johnbirt

Thanks for responses. I have several “fixes” but await this being sorted in Publisher. Nice to see it is on the list for future improvement. Currently using PDF Expert which does the job for now. Real advantage for me of Publisher would be easy integration with Photo and Designer. Thanks again. John B

I would specifically like to edit past mathematics examination papers in PDF format as provided by exam boards e.g. AQA etc. Affinity Publisher refuses to even open anything provided by AQA citing "non supported encryption method" as the reason. This seems a very severe restriction as almost any other editor I have will open and allow editing with no issue. For example PDF Expert for one and of course Adobe and others. Surely shouldn't be a major problem for Affinity to follow suit? It would certainly help greatly with editing exam solutions and particularly for the IPad Publlsher. Any hope of a solution for this restriction? Currently opening in an editor that does allow it and then saving in unencrypted form to enable use in Publisher is a real pain when you have multiple papers to deal with. I don't know why the papers have any encryption at all as they are freely available for download and printing and dissemination in schools and for individuals so seems rather pointless.

Excellent. Many thanks.

I am very occasional user of Affinity Photo. Had occasion to reduce a JPG from 500 x 500 to 300 x 300 in APhoto. Did so and saved. The file was being used to investigate embedding of album art in mp3 files. On examination of the mp3 data when embedded I saw that Affinity had added a whole wodge of metadata which I can do without. Hopefully there is a setting somewhere that prevents this being added in the first place? Would be grateful for being pointed in the right direction. Thank you.

I have both Photo and Designer on an iMac but recently purchased both for Win 10 as well. For the free stuff that comes with it i installed Skyfonts as suggested. I am running Win 10 1803 and began to experience complete unresponsiveness of the PC. The only thing that would work was the mouse pointer would move. No other response. A number of times I had to reboot and on a couple of occasions the machine wouldn't start past the desktop. When it did behave for a while start up was painfully slow and browser load was painful to watch. I noticed on a couple of occasions that a pop-up from Skyfonts was advising an issue with it not loading on boot. It occurred to me that this might be the overall issue so attempted to uninstall it. Was a long process and the uninstall seemed to do nothing for minutes but eventually very slowly completed. The PC seems now not to have the complete lockup issue. On doing some research complete uninstall of Skyfonts seems not straightforward as it leaves a lot of stuff behind and there are reports of it not going away completely. Can't say I have had any problems since getting rid. Hope this helps anyone with similar experiences.