Selected objects are not those where mouse pointer clicked, but nearby

[NatashaZ]

Hi all, 

I am stuck in AD 1.6.5 (MAC).  I am not able (very often) to select and object by pointing the mouse on it and clicking.  Instead the object selected is located from some distance to what i need.

 

Any advise?

 

Thank you

 

[Joachim_L]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @NatashaZ!

What about an update to the latest version 1.9.3. Not sure if this version is significantly better selection-wise or you can try menu View >> View Mode >> Outline or the button from the top toolbar to make selections a bit easier.

[Dan C]

Hi @NatashaZ,

Welcome to the forums 

As Joachim has mentioned above, we always recommend updating to the latest version of the Affinity app, as unfortunately we are unable to support such an old version here (1.6.5 AD was released almost 3 years ago).

Can you please confirm, why are you 'stuck' using version 1.6.5? Do you require assistance in updating to the latest version?
If so, where did you purchase the application from please?

Many thanks in advance!

[NatashaZ]

Hi Dan,   yes, i have to stick to this version as the rest of the team using it.  Upgrade is not available for us (our company has not done so yet)

[NatashaZ]

I FOUND THE ISSUE!!!!!!!

A particular custom created style was applied automatically to the text box.  If i set it to "No Style" - all is back to normal : )

Thank you all!

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, NatashaZ said:

I FOUND THE ISSUE!!!!!!!

Good news!  It would, of course, be better if you and your team could update to the latest version of the app.

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, BofG said:

I would say it would be better if the Affinity suite had a way to save as compatible for previous versions.

But how could that work, aside from removing everything that only the later version(s) support? 

[R C-R]

Just now, BofG said:

It could be done many ways, one possibility is to do it just the exact same way as Illustrator does.

I have no idea how Illustrator handles that but the crux of the matter to me is I cannot see any way for an older version to support any feature that only exists in a newer one. Some things might be convertible to something the older version can handle, but I doubt everything could be, & regardless, you could end up with both compatible & incompatible versions of the same document being worked on by different people.

Sounds like a recipe for a nightmare of epic proportions to me.

[R C-R]

3 minutes ago, BofG said:

It's all just vectors and pixels at the end of the day.

If that was all there was to it, then you could use any version of any app that supports vector & pixel objects to edit any document made in any of them with no need for any special "compatibility" file format. But of course, there is much more to it than that.

That's why apps get updated with new features that can improve & streamline workflows so at the end of the day more work gets done.

[Wosven]

8 hours ago, BofG said:

It's all just vectors and pixels at the end of the day. If I can export to pdf from any version and open in any version of AD then it is certainly not an unsolvable problem.

Yes, the app need to convert — or not — some objects to be compatible.

For example, in ID CS5, we were able to manage individual rounded corners, while the CS4 version only known a parameter for all the 4 corner of a frame.

When opening CS5 documents in CS4, the parameter was ignored. To get the same result, you had to draw 2 frames (if they were applied to a text frame), one for the text, one object on which you manually rounded a corner.

If the app was able to export to older versions, it should have done it (like it does when exporting to  PDF). 

 

Opening newer documents in older version of the app would mean always checking with a PDF that  everything is as it should be, and opening the PDF to try to get missing elements.

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On the same note, I updated to 1.10 at home, and worked on some files.

And was worried that I wouldn't be able to open them at work with the 1.9.2 version (I'll wait a less bugged release for updating, since I don't have APub at work, and it seems updating to APub beta corrected the "impossible to save" problems for the 3 apps).

But 1.9.2 was able to open 1.10 files.