wezlo

The color picker delay is VERY frustrating. I'm sorry Monterey is triggering this for you all, I hope you're able to fix it without much trouble.

Update

It turns out this problem was ALL 3rd party apps. And the culprit was… the desktop background image. Any time it’s not a static stock apple background the window server will crash. I have no idea why.

Update

It turns out this problem was ALL 3rd party apps. And the culprit was… the desktop background image. Any time it’s not a static stock apple background the window server will crash. I have no idea why.

...blinks...

Wow.

I'm just gonna leave this thread now. I get can that sort of comment on FB.

Ohmygosh... I had never even considered switching to endnotes and pasting them in separately! I need footnotes for the bulk of what I write, but that is an incredible idea for the works where endnotes work just fine. THANK YOU!!

Ohmygosh... I had never even considered switching to endnotes and pasting them in separately! I need footnotes for the bulk of what I write, but that is an incredible idea for the works where endnotes work just fine. THANK YOU!!

I'm astonished at the level of aggressiveness, hostility, and complaint toward Serif because Affinity Publisher doesn't have footnotes. It all seems quite misplaced to me. Here are possible alternative scenarios:
* Serif withdraws Publisher from the market until footnotes/endnotes are ready.
* Serif raises the price of Publisher to match Adobe's products, and with that extra revenue (assuming anyone paid the fees) hired more programmers to get footnotes done more quickly.
* Serif puts a huge, red-letter note on AF's web page that says: "AF Doesn't Have Footnotes! Be Warned!"
I don't like any of those scenarios. I'm very grateful that Serif has:
* Produced a relatively fine and useful product for only $49. Wow.  I'm a programmer, and I'm used to complexity, and I find AF refreshingly easy to use. I just published one book with it, and I'll be publishing my second one in a week or two.
One very large improvement from PagePlus (with which I published a book as well) is automatic section heads. With PagePlus I had to create separate master pages for section heads and it was an annoyance.
And yes, I want footnotes (and especially endnotes) too. But there are some workarounds. I posted one in this forum, to wit: produce your endnotes in a word processor, and paste the text into AF. Yes, it would require hand editing of any additional endnote changes, but at least endnotes can be done this way. I'm planning on that, if AF doesn't have them by the time I need them.
=> So, here we are, with Affinity Publisher quite useful to many, at a Very Good Price Point. Yay! Go Serif! I'm GRATEFUL.
And then we have what seems like an endless stream of people who:
a) don't read the forum posts that demonstrate that the footnote issue has been reported ad nauseum and thus, Serif is *working on the issue*, and
b) attack Serif for daring to publish a product without a feature they want, without making some type of huge headline on their web page that screams "Don't buy this if you need footnotes! Our product isn't professional!"
Frankly, it's ridiculous. Get over it. Don't buy the product if you don't like it. Don't use it if you don't like it. Read up about the product before you invest $49 and any time in it. It's a no-brainer. Some products don't fit our needs. C'est la vie.
We all have the freedom to enjoy AF or not.
What's the point in endlessly complaining and attacking Serif for an issue that's already noted and is being worked on?
Does it make a complainer feel better? For the rest of us, it's boring and irritating.
So, thank you Serif for what you've done and are doing! Ignore the noise and know that a lot of us are grateful for your work.
Peter Falkenberg Brown
 

The pre-order was completed without a second thought. You have no idea how excited I am for this release.
There may have been dancing.

The pre-order was completed without a second thought. You have no idea how excited I am for this release.
There may have been dancing.

The pre-order was completed without a second thought. You have no idea how excited I am for this release.
There may have been dancing.