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Thanks for that--funny I didn't see it before. I ran the tool and and it made three changes that, unfortunately, I neglected to document. We'll see how it goes.

Local, same folder as the .afphoto file.

Looking more closely at the crash reports, I see there are reports for both the error during normal shutdown and for the sudden exit that occurred when restarting the app.

As for .net framework version, see https://www.windowscentral.com/how-quickly-check-net-framework-version-windows-10. That is not the issue. Thanks for referencing the crash reports location. Yes, there are crash reports, including one corresponding to the App Log error above.

Thanks, but my Win version is 22H2, build 19045.2364, so it's odd the .Net framework would be out-of-date. I checked the DLL files in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 (updated 12/22/2022) and they are all v4.8.4084.0. According to online instructions, it's the DLLs that tell you the version.

Thanks, but a pixel grid spacing is not useful. I want a visible default grid and have that grid show when I click 'Show Grid'. I don't want to go through a multi-step process every time I restart the program. It makes no sense to have the grid 'on' setting survive a restart while the grid spacing does not.

I click 'View/Show Grid', but no grid appears. In 'Grid and Snapping Axis' the mode is 'Automatic', but there is no grid until a 'Basic' grid is selected manually. The mode reverts to 'Automatic' (no grid) when the app is restarted. This is true for all 3 V2 apps. It was not true in V1 apps.

It happens occasionally for no apparent reason when I try to open an .afphoto file with an RAW channel. The pixellated thumbnail appears, but just when I expect the image load to complete, the program instantly shuts down with no error message. When I restart Photo and go through the same sequence again, the image file loads OK. In Event Viewer/System/Application log I see no error at the time, however there appears to have been an error ID 1026 when the program was previously exited: Application: Photo.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException at <Module>.Affinity.LayersExpandedState.OnDocumentClosed(Affinity.LayersExpandedState*, Kernel.Counted<DocumentController const >*) at Serif.Interop.Persona.Data.LayersDataSource.InteropService_CloseDocumentNotification(System.Object, Serif.Interop.Persona.CloseDocumentNotificationEventArgs) at Serif.Interop.Persona.CloseDocumentNotificationHandler.Invoke(System.Object, Serif.Interop.Persona.CloseDocumentNotificationEventArgs) at Serif.Interop.Persona.Services.InteropService.OnCloseDocumentNotification(Serif.Interop.Persona.NativeWrapper<Kernel::NonCounted<Kernel::Notification> >) at Serif.Interop.Persona.Services.InteropService.HandleNotification(Kernel.Counted<Kernel::Notification>*, Boolean) at Serif.Interop.Persona.Services.InteropService.OnNotify(Kernel.Counted<Kernel::Notification>*) at <Module>.GetNotificationDispatch.<lambda_2bcb078db99a2694ff26461d0eed393e>.()()(?GetNotificationDispatch@@$$FYA?AV?$function@$$A6AXXZ@std@@V?$Counted@VNotification@Kernel@@@Kernel@@@Z.__l2.<lambda_2bcb078db99a2694ff26461d0eed393e>*) at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(System.Windows.Interop.MSG ByRef) at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherFrame) at System.Windows.Application.RunDispatcher(System.Object) at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(System.Windows.Window) at Photo.Application.Main(System.String[])

@Muirén: I pinned V2 apps to the taskbar 9 days ago. Icons still there in Win 10. Gave up on the desktop and deleted all Affinity shortcuts. This on Win 10 Pro, I believe Win 11 treats the taskbar differently.

This is getting crazy. I've shut down and started numerous times and the logos were still there. I restarted today and the Publisher icon was replaced. Dragging the Publisher logo from the AppsFolder does not bring it back. Photo and Designer logos remain. During the interval I only used Photo, not Designer or Publisher. I'm going to completely shut down and then start and see if anything changes. Nope, no change. I can make shortcuts with Photo and Designer logos, but not with a Publisher logo.

@Huw99: On my system the icons still exist in the appsfolder, but the desktop shortcuts had generic document icons. Today I deleted all three shortcuts and again dragged icons from the appsfolder to create new ones. I now have the V2 icons back. The issue might be that I shortened the screen names of those three shortcuts, and that the icons disappeared after exiting and restarting Windows. I still don't grok why this might be so.

No problem dragging icons onto desktop from apps folder to create shortcuts and they work fine, but today the program icons have been replaced with generic Windows icons. I tried creating new shortcuts but still no icons. Reboot no help. I can change the icons to v1 icons from the v1 program files, but I'd rather have the new icons back. I found 3 v2 .exe files in the Users folder (e.g.: Users\[me]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SerifEuropeLtd.AffinityDesigner2_3cqzy0nppv2rt\AffinityDesigner2.exe), but they are all 0 bytes with no icons. Very strange. Where are the V2 programs? (Probably coincidence, but I first noticed the missing icons after using the MS Edge browser today for the first time since installing V2 apps.)

The suggested macro works for me. I rasterized the top layer, then selected the layer below. I got an option to add select layer below to the macro. Then I just kept playing the macro until I reached the bottom layer.

