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Your Affinity apps will be tied with your Apple ID so when you get the new iPad and log into the App store with the same Apple ID you will have everything you had on the old iPad.

Very bizarre, why would this be on by default? Tried it myself out of curiosity and same results as the OP. Wosven's post fixes it by why would anyone need to hunt around to get the font to display as it does everywhere else?

Seems to make a lot of sense and I am sure there is no real back end hassle in doing this. You are going to have unique questions for each app as each app serves very different functions, page layout, vector handling and illustrator and photo. The commonality is all 3 apps can be used to create a finished product, but that is about it. Personally I am far more interested in Publisher as Indesign is my most used application and favourite.

Personally being in the print industry I would say your first step should be talking to your print shop. Let them know your issues and concerns and work with them on what you can do to provide them the files they need to achieve it or what they can do on their end. I find it more frustrating when people try and adjust like crazy without talking to me and then expect what they see on their monitors (calibrated or not) to be the way it comes out in print.

Is this an online print shop you are dealing with? Do you know what they are printer they are using to print your images? If this is indeed an online only print shop I would firstly suggest contacting a local print shop where you can deal with someone in person, show them your concerns and let their expertise guide you. All wide format printers should print RGB no problem, I think most if not all of the modern wide format printers are using at least 8 colours, I know my Epson 9900 has 13 colours which gives it exceptional range that could never be met by a printer printing in CMYK. You can calibrate your screen as much as you want and adjust your pictures based on that but if the printers that are being used cannot handle the colour range it will not make a difference.

Do you no longer have access to CS5 or you are using Adobe CC and these are just files you want to have access to if want? If you have access to Adobe CC you could try installing Photoshop 20.9 which is the previous version and open all your files there and resave them, or keep that version of Photoshop file installed. One way or another though you are going to have issues and the best solution is probably reserving them with a newer version of Photoshop to maintain compatibility. CS5 is pretty ancient now, 10 year old software, so you cannot expect support forever.

It will be up to Freepik then. I do get why they want it a certain way, it lets them keep quality control. If people start getting .eps files from their site and they do not open right because they were made in another application people are going to stop trusting the site and looking elsewhere.

Adobe CC is the standard. I get why they would want that so they know files will open up properly in Illustrator which again is the standard for vector work. Unfortunately you cannot know that as it is an export from Affinity Designer and not native to Designer. You could always try and if the designs are simple I cannot imagine there being any real issues. How do they verify on their end that the file was made with CC? Is there something in the eps file that shows where it was created? Do you have access to Illustrator to try out your files and see how they open?

I am just curious, why would you work on something in Photoshop and then bring it into Affinity Photo? There will always be some issues when importing a working file from one application into another. They have done a great job but it will never be perfect.

I would still say there is something wrong on your end if you are finding it unstable. How long you have used it does not matter when stability is in question. It is most likely something to do with your computer if the problems and bugs are not repeatable on other peoples machines running the same version. I think the noticeable improvements stopped early in CC's release, but it did not go downhill in anyway I can see and I use Adobe CC daily, it is the tool I use to make my money. Software runs fast, rarely crashes and has all the features and tools I need. Again Affinity is doing a great job, but it is still new and missing many things. Bang for your buck you can't beat it and would say you get more then what you pay for with it, but it is still not on the same level as Adobe and will not be for a while. I look forward to the day when standards come in question, no longer will it just be assumed Adobe is the best way to go. We need competition in this market, it only makes things better for us the end user.

I would say there is something wrong on your end. I use and have been using Adobe software for along time, think I converted our shop over in the CS2 days, at least for Indesign. We were all Quark back then for layout. I currently use Adobe CC (Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop) daily and have no lag, no real bugs and no fails. Sure there will be an issue now and then with a feature, it is rare. Currently the latest version of Photoshop the content aware crop does not work so I stepped back a version. Other then that it is incredibly powerful software that has been well refined over the years. Now Affinity is quick, very snappy and responsive no one can deny that. I would be curious to see how things go though in 5 years when development is still using the same base coding and adding and adding to it. Personally I would not say Affinity provides a richer and more effective experience because there are big issues that make it unusable for pro work. The big one is how Publisher handles PDF's. There are countless threads on the forum about this issue and it has been there since beta. Of all the other things I would like to see to stand up against Indesign this is the biggest one. Affinity has done a great job and price is almost unbelievably cheap and it is still early days for them, but it is not a real adobe substitute for a lot of people yet. Would love it to be a real rival for Adobe as they have not had any competition in a long time.

