jmwellborn

Not so. The scroll bars were visible at all times, whether the document was Fit to Window or larger. They are still visible in one or two saved Publisher files, and have vanished from others. This problem popped up with the download of Affinity Designer yesterday.

I have used Affinity Photo since February 2017. I have been working with the Publisher betas since this August. Happy as a clam. Yesterday I decided to complete the trio by purchasing and installing Affinity Designer. And now I have somehow lost the horizontal and vertical scroll bars in all three applications. I am using MAC Sierra with a connected mouse (not a trackpad) and have aways used click and drag with the scroll bars. I have also checked with Apple tech support to be sure that it is not an Apple problem. It isn't. The scroll bars are present and function perfectly in every other app (Font Book, Pages, etc.). Until yesterday, the scroll bars worked perfectly with Publisher Beta 4, and now they seem to be intermittent. Some documents don't show them when opened. Others do. HELP!

I had this same question, after watching the DAUB video about their watercolours. The narrator whizzed over the steps so rapidly that it took 5 reruns, a magnifying glass, and quick pauses in the video to discover the mode change to Bitmap. That crucial step is left out of the verbal discussion.

Thank you, Ash, for putting up with us! As for my MAC dock, there won’t be any problem distinguishing between Adobe and Affinity icons. Because there won’t BE any Adobe icons. This is all reminiscent of the old Peter Principle, that a corporation board meeting spends the longest time arguing over the size of the wastebaskets. I am sure we will find the new icons to be just fine after a week or two.

I have been writing and publishing for a long time. Publisher is not currently for sale, because it is in Beta, but when the first commercial version is ready, I will be purchasing it on Day One -- I am sure only one of hundreds of thousands of others. I may not think the new icon is as attractive as it might be, but it is so unimportant in the scheme of things. What IS attractive is that for those of us who have been waiting for a long time, we are in the process of getting a splendid initial-version alternative to the Adobe prison. In my humble opinion, the Publisher, Photo, and Designer icons can be whatever the developers decide.

There is also Typeface 2, which I have just discovered. It has some very nice ways to manage/create collections of fonts. And the added advantage, according to one reviewer on the Apple App Store of "Auto Activation in Affinity Apps (and others)." That was what sold me. It is half the price of RightFont as an added incentive.

Well, I guess we have all thrashed this out. À chacun son goût. Cheers, everybody!

It is Command plus the plus key (+) to zoom in. Command plus the minus key (-) to zoom back out. That was what I meant by Command + the + key. Etc. Works.

But if one is left-handed, the key close to Command is Z.

Yes, but demonstrated and spoken slow’w’w’w’w’w’w’ly. Preferrably with the light UI. So hard to squint at all those tiny little black arrows galloping back anf forth between tiny little words in tiny little menus in all that black at about 65 mph! Maybe a 17 min tutorial?

I am using MAC Sierra. For my computer the correct temporary zooming shortcuts are in Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts>View. Zooming in is Command + the “+” key. Zooming out is Command + the minus key.

The new icon does seem to lack "that certain sort of something." Maybe they could omit the upper right hand corner triangle, giving us an A again? The square looks a bit lonely down there on my Dock!

Oh ho! Stupid me. I entered something else into HELP, and found EDIT>Undo Set Ruler Origin and Redo Reset Ruler Origin plus their shortcuts. Need a brains transplant. Just another case of Everything You Always Wanted In a Publishing Program But Were Afraid to Ask. No need. Already there.

All of these panels appear on the right with my MAC, Sierra.

For the life of me I cannot think why anybody who has a computer and the chance to learn Publisher would want to use it to go back to that cash-gobbling Adobe product. But then, nobody asked me.

Downloaded perfectly! Miss the previous colors. Like the rest of the logo.

I must be missing something. There does not seem to be any consistent way to change the zero point on the document rulers (not frame text rulers) a second time, after it has been first changed by dragging on the top left hand corner of the rulers. I noticed this after the icon for adjusting the rulers (not frame text rulers) was removed from the Context Toolbar. I am now testing v. 174. Sometimes a double click up there moves the zero point back. Sometimes it does not. Sometimes a double click changes the tiny little "p" to two of them. Sometimes not. Would it be possible to enable some sort of mark at the horizontal zero point permitting it to be used to drag the zeros (both horizontal and vertical) back and forth?

Yes there is, but it is very short and rather wimpy. Mugsy’s sample showed a longer arrow.

Just downloaded v. 167. Smooth as satin -- as usual. MAC Sierra. I have installed it as a separate version, keeping v. 162. Every document I have created from v. 145 through 162 has opened perfectly. Granted, I saved the 145's in v. 157, then the 157's in v. 162, and now the 162's in v. 167.

I have 313 fonts, many of them added to the Apple fonts and ranging from the plain to the very intricate (think Augsburger Initials) in my MAC Font Book. Some are TT fonts, many are OTF fonts. Affinity Publisher (the beta version we are all working with now) handles them all perfectly!! I don't know about Designer, but don't see why not.

Oops. Forgot the other screen shot.

I am not a designer, nor a technical editor, and I hope everybody won't laugh at me, but here is what I would do in the meantime, because I really, really like Publisher and really, really am thoroughly annoyed with Adobe. So I have attached a screen shot.

Thank Thank you so much. I really love the Symbols Panel! Also Light UI!! Doesn’t matter at all whether the bars are gray or orange. What matters is the way all the images can be edited in one swoop. When the HELP team gets to that point in their documentation, they could possibly state something to the effect that “either a vertical gray or an orange bar, depending upon the user’s operating system.” That would help us “reading learners” as we discover the many extraordinary possibilities with Publisher. Thank you again!!

Yep. Trying to be diplomatic.

I know that the Help instructions are preliminary, but there appears to be a discrepancy. The instructions say "As a useful visual aid, symbols are indicated by an vertical orange bar on their layer entries in the Layers panel. If a symbolized object has been edited when unsynchronized a dashed orange bar is shown instead." I am using a MAC Sierra, Retina display. I have attached a screen shot of my Layers panel when I was working with the Symbols panel. The orange bar seems to be missing. Tiny little detail. Publisher is so exceptional!!