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Bryce

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  1. I'm learning Publisher and so far I'm able to figure out most things. 

    This one I'm struggling with:

    The option for space after paragraph is always at 12pt. I want it at a default of 0.

    I've tried what works in Indesign and that is to choose the tool without selecting any text and changing it. That doesn't seem to work for the next paragraph nor the next document.1290263828_ScreenShot2019-06-20at10_26_34PM.thumb.jpg.140e816c11a814a506df4afcb2c60a4a.jpg

    How can we change these defaults?

  2. 35 minutes ago, atefoto said:

    I wouldn't be this harsh then, but I'm not sure if it is worthy the comparison of what they show in the Keynote. The keynote demo was too amazing for me to go back and open this Windows app, kinda frustrating when you regularly work with very big images or many layers.

    I'll give them a clap for making RAW edit and HDR editor better, a lot more fluid, but not nearly fluid compared to anything else.

    Okay then, I'll stop sobbing about Winblows PCs and their issues with MAC Native apps. :P

    Good luck and we cheer for you DEVs.

    I'm out. Peace.

    Aleksander

    I have CaptureOne and I dont' find it that smooth on the Mac. It's fast and does a great job but I don't find it near as smooth. Adobe products certainly aren't that smooth even with video acceleration turned on - at least not like Affinity. Even the 2015 MacBook Air is smooth in Affinity so it does not have to be an expensive or new machine. I even have it on a 2009 iMac that does not have any acceleration for Metal and my one employee likes it a lot better than Indesign.

    Your system looks great and is better than pretty much anything that people are running it on here. Now I do wonder if maybe there is a setting in your video card drivers that is causing the issues by not having 2D acceleration turned on.. Can you assign app refresh rates? Part of the issue looks like refresh is not high enough, like playing a game on a bad screen or maybe worse. I Have windows 7. If I can get Affinity to let me use one of my keys for Windows, I'll see what it does.

  3. 5 hours ago, WilldOlive said:

    Ok, i found the problem. It's coming from the Preferences.

    If you use the Metal option in display (in Performance), you first have to change to another option, restart AFP, choose Metal and then restart again.

    For me it's working

    You have found a bug! It is reproducible too!

    If you have Hardware Acceleration checked "Enable Metal computer acceleration" it forces Display to be Metal. If you turn off and change Display to Metal it's fine (or anything else). But once you check the box for hardware acceleration the problem is back.

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    This bug also rears itself when using Publisher and in Photo mode doing the same thing if Metal acceleration is on.

  4. 9 hours ago, elliott937 said:

    To show you how much I do not know about iMacs, I do now know how to find the Performance window.   It's not in my Preference, although your screen capture looks like what I saw when I had a PC.  Could you be using a PC?

    I do not know if my internal storage is HDD or SSD.   You say that SSD will make the machine go much faster, but is that an internal device put into the computer by Apple, or is it something I can purchase, attach, and make my machine move much faster?

    Also, on this machine, I am not saving any image files (Affinity) or word files (Word) on the machine.   I have two external 4TB HDs that are being used to save any work I do on the machine.eir 

    And Brice, the Affinity Photo Work Book is one that I purchased from Amazon.  But since I updated my Affinity, I see their store on the home page.   The book is great, and I'm studying it now.   HOWEVER, since I clicked on the link and there are 64 tutorials, including masks.   It is Quick Mask that I need to learn for my New Orleans photo.   I can do Quick Mask (actully, that means you can paint exactly the object, and its borders, where the selection tools seems to always use "magnetic" methods) easily in Photoshop, but I don't know how to do that in Affinity.

    I welcome your responses about HDD or SSD.....this is the first iMac I've seen without a HD icon on the desk top.

    I value your suggestions....I'm running my machine now with the Activity Monitor running, with the bottom edge visible all the time.  With Affinity open and one file open, the Memory used is 6.62GB, with the simple file closed, the Memory Used went down to 4.69, and with Affinity closed that 800e Memory used is down to 3.45 GB.   is this all normal?

    if my "Cached Files" are at 802.2MB, is that bad?   The Swap used is at 627.8MB.   Bad yet?

    Bill

    No. This is the affinity preferences on the Mac. The way you know is Metal is only on Mac - and it helps tremendously.

    If you click the 12 block square button at the top of the window it will give you a whole bunch of preferences that you may not have seen before, one of these being performance.

    Depending on the Mac you have depends on what you can upgrade - and the difficulty. A MacPro, Mac Mini, are easily upgradable. An iMac can be upgraded by not so easy. A Macbook, Air, Pro cannot be upgraded with internal storage. You could use an external SSD and it's relatively easy but trying to explain how to install the OS on an external large SSD is not something I'm going to go into here. I don't know what machine you have.

    If you want your harddrive to show up on the desktop you need to go to Finder preferences and check the box:

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    I don't think the numbers sound too bad for your files being opened. It's different depending on how much memory you have in your system. I think you have 8GB RAM but not sure. How much space did you say you had left on your Harddrive? Either way If you can the SSD really will help things.

  5. Speed is an issue here is a couple things in addition to what you already have checked:

    What kind of internal storage: HDD or SSD? An SSD will be tremendously faster for everything. They are worth every penny and can make an old computer feel like new.

    How full is your internal storage? If you are more than 70% full I think you will see more slow downs. Above that you will have more issues. 

    Clear your system cache out might help.

    One person said to turn off the history - yes. Affinity files can get massive even without history.

    I've found that you may have better luck changing your preferences in performance as seen in the screen shot. 

    You might want to turn your memory usage down just so you can give more back to the system. Also change from Metal to OpenGl or vice versa seems to affect performance differently depending on the computer.

    I've run Affinity before on an 8GB Mac Book Air and it was fine. So I think it should be good on yours.

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  6. I'm getting that too on two computers except one of them won't let it finish. I can't click anything it just beeps. I'm not sure if the user hit cancel originally or not. I hit approve and it let me, but he can't export anything. 

     

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    At first it shows the normal folder view then when you hit save it goes blank like the original. Its not thinking or work because I try to click and it beeps like it's a hidden window now.

  7. You should make sure that your document is CMYK/8 and US WebCoated (SWOP) V2 when you create it.

    Then when you export it choose PDF/X-4

    There are bugs in the export of the other ones that cause elements that are supposed to be CMYK (drop shadows, transparencies, etc) suddenly have mixed elements with both.

    This is what I use and recommend to those who bring files to our printshop from Designer.

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