GenoaJenn

Hi Matt, I own an older Mac Pro (2009) and I am running separate Mac OS Xs on separate Hard Drives… this includes Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Yosemite and El Capitan. I started with Affinity Designer on OS X Mountain Lion and have since moved files to Yosemite. (I am still working the bugs out of El Capitan.) Something odd happens when I launch Suitcase Fusion 7 (or 5 or 6) first — when I launch Affinity Designer on my Yosemite login, it refuses to open any of my files, saying that I don’t have privileges to open them. Only occasionally does this happen on my Mountain Lion login. BUT… if I launch Affinity Designer first, then launch Suitcase 7, then it works OK, unless I am missing a font, then I have to load the font and hope that Affinity Designer won’t crash or refuse to open the file I was working on... This does not happen in Quark, InDesign, Word, FreeHand MX, Illustrator, Photoshop or any other layout/illustration/image editing software on my Mac. Those apps allow for “plug-ins” of the Suitcase Fusion software, except Word which loads fonts differently than the other apps. So, in order to use Affinity Designer I often must load fonts into the System Fonts via Apple’s Font Book, which defeats the purpose of having 4,000 fonts at my disposal via Suitcase Fusion. And, once I launch Suitcase Fusion, I cannot quit Suitcase and use Affinity Designer because it just won’t work. I have to restart and launch Affinity Designer first. Do you have a work around for this? At this point, I am not using Affinity Designer as much as I could be because of the font limitations. Please let me know. Thank you.

Multiple templates would be grand! FreeHand has only the one “default” template for New Documents, but I can save FreeHand files (FH11) as templates… there just isn’t a “Template Palette” or window that displays a thumbnail and name of the template… instead, it only lists the files you have saved to a specified folder. Apple’s iWork suite — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — have nice template selection windows, which can be set to auto open when you start the apps or not. Adobe has a separate app — Bridge — that allow you to organize files and your own “template” files for Photoshop, but it annoys me that I cannot view template previews in Illustrator or InDesign (CS4). My vote is for a scalable thumbnail view of templates in a separate window — if you allow us to create our own templates, that is. AND, a Template Folder that goes where the application keeps necessary files, so that it is difficult to delete a template… nothing like setting up a template only to accidentally delete it… or overwrite it… without the app double-checking with you, i.e.: “Are you SURE you want to delete this file?"

I haven’t tried the “Export Persona” yet, because I, too, need to export “pieces” of vector graphics as separate PDFs or EPS files. I did notice that even when I hide items on the layers palette that the objects will often show up in the exported PDF, so I have to do a “Save As” and give it a new name and delete extraneous objects in order to keep that from happening. If you do add in “Export Selection” please see if you can include an “Export Text as RTF” — there are times I need to move text from one application to another and keep the font (bold, italic, underline, strike-through, etc), paragraph style settings and text color(s) the same in each program — it would be nice to do that without having to rely on my Mac’s iffy copy and paste (to-from clipboard) for each text box.