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Affinity Publisher 1.10.1 / macOS Big Sur 11.6 Was working on a simple design last night for a landscape business card, very low-complexity photo (Affinity Photo file) in background 90x55 mm (plus 3 mm bleed) 300ppi – had the fans blowing a gale on my machine. Ridiculous. Metal is engaged, etc. Could Affinity remind me of best preference settings again? I believe what I have is the best I can get. Turned image layer off, waiting a few seconds, and fans died down. Later, turn on image layer again, and fans are blowing. My machine specs are in my signature.

@Like, would like more if… I’d personally never use DropBox for this workflow, but I’ve had to use it on team projects in the past. To be clear, are you using a plan suitable for a team environment: Business > Standard or Advanced? That’s my immediate thought on what’s needed to guarantee having DropBox behave as a traditional External File Server, regardless of the the end-user software being used. Also, do all team members obey the same DropBox protocol: keeping all file structures as virtual, and not download to their own local DropBox, and all that good stuff.

@MarcelRe Are you looking for someone (user-based) to try and open your file and test for a crash? If you are, I’m happy to give it a go. Want to share your file?

@Gabe Here you go, thanks. This issue may explain the horrible "punked" results with the Profile Tool, previously reported by others. Could be a connection? Save that for another day, one step at a time, etc. Creating Compound Shape Changes Shape Geometry.afdesign

@anon2 So, a known bug, in your opinion? Or class it as a limitation? Either way, it would be nice if Designer behaved reliably, when releasing artwork as a vector shape, independent of the end users software. I can hardly release live compounds, Affinity Designer-based. Would be great, if we didn’t live in an Adobe world.

@loukash Well, I have my workaround: don’t use Designer and go back to Illustrator, for these particular tasks. I’m reporting what I think I’ve identified as a bug. I’m guessing your solution to use a workaround suggests what you see as a known issue, yes? If it’s a known bug for 1.9.3, then I guess it will be filed away for later action by the developers.

@loukash Hi and thanks for replying and indulging. I get what you mean, but your example deals with building a single instance of a compound. Much like my example, but I was demonstrating with a simple example. Let’s say the compounds are multi-levels deep. It’s time to deliver the artwork, and so you release the compounds to a single shape (you know, as one does.) Does your technique promise to not move any of the geometry? My example was very simple, but with something complex, which is where I found the issue, you find shifts in geometry, where overlapping compounds no longer align. Both Compound and Join should result in the exact same geometry.

I was wondering why a fairly simple task: creating a [fairly] simple geometric icon, was giving me alignment issues between compound shapes. Unfortunately, it looks like I’ve found another bug. Ive recreated the issue in a new document. Circle over circle Remove small from large (creates donut-esque shape) Pen tool > shape intersects over donut Intersect as compound vs intersect as join, moves the geometry points when using compound. See video screen capture … I’m off to back to Adobe Illustrator, regretfully. But CS6 keeps my compounds aligned and true. I need my accuracy. I hope I’m doing something stupid, but the issue is easy to recreate. File is available, on demand. Screen Recording 2021-05-15 at 7.14.50 PM.mov

@whitewolf7070 That’s interesting. That would raise my suspicions, yes? Adobe CC delivers typefaces (and fonts (further down to all glyphs)) as part of CC being open and active, and connected to the internet. That’s as I remember when I used it last, as I now only use it when a client is willing to pay for the extra overhead. So, with that in mind, does turning off (you've tried on, already) Adobe CC services on all machines (via its own control panel, if memory serves?), effectively disabling all CC fonts. This may very well mean your Publisher document now has no access to the Adobe CC fonts, but does it now crash? Report missing fonts? Worth a test, in my opinion. Further, build a document with fonts installed on your individual computer, if possible, and see if the crashing continues? With all that considered, it would not surprise me to find Adobe CC snookering a user in to having difficulties using third party software, and and Adobe CC typefaces. Food for thought?

@migo33 understood. I tried to replicate your issue, and moved files each time, not copied. Still opened. Seems maybe a permissions issue with the app, as the allow or deny access made no difference. As for parity in outcome: my file opens, yours does not. Which seems to be inconclusive, no?

@migo33 Okay, moved the folder to iCloud, then to local documents: permissions asked for move to documents, I disallowed this time, and still opened. Very odd, but non-conclusive. I suggest you go on holiday for two weeks.

@migo33 20 years? I probably have some loose change on that figure, and still get assigned to "staff" or "everyone" or what was the other one? "Wheel"? Still pops up on occasion, just because it’s Tuesday afternoon, and a blackbird flies over my house at 37º incline. Well, it was worth a try. I’ve essentially avoided starting anything on my desktop, because of permissions issues. Shouldn’t happen, but it does, just because. I’ll try your scenario, and report back, if I can replicate. I’ll probably get locked out of my computer, for my troubles. 😉 edit: just got a permissions alert when saving to desktop. Interesting…

@migo33 I just tested the latest beta with app and files in downloads folder. Had some initial grief with permissions. Just checking: read/write allocated to your user name, I take it?

Checked your permissions for the parent folder?

@Jon P Initially, frames were acting odd, but had to rebuild the Publisher (Beta 1.9.2 1009) document, then carefully do things in a certain order: Place > Designer > first artboard appears on-click. Page Box > Minimum Content Right-click > convert to picture frame (set Properties to None) Still issues with Resource Manager (as shown) with no preview, plus dimensions shown in pixels, even though document set globally to millimetres. If I’m more casual and slap-dash, all "Hades" breaks loose. Seems to be a step in the right direction, but will probably need to rebuild my proper master file, once 1.9.2 goes live. I’m okay with that, if it means future updates behave as expected. Best – Dee