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Um, what?! I see it exactly the other way around: there are rare cases where Adobe makes their app monsters "easier" to use/configure than Serif, but most of the times it's about missing features or still unresolved bugs on Affinity side. But else, I don't miss the clunky Adobe interface at all. Fair enough. The tool shortcuts bugs concerning "[" and "]" – i.e. replacing them with available direct key characters on non-English Mac keyboards – still hasn't been fully fixed although reported years ago, incl. by yours truly.

Neither for me, for that matter. I was only experimenting with it as a "proof of concept".

I'm aware of that. I'm using quite a few apps that make use of such annoying document package formats. Often I can work around it via symbolic links, for example when using DSP-Quattro for creating DDP masters for audio CDs. That may work well for a relative novice. But it's a p.i.t.a. for someone with over 30 years worth of digital archives in a painstakingly maintained Finder hierarchy and structure. We're talking about at least 150 GB worth of documents: layouts, images, photos, you name it. No way I'm gonna move them into an app's "library" package. Apple's Photo.app is already annoying enough in that regard, but at least you can optionally catalog photos without copying them into the library as long as you don't need to sync them via iCloud. In other words, all I want is a successor to iView/Expression Multimedia – that also did catalog fonts, by the way, although I've never used it as a font cataloger except for a few custom fonts that I've created for clients and thus they ended up in my respective clients' iView catalogs. I.e., I want to take care of my folder structure myself, because I know precisely what I'm doing. Then I only want the DAM to catalog the files or folders that I tell it to watch, and save just the paths and metadata into its catalog file. Great thing about iView: it doesn't write metadata unless you tell to. Another great thing about iView: AppleScript-able! Its concept was almost perfect for what I've always needed. NeoFinder is already half way there. But being a DAM never was its primary task, so it will likely never get "there" in full. Yes, I've requested quite a few of such more advanced DAM features already years ago, but they still weren't fully implemented to this day. (Some other CDFinder/NeoFinder features are based on my feature requests, for example the "Support PathFinder" preference check box was my idea… ) And Eagle is in fact already almost there, if it weren't for this library packages requirement. For me that's a 100% dealbreaker. Save the metadata and thumbnails to catalogs but leave my files alone, thankyouverymuch!

As in… which app? In APh you have the pixel view all the time. In APu and ADe not, which is literally "by design" as these are primarily vector based apps. So in the latter two, I, for one, consider this a feature that a pixel preview is being reset upon reopening a document.

Could this explain the issue?

Even if it does: The Acquire Image implementation in Affinity is very buggy and doesn't even work for some users at all, myself included. As for why that is, it apparently still remains a mystery. That's just the Image Capture module while VueScan offers quite a few advanced options.

Prefs → External Viewer → choose APh

On my profile page you can also see my relatively recent, well… profile

That's what I meant: all three personas of APu are affected. But not the standalone APh and ADe.

Um, no, that was @thomaso… That said, I also have hourly TM backups to Time Capsule active, yet I haven't experienced anything like this.

How exactly do you preview it? I exported it and previewed with Packzview and PDF Studio using the matching profile: can't see any difference, CMYK background = 17/27/54/4 as set up in Affinity. (No access to Acrobat 10 at the moment which is still my ultimate preflight tool on the old Mac.) In Preview.app or in QuickLook, however, the background does appear darker, indeed. But Preview.app is ultimately not a professional prepress tool. Otherwise we wouldn't need all those Acrobats or Packzviews, would we…?

Interesting!

Fair enough…

I tried of course, letting it sit unsaved for maybe 10 minutes while my autosave is 60 seconds.

What's "Infinity"…?