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dont know, i just reinstalled from an msix installer and i have the program .exe available. Well maybe not through the traditional means of programs file... but if you do the open file location from task manager, it takes you to an exe All i know, is I got it working by reinstalling, but i still dont see a reason why it broke to begin with

Well considering an msix is just an installer that installs an exe file at the end of it all, I'm not sure why it matters at all. Nor why it would decide it doesn't want to work after 6 months of working fine. Nor should an installer have anything to do with an already installed applications verification that was verified 6 months ago. So maybe yall know something I don't. As I won't pretend to be an expert in software development, (I do web dev) but none of this makes sense to me as my understanding is msix is just a package for installation, not what the software runs on.

Fair enough, and although I do get it as someone who has worked tech support, I just get a bit frustrated when I provide acknowledgement and relevant details, yet thats not good enough... not just this post but many others. But you don't know what I know. But as a programmer, that please try again error does need to be updated to explain what the problem is (IE. "close other programs to activate") but you do not appear to work for the company, so that's not on you. But thanks for attempting to troubleshoot regardless. It's working for the time being. And msix is the only windows install option available

I just removed and reinstalled the programs since im somewhere with decent internet to redownload.

lets assume i actually know how to use computers and acknowledge that i had no problems with these programs since i downloaded them in December, until now. All have been updated to 2.1

so, all apps are msix , all apps are 2.1. What else you got? I still can't run publisher with the other apps. I seem to be able to run photo and designer together. Though if one asks to activate, then i close the others, the other magically decides it wants to work now. So something is buggy. Someone please fix it

I haven't re-download anything, any updates I did through the app. But I'll look when I get my power back.

Well I'm not sure why it would suddenly have problems almost a year of using the software with no issues. (Bought shortly after v2 release) and bought the 3 pack which I can't remember if it was 1 installer or 3, but I'd imagine they are the same. But I suppose I can look when my power comes back on. Though sometimes things aren't actually consumers faults.

Ok now its even worse. Closing the other programs allows me to activate on one, but then when i go to use the other program after a successful activation, it wants me to activate that program again. And again and again. I can't have 2+ programs open it seems without the 2nd wanting me to activate, and of course i can't do that with the first program open. What kind of nonsense is this? i guess I'm not getting any work done today.

I tried using your programs today and was once again presented with a license activation screen (this is an issue in itself that I shouldnt have to be pestered to continue using software I pay for. Regardless, I open up publisher, no problem. I try to make an adjustment to something in designer, and end up with another activation screen but continue to get "Please try again" So i try again. No luck. I verify my password is correct, and try again, no luck. I try opening photo, same issue. I get very angry that I cannot do the work I need to do due to stupid login screen preventing me from using what should be offline software. Finally, i find a forum topic that addresses errors and see this: So my question to you is if password activation doesn't work due to other programs being open which seems to be the only reason this error would appear, instead of telling people to "please try again" and causing people to become angry as I have, Don't you think a "please close any other opened affinity programs to activate" would be more appropriate? It really surprises me how many big companies continue to use such vague error messages. If this was a one man show, maybe i'd give yall some slack, but I don't think this is the case. You are a well established company, you can do better. Now after several wasted hours, maybe i can do my work. Summary: Explaining why an error is occurring and what someone can do to fix it. = less angry customers

Can you please create a scalable asset picker and or provide a way to change the contrast so we can see dark assets. Current picker is very difficult to see the assets I saved. Especially when they are smaller. Some don't even show the full asset like the C in the middle of this image which is really the nose of a Fish.

