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Thank you for the info. I've had a look through prefs but can't see anything. I'm working on a website visual in Designer at the moment and its doing my head in! Surely there's a way to turn it off?! I can see how this would be useful in certain situations but generally i wouldn't want it to work this way. If someone from Serif could confirm it I'd greatly appreciate it.

I'm assuming this is something I've inadvertently turned on, but I can't for the life of me see where or how: whenever I delete something (in either Designer/Photo/Publisher) the program will automatically select another item rather than leave my selection blank like it always has. Very frustrating since I constantly have to click some white space to clear the selection. The 'auto-selection' randomly picks any other item on the art-board. How can I turn this off please?!

I've tried a few different source files (with Import PSD Smart objects where possible turned on) and had no luck at all - they all appear to open 'messed up', like the example below. Same in public release and beta - is this expected behaviour at this early stage?

.. because I'm thick and didn't realise there was a new beta!! Thank you, I've now updated and its come back again.

Just missing from Designer, its there in the Photo / Pub betas. I'm running Designer Beta1.8.0.2

...and here it is on the Mac:

Is there a reason for dropping the 'Print (Press Ready)' option from the revised 'New' document? Unless I'm missing it?!

FANTASTIC! With IDML import this feels like Publisher 2! Are you guys even sleeping at the moment?! Thank you :)

As reported HERE there appears to be a compatibility issue with the latest Mac OS Catalina release. I thought I'd create a new post to highlight the issue, as it currently stands I can't use Publisher on any Mac running Catalina. Basically, Mac's running Catalina are reporting missing fonts when opening documents - the fonts are in fact not missing at all. There's also some shifting of type happening too. Any info on how extensive the issue is / if its something we need to wait for Apple to fix or Affinity? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

...well so it is! Didn't realise. In that case, this is kind of pressing now.

OK, thanks for confirming that. I may hold out to see if future betas fix the issue. Given Catalina is due to drop pretty soon I hope this is fixed - either by Apple or Affinity, as it simply means we can't use Affinity software on the next Mac OS, which is a pretty big deal!

I have a similar issue and believe it's Catalina at fault (or rather, Publisher working with Catalina). I have a Publisher document on my Mac running Mojave that uses the Lato font family. All good. When I open it on another Mac running a fresh install of Catalina beta, Publisher states that certain weights are not installed (but they are, they're exactly the same fonts from the same source). It looks like some of the text has moved slightly as well - its a very complex 100 page product catalogue with tables and all sorts but they should be identical on both Macs. Anyone else have the same issue please or able to reproduce?

OK, many thanks for the update.

Linking all images in a Publisher document still increases the AP file size. I'm working on a doc with roughly 15 images and the AP file is already over 500 meg in size - does linking work correctly yet? I'm placing / linking Affinity Photo images.

From what I can recall in my InDesign days I just selected 'Europe Prepress CMYK' or something like that. I assumed there would be something similar in AD/AF/AP ?

New to Affinity software and creating my first brochure using a combination of Photo, Designer and Publisher. I'm based in the UK - i've noticed the default CMYK colour profile is set to U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2. Should all leave all three apps as they are or change them to something like Euroscale Coated V2?

Me too. Hard to pinpoint but crashing quite a lot.

Good to know, many thanks!

Ah, thank you! I've only just noticed that the Filler Text increases/decreases as you resize the text box so this all makes sense now. Thank you!

Don't know if this is by design but assume its a bug - if I draw a fresh text box and select 'Insert Filler Text', the text within that text box can not be selected using the text tool. If I want to insert my curser into one of the paragraphs, clicking there with the text tool does not work. I can't select (highlight) any of the text, it simply doesn't work. If I create a new text box and manually type some text in, it works fine. Where's the difference? I use Insert Filler Text quite a bit when making design mockups, but this renders it unusable. A short vid to explain: https://www.loom.com/share/61ad145f502e47aea8000865144664ab Although there's no sound, I'm trying to click and insert the curser within the text somewhere and can't.

"As another test I exported the same image as a PDF from Photo..." I meant to say 'PSD' not PDF. For what its worth!

So as a test I place a 115meg afphoto file (linked) into a fresh Publisher doc and save. The Publisher doc is 172meg in size. As another test I exported the same image as a PDF from Photo - now a 157meg file - and placed this in Publisher instead. Saved and the Pub doc is 55meg. In both instances, with it being linked, I kind of expected the Publisher file to be tiny?

Well, thankfully the do indeed open in the latest beta! Hurrah! Not that I'd saved anything critical...

Personally I save everything in native Designer or Photo formats and link them in Publisher. I would of expected this to be the 'default workflow'. I'd assume when a Designer or Photo file gets placed into Publisher a preview is generated for visual purposes and the large file is linked, resulting in a small Publisher file. Is that not the case?

ok, thanks!