WirlyWirly Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 Hello, I enjoy the Studio Link feature of Affinity, but I don't understand why it's only available through Publisher. I only use Photo and Designer, so I'm wondering if there is an argument/flag that I can pass when calling Publisher so that it will start in the Photo persona instead of defaulting in the Publisher persona. Something like... ...\Publisher2.exe -photo ".\image.png" Any tips? If not, is there something I'm missing in Photo that can provide me a Studio Link type feature across the 3 programs? Edit: I did find the File>Edit in Designer option in Photo2, but it's not quite as seamless as Studio Link since it launches an instance of Designer. Still looking for a flag to start Publisher in the Photo persona. Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 StudioLink is solely a Publisher feature. You have not missed anything, but are wanting something that doesn't exist. You can, however, pass a png (or jpg, or ...) to Publisher if you want. It will open, and it will be in the Publisher Persona, but it's only 1 click to switch to the Photo Persona. You can also Open them from the Photo Persona in Publisher. 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, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
jmwellborn Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 @WirlyWirly StudioLink is only functional if you have Publisher and at least one of the two other apps: Photo and Designer. If you have Publisher and Photo you can link between those two, but not Designer. If you have Publisher and Designer, but not Photo, then you can link between those two, but not Photo. You can definitely switch between Photo and Designer, however by using FILE>EDIT IN DESIGNER, or switch from Designer to Photo by FILE>EDIT IN PHOTO. Hope this will help! Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.5.5. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards.
WirlyWirly Posted November 14, 2022 Author Posted November 14, 2022 Thanks for the replies, the main reason I'd like to do this is because using Photo2.exe and the Photo persona from Publisher means I'm juggling 2 different configurations (studio presets, settings, etc) for the same program. I'll save a studio preset in Photo2.exe, but then when I go into the Photo persona from Publisher that preset never existed. I was hoping to stop using Photo2.exe and only use the Photo persona, that way I'm not juggling configurations between the two. Hopefully this feature gets added, but until then I think I'll just adjust my perspective so that I'm not thinking of them as 3 separate programs, but instead there's just a single "Affinity" program with 3 different personas. Publisher just happens to be the one that is loaded on start-up. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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