stefano.cecere

i've been working on a several hundred pages project (no, it wasn't a book, but a complex project with dozens of different chapters) in Publisher, and i really missed the possibility to name pages and sections. woudl also be nice to see sections in the page list

absolutely. WepB is today a standard in many projects.

thank you @MikeTO indeed i checked other macos Ventura apps and the arrows are now filled triangles, very like as in the keyboard...

the menu commands work, but the shorcuts no. i struggled hours, then discovered this: the shorcut is Cmd+PageUp / PageDown. but the menu shows a simple arrow, and i think it's the cursor arrow. if i set the shorcut to the keyaboard arrow, i get a full triangle.. see the screenshot: the UP is the default "Page Up" key (that new macbook pro don't have, btw) the DOWN is the "Arrow down" key. i think this think should be explained somewhere

absolutely not so "visible". we are talking about the size of an image: the first and second place where i look is in the transformer panel, and then contextual menu Transform NB: i use computer and multimedia software since 1989.. i never struggled so much with software UI/UX as with Affinity suite.. I am sorry to say it.

this information / command is quite hidden.

i remem i remember the "old" roadmap... quite very detailed... too much i know, people love to complain.. anyway.. new betas should be released in the 2.x cycle.. so maybe we'll be half-way

now that v2 is here, with many new features, but many pros still needs some to really be comfortable with the Suite... could we please have a minimal roadmap on what you are working on? even something really generic like this Trello roadmap (for the Obsidian app). we know, and you know, that we don't have many other options today.. or Adobe, or Affinity, unless we want to use separate apps for specific works..).. we want to support you, but we need to be kept engagend, and know where you are going! for example: if you aren't goind to support ePub or external texts in Publish.. we aren't goind to use it for next books. if you aren't supporting RTL before 3/5 years, we accept it and use something else from today. if you plan automation in 2 years, we could use a temporary solution... thank you!

hi to the complete WebP export in v2.0

for me, just for the complete WebP export, it is worth to upgrade to v2.0

i've abandoned Affinity Photo for PixelmatorPro, just for WebP export feature. it's sad because it's an easy feature, now a standard for all current and next web dev (images are 50% smaller than jpg and png!) and it wouldn't cost too much to say: sure it'll come with 1.11 be patient!

one day on another some DTP will have these features.. and i'll use it

dear Serif i don't know your problem with WebP, but i just moved Affinity Photo in the archive and started using Pixelmator Pro, please don't let me get used to it ;)

same. i got angry and solved by Pixelmator Pro. the manual said nothing so searched the forum because i couldnpt think to be the only one in the world with this huge problem.. which is being discussed since 2016! NB: i have the Affinity suite, but too often i think there are still some big UX problems ciao

hi Mark.. we already can write complex book with Markdown -> export perfect PDF with Latex, without using big apps like Publisher see for example my workflow: https://github.com/StefanoCecere/markdown_pandoc_book_template

so, Designer and Photo Persona are embedded into Publisher, right? and activated only if it finds the application installed, right?

i really need to link to pages, and the two linked frames is not very helpful for hundreads of links. a simple "anchor page number" field would be perfect.. thank you!

can't reproduce it (1.7.2 mac)

i discovered it can be done automatically.. and works quite well! see

it's more than 3 years that it asked: why when i press ctrl+cmd+I for image resize, the first field of the resize form doesn't get automatically selected? you force me to press TAB to select it (even worse use the mouse) why if i am in Flood Fill Tool, i can't pick a colour by pressing any ctrl/shift/cmd key? i have to manually change to the Colour Picker, pick a color, and then go back to Flood Tool why when i open an image it doesn't open at 100% (but at 105%!??!) why if i select crop, i can't have a modifier to constrain to 1:1 (square).. or if i manually select it.. and come back later to crop i lose the selection? and many many others oddities like these i really don't understand.. there are bare minimum UX that every (at least in the Mac world) app has since 20 years... i would really like to use Affinity apps (i have all 3) but keep going back to Pixelmator that at least has a "normal" UX hope to see some improvements by 2.0

hi i can't see how make Publisher add or remove chapter pages, say for example that i change font size and margins, making the document need more o less pages to fit it well. Is it something that we should care manually? thank you

i'm a pro mac user since 1990. but after the $999 monitor stand and the overpriced macbook pros, i feel i'm going Linux soon. especially now that Unity (the popular game dev engine) has now a Linux version Serif if you are about to be a Linux player... i'd be happy to re-buy all the Affinity apps!

well .. if i wasn't developer and mac user since 30 years, i know that even the most complex machines must be easy to understand, and show the real expected behaviors as default... if i want to resize the image, it's obvious that i want, since i need, to input a width.. you don't show me an empty form where i HAVE to click a second time to input a value. i want to apply a filter.. i don't care, i don't want to know, if the Greyscale filter is destructive or not.. i want that to be applied in 2 seconds. and if it's descritive, you'll show a warning before applying it. or you mark somehow the destructive one to differenciate from the realtime one. it's simply basic UX design. and i think that Affinity has a lot to improve in that (otherwise we'll go back to Pixelmator for simple things, or to Adobe for the complex ones)

damn i spent 30 minutes trying all of them.. it was very hidden eh! THANKS!! (i know that Affinity can do anything.. but too often it's too difficult to know how to do it, and simpler apps are easier

i really can't understand: i do CMd+I / C to resize the image or canvas.. we got the resizing form but the focus isn't on the first field.. i have to manually press tab to select a field, or even worse use the mouse. press C to crop.. ok the mode is set to unconstrained by default, but why there isn't ANY possibility to keep the current proportions? (using cmd,ctrl,shift, alt, for example) i'm mostly in the move tool. but with this tool i always see violet rects around each layer/object.. there isn't a command to turn them off, but i have to change tool.. why do we need this? so annoying! i want to have an image in gray scale/black and white... after spending 3 minutes in the Filters menu.. i discover that that basic feature is in the Adjustment panel.. how did you split the effects in the two so different areas of the app? why Auto Levels is in the Filters menu, but the Levels filter is in the Adjustment panel? i really try to love Affinity apps (i have all), but too often open Pixelmator to do the simplest things because i know that it makes features where i expect them to be! (PS: i am a Mac user since 1991, started with Photoshop 2.0) ciao