Bryce

UPDATE: This thread can be deleted. It was a user error where they had started to open an affinity file in v2 first time and then cancelled but the finder prefs were locked, or something like that. Finishing the V2 first run solved it, and then I could go back and change in Finder which to default to. I just updated one of our Macs to the latest Ventura 13.2 I have both v1 and v2 of Designer on this computer. there are still quite a bit of bugs in v2 to switch all the company's computers over over, but we are working towards however. right now the default is to open all files in v1. That particular computer is getting these errors when doubleclicking on an affinity file: The program open just fine and the file open just fine from the program. This all happened after the update yesterday. I have tried changing the "open with" in get info but it's telling me the files are read only - they are not. If I go into security in settings I can manually tell each file to have special clearance to open, but that is a pain. Anyway to fix this?

Hi Walt, I was getting to go back and answer my own question. I see I can also click on the keys and download, which I knew, but the full version app can overwrite without need to reenter everything. thanks for pointing that out! Bryce

mac OS - 10 computers x3 apps = 30 updates. Each one wants to update from the web. Are there updaters to download and put on a server instead of each one doing their own download?

that would be an interesting mask if you could save that.

Actually, it was Aldus Freehand - at least when I used it. Loved it. When AD came out it reminded me more of Freehand than IL and that's what got me started again.

I noticed it does not work warp rasters that are grouped with the vectors. I think that should be included for such things as product placements and planes

Sorry. I was referring to Indesign and Illustrator. I rarely use PS but I assume that because Affinity can read and write to PS files that you are correct on that. Indesign is always wanting to save the files in a new format whenever I open them.

I agree. AD has slices that AI doesn't have and that is a game changer for making newspaper ads. agreed. in the prepress side, I much preferred FH over IL when files came in. FH had the multiple size pages (artboards) long before anything else did and it was intuitive. You would have entire business packages in one file - Letterhead, business cards, envelopes. AD is much closer and that is what attracted to me it 5 years ago to start trying Affinity.

I fail to see how any of these issues are Serif's problems. 1. The computer could be upgraded - problem solved. Any computer in the last five years will run it fine. I have a 12 year old iMac that won't run it. I wish it would, but the time has come to upgrade that worker's computer. 2. See 1 3. You don't need a $5,000 laptop to run the affinity line. Not sure where that number came from. However, I do take a $5000 laptop with me even when camping or hiking, and I have to do some business, so easily possible. Backwards compatibility might be something you want, but it's not beneficial to Serif, nor do competitors allow the previous version to open the newest unless you export as a really old format which strips stuff out all the time.

it works just like before. I tried it myself.

Someone commenting with no experience? Come on man! It works just fine and exactly the same if you had tried it. The price is 40% off and even cheaper if you buy the whole set as one app. Clearly just posting to complain.

I have the exact same thing happening. When the slices export location dialog box comes up, I get the spinning beach ball. I have deleted Finder preferences, started in safe mode, etc. I have Dropbox but not saving to Dropbox folder. I would say this happens 50%+ of the time. Specs: Late 16" 2019 MPB Intel I9 - 64GB RAM - 2TB SSD This started, along with many other OS issues after "upgrading" to Monterey. Never had any issues under Catalina but I was told for security reasons I needed to upgrade. I should not have listened. it's best to stay with the OS it came with and was designed for, I think.

@DWright Was there any update on this bug that resizes back to 100% on data merged images? thanks!

not sure. I get files that do that sometimes too.

If you select the colored image then choose the "K" button, then select the color in the swatch palette, the tint slider works n

I was a PagePlus user back from 1993. I find the the new apps very refreshing. not much changed throughout the years with Serif other than small upgrades here and there for Windows OS. It's nice to see Serif saw the future and took it. It was not with Pageplus. i had moved to the Mac and the only way was to use Parallels. Now I can use it on anything and it's tremendously more powerful. I would sacrifice all templates - I don't need them. I want tools to get the job done and Affinity has put Serif on the right path.

Any update on this issue Anto?

I just uploaded the files. @Anto - all pictures are the same size 5x7@300. I want them to shrink to put on buttons. @walt.farrellI was using picture frames. I'm not sure how to data merge pictures without frames.

i saw your post to and I think they are related. I didn't want to hijack the post because I wasn't sure if it was connected. This is about the only thing I use Indesign for now is data merging pictures and I was hoping to switch to Affinity for that.

I've got a problem. Pictures in a data merge always go to 100%. I have repositioned and resized them smaller to fit the item and I turn the preview off and on and it's back to where it was. This is in Affinity Publisher 1.10.5. I've tried exporting it with the way I want them and they export wrong too. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi Joe, I didn't realize that export option before. Thanks for pointing that out! Bryce

no. What I want is to be able to export a PDF that has the layers from Affinity to show in Acrobat. Such as a topographical map where I can turn off or on named layers in Acrobat such as streets or water lines, etc. where the layers transfer to Acrobat as are named in Affinity. I had not seen this before until today.

I recently saw an autocad PDF that held the layers/names and the ability to turn them on and off like in Affinity but this is in the exported PDF. How can I do this in Affinity Designer?

I believe we have figured this problem out. It's in the Mac Mini's themselves. We bought a second M1 Mac Mini and it had the same issue and was connected directly to the network - no wall wiring. What happens is that after a while the network on the computer seems to lose packets and then loses it's connection to shares even though it shows connected. The issue is with the network adapter and how it works in automatic mode on IP6 DNS configuration. If you have it set to automatic it will eventually run out of a cache space in the configuration as it continually tries to update it's status. The solutions seems to be this: I believe you can set it to Manually or Link-Local only and it will fix the issue (click apply or ok). Yesterday was the first day of heavy usage (newspaper day) and it never had one issue with it stuttering or network responsiveness and we had no files close. These files get relatively large - on average 300 MB - and we don't embed anything - so this was a good sign. This was successful on both M1 Minis that were exhibiting the issue. I may change it on all of our computers. Hopefully this will help anyone else that may be using these computers on a network.

The way to do this in 2022 is to open this in Publisher and go to your pages pallet and click convert artboards to pages.