Publisher/Studio Link: Photo Personna Crop Tool Not Working

[MCFC_4Heatons]

When in Publisher and using Studio Link, the crop tool in Photo Personna does not work as expected or as it does in Affinity Photo

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, MCFC_4Heatons said:

When in Publisher and using Studio Link, the crop tool in Photo Personna does not work as expected or as it does in Affinity Photo

This is kind of a continuation from this discussioin where I made a small error in one statement:

Correction of my earlier comment:

• You always have the vector crop tool when:
     a. You have a document with Pages or Artboards: or
     b. You are in Designer, or the Publisher or Designer Personas of Publisher.
• You have the raster crop tool when:
     a. You are in Photo, or the Photo Persona of Publisher, and you have a document with a Canvas (not one with Pages or Artboards).

This is intentional, I believe, because it doesn't make any sense to try to crop an actual page or artboard using a raster crop.

 

 

[Ron P.]

I think Walt is correct with his explanation.

My reasoning for it not being a bug; It's by design. In other words, Serif intentionally designed it work this way. Just because someone does not like the way it works, it does not behave as they think it should, does not automatically make it a bug.

[walt.farrell]

Also, an experiment you can try: 

1. In Designer, create a document with an Artboard. Then File > Edit in Photo. See what kind of Crop Tool you have. 

2. In Publisher, create a document with Pages (1 Master, 1 or more document pages). Then File > Edit in Photo. See what kind of Crop Tool you have. 

In both cases it should be the vector crop.

[MEB]

I can see why this can be a bit confusing for the user: a file with an artboard created in Designer and passed to Photo disables the Crop Tool in Photo (greyed out) unless we delete the artboard(s) layer(s) which may not be always possible, whereas one created originally in Publisher makes the Crop Tool in Photo work as a vector crop tool (not sure how to revert/fix this one yet even for a Publisher document with a single page). Finally in Photo itself, the Crop Tool works as expected that is, as a raster crop tool (this on macOS, not checked if Windows is consistent with this behaviour yet). Three different behaviours for the same Tool in the same program (Photo), depending on what program the file was originally created in.

I'm not considering instances where users may receive or start a doc in one of the apps, end up changing/editing it in another app saving it there as a new file (with the "new" default extension of the second app) to later forget or get confused (in case of a received file) why the tool isn't working as it should/as they expect there.
I will raise this with the dev team but I'm afraid it is by design.