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Hi, This is a followup of this bug in the official v2.4 reported here: The bug reappeared in Publisher v2.5 beta (prior to the current one, so prior to #2415). Mac Monterey, latest version. Intel Mac. 1. Close all windows, including the background blank one hiding what is behind it. 2. Do anything else. I can't say exactly what, since it happened in different situations. 3. Double click a document in the Finder. Publisher is moved to foreground, but the document is not shown. window-not-reopening.mov Paolo

Hi @Callum, it happened again with the latest Publisher beta. I've sent you the link to a video on a private message. Paolo

The best simply goes better! Thank you Mike! Paolo

Don't know, but they showed an ad for dog products before the film I’m watching now. And I love cats.

While I know that designers are sometimes forced to use a page layout program (even if they would prefer to do a walk on burning coals), I would bet Publisher is mostly relevant for editors of text-based projects, or at least projects where text has an equal relevance to images. Academic/research publications, company reports and technical or school manuals are the most commonly produced books. All of them require long, multipage tables. If designers don't want them, let the editors get their portion of tables! Paolo

IT'S THE NEW CANVA DEAL!!!!!! THE BETA FORUM WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE BY SUBSCRIPTION!!!!!!!!

Too long since my latest Latin course, but… In mihi abaci vocabularium vivit in pace! Paolo

Hi, While the Alignment commands are available under a single icon, the ones I listed in the subject are not. It would be handy to have them compacted, to make more room in the toolbar (and make it cleaner looking). Paolo

"I find your lack of faith disturbing!".

@Callum, I've in the meantime upgraded to v2.4.2, and the issue I described is no longer happening. I've tried it in several ways, but it no longer happened. I don't know how, but it looks solved. Paolo

Just an hypothesis: because the operating system is not developed by Serif, but by Microsoft?

Which drawing programs for Android are they using?

I can't see why. Canva is replacing Serif, not Affinity. Affinity is not the company name, but the suite's. Paolo

Hi, On Mac Monterey, Designer and Photo 2.4.1 don't show newly opened or created documents, after you have closed the background window. 1. Close all the document windows. 2. Close the blank, background window, to avoid it to block seeing everything that is on the back in the other apps. 3. Crete or open a new document. No window can be seen in Photo or Designer. The documents are there, since when closing the app you are asked if you want to save them, but you can't see them. To start seeing documents again, you have to relaunch the app. Paolo (who would like some more love for the Apple UI guidelines )

You make it look too easy! What if when returning to Designer you no longer find it???

Hi, When Publisher will feature object styles, I hope it will also include the following: - Search object types, and mass-apply an object style. - Allow for resizing multiple objects at once. Maybe the above features could be part of the Resource Manager, where the object style and size could be an attribute assigned to each of the objects in the list. Paolo

Adobe stocks were falling in the latest days. I see that the announcement has given them some breathing room. (Just sort of kidding. Financial markets are always the last to acknowledge about real-world innovation). EDIT: Uh-oh. This is what happened to the Adobe stocks after the solemn promise to never cancel the perpetual license of the Affinity apps:

Contrary to us, I've seen that Canva users are generally enthusiast of the move. Even if I'm not totally sure they understand what the deal has brought them. There are those who are already asking if Affinity can be included in the web app… Paolo

All I can hope is that the current model for the Affinity range remains unchanged. Adding the AI and premium content will be only available as a subscription. So, Canva will have: - Canva Free, a free template-based design suite for the casual user - Canva Affinity, a professional design suite following a traditional development pace, with only major versions paid (a formula that is still a major advantage over Adobe) - Canva Pro, a set of AI features, basic animation and collaboration, available on subscription Canva Affinity may still grow (at an even faster pace than Serif Affinity), with users of Canva Free pushed toward it instead of Adobe. Adobe is the "industry standard" today, but Canva is the "next-industry standard" of tomorrow. It will be an important asset in the company. AI: Canva says that they protect intellectual property. Maybe. But if one doesn't want to go next to any AI devilry, it will suffice to avoid the Pro subscription. I want to believe. Paolo

I can't check PowerPoint now, but Keynote can export PDFs with animations and other multimedia elements. Paolo

Wouldn't using a presentation program be better for presentations, and a page layout program to make books, magazines or newsletters? Paolo

Adobe was defeated by Figma, and found it so unbeatable that they tried to purchase it. I can just guess how at Serif they want to try to invest time and resources to try the same! Paolo

Hi, Not a feature request, but a short recap of what I still miss to make Publisher my page layout program. As a premise, I must say that I'm a technical writer, with the occasional narrative/philosophy book on which to work. So, my needs are very much specialistic, and not obviously general. - Export to DOCX. This is a file format that would allow exporting to word processors for further reuse, and to programs to be used to generate reflowable ePub books. It would open many opportunities for integrating Publisher into consolidated workflows. - Export to IDML. This would let InDesign users open Publisher files without too many issues. Reuse would be finally possible, and Publisher will be allowed in a consolidated workflow (as is, for example, LibreOffice or Google Docs into a workflow based on the DOCX file format). - Support for long and complex tables. As a technical writer, it is easy to understand how essential this feature would be. - Picture frame/object styles. Being able to quickly adapt the style of image frames to a different house style or output type is essential. For example, I could have shadowed images in the onscreen reading version, and have to remove them for digital printing. Styles would let one do it by just applying a template or editing some parameters in a style. - Accurate CJK language support. I just need the horizontal version, with correct spacing and line breaks. In my agenda, China and Japan are essential markets for both devices and books. - RTL language support. While a less immediate need than CJK support for me, this is important. I have to admit that these wouldn't really be a show-stopper for me, at the moment, since my partners usually prefer to work on a Word/LibreOffice file. But it would be handy, when making multilingual publications and wanting to avoid pasting text as images. - Conditional text. I make different versions of the same project, and conditional text would let me keep all the source materials in the same file. Check a few conditions, and you go from a larger edition to a limited one, or to one for a customized model. - Scripting. This is very much tied to the ability of exporting to different file formats, so it would be a bit premature. Batch-converting several files would be my main use of scripting in Publisher. So, maybe I just need a batch-convert feature. I would like more things (like export to a web site project, or finer navigation through a structure tree), but the above would really be enough to allow abandoning InDesign once forever. And getting able to take advantage of the integration with the other Affinity programs. Paolo

To avoid further incidents in the future, I would suggest you to immediately install an hourly backup system, equivalent to Time Machine on the Mac. Losing one hour of work is not the same as losing one week. And, unfortunately, accidents happen (you only have to ask when, not if). Paolo

Since a web image has no absolute size, I'm also inclined to use 72dpi as a reference, since it has a meaning in the real world. My strategy with multichannel output is to use an image with a high pixel count enough, to be downscaled in a way to look good both on print and on the web. A multiple of 24 should make both 72 and 96 easy to manage without any decimal point. Not bad that 144ppi is the modern standard resolution on the Mac. Paolo