Tourmaline
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On 12/5/2018 at 5:26 PM, Pixelplucker said:
You may have problems with pdf's generated from InDesign if they are Printed as pdf vrs Exported. Recently I had a slew of InDesign generated pdf files that were not editable in any program because the font's did not embed in a way they could be edited. Characters missing, leading issues, character spacing errors, text blocks scrambled and not continuous. Adobe seems to be blocking many new fonts from Typekit from being fully embedded. I any case I highly recommend testing first before you retire the old files. There is a good chance that some may need to be recreated anyways.
As far as Affinity having the import option for InDesign it is highly unlikely, Affinity is not going to even import PagePlus files which leaves many of us stuck. I wish they would reconsider and come up with a converter or import option. Marketing wise it would make the transition to Affinity line or products more enticing but with the lack of legacy support they will simply lose a good portion of their customer base that have legacy files they need to access.
Because of the newly adopted file format.
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On 9/2/2018 at 7:02 PM, kirknurse said:
"Dead in the water" is a bit melodramatic. I constantly have state this, alternative does not mean competitor. Never once have the good people touted their software as a feature to feature replacement of Adobe's products. Goals and objectives are different in very organization, they may just be looking for a piece of the pie not the whole bakery. There are many many persons in the field that it will suit their needs just fine. Frankly expecting a $50 (US) one time purchase software to match a $600(US) Per year subscription base feature for feature is a tad unrealistic.
PDF's are mainly used for output and transport to a printing facility. This was stated by Adobe quite clearly. If you want to save all settings, you should save in the appropriate format. This goes for the Affinity trinity as well. If you convert, some settings are lost!
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Have you tried to reboot and then restart...
If this doens't help, then de-install and install again. Most of the time this helps. Make sure to reboot first before even trying to start the application.
Windows needs to read registers and can only read the adjustments after a reboot.
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On 11/20/2018 at 1:12 PM, mmuller said:
Call me odd, but I actually don't like the new loading splash. Not that I particularly like the old fluffy cloud either. If I were in charge (which obviously I'm not) I would take design cues from the Jetbrain splash screens - each revision gets a new 'fresh' design and also has a small loading bar to show progress if things are taking longer than anticipated. For example:
Just two pennies worth! No more no less
Feel free to ignore
Release is great though, can I purchase it soon please before the new tax year starts, I need to get rid of some cash!
Splash screen is not important! I don't work with it or can't make pages with it. So, in short: nothing to worry about.
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On 11/20/2018 at 9:11 PM, Peg11 said:
I have windows 10 and have neither of these problems. It takes 10 seconds for it to start up. That's with a lot of fonts.
about 7 seconds to load and with also a lot of fonts installed.
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Installed without a problem and start-up is faster! Great job team!
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On 11/13/2018 at 8:05 PM, jobeyb said:
Hi Chris_K
Checked log, got this - see attached. But AP was installed from download folder - I think. Is there some way to check?
You get that screen if there is something wrong with Windows installer. You might want to fix that first.
download link for fix...
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Installed without a glitch.
Keep them comming. It's getting better and better.
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On 10/20/2018 at 10:43 PM, MrDoodlezz said:
Hey Tourmaline,
ah yes, I heard of Suitcase. I only got FontExplorer at work and FontBase at home so far.
Suitcase (and FontExplorer as well) though need to be bought after the trial period whereas FontBase is free.I’m gonna try the Suitcase demo for a few days now.
Do you have any experiences with auto-activation and Affinity products?Cheers
MrDoodlezzEdit: Unfortunately I can’t even try the demo – it requires the latest Mac OS which I can’t run on my machine yet. Oh well.
With application sets you can make a set that will be activated for that specific application. So you can make a set of fonts specifaclly for affinity designer for a certain project and activate those fonts in suitcase fusion. It's the next best thing next to auto-activation.
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11 hours ago, MrDoodlezz said:
Hey Tourmaline,
ah yes, I heard of Suitcase. I only got FontExplorer at work and FontBase at home so far.
Suitcase (and FontExplorer as well) though need to be bought after the trial period whereas FontBase is free.I’m gonna try the Suitcase demo for a few days now.
Do you have any experiences with auto-activation and Affinity products?Cheers
MrDoodlezzEdit: Unfortunately I can’t even try the demo – it requires the latest Mac OS which I can’t run on my machine yet. Oh well.
Auto activation only for some Adobe products.
But there is a workaround build in for programs that can't be used with auto activation, so it is still quite simple to activate fonts.
I use it for years now and the latest version is very fast and well designed UI. It's one of the best font managers out there.
