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Aloof

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  1. Mac. This error persisted across several updates of MacOS (Cataline, Big Sur). Publisher is the slowest.
  2. I have a document that is one page large. Two columns of formatted text. It's a cover letter. One page. With text and hyperlinks. That's it. When I want to insert text in the middle of it, it takes 3-4 seconds to appear. Check the video below. https://www.loom.com/share/375ab17670da48cfa7ea5bac174d2b2b?sharedAppSource=personal_library The program is almost bricked for me and I consider to switch back to InDesign and never look back again. Any ideas?
  3. Hey, I second that Publisher is so slow that the entire program is unusable. Currently I have a one page (!) document with two columns of text and inserting something in the middle takes 3-5 seconds on an 8-core Mac Pro from 2019. I would call this a bricked program.
  4. The point is that we have the same conversion happening in Acrobat (just using color conversion, no other optimizing) clearly doesn't double the size of the file twice. I am used to file sizes from InDesign. Affinity Publisher easily doubles or triples the sizes for the same PDF-X settings. That is strange. Combined with the slow performance of Publisher when inserting text and other bugs, I cannot consider this tool for any work, unfortunately.
  5. Hey, after a night of trying I found out that if you check the option in Publisher to convert to CMYK, my 44 page brochure gets blown up from 130MB to 300MB. The 130MB PDF converted in Adobe Acrobat to the same color space results in a 167MB file. Files this big (300MB) are impossible to pass onwards to printers. There is something seriously wrong with the export algorithm! The settings are as attached in the thread. Checking the "Convert image colour spaces" makes the PDF size explode. The file document setup color setting is set to CMYK.
  6. I work on a CMYK file (document setting) and cannot upload the exported PDF to the printer, it's just unreasonably huge. Affinity Publisher exports a 300MB file for a 44 page brochure. I once managed to get it to 130MB somehow but now cannot find the right settings anymore. I use PDF-X1a:2001(3) with color conversion to CMYK. The images themselves in "raw" format are in total less heavy and are placed smaller in the PDF. This must be a bug.
  7. I need this feature as well. I use it often for book covers. The spine is a single page sandwiched between two of the regular pages. That way I can control the spine size easily as pages come or go during the design process. Another use: Folded covers. This just gives you precise controls, not fiddling with guides which are unreliable and error-prone.
  8. Hi, When moving assets around the canvas, the objects jump around uncontrollably and parts of the screen do not render correctly. In the video, my cursor moves slowly and smoothly (it's not recorded). The object jumps around abruptly, not matching the movement of the cursor at all. This can go as far as the object moving beyond the boundaries of the visible area of the canvas on screen. This makes Affinity Designer completely unusable to me. Reinstalling, turning snapping off, etc. do not fix this. Mac OSX 10.15.7 MacBook Pro 2019 Mid with a graphics card Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB Affinity 1.8.4. AffinityBugs.mp4
  9. Apart from the absence of object styles, this is the number 1 feature that keeps me from switching to Publisher. Please add it soon.
  10. I second that this is the nr1 request for me and a constraint when switching from InDesign. I need to control text frame style properties centrally.
  11. Hey. I want to create a systems palette for collaborators to use the CI colors in all programs. How should I proceed?
  12. Hi, almost every time I want to move a swatch into the right order in the Swatches panel, Affinity Designer crashes on MacOS 10.15.6 and Affinity Designer 1.8.4. This is a fully reproducible bug. This feature is broken.
  13. Hey, I am using Publisher to layout some diagrams as the pinning and column features are better in Publisher. To export these diagrams and name the exports, I have to always switch to Designer. This is pretty tedious. Either add slice based exporting to Publisher or let us switch pages that are viewed in Designer. Right now, to switch a page in Designer, I need to go back to Publisher, select it and then go back again, and that for every single "artboard" or page. Thanks!
