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It still continues, since the beginning, without the tool to create QR-Code. How long will we have to use Inkscape to create QR-Codes and import them into Affinity? Huh? Until when? When opening an SVG file, ALL objects still contain a 0 pt black Stroke, even if the original, created and exported as SVG by Affinity itself, does not have any objects with a stroke. This is a BUG!

Hello, guys at Serif. I am a happy user of Affinity Suite 2.0.4 (Publisher, Photo and Designer) But, today I wasn't so happy with the Affinity Photo program In the past, in version 1, I needed to convert an entire folder from WEBP to PNG. It worked! But today I need to convert a folder with PNG files into JPEG XL files. I was sad to see that Affinity Photo only Batch Jobs JPEG, PNG, TIFF and EXR. Currently, Affinity 2.0.4 can export to PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, SVG, WMF, EPS, EXR, HDR, TGA, JPEG XL and WEBP. I cannot understand why Batch Job exists only for JPG, PNG, TIFF and EXR. Why is there no Batch Job for the other formats? Did you guys at Affinity forget to include these formats? I have a folder with 261 PNG files and I urgently need to convert them all to .JXL and converting one by one is going to be an arduous and super tedious job. Oh! What a good batch job is missing! Unfortunately, Xnview MP crashes when doing a batch job, and so does IrfanView. GIMP doesn't even have a Batch Job. I can only appeal for the help that only the guys from Affinity can provide. Help! Please!

NOPE!

This is the problem with Affinity Photo: The automatic creation of uninvited, unwanted snapshots. Creating snapshots should be a user choice, not an automatic software default. In the case of my sample file, it was originally RGB/16. I converted to RGB/8 and saved the file with the .afphoto extension. BUT it preserved the file size as if it had an RGB/16 image in it. Affinity doesn't purge on save, and to make our lives worse, it automatically creates snapshots. This causes unnecessarily large files when saving.

What kind of witchcraft is this? It doesn't make any sense, but it works!

Unfortunately, SAVE AS doesn't work either! I tried to do this with the sample document in this post, but, unfortunately, the resulting file with Save as is still huge. I just eliminated the bitmap and left the two vectors.

Unfortunately, there is no way to copy guides into the new document. In CorelDRAW the guides are on an exclusive layer, but I also don't know if it's possible to copy them to another document.

Truth. I fully agree. They should instruct using complete paths from the menus, not relative paths containing just the final part of the address. Anyone who reads Affinity's "helps" is left with the question: "How do I go step by step to get to this screen?" The authors fail to convert his thoughts into text so anyone can understand.

There is a "workaround" (in Brazilian Portuguese: "GAMBIARRA") to avoid this BUG (yes, as much as they insist on saying no, this is a BUG!" 1. Group everything in the "unpurgeable" file 2. Copy the group 3. Do "File / New From Clipboard" 4. In the new fresh file, ungroup 5. Save as other name. Although not an elegant solution, it has worked for me, because the "phantom information" is not copy/paste possible. But it is extremely tedious to have to do this every time you save a final file in Affinity. The EDIT/PURGE command is extremely necessary to implement.

Please, before do your commentary, see the video til the end. This is the very oldest Affinity BUG. Perhaps the first of hundreds. Outlived all Affinity updates since 2016. It was never fixed. Unlike Photoshop, Affinity has no EDIT/PURGE menu. I know, because I've been working with Affinity since its launch in 2016. I've reported this BUG before, but nothing has been done. Please, please, please, please, add a EDIT / PURGE menu in Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, like Photoshop do. What is the problem? Create any file with Affinity Photo, with several objects (bitmaps and vectors), save the file, close Affinity. Then open Affinity again and try making changes to the file, like deleting bitmap objects, for example. You will notice that the file size does not decrease even after deleting all the objects. Watch the video until the end. I mentioned it to a friend, and he recommended that I post the video on YouTube, so the people at Serif take action. But I decided to give the people at Serif one more chance, to see if this time they fix the first Affinity BUG, which has survived undefeated for seven years until today. Affinity does not decrease file size after exclusion of objects.mp4 01 Original file.afphoto

In the previous version it appeared in the Text menu. Who was the brain that thought hiding this menu item would be beneficial for the user?

Although "Glyph Browser" appears in Help, it does not appear anywhere in the interface or menu. It doesn't appear in Photo, Publisher, or Designer. To get special characters, I had to resurrect good old charmap.exe, which I couldn't even remember the name of! I expected more from version 2. At least a QR-Code Generator. I have to appeal to Inkscape to create QR-Codes. What a mishap!

