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Just a small cosmetic bug. When you get alerted, that there is a newer version available an update alert pops up. You can close it with OK or Download, but not with the X-button in the upper right corner of the alert box, although it changes colour when you hover it.

1. Create a text frame with some text. 2. Create e.g. a rectangle, move it over the text frame. 3. Give the rectangle a text wrap option. 4. Move the rectangle layer in the Layer panel under the text or Master Page. Result: APu freezes. There is no problem in the retail version. File with example is attached. filler.afpub

Hi, I use Windows 10. I’ve a problem with Publisher 1.8.1 that I didn’t have before. When I add one page, many pages are added. Can the multiple pages be prevented? John

Here is an easy recipe crashing APu: 1. Using the Edit button on a linked image file. 2. Switching to Photo Persona. 3. Doing the edits. 4. Closing the tab with the upright X. Save after the warning that the file is modified. Result: APu crashes to the desktop 4. Alternative: Save the file and then close the tab. Result: APu does not crash. In the end I think I (probably) found the reason for the crash. Doing the recipe with the linked file located on the desktop gave no crash. But APu crashes when the linked file is located on a drive (network drive in my case) with a path that contains special characters (in my case the German Umlaut ü).

Hello We started Affinity Designer today. It greeted us with a lovely message telling us to update to the latest version. We downloaded it, ran the installer, it thought for a couple of minutes and said "Install failed". Now, we can't start the version that was working before. We just get a message that the link has expired. Our PC is effectively no use to us, this is the only thing we use it for. We have paid quite a lot of money for this PC and we have supported Affinity because we are a small business like you. We aren't computer people. We just want to be able to do our work. Every time we have tried to do an upgrade to Designer, it's broken our PC. Please let us know how we get working again.

I recently purchased the trio of Affinity apps on the Windows Store when they were on sale, and when it came time to set Affinity Photo as the external editor in my standalone copy of LR6, I began to wish I had bought it straight from Serif. I found a thread in this forum on this topic from 2018 which explained how Microsoft hides the apps purchased in the Windows Store, and it was at that point impossible to target Affinity Photo as LR's external editor. (I'm coming from Photoshop, as you might have guessed.) So is this still the case or is there now a way to link LR to AP? Thanks!

It happens in all applications. Make two lines like in the attached image, select them with the Node tools and use Join Curves button. The connection is always made on the left side, even when I select them on the right side. So I have to flip the element, which is an unneccessary step in my use case right now. Bug? Expected?

Windows 10 Pro 1909, Affinity Photo\Designer 1.8.0.585, Microsoft Surface Book 2 I worked on a file for about an hour this afternoon after updating Photo and Designer. After I saved my file in Photo and got home from work, I opened the file and the fonts were all different. Every font I selected would bounce to another font and I couldn't select the one I wanted. After closing and reopening, the application started crashing on launch. I tried to uninstall and reinstall Photo and the crashing is still happening. I tried to select Yes when it asked if I wanted to enable error reporting but I'm not sure it even gets time to send anything since it crashes very fast still. I tried holding Ctrl to get the clear data dialog and tried just Reset Font Replacements. That did not solve the issue and the crashing resumed on following attempts. So I checked the first three as I saw on another thread and that reset all my tool bar preferences and stuff but the font thing is still happening and it's crashing seemingly randomly. Designer is experiencing the same crashing and font issues when I manage to get it running. On the first run after I cleared the first three items on the clear data dialog, the application hung when I tried the Frame Text Tool. Faulting application name: Photo.exe, version: 1.8.0.585, time stamp: 0x5e53c534 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.657, time stamp: 0x64d10ee0 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000f92a9 Faulting process id: 0x618 Faulting application start time: 0x01d5ecfaf5f7ebca Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Affinity\Photo\Photo.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: b9796acb-90ce-42a3-baaf-7335e091c437 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: I'm kind of regretting upgrading right now since I have things to work on. If there is any other diagnostic information I can provide or troubleshooting steps to perform please do let me know! Thank you.

1. Create a colour in a palette and do not make it Global. 2. Create an element and assign the colour to this element. 3. Deselect the element, select it again and you see that the colour is highlighted (active / assigned) in the palette. 4. Turn the colour into a Global Colour and change the colour values. Result: The already correctly colour assigned element does not reflect the changes in colour values. So does this really mean I have to re-assign the colour?

IDML containing information for placed AI files (with PDF stream), does not render properly. The AI files will be displayed distorted. Feels like 1/3 of the original height.

