Affinity Publisher icon on Windows 11 taskbar

[capsLOCK]

Hi everyone

I've been trying to not let this get to me, but now it has become too annoying for me to not raise it. You see, the issue I have is that the Affinity Publisher icon on the taskbar is a completely different size to Affinity Designer and Photo. The icons are fine on the Start menu in Windows 11, so why are they different for the taskbar?

Hope one of the developers can take a look and amend. Apologies that it's not a functional issue but for a designer, it's just 'niggly'.

[Stepaan]

It must be something related to your machine. Look: 

[deeds]

Feel like this makes the case for a redesign, too...

 

Pencil, Shutter, Page Curl... seems like the obvious thing it should be.

 

Not sure what the four bands signify. 

[capsLOCK]

I thought you were on to something there @Stepaan as my display is scaled to 150% when using 4K monitors. I noticed from your screenshot that you're using 'Dark' mode on Windows 11. I switched to that and lo and behold, the icon is fixed. It's just something to do with light mode. It looks like the icon is being swapped somehow when switched to light mode and the scaling is wrong.

On 12/28/2022 at 2:47 PM, Stepaan said:

It must be something related to your machine. Look: 

 

[capsLOCK]

23 hours ago, deeds said:

Feel like this makes the case for a redesign, too...

 

Pencil, Shutter, Page Curl... seems like the obvious thing it should be.

 

Not sure what the four bands signify. 

I thought the intention was that they would all represent an 'A' in the icon? I couldn't really see the pencil before now, I had just assumed it was a triangle. I can definitely see the shutter for Photo though.

[carl123]

On 12/28/2022 at 3:24 PM, deeds said:

Not sure what the four bands signify. 

I thought the icon was representing 3 books with 2 book ends - like you would find on a shelf

Probably has a deeper meaning though

[Old Bruce]

On 12/28/2022 at 7:24 AM, deeds said:

Not sure what the four bands signify. 

Pages/Signatures inside the publication's cover.

And Photo is just the Iris, the aperture blades. Leaf shutters don't look like that.

[AnBö]

The behavior is exactly the same for me.
Both on my laptop (FullHD or 4K) and on my desktop PC (4K). Scaling is at 150% in both cases. Everything is fine in dark mode.
Only the Affinity Publisher 2 icon is affected.

[jacobj]

Same issue for me - light mode only, Affinity Publisher only.

[Pšenda]

On 1/4/2023 at 3:32 PM, AnBö said:

Scaling is at 150% in both cases.

And scalling 100%?

[AITCH]

On 12/27/2022 at 10:23 AM, capsLOCK said:

Hi everyone

I've been trying to not let this get to me, but now it has become too annoying for me to not raise it. You see, the issue I have is that the Affinity Publisher icon on the taskbar is a completely different size to Affinity Designer and Photo. The icons are fine on the Start menu in Windows 11, so why are they different for the taskbar?

Hope one of the developers can take a look and amend. Apologies that it's not a functional issue but for a designer, it's just 'niggly'.

You're not on your own, it;s really annoying me too (Windows 10 user)

[AnBö]

On 1/6/2023 at 6:15 PM, Pšenda said:

And scalling 100%?

With 100% everything is OK.

[AITCH]

On 12/28/2022 at 2:47 PM, Stepaan said:

It must be something related to your machine. Look: 

This is the solution

[Horys]

I only confirm the issue with Publisher icon in a light mode scaled to 150 % in Windows 11. Please, Serif, have a look at it. Thanks!

[AnBö]

See screenshot, I found another app with the buggy behavior. It is the app "Remotedesktop" (from the Microsoft Store). Manufacturer is ... Micorsoft. (Well, they should actually know … 🙂)

[HelmutW]

Same here. Light theme, 150%. After a couple of updates to 2.04 no fix yet.

Disappointing, the evil A-company has no problems to display icons correctly.