BartonFink Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 I have found something curious. In Affinty Publisher on macos the linked documents are unsharp. If I embed the Affinity Designer document it's sharp as ever. Something to do in preferences? But I think it's a serious bug. Very sad. In the meantime, I believe that Affinity's bugs are increasing without solving the basic problems. Very sad. I've been using Affinity since the beginning and I'm getting more and more disappointed. MacPro 2019, macOS 13.6, Affinity Suite 2.2.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 That could be an indication that Publisher considers the Linked file to be missing, and is showing a low-resolution preview. Did you see any pop-up messages about missing resources? What does Resource Manager say about the status of that resource? Where does the Linked image reside? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartonFink Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 Of course, I have checked that. I'm a graphic designer for 20 years. The file exists and is marked correct as "linked". The original file is absolutely fine. There is no message that the file is missing and it is linked correctly. I also have this problem with some Affinity Photo files too. These are on the same hard drive in the same folder. That's why I find this a little strange. If the files were missing, it would not be displayed correctly when I embed it. When I switch back to linked, it becomes blurred again. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oufti Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 What kind of file is it? I can't reproduce it here, neither with bitmap nor with vector files… Are these files on a drive directly connected to the Mac? Or are they on something like a NAS or a cloud drive? Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 I get occasional display issues with linked files only being partially displayed (top left and quarter) but these export to PDF just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartonFink Posted September 23, 2023 Author Share Posted September 23, 2023 The file is a AF Designer vector file and I exported the project as package on my internal samsung drive. Not on the main drive with the system. Export will be fine. Only the view in Publisher is unsharp of the linked file. My graphic card is a AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB. Maybe this can be the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby Poole Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 I had a similar issue with Publisher. It was not with another Affinity file, but with a TIFF. The TIFF was present on the hard drive, it was shown under the resource manager as being linked with no issues. And with no means of forcing an update. I ultimately replaced the file with an SVG of the same thing (took the time to create the SVG after running into this issue). The problem was solved and with this edit. I cannot explain what happened, but the extra work seemed to fix the issue. I have run into other issues, and I hope someone from the team is reading these, and working on them. Robby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted September 25, 2023 Staff Share Posted September 25, 2023 Hi @BartonFink, Could you possibly send us the document where you're seeing this low quality rendering in your linked resources? I would like to confirm if this issue can be replicated in a different user environment. If you could File > Save as package > Save to an empty folder in Finder > Compress the folder and upload it to the private dropbox link below that would be great. https://www.dropbox.com/request/rweqVtpjbnR5iP73CniN Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartonFink Posted September 25, 2023 Author Share Posted September 25, 2023 Hi NathanC, as a comment. If I open the Publisher package file the linked graphic is sharp. If I save it as a normal Publisher file close it and open it again the linked graphic is unsharp. File is on it's way. Hope this helps. Thanks you very much for your efford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted September 26, 2023 Staff Share Posted September 26, 2023 Thanks for sending over the files, It's interesting that the resource render is correct in the .afpackage version of the exact same file on your side, which leads me to believe something could be going wrong with this .afdesign file. After opening both the .afpackage (and .afpub equivalent) I'm not seeing this on my Mac, the only situation I see the exact same low quality preview is if I unlink the .afdesign file by moving/deleting it. The preview of the file then exactly matches what's shown in your initial post screenshot. Evidently on your device the resource is not unlinked since you're able to freely change it's placement policy. One thing that stood out to me as unexpected is that in Resource manager the 'Gebietskarte' .afdesign file showed the File Type as just 'Affinity', as opposed to 'Affinity Designer 2'. Could you try any of the following to see if any cause it to render correctly on your device? Close the .afpub and open the .afdesign resource in Designer, make any small change and then save the file, re-open the .Afpub document again. Place the .afdesign resource in a brand new document, if it works, try placing it in your same document again. Move the location of the resource on your Mac to a completely different location on your local disk, and then re-link it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartonFink Posted September 27, 2023 Author Share Posted September 27, 2023 Hi NathanC, Hello NathanC, I think I have found the problem. The "Gebietskarte" file was originally an Adobe Illustrator file that I converted to an AF-Designer version 1 file using Affinity Suite. I opened it in AF-Designer 2 and converted it. I think this is the problem. Converting and converting. But fine, doesn't matter. It's unusual/special, so you can forget about it. I don't think any file would survive this conversion marathon. Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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