FR: Linked file not readable / image is being overwritten

[transkontinental]

Hey Affinities,

I have a feature request for Publisher: I'm working on a year book project with around 100 pages/each around 4 images. My workflow for the images takes them through Adobe Lightroom from which I export the images to the project's folder. I've set Publisher to "Auto refresh external ressources". So it often happens that I find an image needs an additional tweak when arranged with three other photos, so I make the change and overwrite the existing file (each image is around 10 MB). Here comes the catch/bug/feature request:

Publisher correctly recognizes that the file has been changed, but doesn't give the system enough time to finish writing the file: an error pops up "file not readable"...

So the FR would be: "Make the software try e.g. three times (with say three seconds inbetween) to auto refresh the file before throwing the error" or if the system can give the information: check if file is still being written, check for refresh afterwards...

 

Cheers,
Jan

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @transkontinental.

I would suggest that seems like a bug, and that you might want to repost in the Publisher Bugs forum for your OS.

[Gabe]

Hi both

Issue logged. Although I'm not entirely sure it's our fault. It's as if Lightroom does not lock the file when it overwrites it.