0 objects showing instead of able to scroll with pencil/fingers

[Samuel96]

Hello,

Since a couple of days I’m using affinity publisher v2 on my ipad. I’ve never used it before, only indesign, so it might be a bit difficult to explain my problem. Today I was working on a project and it began raining, so I had to run inside. During my run I think I pressed something within the move tool? When I want to scroll trough pages with my finger or pencil, it shows a selection box and 0 objects. I just want to go back to scrolling and moving the frame/layers with my finger/apple pencil. I deleted my project, reset everything, reinstalled the app (and almost threw my laptop trough my room), but it didn’t reset it to the original. I feel quite stupid, searched Google with different searches, but  I can’t find my problem. And since I’m completely new, I really don’t know. Can someone help me out? Thanks in advance

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Affinity forums.

Scrolling is generally a two-finger operation, in my experience with the Affinity apps on iPad.

[Samuel96]

Thanks for your answer. Before this 0 objects thing I used the apple pencil/mouse to scroll/redrag the screen but that doesn’t work anymore, either. So yeah, I must have clicked some sort of setting to “select objects” and disable the scrolling/redragging the frame when running inside 🥴

Edited August 20, 2024 by Samuel96

[Samuel96]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Affinity forums.

Scrolling is generally a two-finger operation, in my experience with the Affinity apps on iPad.

 

58 minutes ago, Samuel96 said:

Thanks for your answer. Before this 0 objects thing I used the apple pencil/mouse to scroll/redrag the screen but that doesn’t work anymore, either. So yeah, I must have clicked some sort of setting to “select objects” and disable the scrolling/redragging the frame when running inside 🥴

 

Further explaination is that I just want the basic function returned when you first use the publisher app. Like the "hand tool". Just scrolling and redragging the frame with just the pencil, the left mouse (click and drag), your finger. Which I could do before this happened, all I get now is this 0 objects thing with a selection bar. I can't use my pencil or mouse now, which makes working around more difficult.

Edited August 20, 2024 by Samuel96

[MEB]

Hello @Samuel96,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
I believe you are confusing the Move Tool with the View Tool which should but it's not appearing in the toolbar on the left when you reinstalled the application.
Do the following: in the screen where all your projects are displayed click the Settings button on the bottom left, then select Tools from the list on the left, finally on the right side enable the option Enable View Tool for Accessibility (almost at the end). If it's already enabled (which I suspect it is), disable it, then enable it again. You can close the Settings screen tapping on Done on the bottom right.

Open one of your projects and you should now see a new hand icon in the left toolbar on the bottom. select it a you should now be able to drag the page/pan the document as you're describing in your first post.