jjmb Posted December 14, 2020 Posted December 14, 2020 every time we try to work with two persons on a file using a different platform one on windows and one on mac we get this message. 'The file includes features from later version'.... Impossible to use Affinity publisher this way. Any solution please ? Should we export this to a certain format first ? Please advice Thanks Jan Quote
garrettm30 Posted December 14, 2020 Posted December 14, 2020 17 minutes ago, jjmb said: Any solution please ? Hi, and as a fellow user, I welcome you to the forums. That error message indicates that the version of Publisher on your Mac is older than the one on the Windows computer. The latest release on Mac is 1.8.6 and the latest on Windows is 1.8.5, and they should be compatibile with one another. It sounds like you just need to update Publisher on your Mac, unless you already are on 1.8.x. In that case, my next guess is that your colleague has been trying out the 1.9 beta. Unfortunately in this case, the only way you could open those files is download the 1.9 Mac beta. It is free and available in these forums, but it is not recommended for actual work. Quote
jjmb Posted December 14, 2020 Author Posted December 14, 2020 Ok thanks garett. This lets me open open the file. I will do a reverse test now hoping my windows colleague can still open my 1.9 document too. Otherwise we are stuck in one way traffic... Thanks again for the tip Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 14, 2020 Posted December 14, 2020 You should confirm what release of Publisher you're running on your Mac, and what version your colleague is using on Windows. Neither of you should be using 1.9 for anything except testing; it is not ready or intended for production work. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
jjmb Posted December 14, 2020 Author Posted December 14, 2020 hi my production version is 1.8.6 on mac, the latest. I see my colleague was using a windows 1.7.2 version first but he couldn't open my document, so he tried the beta windows one so he can continue to work on the document. But i can only open this one in the beta 1.9 for mac. If i understood it right he should upgrade his window version (in stead of using the beta one) and that would solve the problem ? greetz Jan Quote
markw Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 27 minutes ago, jjmb said: If i understood it right he should upgrade his window version (in stead of using the beta one) and that would solve the problem ? Yes that’s right, for production work you should both be using the latest retail versions only which is currently v1.8.x Also any file made or edited and saved in beta 1.9.x will not open in 1.8.x Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
garrettm30 Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 Ideally, you should both be running 1.8 (1.8.6 is newest on Mac, and 1.8.5 on Windows—they are mutually compatible). If you have saved any document in the 1.9 beta, that document will not open on 1.8 or anything earlier. Quote
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