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Is There a Way to Run Two Copies of AD at Same Time


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It comes down to much preferring non-separated windowing while using AD on the Mac (because the separated toolbars are hinkey as heck, causing issues). But what we also want to see a full view of our document on another display while working on a zoomed-in version on our pen displays, because the Navigator's resolution is just too lousy for our work.

Tried making a copy of the AD app and opening it with the original running, so we could open the same document, but it said we had two copies running, so, "No."

Would be wonderful to have the ability to separate off a view from the tabs when in non-separated mode (like just rip it off as you can Safari); or a Navigator with better resolution.

Is there away way to get this to work now, though?

Thanks.

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Actually, just answered our own question concerning two copies, since we also have AP on the same machine and thus can open the same file.

There appears to be no way to refresh the AP version, so it doesn't update.

We did find that we can "open" the files using macOS's Quick View, which does update when we save the file. Only problem there is that the preview of Affinity files are so small.

Does anyone know of a way to change the size of the Quick View? If we resize the window, the image just shrinks back when it updates.

Thanks again.

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33 minutes ago, skmwrp said:

There appears to be no way to refresh the AP version, so it doesn't update.

Where did you purchase it?

  1. Mac App Store: Run the App Store, signed-in with the same identity you used for purchase, and you should be able to update it.
  2. Affinity Store: There should be a Check for Updates entry in the menu, though as I'm not a Mac user I'm not sure where. Probably under Affinity Photo or under Help. If that doesn't work, you can download from https://affinity.store/account/downloads which will let you download any purchases you made from the Affinity Store.

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1 hour ago, skmwrp said:

Does anyone know of a way to change the size of the Quick View? If we resize the window, the image just shrinks back when it updates.

The QuickLook (QL) window resizes since when the image changes on HD it has to update and reload the image and so falls back to defaults. With Cmd-Space QL will open an image full screen, but then you can't see APhoto at the same time.

In order to change the default QL window size for an Affinity file preview plugin one would have to alter/change the "info.plist" package contents in it's corresponding "xxxx.qlgenerator" package. And there then ...

  • change the "QLPreviewHeight" parameter value
  • and also change the "QLPreviewWidth" parameter value

IMPORTANT NOTE:  As always, back up the original "info.plist" file first and realize you are editing a file Apple/Serif didn't intend for the end user to edit.

There are also some third party tools like "Optimal Layout" etc. which do allow to alter the on screen windows and their handling. - Other than that, try out some other third party previewer like XNViewMP and see if that updates/reloads it's file preview instantly when an Affinity file changes from another source on disk.

 

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4 minutes ago, RichardMH said:

I may be confused as to what you want to do, but will New View do what you want? Works with my two monitors. I just drag the new window to my second monitor.

As far as we can tell, you can put them on two different monitors only when you're in Separated windowing mode. Otherwise, the new View just becomes another tab that you can't rip away.

Unless we're doing something wrong. (Which would be wonderful if that's the case and we are, in fact, wrong.)

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2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

The QuickLook (QL) window resizes since when the image changes on HD it has to update and reload the image and so falls back to defaults. With Cmd-Space QL will open an image full screen, but then you can't see APhoto at the same time.

In order to change the default QL window size for an Affinity file preview plugin one would have to alter/change the "info.plist" package contents in it's corresponding "xxxx.qlgenerator" package. And there then ...

  • change the "QLPreviewHeight" parameter value
  • and also change the "QLPreviewWidth" parameter value

IMPORTANT NOTE:  As always, back up the original "info.plist" file first and realize you are editing a file Apple/Serif didn't intend for the end user to edit.

There are also some third party tools like "Optimal Layout" etc. which do allow to alter the on screen windows and their handling. - Other than that, try out some other third party previewer like XNViewMP and see if that updates/reloads it's file preview instantly when an Affinity file changes from another source on disk.

 

Thanks. We tried to get this to work, but nothing's changed.

Then it stuck us.

We don't get the ability to see full-scale previews on the iPad (which is what we used for some time). (Of course, you can pinch to zoom on an iPad.)

Still, wish they would add the ability to rip off a tab into a separate window in non-Seperate Mode. Life would then be wonderful!

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