Hangman Posted August 14, 2024 Posted August 14, 2024 A minor UI glitch... When the toolbar is quite full it seems the Customise Toolbar... icons overflow the available area and try to wrap onto an imaginary second line... For me, this is happening across all three apps and all Personas when the toolbar is 'full' but only on Mac, Windows is fine... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Staff stokerg Posted August 16, 2024 Staff Posted August 16, 2024 Hi @Hangman, I can replicate this for the Photo Persona in Publisher but i can't for the Publisher or Design persona and i also can't replicate it in the seperate builds of Photo, Designer and Publisher. If you can attach a screenshot showing it happen for the Publisher and Designer persona, i can get this added to the report Quote
Hangman Posted August 16, 2024 Author Posted August 16, 2024 Hi @stokerg, This is what I'm currently seeing... Customise Tools.mp4 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
MikeTO Posted January 4 Posted January 4 I'm replying now just because it was reported again. I can replicate it in 2.5.7 and 2.6 latest beta in all three apps. In Publisher, you have to switch to the Designer or Photo persona before choosing Customize Toolbar to experience an issue. The new thread is: Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Hangman Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 5 minutes ago, MikeTO said: In Publisher, you have to switch to the Designer or Photo persona before choosing Customize Toolbar to experience an issue. I think it depends on how you've customised your toolbar... I've not tested extensively but I see the issue in the Publisher Persona without the need to switch to the Designer or Photo personas... MikeTO 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
MikeTO Posted January 4 Posted January 4 24 minutes ago, Hangman said: I think it depends on how you've customised your toolbar... I've not tested extensively but I see the issue in the Publisher Persona without the need to switch to the Designer or Photo personas... Oh you're right, I'm seeing it in Publisher with the Publisher persona, too. I just didn't notice it. Hangman 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
walt.farrell Posted January 5 Posted January 5 15 hours ago, Return said: On windows the window for customize toolbar for the publisher persona isn't wide enough in both 2.5.7 as beta 2.6 I've just always figured that it didn't matter that I can't see all the icons in that bottom row. They're just the defaults, and I can't change what they are or how they're arranged. So I either want the defaults (whatever they are), or I want to customize them. And if I want to start customizing from the defaults, I can just drag them all without needing to see them. Hangman and PaulEC 2 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Hangman Posted January 5 Author Posted January 5 15 hours ago, Return said: On windows the window for customize toolbar for the publisher persona isn't wide enough in both 2.5.7 as beta 2.6 It would need to be the same width as the UI to accommodate the default toolbar which isn't really practical. The purpose of the bottom bar is to allow the user to quickly revert to the default toolbar by dragging it which replaces any custom settings you may have... 20 minutes ago, Return said: No matter what you think is there it is just an UX failure. The only failure is that on Mac the tools are wrapped where they shouldn't be... yes, it should be fixed and I'm sure it is a really simple fix to make but it's not going to be a high priority since it doesn't impact the functionality of the apps... PaulEC 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Hangman Posted January 5 Author Posted January 5 19 minutes ago, Return said: It could be just a smaller visible representation to have it show all default icons. It could be though I expect people would start complaining the icons were too small, equally the bar could scroll horizontally. It serves one specific purpose and fits with the drag-and-drop functionality of the panel. As mentioned, yes it should be fixed but it's really not a big deal, as in, it's not seriously impacting the functionality of the apps or causing the apps to crash. It's obvious what it's there for and what it does and I'm sure it will eventually be fixed... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
sansnom Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Hi, this bug is visual, only. But… This bug is obvious, uncontroversial, reproduces and is reproducible since it appears on the simple call of the function by the user. This bug is a simple problem that does not require a complex algorithm, very elaborate programming or heavy intellectual resource. This bug is a bug concerning graphic resources (simple .png or .jpg image files) built and intended to be called in “graphic cells” that are not here correctly laid out in a badly sized window. Sorry, but this is the lowest level of computer programming. What I'm wondering about, though, is how long Serif can take to resolve this simple aesthetic issue revealed more than 6 months ago by @Hangman!… But anyway… To counterbalance this opinion, I work all day with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo and I don't encounter any particular problem... except for the application opening times (more than 30 seconds sometimes) which annoy me to the highest degree*. And one last thing, I recently realized that Serif also had a fairly substantial job to maintain 15 versions of these software (see the table below): the task is perhaps not so easy to accomplish. Perhaps… * I have doubts about my font management software (Typeface, in its latest version), activating more and more new fonts day after day, which could impose more and more time for the loading of the software... Quote
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