I put in a request to support the affinity products for auto activation a long time ago, so, who knows.
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Stopped upgrading after cs6. No subscription for me and I am one of the first batch users of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo and now also Publisher beta.
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On 6/3/2018 at 3:40 PM, Mithferion said:
Unfortunately Dentra is not free, it's $15.
Thanks for the list. You can't have enough fonts, LOL.
I use Suitcase fusion 8.
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On 10/3/2018 at 5:13 PM, Patrick Connor said:
Thanks for the helpful feedback
Please make a new forum thread for any bugs you find. (I expect it was a typo, but the images need to be Linked and not embedded to automatically update)
Installed without any problems on the latest Windows 1809 build.
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On 9/15/2018 at 9:46 AM, HansW said:
As there is no special group for Publisher requests I write here and hope to be read.
After finnishing a book in Publisher it would be nice to have a feature where I can publish the book as a flip book on my web page. Compare how you can brows a book at Blurb an similar print on demand book sites.
Now I can make the book as a pdf, but that will not be as elegant to look at as a flip book.
Regards Hans
There are specilized programs for this to turn a pdf into a flipbook and post on a website.
here are a few:
https://www.pdf-flip.com/PDF-Flip-Pricing.html
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Is there a posibility that there will be more languages available for the UI in the Affinity trilogy?
It might be important to increase sales.
If you need people to translate into more localized languages, I am game.
Willing to translate to my native language.
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No problems here. Installed just fine. Looking forward to all the improvements. Thanks for the swift updates.
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Congrats Serif on releasing Affinity Publisher. I've been eagerly waiting for this release...Me happy camper.
Now for the bug fixing and final release...
It seems I was right about the integration of Photo and Designer...
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+1.
Congrats on releasing the first Publisher for Windows beta. On to the bug fixing and final release...
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12 minutes ago, Chris_K said:
Hi mkdm
You may have missed the text on our website or other release material, but these personas are intentionally disabled as they required 1.7 verision of Designer and Photo to be installed which will not be available until later on in the beta phase
Cheers
Thanks.
Was wondering the same thing, but this explains it all.
Only the 1.7 updates will be Publisher compatible.
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Just now, αℓƒяє∂ said:
The problem is the presence of the brush outline, not the crosshairs.
When I select a brush in designer I get a crosshair. You mean a slight rim when drawing with a brush?!
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14 minutes ago, whitehead said:
Mmm - heartily aware of that, but really looking for a response from Affinity as to if this feature is on the horizon and in the various conversations that have drifted around this, any word from Affinity has been absent since last summer. Some sense of timescale (this month/season/year etc) would be helpful: both versions of Affinity lie unused by me, because of this particular feature absence.
In preferences---UserInterface you can tick "show always crosshair. I recon if you don't tick it, you won't see a crosshair?!
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On 8/15/2018 at 4:09 PM, walt.farrell said:
Have you tried redoing the download?
(Also, if you look at the file properties, what is the file extension? It should be .exe, but as you have them hidden we can't tell from that screenshot.)
There are some hints of wich to use. If it states "anwendung" then it's an exe file. He got more then one in that folder also different version numbers.
He might have accidently coupled an affinity Photo file to excel? So excel will try to open that file ?
If he clicked open with in Windows(10) and coupled excel then that program will try to open that file.
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8 hours ago, ValeG said:
I just bought affinity photo, installed it, but it doesn't open. It crushes while loading.
Can I please get some help?
Also, why would you charge for a beta version that still needs work and has problems?
I'm obviously not an expert.
I'd love some help and hopefully it will open and work.
I'm using windows 10 on a pretty new computer.First, you're in the wrong forum, this is the Designer beta forum. You should go to the Photo forum.
Second, you can install the final versions as you like. No need to use the beta's where there's a chance of problems.
The final version and the beta version will install next to eachother, so you can use both as you like.
Did you upgrade your graphics card drivers? I would start with that. And make sure you reboot before you even try to start Affinity Photo.
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1 hour ago, matt.baker said:
@Tourmaline@ sorry, I should have been clearer: it's the fact that the blue selection marquee cancels when scrolling rather than the objects not being selected. Try scrolling up and down a few times using the scroll wheel with the left mouse button is held down while making a selection marquee.
In the screen capture GIF I did not release the left mouse button so it shouldn't have canceled.
I did as you suggested but still can't replicate!
Feel free to ignore 
Now for the bug fixing and final release...
[IDML Implemented] How can I open Indesign (indd and idml) Files in Publisher?
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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Use the tools you need, it doesn't mean Publisher isn't good enough for other people.