Not sure if it is something they are working on correcting as many seem to think it is a feature and not a problem. Personally this would have been a high priority issue as so much cannot be done if PDF's cannot be safely placed in Publisher. I am not holding my breath for a fix of this feature.

This has been an issue since the beta version and there are many many posts about it. Seems the OP is saying he had the same issue dropping the PDF in Indesign though as well which I find strange. Right now if you need to use supplied PDF's I would stick with Indesign till some sort of pathrough option comes out where Publisher is not trying to make the PDF editable. Too many possible headaches with this at the moment. Work around solution if you have the capabilities is to convert all fonts to outline if you do not need the pdf text editable the future.

+1 If you are collaborating with other people I would stay with Photoshop. Sounds like you are just asking for headaches an compatibility issues by moving to Affinity. While the software is good, it is not the same as Photoshop. I would say the same for Designer and Publisher if trying to mix in with an Adobe workflow.

Any font activated with Suitcase/Font Explorer Pro are seen in any and every app on Mac OS. You can have sets, similar to iTunes playlists, of fonts. I would not see these sets in any application, just the activated fonts. I do not spend a whole lot of time in any application selecting my fonts as I mentioned before. I either have standard fonts I always use or have selected them before hand. They sometimes change but again I am not doing that in Indesign or Publisher as it is much faster and easier to search for fonts in my own collection or using Adobe Fonts from the cloud.

I did see that there is some options for forms in Indesign though from what I saw it was nowhere near as powerful or easy as doing it in Acrobat. With no instruction I was able to figure out making fillable forms in Acrobat DC. As I mentioned in a previous post I do the based design in Indesign, export to PDF and finish that form part there. I will have to research more to see if Indesign has the same functionality as Acrobat for making PDF forms, but on the first initial check it does not appear so. It looked like it was more for making interactive PDF's.

I agree 100%. I find a lot of what Publisher and Affinity apps as a whole confusing when it comes to UI and layout. The Indesign option is simple and for the most part self explanatory. Publisher is a jumble and took searching the first time I wanted to export a PDF with bleed and crops. Adobe has years and years of pro users using and suggesting things that have refined their products very well for the most part. I would not be afraid to learn from Adobe as they have most likely learned from past mistakes. This is a screen shot showing the difference between the two. Way more flexibility with Indesign to get a PDF how you want. Screen Shot 2020-04-06 at 1.29.22 PM by B P, on Flickr

Perfect, thought it was something simple like that, Thanks!

First off have the latest version of Publisher. I tried looking around settings and view options but did not see anything for this. When working on a job, be it a newsletter, business card, magazine, whatever, I generally have things off the page. Like pieces I can use or am trying to use (images, pasted unformatted text, etc). If I drop a picture, or make a filled box and move it off the page it cannot be seen. Is there a way to see what is off the page?

Not sure you can actually create the fillable forms in Indesign. If you can I have not seen it. I do not make a lot of fillable PDF forms but the few I have done I setup in Indesign. I then export as PDF, open in Acrobat Pro and then go to the "prepare form". It auto detects boxes I have and for those it does not I add them, move them where they need to be, assign parameters for the box. I do all that fillable functionality in Acrobat, the layout all done in Indesign.

I wonder if this would create issues for people who do not use FontBook. There are many other Font Management options out there and the built in Mac one is not all that great. Most people we deal with Suitcase or Font Explorer Pro. Might not create any problems other then having something there that many people would simply ignore as it would be useless to them. Not sure I would want all my customized collections listed as I generally know what fonts I want to use on a new job and am not spending a great deal of time sorting through them in Indesign.

To me this really seems like it is something for a PDF reader/editor. Publisher is a page layout application and there is a lot still that needs to be done to bring it up to Indesign level. This would not be a must have feature to me as I think it belongs elsewhere. Adobe has Acrobat DC which is where you would do this. Maybe in time Affinity will look at their own version of PDF reader/editor.

No idea why they would want it that way, seems pretty antiquated. I guess you can be happy they do not want the files in EPS format. Used to get files that way ages ago, single page EPS for a 32 page magazine.

Is each page like a different flyer or ad or are they wanting separate pages for each page of the newspaper?

As others have said it is not a feature in Publisher at the moment like it is in Indesign. One of those little things you don't think of but is really helpful. Our of curiosity, why do you need them as single page PDF's?