MikeTO Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 I know using drop caps in art text is silly but it works if you press Shift+Return to create additional lines. But it's easy to crash. Create a new document Choose Art Text and click on the page Type a few words Enable Drop Caps Position the text cursor anywhere in the text object and press Cmd+Right Arrow = crash Affinity Publisher 2 Affinity Store-2023-10-31-210318.ips Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - expanded 260-page PDF Affinity 2.3.1 for macOS Sonoma 14.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Hi @MikeTO, I know you're going to hate me uttering the immortal words but 'no issues on Monterey', so possibly again a Sonoma-specific problem. Hopefully, others running both Sonoma and other versions of macOS and Windows can test as well and report back... Art Text Drop Caps.mp4 Quote Affinity Designer 2.3.1.2217 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1.2217 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1.2217 Affinity Designer Beta 2.4.0.2256 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.4.0.2256 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.4.0.2256 Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.6.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Doesn't crash for me on Sonoma 14.1 with that recipe, either. Unless I need a more complex document. Hangman 1 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 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 There's nothing else to it. Here's a screen recording. Screen Recording 2023-11-02 at 11.33.50 AM.mov Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - expanded 260-page PDF Affinity 2.3.1 for macOS Sonoma 14.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 Ah, this is related to Metal. Although I normally work with Metal off I've cleared my user data a few times in the last month while testing issues for others and forgot to turn it back off. So still a bug but just one more symptom of the general problems with Metal. Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - expanded 260-page PDF Affinity 2.3.1 for macOS Sonoma 14.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 All my tests were with Metal enabled... I've just managed to get one crash with it still enabled but I've not been able to replicate it since... Affinity Publisher 2 Beta-2023-11-02-154007.ips Quote Affinity Designer 2.3.1.2217 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1.2217 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1.2217 Affinity Designer Beta 2.4.0.2256 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.4.0.2256 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.4.0.2256 Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.6.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Not seeing this here with Metal on and OS 12.7.1 Publisher 2.2.1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 29 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Not seeing this here with Metal on and OS 12.7.1 Publisher 2.2.1 Most of these Metal crashes seem to be with M1/M2+, not Intel. I used Metal on my old Intel MBP but it's unusable on my M1 Pro. Old Bruce 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - expanded 260-page PDF Affinity 2.3.1 for macOS Sonoma 14.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 9 minutes ago, MikeTO said: Most of these Metal crashes seem to be with M1/M2+, not Intel. I used Metal on my old Intel MBP but it's unusable on my M1 Pro. This is what I see in System information about the GPUs " Metal Family: Supported, Metal GPUFamily macOS 2" I do know that before I upgraded to OS 12 it was a different... 'flavour' of Metal on my Mac. Before upgrading Blender couldn't utilize my GPUs, now it can. So is there a newer version of Metal for those chips? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 1 hour ago, MikeTO said: So still a bug but just one more symptom of the general problems with Metal. I run with a Metal enabled. 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 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee_T Posted November 8, 2023 Staff Share Posted November 8, 2023 Hi MikeTO, We we're initially unable to recreate this issue, metal enabled or disabled. It seems this is related to your custom shortcuts file which does let us recreate it. Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted November 8, 2023 Author Share Posted November 8, 2023 38 minutes ago, Lee_T said: We we're initially unable to recreate this issue, metal enabled or disabled. It seems this is related to your custom shortcuts file which does let us recreate it. Ah, that makes sense. Yes, I use the Apple shortcuts for text input instead of Serif ones. You don't need anything else from me for this one, right? Thank you Lee_T 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - expanded 260-page PDF Affinity 2.3.1 for macOS Sonoma 14.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee_T Posted November 8, 2023 Staff Share Posted November 8, 2023 I don't think so, thanks for reporting it anyway. Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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