Chiyonosake013

I know, this is a beta on a beta OS, but wanted to throw it out there just in case it hadn't been seen by the dev team so far. Whatever my last used panel was is the only thing selectable. There is a workaround if you manually turn off, and then turn a panel on in the Studio menu, when you re-enable the panel it gains focus and is usable. You just can't click on the titles to select them. The odd thing is that it's only Publisher that exhibits this, both Photo and Designer are still selectable.

@Pauls Thank you for this tip! I didn't realize that was built in. As a follow-up this is also super helpful for those silly enough to upgrade to the new Sonoma build of MacOS. My Publisher repeatedly force-closed until I saw this post. I did the launch as you described and that fixed it. So there was some incompatibility there but not surprising as it's the first build.

Actually. I just figured it out right after this. Sometimes being in preview mode isn't useful. Somehow they all ended up linked together as opposed to separate entities...

Smartstep-Full-User-Guide.afpackage This is an odd one. This document was originally created in V1 of Publisher and converted over. I've opened it in both the latest Beta and Stable released of V2 and it's the same as both. I can only assume it's something that happened upon conversion to a V2 file. All of the Heading 2 text frames in Section two of the attached document somehow have the properties of the Heading 1. None of the other sections have had this happen to it. If I copy/paste any of the Heading 2 frames in Section 2, it copy and pastes the Heading 1 from the location of the Heading 2 I was trying to copy. If I edit the text frame, copy the text from within it, and then copy it into a new text frame it works properly. So it's something in just that section of text frames that seems to be the issue. I can work around it no problem but wanted to at least report it. In the video I used option-drag to copy them, but I also tried copy and paste and it did the same thing. Screen Recording 2023-05-16 at 8.57.15 PM.mov

Nothing long or eloquent, just wanted to throw my name into the “Supporting Serif” bucket. I love all that’s been done to the software, fully expected to pay for the upgrade, and am excited to see what else the future holds for it all. I may have felt slightly different had I just bought the software I suppose, but even so the cost to go to v2 is incredibly fair for the universal license. And it’s not like you’re being forced to upgrade immediately either, the v1 software will still continue to function for you as it has for the last many years. Either way, thanks again and keep up the good work

As of Ventura Beta 6 that was released today I can import PDFs properly again on an Intel i9 MBP. Huzzah

Fair enough Lee! It does look like somebody else commented there with the same import issue already. I didn't even look in that thread, just figured import/export were similar but different underlying functions. Sorry to double-duty your time but thanks for the quick response!

Hello ladies and gentlemen, people of all ages, I know I know it's a Beta OS and not fully supported yet but wanted to at least throw it out there if it hasn't been seen as of yet. I didn't have the issue on earlier beta releases, but the beta 5 release has this issue on both Publisher and Designer. I tried multiple PDF files as well to ensure that it wasn't just a corrupted PDF. At first I tried 'Open With...' in the context menu and it crashed. So then I opened the programs and tried to open the PDF that way. All ways ended in the same manner with Publisher/Designer force closing immediately.

Not to just ask the obvious, but have you looked through their in-app help file? There’s a huge amount of information there that’s not part of the quick start guide. They break down all the functions in there if you know what you’re looking for. Granted I’m on my iPad, but this help is readily available on both MacOS as well as Windows.

Awesome! Thanks. While they’re at it… if they wanted to allow the Delete key to delete stuff… that’d be pretty cool.

Also Enter doesn’t work as an “OK” button, it works as though you’re trying to enter a carriage return and instead puts a space into the input box.

Basically just as the title says. I was trying to change the stroke thickness by typing the value in to the input box. If you try to use a “ . “ you are instead given a “(null)” Using the latest version of Affinity Designer with Magic Keybaord. Hopefully this is at least an easy one for you all. Keep up the good work!

Oh nice find! Glad you were able to replicate it based on what I shared. I hadn't even considered it being linked to changing the size of the text box. And no worries on the few days in-between. You all are busy. I appreciate the quick response and helping make the software better.

If I put an asset into the asset panel they get squished out of shape. They maintain that shape when dragging them back out. Hardware acceleration is turned off. I'm on version 1.10.3 (just updated to it today actually, hadn't seen this with the previous version) I am on Monterey, so not sure if that could be related to the bug either. Otherwise I'm just on a 2019 MBP 16". I can provide a file if needed but here's a video capture of exactly what it's doing. Screen Recording 2021-10-27 at 1.17.09 PM.mov

@Eisbar here are all the previous versions of Publisher. You can use the same link and swap out publisher for "photo" or "designer" to get those releases as well https://store.serif.com/en-us/update/macos/publisher/1/