zimmt Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 I am using Print Presets in MacOS a lot and the "Reverse page orientation" option under "Layout" in the print dialog is not saved/respected by Affinity. Looking closer at the printing preset .plist files I noticed that Affinity uses its own entry to save the orientation i.e. Portrait/Landscape vs using the default entry from MacOS. MacOS uses com.apple.print.preset.Orientation to store an integer between 1 and 4 for Landscape, Portrait, Landscape + Reveres orientation, and Portrait + Reveres orientation. Affinity bypasses this and uses com.serif.PrintSettings.Orientation to store an integer between 0 and 2 for Automatic, Landscape, and Portrait orientation. Affinity thus ignores the "Reverse page orientation" setting because it is included within the Landscape/Portrait entry in the .plist file. Not a terrible dealbreaker but one of those little quirks that don't really have to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted November 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 25, 2020 Hi @zimmt, Thanks for letting us know - this is actually a really bizarre and weird issue, that I'm not entirely sure is out fault. I've found that the state of that checkbox isn't actually recalled correctly when using a Preset in Pages, but the same preset does recall it if I use Safari. If I use the option to view each presets settings you'll see that Safari does shoe that option as set, but Pages doesn't - very strange. See attached video. I'll pass it over to development however to see if anything can be done. Screen_Recording_2020-11-25_at_12_43_02.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 Thanks Sean for the video. I actually only tested Safari and Preview which behave standardly. Interesting to see a Mac app (Pages) also fail with reproducing the preset correctly. I honestly believe it has to do with the fact the reverse orientation is included with the regular orientation setting (portrait/landscape) in the presets plist file. And some programs just read the portrait/landscape but ignore the reverse orientation. Anyhow, thank you for passing it along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Nobody Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I have windows, I just bought this software and I can't print reverse image? This is not good... what's the remedy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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