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How has one of the threads asking for this not been stickied yet? It's got to be one of the most requested things. It seems so absolutely core to the concept of a layout programme. I get that everyone thinks that about different features, but seriously, how can anyone not miss this?

Probably not really a bug, as Photo and Designer have the same behaviour, and it's inconsistent even among Apple's own apps. But it's Mac specific so reporting it here instead of feature requests. Please, please, can you make the Affinity apps remember whether or not they were in full screen mode when you exit, and have them start up in the same mode as you left off? Having to put all three apps back into full screen as soon as I load them every time is just a bit tedious.

OK, here you go. I'm fairly sure this is the only crash I've had, so I think all these should be exactly the circumstances I described, but there are one or two that seem to be a bit distant in time, so maybe there was another that I've forgotten. Of everything else in that user reports folder, literally half is InDesign! Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-30-172109_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-30-172119_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-30-172755_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-30-174354_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-30-174630_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-31-012351_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-08-31-112147_Jamess-MacBook-Pro.crash

Agreed. It's horrible in InDesign. If you're just using that Windows app to convert Postscript to PDF, though, you might want to try using the Preview app built into macOS. It's tedious that InDesign can't do it natively, but that does at least work for my needs.

Hmm... No, if I create a new document with only the vivid light blend picture frame the crash doesn't seem to occur. And I didn't save the file I was working on yesterday. All I'd done was step through the tutorials on the web site. Is there any way I can recover a crash log at this point, or is it too late now?

Ah, thank you! Missed that when I was looking through the options. It doesn't seem to have as many options, but for my needs that works way better than InDesign's booklet tool!

I'd like to see a feature for printing or exporting PDFs with pages of an A5 booklet arranged for printing on A4, like InDesign's File > Print Booklet. Given how gawd-aweful InDesign's tool is (it'll only export in PostScript, not PDF, and I have to use Preview to convert it), I guess this isn't a very popular feature. But I produce PDFs that are published on a web site for our users to download and print at home. I need to give them the files in a format they can easily output correctly on a home printer with the booklet pages in the correct order. Edit: It has been pointed out in this thread that this can already be done through the Print dialog. My mistake!

Will second the call for a lock on margin values. A small thing, but one you have elsewhere that eases frustration.

I've tried creating a text frame stretched to the full extent of the margins, dividing that into columns at the size I want, and then dragging out guides to trace the columns. It almost does as a work around, except there doesn't seem to be any way to make the guides (or other things, like picture frames) snap to the column lines, so it's not as precise as it should be.

I hadn't even thought to check that this was included, it seems so core to the functionality of laying out pages. I work almost exclusively with column-based documents, with sidebars and images and headers that span column widths. Calculating all those gutters manually and placing guides is going to be a massive faff, and more likely than anything else to be the thing that stops me adopting Publisher for production work. A shame, as I hate InDesign with a fiery passion.

I'll second this. Unless I'm missing something, I can't see an easy way to restore an image to its native proportions (something like Object > Fitting > Fit Content Proportionally in InDesign). It's very easy to accidentally knock something and stretch it. It'd be good to have a way to put that right.

I've been following through the tutorial videos, and I've got to the tables video. I don't have an image with a suitable dark background to hand, so I figured I'd try and crop an image down by adjusting the shape of the picture frame, adding some nodes to make it the same shape as the object in the picture. I've inserted a picture frame to fill the spread, as in the tutorial, then inserted a photo into the frame. As soon as I click the convert to curves button Publisher crashes to desktop. When I reload I get an option to restore the file, so have done that, and I get the same crash every time I try it. Running High Sierra 10.13.6 on a Mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro Edit: just tested this a bit further after deleting and recreating the picture frame. It had a Vivid Light blend mode applied. Without that it seems to work fine. Turn it back on and the crash returns.

I've also seen this issue, with the same opacity slider. I've not seen it stay on top of other windows, but I'm running Publisher fullscreen. It stays with the Publisher desktop when I switch to another app, and it's still there when I switch back.

Ah, sorry. Didn't notice that the last post had been so recent. Thought I was reading an old thread!

Has this been implemented yet? Just needed it and still can't work out how it should work.

Ah, I did search the forum, but didn't manage to find anything. Thanks for the direction, even if the answer is disappointing!

This is frustrating. I'm using Affinity because I want to want to break out of being tied to Adobe's hateful software. I'm still paying for a standalone InDesign subscription because I can't get by without it, but I don't want to pay for the whole of Creative Cloud just to be able to copy and paste.

Another one looking for this feature...

Hi There, In leu of the still MIA Publisher, I'm using InDesign for page layout work. In typical Adobe style, the damned thing still doesn't support SVG, and copying and pasting doesn't seem to work. Is there any way to import Affinity Designer shapes into InDesign with the curves intact, so I can customise the fills and strokes from within InDesign as I would be able to do with an Illustrator file? Thanks a lot!