dkenner
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I installed the Beta on my MacBook the other day to look and see if I could recreated some issues that crash v2.0.4 on a regular basis. The Beta installed flawlessly, was opened, a journal that I have been working on was copied to a new file opened, and that testing started.
I then went back to my v2.0.4 and continued to work on the journal (note, the autosave is configured and it never singled a problem). Eventually I hit [cmd + s] to do a save and I got an error message. "Failed to save document: xxx. Save Failed - changes to the file are not allowed". This caused some head scratching. I posted the screen shot and asked for idea, as I was at a loss. One suggestion was to [cmd + I] the file and check the permissions. Good idea ...
Going into the file finder I highlighted the open document and hit [cmd + I]. Up popped up information on the file. Nothing obvious in the top section, so I opened up every possibility looking for the read, write execute permissions.
When I got to "Open With" there was the problem. I installed the Beta recently and it had changed all of the .APub files to open with the beta and not with v2.0.4. I changed all .APub back to APub 2 from the beta and the problem seems to have vanished (now now).
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Relative paths for the .apub file to relatively linked resources would be nice when the .apub is in the cloud (with linked resources), the local HD or on an external drive (w/ resources locally).
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I just installed Ventura and Publisher came right up. No issues that I see...
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On 4/16/2022 at 6:41 AM, walt.farrell said:
There's a Mac option that may override your Publisher setting. Perhaps you have it set differently between your machines?
It was unchecked, so I checked it. No change. Documents open when I close APub are not reopened when APub is relaunched. I will check the iMac settings later this week. Odd. More curious than anything. Thank you for the idea though.
Dixon Kenner
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I have the checkbox turned "on" on both my 2019 iMac and my 2020 MacBook Air. On the iMac, when I relaunch Affinity Publisher it opens the documents that were open at shut down. On the 2020 MacBook Air, they do not open. Am I missing something? Just curious, it is easy enough to goto "open recent" and take the topmost file to open.
Both devices are running the latest OS/X (12.3.1), and the latest version of Publisher (1.10.5)
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29 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
I use the zoom to fit screen function, hold down the Option key when clicking the green dot. I still have the menubar but the screen is filled with the application's main window. I find the Mac's fullscreen mode to be fairly useless, good for looking at videos but not much else.
This does seem to get around the issue, though [option]+[green dot] is relatively unknown, and I would postulate that most will just click the green dot to maximize the screen. Thank you for this work around.
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2 hours ago, MikeTO said:
Press Shift+Cmd+5 and choose Record Entire Screen. Ctrl+Cmd+Esc to end recording.
Something new. Thank you,
It does it with other panels too. But I'll stick to this example. -
4 hours ago, DWright said:
Is it possible to post a screen recording of this issue as I have not been able to replicate it on my 5K iMac
I will see if I can make one using my iPhone and send it.
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I am in the same position as you, it is mildly annoying, but I am used to it. I note that I did not see this issue until this week. The first time I ran across it I thought APub had frozen.
For the specifics, iMac 2019 edition, running the latest version of OS/X 12.2.1. APub, latest version
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5 hours ago, GarryP said:
Can you tell us what you mean by “full screen mode”?
Sorry, click on the green dot in the upper left hand corner of the APub window, and it expands to fill the entire screen. If this is called something else, I am trapped in terminology dating back into the Nineties and the introduction of a popular graphical operation system, as opposed to some of the Unix systems I once used.
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Situation. APub, latest version. In full screen mode. Bring in a photo, click on the text box option and up pops the text wrap panel. Enter the options, wrap around the photo, enter distance from text. Close. All good.
Import another photo. Click on the icon for the text wrap panel and "nothing happens". Click anywhere and the system beeps at you. Excape does nothing. Seems to be hung. But, it isn't. Go and leave full screen mode and the text wrap panel appears, and can be used.
Seems to be an interesting "feature".
Solution seems to not use full screen mode, or jump back and forth.
System is a 2019 edition iMac, 27 inch, Monterey 12.2.1
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Thank you, I'll open a terminal window and go hunting as they are not quickly showing in the file finder. The recovery file will be somewhere, in the page file, or somewhere similar.
Dixon
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Good morning. Then possibly this is my ignorance as the preferences are set to 300 seconds (5 minutes) and I simply do not know where this file might be hiding, as when APub came back (yes, it crashed a couple minutes later, crash file sent to Pauls) it was the older version of the file.
For your two options, it was an existing file, previously saved several times (I started programming on batch cards, I have learned through experience [cmd+s for APub] is something done regularly and religiously.
