Raymondo

Yeah, thanks for feedback. At least I know what it is now. Thanks again.

Yep! Can confirm zooming in and out again does indeed bring them back. Now where do I go from here I ask myself. This surely has to be a bug, am I right! Are others experiencing this.

I think I see where you are coming from now. I think you might be right it could be something to do with the scroll bar. Just been trying to use publisher now but it’s all but unusable. I’m using latest Ventura version not sonoma. Mostly getting to selected page via pages tab. Haven’t tried zooming in, will do that and come back

Thanks for replies but it’s not the scroll bar that’s the issue, it's both the bounding text or picture box and handles I’m having problems with. If you go to the text tool or picture tools and draw out on your page, you usually see the drawn box line with handles. I can’t see them, that is to say I initially see them but if I go to another page and then back again the bounding line and handles no longer appear, nor can I select anything in that box weather it’s text or a picture. I’m not sure if that’s clear enough but I can’t think how else to explain it. It seems like some kind of corruption. I’m wondering if maybe if I delete my current publisher software and download again it might clear. Failing all else I will probably do that.

Ok here’s a problem which may be easily solved but at the moment I can’t get to the bottom of it. In publisher the bounding box and handles keep disappearing. I select a box either text or picture and the bounding box and handles appear. Next time I go to select it, the bounding and handles don’t appear. I can see in the layers panel that the box is selected but I can’t see the box or handles. If I select text tool and pull out a text box I can’t see the boundary box or handle but I know it has drawn out a box because I can see it in the layers panel. Anybody got any ideas what might be happening. I’ve looked in preferences etc but can’t drill down to see anything wrong. I’m sure it’s something simple but right now it’s driving me potty as I can’t create anything in publisher with it like this. Could it be a bug as I’ve updated to the latest update that came up on launch.

I and others have been trying to get Affinity to acknowledge that the page spread layout in Publisher is basic and needs to be able to create more than a 2 page spread for some time, since it was launched in fact. Creatives need to be able to create not just visually but create with physically unique folds as well. Affinity have not ever, to my knowledge, accepted this to be necessary for creatives so asking Affinity to include AI capability into their suite is likely to be a long haul without any guarantee it will ever be seen as necessary within the Affinity suite. But of course all this Ai is quite new and I suspect Affinity will be thrown to some extent by the speed of AI evolution. It would only be a complete fool that ignores evolution so I think Affinity will eventually have no choice but to move forward in this direction, and perhaps they are behind the scene, who knows. They wouldn’t tell us at this point even if they were. Does anyone remember ‘hot metal type’ and ‘typesetting! I bet no one thought then digital printing etc would be the future and look now. Lesson to be learned, ignore evolutionary advances at your peril. Sermon over.

I wasn’t aware it was a problem until now. Yeah, agree would be nice to get sorted.

Ah you’re the man!! I’ve been around the block a few times but learnt something new today, so simple. Just goes to show you can never know it all. Thanks Walt, all good now. saved me some heartache. Have a good day, or night as the case may be.

Ok Walt will try that. I did what I thought was resetting the brushes when I went into preferences but didn’t follow procedure what you’ve just written here. Let you know if it works.

Suddenly my brushes (all my brushes!) have disappeared. I highlighted a category which I no longer felt I needed, hit delete category and all my brushes suddenly disappeared. No problem I thought, I will just reimport the ones I need. Simply you would have thought. Here comes the problem, Affinity photo will not let me import any brushes, no matter whether they are affinity supplied brushes or third party. I keep getting message “No compatible brushes found”. I have tried restarting photo, I have rebooted my computer just to cover all angles. I’m all out of ideas. Affinity tech boys over to you I guess. Hopefully you can come up with an answer.

I have an iMac and I use a Huion tablet and have done for the last 3 years. It works perfectly well. Go to their website and have a look.

Here I go again, still can't believe I'm having to raise this again; Still cannot get access to own created gradients via the FX Layer effect gradient overlay window. I have raised this a number of times over the past few years but still no progress. I had hoped this would have been fixed in V2. Surely this can't be that hard to be able to link back to your own gradients from the Layer effects gradient overlay window. You can get solid colours ok but not gradients. As I said in my last post, great progress people and a huge move forwards, well done, but honestly guys and gals can we please sort these annoying fundemental issues as well.

I'm on Mac Ventura 13.0.1 and don't have any problems with tables so don't see how it can be a software problem like a bug otherwise we would all have the same problem. Must be attributable to individuals specific system setups somehow. Anyway, I can confirm that on my Mac running Ventura all seems well...at the moment!

Great update overall, particularly in designer…..however one thing I and other creatives have been asking for, for some time now is the ability to create more than a two page spread. Yes I hear all the feedback about making a page size larger and using guides. Great until you need to make changes to the folds etc when creating non standard brochure folds. Soon we will be in 2023, why are affinity refusing for so long now to recognise this standard function which has been in InDesign now for years. Is it considered irrelevant and a waste of time! Great work people for the update but for godsake can we have a little consideration for creatives, not just for book and magazine publishers/ photographers. I expect I will be inviting a few choice comments from some but so be it. This forum does tend to be used as a social media platform rather than a constructive forum.

I can’t see how Affinity guys and gals have any time to be thinking of software expansion as I am of the opinion they are likely to be already stretched with upgrading the suite to version 2. I would prefer they concentrate on that rather than get way laid by trying to be all things to all people. Let’s get the suite up to full power first as most users are missing a number of useful functions across the suite which are available in other similar software but as yet are not available in the suite. I can only hope we will all see some progress in the not too distant future but these things take time.