v2.1 designer not saving printer and print info in file, resets every load

[thegary]

v2.1 designer not saving printer and print info in file, resets every load

Every time i reopen a file in 2.1, the printer information has been reset to a different printer.

Gary

 

[walt.farrell]

Neither V1 nor V2 saves that information with an Affinity file, in my testing. And unlike Export, the Print operation does not show any entries in the document History, and do not prompt to reSave after you print.

The applications use the last printer that the application used. (Actually, I suspect they use the last printer used by any application, but I have not tested that yet. All I can say at this point is that if I print using V1 and then switch to V2 to print, the dialog comes up with the same printer that V1 used.)

[thegary]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

Neither V1 nor V2 saves that information with an Affinity file, in my testing. And unlike Export, the Print operation does not show any entries in the document History, and do not prompt to reSave after you print.

The applications use the last printer that the application used. (Actually, I suspect they use the last printer used by any application, but I have not tested that yet. All I can say at this point is that if I print using V1 and then switch to V2 to print, the dialog comes up with the same printer that V1 used.)

this should be saving that info. All my other software does. 

Gary

 

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, thegary said:

this should be saving that info. All my other software does. 

But it doesn't, and from my experiments it never has, so it's not anything new with 2.1.

It would be appropriate for a Feature Request.

[walt.farrell]

Also, I'll note that users are already annoyed at having to Save again after they do an Export, because Exporting updates the document. They would probably also be annoyed if Print started saving info, and causing additional prompts when closing the document. (And some of my other applications that save the Print info in the document do that, too. I've had to get used to the sequence Save, Print, Close... Oops, have to Save again, or say not to.)

[thegary]

3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Also, I'll note that users are already annoyed at having to Save again after they do an Export, because Exporting updates the document. They would probably also be annoyed if Print started saving info, and causing additional prompts when closing the document. (And some of my other applications that save the Print info in the document do that, too. I've had to get used to the sequence Save, Print, Close... Oops, have to Save again, or say not to.)

Photoshop and illustrator both save the printer used with the printer settings used.

This saves alot of time on repeat prints and also what it was last printed on.

Gary

 

[Dan C]

Hi @thegary,

I've moved this thread to the Feedback section of the forums for our devs to see and consider adding this change in a future update. 

I hope this helps

[Pšenda]

14 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

(And some of my other applications that save the Print info in the document do that, too. I've had to get used to the sequence Save, Print, Close... Oops, have to Save again, or say not to.)

APublisher should also do this correctly, because it writes the information about the printing execution to the metadata, but then does not save it to the file.