Affinity Publisher, black window only

[wpm]

Affinity Publisher stopped working by not displaying any content in the main window any longer (see attachment). I tried restart and reinstalling the software already.

macOS 12.5.1, Affinity Publisher 1.10.5

Any advice?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @wpm

If this is a specific macOS issue I can't help, but the first thing to try is to either make sure the Publisher window has focus and press the Tab key, or use menu “View → Toggle UI” (they do the same thing).

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, wpm said:

Affinity Publisher stopped working by not displaying any content in the main window any longer (see attachment). 

That is because 1) you do not have a document open so there is no document content to display & 2) because the UI (the Tool & Studio panels & the toolbars) have been hidden by pressing the Tab key or choosing Toggle UI on the View menu.

So like @GarryP mentioned, the quickest & easiest way to show the UI is to press the Tab key to toggle it back on.

You still won't see any document content until/unless you either open an existing file or create a new one from the File menu, or double-click on a document file in Finder that APub is set to open.

[wpm]

Thanks, both. That was the problem. Feeling quite silly now 😂!

[GarryP]

I recently added a feature request about this as it is the fourth similar issue in this month alone:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/166820-please-add-some-useful-information-to-the-‘background’-when-no-document-is-open-especially-useful-when-the-ui-is-also-toggled-off/