[Clash in Publisher]

Hi All

Probably me. I have been, wherever possible, using artworks imported into Affinity Publisher as base artworks. For example, logos I have created in Affinity Designer, I would use directly as '.afdesign' format. But I recently had one page from a 68pp brochure come back failing to print out properly. Although it looks fine in the PDF, some things on the page were missing or other pictures on that page were not printing correct size. I thought it was a problem their end, but once I printed it out on my own inkjet, I found it to be the same problem.

So, by process of elimination, I found it to be my logo to be the cause. I always prefer to use vector where I can, but to be safe, I converted it to a JPEG and all is fine now.

But why was this? I still have other direct imports from '.afdesign' files, but those pages seem okay. This particular logo did have a lot more fading and transparency in it, so maybe this was the problem.

Thanks
Andy

 

[Publisher save as file sizes are suddenly much smaller]

14 hours ago, mac_heibu said:

This is normal and expected behaviour. Like in many other  (InDesign, Word, QuarkXPress, …), „Save“ simply adds newly created element to your file. Deleted element aren‘t really deleted (for speed reasons), but only flagged as „deleted“.

A „Save As …“ will definitely clean up your file and save only the needed informations. This is the reason, why „saved as“ documents often are considerably smaller ompared to „saved“ documents.

Hi Yes I've always known about this (I often 'Save As' from time to time to minimise file size), but since Catalina upgrade the files are massively smaller. This is great, but it was quite surprising how different. So I was just checking if anyone else noticed this. Basically checking it wasn't a problem. I go to print this week on a brochure I have been working on for months.

Andy

[Publisher save as file sizes are suddenly much smaller]

Has anyone else found this (file size reduced as above)? I go to print this week. I just wanted to check I'm not doing something wrong.

Andy

[Publisher save as file sizes are suddenly much smaller]

56 minutes ago, IanSG said:

I'm not a Mac user, but is it possible that the new OS is misreporting all file sizes?

Thanks. Files seem more manageable now too. I can't see anything wrong with the files, but not as clunky as they were before.

[Publisher save as file sizes are suddenly much smaller]

To add to this above. I have just noticed the weirdest thing. The file sizes to some that I haven't even opened today have now reduced themselves. 

Any answers anyone?

Andy

[Publisher save as file sizes are suddenly much smaller]

Hi All

Using Affinity Publisher, every now and then I 'Save As' to reduce file size to its minimum. I am currently working on a huge brochure that I have had to section because file size was too big over all. But today I have 'Saved As' and file sizes are now reduced form 150mb+ to less than 10mb. I upgraded last night to OS Catalina. Is this something to do with it? I am just worried incase I have inadvertently done something. So don't want to use the new files until I'm sure. They seem perfectly okay. 

Thanks
Andy

[IpadOS 13.1.2]

It's not the end of the world. I never realised that you had the option to share a working file from within Affinity Designer export. I always back up my files manually and usually from the folder as pictured above. I can now just do it from AD directly. So no worries.

Andy

[IpadOS 13.1.2]

I used to be able to see all of the thumbnail images of each project.

[IpadOS 13.1.2]

21 minutes ago, Callum said:

Hi Adfdesign,

I haven't seen anyone else report this please could you provide a screen recording demonstrating this problem?

Thanks

C

 

[Lost project images and over write of project images.]

On 10/10/2019 at 8:28 AM, Chris B said:

Hi Jerry,

I've just spent some time trying to reproduce this but I think I'm missing part of the puzzle.

Are you simply opening an image, editing it and then returning Home to find that it has replaced a previous image? When you say 'save it' do you mean you're just returning home or are you making a manual save? Because you really ought to be making manual saves either from the Document menu or from the Home screen.

I agree here. I notice from above that WillyWiz hasn't even named his files. I always name and save and then constantly save during a project (mainly because I'm insecure about that sort of thing). And then again, right at the end a project save to-be-sure.

Andy

[IpadOS 13.1.2]

On 10/12/2019 at 4:11 PM, abfdesign said:

Hi All

Not a major problem yet, but I just updated my iPad OS to that above. Now, the files in the Affinity Designer folder don't have thumb images and won't open directly in AD if checked on. I can open from within AD if I know the file name, but even then I can not see the file preview/thumb anymore. I tried to see if there is a way to show file extensions, but there doesn't seem top be a way on iPad.

I'm using the Dark mode to match my iMac. Shouldn't think this is the issue though.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Andy

Anyone? It is a pain. Is anyone else finding this? All my saved files in the Affinity Photo or Design folders have blank thumbs.

