aitte Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 This is something I used to do a lot on Photoshop (which I've now deleted, thanks to Affinity Photo! ;)). 1. Browse the web and find some image. 2. Click and drag the image on the webpage onto Affinity Photo's main window. 3. Expected result: The image is opened as a new document, that's how Photoshop handles it. But what Affinity Photo does: It creates a new Text layer in the current document and puts the web URL of the image in it (lol). It *is* possible to open images if I instead drop the web image onto the Affinity Photo *icon* in the dock. But that's annoying when you've got an auto-hiding dock (like I do) and it just seems *weird* to have it create a text-layer when you drop an image onto the main window. I guess the reason it creates a text-layer is that the application takes dropped *text* and creates a text layer, or dropped *image files* and loads the image, but lacks specialized "dropped image URL" detection and reverts to the text-handling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitte Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 PS: When I drop the image onto the app icon (which is the current workaround), I see that Safari (or Affinity Photo?) creates a file under ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems. When I close the image in Affinity Photo, the temporary file remains. Not sure that's correct handling either. Shouldn't you delete the temporary file if the user closes it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glassed Silver Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 This problem is still present and if you ask me it's not a missing feature, but a bug. Of course technically I assume it's behaving as programmed, however from a HIG point of view this seems more like a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I'd love an answer to this one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 17, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2016 Hi all, This is a known issue that's already logged to be looked at. Thanks for head-up. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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