jmwellborn

@Meliora spero which costume designer has lost his data?

I think it may be possible that the developers decided that because there have been numerous occasions in the past where people have not saved their work, but have subsequently lost it when using EDIT IN (whichever) and then reported it on the Forums with a plea for a rescue from Serif, it would be more expedient to require a Save. If it is a "be sure to eat your Wheaties" reminder, I predict that we will get used to it.🤔

@Medical Officer Bones You are slightly in error. Adobe didn't create InDesign from scratch. Adobe bought Pagemaker from Aldus. Pagemaker was a superb product and Adobe renamed it as InDesign and added a few bells and whistles, which for many of us made an unnecessary mess out of some formerly wonderful software. Having used InDesign with loathing (after using Pagemaker) with my publishing corporation, I was thrilled when Affinity Publisher arrived on June 19, 2019 and have used it consistently ever since. Nothing is perfect — but Affinity comes pretty darned close in my estimation. There are real people working very hard to make it better and better, and since I (and I am sure many if not most others using it) am not capable of creating The Perfect Software, I am happy to work around the odd glitch here and there while people at Serif who can, do. Another nice thing about Serif: I haven't had my login identity compromised by hackers as did Adobe a few years ago. Several million people, all forced to scramble, because a company that is so "expert" couldn't maintain proper security on its own website. Didn't enlist much confidence in the brand, especially once they cheerily announced that we would now all have to "subscribe" while they kept all of our work in the cloud. To each his/her own. Perhaps the disgruntled should simply invest in Adobe. Perhaps the happy and optimistic should stick with Affinity, and their elegant and uniformly considerate staff at Serif — My plan.

Maybe it is a MAC thing, but for me, it isn't a round trip. It is all the time. Each time I use EDIT IN (Photo, Designer, or Publisher) I have to Save first. Even if I don't change or modify a thing, I get the message no matter which app I choose. Publisher>Designer or Publisher>Photo; Photo>Designer or Photo>Publisher; Designer>Publisher or Designer>Photo. A new wrinkle is that if I open a new document in Photo and place an Asset on the blank canvas, then select EDIT IN DESIGNER I click on the Save message and get a crash. No recovery file available. Tried it twice. Happened twice. I have the crash reports, in case anybody is interested.

@aspqrz, @Pg two projects, @Glenst0rm, and @Daniel Gibert There is a simple solution that works perfectly for me (see my OS below). If, as I presume, you are using Publisher v. 2.6, just crop your image to include what you want, then change to the Move tool, right click and choose Rasterize and Trim. You will immediately have an image without the extra borders, which you can shrink or grow using the corner handles, or then change if you so choose with the Transform panel. It is a destructive action, but if you change your mind you can always cycle back in the History Panel to remove the rasterization. Naturally you also lose everything that you did after that rasterization.

@VectorWhiz Stunning!!!

@Bobbie Gee I have discovered that using MAC Ventura, there is an easier way to do this. Following @MikeTO's instructions: 1. Select image in Apple Photos 2. Click on IMAGE> Edith with> 3. Select Affinity Photo 2 (or 1 if that is what you have) 4. Repeat MikeTO's steps 4 through 6 7. In Apple Photos you will find that the image is already changed and saved.

@Circulus it might be a thought to review the notation “Read before posting” at the top of the Desktop questions part of the forum. Just a mild suggestion.

Not a chance that I am going to Clear User Data! I don't think I would live long enough to import all those brushes again, although I do have them all backed up in FINDER. 🥴I can live without the handy-dandy Search line, which is apparently Plan B in my case. Perhaps my video may help Serif to figure this thing out, although I am sure they have many more important things to do. Thank you for looking at it, anyway!

@Ldina. Dark UI doesn't make any difference. I had Hardware Acceleration turned off in both Photo and Designer and — checking — they are both turned off. In both, Metal was changed to Open GL. CTRL + Open didn't make any difference. I shut down my computer every day after working on it, so that when I start it, it is a Restart. Made no difference. I have had an exceptional record with my iMAC as far as Affinity "bugs" are concerned, and since nothing has changed on it re new (or deleted apps), or upgrades to more recent OS (i.e. Sonoma or Sequoia), I cannot see how that could be the problem.

@Ldina I have had Hardware Acceleration off ever since I acquired my M1 Mac. I presume the update (which I made from the update prompt from V 2.5.5) maintained my system settings. I’ll check tomorrow. On my M1 laptop I did turn it off, also from Metal to Open GL, and it didn’t make any difference. I’ll check that too tomorrow.

@Ldina I do have a ton of brushes, but since the seach field only applies to the current brush category I don’t see how that should make any difference. I don’t have any installed utility that doesn’t pertain to MAC or Affinity, and I didn’t have anything running except MESSAGES and SAFARI. In all but one of the examples I typed in the entire name of the brush. When the search worked it popped up quite quickly. When the brush doesn’t show up, it always needs the little x to be pressed to ostensibly show the brush, which it doesn’t. Since both Photo 2.6 and Designer 2.6 act the same way with the same pixel brushes I don’t think that both need to be restarted, but I will try that tomorrow and see what happens. I’ll also try the dark UI so I don’t leave anything out. I still think that because it is random the issue is with the search line, but who am I to say? Thank you so much for looking at this!

@Ldina and @Hangman. Here it is. I have used the same Brush categories in both Photo and in the Pixel persona in Designer to show that the problem is the same in both apps. I also used the Designer persona to show that the problem is not limited to pixel brushes. I used both default brushes and brush packs (including DAUB Pastello 2 purposely because I know that Paolo is scrupulously careful about his brushes). The reason I jumped between Photo and Designer pixel persona during the pixel brush tests was to show that the same category responds the same way in both apps. When I switched to the Designer persona I purposely used one default category and two others from separate brush packs. It looks to me as though the issue includes how the apps read the search line. For example, if several individual brushes in a category start with the same word (i.e. in the Big Box - Bamboo pack — which I didn't use here — all brushes start with "Japan" followed immediately by a series of numbers such as "Japan00067 2," "Japan00065-8" etc. it looks as though the app doesn't go deeply enough into the wording to distinguish between the two. I might add that some default categories worked perfectly. Others did not. Please excuse all of the typos that needed to be corrected, and any errors that may have inadvertently hopped into this video. On reviewing it I see that I entered the wrong name in Designer Pixel persona for the DAUB Pastello 2 example. Drat! All that jumping back and forth was a pain in the neck. Screen Recording 2025-02-24 at 14.42.31.mov

@Shoogles Have you checked this list?

Thank you @Ldina and @Hangman. I am seeing as much of the category as the Brush panel can show without scrolling, when I should just see the one brush. I still have to scroll down for the brush I wanted. I will make a video tomorrow and post it here.