CliveH

If you know and like Bridge then why not continue to use it? You can get it without a subscription and link to Photo as your editor.

FWIW - I've just downloaded 2.4.2 and tried opening some old RAW files. A quick sample from an old Minolta camera (.MRW files), Canon 20D (.cr2) and Sony cameras (NEX-7, A7 and A7R IIIa - .arw format) all seem to work fine. OpenCL is on.

It seems more than premature to be talking about switching to other (non-subscription) products when we don't know what the future will hold. I prefer perpetual licensing but in the end you have to evaluate what something is worth to you. I have a universal licence but also an Adobe Photography Plan because the (under £10/month) is worth it to me for access to Lightroom (I use Photo not Photoshop for more in depth editing). What surprised me a bit is the use I make of Designer and Publisher. I'm a photo enthusiast so bought Photo initially but with access to the full suite I make use of it to design posters, produce a printed book etc. I don't use these every day but they are useful when I want them and I happily paid the price to get them. As an amateur user though it would never be worth it for me to pay a subscription at Adobe level for access to equivalent products. I wish all the Affinity staff well and hope that they continue to develop affordable products for many years to come. If the business model does turn to subscription in future then I will consider at the time whether it offers me good value for money or not - and if not then I will sadly have to give up. But, for me at least, it is about value and not just the principle of perpetual or subscription.

There are PDF files available on the learning section of the main affinity website which summarise the gestures that can used with the V2 apps. My main usage is the desktop versions with only occasional iPad use so I thought it would be very helpful to print out the gesture guides as I don't use them often enough to memorised them. The problem is that they are very low contrast and so almost unreadable when printed. I can darken the images etc to make it better but I can't be the only one seeing this. Am I missing something or do Serif just need to make them more legible?

It doesn't just relate to IDML - can also come from re-sizing a frame in a way you don't expect. Reapply text styles didn't work for me - Joe's method 2 did: copy all the text from the linked frames, delete and then paste back. See this thread for more info:

OK - I'm hooked. Where did this come from?

I just wanted to note that the latest change to the aflauncher.exe now works fine for me with Lightroom 6.14 - and, yes, all the paths to my image files have spaces in them so the new version has addressed that. Thanks to Serif staff (and others on the Forum) for helping to quickly sort this.

@Mark Ingram Sorry but just tried this and unless I'm doing something wrong it doesn't work with Lightroom 6.14 (last perpetual version - I'm still hanging onto that hoping for an Affinity DAM). Like theDakota it launches Photo2 but then just gives a series of failed messages. The only thing I've found to work is Walt's BAT file. Clive

I'm not an expert Gracie but I don't think you need to do that (or abandon Affinity for this). Can't you just select a group of images for an HDR in Lightroom, then export these as tiff files to a temporary folder? After that go into Affinity choose New HDR merge and just select all the exported tiff files from the single folder. That way your image selection is done in Lightroom and the stacking is easily done in Photo.

I can't say why it worked on one document but not another - perhaps a video to show what you're doing? On my system, if I have a text frame with too much text in it I have the red triangle displayed. Clicking on that triangle gives me basically two options: clicking in another text frame will flow the text into that frame, or click dragging on a page will create the text frame and flow text into it. Note that if the text overflows the second frame as well that will just show another red triangle and you'll have to repeat the process. Alternatively shift-clicking on the red triangle will autoflow the text - creating new text frames (as many as needed to contain all the text) and flowing text into them.

You need to set up a text frame before clicking into it (unless you use auto-flow). See this post regarding the change in text size

Have a look at this topic: Basically you've probably adjusted one text frame using the wrong handle (easy to do) which affects the formatting. Easiest way out of it is to copy all text in the linked frames, delete the text then paste it back in when it should be correct. Clive

Not that I've found. But if you copy the text, delete the text frames, re-insert the frames and then paste your text it should be sorted - or you can auto-flow from the first frame if that will work in your layout. Hope that helps.

Have a look at this thread:

In addition to the above, what happens if you open Designer and go to File ----> Open Recent? That should show you a list of recently used files - if it does then can you access them that way?