Bazza Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Hi, I've just bought a PC (I'm typically a Mac User) and have installed Cartoon Animator 4. CA4 allows me to open up Affinity Designer from within the program in order to edit my characters. My understanding is that Affinity Designer doesn't allow that on Windows 11. I'm not familiar with Windows or the different MSI installers etc that I keep hearing about. Is there a way to make this function work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted March 13 Staff Share Posted March 13 If the other app has an option to setup external editing if can be done using Affinity Designer. However if you originally used the MSIX installer the our V2 apps, I'd recommend uninstalling them and downloading the .exe based installer from your Affinity Store account. The .exe versions make it a lot easier for third party editing to be setup as they apps aren't installed into a sandboxed location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 All sorted. Thank you for that. Regards Barrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMad Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Hi The only way I got it to start working with Cartoon Animator 5 (CA5) was by re-installing Affinity apps using MSI instead of MSIX. Then I was able to call Affinity Designer 2 (AD2) from within CA5, to import a new vector picture back to CA5 by exporting the picture from AG2. Note that saving the file was NOT sufficient (I had to export it in the same path as the saved file for it to trigger a popup in CA5 to indicate that the modified file was available from AD2). Unfortunately this workaround works only for Affinity Designer (AD2), and not Affinity Photo (AP2), for which the popup window to import back the picture in Cartoon Animator does NOT occur when you save (and/or export) the modified drawing in AP2. In other words, I am able to configure AP2 as the external PSD editor in CA5, and when I click on the icon in CA5 it does open AP2 (I can also click on the PSD editor icon and it opens AP2 with the drawing I selected in CA5), but when I save (and/or export), nothing happens in CTA5 (no popup). This is VERY annoying... Please advise. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMad Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 BTW I run 2.04 versions of AD2 and AP2 under Win 10 Pro (21H2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMad Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Never mind, I found the solution for AP2: you need to check the "Enable Save over imported PSD files" box in Edit/Preferences/General menu. This option, however, does not seem to work for AD2: you still have to use the export workaround, as explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9tcHT6donA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 1 hour ago, DrMad said: you need to check the "Enable Save over imported PSD files" box in Edit/Preferences/General menu. Note that if you do that, any text objects will be rasterized when you Save, and will no longer be editable as text. 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 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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