I have all three Affinity applications installed. I changed a few shortcuts in Photo, because they were based on an English keyboard. When I now switch to the Photo persona inside Publisher, the shortcuts are not inherited from the Photo application, it rather seems to be, that Publisher has its own sets for all Personas. Could the shortcuts not be shared among all applications? Or maybe I got something wrong.

Title. Only way to exit is to end task on task manager. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks rp affinity v2.afpub

Text variables like current page number, last page number, file name are not converted.

Hi, Paint Brush Tool does not respond correctly anymore after using Mesh Warp Tool. Steps to reproduce : - Paint something on pixel Layer - Use Mesh warp tool to deform it - Go back to Paint Brush Tool, and try to draw anywhere on a layer. You'll start to draw something only on certain areas, randomly. I'm using AF 1.7.3 on Windows 10

Observation I made. There are more or less two ways how to handle missing files when you open an IDML. 1. You are asked in a dialogue if you like to search for the missing files, say yes, locate the file, file will be replaced and if there are more files in the folder that are missing, they will be also replaced without further interaction -> GREAT. 2. You are asked in a dialogue if you like to search for the missing files, click Resource Manager, locate the file, file will be replaced. Other missing files from that folder will not be replaced automatically -> not great. Additionally you get a warning dialogue saying "Image Policy. Your document contains a large amount of embedded image data. ...". No, there are no embedded files, so clicking Yes or No is pointless here. It would be nice, when visiting the Resource Manager and searching for the missing files, that other files being in the folder will updated automatically, like in method 1 above. As a side note: Manually replacing the files from the context toolbar with the Replace image button is not working, since all information on how the original image was positioned seem to get discarded.

1. I am not able to rename or delete presets in the Presets Manager. 2. When I drag presets from the no-name category (when you add a preset as a first time action) to a newly created category, a ghost category remains. See attached image. 3. There is no function for deleting presets categories.

Depending on your scaling you'll see a part from the mesh on the Before area when in Mirror View. See image. Just a cosmetic thing with no impact on the result.

Maybe covered elsewhere? Right now I am making a bunch of icons on one page, so there are a lot of elements (layers). Unfortunately I did not plan well, making for every icon a new "parent" layer. Creating a "parent" layer and moving elements to them can be quite tedious scrolling and dragging all the time. So a kind of fly-out menu would be nice, where I can specify to which "parent" layer the selected elements belong to.

Opened IDML files always result in a document dpi of 72. Changing to 300 dpi reduces e.g. bleed and text wrap settings to 24% of the initial value. The original values should be kept in any way.

It's the same issue as the beta https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76752-photoshop-export-hidden-layers-are-empty-in-psd/ 1. Whenever I tried to export hidden layers, they become blank (as in the image gets replaced by a blank pixel data). I'd like to also add that 2. exporting also deletes the empty folders which are important for some program parsing of data (which I think has something to do with the #3) 3. I noticed that file size doesn't change whether Don't Export Hidden Layers by Export Persona is toggled on or off (Just pointing out, maybe this is related to the bug)

The mouse over help text is much too wide and the heading and the page number stick to the right edge of the panel regardless of resizing. Image attached.

Arrowheads were curved ones. The embedded images in Indesign were copied from LibreOffice Impress.

Not a big thing, because I use it seldom. All elements seem to be copied (from 1.8.0.523) to the clipboard with 72dpi or pasted from the clipboard (to 1.7.3.481) with 72dpi. Copying from 1.7.3.481 to 1.8.0.523 works perfectly.

Strange title, I know, but I don't know how to tease this better in a short title. I was stumbling about this - in my eyes - strange behaviour this morning. I just wanted to verify a bug with history I thought I experienced yesterday. Yesterday I examined a APu file with the ICC profile ISOnewspaper26v4 and today I tried to set up a new document with this profile, but to my surprise I could not find it in the list of profiles. Indeed this profile is non-existent on my PC. So how can I work with a profile which is not available installed? When opening an APu file with a profile I do not have, is the profile information extracted from the APu file? Is this profile valid and I can work with it? When I close the file with this ISOnewspaper26v4 profile, do not close the programme and create a new document this profile is still available. Still valid? When I close APu and start it again the profile is (naturally) not available anymore. Just wondering and if this intended and safe the mods should feel free to move or delete this topic from this forum.

I know that my mouse is not best piece of hardware, but probably not the hardware is to blame? Whenever I try to move the slider for Grow / Shrink I end up in too big steps, which are 7,1px steps, next 14,2px and so on. I have to type in the value manually. Is there any solution aside from buying a new mouse?