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Quite a difference in the initial splash screen and especially in the load time (about 7 seconds on my machine). I assume form what @AdamW wrote above that this new splash screen is to become the "norm" for all the range? If so, and the rapid start-up is also to be common then very great congratulations are in order for the devs. (Edit to add): I have over 2000 fonts installed so the font scan/enumeration/whatever must have been greatly improved. Jeff

What bit depth are you choosing when you export as png? My understanding is that it should be 32 bit, or possibly 24 bit. Jeff

Hi. I'm pretty certain the intended procedure with APh is to first open the RAW files in the Develop Persona, make necessary "adjustments" there and click the "Develop" button for each RAW and THEN create the panorama. Jeff

@Vauxhall60 That image reminds me of the effect I have seen when pictures taken with an "old-fashioned" film camera have a problem, usually with 35mm film, where the film is not wound far enough along the unexposed part before the next picture is taken. IOW, what you are seeing is the image you want and half of the next, or previous, image which was taken. In my experience, this could be especially a problem with film for slides. I have a number of slides in my personal "archive" where, either the images overlap, as in your case, or the slide positive has been "trimmed" to remove the overlapped area, hence a slide which projects with "empty" (= white) areas. I'm honestly not sure how or even if you can rectify this problem. Jeff

Many thanks from me, too!

@Nasmat Your post would be better as a starter of a new thread, I think, since your question is really nothing to do with the subject of this thread which is about APh failing to open properly. Jeff

Perhaps it is worth pointing out that none of the Affinity range of softwares has any direct relationship to the legacy Plus range from Serif, other than the fact they are manufactured by Serif! Many times in these forums the developers have emphasised that all the Affinity apps are, essentially in coding terms, "brand new", not "new versions" of those legacy products.

I suspect File>Open is intended to be mainly/solely for existing APub files, though I'm not sure.

How are you attempting to open these files? I've just tested this on my machine, using the Place Image tool on the left toolbar, selecting the image and then clicking on the previously-opened blank document. The image is there, in the document, no problem. (Running the latest beta.) Jeff

@imacken, did you click on that link to "Support Portal"? If so, you then need to click on Tickets and then "Start a New Ticket". I just tried it and it seems to work without problem!

Downloading now... Excellent news that another beta is available!

Hi, welcome to the Affinity forums. Please read this rather long thread about how to import files in Page Plus format into Affinity Publisher. Yes, you do need to employ a workaround (export to pdf in PP) and then open that pdf in Publisher. Currently, there is no other method of opening .ppp files in Publisher and the chances of Publisher being coded to be able to directly import .ppp files is very remote, if not out of the question. Jeff.

@Chris_K Yes, the app is still working fine. I guess it's just my curiosity as to why it should be creating these Memory Dumps/Crash Reports when it's not actually crashing! It seems to happen every time I use APub (I need to verify this by more careful checking) so is a very strange situation. Thanks again, Jeff

@mike21 I think you must be looking at a different page! ALL the ON1 Effects Plugins listed are shown with an "X", i.e "not compatible". Jeff

I'm not even sure whether this is the correct forum to post this, since it hardly qualifies as a "bug", but: I regularly run CCleaner, especially at the end of a working day. One of the file types it highlights and suggests for deletion is any Memory Dumps/Crash Reports stored on the computer. Several times recently I see CCleaner reporting that .dmp files have been created, either by Affinity Publisher Beta (latest version) or by the included Help files, even though neither app has actually crashed for me. I've tended to ignore these files and simply selected to delete them; APub always opens on the next time of asking, no message about Errors or Crash Reports. However, I wonder whether one of these reports might be useful to the developers in possibly diagnosing why such reports are being created (normally at least one every day) even when Publisher itself is rock-solid and has never, to my knowledge, actually crashed on my machine! Hence, they are attached below. If anyone can suggest why they are being created (in effect it's every time I run APub) I'd be delighted to learn! TIA Jeff Publisher_exe.1652.dmp Help_exe.10536.dmp

I apologise in advance for what I am about to write but: We really do NOT need another thread asking for compatibility between file formats produced by products in the former "Plus" range and those of the new Affinity products. Serif staff and the developers have posted to numerous threads asking for this (and yes, as a long-time user of most of the Plus products over many years, I understand why this compatibility would be very useful) to explain why this is very unlikely to happen soon, if ever. I'm not going to repeat the reasons here, they're quite easy to find in several threads in the forum, and the pdf export option from the Plus range is, IMO, a perfectly reasonable method of transfer between the two sets of apps, at least for now, and possibly for ever!! Just my opinion! I'll wait for the brickbats to fly in my direction! Jeff

Hi. I think this page might give you an answer! It appears that, at the moment,no ON1 plugins will work with Affinity Photo. HTH Jeff

@kjs There are a number of "alternatives" available to use instead of Acrobat! My personal choice is PDF XChange Editor but there are a number of others. I suspect this particular market is not one which Serif might wish to venture into, at least for the foreseeable future. Just my opinion! Jeff

Both these posts refer to Affinity Designer, but have been posted to the Affinity Photo area of the Suggestions forum. Perhaps they should be moved?

@Stuart FR Welcome to the Affinity forums! I would wholeheartedly agree with what @SrPx has written. The spec of your machine is, regrettably, very much what would be considered today "low", for all the reasons SrPx gives. If you are able/willing to invest in a new computer I strongly suspect you will be "amazed" at the difference you see in ALL apps etc. you run, not just Affinity (?Photo?). (I think upgrading your existing computer will not really bring the range of benefits that you seek. The fact that you are running on a Celeron processor, for example, because of the type of socket your motherboard must have to accomodate that processor, dictates and highly limits the possibility of upgraded CPUs. You could check whether your existing computer might have the possibility of additional RAM but I wonder whether doing that, if it is the only update you make, will actually benefit you very much at all!) Jeff

@motoscoddie Welcome to the Affinity forums. Perhaps the latest posts to this thread might offer some guidance to help you? I know it refers to Designer but the core code base is common to all the Affinity apps; just make sure you read SeanP's post, the fifth in the thread. HTH Jeff

Just for the "benefit" of other Windows users who might stumble upon this thread: it appears that version 1.7.0.140 is MAC only and is intended to help the developers check the "AutoUpdate" facility on the MAS. Jeff

@Graham Have you seen this page on the Affinity Spotlight site, where James Ritson, one of the developers of Affinity Photo, writes about IR photography? Jeff

My pleasure!

Yes. All the Affinity apps are 64 bit only.