JenB Posted January 19, 2022 Posted January 19, 2022 I have all three Affinity applications so I can use Studio Link in Publisher. When go to the Designer persona and the Photo persona, am I accessing each app in its entirety or is each persona just a part of the full Designer and Photo applications? Quote
Pšenda Posted January 19, 2022 Posted January 19, 2022 Part, but sufficient for most basic tasks. Kevin B 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
walt.farrell Posted January 20, 2022 Posted January 20, 2022 2 hours ago, JenB said: or is each persona just a part of the full Designer and Photo applications The Designer Persona of Publisher is the Designer Persona of Designer, and the Photo Persona is most of the Photo Persona of Photo. If you need the other functions or Personas you can use File > Edit In. Kevin B 1 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Kevin B Posted February 13, 2022 Posted February 13, 2022 Hi Pšenda and Walt, I'm confused (yes, again!) with Publisher and the use of, or switching to and from, the Designer Persona, I haven't bought Photo yet but will soon, I'm beginning to need it. So, I have a small vector graphic (company logo) on a Publisher page, I hit the Designer Persona icon and seem to have the normal Designer interface. To edit an object on this graphic, I double-click it and bang it seems that I've returned to Publisher's interface, the Publisher Persona icon seems to be high-lighted, and here I can make an edit. Now I become even more confused, the Save option is grey and Publisher Persona icon is not active. Seems that all I can do is hit Close, which takes me back to the Designer Persona, it's icon appears to be high-lighted. Now I can hit the Publisher icon and return to that mode . . . except that I see only the page that holds the graphic, no other pages appear on the Pages panel. I'm stumped as to what to do so I close this file, and POOOFF like magic, I have all of the pages available. I'm doing something screwy in this process, or is it really supposed to go like this? I then tried Edit in Designer, that fired up the program and I made an edit. After editing, neither Save nor Edit in Publisher are available so I close the file, that leads me to the Designer interface again but here I can select the Publisher Persona, and all pages are available. During the tests above I'm using embedded objects, I tried linked earlier but got into a round-and-round mess between editing inside of Publisher and editing outside, seems the changes will go both directions but it was too confusing. My projects won't be so long so file size shouldn't be a problem, for now anyway. Thanks for your assistance! Kind Regards, Kevin Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 13, 2022 Posted February 13, 2022 41 minutes ago, Kevin B said: So, I have a small vector graphic (company logo) on a Publisher page, I hit the Designer Persona icon and seem to have the normal Designer interface. To edit an object on this graphic, I double-click it and bang it seems that I've returned to Publisher's interface, the Publisher Persona icon seems to be high-lighted, and here I can make an edit. When you switch to the Designer Persona you have Designer's tools available to work directly on the Page you are working on. But what you have described is a different scenario. You have described editing an embedded or linked file (embedded in your case). An embedded or linked file is a container, and if you edit it you are working on it as a separate document. So, when you double-click on it it opens in a new document tab. And all document tabs open in the Publisher Persona, because you're in Publisher. For your purpose, you would double-click on the embedded document, and then switch to the Designer Persona. 46 minutes ago, Kevin B said: Now I become even more confused, the Save option is grey When you're editing an embedded document, any changes you make are immediately saved in the parent document. All you do when you're done is close that document tab, and you'll be back where you were in the parent document. Kevin B 1 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Kevin B Posted February 13, 2022 Posted February 13, 2022 Hi Walt, Ahhhhh, OK, now I see how it works, great explanation you gave me, heck I never even noticed the new tab that opened. I came to the word "tab" and thought, "tab, what tab"? . . . . silly me, didn't even see it! 3 hours ago, walt.farrell said: An embedded or linked file is a container, This is what I didn't fully realize, I was thinking that once a file was imported/placed into Publisher, it was treated like any other object on the page -- now I see the important difference. Now that I understand the functionality here I really do like it, will be very useful because I'm brining in large CAD-to-PDF files, converted to .afdesign files, and then embedded or linked. Easily going to Designer to use it's full power will be very useful. The Publisher help manual should explain this better, seems it doesn't say any more than "Use Studio Link with Personas and you'll be happy"! Well, now I am after you explained it to me -- thanks again Walt for your quick assistance! Affinity should contract you and a few of the other all-stars to beef up their user manual, it's not bad but does seem that a lot of topics could use improved explanations. There's a lot of functionality in the Affinity apps at 55 euro each, seems to me the full suite is a bargain compared to the competition. Kind Regards, Kevin Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 13, 2022 Posted February 13, 2022 You're welcome. 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
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