Andrew S

The same situation here.

This actually does not work on my Win11 Pro. It was set to D drive and it still installed to C drive and you cannot move them either, they fail so what is the solution?

Interesting to note that Blender an open source project has daily development releases in all formats and platforms including MSIX and MSI installers for the windows platform. They do this on a daily bases. Have a look at it here blender daily builds which shows it is not impossible to maintain both installers. I do not understand why the MSIX istaller was chosen in the first place as the only choice.

All my M.2 MVMe SSDs are internal, 2 on the mother board and another two on a PCIe M.2 card board. Another regular SSD has regular internal wired connection to the mother board directly. I only use external SSDs for backup.

I only use physical drive for D. Usually I do not install anything on the C drive and do not save there either so it is dedicated to OS only. D drive is a separate SSD without partitions and it is only used to install programs and not saving anything else there either. The rest of the othe physycal drives are for data and files.

Thank you for that info. I wonder what I should do with the other two software that I do not want on C drive. What made them think that we can waste our C drive? Plenty of garbage goes to C drive even without us wanting them to. We do not need more space occupied there. My previous computer run out of C drive space and to migrate the entire operating system to a new larger drive without buying a new windows licens is not a smple task. I would not have a problem with this installer technology if it would allow the control of the installation location. I guess at Affinity they mainly use MACs and they do not know much about the PC users needs and they did not research it.

Hello, I just purchased the upgrade package and to my shock it installed to C drive automatically. That is a big no-no for me. So where is the MSI package availabel as I am not happy to install the other 2 packages to the same C drive. This should never happen, users should have the option where to install things. I have 5 SSD drives and I do not want to clutter the C drive whith anything but what the OS needs. As a consequence I even reconfigured windows to automatically store Photos, Downloads and so on, on a different drive. Can anyone point me to the MSI versions? Under my account only the unwanted versions show up. Andrew

Hi @user_0815 Unfortunately the white box will not work for me s I place some overlaping images and I have to remove some part of it that would cover part of the below one. Did anyone find a solution for this because it does not look good in official documents.

Hi @DWright I just tried Figure 12 with a mask and the masking brush edges also showed up, see attached image.

Hi @thomaso I haven't thought of tha PDF reader. I use Foxit PDF reader but it still should not be on the images as something then must have been written to the PDF by Publisher to show up like that. I do not have borders an any of my images. I generated them with tranparent background or captured them an white background screen. I managed to get rid of the lines on that image by applying a circular mask on it but I need to see what I can do to eliminate this side effect where the stroke edges show up. Regardless of masking or paint brushing or even erasing, those ghost lines should not show up.

Hi @DWright Please have a look at Figure 12 also on page 9 where you can see the brush stroke outlines that I also mentioned.

Hi @thomaso The image need to disappear on the outside of the circle to simulate the relevant style of technical drawings so cannot just put a circle on it. On the original image where the part needs to be 'magnfied' is normally circled, as you can see the small one but the actual 'magnified' representation must look the way I did it but perhaps there is a better way of making that happen. I erased it to transparent background initially but that did not make those ghost lines disappear so then I tried it to brush over with white. I have all three of the affinity suits so I can switch between any of them within Publisher so any suggestions I can try to do as long as I can generate images the way they need to be shown.

I uploaded the entire file but this cannot be shared publicly. Sometimes some of the frame edge lines show up even when the image is not edited only cropped. Sometimes when editing image like painting over with the white to make parts 'sappear' will generate that ghost lines where the brushes moved and shows all the brush strokes' edges. BTW I am using the PC version of the Affinity suite in case it has something to do with it. On the original file there is no lines visible at all only in the PDF exported versions they show up.

That is correct, the light grey c-shaped lines are the problem. It appears sometimes with other images. Every now and then painting over the area with white solves the problem but not all the time. This is one of those times. I usually edit the image by switching to photo within publisher. Not sure if that would have anything to do. This image needed some white out masking around the blue circle to appear as a magnification. Here are the selected and unselected images and the original images for the effected one.

Hello, I am writing documents and found that many times the image that I place as Figures show up some ghost outline that should not show in the PDF. If I try to paint around it with white then the brush that is painted show its outline wher it moved around. How can I get rid of that. See attached image with the gray lines around the magnified image King regards, Andrew

Thank you, got it working following your instructions.

