A4 is called Letter, or?

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Each time Publisher 2 is started, new 'New Document' dialog is displayed. The dialog is much better than before, but, take a look at the picture attached:

By default, here at least, Press ready A4 preset is initially pre-selected, no user action needed. Now see on the preview side, it says: Letter. (modified Letter, judging from asterisk, although I did not move the mouse yet)... Dimensions seem fine and the document created will have proper A4 dimensions. For sheer incongruity, I do believe this to be a bug.

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Rant: Moderators are doing a lot of work, and Affinity is pushing hard... Thanks for that... but with Affinity 2 release I really do feel I have paid 40% off to be a tester. Software development is complex, and I might be oldfashioned, but I do like my dinner cooked before it is served and software tested before sales... Half-cooked is fine in opensource, where I can help. This, "Go fund me" approach to software (pay now, get proper software sometime later, or so I hope) is quickly becoming tiresome. Here and elsewhere. This release is uncomfortably close to what we used to call vaporware. Sorry, Affinitos, you disappointed me in this release with sloppiness.

[Hangman]

@Aleksandar Kovač I believe this is a known bug, hopefully it will be fixed in the next release...

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Thank you for letting me know @Hangman . I tried searching the forum, but could not find this one.

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Issue still existing in 2.0.3

[Hangman]

I'm unsure what it is supposed to show when you set a custom size but I'm still seeing <true>* which doesn't feel right...

[Aleksandar Kovač]

 @Hangman, were you setting the square format?

I see such square format occasionally, too, and to be honest, I thought maybe I was using such format, but could not remember when :).

[Hangman]

@Aleksandar Kovač, I was indeed using a square format... I'm sure this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release... currently it is a little counterintuitive in as much as what you have selected in the left column isn't always reflected by the preview on the right.

[thomaso]

On 12/20/2022 at 1:38 PM, Hangman said:

I was indeed using a square format... I'm sure this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release... currently it is a little counterintuitive in as much as what you have selected in the left column isn't always reflected by the preview on the right.

The highlighted preset, implying it is the current setting, is a leftover from V1 where it was discussed by a few times but judged by a Serif moderator to be not an issue but an intentional feature … 😇

[Hangman]

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

The highlighted preset, implying it is the current setting, is a leftover from V1 where it was discussed by a few times but judged by a Serif moderator to be not an issue but an intentional feature … 😇

I can't say I really agree with that synopsis, putting the physical thumbnails aside for a moment, if you look back at 1.7.3 it intelligently recognised preset page sizes when width and height values were typed in...

I can't see any reason why that same logic can't be applied in 1.10.6 or 2.0, the programming logic clearly existed in 1.7.3 so why not use it in 2.0, it feels a bit lazy to me as it would be pretty easy to implement and apply to the icons and preset highlights.