LostInTranslation

Canva bought Affinity to the tune of about 1 BILLION dollars. Affinity made 16 MILLION pounds in revenue in 2022. Yeah, I am sure that will let you carry on and change nothing.

I remember this being an issue for a long time, but I did not use it myself for a while. Now I am back at packaging design for a client and sadly it seems this still does not work correctly. The design has text that is rotated 90° to either side. To see it upright and edit it, I use View->Rotate. But WHY in the world do scrollbars and cursor keys still pretent that the document is upright? If I move the horizontal scrollbar, I want my document to move HORIZONTALLY and not vertically. Same for the cursor keys, this is beyond annoying! So my only options are to get a stiff neck OR "translate" every movement to which rotation I am currently in? This may make sense on iPad with pen, but definitely NOT on desktop! Come on Serif, please fix this already!

Don't worry, his intention was not to help, but to show his superiority by knowing that help exists, when my question was already perfectly answered. There's always one like that.

wow, that was fast. Thank you very much!

Hi, often when I adjust some intricate object's transparency or FX, it is really hard to see what I am doing because of the selection bounds. There is a button "Hide Selection while Dragging", but is there a way to temporarily hide a selection while I make adjustments? Thanks.

@stokerg I wrote you a PN a good while ago, but you haven't read it yet.

This is exactly what I ended up with and for my purposes, it works well enough. Since I obviously don't use this master in the document, I don't have to worry about it being printed and still it's always at hand.

It just happened again, that I have to create the first edition of what will become a regular publication. I got an extensive briefing from the client, which is the "rulebook" for my work. It would be really handy, to have these notes available at all times inside Publisher. There is a "Notes" panel, but that is not what I mean. I am looking for a way to have notes "attached" to a document, but never visible in (or part of) the actual document. Right now, I am just inserting an extra page at the end and place the notes there. It is not a perfect solution though. Is there a better way to do this?

I can replicate this endlessly. Crash Reports -> reports is empty Crash Reports -> Backtrace contains 5 new files after the crash 2nd screenshot is the XML of the -report.json Do you want them by PN?

That works perfectly and gives me even more options. Thank you very much!

Hi, quick question: I am designing for packaging. During this, my client frequently gets samples to review. In Publisher -> Fields I have entered all the document information, along with a note "NOT FOR PRODUCTION". When I export to PDF, there is an option to "Include Document Information", but all it does is print the filename to the PDF. Is there a way, to display my custom document information as well, or am I stuck with entering it manually as text?

Wow, that is everything I need, thank you. I had no idea about the macros, but your approach works beautifully. Dragging them directly to the Asets panel works in Windows too, I had no idea. I only ever added assets via the canvas and never thought of dropping them directly. Thanks to the both of you I have all the icons as named asets, how great is that? The ready assets if you want it: bootstrap_icons_19.zip

I find it very strange too, since it happens in V1 as well. But here I can replicate it every time. Can you try with a Bootstrap icon, so we can that rule out please? 1-circle.svg 1-circle-fill.svg 1-square.svg

Thank you very much, that already helps.

Hi, try this: 1) drag&drop a graphic into Designer. I used a SVG from Bootstrap icons, but tried other SVGs too. It becomes an "embedded document". 2) Go to Ressource Manager, then Collect. 3) Choose a folder. I get a spinning wheel for a second, then Designer crashes every time I try it. By the way, the same happens in V1 I am on Win10, but installed AD regularly, not from the Windows Store. Edit: same thing happens in Publisher. I used a simple logo and some text this time. Collect -> spinning wheel -> crash.