[Crash when editing text styles]

Similar bug:

1. Created a new document, unsaved
2. Adjusted the Base text style to match my needs
3. Closed the new document without saving
4. Crash

 

Affinity Publisher_2019-12-12-133714_Kuk.crash.zip

[Crash when editing text styles]

Publisher 1.7.3, Mac OS X El Capitan, fonts managed via FontExplorer v4.2.4

Simple 1-page layout document A4, with a few text blocks and a few vector objects.

The text in the document had styles assigned already, using a currently unavailable font.
I'm attempting to change the style to a different font.
Clicking on a style in the palette crashes Publisher at the first attempt.
After relaunching, the style editing may usually work eventually. Until the next time it crashes again.
An earlier version of the document that had the initial font available also already showed the same crashing behavior.

Sometimes Publisher also crashes on selecting/editing a text object on the page. I cannot figure out any pattern in that.
Since this is the first time I was attempting to do some, er, real work with Publisher, I can't compare to other documents yet.

Attaching all recent crash logs and a redacted copy of the affected file.

loukash_publisher_crash_logs.zip

loukash_crashing_document.afpub.zip

[AP 1.7.0 crashes on Mountain Lion]

On 6/7/2019 at 2:46 AM, Andy Somerfield said:

This will be fixed in the first 1.7.1 beta

I'm happy to report that the App Store version 1.7.1 now runs on Mountain Lion again. Thanks!

[AP 1.7.0 crashes on Mountain Lion]

P.S. Reverting to AP v1.6.7 from Time Machine backup for now.

P.P.S. I liked the new icon and welcome screen design…

[AP 1.7.0 crashes on Mountain Lion]

Updated to v1.7 via Apple's App Store on Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion.

On launch AP crashes.

The crash report is pretty short and obvious:

Process:         Affinity Photo [16074]
Path:            /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo
Identifier:      com.seriflabs.affinityphoto
Version:         1.7.0 (1.7.135)
App Item ID:     824183456
App External ID: 829371620
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [191]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2019-06-06 22:45:21.358 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F2560)
Report Version:  10

Interval Since Last Report:          34134161 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           16178
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   3
Anonymous UUID:                      591BA059-F9FA-5879-5EAA-1D08D0A9C0F5

Crashed Thread:  0

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/MapKit.framework/Versions/A/MapKit
  Referenced from: /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
       0x1088f1000 -        0x108996ff7 +com.seriflabs.affinityphoto (1.7.0 - 1.7.135) <1685DA61-BED8-398D-9D35-FBE6DAD75228> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo
       0x1089e6000 -        0x108e9bff7 +liblibmetadata.dylib (1) <3504B77A-BCE8-3E30-88FC-92F165F371D9> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibmetadata.dylib
       0x109367000 -        0x10941efff +liblibregex.dylib (1) <CE45E278-1A3C-3260-8F1A-4FBF8389C1D4> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibregex.dylib
       0x1094b0000 -        0x1094b4ff7 +liblibhunspell.dylib (1) <69BD5FF3-0B3A-381E-A06C-2DE6E92F128F> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibhunspell.dylib
       0x1094bc000 -        0x10975cfff +liblibicu.dylib (1) <DD2B3DF7-A4A6-3BDD-92FC-997AB92FB0A8> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibicu.dylib
       0x1098ac000 -        0x10a7f1ff7 +liblibaffinity.dylib (1) <D2BD5822-1497-3863-A9FA-5024ACDB5F67> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibaffinity.dylib
       0x10af7e000 -        0x10b092ff7 +libxmp.dylib (1) <39BB1A88-B8E4-3141-AA5D-897B61158CAD> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/libxmp.dylib
       0x10b106000 -        0x10bc3eff7 +libpdfimport.dylib (1) <F694C1A4-811E-3CC9-A28D-FAD70DDA84E9> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpdfimport.dylib
       0x10c17a000 -        0x10c28eff7 +liblibgeometry.dylib (1) <98584F38-EDD1-3055-8A26-950C2B4E43A2> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibgeometry.dylib
       0x10c301000 -        0x10c329fff +liblibgl.dylib (1) <4AA075C9-27F2-33CC-A68D-9A8D8AABB95B> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibgl.dylib
       0x10c343000 -        0x10c39bff7 +libliblittlecms.dylib (1) <23C734B0-9A21-3FAB-AD7F-D1245870DB52> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/libliblittlecms.dylib
       0x10c3ba000 -        0x125b7cfff +liblibpersona.dylib (1) <7C35E415-7C6D-3458-9BC5-CE6A9F517B7C> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibpersona.dylib
       0x130f36000 -        0x1311acfff +liblibkernel.dylib (1) <820DC9F5-4916-3B42-A104-A7C032E6DD14> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibkernel.dylib
       0x1312a1000 -        0x1328e6ff7 +liblibraster.dylib (1) <F1527E66-8D49-3F53-BAF9-657205AA0228> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibraster.dylib
       0x13331c000 -        0x136ba0ff7 +liblibrenderer.dylib (1) <D2F68FA3-54A4-307B-9DD6-6A570F519C0D> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibrenderer.dylib
       0x138ccc000 -        0x138f31ff7 +liblibstory.dylib (1) <4B253501-59D5-37CB-A766-B46DA15A9769> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibstory.dylib
       0x139072000 -        0x139082ff7 +liblibxml.dylib (1) <CC305E90-853D-33D7-8308-F9386F7C671B> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/liblibxml.dylib
       0x139098000 -        0x13ae72fff +com.seriflabs.libcocoaui (1.0 - 1) <497CDB24-E910-3E37-AD6A-1371D74EB2BF> /Applications/Design/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/Frameworks/libcocoaui.framework/Versions/A/libcocoaui
    0x7fff684f1000 -     0x7fff6852593f  dyld (210.2.3) <6900F2BA-DB48-3B78-B668-58FC0CF6BCB8> /usr/lib/dyld

