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@AdamW I find it surprising that the last used export settings are a property of the document. I can't recall seeing that anywhere else. But while we are at it this brings me to an idea: I can think of presets saved into the document and use them as a batch export. In my use case currently I export three versions of my document (using presets): A backup version (no rasterisation, no downsampling), a print version (rasterized, 300 dpi) and a preview one (100 dpi, optimized for sending it over mail). A single click to export all three and using the preset name as suffix would be nice.

Yes, adding a extra click will make it explicit if the user wants ro scroll or to change the value. I also see the usability problem here. It's one of the "rough edges". Your solution will do. I did not feel the need to respond until now since it's obvious to me that you are right. Here you have my explicit confirmation.

Thank you, @MEB I was utterly confused as I first stumbled over that. I hope devs see the problem with it, too.

See here:

I understood it as a feature request. I suffer myself that some people read my feature requests as complaining just because I call for example usability flaws what they are and don't try to find nicer words. As a software developer I may be used to that tone because most tickets come right to the point if something seems to be wrong in view of a user. Reading every ticket in my bug tracker as a complaint would depress me.

This is, imho, a usability flaw of Publisher as there are currently two move tools for the image. If you use this button you can move the image with snapping to it's frame. If you use the regular move tool it will not. @MEB Are you aware of that? Do you know why there are two move tools that are different? I really don't understand what the intention was.

Edit: Sorry, posted on the wrong topic. Wanted to post that as reply to "How to relocate and copy footage to other folder ?" but I seem to constantly fail using the forum on my mobile.

Oh, believe me, I can imagine that. I started several topics about what I think should be changed to make it the perfect tool for my workflow. We will see what Serif brings us in the future. Until that Publisher is already a useful tool I will buy on release. Even with the current usability flaws and other rough edges since I see many more tools that (let me put in that way:) "need many more adjustments than Publisher does to become perfect".

If I open up a APUB document and export an PDF and want to close the document after that it asks me if I want to save my changes... What changes? Does the PDF alter the document in any way? If so, it's a serious bug. If nothing is altered the apperance of the dialog is a minor bug that should also be sorted out since it's confusing. Opening the document and closing it without export does not spawn a dialog.

@stokerg Did you get feedback on that? My printer also wants PDF 1.3 for some reason.

And furthermore in ist current state linking does not reduce the file size. For now the warning dialog should be disabled.

+1

While I definitely agree with you on the relative path issue I think the preference per document as it is now works better for different purposes. Condider a big stock image folder used by many documents versus a self-contained document. I hope Serif will give feedback to the other issue if they are aware.

I really like how you can bring things to the point.

I see what happens there but I cannot match it to the things you stated above. That is somehow confusing. What I thought in the first place is rather easy. This is why I wonder you need it to be calculated. When my placed picture has a DPI of 600 I know I can make every side twice as long on a 300 DPI document. Please say in your own words how the number you want should be calculated.

Sorry, you lost me on this. How exatly should the number you want to see be calculated? Edit: Sorry for double posting. I have trouble with the mobile site of the forum.

I believe it's not possible. I guess InDesign also is not capable of that. At least my printer gave me seperate templates for the photobook cover and inlay pages because of different bleeds.

You already came to the right place. They read this forum.

Yes, it's a known bug to the devs that JPEG DPI metadata in the current build is ignored and every JPG gets imported as 72 DPI. For PNG this does work.

Okay. It would be nice to have a percentage in paranthesis and I would like to see it painted in red font if it's below 100%. That's one of the things I have to watch out for right now and a explicit hint/warning from Publisher would help me if I should miss that once.

I understand that @PimentPub wants a percentage information here. Maybe in a paranthesis. This would show in this example something about 300% because my documents target DPI is 300. I'm not against that and this information would not bother me. I just don't really see why it's important how much you're above or under your target. The only thing you really need to know in my opinion is if you match it. I know you hate it when I start with this again, but: End user photobook creation software paint the DPI in red font if its below the target DPI and would result in a bad print. So please explain why the percentage is interesting.

Why do you think that this is important? The important information is the placed DPI and if you know that your target is for example 300 DPI and your image is placed as 900 DPI (and maybe the metadata of your JPEG have 300 DPI also) you get a good idea of the percentage.

That's fair. I agree.

Using Windows 10 Build 1809 I used this build and the previous one to work on a photobook. It contains about 90 images on 12 pages so far beside text and lots of layer effects. I would like to thank the team for the beta and give the feedback that beside some usability problems this software works really well and is pretty stable on my system. Exporting the document to a 400 MB PDF and re-importing that again does no harm. I just encountered only one crash as I batch changed the ICC profile of my linked images. Updating those 90 "Modified" images in the Resource Manager all at once resulted in a crash. For regular working with the software for about 10 hours ore more by now there were no stability issues at all. I really like what you're doing and keep up the good work. I definitely will buy Publisher on release.

It's true that I wish to have more control, but on the other hand I can understand if Serifs wants to have as few options as possible as too many options can be quite confusing. I recall seeing some tools presenting me a lot of granular options where I did not understand what they do. Already in the current export dialog I had to do research what "Honour spot colors" should do as there is no explaining tooltip. EDIT: I found that in the Affinity help documents. They may include a "question mark" button to get there faster. So I acknowledge that Serif wants to handle new options with care but I think this topic is worth a new checkbox/textfield right unter "Quality:".