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This is the major reason why I still can't leave Illfrustrator CS5 behind. As much as I've always despised it, for me this is its "killer feature", in particular since it's applicable on live text! For decades now! I've created gatefold vinyl album sleeves and full CD booklet layouts in Illustrator only because of this functionality. And one of the reasons I'm still keeping El Capitan as my "mission critical" partition is that Illustrator CS5 still is able to launch here, albeit with caveats. (Not to speak of the hassle to install it and apply all bug fixes on El Capitan in the first place.) Yep, I never joined the CC sheep either. Although as a previously buying customer, I do have an Adobe ID account, of course… I've tried many but never found one. Nothing that I'm aware of.

Bumping this. I'm in the process of transforming my Illustrator CS projects to Designer. Only to realize that all of my painstakingly maintained Illustrator metadata just vanished. This omission just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Default dialog buttons in sheets and modal windows are blank in Light UI Style on El Capitan. Same in Designer and in Photo. Publisher v1.8.6 from Serif Store, Designer & Photo v1.8.6 from Mac App Store.

Yeah, I can't replicate it either after it initially happened two times in a row. Could have been bad font assignment or something, since that original *.indd has had some fonts that I no longer use. Speaking of which, APu actually crashed a few times while I tried to replace the missing fonts using the built-in Font Manager window. Eventually I gave up on it and replaced the fonts manually. But that's a different topic.

Another crash when printing: Affinity Publisher_2020-08-28-155751_Kuk.crash.zip The Print dialog appeared, I selected the pages to print, crash on clicking the Print button. Interestingly, it actually printed those two pages that I wanted to print. APu 1.8.4 (Serif Store), El Capitan, Oki c5450 laser printer connected via Ethernet. The *.afpub is an *.idml import with those two pages to print added in APu.

Yep, I also meant freely. I see. Well, I'm on a Mac with a trackpad. Exactly. Just assign keyboard shortcuts and you're set even without a Mac trackpad.

That's been in there from the very start, as far as I can tell.

Hm… An empty A4 CS5.5.indd without a CMYK profile is 324 KB, with CMYK profile 918 KB. An empty A4 *.afpub "Print Ready" with CMYK profile is 392 KB, whereas *.afpub "Print" with an RGB (!) profile is 1.4 MB. Go figure…

Probably the CMYK ColorSync profile

Same here. APho & AD are from the Apple app store, APu from the Serif store. Mac OS X El Capitan.

What I actually meant is that even though I have like … um, all in all about 30 years of "some" (actually professional) "knowledge of this type of software" (PageMaker, XPress, InDesign, Freehand, Illustrator, you name it), I find some of the APu's functionality to be rather unintuitive, and the built-in help not being very helpful, in particular when it comes to the details that are different from the other "this type of software".

It's explained in the bottom infobar while this cursor mode is active: "[…] Drag to move selection. […]" In APu, you can do something much better with the command key that you can't do in ID: Selecting non-consecutive parts of text to modify them, i.e. providing the same functionality as the standard MacOS text framework. Frankly though, at first I was also trying to move the text frame by pressing the command key. You can't cheat on 15 years of ID muscle memory, haha… Come on. I'd expect that about 90 % of APu users have "already a some knowledge of this type of software", namely InDesign. So far, almost every time I had to consult the Help was when I attempted to accomplish something obvious in a way I would have done it in the corresponding Adobe application, and the Affinity app just did something else .

On Mac, this is actually a system function. Open/Save dialogs are provided by the OS. The OS also keeps track of last places and writes the location into the respective application's preferences file (*.plist). Depending on where you've got your app from, it's either in ~/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinity[app_name].plist (apps from Serif Store) or ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner/Data/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinity[app_name].plist (sandboxed apps from Apple App Store). The standard XML key to look for is "NSNavLastRootDirectory", that's the one provided by the MacOS. For some reason though, Affinity apps also store their own last directories keys, named "com.seriflabs.opensave.panel.startupdir", "com.seriflabs.export.panel.startupdir" and possibly more as needed. I don't which preference key has more priority, but I'd assume "com.seriflabs.opensave.panel.startupdir" overrides "NSNavLastRootDirectory".

On a Mac, get Default Folder. Any such problems solved, with any app that you are using whatsoever.

Frankly, I only found that button accidentally just a few days ago, after it's been driving me nuts for weeks…

Possibly the same issue as here?

Click the "Hide Selection While Dragging" button in the Contextual Toolbar:

Alright, there is some kind of a strange behavior in ADesigner. This is what happens when "adding" a complex closed form with crossing path: This is what Illustrator CS5 does with exactly the same two vector paths, using the "Vereinen" (= unite/merge/combine; no idea how it's called in the English version) Pathfinder function: In theory both results should be the same, but only Illustrator does the logical thing and simply creates an outline of both forms.

What I mean is that 1 + -2 = -1 That might be the case here.

This intersection of paths is what's causing it: It's likely neither a bug nor a feature; it's math.

Do they need to be this exact shape and position? If you move one path only 0.1 px, then they add up as expected.

Hm… wait. It worked after I have done "something" else to the paths, but it doesn't work on your fresh file. Needs more investigation…

Select one of the paths with the Node Tool, click the Reverse Curves button in the Context Toolbar, then select both paths, then Add. But yeah, it's definitely not very obvious what's going on here.

I have absolutely no idea how it functions (or not) on Windows. I haven't used a Windows PC in… at least a decade or two…

On Mac, for apps purchased directly from Serif it's in ~/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinity[app_name].plist or for sandboxed apps from Apple's App Store it's in ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinity[app_name]/Data/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinity[app_name].plist Look for a key named com.seriflabs.Studio.Data2[persona_name]-tab The data strings of those keys are stored in hex format, not as text, so you need a hex editor to actually read or even edit them. Prefs Editor can do it. It should be possible to backup and restore these data chunks via the "defaults" terminal command, but that's way over my modest programming skills. However you can always restore the aforementioned keys from your Time Machine backup (you guys do back up, right? if not, I have no pity :P) by restoring a copy of the plist file to its original location (you can keep it there; as long as it has "copy" in its file name it won't do absolutely anything, it will just sit there), opening it with Prefs Edit (RTFM!), copying the old workspaces, and pasting them into the current plist. Or simply replace the whole current plist file altogether. Happy tinkering.