Mac Publisher: bad if edit Drawing in Layout persona?

[VectorCat]

I have a layout in Publisher with elements from Designer. If I edit the designer illustrations while still in Layout persona, I haven't "broken" any connection or lost functionality, have I?

[GarryP]

Have you noticed anything ‘breaking’ or any lost functionality?

[Dan C]

Hi @VectorCat,

As the Affinity apps share a common file format, there's absolutely no issue with editing your Designer elements in the Publisher Persona - you'll simply have access to less Vector specific tools when outside of the Designer Persona.

I hope this clears things up

 

[VectorCat]

Thank you for the confirmation. My concern was that if I edit a drawing in layout persona, that drawing would be seen by Publisher as something created by Publisher, and therefore “less” somehow. 
I recall clearly in the early 90s some talk of interoperability between all types of software...you’d double-click on an image and “suddenly you’d be ‘in’ that environment” - freehand, illustrator, photoshop, then back to quark..

it never materialized as I remember it...until the advent of the affinity suite. Feels good to have the constraints of yesteryear dissolved away. 

[GarryP]

I think, if I’m thinking of the same thing that you are, that you might be remembering something called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). Using this you could paste, for example, an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document, then double-click the spreadsheet to get a sort of ‘mini-Excel’ surrounding the spreadsheet within the document.
I only ever saw this in Microsoft software and I can’t recall using a real-life document that used it (I only played with it a bit).
However, it’s been a long time since I saw it so I could be remembering it wrong.

[R C-R]

21 hours ago, VectorCat said:

I recall clearly in the early 90s some talk of interoperability between all types of software...

I cannot remember what it was called but around that time Apple & several other software makers were exploring the idea that since applications basically are just a collection of tools, it would be considerably more efficient if those tools could be used individually, instead of having to run an entire app to access them.

As I understand it, to make that practical would have required developing operating systems that included standardized, application-independent methods of interfacing tools with document objects, plus convincing software developers to make those 'universal' kinds of tools instead of apps. The idea never gained much traction, in large part because the big software developers thought they could make more money selling apps than tools.

[VectorCat]

Yeah that’s the way I recall it. You put it well.