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I can't replicate it myself now. Downloaded 2.3 and a few older versions and in each, the same happened. Then I tried clicking outside of publisher when it froze and then back and then did escape and then tried the action again and this time dialogue opened normally.

Updated to 2.4.0 and app freezes when I select text nad do Text > Interactive > Insert hyperlink and I have to force-quit it and lose changes. The dialog doesn't even appear.

Thanks all - I do see now that it was caused by first artboard in top left corner of all artboards (in relation to 1px added width then left and in relation to 1px height it is first artboard from top). @MEB - your analysis and workaround is correct but it is a workaround... the fact that one artboard can make all others export wrong is a bug. I don't think artboard defined as 100x100px should ever export as 100x101px. Also when moving artboards around default should be snapping to full pixels as most design files (or all?) don't support anything other than full pixels anyways.

You are right - I have them there but never select them in export panel - do you think it may be affecting the correctly located/sized ones?

When eporting artboards via esport persona all sizes of jpgs are +1 px on height and when exporting individual artboard one-by-one it is correct. In past it happened when artboards had x or y coordinates not as full pixels but as 0,5px value for example even for individual but in this case now I checked all of them are full pixes. ads.afdesign

Yes you are probably right - I hope this changes, but for the now, when I actually don't need preview in ~90% cases an option to not load it by default would save me ton of time.

Hi @v_kyr - I checked and Affinity main app starts taking ~600% CPU so it is multithreaded but within main app process.

Precisely @GRAFKOM - or even just a tick under current preview saying Preview enabled and that setting being remembered.

When export panel opens it starts generating image preview and until it goes for some time it doesn't allow changing any of the options on the right. Like now I was exporting preview of a big banner and it is 600x300cm @300DPI as a file and when I export it initially has 70k pixels... or if it has few versions in one file (artboards) and by default it is Whole document for example, so it was ~20s until I was able to type the size to 3000px for just preview. Or when I select one artboard and affinity ignores it and generates whole file preview and I have to wait till it stops calculating to change the setting to one of the artboards... and then I wait to be able to type say 2000px.. @Seneca this is a feedback forum and I gave feedback. I don't want to kill it - I sometimes use the preview function but I want an OPTION to kill it. Like a Preview tick in export dialog window.

Seriously this slows down my work by many minutes daily. And it is hardly ever useful anyways as if I want to export bit or whole artboards it doesn't remember if I previously exported selection to suggest it for next export or often mistakes/ignores selected artboard for exaport and generates whole file's preview if I want just selection and I have to wait long to select selection only... This feature is bad. I want an option to kill it.

At times (seems random) I am unable to draw rectangle selection of points to select them. I draw and release the mouse and nothing gets selected. Weirdly sometimes it works and even restarting the app doesn't make it work. mac 12.6.1 (21G217) Publisher 2.0 iMac 2019

Just an update - it started working quite normally after few hours. Strangely I wasn't doing much - did not reinstall it, but it works so far very good so I won't be touching that

Installed on laptop and it was slow to import from V1 but worked nicely and apps work so far. On my 12.6.1 (21G217), iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019) I did the same process but after importing from V1 apps just hang indefinitely and won't launch. I tried launching Designer when Publisher was importing assets and it showed me error that they can't communicate with each other. Now none of the apps work. I sent many reports few min ago as have to force-quit them and it offered me that option. I will try to re-install the suite next few days and attempt it once more, if it fails I will wait till an updated version is available and download it. In the meantime I am stuck with v1.

Let's have faith in their skills! They have proven to be better and let's hope they can keep doing their magic

