k2themax Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 My dearest Support-Friends, I have a big problem. Since my wife has birthday tomorrow I wanted to design a magazine styled voucher for her. I am good with designer and photo but I never practised with AFP even though I bought it...so: I chose an example template just to get familiar with everything but I never switched to a new document. The problem is: I can´t print it. I can´t copy my texts and pictures etc. as elements and move it to a new document. I´m totally fxxxd up :( I can understand that they don´t want their products to be copied but I just didn´t think of this before. What can I do? Any hints? Greetz Kai Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 The examples from the Welcome screen are just for you to play with. They cannot be printed, saved, or exported, as they contain copyrighted information. I think all you can do is start over from scratch. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
wonderings Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 wow, I am surprised they would go this route with the templates. They could have designed these, used free images they compiled themselves and given people some great starting points to create simple jobs while learning. Quote
jmwellborn Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 @k2themax Welcome! Can you make a screenshot of your work, or have you already closed it out? If you have a screenshot, you can place that in a new document that is the correct size to be printed. Not ideal, but it might be better than starting all over this time?? Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.5.5. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards.
Staff MEB Posted May 12, 2020 Staff Posted May 12, 2020 10 minutes ago, wonderings said: wow, I am surprised they would go this route with the templates. They could have designed these, used free images they compiled themselves and given people some great starting points to create simple jobs while learning. Hi wonderings, These are not templates but samples files. Currently we don't provide any templates with the app (accessible through File > New, then Templates section, on the left column). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
wonderings Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 11 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi wonderings, These are not templates but samples files. Currently we don't provide any templates with the app (accessible through File > New, then Templates section, on the left column). I get that, just seems like it would be better to provide actual working templates that you could print or save. Obviously someone learning or playing with the software was confused by this as I would be, not know why I can work on it but can't do anything else. Might be more rewarding to be able to learn and work on something and THEN be able to print or export and do what you need to do. Or make it clear that they are samples and cannot be printed. Quote
Staff MEB Posted May 12, 2020 Staff Posted May 12, 2020 I agree this should be made more clear. It's not the first time it happens. It's being logged to be looked at. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
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