bobbd2000

Many, if not most, of the tools add their dialog as a ribbon under the main toolbar. However, the selections from the Filters menu create a dialog box in the lower right of the document frame. While I would prefer the consistency of always having a ribbon, I understand that some features require too much information. So that I'm always looking in the same place, I've been moving the dialog box to the upper left. However, there's no option that I can see to lock them in that position or to set that they always appear in that position. Nor are they dockable. I would love it if everything used a ribbon, but at a minimum, how about a setting for where the dialog boxes initially appear. Thanks

Will do. Thanks

Maybe I missed something but how do I get the dialog boxes to position in the upper left by default. Or make the dockable. Many, if not most, of the tools add their dialog as a ribbon under the main toolbar. However, the selections from the Filters menu create a dialog box in the lower right of the document frame. I would love it if everything used a ribbon, but at a minimum, I'd like everything to be in roughly the same place. Otherwise I'm looking up for some things and down for others. And I do not want to use separated mode. Have I missed something obvious? Thanks Bob PS I did a search and couldn't find anything on this.

I switched to Sophos anti-virus and have no problems with Photo or Designer. Bob

I wonder whether other anti-virus apps do the same. Bob

You figured it out! I run Avast Anti-Virus. I disabled the Web Shield, but not the file and email shields, and low and behold, I see the table of contents. The Web Shield can exclude servers from scanning but I have no idea what to specify. I thought the help was local to the app. Thanks Bob

If anyone else has the issue of the disappearing Help table of contents, please post a "Me too". I'd like to know that it's not just me. Downloaded the Dssigner beta (I do hope I can trial Designer again when I have the time to play with it) and I have the same issue. The TOC is displayed for less than a second. Enough to know it was there, and then disappears. I use Firefox as my default browser. The only extension I have in Safari is 1Password. I also tried unchecking the Block pop-ups in Safari but it didn't help. On the off chance, I unchecked Block popups in Firefox as well as disabling AdBlock in Firefox, but that didn't do anything. Bob [Edit] Do you know of any other apps that use the type of Help that you do with a TOC off to the side? I'd like to see if they have the same issue.

Remember you asked :-) I'm approaching this as a newbie. While I've used photo editing tools before, I'm no expert. I basically looked through each topic to see if things were easy to use and as expected and for the most part they were. What follows are the things that caught my eye. I would very much like a cross-linked pdf version. I would put it on my iPad and have it open beside me as I work through the program. I'm using the help in Firefox by opening index.html. Otherwise the TOC disappears. I don't know if this is peculiar to the way I'm using it, but I find myself constantly clicking an arrow to expand and contract a section rather than clicking on the title.I don't know if there is an OS X standard but I am used to clicking arrows in the Finder. When I started at the top, I expected a description of the workspace. I suggest putting Workspace>More>At a Glance in the Get Started section and call it Workspace Layout or something descriptive. I'd also like to see the image annotated so we know what sections the text refers to. I sugggest moving Workspace>More>Preferences to it's own section so it doesn't get lost. I found Preferences>Tool UI Size to be misleading. To me, it implies that the tool icons can change size but they can't. Or maybe it's referring to different tools. In Preferences, move the To Set Preferences section to the top before General Options. For checkboxes, list the text from the Preference pane followed by the explanation. That way the user doesn’t have to interpret the explanation ot count lines to determine which checkbox it's referring to I'd like to see a list of Menus and menu commands with a link to the section that describes them. The Appendix section "Import and export file formats" is titled three different ways that I saw. The title in the Appendix, the actual title in the topic "Opening and exporting file formats", and there are links that use "Supported file formats". I prefer the latter or the Appendix topic name. I'd like to see the Affinity types supported especially for those of us new to Affinity apps. In the section Get Started>Opening a raw image, the comprehensive list of raw image files should point directly to the Supported Develop (RAW) Cameras on the web site rather than the import and export file formats. Will plugins and presets be documented in the help or did I miss them. Thanks for listening. Bob

Yosemite 10.10.2 Everything's fine in Firefox. It's the Apple Help window that comes up when I click Help>Affinity Photo Help. As for the greyed out buttons, it's probably because I was taking the window shots with Preview. When you navigate away from the Help window to Preview, the buttons grey out even though you focus on the window to take the screen shot. I am running Moom and Hyperdock, but I quit both and had the same problem. Maybe we should take this issue over to the bug forum?

I've attached a screen capture of the Help window and the help in Firefox if I open index.html in AffinityPhoto.help. I've used AffinityPhoto.help to get at the help in Firefox. I'm actually going through it that way to send comments. I've tried resizing the help window from the smallest it can be up to a very large window and no luck. Is it possible that there's a setting to disable a TOC somewhere? If no one else sees this, It might be me.I've had UBFs (User Brain Failure) from time to time.

Nope. By "locale" do you mean language? That's the only other option I could find. Set Language to English (U.K.) and Region to U.K. and everything else. Same issue. The TOC is there but disappears immediately. I can see it flash if I click the back button. Interestingly, the button to show the TOC is disabled (greyed out). Verified the version at 1.1.2.23923. Maybe it knows I'm trying to fake the U.K. If I'm the only one reporting this, maybe I should wait for the next beta version.

Unfortunately no joy. loaded the new version and changed my locale to the UK (I'm in Canada) and had the same problem with disappearing contents. Maybe I need to "really" be in the UK :-) I'm using Firefox 36 as my deafult browser with Yosemite.

Been there myself. Hoped you had some magic :-) I had tried Scrapbook but it didn't give me anything more than I had. I have not tried Print Pages to PDF as an add on to scrapbook. As for the second, unfortunately it requires Adobe Acrobat which I cannot afford. And I think I've used up my trials. Thanks Bob

No problem. Do you have something that will create PDFs from a Web page/site or did you put it together by brute force? I'm reading in a browser but it would be nice to have a PDF for annotation.

Just a followup to my previous post. This may be well known to some, but not to me. I was able to locate the help index HTML file and I can now use the help from within Firefox. If anyone else needs this workaround, show the package contents for the Affinity Photo app and look for the file Contents/Resources/AffinityPhoto.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/index.html. Bob

Any chance of sharing that PDF or describing how you created it. I have the other help bug that has been reported. No Table of Contents. Thanks Bob