ms.fuentecilla Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 Are you intending to make the exe files for the suite visible any time soon please? It is rather tedious to have to save to disk from other software before working in Affinity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 2 hours ago, ms.fuentecilla said: Are you intending to make the exe files for the suite visible any time soon please? It is rather tedious to have to save to disk from other software before working in Affinity! Why not configure your other software to use the aflaunch.exe helper application? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms.fuentecilla Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 Quite simply they are unable to find it. Most of the time now I work with other software. I find this preferable to prepare as much as possible within the flexibilities of RAW and often it leaves very little needed in Photo, so my main Affinity use now is Publisher. When I try to direct software to the aflaunch helper it is refused access. An interesting question: How can someone participating in a discussion be a non participating member? Not intended to be in any way sarcastic or aggressive but curious. Another edit. Having now read the thread you linked I'm afraid I am baffled by the jargon: unsandboxed; sandboxed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms.fuentecilla Posted June 20, 2023 Author Share Posted June 20, 2023 This issue seems to remain unaddressed despite the many improvements to version 2. It does make life awkward when using Affinity with specialist software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, ms.fuentecilla said: This issue seems to remain unaddressed despite the many improvements to version 2. It does make life awkward when using Affinity with specialist software. The issue of accessing MSIX-based apps from other software can only be addressed by: The other software being improved to handle this kind of Windows application; or by The user making use of the aflaunch.exe helper application that Serif provided; or by The user installing the alternative EXE/MSI-based version of the Affinity software, instead. Serif has no control over whether the other applications implement #1. Serif released the alternative installers about 5 months ago, and it is in your control whether you choose to use them, or not: Note that if you're going to use them, you should uninstall the MSIX-based versions you have now, before installing via the new installers. Also, once you have installed the EXE/MSI-based versions, you will need to handle updating from release to release manually, by downloading the new installer when prompted, closing the app, and running the installer. When you do the download, you will need to be careful to install the right version of the installer. (This could be a little cleaner.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 To add to @walt.farrells posting; If you are using the msix versions of the Affinity programs and are unable to bridge it to other programs, the user @rvst made an excellent exe to which you would make a bridge to. You just need to download it from github and rename AffinityPhotoLauncher.exe to any of these; AffinityPublisher2.exe AffinityPhoto2.exe AffinityDesigner2.exe and link your other programs to that exe. Keep the exe file in a place where you don´t accidentally delete it. I even made three copies of that exe and renamed them so I can easily link to each Affinity program depending on the usecase. https://github.com/dl12345/AffinityPhotoLauncher/releases/tag/v1.1.0-x64 More info and source code download ; https://github.com/dl12345/AffinityPhotoLauncher Quote Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | artstation store Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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