RNKLN Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Not sure if this is intended behaviour; when I have a placed a linked image (I can see via Resource Manager that indeed it is linked) and I use the Replace Image button from the contextual toolbar to replace this image, the new image has a status of embedded. Edit: Placement Policy = Linked. Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 On Windows, the File Explorer dialog you get when you click Replace has a couple of buttons (Embed, Link) that will override the image placement policy. If those buttons are also present in the Finder window on Mac perhaps you had Embed selected? (The initial status of those buttons matches the Image Placement Policy, on Windows.) -- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 In Finder you can only select the file and click Open, Walt. No relationship with the Placement Policy. Only when I navigate to the resource manager I find out that the new image is embedded rather than linked (from there it's only one click to switch to linked, but still…). Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Thanks. Sounds like an issue in the Mac version, then. -- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 18 minutes ago, RNKLN said: In Finder you can only select the file and click Open, Walt. In the Replace Image dialog (looks similar to a Finder window) on macOS there is a choice of embedding or linking, but some genius at Serif has decided that the user must click an Options button at bottom left to reveal the existence of that choice. I despair. Patrick Connor and walt.farrell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Options? Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 20 minutes ago, RNKLN said: Options? Oops. That button is in Replace Image dialog of Publisher beta but not Photo beta or Designer beta despite all of the beta apps supporting a placement policy. In my opinion, the placement options should also be in the Place dialog of all three apps, but it is absent from all three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 Aha, so that's the reason. But how about this? Simply let Placement Policy determine what to do. If you want to deviate from the Placement Policy, go to Resource Manager and click on the Make Linked… or Embed button. Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 2 minutes ago, RNKLN said: But how about this? Simply let Placement Policy determine what to do. If you want to deviate from the Placement Policy, go to Resource Manager and click on the Make Linked… or Embed button. Yes, we can do that. My suggestion of the embed versus link choice being in Place dialog and Replace Image dialog was to avoid the inconvenience of going to Resource Manager immediately after doing a place or replace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted January 26, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 26, 2021 Hi all, We are aware of this and it has already been logged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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