Specifically, this was kind of an error, as APub did not crash (this time).
> "But sometimes it doesn't work."
Sadly, this may be the case. But, where might the recovery file, or temporary files hide on an 2019 edition iMac?
Thank you,
Dixon
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I was editing a file, and stupidly I had not saved it in over an hour. Suddenly up popped a message that I have never seen before -
"Access to document file lost: FILENAME". Access to the document's file was lost. This file must now be closed"
All of the work for the past hour was lost. Is there no recovery file that could have been accessed? I don't mind the regular APub crashes. I just reopen the recovery file, save, and continue on. This is annoying as work is lost.
In two years of using APub, I have never had this happen.
(iMac, latest OS, hybrid drive, latest APub version)
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9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
The workbook is not a manual, and doesn't show everything.
As with many things related to studio panels, the Panel Preferences (aka "hamburger" icon) will give you access to the settings for that panel, including the thumbnail size.
True about the manual, but it is an excellent resource! As for the hamburger icon, I have the icons as large as they would go and was hoping for slightly larger. There are numerous work arounds that I have done, including cut and pasting to construct one. I was hopeful that there might be a single setting somewhere which I could leverage.
But the thread has been instructive, to which I am grateful.
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Did the first, but was trying more for what is in your second image. Mea culpa, I never dragged it over far enough to get the double width, or triple &c. I will search further on adjusting thumbnail size, I did not see it in the workbook, and have tried (obviously not very effectively) to adjust in the past.
Thank you,
Dixon
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While the column of spreads down the left hand side of the (default) Affinity workspace is quite helpful, is there a way to have a "contact sheet"-like display that I could at the least, export to PDF for discussion, planning, purposes? It would be helpful to drop those wee images (scalable) onto an 11x17 sheet to share, print, mark-up as the layout of a newsletter/ magazine is discussed.
Thank you,
Dixon Kenner
Canada
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Sure, Though on a fairly recent machine with 64GB of ram?
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Thank you, I shall try this out.
Dixon
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Just a photo of what appeared when I started up APub. One document opened fine, the other gave me this blue screen. It went away after closing both files and restarting the application. No explanation, just an image for whomever might track these things
2019 27" iMac, latest OS, APub 1.9.3
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3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
I can't tell from that if you're trying to do data merge (nor do I understand the exact output format you want) or if you're trying to insert the data as a table. Tables are still limited to a single page.
It has been tables that I have been trying to import data into, and then having the tables linked over multiple pages.
An analogy would be spreadsheet with names, address and telephone numbers, and importing into AP to create a telephone book to be exported as a PDF or other type of document. Were this stand alone, I would take a different course, but I wish to export this index in several pieces, over several months and have it as part of the monthly newsletter that I edit.
There has been little pressure to do, hence the patience here, as the newsletter proper has a maximum size and it is already there.
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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
Doesn't it do that already?
It could be me not keeping up to date on capabilities, and I have not tried with 1.9.3, but I have a spreadsheet (Google sheets actually, but I can bring it into Numbers or Excel fast enough) of some eleven hundred lines (it is an index of articles for a newsletter that goes back nearly thirty years), that I would like to import into APub in its entirety over some 22 pages or more. Then it could be posted as a PDF on a web site for people to reference.
When I last tried, it would do merge on a page by page basis into AP, but not allow the large scale manipulation and import I was seeking. Looking release notes, as AP has evolved, I have not noticed that this has been addressed, so have not tried recently. Again, this could be my fault and inattentiveness. The videos I have found, and there are some excellent ones on YT by Affinity people and others, seem aimed as small tabled, or at creating, excellent, catalogues, but not at the mass import to create a very large index. I could repeat a process twenty-something times, filling table after table, but changed, insertions, deletions, in the past did not cascade through the document as if they were linked text fields.
If it does, I am making myself look foolish for not trying recently...
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None of the folders or files are locked.
To give a bit more, probably superfluous, information, when one click upon "open" for it to do the import of the page(s), the document does refresh on screen, but nothing is brought in. Possibly Affinity is not waiting for an external drive (a parasitic Western Digital, 4Tb) to spin up and times out?
Saving behaviour in APub
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Mostly just curious. When I [cmd+s] to save a file regularly (APub likes crashing at odd intervals) sometimes the dialog box with the progress bar pops up and shows it saving the file, most of the time it doesn't. Why? I would have thought that the behaviour would be consistent, always showing it, or never showing it. Again, just curious.
Dixon Kenner
MacbookAir, 8gb, latest MacOS, latest APub v2.1