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ended up using picture frames and adhering to using the navigational UI's, i feels like using a tool from the 90's , it is silly when you are able to jump into the frame and use the traditional image handles, that said, if you have a huge image within the frame using the scaling UI might actually be simpler than zooming all the way out to get access to the image handles, BUT this is an edge case scenario and should not dictate the odd jumping to another page, also i found that too often the UI's are suddenly misplaced and not working, instead the mouse clicks through to the underlying layer. im sad to say, that this plus a bunch of other frustrations with the software, makes me unable to suggest affinity publisher, at least not for pro- or semiprofessionals, i really wish i could thou...

hi Mike, i would argue that it's not consistent with other professional DTP tools nor good practice from a UX point of view, if you look at my video around 0:55, i use a frame and double click into the frame, from there i move the photo in a traditional sense, but as soon as the photo's center point moves into another page, it jumps out of the frame and into that page, there is no way i could anticipate this sudden and illogical behavior neither does the software properly guide me to a solution, which indicates holes in the UX design, at the bare minimum i would expect, that elements within a frame would give me more control and not suddenly jump to other pages like this, why i am suggesting this might be a bug, this behavior is frustrating and illogical to the user, if instead the element was limited to jump to another page only when the mouse cursor entered another page the user would have a better chance of understanding the behavior and feel in control. "hidden" navigation features like this is bad UX.

thank you for the quick reply, i kindly ask if Affinity would perhaps reconsider this approach, it is a major workflow issue, as a professional i do not expect my software to change navigation scheme like this, even thou there's a solution in place for 'picture frames' it does not solve the same issue for ex. text elements, it might not seems as a big issue on the surface, but if you are a professional working on larger documents with many moving parts, the frustration over this type of unwanted behavior and forced use of a secondary navigation scheme quickly adds up, especially when other DTP tools got it right and already have set a standard, i think it's only fair that professionals expect at least the same level of UX from Affinity Publisher Version 2. if there's anything i can do to help getting this proposal to the surface please let me know

software in question: Affinity Published v2 (AP2) hi, i am having some very frustrating workflow issues with AP2 text object, i'll try to outline them below and hope someone might have a good workaround for them click once and drag a text item works perfectly, double click into a text block to edit text works perfectly, here's where it starts to go wrong and constantly present huge workflow challenges for me. 1. exiting text-edit mode fails to return to my previous selected tool (or at least return to move tool), after editing a text block i use "esc" twice to exit, but instead of returning to the "move tool" (hence the last tool i selected), the system automatically picks the text tool, which means instead of continuing editing objects i start to draw text elements on click, this is immensely frustrating since my most used workflow is not to draw a lot of text elements but quickly jump into text objects, do my edits, jump out and then move and re-scale to fit with other layout elements. in practice this means i need to exits with "esc" twice and then remember to hit "v" to select move tool, which sounds okay, but it's a constant workflow issue, is there a way to force AP2 to always return to the move tool after exiting a text object? 2. unwanted edit mode while trying to move active text objects, this one is a bit complicated to explain but i am often experiencing, that i enter edit mode on active elements instead of dragging as expected, my brain is wired to think that double click works as edit so i often click on the elements first while tinkering with my layout, in practice this means, while working on my layout instead of moving my text element i jump into edit mode, i then exit with 2x "esc" keys and suddenly starts to draw text elements which i then have to cleanup before i can continue my work, this immensely frustrating and constantly breaks my flow, is there a way to force AP2 to only allow edit mode on 2x click? thanks again, hope someone have a few good workarounds or perhaps Affinity would consider the above as updates to the software

Hi im not sure if this is a bug or more a character of feature tuning. im having issues with items jumping prematurely to other page while dragging and scaling (see attached video), for image material you may use a picture frame to minimize this issue but ONLY if you use the extra overlaying scale/position/rotation UI, which seems to be a quickfix hence the object already comes with standard scaling/rotating/position UI features (UI hooks in the corners of the object) i really hope affinity would update/rethink the dragging feature so it only jumps to another page/canvas when the mouse cursor is within another page/canvas (not a hotspot of the object), for these types of software solutions it's all about quick and logic workflow as well as easy migration from similar solutions, especially when the standard UI of scaling/position/rotating seems to work perfectly outside this edge case scenario. i have attached a small video to show the issue i am having affinity_published_dragging_issuesv20001-5969.mp4

thank you for the quick reply :). i did use a picture frame but experienced the same behavior, i made a small test where i found, that if you use the "dragging icon" on the frame instead of clicking into the content then there's no issue, however this is a very frustrating workflow compared to other software solutions, where you can safely rely on clicking into and manage nested content without it jumping out of place, the 'jumping' also happens while scaling material which is extremely frustrating to say at least, this is not limited to images but also happens to ex. long text objects. i really hope affinity would update/rethink the dragging feature so it only jumps to another page/canvas when the mouse cursor is within another page/canvas (not a hotspot of the object), for these types of software solutions it's all about quick and logic workflow as well as easy migration from similar solutions, i have found other quirks workflow issues with Affinity Published which i won't mention here, but it all adds up, especially when the standard UI of scaling/position/rotating seems to work perfectly outside this edge case scenario. i have attached a small video to show the issue i am having affinity_published_dragging_issuesv20001-5969.mp4

Hi. just joined the affinity club using Affinity published v2 . i ran into a small challenge rearranging my objects without them prematurely jumping to another page "in focus", issues is, when i rearrange ex. a large image and the center of the objects boundingbox enters the next/previous page, then the object automatically jumps to that page rendering it impossible for me to place material close to the top/bottom edges, i can manage to 'nudge' it into place, but as soon as i interact with it, it recalculate it's position and auto-jump to the page it determines to be in focus. is there a way to disable the 'drag to another page/canvase" feature? is there a way to change the settings of the dragging feature, so it only jumps to another page if the mouse cursor is over that page while dragging?