the box and I appear to have launched V2 from DXO using the batch file. ACDsee - I've tried the same trick but it hasn't worked. The screenshot is from my attempt at getting the trick to work for ACDsee rather than DXO but the process is the same. Regards Martin

Hi, This a follow up and a bit of clarification since my response to Walt has been picked up. Firstly clarification - I've not used Walt's batch file to invoke from a 3rd party application. I'm using DXO and ACDsee and, as far as I can see, I can only invoke .exe files rather than .bat files. So, now for a bit of follow up. And apologies but the precise order of what I've done is lost in the mist of exploration and button presses. I started this morning by starting from the desktop shortcut I'd created yesterday. I then moved on ...... When I came to explore V2 this morning I tried to invoke V2 from DXO but got a message along the lines of (sorry - I've been fiddling for a couple of hours so can't remember exactly) "can't access". Or something like that - the upshot is I couldn't invoke V2 from DXO. Since I now know where the V2 app is I went to the folder to find I didn't have permissions that I had set up yesterday - so I think I couldn't start V2 by double clicking the .exe in that folder - even though the desktop shortcut I'd created yesterday worked fine. I've now regiven myself permissions and am getting V2 to invoke via DXO and ACDsee but - I have now had a couple of requests to re-enter my licence/account details. I have no idea why my permissions changed overnight. anyway, I've done a couple of restarts and things seem to be working OK at the moment. As far as Walt's batch file is concerned - I can confirm it launches V2 from my desktop. Hope this helps and apols if earlier lack of clarity has confused. Regards Martin

Walt - many thanks for the responses. Yes - with your help I've managed to both point Affinity to my plugins and get my other apps to invoke Affinity. Martin

Hi, I've just installed V2. The installation did not give me the option for a desktop shortcut (I've tried reinstalling to check this). While I can find the app in the apps list and pin to the taskbar I like to keep shortcuts to all my photo applications in a folder. The requires that I know the .exe file location. I was expecting to find the V2 .exe file in C:\Program Files\Affinity\Photo which is where V1 is located. After a lot of searching and (maybe just my system) fiddling about with permissions on the folder I found the V2 .exe file in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\SerifEuropeLtd.AffinityPhoto2_2.0.0.1640_x64__3cqzy0nppv2rt\App. Given the effort to find the file I'm wondering why the V2 .exe file was put in this location. And. If I may. I have a number of plugins (Nik, DXO Filmpack, Topaz, On1) which work fine in V1 so wondering if the V2 .exe location will make plugins problematic. Thanks Martin

Hi Many thanks for your responses. I have to admit I've hardly looked at the Export persona but will have a bit of investigation. By way of where my question came from I thought I'd revisit other software I use: DXO PhotoLab, Lightroom and On1. All of which enable something in the way of what I was looking for. Never mind - it's far from something that poses a problem and the standrad export dialogue is not exactly onerous. Thanks again for your responses.

I'm sure this is really simple but I can't find a way of doing this either in the standard export dialogue or the export persona. What I'm trying to do is to set up a JPEG preset. In the export dialogue I can set resampling method and quality and when I create a preset these are "sticky". But, what I can't appear to do is to set the size (pixels) and to have the preset retain the pixel size I've set. So, for example, I can set up a preset: Resample: Lanczos 3 Separable Quality: 100 What I want to be able to do is to have the size set to 1600px by 1200px and to have this included as part of the preset.