Jenny

No, not an M1 Macbook

I am having an issue with unexpected crashing as well. I have just updated to 1.9.3 and it keeps crashing without me doing much. Just moving a small text frame or image. Now it keeps crashing every time I try to select three elements on a page by clicking and dragging. I copied the crash report as well and will send it to you. Since I am working on a time-sensitive client project I will downgrade to 1.9.2 now. MacbookPro 2020, 13", MacOS 11.2.3

Hi, I found this topic through Google, because I have the same problem in Designer, Publisher and Photo. I tried all palettes, fill and gradient, using the button and the item in the right-click menu. I am using the latest versions of all three and macOS 11.2 It's driving me crazy right now, I need to get a complex gradient from one object to another. I tried copying it with the eye dropper, but it's only picking up a single color, not the whole gradient. - Jenny

I have the same issue - Affinity Designer 1.8.3 and new Macbook Pro with 10.15.5 is crashing on a regular basis when hitting Cmd+P with various printers (Canon, Samsung). Doesn't matter if I have one or more files open and what I am trying to print. By now I know to save everything before trying to print. But what's very annoying is that Designer keeps forgetting my custom keyboard shortcuts when I have to restart after crashing ...

That is very kind of you, but I am actually using a third party software for the imposition. I just thought it would be fantastic to have an efficient workflow in just one app (Publisher), since it can already do both the things I need, just not in combination :-)

I have created a booklet with a lot of pages in A6 and I would love to print them two-sided on A4 pages as a booklet (four pages on each side - after printing I would cut the pages in half). So basically I need a combination of booklet and n-up. As I have started this project in InDesign a long time ago, I was only able to save the file as a PDF booklet and then use a third-party tool to n-up the PDF. With Publisher I was able to print it as a booklet, but only when I manually feed pre-cut A5 pages into my printer one by one which is super annoying. Can anyone think of a more efficient way to do this?

Because I have made a template with a page full of picture frames with custom settings and fittings. I could just paste a picture into a frame and it would automatically adopt the settings. That was very convenient.

I'm not sure why I should change the way I have been doing this for months, it has worked perfectly until this one option was removed - hopefully by accident. Yes, I could save the images to my computer and then place them, but that just takes too long honestly. It used to be a matter of two clicks ...

I am pasting barcode images which have been generated on a website. So I just right-click on the image on the website and choose "copy image".

as far as I know that doesn't work with an image in the clipboard

I have used the "paste into" feature a lot. After just upgrading to the latest version 1.7.0.305 that seems to be gone. When I right-click the picture frame I have the option to "paste" and a greyed-out "paste content". How to I paste a new photo into a frame now? I can't figure it out ...

Any idea how to get these options into the toolbar? Do I have to add those manually? I am working with version 1.7.0.238 and they are not there by default. I tried customizing the toolbar and couldn't find those buttons there either ... Thanks.

I tried that - opened the EPS file above in Illustrator, saved it as PDF, then opened it in AD, but I have the exact same problems than I had when opening the EPS directly in AD. I tried different settings when saving the PDF and they had different effects when opening in AD, but each time the file is basically unusable :-(

Thanks for explaining this, guys. Obviously I never had to deal with the specifics before. Can I ask - if EPS is an old format and AI is basically bound to Adobe - what file format would be the better choice? And if I have a file like the one above, is there a way to open it in Illustrator and save it in a way that I would be able to open it properly in Designer? I have SO many files, I wanna make sure that I won't lose any once Illustrator stops working on my Macbook.

But that's the thing. I don't want to open AI files. If I download or buy vector files in EPS format I want to be able to open those without having to use any Adobe software.