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Initial stuff

  1. Using Affinity Designer.
  2. Using the latest version as of time of writing (2.3.0 from Affinity Store).
  3. Can be reproduced.
  4. Pre-existing documents seem to be unaffected.

Software details

  • Windows 11 Home (22H2 - 22621.2861)
  • OpenCL HW acceleration off
    • Issue is unaffected by whether this is on or off.

Some hardware details

  • Ryzen 3600, Radeon RX 570 8GB, 16GB Memory.
  • My computer has 2 Monitors in action during this test.
  • I also have a Huion Kamvas 16 2021 connected (with screen disabled)

I think this bug emerged after I updated to Affinity Designer 2.3.

 

How to reproduce

The attached video demonstrates these steps:

  1. Make a new document where the preference is to embed images.
  2. Add an SVG to the file. This SVG will be described as 'Embedded' in the toolbar.
  3. Save the file.
  4. Close Affinity Designer.
  5. Reopen Affinity Designer with the file. The SVG will now be described as 'Linked' and will behave as such.

If the source SVG file was deleted between sessions, the SVG is now gone from the document. Something I also show in the video is how even if you go to Resource Manager and tell Affinity Designer to embed the SVG explicitly, it will still behave as linked the next time the document is opened.

And the next time it is opened is an important distinction here in the way this bug works - when I keep the session of the file going after adding the SVG, the SVG will behave as embedded, even when I delete the original file. It's only in the next session of the file that it will behave as linked, and the SVG in the file will be gone.

Not that it should matter, but the SVG I used in this example and have attached (1f635_etc_dizzy_face.svg) was itself made and exported from Affinity Designer 2.3.

1f635_etc_dizzy_face.svg

 

A larger test with more files

In the attached screenshots, I have performed another experiment with more than a hundred SVG images produced by differing earlier versions of Affinity Designer and found similar results.

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Screenshot 2024-01-01 173507.png

 

 

 

Posted

Looks like it's already reported, and logged as af-1416, and apparently fixed in the 2.4 Beta when that arrives.

 

-- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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The issue "Saving a file with a PSD embedded automatically switches the policy to linked when re-opening the file" (REF: AF-1416) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.3.1.2212".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

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