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@Callum You mean remove the printer queue and add it again or actually reinstall all the drivers? Edit: added screen recording. Printer driver has not been messed with. That's approximately 2.5-3 minutes of fighting and / or waiting to get it to send to the printer. Screen Recording 2024-02-13 at 1.37.49 PM.mov

Edit 1: I put the correct computer model, and added this in the appropriate place: EDIT: To be clear it SAYS "fit to printable" but it is not until I reselect it even thought it's ALREADY selected. Usually menus don't even update that way. Have to select something else first. Edit 2: actually the preview does not center on top/center it's in the middle somewhere. AND it seems to not be so painfully slow if printing to an area the same size as the document. I Printed to a PDF of size 2'x3' with a custom "paper" size, and the problem seemed to mostly go away. Once I hit command-p a "printing page 1" dialog shows up that you can only "cancel" if you don't want to wait for it. But, it takes a WHILE in this document, but if you select a paper size smaller than the artboard... apparently the following happens.::: Designer 2 version available as of today, 2.3.1, MacOS 13.vent Mac Studio M1 Printing a file with some imported resources, even though it's only 24"x35" and not that many objects. It takes forever. There are almost–– constant beachballs in the print dialog. Which sucked b/c I had to adjust it to "Fit to printable area" and "Artboard 1" as the area to print instead of "Scale". for some reason it defaults just the page size cut out of the document at I guess a top-center centered position, so in other words, I wanted to preview a poster on my printer at 8.5x11 US Letter. Fine. But It shows only this tiny area all blown up. Not useful. So I have to fight these constant beachballs, and try to get the "fit to printable area" option selected. Eventually I do that, and make a preset as well. Still, now when I print, the preset is automatically selected due to my system setup, but the SETTING itself doesn't change to match the preset! In other words, the preset menu shows the preset, but the settings are ignoring it. It's not a fun time at the print dialog. IT DOES REMEMBER to print "artboard 1" so I know it's trying.... EDIT: To be clear it SAYS "fit to printable" but it is not until I reselect it even thought it's ALREADY selected. Usually menus don't even update that way. Have to select something else first. Another all new Afdesign file with embedded/linked? (see my other bug report) DOES apply both parts of the preset. It's possible that without the constant beachballs my document would allow the full preset to be applied... but... it seems faster if I try to fight them from the start. This is a document with my own ai files dropped as well as some stock stuff from pexels (a jpg) and some original work done in designer 2, and an SVG, my own png, and about 20 embedded Tiff files. ALL files are between 0.15kb and 358kb ! The full document is under 24MB! However, the resource manager, again, shows... all the tiffs properly embedded with the path being just the file name. The png is linked from a weirdly relativistic folder b/c the original was in my iCloud... but I think that means the embedded bug is plaguing me again as described in my other post? And the svg shows an absolute path!! /Users/myname/blahblahblah ! The png has a "show in finder" available... not sure if this is normal for "embedded" files to show it outside the afdesign file? The SVG has everything ghosted in rm but "locate in doc" and "replace" buttons.... I have spent lots of time on this now, for now it looks like the only safe way for me to use these apps is with all original content. I hope you fix these resource manager bugs soon. Mb that's what's messing with my print dialogue? No idea. I have decided to throw some more money at adobe on a case by case month by month basis for now. I am trying really hard to learn these apps and make use of them and put in thoughtful reports like this with lots of my own testing. I'm sad I have to turn away for now. I still am not enjoying adobe.... Thank you.

Okay, so I did this with all my own old psds & ais. Problem still exists, it has to do with adjustments of color and so on it seems mostly. However, the resource manager is weird again. the ai files show embedded without a path prefix, which I assume is correct. the psd however still shows the original file path. I did exact same procedure. Import .ai as a new file into AFD2, drop in a psd. Make a new afd file, copy paste psd from file 1 to file 2... adjustments reflect back to file 1, but this time I am not seeing the adjustment reflected in the finder on the psd as well. I think at one point that happened. I mostly solved this by CLOSING file 1 last time, and didn't have to redo ALL of my work thankfully. I suggest you guys try this. Make an ai with some strokes and text. Make a psd from a photo you get of the net or something. Then do as I have done. Technically this second batch of test files are also copywritten. Thanks.

EDITED to make clear file 1 and file 2 remained open the whole time, at the same time. Still think the problem is with the "embedding" logic. EDIT 2: now I understand the resource manager correctly, I can clear that description up... Designer 2 version available as of today, 2.3.1 methinks, MacOS 13.latest Ventura intel 2019 MacBook Pro 16inch 1. Open ai file download from domestika.org design course 2. Save to native file .afdesign we shall call this file 1. 3. drop in .psd files 4. make some art boards around all the assets (those already in the file, and those dropped in as PSD's) SIDE NOTE on STEP 4: (weirdly the objects within the ai file didn't appear to have an artboard at first opening in designer, a black bg in designer around all the files, but then dropping in new psds, they were only visible in the overlapping area with the including objects, invisible if dragged off the overlapping area of the original objects. So I had to make an artboard around them, then the document bg became gray (I later changed this since I didn't like that) but then I noticed in layers panel, there was only 1 artboard, the one I had created.... weird to me that there was an invisible "implicit" artboard from the original ai conversion/import? Let me know if this is supposed to happen? I have LOTS of ai files to deal with (as I'm sure we all do, sigh)... not just this project. 5. make a new design file, we shall call file 2, with several artboards 6. copy (command-c) one of the mb? embedded psd's in file 1 (resource manager lists the path of original file), but, "make linked file" is not available.! 7. paste into file 2. 8. click away until I am using pixel persona tools on the pasted in embedded file in file 2.... unfortunately, all changes I make there ALSO affect the embedded psd object in file 1. 9. confused I open resource manager in file 2 now. it shows the path of the same original psd object/file supposedly "embedded" in file 1.... Again, I cannot "make linked file", its grayed/ghosted/not available. But resource manager already considers it embedded in the file list, just as in file 1... on the other hand, since designer thinks it's correctly embedded, I cannot MAKE it actually embedded. So files can neither be properly embedded, nor linked in these two files. I played with another new afdesign file, dropped a jpeg in there, and it's fine, it says embedded, but the "make linked file" IS AVAILABLE. In the meantime, I will simply drop a new copy of the file from finder... but that sucks... b/c I Did some work already on a half dozen such objects in file 1.... which now is not copyable without "linked" editing behavior... I've done my best to be clear here. Hopefully this can be explained, or if not, squashed like a bug! Thanks for giving adobe a run! Things like this sorta suck though... sad face...