Sam Neil Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 I created a document in APUB and opened in AD and the icon for APUB document has not been associated to AD and obviously double clicking on it will ask me if I want to open it with either of the Affinity products. Any reason why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 11, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 11, 2020 Hi @Sam Neil, How did you open the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 As normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 16, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 16, 2020 On 2/28/2020 at 1:58 PM, Sam Neil said: double clicking on it will ask me if I want to open it with either of the Affinity products. Any reason why? If you've never open that file before, it will ask you which app to use. All our apps can open each other project files. So it would make sense to ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted March 18, 2020 Author Share Posted March 18, 2020 On 3/16/2020 at 10:17 AM, Gabe said: If you've never open that file before, it will ask you which app to use. All our apps can open each other project files. So it would make sense to ask. This is good and bad. If I have a APUB document, I would really want to open it in Publisher (99.9%) of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmit Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, Sam Neil said: This is good and bad. If I have a APUB document, I would really want to open it in Publisher (99.9%) of the time. right-click > Properties > General > Change and you can change the default app for this file format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted March 19, 2020 Author Share Posted March 19, 2020 13 hours ago, Gmit said: right-click > Properties > General > Change and you can change the default app for this file format. That's not what I meant. But thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I guess I know what Sam Neil means. From time to time the Affinities hijack the file association of other formats. I experience this mostly with PDF. So once a day I have to correct the file association. I wonder if this is an Affinity matter or a Windows 10 matter. If I recall it correctly I never had such a problem with Windows 8.1. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmit Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Joachim_L said: I guess I know what Sam Neil means. From time to time the Affinities hijack the file association of other formats. I experience this mostly with PDF. So once a day I have to correct the file association. I wonder if this is an Affinity matter or a Windows 10 matter. If I recall it correctly I never had such a problem with Windows 8.1. aaah i heard of that from other software too and i see many fingers pointing to windows. Some recommend restarting some services some other recommend reinstalling windows. The later seems a bit extreme, but most certainly fixes it. Just searched for "Windows File Association" and yeah many complain about having to choose the app which opens the file every time, it changed to some other app,.... seems not so nice to have that bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 20, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 20, 2020 On 3/19/2020 at 7:35 AM, Joachim_L said: once a day I have to correct the file association. Hijacking the file association could only happen during the install/uninstall/update. That's most likely a Windows issue, as we don't do any file association during the normal run-up of the app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 Yes guys @Joachim_L has got it! I doubt this is a windows issue as I don't have this with any other software. It is not a big deal as I can manage but I thought I will bring to your attention and @Gmit makes some valid points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 16 minutes ago, Sam Neil said: I don't have this with any other software Do you have any other software suites that share a common file format? That’s the issue: an ‘Affinity Publisher’ document is just an Affinity document which happens to have been created in APub. Move Along People 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 It happened again right now. APu suddenly opens PDF as default programme. Please test it yourself. 1. Restart your PC. 2. Start APu. Then use File -> Open to open a PDF file. 3. Save the new file as you like. 4. Open the PDF you opened in step 2 with doubleclick. Result: Now APu is default for PDF. If I change back the default programme for PDF, all PDF will be opened with the default PDF viewer (in my case Acrobat Pro) until the next machine reboot. My OS is Windows 10 Pro. So I have still no clue who is to blame. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmit Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, Joachim_L said: It happened again right now. APu suddenly opens PDF as default programme. Please test it yourself. 1. Restart your PC. 2. Start APu. Then use File -> Open to open a PDF file. 3. Save the new file as you like. 4. Open the PDF you opened in step 2 with doubleclick. Result: Now APu is default for PDF. If I change back the default programme for PDF, all PDF will be opened with the default PDF viewer (in my case Acrobat Pro) until the next machine reboot. My OS is Windows 10 Pro. So I have still no clue who is to blame. Did exactly that and the PDF still did open in the default pdf-reader, not in APub. On 2 windows machines. Something is weird on your side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Yes, you are right. Assigned PDF to Foxit, restarted and PDF was assigned back to Acrobat Pro. Maybe Acrobat Pro X is now too old. I will ask our IT department. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 5 hours ago, Alfred said: Do you have any other software suites that share a common file format? That’s the issue: an ‘Affinity Publisher’ document is just an Affinity document which happens to have been created in APub. I have the trio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 Mine is AD is hijacking APub documents which is not a big deal but annoying.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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