[Top menu bar disappeared!]

25 minutes ago, Oufti said:

In View menu, select Show Toolbar or type ⌘⌥T

That did it!! Thank you so much!! I must've hit that keystroke combo on accident. Thanks again for the help, I appreciate it!

[Top menu bar disappeared!]

57 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

Hi!

I'm not sure at the moment, but try TAB.

That was a good one, but unfortunately it didn't work. It did make the UI disappear, but then it came right back to the same thing.

[Top menu bar disappeared!]

Hi all,

I'm having a huge problem with Publisher 2. I'm on a Mac Mini M1, for some reason (this happened before the update, and is still occurring) the top of the window (where the menu is) has completely changed. It looks like its full screen or something, but I'm unable to change it. (see below)

 

 

 

I can drag the window around from the bottom bar, but thats the only way to move it. I cannot click and drag on the top window, I can't minimize it, or enlarge it or do anything you'd normally be able to do with that top menu bar. The regular menu bar is simply not there.

I tried toggling full screen mode, nothing changes. It just goes from full screen back to the above. I checked everything in preferences and nothing seems to address the issue. I tried rebooting, still the same thing. I tried resetting user defaults, that didn't help either. I've also updated to the latest version of Mac OS and it's still the same. And I had this problem before the Publisher 2 update, and after updating it's still the same.

I don't know if I accidentally hit a combo of keystrokes and did this setting, or if this is some kind of bug. If anyone can help me get it back to normal I'd appreciate it.

Thank you!

 

[Why is there no way to save a gradient in Publisher?]

6 hours ago, Red Sands said:

To add a fill to a swatch you have to use the little tiny icon next to the swatch name. 

This was an epic tip, thank you Red Sands! 

Thank you as well Walt. I could not add the gradient to the swatches from the text, it was text in a text box that had a fill. So, not artistic text or a vector or an image. Here's the gradient I was trying to add to the swatches:

It's just odd to me that I can't right click the gradient in the fill circle, or double click it and add it to the swatches. It just seems very counter intuitive as it is.

To save the gradients (I made multiple), I ended up doing what you suggested first Walt, I just recreated the gradient and put it in a shape and then added it to the palette. That worked fine.

Hopefully this thread helps someone else if they come here searching for ways to save a gradient in Publisher (she said, purposely adding the keyword phrase.) Haha

[Why is there no way to save a gradient in Publisher?]

Is there a way to copy an existing gradient that's currently filling text? I already created the gradient, and there's no way to save it. I have to recreate it and apply it to a new object in order to save it?

[Why is there no way to save a gradient in Publisher?]

It's such a basic thing, I searched for it online and posts asking about it going back to 2014. Searching for it in the forums here, all I see for responses are workarounds.

Why is this not an option in Publisher? It's very bizarre. Can this please be added in ASAP?

 

[Existing customers get a free update to Affinity Publisher 2?]

On 3/26/2023 at 12:13 PM, walt.farrell said:

No.

If you're an existing V1 customer you can get a 25% discount on the purchase of a Universal License, but upgrading is not free. What did you see that seemed to say it was free?

Well I tried checking my history but can't seem to find the pages where I saw that if you had the previous version, you can upgrade for free, and just need to enter in your license.

It's not a big deal at all of course because this amazing app is well worth the price, I just thought why should I buy it if I can upgrade for free? (haha) And yes Psenda, it's possible I saw "update" and took that as an upgrade to V2? 

What happened was, I formatted my computer for various reasons and my husband downloaded Affinity pub for me so when I went in and my license didn't work, I realized after checking my account etc. that I had downloaded V2. Cue my confusion. Anyway, thank you so much for the replies!

[Existing customers get a free update to Affinity Publisher 2?]

Hi, I bought Affinity Publisher and saw in the release notes that Affinity Pub 2 is available for existing customers. However it asks for license activation and says I don't have a license and offers a 30 day trial. My ID I'm logging in with is correct and shows my original purchase.

Can I upgrade to 2 for free or not? I'm very confused.

Thank you!

[Placing Transparent Image into Frame with Colored Background?]

Thank you *SO* much. I never even noticed that as an option. Appreciate the help!

[Placing Transparent Image into Frame with Colored Background?]

I believe the title says it all, but basically I'm trying to place a transparent image into a picture frame with a background color. I've tried with both PNG and TIFF and they're both placing into the frame, but the background color that's been set disappears. Is there any way to place an image into a frame with a background color, or is the only way to do this to place a picture frame with the transparent image over a colored shape? Thanks in advance for any help or guidance!

[Keyboard shortcuts to place and replace images]

Hi there devs,

A suggestion that keyboard shortcuts to place and replace images is vital for those of us working with templates. I'd love to see this sometime this year?

[Publisher - Select multiple frames, resize all]

Hi everybody,

Is there any way to select multiple frames (text frames and image frames) and resize all of them to a specific size?  Or if not both text and image, just multiple text frames or multiple image frames? There seems to be no way to do this at the moment and I need to do all of them individually. 

Thanks!