Hmmm I must admit I almost stopped using iPad apps - they are fantastic but still I use them mainly for logo concepts as vector drawing app and 99% of work done still on mac. Just so much more comfortable. Can't imagine publisher on iPad - but while I personally don't see the need for it I imagine some people may wait for it. DAM I don't see need for as I never used Bridge in past and all these - I hate apps building their own databases to manage assets because it is very hard to migrate, use on many platforms and too much dependable on one vendo in case of future updates etc. These databases also tend to break and I hate idea of my work being wasted. But that is my personal view. The mesh wrap is something else in my opinion - it is a lacking feature for people who made the switch and in my opinion this is more of a priority to deliver this so people won't switch back to Adobe. This may also stop people switching to Affinity from what I saw in forums and reviews - this and vectorisation. I personally use vectorisation from image-vectorizer.com app which works very good and extremely fast for mono and allows quick copy paste to Affinity but built-in solution would be better. As for wrap it is something that can be worked around only with very tedious work of hand modifying and result is not good so I more learn to live without it but would much appreciate it. If there was external app similar to this vectoriser but purely for wrap it could be ok but wrap often requires context of the rest of the project so it would be a half-measure. I just hope they do it - even if it was paid 2.0 - I can't wait I actually would like to pay more to Affinity - bought the books and didn't use them, purchased lots of brushes and these I actually use but if 2.0 comes I will be happy to pay for the whole suite again to support them It is still 1000x fairer than Adobe approach

insightful! It's like Rory Sutherland describes that people are more willing to wait 15 minutes knowing it will be 15 minutes than waiting 5 minutes without knowing He describes it on the example of airlines and DELAYED sign - it would be much better to put DELAYED 50min even if it is delayed only 15min eventually than putting just DELAYED

Thanks for that @Boldlinedesign - I didn't know this. I installed the demo and it seems sluggish in simple operations like moving text object on a blank canvas. It feels like merge between Inkscape and Corel - too traumatic the resemblance is And icons are from another planet - I have no idea what things are. It could never replace Affinity and paying 99$ only to wrap mesh there and copy it back to Affinity... I don't think I am that desperate for this feature yet

I want to add to this - if this feature is in paid 2.0 I am totally OK with that. I will buy it instantly if it will be same price as previous but guys this is 6 years now and while there were cool new features along the way this and image vectorisation is really needed. So many tutorials how to nicely wrap text in Illustrator and how some things that they do easily is just not possible here - it breaks my heart and I am your fan/evangelist and user since almost beginning I wish you all the luck in bringing this to 1.x lineup or 2.0 paid upgrade but hope it will be sooner than later

I now have 11.6 (20G165) - not sure if it updated since then but it was Big Sur. Strangely now I opened it and it worked as well and fast... it is very erratic behavior and I don't know why it just didn't work that day Hard to diagnose if even the progress bar window wasn't yet visible when the app was taking hundreds of GB of disk.

Hi I made 20page doc in Publisher - I am using 1.10.3 but file created in previous version before update - worked the same before and after update. The file is 200MB whole, all images now embedded and rasterised at 300DPI (because before that it wouldn't export at all). Exporting it with settings #1 took ~15s and file was 30MB which is ok but now I try to export it for web with settings #2 exports without even showing export progress and I am waiting 10 minutes now and Affinity uses already 22GB! of disk space and going up and up. When I force-close app it doesn't reclaim disk space, when I launch it again it instantly clears the space. But I can't export the file! Settings #1 work for me and I managed to get what I need after many attempts but surely this shouldn't work like that. I don't know which of the settings is most problematic - I export most documents from Designer with settings similar to #2 without any issues and publisher seems to have some problem with them. Maybe text to curves conversion or something. katalog-silar.afpub.zip

So what you say @Sean P is that I have to look for another Stock site that offers vector files in more open formats like EPS/PDF as Adobe is useless and pathetic. Just what I thought Thank you for your extensive reply!

Hi, It is not 1.9 related or Designer related - this is about AI import problem in general. I got a file from client which is 7.8MB and seems legit in terms of it being an actual vector file. But it is 500ish pixels wide and quality is dramatic... I even downloaded preview file from Adobe Stock and while it is not vector it is much sharper than the AI file Client sent me... I am attaching both files here for diagnosis - preview as well. Can you tell me if this is some Adobe limiting feature they introduced so it is not possible to open AI files outside of CC or is it the fault of this particular file? It would be quite insane if files purchased from stock portal would not allow usage in different apps... AdobeStock_235145908_Preview.ai AdobeStock_235145908.ai

I concur - this would be VERY useful.

There are two options needed - one is obviously missing for some reason and second would be handy. Missing is the cog from the gaussian blur in Effects panel as blur also scales when scaling object. Second that would be handy is a direct option to scale with object next to fill opacity field in Effects panel

Hi I have mixed feelings as it seems booleans are better yet now I got a stupid error when doing simple boolean - I saved file history with this file as well boolean.afdesign