The Node Tool icon supposed to have an expansion arrow on it to reveal the Point Transform Tool for selection. For some reason this arrow is not showing on Designer. From the help file I found that the short cut key for the this tool is F and that is the only way I can currently access it. The Designer version I currently have is V1.7.3.481 and I did not get notification if there would be an update. See missing expansion arrow from icon at link https://www.screencast.com/t/ulJVVYGQXIXf

Dan, You forgot to show that the curly brackets need to be included. I used the uninstall and it said it fixed it but it was still installed. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. As I started the installer it immediately showed the path where it was last installed which was D: drive for me. When installing the progress bar went to about 25% and said it was complete. I tried to run it and it was a no go. I am in the same situation as rlratkey I just checked that after running that uninstaller on D:/Program Files/Affinity still has the Affinity Photo folder with a lot of files in it including the Photo.exe one. The same thing with the Designer. I am facing the same problem with that too. I deleted the Affinity folder from my D:/Program Files Interestingly C:/Program Files have an Affinity folder too when I installed all Affinity products on D: drive. On C: drive in the Affinity folder I came accross a folder called Common and the Publisher Public Beta. I think last time I installed that on C: drive because I was having failed updates with the betas on the D: drive. Not sure what will happen with that one when I download the final version that I have purchased already. After uninstallation I still found 464 Affinity photo entries in the registry, not sure what that uninstaller was doing if left that many stuff behind. Update on Photo: In desperation I removed the 464 left behind files from the windows registry and now I finally managed to install Photo and it is actually working. I had to create the folders for the installation which was unusual. Normally I just change a drive letter to install to the D: drive but this time I had to navigate where I wanted to install it and create the folders in the Program Files like Affinity/Affinity Photo Those of you who are reading this, if you are not familiar with windows registry then do not touch it because you can ruin your computer in no time. Wait for some instruction from Dan that makes this easier and less dangerous for your computer's health or if someone finds an easier way that works. Update on Designer: I did the registry clean for Affinity Designer as well and there was 371 files that I needed to remove. After running the installer Affinity Designer is finally working too. During installation I had to create the installation folder just like with Photo. Interestingly both software retained the Open Recent files list and last saved or opened locations.

I have similar problem. I updated to 1.7 and it said that it completed it but when I opened Photo it opened the previous version. The progress bar during the installation just moved a bit and came up with the completed message. I uninstalled it and installed it and now I have the icons and does not start, I can go to the folder directly and try to start it with the exe file but Photo does not even start up I install applications on my D: drive and I have Windows 10 Home 64 bit Version 1809 OS build 17763.503 The same thing happened with Designer, exact the same steps. The only thing works now is the Publisher Beta but scared to update that one.

Thank you for your help. Good idea with the 'fake' AU language. I downloaded the large AU spelling file and now Publisher automatically sets it to AU. I also copied the same over to Photo and Designer. I see you are using all 3 betas. This Publisher beta installs into the C: drive Program Files/Affinity/Common folder and a bunch of dll in there. That was not there when I only had the Photo and the Designer, only Publisher Beta installed that in there. All my Affinity software is installed on my D: drive. Do you know if I could delete that Affinity folder from the C drive?

Windows is set to Australian. I assume that is why it goes back to the one I mentioned. Interestingly, I cannot find the language spelling pack the documentation mentions. The links there do not direct me to any language spelling dictionary. I was thinking of downloading it and putting it into the Dictionaries folder but cannot find the language package. Thanks for the tip, the Edit>Defaults>Save has worked.

I noticed if I open a new document the Character panel automatically goes to 'Unknown (en-AU)'. How can I set up publisher to automatically have UK spelling set?

That was the culprit. It was going back to Australian spelling. I did not set that spelling though. It must have picked it up from the system or something and it showed Unknown (En-AU). A had to select every text in the document and change the spelling to UK.

OK, I searched the registry for affinity publisher and deleted all entries. Now I managed to reinstall it but the Common folder installed on the C drive and the rest is on my D drive with the rest of the affinity products. No built in spell check though. I would expect all files in the Program Files/Affinity folder on D drive and not a separate Program Files/Affinity/Common on the C drive.