justinpbrown71 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 I am exporting templates in APhoto, updating a template I purchased as part of the Glitch Effects package by Retro Supply, & except for on one occasion, it saves as an ADesigner template file. Only one time did the file save as an APhoto template file, & I don't know why. Why is this & will it cause issues? I have the trial version of ADesigner installed, but have not used it for a long time. I have a payed verison of APhoto for Win 7. Quote Affinity Photo 1.10.6.1665 / Affinity Publisher 1.10.6 - Win 10 Home 64 bit 22H2, OS Build 19045.2251 - Asus ROG G20CB - i5-6400 2.7ghz - 8gb RAM - NVIDIA GX950- BenQ BL2783 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Template files (.aftemplate) are not specific to any one Affinity application; they can be opened by any of the applications. So I'm not sure what you mean by "ADesigner template" and "APhoto template". But, no, there's nothing different between the trial and retail versions. Perhaps you're just seeing Windows use the icon for the last program you installed that can handle that kind of file? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinpbrown71 Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 9 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Template files (.aftemplate) are not specific to any one Affinity application; they can be opened by any of the applications. So I'm not sure what you mean by "ADesigner template" and "APhoto template". But, no, there's nothing different between the trial and retail versions. Perhaps you're just seeing Windows use the icon for the last program you installed that can handle that kind of file? Thanks for your reply walt.farrell. I have discovered that although Retro Supply describe their pre-made templates thus, they are actually .afphoto files & not .aftemplate files. As far as functionality is concerned, it doesn't seem to matter whether I save using 'Export As Template' or 'Save As', with regards to the templates opening & performing in APhoto as expected. The file sizes between the two types are also are equal. So what is the essential difference between these two save types? Would you advise continuing to update the pre-made .afphoto 'template' files native to the Retro Supply folder or instead create new .aftemplate files of the ADesigner type? These are the very first templates I've created & saved. I have only opened ADesigner perhaps a couple of times, having decided that as a photographer desiring to manipulate photographic images, APhoto is most useful to me. When I end my ADesigner trial & decide that I don't need to purchase the software I will remove it from my hd. Will the ADesigner template files still work with APhoto? Many thanks for your time. Quote Affinity Photo 1.10.6.1665 / Affinity Publisher 1.10.6 - Win 10 Home 64 bit 22H2, OS Build 19045.2251 - Asus ROG G20CB - i5-6400 2.7ghz - 8gb RAM - NVIDIA GX950- BenQ BL2783 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 As I said, .aftemplate files will work in any of the Affinity applications. That's also true, though, of .afphoto, .afdesign and .afpub files. They are all identical except for the file extension, and can be opened by any of the applications. However, there are some functions that differ between the applications. For example, all 3 applications support Frame Text, and have Text Frames. But only Publisher provides controls to set the stroke and fill of the Frame, rather than the stroke and fill of the text contained in the Frame. justinpbrown71 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinpbrown71 Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 45 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: As I said, .aftemplate files will work in any of the Affinity applications. That's also true, though, of .afphoto, .afdesign and .afpub files. They are all identical except for the file extension, and can be opened by any of the applications. However, there are some functions that differ between the applications. For example, all 3 applications support Frame Text, and have Text Frames. But only Publisher provides controls to set the stroke and fill of the Frame, rather than the stroke and fill of the text contained in the Frame. Thanks for the info Walt. I guess then that's it's just an odd anomaly that APhoto decides to save the template extension with an ADesigner icon. From now on if I need to update the templates I will simply Save them rather than Exporting them. Quote Affinity Photo 1.10.6.1665 / Affinity Publisher 1.10.6 - Win 10 Home 64 bit 22H2, OS Build 19045.2251 - Asus ROG G20CB - i5-6400 2.7ghz - 8gb RAM - NVIDIA GX950- BenQ BL2783 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 22 minutes ago, eightysevens said: it's just an odd anomaly that APhoto decides to save the template extension with an ADesigner icon. It's Windows or MacOS providing the icon, not the application. justinpbrown71 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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