Cheers
Andy

[IpadOS 13.1.2]

Hi All

Not a major problem yet, but I just updated my iPad OS to that above. Now, the files in the Affinity Designer folder don't have thumb images and won't open directly in AD if checked on. I can open from within AD if I know the file name, but even then I can not see the file preview/thumb anymore. I tried to see if there is a way to show file extensions, but there doesn't seem top be a way on iPad.

I'm using the Dark mode to match my iMac. Shouldn't think this is the issue though.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Andy

[Alt drag copy - stopped working in some docs]

3 hours ago, Dan C said:

Hi Andy

This isn't something I've heard of happening before and there's no option to turn this feature off. Can you please provide a sample file to the following link so I can look into this further?

https://www.dropbox.com/request/cqt24DO1GWfqZKIBoknD

Thanks for getting back. It may have just been my keyboard. I did try saving one of the contents of a document to a new one and all was fine. So I was going to do it to the others that I new weren't working well, but they are okay now too. Weird eh?

Hasn't happened since. 

Andy

[Alt drag copy - stopped working in some docs]

Hi All

A weird one. Could be just me. I have some older documents that have been ongoing for a long while in Affinity Designer on my iMac. I have just gone into edit a few and some do not let me 'ALT DRAG COPY'. Is it something I have inadvertently switched off? Or document becoming corrupt? I worry about the latter. This has only happened to some, not all, so far.

Cheers
Andy

[Geometry]

50 minutes ago, Dan C said:

@abfdesign, thanks for your file. I'm not currently 100% certain why these curves aren't correctly 'Adding' to the other curve objects, but I believe I've found a workaround.

If you select the main tree Curve, alongside all branches you wish to add to the objects, then go to Layer>Geometry>Merge Curves this will successfully add all of the Curve objects into one Curves object - now we need to change the fill mode so that sections of the branches are filled correctly. This is done through Layer>Fill Mode>Winding (non-zero). I've attached a quick screen recording of this below!

Thanks for your time on this.

Andy

[Geometry]

2 hours ago, dutchshader said:

where the tree and the branches created with a stroke and expand stroke?

there are a lot of these in the file:

i think that's what is the cause

Thanks for this. I had a quick look and this worked better for me. I hadn't realised how messy converting paths could get sometimes. It cleaned up easily enough and all sorted now. 

Really gotta go now. Back tonight.

Cheers.

Andy

[Geometry]

2 hours ago, dutchshader said:

where the tree and the branches created with a stroke and expand stroke?

there are a lot of these in the file:

i think that's what is the cause

Thanks. I'll have a look at this as well.

[Geometry]

2 hours ago, haakoo said:

Cheers, I'll try all this later. I have to go out now for rest of the day.

[Geometry]

2 minutes ago, haakoo said:

Yes,very strange
You could indeed group the tree shapes and this will still be vector

Thanks. I can do that. It just bugs me that there is this issue.

[Geometry]

There is something really wrong with top right branch. I finally got the lower right branch to 'Add' to the tree, but if I try to add top branch, or add something to the top branch, AD goes into some sort of loop and never comes out of it. 

[Geometry]

I can just make them black to match and it will probably be fine as a vector for print, but, I know it has these issues and it bugs me.

[Geometry]

1 minute ago, haakoo said:

Why don't you,if possible,post the file here for someone to look at?

Cheers.

It's nothing special just a background, but it's having this issue again:

Halloween_back.afdesign

I've made grey the bit's that will not 'Add' to the rest of the F-in tree. Let me know what you think I'm doing wrong. 

I've had the same issue with other images that I upload to Adobe Stock. So I just make them JPEG now instead of Vector.

Andy

[Geometry]

I can't seem to get round this. There seems to be issues with the file as vector. So for now, I will use as very high res JPEG for this one.

Shame, but I will continue to look into this as I have had it happen to me lots.

Andy

[Geometry]

10 minutes ago, dutchshader said:

This happens when one of the curves in not closed

That's what I thought, but I have checked this and it is still happening. Thanks anyway.

[Geometry]

Hi All

Does anyone else have this issue? Sometimes, I like to convert paths to outline, for whatever reason, and I might choose to use Geometry to add curves to one another to simplify drawing. BUT, I've often come across this issue where some curves just don't play nice with each other. They delete one or the other or both. What am I doing wrong? I often find this when drawing something on my iPad then final editing on iMac.

Hope this makes sense. It's happening a lot today.

Andy