  14. Hey, it is impossible to drag objects around the artboard now. I can drag and then the cursor suddenly jumps to a completely different position. See attached video. Needless to say this makes working with AD impossible as you experience this during each object drag. A major bug. Mac OS 10.15.4. AD Version 1.8.2 Bug_Moving.mov
  15. If this was the case, how would it be possible that importing colors through Sketch and Zeplin results in correct colors? Sorry, I am not a developer so I don't really understand your code or the rather technical explanation. All I see is that I have an SRGB file and colors get shifted in Keynote even when I select the exact same color profile.
  16. Hi, After 3 hours of debugging I want to share my learnings with the development team of Affinity. 1. I created a global palette in Affinity. 2. I exported this palette as a. CLR file 3. I wanted to use these brand colors in Apple Pages and Keynote so I opened this CLR file in the Mac Color Picker there. 4. I noticed that all colors have been changed and shifted. They are no longer the same colors and they no longer have the same color values. That is right. The color values in RGB have been shifted. These are not the defined colors in Affinity. 5. Typing in the values that Affinity shows manually results in the same color. 6. Exporting the colors as CLR from Sketch and Zeplin results in correct colors. It's only from Affinity Designer that colors are shifted. This must be some kind of color management issue from Affinity Designer. I have the file set to standard SRGB. How can I export the palette for global use across MacOS without color shifting?
  17. I would also like to see this. It's a pain you cannot map a shortcut to this for masking.
  18. Unfortunately I cannot see the file as LINKED in the Resource Manager. Instead, it creates a .tiff which is Untitled, which is even more odd.
  19. I second that this is a must-have for PDFs, starting from CVs to magazines, we need hyperlinks for our PDFs.
  20. Hey Walt, thanks for pointing that out. However it does not resolve the intended behavior. I want to have a LINKED document. As you can see in your screenshot, that document is embedded, creating a virtual copy, bloating the AFPublisher document and making it impossible to store that document in a proper folder structure on the disk. This makes it a poor solution. There should be a dynamic link between Affinity files in all programs. Otherwise, the programs are less compatible than Adobe (which, as we all know, set a fairly low bar to compatibility). I do not quite understand if the vector and photo personas are supposed to help somehow, but they are not accessible in Beta. Regards
  21. Hey, so I thought that if I use Affinity Designer to design assets, I can simply place them into the Affinity Publisher document. Then when I make changes to the assets, I simply need to update the links with one click and it's done. Apparently, there is no such support available, which is very dissapointing. First of all, there is no vector file format that Affinity Designer exports without errors, even in the simplest cases if masks are used. No SVG nor PDF setting work. Second, Affinity Publisher does not allow to select and link to a particular artboard or asset from Designer. The only way to do this is to use rasterized files – for a print document, this is a no go. Work on this, please. The fragmentation in Adobe is solved better with linking from Illustrator artboards to InDesign files.
  22. Very quick usability advice: In order to set up correct parameter inheritence in text styles, it's good to show the actual value in the [No Change] parentheses. Use that space to show valuable info so we can track errors that get inherited (for example a very high spacing when inheriting from a headline style). If I am confronted with dozes of [no change] labels, I cannot see where something odd is happening. This forces me to think of all the possibilities for that increased spacing. It could be in leading, in could be in paragraph spacing, it could be somewhere else. Find a different way to highlight that no change is defined in the input fields. Set values in italic, write a small explanation at the bottom of the dialog what [] mean or similar.
  23. Hey, I created a non-rectangular text frame. When I put text into it, i can no longer configure its stroke. The stroke is applied to every single character. That makes no sense. There is no way I would like to apply a stroke to a character when I want have a text frame selected. I also cannot get rid of the default stroke on that frame anymore.
  24. Adding to this, a baseline grid is also not inherited! This makes the entire grid system in Publisher unusable for what it is intended for: helping to align layout across hundres of pages. This needs to be top priority.
  25. Hi, for layouting and big monitors it's helpful to have multiple UI palette colums. Since you already seem to have decided on this multitude of open palettes as opposed to a more contextual approach, you should allow us to stack them the way we want. I would use Pages, Paragraph and Character Styles (and hopefully soon Object and Table Styles) and everything else as columns. This is a pretty significant limitation of your current UI in all Affinity programs.
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