Denny

Can confirm this is fixed in latest beta.

Confirming that this is fixed for me as well.

I've tried 3 and it's been a problem on all of them: Keychron K2, Logitech K811, Logitech K380.

When, using an external keyboard, either Bluetooth or an attached magic keyboard, Publisher on iPad, sometimes stops excepting input from the keyboard. It seems somewhat random, and it's not always all of the keys. Sometimes it might be the delete key and the arrow keys, other times it's everything. Disconnecting, the keyboard and reconnecting does not help. Restarting the application fixes it for a while. Running the latest version of iPadOS and latest version of Publisher on an M1 iPad Pro.

Same crash here.

I’m running iPadOS 16.1 and 16.1.1 A small sampling of the fonts where I’m seeing the Chinese description include: Helvetica Baskerville, Gill Sans, Berlin Sans, Arial, American Captain, Georgia, Snell Roundhand, Marker Felt, Chalkboard SE, Honey Script, Papyrus, Antique Book Cover. It seems to be a mix of default fonts, fonts that I have added via the Affinity import in settings and fonts that I have added with the app AnyFont. It seems random.

I’m seeing various problems with fonts. Some fonts that have been imported into the v2 apps do not work. I get empty placeholder boxes for each character. These seemed to work initially but then stopped. In other cases fonts that are already on the iPad and work in all other apps such as Pages, Numbers, and the v1 versions of Affinity Designer/Photo, show up as red colored as though they are not available for v2 apps. Many fonts that do work, when selected, show in the toolbar as Chinese characters instead of the name of the font. In the v1 Affinity apps they show up properly with actual font names.

Thanks iuli! Upon first reading your response I didn't think it would be helpful because file sharing between the two devices via Universal Control and drag/drop is actually working fine in other ways. I've been able to drag back and forth between them using different apps with no problem. It was just the two Affinity apps on the iPad that was causing those apps to crash. But I tried the suggested solution anyway and it does indeed fix the problem for those two specific apps. With that option off I can now drag files from the Mac to the Affinity apps on iPad with no crash. Thanks again!

Using the latest version of Mac and iPadOS, latest versions of Designer and Photo on an M1 iPad Pro, dragging a photo from the Mac to the Photo or Designer application file browser/start screen via Universal Control will crash the app upon dropping the file onto the app window open on the iPad.

Working on a Mac using the latest version of Publisher, I have a text frame and tap to link to a new text frame and draw that text frame, the overflowed text in the new frame is tiny... like, 1.2 or so. If I attempt to select the text and change it to the proper size it also changes the unselected text in the original frame and makes it correspondingly huge. There seems to be no way to select it all and get the same size text. It's not a new bug as I've noticed it in previous versions.

Same questions!

On the Mac and many iPadOS apps Shift+Return yields a line break in text but that doesn’t seem to work in Designer. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks! I went back to the file in publisher. It’s changed there. I don’t remember doing it but I guess I could have! In any case, thanks for the work around!

Normally, I can create a text frame that by default has no fill. Or tap into a shape, with the text frame tool and double tap in the shape to convert it to a text frame and add text that flows within the frame. When I do this, as expected, the shape looses any background fill. However, I’ve, got a document that I sent over to Affinity Publisher on the Mac to do some tables then brought it back to the iPad. Now, any text frame, be it a converted shape or just trying to add a new text frame, the frame has a pale purple fill.

It is possible. Draw the shape then select the frame (not the artistic text tool) then double tap in your shape which will convert the shape into a text frame. Type your text.

Yeah, as I recall this has been an issue for awhile. I have an old post about it too.

Unfortunately this seems to still be an issue.

Thanks!

Sure thing Callum... here’s one https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhijotovwfhal28/Chess Saturdays 2.afdesign?dl=0 And I’ve found this happens with any file that I have with multiple art boards. Sometimes I can get an export with the correct dimensions but I have not been able to sort out why it works. I’ve tried different ways... changing the height instead of the width, width instead of height. Selection with background, without background, or the specific artboard. If I try enough times I’ll eventually get one. Thanks!

When exporting an art board from Affinity Designer I select a particular art board, change the size with linked proportions but the proportions are not retained. Rather than a portrait oriented image I end up with an image that is squished. Sometimes it works properly but mostly not. This happens whether I choose the option to export selection (with or without background) or export the art board.

His full resolution 16 bit files can be as large as 7.5GB each, I’m sure that’s beyond what the iPad can handle! But the smaller 8 bit images can be up to 3 GB.

I’ve got a friend who works with huge files, or at least seem so to me. I regularly work with files that are 10 to 50mb. He usually works with photos on his MacPro that are 500mb to 1 gig using an app called Capture One. But he has shown an interest in using an iPad for editing away from his desk. I’ll check in with him for more details on the files but thought I might at least get an idea as to what the max limit is for an iPad running Affinity Photo. I suspect his needs go beyond what the current hardware can handle.

Ah, The grep is what I was looking for. Thanks. That said, my interest in this was to import from pdf to test how well that works. I’d like to be able to dump InDesign and switch to Publisher. Assuming a future when I don’t have access to InDesign I want to get an idea about what it might be like to start with an import of a pdf from a previous project that needs to be updated. Hoping Serif will at import of IDML at some point because while importing a pdf seemed great at first any attempt to actually do anything with the new Publisher file was met with an awareness of all of the little changes. I did also try copy pasting the text from InDesign (even though I won’t have that in the future) just to see how it would go and as you said, it kept all my styles. Nice.

I’ve imported a pdf from an InDesign project and as I clean up the document to re-link text boxes lost in import, one problem I see is that I now have line breaks that I don’t want based on the import of columns. Is there a way to remove the line breaks so that my text will reflow properly?

I’ve got the exact same questions for these shortcuts. I checked in the preferences section for modifying shortcuts but could not find these. In the help section it says to use the home or end key for moving to the beginning or end of line but my keyboard does not have a home or end key (as far as I can see).