Model: MacBookPro9,1, BootROM 224.0.0, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.6 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 2.1f175
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Intel HD Graphics 4000, Built-In, 384 MB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D5434314753364D465238432D50422020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D5434314753364D465238432D50422020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xF5), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.17)
Bluetooth: Version 6.1.7f5 15859, 3 service, 13 devices, 4 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF, 750.16 GB
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS41N
USB Device: hub_device, 0x8087  (Intel Corporation), 0x0024, 0x1a100000 / 2
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8509, 0x1a110000 / 3
USB Device: hub_device, 0x8087  (Intel Corporation), 0x0024, 0x1d100000 / 2
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2513, 0x1d180000 / 3
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0x1d182000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0253, 0x1d183000 / 5
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1d181000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x821d, 0x1d181300 / 9

If AP 1.7 should be compatible with Mountain Lion, then it shouldn't be dependable on the MapKit.framework, of course…

Affinity Designer 1.7 works fine as far as I can tell, by the way.

[Aff Photo Cropping Difficulties]

On 9/2/2017 at 8:25 PM, MEB said:

The Crop Tool is already being rewritten and will include both crop and resampling in one operation besides other modes/improvements.

This is good news.

Just yesterday I thought I'd give AP another try within my usual image editing workflow, but got completely stuck at something as trivial as cropping.

Seriously: The current cropping concept is one of most counterintuitive workflows I've ever encountered in any professional Mac software.

(Disclosure: Frankly, as a Mac user since 30 years I have absolutely no idea how counterintuitive Windows software can be…)

[Free Content included with 1.6 ('Till 16th November)]

10 hours ago, MEB said:

IF YOU CANNOT SEE THE OFFER, […]

 

From what I can say so far, it's an OS issue:

• No offer to be seen on Mac OS X 10.8.5. Mountain Lion.

• Once I have booted the Mac from a macOS Sierra partition, the offer was there right away.

 

So the culprit is possibly WebKit?

WebKit on Mountain Lion is pretty much broken nowadays, due to lack of TLS 1.2 support.

[Vector 'Filters' and 'effects']

Any thoughts?

 

The lack of those vector effect features is the main reason why I still end up doing all work in Illustrator (CS5, for the record), usually after wasting hours of my time attempting to figure out how to achieve this in AD. :/

[Slicing tools somewhat confusing (at least to me)]

Or am I missing something?

 

D'oh, I am, obviously:

The Export Selected check box in the palette must be enabled to edit an existing slice.

Not very intuitive, but the "non-editable" problem solved as it seems…

 

Still, linked slices not being automatically moved with artboards smells like a bug to me anyway.

[Slicing tools somewhat confusing (at least to me)]

A linked slice also follows the position and size of the layer it is linked to (unless you manually edit the slice rectangle, which I'll explain in a moment). If I resize or move my layer, the Slice rectangle will track it.

 

[…]

 

For the user to be able to edit a slice, you select it by clicking on it using the Slice Tool and can then edit it you want. 

 

Well, not always.

 

Probably a bug:

 

1) I have created several artboards in Designer, then in Photo I added various pixel layers, created linked slices and exported.

 

2) A couple of weeks later, I added another artboard in Designer while rearranging the older artboards. Again added more pixel layers in Photo. In the Export Persona though, the slices remained at their original absolute positions, either on different artboards or completely outside. When I select them in the Slices palette, they are not editable. I can only create new ones.

 

Or am I missing something?

[Affinity Designer 1.5 sneak peek: Constraints and Symbols]

 

 

OS X 10.8.5 will continue to be supported.

 

Good news, thanks!

[Affinity Designer 1.5 sneak peek: Constraints and Symbols]

 

 

Are you referring to Publisher?

 

No, I was asking about the upcoming versions 1.5 of Photo and Designer as discussed in this thread.

 

(My personal reason: On the one hand more and more updated apps out there are dropping support for 10.8.5 in general which is a bit unfortunate, because on the other hand more and more audio hardware manufacturers are dropping driver support for current versions of OS X, making me stuck with 10.8.5 and a bunch of at their time quite expensive but still perfectly working audio interfaces…)

 

~~~ 

 

But… à propos Publisher: any news on the release date…? :)

[Affinity Designer 1.5 sneak peek: Constraints and Symbols]

How about system requirements? Will OS X 10.8.5 still be supported?