I just bought affinity photo iPad. The online guide is very hard to read for me (and I suspect for other visually impaired users).
The guide doesn’t support dynamic text settings nor pinch to zoom nor copying text into notepad so I can make a summaries .
Also the mini movie clips move too fast for me to follow or to enlarge.
Please provide an Alternative version of the online guide, thank you
Please watch the accessibility teaching clip of the worldwide developers conference just recently held. These two Apple engineers really get it about accessibility issues.
The seconds reference is MIA in Photo for iPad but is there in the Designer app.
The verbiage in both certainly is misleading -- it hints that the backup is not a stand alone one with the "may be restored" phrase instead of a more definitive "can be restored" one or something similar, but that isn't something most users will notice.
I am just guessing but I think the reason for this is because the restore feature (which is all it really is) is based on the serialization of the native Affinity file format -- as I understand it, instead of rewriting the entire document file each time it is saved, the changes made since the last save are added to the end of the file, in serial fashion, one after the other. At some point, the saved version & the changes are automatically rewritten to 'deserialize' & compact the file, but until that happens there is only the serialized version.
There are several benefits to doing it this way, one of the most important being it makes most saves to existing documents very quick (because only the changes need to be written to the end of the file) so these 'auto-saves' can occur in the background without causing any noticeable lags or stuttering during edits. On iPads that also extends battery run times a bit.
So basically, the misleadingly named "Autosave Interval" determines how often the serialized changes are saved, separate & apart from the last saved version. It does not make a complete copy, nor does it save it to the same location set by the Save Location" preference. Both are needed for the restore function to work (thus the "may be restored" waffle words in the help).
Anyway, trying to put all this (including anything I got wrong about how it all works) into the help topic, using language most users would understand or find useful, would be difficult, so my guess is they went with what is there now instead.