Ah, I see...I just have to keep clicking. I obviously didn't read the help file carefully enough, or maybe it's time to get cataract surgery. The images in this case were frames from a shaky hand-held video. I needed to align the backgrounds to mask a sequence of a walking cow for another video. I didn't see an option to align the images based on areas of the image, so did this manually--a real pain, but it all worked out. Anyway, I'm edified and sure this will be a time saver in the future. Thanks much to all for taking the time to straighten me out!

Thanks for the reply, Bruce, but File > Place only adds one file at a time. 'Place Image Tool' supposedly can add all 33 in one fell swoop. I wonder why that tool is missing from Photo for Windows.

I wanted to place/align/edit 33 images for a short video segment. I found reference to a 'Place Image Tool' to do place multiple images, but it doesn't appear on among the tools on my system. Is this a Mac only thing, and, if so, when is going to be included in the Win version?

I don't believe Publisher should set a title, and I don't think any title should stay with a document through a "Save As..." If a title is important to some, than it should be an option on the File->New and File->Save As dialogs, and there should be no problem leaving it blank. I don't see why anyone would want to retain a title through a "Save as..." I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who opens an earlier document as a shell for a new one. I created a new document and saved it as "test.afpub." I then deleted the title "test" that Publisher had given the document (which previously would have been without my knowledge). When I exported a PDF as "test.pdf" from the title-free document, the PDF's title was "test.pdf". When I exported as "test2.pdf," the PDF's title was "test2.pdf." This is expected behavior and would not cause the problem I experienced. Obviously, a blank title is not a problem. A title that survives a "Save As" by default is.

Thanks Walt. Very helpful. Did not occur to me to look in the studio panel. I still think it's a bug to retain the original title when doing a "save as."

Open an existing Affinity Publisher document and save it under a new name. Make content changes and save. Export the updated document as a PDF. Put the PDF online and open it with Chrome. Chrome shows the PDF title as the ORIGINAL Affinity Publisher document name. This became an embarrassment when I uploaded a PDF exported from Publisher promoting a high school art exhibit. Opening the PDF in Chrome showed a title of "wonderfulwovens," the name of the original Publisher file from 2018. (The name of the current Publisher document is simply "flyers.afpub," and it was exported to PDF as "flyers.pdf.") The PDF export should title the PDF the same as the export filename by default, and, ideally, have the option to specify a title. I was able to edit the PDF title in a text editor. This should not be necessary.

I love AD, but hate having to use a 20-yr-old copy of CorelDraw to do a simple text distortion. Any chance v.1.7 will be able to do this?

Thanks for the suggestion, Old Bruce. Yes, that works, and you can group the continuation and content frames if you need to move them. I'm just saying that there could be a simpler way, where you just enter the text for "to" and "from" and it all happens automagically. I suspect those who must layout newspapers on a tight schedule would be thankful. However, I do see one time saver, and that is to add formatted, linked, and grouped to/from frames as an asset. Then you can just drag them in, ungroup, and position them.

Thanks for the reference, FDE101. The response there is promising, assuming the to/from text in inDesign stays positioned within the text frame and doesn't flow with the text.

Thanks for the replies and apology for the misplaced post. I installed Affinity Publisher beta a few days ago, registered to comment yesterday, and somehow managed to put my first post in the wrong place. (No serious issues with Designer or Photo, they are just what I needed for my not-for-profit work in retirement!) Inserting fields into the text isn't what I'm after, as text editing in one frame could change the position of the fields in every subsequent frame. I tried putting text and field into an unlinked text frame and then moving that frame into a linked frame as a subframe, but when I do that the text disappears. I posted my suggestion in the correct forum.

Greetings. Installed 1.7.0.162 a couple of days ago and generally impressed, but (in addition to inline graphics already requested) there's a capability I'd like see. When text flows into additional frames, I would like to specify text for "to" and/or "from" pages. These variables would be associated with a block of text. The "to" text would appear at the bottom of a frame, the "from" text would appear at the top. Formatting for "to" and "from" text could be specified as default document-wide. For example, the "to" text could be "See OWNER BITES DOG on page <topage>". The "from" text could then be "OWNER BITES DOG from page <frompage>". If a frame is moved to another page, page numbers would change accordingly. For this purpose, a block of text could be a "story," and to/from text could be assigned to the story. I understand how to insert page# fields and I thought there might be a workaround by moving to/from text frames inside linked frames, but when a text frame becomes a child of a linked frame the text disappears. For newspapers and magazines, this would be a very important feature.

If there's a way to do this, please advise. I don't see it. When text flows into additional frames, I would like to specify text for "to" and/or "from" pages. These variables would be associated with a block of text. The "to" text would appear at the bottom of a frame, the "from" text would appear at the top. Formatting for "to" and "from" text could be specified as default document-wide. For example, the "to" text could be "See OWNER BITES DOG on page <topage>". The "from" text could then be "OWNER BITES DOG from page <frompage>". If a frame is moved to another page, page numbers would change accordingly. For this purpose, a block of text could be specified as a named "story," and to/from text could be assigned to the story. For newspapers and magazines, this is a must have.