thomaso

Oh, sorry, I haven't been aware that it is a mac-only option.

Since your screenshot shows an image resource being involved and you also get sandbox error messages in the Resource Manager: possibly it is related to some corrupted file in macOS: does this crash on layer-move occur if you work as another user logged in to your mac?

As far I know this value means max. 100% for every single CPU kernel. (theorethically an app process on a mac with 8 kernels can use up to 800 %). Though you have 16 GB of RAM the issue could be a lack of RAM causing the occurrence, for instance if many tasks are running at one time, even if in background, which might need to get compressed and/or written to the Swap area. So you could watch the RAM section in Activity Monitor, to see if it switches while working from green to yellow or red at some time. And if then close other apps or open images to free RAM.

Yes, we can: p.s.: unfortunately it is still called "Miscellaneous" instead of "Reset" for instance.

To me it is rather a misunderstanding of a non-intuitive UI navigation than a bug. To get a found item replaced it must be highlighted in the found list. No highlight - no replace. Therefore it looks obvious that not the not-searched text in the find text field gets replaced but the one in the list of found items. However I guess there is a bug because the list keeps findings until document close. No problem so far. But it does not keep the search term AND it seems NOT to replace any found item if the Replace field is empty. That is contradictory. For instance in this situation nothing gets replaced - whereas, according to the Replace entry, I'd expect it to get deleted (=replaced WITH nothing)

I wonder what makes you expect to get replaced a not-searched-yet ("find") item. In the movie above it seems to be obvious, that the highlighted result at the moment the "Replace All" gets hit is the found result ("Word 1") – and not the text in the search field (which wasn't searched at all): This becomes more useful with a list of more than 1 result where you don't want get replaced all. Then it is obvious that the software needs to know a specific found item to replace. The UI does highlight that for user/machine communication and confirmation. I agree the way the buttons are placed on same level visually makes it harder and less intuitive how it works. It would be probably easier to understand if the replace buttons would be underneath the found list:

Is it indeed even switching off your computer (black screen / mac?) – or was the brownish gradient blend applied afterwards by editing the movie?

By the way, the "Help" makes me sort of helpless because I can't do a search in the Help.app for an expression (but a bunch of words only). For instance a search in the Affinity Help menu for "draw behind fill" does mention "Stroke panel" ... ... whereas a search in the Help.app results in 35 (!) topics but none of them mentions the Stroke Panel, and, after checking a few topic results, none of them appears to mention the search expression in its article (but single words only, probably spread over the text).

It appears to be a left-over of a previous help version. In the UI it is called "Order" and mentioned in the help topic below (with quite similar explanation):

It simply depends on the way you position the layers. If you move a layer underneath and inside another then it gets placed INSIDE, so the stroke of the one above remains visible. If you instead don't place both layers inside one of the other but group them you might get what you want (violet): Whereas for masking a layer you don't need a blend mode "Erase" but simply mask the visible part to hide the other: Note that a stroke of the masking rectangle (above) remains visible where it is congruent with the masked objects edge:

That's even more strange because it would mean, the crash is causing the sandbox errors – or, the error message is an error. What if you, in case of a sudden sandbox error for all images, do not re-link the resources but reboot your mac only? Or if you switch to a different user on your mac and open the file there?

Good to hear it worked for you. Next time you can't find an image in your layout you can select the item in the Resource Manager and click the button "Locate" underneath. That way your page view in main window will jump to that object and select it.

Ja, jetzt klappts. – Schick bitte mal bitte das PDF, das die Druckerei zuletzt abgelehnt hatte. EDIT: das Weiß in deinem jüngsten .afpup ist wieder als "Overprint" angelegt. – Bist du sicher, dass das Weiß tatsächlich andere Farben nicht aussparen, sondern überdrucken soll? EDIT 2: eine vage Möglichkeit nur: Gibt es von der Druckerei Vorgaben für die Benennung von Sonderfarben? Vielleicht erkennt deren Software den Sonderfarbkanal nicht, weil du "white" benannt hast – in ihrer Meldung schreiben sie "weiß". (ich hatte etwas ähnliches mal mit "Gold" als 4c: da hatte das Druckrei-RIP eigene 4c Werte eingesetzt, die nach deren Einschätzung "am besten aussehen", aber leider andere waren, als die vom Kunden definierte Farbe.)

If you are talking about a linked image in an AfPublisher document which you have deleted on disk, then you could ... – delete the image from the layout to get rid of the missing warning. Another way to make it stop could be to – feed it with a new link by using the "Replace" button. If you don't have the initial photo anymore you would link to any other resource of cause – and delete that afterwards/optionally.

