Rodi

Hi @Don C,
Could you try starting Affinity with the Control Key held down and you should get a popup asking if you'd like to clear some settings.  3 options will be selected and you can click on Clear.  Affinity should then start as normal.
If Affinity still doesn't start, could you attach a log file for me? Press the Windows key + R on your keyboard and type %appdata% and go to Affinity\Photo\1.0\ and attach Log.txt here

Just upgraded to Affinity Photo1.9 and on launching it in Windows 7 64 bit sp1 it loads splash screen opens to start of main screen but immediately crashes every time best wishes David   

Hi, I use the clone brush tool a lot, when I had Photoshop, if i have two images open, i could clone from one image to the other open image, can this be done in affinity photo please?

I would greatly benefit from select similar.

 

I use Text Frames with a base line and Paragraph Styles which use the Align to Baseline in the Baseline Grid. 
Take a look at this file, pay attention to the Text Frames on the Master Page and the settings in the two Paragraph styles Base and Basic Paragraph.
test for page bottom.afpub

@Markw, you're right, like Walt, I am on Windows. And for cat addicts, they can actually put it in assets, as you suggest.

I have been told I am wrong on this
In the 'View' menu check that 'Studio' > 'Fields' is checked so the Fields studio is showing. You can insert any "Field" into your text by double clicking on the label, so to get what you wanted
Type "Page " on the Fields Studio scroll to the Document section and Double Click the label "Page Number" (mouse over the words "Page Number" not the <Page Numbers> text) then type "of " and then Double Click the label "Page Count" (mouse over the words "Page Count" not the <Section Page Count> text) You will end up with "Page 1 of N"

Yes, ernie-f I'd say you are right on target.

You are not just complaining, but are talking about very real issues for those of us interested in publishing books. Sadly, AF Publisher does not meet a professional standard.

I started with Quark and moved to InDesign many years ago. I've been thrilled with owning both AF Designer and AF Photo and had high expectations for AF Publisher.  I downloaded a beta version of it last year and saw it was not ready. But I bought a copy of AF Publisher a few weeks ago since I thought it would be ready for publishing primetime by now. Sadly, it's not a professional tool like Designer and Photo. Publisher is best suited for an office secretary doing flyers and, IMO, is not equal in functionality as AF Design and Photo.

I don't think the fact that that Publisher is cheap should be any excuse for it having key weaknesses, as you describe. After all, AF Designer and Photo are cheap but they are world-class professional tools.

My advice is that Affinity management tries to produce a 250-350 page book using it. One with a TOC, illustrations, footnotes, and bibliography. They would not be able to do it with any efficiency. Also, it's silly to just patch on the export module from Designer and Photo. Book creators need mobi and epub in addition to PDF, not all those legacy formats from their image software. Most are irrelevant since digital print publishing is mostly PDF-oriented these days.

I'm old enough to remember the term "kluge" as applied to computing. If something in programming didn't work, rather than redo it correctly, you would "hang a bag on it" making a technological griffin, which was a kluge. Sadly, I'm afraid that's what we have in AF Publisher at this point.

Export single page pdfs with bleeds, nomarks. Imposition software will take care of the saddle stitch. I always make the exported file size of full sheet plus 1/8" bleed so 8.5 x11 is 8.75 x 11.25.

Remember to extend bleeds out.

I set file up with bleed from the start.

I regularly remove marks from supplied pdfs, but it's always better to have the page the way I described, your items will be in the position you set them in, with no chance of change since only bleed is included.

Try the link below from your exported pdfs.

http://www.imposeonline.com/instructions.php

I use Qoppa pdf studio pro 2019. Works like a charm.

 

Does the print establishment want an imposed pdf?

Yes, but don't make facing pages, make the pages 1-12. When you make facing pages, to convert to a booklet is a lot of work. High end imposition (Preps, Impostrip) do this pretty quickly, but they are expensive, I mean really expensive. They have a way to go from readers to printer spreads... 

