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Grayhem

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  1. Here's a crash report from a few days ago - I don't have one from today although it has crashed a couple of times already today.
    I often cancel the dialogue box that appears after a crash [ i think it says 'sending something to microsoft' ? ] I usually just want to get on with getting the app up and running again, and use whatever recovery file is available

    would this be the reason for so few of these .dmp files ?

    Ive also changed the renderer to WARP - though it wasn't on hardware acceleration anyway

    0b03c471-dc70-4ea8-a4cf-e67b099c19e0.dmp

  2. Its not specific to a document - it has been my experience in a few documents. And not only on one PC. So it doesn't 'seem' to be hardware specific...
    I installed version 2 at home on windows 10, and saw the issue. I updated to windows 11, the issue is still there.
    At work I run win10, and am getting the same issue.

    Having used Publisher version 1 for a few years, I never had the page panel issues that I have found in V2. And I wonder if there is a relational cause.
    So, if it is any help to mention, in a multi page document of say 100 pages, re-ordering pages will cause Publisher v2 to blank the pages panel [it goes black for a second] while it 're-thinks' the page ordering - this is something that version 1 did instantly with no pause or glitch. I have not reported this yet as it is not causing a crash, but I noted it is different and not so good.

    Another thing that I have noticed about pages in Version2 is that you can select objects across pages, over more than one page, which version1 never allowed. In Version 1, you had to click into [or beside, on the paste board] of each page to let Publisher know which page you were dealing with. It would then know which page to select objects from. This functionality has changed in Pages in Version2.

    Maybe this is all related???

  3. Double clicking on a page in Pages panel causes crash - not every time . . . but often enough to be an issue.

    I have version 2 on my PC at home and at work, and the pages panel is the only cause of current crashes. This crash will happen every time I am using the software, at least once a day, often more.

    Randomly, when choosing new pages from the pages panel, via double clicking, the app will hang.

  4. Yes I looked into that but was finding issues with it - but I think your video has helped. However, the lists of days of week  etc or repeating lists are not there.

    And admittedly, it is much easier to just type a few numbers and drag an icon to get this to work than this numbered list method, IMHO

    But thanks for the extra knowledge, I will see if this fits the need :D

  5. This may seem like a small thing, but when using tables in most other software packages, if you start numbering a column with 1, 2, 3.. and then select these 3 numbers, you can then drag some sort of icon downwards to finish off what could be a long list of numbers, without having to manually enter each one. The software fills in the rest. Excel does this. PagePlus used to do this.
    It worked for things like numbers, days of the week, months, repeating patterns of numbers or words etc

    Does this exist in tables in Publisher? Ive looked for it in vain in version 1. Will it be in version 2?

  6. In the old days of Pageplus X[whatever] you could customise the toolbars - you could drag any of the available commands and functions as buttons to the toolbars wherever you wanted them.
    There is a limited set of buttons available within Publisher to customise the toolbar with - but not all commands as Pageplus had.
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    You could literally put ANYTHING into the toolbar, wherever it could fit. Customised workflows were very easy.
    So... make available all the commands like pageplus..... and possibly allow a favourites toolbar to keep thing neat and tidy?

    ??

  7. 17 hours ago, GarryP said:

    Would this really be a wise thing to do for a beginner?

    GarryP - I totally get it and agree with you. And in most cases I would totally go down your line of thinking. But the person in mind I know very well and he already uses Pageplus x9 for one specific task and has done for many years. He only needs this kind of software to do this one thing and his job is such that it is VERY unlikely that he will ever use publisher for anything more and he is not the kind of guy to want or need to branch into unnecessary areas. I want to make the transition for him as easy as possible.

    Normally, training a newcomer to publisher would be with the view to helping them learn as much as possible. This is just a different scenario. 

    However, I do see a benefit in having this sort of feature [ quick favs ] for seasoned users also. I consider myself an intermediate user and I would appreciate it.

    Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I liked your bumper car analogy!:D

  8. Keeping on topic, it would be great to have a 'Quick Favourites' panel for the users most used functions. I have a manager that I am wanting to teach how to use affinity publisher, and he doesn't need to know everything for the workflow that he has. However, many functions are spread in so many areas that it would be SOO helpful to be able to group the commands and functions that he will need into a panel that I could set up for him.

     

    Yes....something like blenders quick favourites - called up by pressing 'q' - would be great. But maybe with a 'dockable' panel that could hold these favourite commands

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  9. I know of only Google drive [in its document editing feature] that has live real-time user collaboration with editing, commenting and suggesting edits - this would be an amazing feature to have within Affinity itself, if it were somehow possible. Either just locally on a work network, or even further afield over the internet, real-time collaboration on documents or books or whatever content would be an amazing feature to have within the affinity apps. Is it worth consideration?

  10. I heartily agree with m.vlad ! Please consider re-instating the EXTREMELY USEFUL recent files thumbnails/list that PPX9 used to have on its start-up screen [or something similar/better] - this was such a timesaver when dealing with a large amount of documents. Being able to see at a glance what you were looking for was SO useful. 
    It would be much better than having a max of only 10 recent files listed in the file menu. The old PP start page had files that dated back 3 months!! 

    Of course you could make it look slick and in keeping with the new software gui. It would definitely be a major improvement in speed of workflow.

    Finding my files is half the battle!:8_laughing:

  11. Hearkening back to the days of Pageplus X9:D, there was a very useful start window that had the option to display a visual list [with a thumbnail and a filepath] of all your recent files, going as far back as three months [!!] - this was such a timesaver when working with a pile of different documents. If only a similar sort of thing would be remade for the affinity apps!!

    Seeing the thumbnail of each design was often a much easier way to finding what I needed, than remembering what the name of the file was. 

  12. Yes please this is needed - this is a feature in Figma [ design tool for mobile development ] in their corner radius section. Corner smoothing.
    The problem with Figma is that when exporting an SVG with this corner smoothing applied, it doesnt respect the extra smoothing and just gives you the 'bog-standard' rounded corners. So all the nice smoothing is lost.

    Affinity could be first to implement this? so that your extra smooth corners could be 'baked' into the paths.

  13. What makes this good [in my opinion] is that it pulls together all the recent PP documents, no matter where they may be in a large filing system of many types of documents, topics, folders, subfolders - it lays them before you so you can pull them up very quickly. Fantastic if you have a boss, manager or client who just walks in and requires a print [or a change] quickly - all your relevant DTP documents are right before you - wonderful

     

    So . . . the question remains   -   does Affinity Publisher have this feature?

  14. this image of the PageplusX9 feature will clear up any ambiguity as to what I'm meaning - this sort of thing - although I'm sure the AP version would look more 'pro'

    Its part of the 'Startup Assistant' so maybe some will feel that this is too 'amatuer' a feature - but all i can say it is something I thank serif for regularly [ albeit in secret - they never hear me ] - it's SUCH a time saver

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  15. Pageplus X9 shows recently used documents with a visual thumbnail representation, that has been an absolute time-saver, and has had a massive 'ease of use' benefit for me in that last five years. Someone comes to me and ask for prints of a document that i have worked on in the last 30 days, and I know that i can find it in a flash, because I can 'see' it as a thumbnail - so much easier than just a text list or having to trawl through searches and folders in a vast filing system.

    Is this something that Affinity Publisher has, or if not, is it a planned feature?

    Would anyone else agree that this is good to have?

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