lgroth

Installed from your website, all at the same time, always updated at the same time. This morning first attempt at opening Designer I got the same "can't communicate with other programs" error, second attempt it opened properly. Never saw this before the 2.3

Since the 2.3 update, when opening just Publisher I get an error that it can't communicate with the other programs and closes. To open I must first open Designer and Photo, then Publisher opens as it should. Happened yesterday after I updated (all programs), figured it was probably a fluke, maybe just needed a restart, but did it again today too. Never had that happen before, otherwise everything else seems to operate fine. iMac Pro, Ventura 13.5.2

I'm sure this has been recommended by others, just want to get my verdict in too. I've been using Affinity professionally for a couple years now (mainly Designer) in the sign industry, plus vehicle graphics, wraps, etc, plus I freelance in the ad world, and illustrate for fun. When designing up files for large format printing, they're often done at a much smaller scale, then scaled up to print size before exporting, exported files are then deleted after printing. As print sizes can be different every time depending on use (from billboards to decals using the same design), this is done to keep only master designs with small file sizes for storage. The ability to globally enable scaling Fx and strokes would be a huge plus. On more basic designs "select all" and enabling it, or grouping and enabling it is somewhat successful, but when using layer masking (which I do quite often), it will not enable it for sub-layers requiring them to be gone through to enable it manually. In my 25+ years in the design/ print industry I rarely ever have a situation where I don't want everything scaled proportionately, this is pretty much the best feature I could recommend implementing. Whether it's on by default instead of off, or by adding an option to set it to on globally in the settings, or by document would be a game changer. Great software, absolutely love it!!!!