pgrimaldi

Hi all I've recently encountered a recurring problem, which reminds me a bit of a (recent) incompatibility of the Affinity suite with iCloud. When I open an existing document (with imported images), the loading seems to be in an infinite loop: nothing happens, I can still scroll through the menus, and the app is not blocked. I tried to let it happen, thinking that maybe the document would eventually load, but nothing had changed after an hour. You can't stop the loading process, you can't "quit" (not before the doc loads, and it won't load), you can only "force quit"). This apparently happens only on documents with imported images, and I feel like it happens when the images are stored in iCloud: all my documents (and imports) are stored in iCloud because I may have to work on my docs from 2 different workstations. This has always worked perfectly until very recently, when I started using a new M3 MacBook Pro running Sonoma (the old one was limited to Catalina, and my other post is a (very slow) iMac running BigSur 11.7.10.). I've tried to switch the hardware acceleration on and off: no difference. Until now, this has only happened on the M3 MacBook Pro, but now I'm seeing it on the iMac as well. I searched on the English forums, and I read a few such reports. Also noteworthy: this seems to happen on both Publisher (v2.4.2) and Designer (v2.4.2). Did you ever experienced this malfunction? Do you have an idea or a solution? Thank you in advance for your answers. Best regards, Patrick

Same problem since I upgraded to Catalina (on an external SSD) The "export to Print (for print) instead of the Print (X-4)" tip from Mike Demana did not work for me, but the "convert typefaces to Curves" worked fine, thanks Radim108 (see screen capture of the dialog, in French 😉) Patrick

Thank you Ulysses for this quick answer But I can't find any option to deactivate the dithering: this could help to decrease file size even more (with some local color changes of course), because of big surfaces with one color. In my workflow, I'll have to use Designer to layout my figure, then export to png-24 or psd, open with PhotoShop and export to png-8 with non-dithering ("Sans tramage") settings Regards, Patrick

Hi First, may you pardon me for my approximative english, it is not my native language ;-) I am a happy user of Affinity Designer/Publisher/Photo since a couple of years. I have switched from Adobe, and I have been earlier a heavy user of PhotoShop/Illustrator/InDesign (20 years) until the monthly fee. My question is about the presets of png/gif export on an image in Designer : in my webdesign workflow, I use a vector program to create tables or charts and I export them in jpg/png/gif ; I need to keep little weights. I have noticed that such images generated from Designer are often heavier than from PhotoShop ... My question: is it possible to access fine parameters like in PhotoShop? In PhotoShop it is possible to choose a color reduction method (perception, selective, adaptative, ...), and the dithering method (without, diffusion, pattern, ...). In Designer, the only choice for png is png-24 or png-8 (with diffusion)... and the expert window don't have these parameters I join screen captures of PS : under the "1." the export parameters of PS ; under the "2.", you can see that when exporting an image with and without dithering, there is a significant difference : in my example, setting the dithering to "none" gets an image from 310,1K to 165,4K (all other settings are unchanged). I would like to know if it is possible to do that with the Affinity Suite? Or maybe make this suggestion to the development team ;-) Best regards, Patrick