Douglas Alder

This was resolved with some help from Affinity tech support. Turns out I had downloaded, but not installed the v2 of the program. I was running the previous version. Thanks.

Starter set with top caption and bottom caption. 😀 Captions.afassets

Thanks Mike for pointing this out. Knowing this is very helpful. I have been playing with the Assets method and it seems to work, especially with the method you point out of isolating the object to change. Captions are such a valuable feature, it seems like until Serif adds Captions to the feature set, at a minimum, they should put a Picture Frame/Text Frame combination in their default Assets.

Grouping a pre-formatted Picture Frame and a Text Box and then storing them as an Asset is not a bad idea as a workaround, but it can get muddled when you need to change the style, drop shadow etc of the caption. I am attempting to layout a 40-page book with over a hundred photos, each with a caption. What I really am missing in Affinity Publisher are easy-to-use Captions on Picture Frames. This is a basic feature in Apple Pages and it was a bit shocking that it is missing in the Affinity product, especially when I see that people have been asking for this for a while on this forum. I realize that it is possible to build captions, but it requires many steps: draw a Picture Frame, draw a text block, align it to the Picture Frame, set the Text Style. Group them, set the Text Wrap. store as an Asset That is a lot of steps, for something that is a check box in Apple Pages. Once I had gone to the effort of creating a number of these Picture Frame/Caption text boxes, I encountered another issue, if I wanted to go back and add an FX to the Picture Frame, that is NOT applied to the Caption Text box, I have to ungroup them and start all over again. For example, I wanted to add a Drop Shadow to my Picture Frames. The drop shadow was also applied to the text frame and I could not see an easy way to get rid of it. As mentioned, I am working on a project with over a hundred photos, so you can see why all this would get very tedious to add and group the captions for each photo. Apple Pages - One Click, enter text. Format frame, without formatting the text.

Yes, I had done that as well. Still no luck.

I purchased the app bundle, 3 desktop and 3 iPad apps. I downloaded all three desktop apps, I neglected to install Affinity Designer when I first set it up. I have since installed AF Designer, but somehow it is not being recognized as part of the bundle. I have tried these things: 1) launch AF Designer - log in to my account 2) quit AF Publisher 3) relaunch AF Publisher, make sure I am logged in. I don't see mention of 'StudioLink' anywhere in the My Account panel or in the Help system. Any suggestions on how to get this link working?