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I would have likely told them I'd rather prefer a hand drawing on paper… In that case Publisher is likely not the right tool (yet) for what you need to do. Much like you wouldn't want to repair a watch with a Swiss Army knife, even though you might even have some success with that. ^ This.

Have you performed the usual "first aid" troubleshooting like quitting and relaunching Affinity, restarting the Mac, safe boot (hold Shift during startup) and restart again?

Could you upload the IDML file here? (provided it doesn't contain any sensitive data of course, as anyone will be able to see it)

That's no news though. It's been like that since, um… Mac OS X 10.0.0 Beta or so…? You have to use the exact typeface, but not the exact font files à la the ancient Type 1 Frutiger ("© 1988, 1990, 1994 Adobe Systems") which will quite likely conflict with Apple's new default. I don't have Bug Sur, so I cannot check that, but beentheredonethat in the past two decades with Helvetica, Times, Futura, Optima, Palatino, Avenir, you name it. Solution: Tell the company to supply – or pay for – updated OTF versions of the fonts for you to use. E.g. comparing the old Type 1 Frutiger with Frutiger LT Pro, the glyphs are 100% identical, although you may need to adjust line spacing etc. when using the new font. But otherwise the PostScript names are different, hence no conflicts with existing fonts whatsoever.

Perhaps you may want to download and install updated versions of your fonts: https://www.dafont.com/sf-aftershock-debris.font (among others) Definitely works for me on El Capitan: (The Typeface app looks nice, by the way. Have seen it before but was still too basic then. Seems to have matured in the meantime, so I will check out the demo. On El Capitan I'm still happy with FontExplorerX 4 which is now free but it doesn't run on Catalina.) Other than that, MacOS can be picky about fonts. If something doesn't seem to work as it should, the best cure is to delete all font chaches. https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html can do it, but make sure to download the exact version for your MacOS.

Isn't there a Windows app similar to https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile that can literally find any file whatsoever?

It's not a folder, that's the application package. But yeah, strictly technically speaking it's a directory and would appear as such if viewed from outside the Mac universe. No idea how the Windows apps are structured, whether "monolithic" or somehow "intersectable".

Um, what's three years between friends…

No. The best workaround within Designer I've figured out so far is: Never divide more that two items at a time. You may need to duplicate each path first. See also my But the best workaround overall – for me at least – is to copy the paths that I need to divide to a temporary Illustrator CS5 window – as long as it still works on El Capitan – and perform boolean operations there with a single click within a few seconds, then copy back. It's all PDF via clipboard, so you may want to remove the clipping paths first when copying back and forth.

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Then this is likely the best place to start: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/photo/desktop

Yep, or "display as link". I thought I could do that directly while posting, but I can only get the link to my attachment after posting it first.

Warning: Kids, don't try this at home on your dad's computer! On Mac: quit Designer navigate to /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/Resources/DesignerSplash@2x.png make a backup copy of the file if you bought from the App Store, you need to have admin privileges to do that; even better if you know how to sudo mv and sudo cp via Terminal! put this blank transparent PNG in there instead: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=167826 launch Designer Voilà. Downside: "Affinity Designer > About…" will be blank, too.

Yay! Nah, thanks, I'll wait. Already beta testing other apps…

Fair enough. I was in the art school 1983–1988, and we haven't used computers at all. All analog. After finishing the school I've learned all things DTP by trial and error myself, initially using the aforementioned SE/30 in a publicly accessible university library, later borrowing Macs from my more wealthy buddies. That all said (again) – and back on topic – there used to be some special instances when using A4/one-page spreads was more useful than "proper" A5 facing page layout. Been there done that back in the day, with XPress 3.x or InDesign 2.0. So it's not "totally wrong". You just always need to know what you're doing and what's the best method to get the desired result.

Not that I want to be too snarky, but there's actually a reason why us, professional graphic designers, have spent years in art schools to learn how to do our job. That all said, the first time I sat in front of a Macintosh SE/30 back in 1989 and attempted to create a basic page layout in Aldus PageMaker 3.0 without having a user manual handy, I totally failed as well, haha…

Sounds like a MacOS user permissions issue to me. Likely nothing to do with Publisher whatsoever. Apparently you are not aware that you could have downloaded a fully working demo of Publisher for free and use it for 90 days without restrictions to test if it does what you need it to do? https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/90-day-affinity-trial/

Workaround on Mac: System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom > Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom You can set a custom combo by pressing the modifiers you want and clicking into the field to replace the default modifier. You can also switch between Zoom Style: Full Screen and Picture-in-picture. The latter works as a loupe. Using it all the time. And yes: !!!

And my initial thought is also: Why? APhoto is primarily a bitmap image editor. The image itself is the canvas. The other two apps are layout apps, hence they need space outside artboards/pages to place additional content. But in fact, you can move any object outside the canvas if you want, they just aren't visible. But you can select them in the Layers palette and move back if needed. You can also Document > Unclip Canvas to resize the canvas to fit all hidden objects. And Clip Canvas to trim again. That's how I, for one, am expecting pixel based editing to work.

That's a MacOS job, not Affinity's or any other app. Use the Presets popup menu in the Print dialog to save whatever settings you need. If you ever need to transfer them to another user account or another Mac, they are stored here: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.plist … or, if you're saving printer specific presets: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.YOUR_PRINTER_NAME.plist

Sorry, but I don't see the problem. That said, while trying a few scenarios printing (to PDF) straight out of Publisher… Bug alert! Trying to print a simple 4-page booklet: Set Booklet. (The Publisher layout pages are A4, hence "red alert" in Print dialog, we'll fix it in next step): Fit to Printable to the rescue: The bug ("feature"?): Choosing "Odd pages" won't do anything in this case, as it apparently only affects the "real" pages on your layout, not the imposed pages. It still shows "1 of 2" here, and will print both pages: Workaround: Use the standard MacOS option Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Odd/Even Only instead to print just "1 of 1" from my imposed booklet example. Print Odd Only: Print Even Only:

I was using a Keyboard Maestro macro to repeatedly reposition the main window the way I want. But eventually I've given in and now I'm working in the one-window mode instead. It was just too much hassle. The upcoming 1.9 update should apparently have a new "Save Studio Setup" option or something, like Adobe apps have.

Acrobat should be showing you all possible options your printer can handle. As usual, if everything else fails, click the "Spravka" link in the top right corner of the Print dialog for, uh… help. But as already noted, at the end of the day you will likely have to turn the paper all by yourself…

For best print control export to PDF and print via Acrobat Reader and its advanced printing options. (Downside: installing Acrobat Reader also spills all the Adobe Cloud rubbish all over the place. )

Read which part of the original post I've quoted. Context matters.™ And that's all fine and well. I was expanding on @Joachim_L's reply.