scrutinizer Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 I have version AD 1.10 on macOS 10.9 installed from MAS. It's only now that the problem came to my attention since I moved away from reading the manual for quite a while. I remember reading it without issues before the final update of iteration 1. Today I have invoked the main AD manual window in the Mac's native Help Viewer, and trying to navigate its chapters and subchapters the corresponding links won't respond to clicking on them. The only way to access it is to open its constituent HTML pages in a browser despite the inconvenience of doing so. Considering AD 1.10 isn't supported anymore, would it be possible to issue a bugfix for the AD help book? MacBook-Pro mid-2012 15.4" 1440 x 900 Core i7 2.3 GHz DDR3 1600 MHz 16GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 MB + Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB CT1000MX500SSD1 1TB + CT500MX500SSD1 500 GB Crucial AFFINITY DESIGNER 1.10
walt.farrell Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 While you're waiting for a fix (if one will be made), another alternative is to use the Online Help (if you're connected to the networkk). You can find them at https://affinity.help which has the help for all three applications for both V1 and V2. Also, for more convenience in using the local Help files included with the application in a web browser, some users have suggested Bookmarking the pages so you only need to find them once. -- 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 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 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 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
MikeTO Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 FWIW the help for v1 still works properly on Sonoma so if there's an issue it's with the older version of macOS that you're using. I know that's no consolation but perhaps somebody else with an older version of macOS could test this. Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters MacBook Pro (M4 Pro, Tahoe 26.1) and iPad Air (M2, iPadOS 26.1)
scrutinizer Posted April 16, 2024 Author Posted April 16, 2024 I accidentally tripped over what could be construed as the formatting incompatible with macOS 10.9. The browser exhibits this issue as well. The culprit is the zoom-in level at 2 stops past the default zoom level. The TOC sidebar menu gets oversized and, by doing so, obscures the main viewing area. So, when I click on chapter links, they do display the content. The article is behind the sidebar wall. None of the "Search", "Full-screen", and "Escape" controls work. To my knowledge, Apple changed the Help system framework with High Sierra (2017). Nonetheless, the 10.9 Help Viewer handles this newer standard (such as the iBook Author help pages) with remarkable resilience. On a side note, from the looks of it, Serif appears to employ an in-house custom built-in Help standard, and it shows. MacBook-Pro mid-2012 15.4" 1440 x 900 Core i7 2.3 GHz DDR3 1600 MHz 16GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 MB + Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB CT1000MX500SSD1 1TB + CT500MX500SSD1 500 GB Crucial AFFINITY DESIGNER 1.10
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