See my picture for making Affinity Publisher work this, it's pretty straight forward. 

I'll be honest though, I would rather make a PDF put it in an output folder and make an imposed PDF, I have a lot more control. But if it's a simple no bleed document or you don't mind white border,  this will do the trick.


 

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Hello Mark
 
Actually I just designed the label in Affinity Designer.
I exported it as a texture (png) and mapped it to a 3D model. The render part was done in Cinema 4D and then retouched it in Affinity Photo.
From Cinema I export as a layered PSD file so I have more control of the render passes: Illumination, Color, Shadows Ambient Occlusion, etc.
 

Hi William,
Thanks for reaching out! I delivered one pdf-file (completely vector, all fonts expanded, scale 1:1) straight from Affinity Designer to the company that produced the mesh-banner. They didn't call me, so I assume they had no problems with the file.
The tour only passes tomorrow, but I noticed that the council of Overijse already replaced the banner with a new one to announce the next town-event on national television, so there won't be any pictures of racers with the banner in the background (I really hoped for it myself!).

What you describe sounds more like use of RAM, not saved document file size. History might be a reason, but probably not the one we select in menu File > Save History...
In my .afpub "Save History..." has not been active but it formerly contained 90 pages, which all got deleted unless 3 and then Saved As... I assume there is another kind of history in that .afpub which it can't get rid of. – Even another "Save As..." did not reduce it's file size, whereas for the 90 pages 'mother document' with Save As the size shrunk even below the 33 MB of the 3-pgs afpub.
The massive increase of your file size within 1 day sounds (520 MB > 1.3 GB) as if you have worked, tried, altered a lot. Did you? Or did you just add content?
How much ca. % did your file size reduce when you used "Save As..." with a new file name?

@VectorCat Any chance of uploading a sample file here to the Forums or our Dropbox link here?

Saving Layers isn't needed for TIFF transparency, and Publisher has no problem handling a TIFF with transparency. For example:
tif-transparency-test.tiff
tif-transparency-test.afpub
However, Publisher documents generally have white pages, and the transparency won't be apparent unless you set the document color handling options to "transparent background" as I did in that .afpub file. And setting that option is something most Publisher users wouldn't do, as they probably don't want to see all those checkerboards.
I suppose that one could set "transparent background", then put a white rectangle covering a Master Page that is applied to all the pages to prevent the checkerboards. Then on the page that needs a transparent TIFF file one could edit that rectangle to cut out part of it, exposing the checkboard behind the Placed TIFF file.
Of course, if you're printing  the Publisher file you still won't "see" the fully transparent areas as they'll have the page color

This eyedropper tool in panels acts a bit different than the eyedropper of tool bar.
If you simply click on it in a pop-up color panel, for instance of the fill color in the text frame panel, then it fills a selected object with the "active" color which is shown before in the tiny color preview circle right to it.
If no object is selected then it does nothing there, or, if you have color sliders visible, then it sets them to the color of the tiny icon.
To use the eyedropper of text frame panel as expected you need to click-HOLD and, still with the mouse button pressed, move around on your monitor. It picks any color underneath, even of UI (panels, bars) and objects of other applications which might be visible behind the Affinity app UI.
If you release the mouse button then it sets this color to the "active" color and with a click again on the eyedropper or on this color in the tiny icon you fill a selected text frame.

eyedropper in panels.mov  

Use File - Export, then choose PDF.

Everyday, for more and more people, the long adobe winter is coming to an end.

I've been waiting a long assed time for this type of workflow, I've only seen a handful of programs that do this... and they were outta my price range.

Cool!

Great day!!!!

Hey,

You have a good product with a terrible name, it reminds us graphic artists of a M!@@))@@)@t product.

Change the name to Affinity Layout and thank me for a couple of decades.

Rodi

Hey,

You have a good product with a terrible name, it reminds us graphic artists of a M!@@))@@)@t product.

Change the name to Affinity Layout and thank me for a couple of decades.

Rodi