Thanks, At the moment I am not even looking for multiple indices, just the one verse index, but It needs to be ordered by bible book opposed to alphabetical. The Word solution was adding a subentry which created the tag to order by opposed to the actual text. This creates a tag when special characters are turned on that looks like this: Psalm 104:24-25 ESV {XE "Psalm 104\:24-25;1910424"} Now this alone was enough to put the psalm passages in the proper order, though i do notice that PS 23 is showing up outside of the order for some reason, but that's a separate issue. But in Affinity, even having the option to edit the tag manually within the document as with WORD when special characters are turned on, it could make editing a little faster. Or a find and replace for Index entries (find Genesis, replace with 01 in sort by tab) May need some careful consideration to make that work, but that would also make things faster. I did manage to get something working for the moment, though I'm sure it will get messed up again later. Wish i could save it as it to not update. I was wanting single verses to not have book headers, but I guess the consistency does look a little better. I do not have samples currently to provide cause At the moment, I have it somewhat fixed after spending hours fooling with it all. But if something breaks again, I can update. Regarding pages, It seemed to become an issue when either trying to deal with my section pages that needed to be centered on the page, or when pasting content that got moved out of order. Sometimes frames would become uneditable. Instead of transforming dots, they would have x's in the corners. I'm assuming somehow the frame got locked? but I cant figure out why or how that happened or how to reverse short of deleting the page and reflowing the text. It is most liking style issues, but I dont understand what all the settings are, and not everything is intuitive. And when things are pulling styling from a parent style without indicating what the parent is set at, it can also get confusing. So in addition to helper text, perhaps the parent setting needs to be defined instead of the simple (no change) I think one issue of extra pages was resolved by checking or unchecking the keep with previous paragraph setting. Why this added 3 extra pages opposed to 1, is still beyond me, but that fixed at least one of my problems if i remember correctly. Overall, I think more emphasis needs to be put on streamlining certain processes and providing helper text/ video links for more advanced functions. Its not intuitive that one must add a tab and then alter settings in the tab stop manager to get dots, nor what combination of alignment and position needs to be included so topics/ pages display without over flowing to the next line. I feel this particular issue is a fairly common one, that a button could be programmed to do it right.

Building an index can be very time consuming. I have spent several hours making this work, because navigation and inputs are more complicated then they need to be. Task: Sort index by Bible book order Problem 1: Adding sort by values to every entry is a 4 click process that takes a long time. Possible solution 1: Have an option to define a sort order. (such as book order) In which application matches the index topics to the defined list and orders via matched values, then remaining string. A select to include option may also be handy in case undesired results are included. May require a key value input to be defined. Problem 1a: When creating custom orders, only to find out that entries need a leading 0 to order properly, it would require altering 100+ records manually again. For example Psalms 99:1 would have an entry as 199901, yet psalms 113: 3 would require an entry 1911303, which I had hoped would stick that entry at the end of the Psalms list, but instead put it at the end of the entire index due to having a much larger number. So it would require me to manually enter an extra 0 on every other entry, or figure out another way to separate the values. Most all requiring the rewrite of every other value. Possible solution 1a: Some programs sort numbers by starting digit. so youd end up with something like 1,10,100, 2,200,23 In my case, I think this method may have allowed for the desired results I was hoping for. But as it may not be the desired results of everyone, I suggest having an option box in which one can select their preferred sort order to meet their needs. My temp solution: I created parent topics for each book. But I wanted entries with only one verse reference to not have a parent topic. Problem 2 That ended up with entries out of order again. Possible solution 2: Consideration needs to be given for levels of hierarchy. Perhaps I needed to add additional digits to the sort by field, but I personally labeled every book with more than 1 record with a simple book number, expecting that they'd slot themselves in with the single verse references. Problem 3 Dragging entries is faster, but when selecting, you cant scroll up on the long list to position in desired parent entry. Once placed, you also cannot drag entries out to have no parent topic. Possible solution 3: Allow sorting like a photoshop layer panel. Where you can nest entries, or drag to new positions. If you can make all entries draggable, the entire "sort by", and "parent" fields could be automatically generated, allowing users to customize their index quicker to fit their needs. Problem 4: Adding leading dots to index or TOC in front of page numbers is a very confusing process and sometimes requires manual calculation to determine position which is often trial and error, and ends up messed up anytime something else changes. Possible solution 4: Make a button that adds this automatically. Provide options for leader type, and Left or right page justification. Then the system should be calculating where it needs to be placed. For more control, add padding values. In my TOC, I ran into problems when I had headings with chapter numbers, the system formatted it like Ch# .........HEADING PG # instead of the expected CH # HEADING.............................PG# I ended up having to remove chapter numbers completely, and I will try to add them manually later just to get the heading left justified, and the dots on the right of the heading instead of the left. I could not figure out how to keep the chapter numbers and style/ position them separately. I did try to add text blocks to manually add these chapter numbers, only for them to disappear when i updated the TOC. What I was hoping to achieve is Heading PG # Sub heading 1....PG# Sub heading 2....PG# Sub heading 3....PG# with the chapter number centered in the tab space of the sub headings. Unrelated to INDEX, but a general problem: Extra pages get added with no way to remove or tell why 2-3 blank pages are being added when at most, one is needed to start a section on left or right page. I also spend so much time needing to fix the same things multiple times when something unrelated changes. I've had my entire index collapsed onto a single line, or pages becoming uneditable, or centered in a frame without being able to align to top. Often it has been fixed by some obscure setting that I dont think I personally changed in the first place. Since it is most likely a text style setting causing this, turning on special characters does nothing. Possible solution: Have some way to research why something cannot be removed (or an error text), or what style is causing a format issue. Like an inspect tools you would see on the browser that examines CSS. If i hover on a blank page that cant be removed, I want to know that TEXT STYLE ___ created this page due to "start on even page" rule . And more specifically when more than one blank page is inserted, WHY? Is there a way to lock certain settings or pages from being changed accidently again to prevent these frustrations? I've also tried to insert text below a heading by pressing enter, only for that to mess up the entire flow or change a bunch of styles, instead of defaulting to a normal text as expected. I dont know if this is how the program is meant to work, but it is counter intuitive to standard workflow from people used to Word processors. I have spent hours just trying to correct issues that this program has presented in trying to format my text. Additional feedback: It may be helpful to have helper text that explains what some of the text style functions do, or links to examples of how it works for people who are unfamiliar with the terms or how to use it. Use WORD as an example again. When you hover over a tool, it provides a description, and it includes a tell me more link to additional help.

