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MacOS has by default a search box at the top of the Help menu, which lets you type to quickly search all available menu options. Say I need to open the resource manager, I can click Help, type "res" and it'll be right there. I use this constantly. Massive regression in usability now this is gone in 2.5.0. I hope this is a bug and not a design choice!

My heart truly sank with this news. I've seen a lot of acquisitions like this, and the time from "we don't have any changes planned, everything will stay the same" to "we are excited to announce we now offer pro features on a subscription basis" is usually about 1 year. I have some amount of trust in Serif. I thought their transition from V1 to V2 was done very well from a business perspective. It's clear paid upgrades are the model its customers want, and it's certainly a requirement for me. But like others have said, I have no love for Canva. In fact, I don't have any feelings about them at all. I heard about them a while back, checked them out, "oh, it's a subscription service, not for me", and never looked again. I'll say, as long as Serif produce standalone perpetual-license desktop software, at the quality they are known for, I will continue to be a customer. If Canva think adding such a product to their portfolio is a good investment, good luck to them, I'll be their customer too. The moment that they stop that — by seeking rent, or by pivoting to online SAAS or AI or whatever — I'll look elsewhere. It was very painful to extract myself from Adobe, and all the other little software products over the years which have been acquired and changed to suit the business models of their new owners. But I did every time, and I'll do it again if I have to.

A word of warning for those who use the print-to-pdf-booklet method: if your document has bleed and also a transparent background, this ersatz imposition method will shove the bleed of one page under the transparency of the abutting page, which is obviously incorrect. Make sure your have no transparency within a bleed's width of your page edges if you're using this method. And yes, I did only discover this after I got back the finished — and now recycled — print job. My error, to be sure, but enabled by my having to do this in a hurry using an unsupported method.

Well I just sent a rush job to my local neighbourhood printers and they replied asking for printer's spreads instead of readers spreads, so I came to this thread looking for how to do it. Luckily the print-to-PDF option allows printer's marks to be added after imposition, otherwise I'd be up the creek, though I had to create a custom paper size to account for these marks without them being cut off. For those curious, it appeared to save the PDF at full quality — in fact because it doesn't allow the adding of JPEG compression, the resultant PDF was gigantic compared to one exported directly from Publisher. It is frankly a little bizarre that professional software that deals in spread-based documents won't do printer's spreads — doesn't seem like it would be hard to do, given it can happily split spreads into pages already...

I have also been having this issue. Can't do anything without force-quitting.

This bug still exists on 1.10.5 on MacOS. Here's a document demonstrating. compound symbol.afdesign

I have build a complex compound with both addition and subtraction. Now I want to convert this to a single curve. Is there a one-click (or similarly easy) way to do this, or do I have to manually rebuild it from the components using destructive boolean operations rather than compound operations?

Thanks @Jon P, that seems to open fine in my version. I'll check out the beta.

Thanks @Jon P, Yes, it does seem to be every time, if I open it directly with Publisher, either by double-clicking the file, or by dragging it to an already-open Publisher in the Dock. I've just tried it like 10 times in a row. If I open it with a different Affinity Suite app first and then transfer it over to Publisher as I described, then it works. I'm using the retail version (non MAS) of Publisher, and the MAS versions of Photo and Designer. If by crash report you mean the text inside the "unexpectedly quit" window, I've attached that here. If there's a better way to get more detailed crash reports, please say and I'll do my best. crash report.txt

I have a publisher file. When I try to open it in Publisher, it thinks about it for a while and then crashes to desktop ("unexpectedly quit"). The only way to get it to open without crashing is by opening it in Photo (works fine) and then transferring to Publisher while open ("Edit In Publisher…"). When I do get it to open in Publisher, it has sometimes lost some small piece of data since I saved it (e.g. a small parameter like word-wrap distance, or the size of a rescaled embedded document). problematic file.zip

@SPaceBar: Ah! I was having trouble loading it myself (takes several attempts), but I was putting this down to running Publisher on an ancient computer. I'll await the next update and hope that fixes the problem. Thanks!

@SPaceBar The file has changed since I made that post, and the issues is intermittent, but I've uploaded the current version in the hopes that it is still of use.

I have a one-page Publisher document into which I have placed (linked) many copies of a Designer file, using artboards to place different figures. Whenever I re-open the Publisher doc, I get a notice to open the Resources Manager, which then shows that the linked file is missing. Yet the path in the Resources Manager is correct, and when I click "reveal in Finder", it's right there. It's a 20 MB Designer file and also takes a long time (minutes) to "replace" the missing file with itself to fix the broken link. Also, the "remembered" size of the linked file here shows as 33MB, but it's actually 18MB. When I replace it with itself, it shows correctly as 18MB.

And yet… https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/1320426984086884353 Incidentally, since Lightroom 6 has stopped working on my Mac, I'm in the market for an integrated DAM/RAW developer. My choice at the moment is to start paying Adobe rent again and pray each night for Affinity Darkroom, or drop several £100s on Capture One or something, and permanently commit my photo library to another format. If Serif were a little more forthcoming with their roadmap outside of the odd Twitter reply to a stranger, it would sure help me decide! 🙄 Having said that, the decision is only difficult because the Affinity Suite is so good, an Affinity DAM might paradoxically be worth paying Adobe rent for a year, so I can't really complain!

Unfortunately not... that version of the file doesn't exist any more. But this happens relatively regularly to me so next time it happens I will attach here.