Jeremy Bohn

I like how the guides work but also agree that true locking is needed, plus treating guides more like objects so you can move and transform them like any other shape or line.

I'm not talking about quitting the app, I'm just talking about closing documents. It doesn't make sense to have a blank, document-less window left behind once you close all others. This is especially strange if I close the initial blank window upon opening the app, only to find it back after I close my actual document. Also, I don't see this behaviour in Designer.

The command-space shortcut for Spotlight for mac is a bother, however it doesn't interfere with command-space zooming in Adobe's apps. Spotlight just pops up for a moment then goes away when you start zooming. Actually, one of the first things I do when setting up a new computer is disabling Spotlight's shortcut.

I'd like to see the ability to separate a tab from the rest of my open documents. Currently it appears you can only have one or the other - Separated Mode on or off. Separated Mode kind of messes with the UI so the ability to separate a tabbed document without changing with the UI would be great. This comes in handy to drag items from one document to another. I guess this is really a suggestion for all the Affinity apps, but I think it's in Photo that it would be most useful.

When I close all open documents, I'm left with one blank window with no open document, just like what you get when you first open the app. Even if I close that initial blank window and the open a bunch of files, once I close them there ends up being another blank window. Seems kind of strange to me! I'm seeing this in Photo and Publisher, but NOT Designer.

This behaviour stumped me as well and I had to Google search to find the answer. Actually, I thought the Flip commands would be in the Layer menu, seeing as the document equivalents are in the Document menu.

I think I've seen a similar problem too. I couldn't get around it so I had to delete the photo and re-place it.

I'd like to see the ability added across the app to delete anything unused that is document-specific, like text styles, swatches and the like. Or even at least be able to select multiple items so you don't have to delete one at a time. I don't like having to scroll through lists of things I'm not using to find ones I need. It helps to keep the document clean and efficient. Perhaps this can be added to the wish list?

When placing photos into Publisher, sometimes certain images are flipped the wrong way. Look at the attached screenshot with the current selection. The photo is upside down. The photo is right-side up in Finder, and even when I open the photo directly in the other Affinity apps, the photo is correctly rotated. My guess is that Publisher is ignoring the tag in the photo file that says how to rotate it. Hopefully this can be changed! macOS Mojave

OOPS - never mind. I now see where it says the link has been modified. I couldn't see it before... I need to stop expecting things to be the InDesign way (in this case, a yellow alert symbol).

Thanks. I hope it's high on the list because it seems like a basic and often used feature. I did a search to see if this had been discussed elsewhere but couldn't think of how to word the search and nothing came up.

Is there an option somewhere to open or edit a linked file in it's original application, or at least show me the file in Finder? With InDesign I could option-double click on a photo or graphic to do that, or right-click and choose to Edit or Show in Finder. I don't see any options in the menus nor in the Resource Manager, meaning I have to find the graphic manually. macOS Mojave

In the attached screen recording you can see as I nudge the scrolling down slowly, every nudge makes the text frame flicker. Screen Recording 2019-02-13 at 4.31.16 PM.mov

Hi Sean, it's only with Text Flow on because it's those elements that are flickering. I'll try to get a movie of it shortly.

I figured out what's happening and it's definitely a bug or not expected behaviour. If I switch the column guides to outlines and save the document, close it and reopen the document, the guides remain as outlines. However, if I close the document and then quit and relaunch Publisher, then reopen the same document, the guides are switched back to filled. They should stay as I had set them, even after quitting the app.

So the bug is in High Sierra and later. And my suggestion, because most people wouldn't be able to tell that the symbols are Page Up/Down, is to write out the keyboard shortcut instead of using the symbols. So Command or cmd for short, Option and so forth. See how InDesign does it in the screenshot.

Hi Lord, I'll have to try this when I have a moment and see if I can replicate it. What I was seeing was trouble editing the table settings itself, in the Table panel, as mentioned here. I wonder if they are related?

Hi Lord, I asked about inserting tables into text boxes to get them to "flow" just like that other program. It's not possible at the moment but on the list for the future. I miss it too!

Anyone running High Sierra and/or Mojave and can report what they see?

I agree - I'm so used to pressing it the other way around that I couldn't figure out why my Mac kept beeping.

There is still the glitch of the wrong symbol showing up in the menu itself, at least on the Mac. It appears as a regular arrow there, which is wrong and which is what made me think the shortcut wasn't working in the first place.

I think instead of some of those symbols it should SAY what they are, like Page Up, page Down, Tab etc. So if the developers are reading this, this is a sort of bug / suggestion.

Thanks fde101, that's helpful. I wasn't getting that circle before - what I was doing was command-clicking on the frame which selected the photo. When I placed the cursor near the corner of the photo the cursor would change to the rotation cursor, but it wasn't consistent. Randomly I would not get them, even on the same photo. So your double-click method is another way to accomplish it. I'm also finding photos placed are often the wrong orientation. Looks like Publisher is not using the rotation metadata in a lot of photos. If I used my old method of command-clicking to select the photos, using the rotation toolbar button would rotate and squish the image in every time. Your new method doesn't squish it. Yay!

Thanks dom I am aware of that. Like I said, it is possible to get the desired outcome, it just is not as quick or convenient as having a direct percentage.

THANK YOU Old Bruce. That is what changed... outline mode. Prior to the new build, I just had the basic lines. This is the second setting that appears to have changed after updating.