I am trying to include a bible verse index that is organized by biblical book order. I finally figured out that I could do this similar to WORD by adding a numerical field in the sort by entry of "Edit topic" so Genesis would be 01, Revelation 66 and so forth. This works fine, though took forever to manually update over a hundred records, especially since it was already done once in WORD. But the problem comes when I reach the psalms that have 3 digit chapter numbers. So what would be 1910305 for example (ps 103:5) ends up at the end of my index instead of after anything before PS 99. I thought that adding the psalm entries with 3 digits so PS 99:1 would be 1909901 for example, would help, but that sent all the psalm entries to the end since the resulting value is larger than every other book. So short of going through all 100+ entries and adding an extra leading 0 to all chapter numbers, I'm not sure the quickest way to fix this. some programs sort number lists like 4,40,400,5,54,543... while others sort as they should be without needing leading 0's. (4,5,40,54,400,543) It appears affinity may be sorting the latter method, but it creates the challenge mentioned above. Is there a better way to sort by Bible book order? And if so, is there a faster way to clear or alter the sort by list than the 3-4 clicks it takes with current method?

I am new to this program, but some basic tasks are becoming a real headache in trying to put my book together. I am currently trying to fix some front matter pages. Where i have a separate page for 2 sections. Then I also have my book divided into parts in which i have a style set to start on a new even page. But with this styled, it creates either two blank pages between the previous section, or takes the last line or two and inserts them on a new page. This behavior does not make sense at all to me. I cannot think of anything that would cause this, as it seems to be the opposite affect of removing orphans, and the 2 blank pages that cant be removed, when at max one would need to be added to accommodate the "start on even", doesnt make sense either. Screen shot of flow below. Also, To style the sections, I do not see any vertical alignment options in the text styles. Does it exist, or is there a better way to handle this so its not messing up my document?