I've always found the Affinity Publisher 1.10 splash screen to be a bit gloomy, cluttered with information. And in the center, an image that resembles a DEAD WOMAN in a coffin. More sinister than that, only on a horror movie poster. Please Affinity team CHANGE THIS PICTURE FOR GOD'S SAKE! This appear to be a "Affinity Publisher Addams Family Special Edition"

I solved the problem. I export to PDF/X1a:2003 in Affinity and open, convert and export to PDF/X1a:2001 with the free Scribus 1.5.8. Corel exports to PDF/X1a:2001 Adobe exports to PDF/X1a:2001 Xara Designer exports to PDF/X1a:2001 Scribus exports to PDF/X1a:2001... Only Affinity can't! I figured it wouldn't be difficult for the Affinity team to implement the PDF/X1a:2001 format. But since they can't, we will continue to use other software to finish what was started in Affinity, unfortunately. I recognize that print shops are lagging behind with new technologies. But, do what? We have to dance to the music. If print shops require PDF/X1a:2001, we will deliver PDF/X1a:2001 to them. And everyone lives a "happy ever after"!

Cleverson, meu conterrâneo brasileiro, muito obrigado! Uma vez que o pessoal da Affinity JAMAIS vai resolver este impasse, eu sempre precisava abrir o PDF/X1a:2003 no Adobe Illustrator só para salvar como PDF/X1a:2001. Agora não preciso mais de ter o Adobe Illustrator ocupando espaço no SSD, pois eu não o uso pra nada mais que isso. Muitíssimo obrigado e que Deus te abençoe.

Hello, Affinity Suite Developer Team. I've been an Affinity user since November 17, 2016, when I purchased Affinity Designer. I liked it so much that on December 9, 2016 I got Affinity Photo, and on August 28, 2019 I got Affinity Publisher. I've been using the Affinity suite more for photo processing and creating JPEG and PNG for social networks, videos and PDF for creating e-books for viewing on smartphones or computers. But, unfortunately, I am very sorry that the Affinity suite does not support exporting to PDF/X1a 2001. Here in Brazil, almost all companies that print on paper require the PDF/X1a 2001 format. Since Affinity does not export to PDF/X1a 2001, I need to export to PDF in Affinity and open the file in Adobe Illustrator to export to PDF/X1a. Only then will graphic companies accept my arts. I would really like Affinity to be a complete program, without having to rely on other programs (Adobe Illustrator) to finish the art I started in Affinity. This is not just my wish, as I believe many other Affinity users suffer from this same issue. Affinity team, what do you have to say to people who have purchased licenses for your products? Is there hope?

Carl123, thank you for the information. I did not know that. This is a program failure. Once I deleted the image, the program should delete the snapshot when saving.

Carl123, I never create snapshots, for nothing! I'll check if the program creates on its own.

Carl123, I always start my projects with Affinity Publisher, as it allows me to go directly to Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer without having to change programs. I will pay more attention to this snapshot. Thank you very much.

Jon P, I never enable save history.

Sorry. I did Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V in Google Translator. I do not understand English!

Hello, guys at Serif. I would very much like this post to be read by the Affinity programmers. Before proceeding, please download this file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg7GLmxeihpIWuNmpbMt7_Az8TKLvuwO/view?usp=sharing I have noticed, since many versions ago, that Affinity (all, Photo, Designer and Publisher) never delete the information of deleted objects after saving. Let me explain in detail. I have a document full of bitmaps for my contractor to choose the best version. After choosing, I delete the unused bitmaps and save the file, but the size of the saved file does not decrease. The information about the deleted objects is inaccessible to me, but even if I have deleted them, they still occupy space in bytes in the saved file. This problem accompanies the products of the Affinity line since the first version. I sent sample files. The download link is above. The file 01 Certificate.afpub, 157,607,759 bytes, is a A4 300DPI with lots of bitmaps. Is a very huge file. The file 02 Opening.afpub, 163,838,875 bytes, is an adapted version of 01 with some objects excluded. I just added the background. Despite having deleted data, the size in bytes is larger than version 01, which is very strange! Then, I deleted everything but the background and added 7 vector objects and saved the file with the name 03 7 boxes.afpub. The file size in bytes should have decreased dramatically. But that is not what happened. Inexplicably the file size was being 144,508,567 bytes. This is a tremendous absurd BUG! To try to get around the problem, I grouped everything in document 03 into one group, I copied it and I created a new document from clipboard. I saved the new document as 04 Copied and Pasted from 7 boxes.afpub, with only 1,500,625 bytes! Document 04 is an identical replica of document 03. The only difference is the size in bytes. "Save history with document" is disabled. So, that is not the source of the problem. The cause of the problem is this: I have already reported this problem on other occasions, but it have fallen into blind eyes and deaf ears! I hope this time will be solved.

Hello. I have the 3 products, Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher. I request the feature "Resource Manager" for Designer and Photo too, like Publisher. This is possible? For now, is impossible for Designer and Photo to set a object as linked to an external file.

Hello. I have a folder with hundreds sequential numbered PNG files, 1920x1080 pixels. I need to joint them into a single PDF. one image each page. Does exist a way to do this with Affinity Publisher? If does not have, this is a good suggestion to improvements!