Damit ist doch alles gesagt, oder? Und damit, was deiner Datei bisher fehlt, um die Anforderung zu erfüllen. – Woran hapert's jetzt noch?

Any idea how to get there? I tried with Acrobat Web Capture from a local copy of the help inside the app package – but Acrobat didn't pick the images. The Photo Help PDF info tells to be created with Microsoft Word 2007. My Word opens the single index.html – but does not collect all other pages.

Any idea where to get a PDF of the Help for Designer and Publisher, too? I find it hard to navigate for details with their whole context in the project-related workbook; it appears more like an eye catcher for first impression than a handy reference to me.

Ja. Ich finde die Objektrahmen-Variante tatsächlich sinnvoller und eleganter, denn sie erlaubt 1. nachträgliche Änderung des Bildausschnitts, und 2. lässt sich als Kopie für andere Bilder weiter verwenden, und 3. sie ist schneller / braucht weniger Mausklicks. Ganz ehrlich.

Wenn es also nur um einen Bildauschnitt geht, der einen farbigen Rahmen zeigt, dann könntest du das auch mit einem Form-Objekt erreichen, dessen Rahmenkante den Ausschnitt begrenzt/maskiert und dessen Boarder eine Farbe erhält. Ein solches Objekt (ohne Bildinhalt) lässt sich dann vielleicht sogar als Asset, Symbol oder Objekt-Stil speichern und dadurch schnell und ohne erneute Rahmenfarben- und -stärken-Definition mehrmals wieder verwenden.

Instead of curved or rasterized text you possibly might prefer another solution/workaround: 1. With the relevant text selected activate the "No break" checkbox in Character Panel > Positioning and Transform. 2. Replace the Non-Breaking Hyphen with a normal. This way it appears to prevent a break, too but without getting the buggy boxes:

Not necessarily. As mentioned it also could be a confused data base, either in macOS or Affinity only. In case you still are curios to detect the reason you could ... 1. replace the copy with the failing file again. 2. reboot the mac. 3. test if another app does also produce the issue on PDF export (for instance TextEdit). If not then it's hardly a corrupted font file but rather a data base issue. 4. Then reset font data bases: – at first for Affinity –> if it doesn't solve, then for macOS.

Would you mind to be so kind to inform yourself a little about basics and the way tools work, before writing a counterintuitive bug report, please? A ... T

Maybe it depends on the complexity? Or the creator? – Here is a little postcript file (grey rectangle + blue word), created from an AfPub PDF via 'print' from Preview. It can be placed + edited (text became curved) and opened by AfPublisher without any harm: postcript of pdf-x1a _test.ps

I am able to export your .afphoto as PDF 1.7 and X-1a (both default presets) without issues from AfPublisher. Business Card Test X-1a.pdf / Business Card Test_v1.7.pdf So it is possibly a font file issue on your computer? Try "Reset Fonts" in the app prefs / or de- and re-activating the font / or test it with the attached copy: DIN Condensed Bold.ttf (version 9.0 from 2017)

@ Pixelpest, damit ist unsere Frage offenbar geklärt: Guzzi braucht den Effekt nicht wirklich, sondern möchte nur Formen mit einfarbiger Kontur erzeugen. Ich vermute, seine Versuche, dies mit einem Effekt zu erreichen basieren zunächst auf Neugierde für das Tool (die ich auch habe) – und womöglich auch auf Unerfahrenheit, was ich daraus schließe, dass er nicht beschreibt was er zu welchem Zwck erreichen möchte und eben auch keine Datei hochlädt und schließlich seine für mich etwas irritierenden Hinweise wie "Erst war die Datei schreibgeschützt" oder "Ich wollte dann neue elliptische Auswahlrahmen ziehen", d.h. er versucht diese Formen in AfPhoto zu erreichen, indem er eine Auswahl erzeugt, nicht ein Objekt, um anschließend mit der Auswahl zu arbeiten. Den Hinweis "die sprangen aber nach Auslassen der Maustaste immer ein. D. h. ich bekam nie die gewünschte Größe." verstehe ich nicht, d.h. ich kann mir nicht bildlich vorstellen, was dort am Bildschirm zu sehen ist bzw. wohin die Auswahl "ein"-gesprungen ist. Interessant ist, dass GabrielM "has logged this". Oder meint er damit nur den missverständlichen Begriff "Contour" für Gradient/Verlauf? Oder meinen Hinweis auf die Solid Color im Effects Panel, die auch nach Änderung in einen Verlauf als Solid Color angezeigt bleibt? ("it still shows a previously selected solid pink even if a gradient type got assigned:") <– Kannst du denn diesen Fehler bei dir nachvollziehen?