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Unfortunately, the complete file preview for the individual Affinity programs (example file abc.afdesign) is now missing under macOS 15 Sequoia.

Under Mac OS 14, there were still small preview images as soon as you pressed the space bar. This preview

was super small and pixelated compared to other programs, but now the preview is completely missing.

Is the Quicklook function no longer available in Serif?

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Affinity V2 Universallizenz 2.5.7 + always latest beta

Posted

Please Affinity Suite (sweet?) builders, give this Quick Look fix (image + resolution) highest priority for the next update. I hope it is already in the beta!?

And: I am also waiting for the solution for the 'recent font' crash problem.

Grtz, Jos

Posted

I'm not sure why you've posted this in the Beta forum, as there is no active beta currently. Even if you're using the beta release, the retail is at the same level, so reporting it in the standard Bugs forum would get more attention,

But I think this is another manifestation of an already logged issue: AF-3857

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    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
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Posted

Hi @deepblue, @roodvos,
This is a known issue that's logged with development. Apple has removed support for old/deprecated Quick Look Generator plugins and provided new API's and extensions to replace them which are currently being implemented in our apps. hopefully this should be working again in a future release/build. Thanks.

Posted

I’ve noticed the same problem with the missing Quick Look previews on macOS Sequoia, and it’s definitely frustrating. It’s good to know that the team is aware and working on a fix. Hopefully, the new API implementations will resolve this in an upcoming update. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a quick solution.

Posted
You can't keep realizing mistakes and shortcomings only after it's too late. It's neither serious nor professional. Are you listening, Canva?
 
From 2019, with the release of macOS Catalina (10.15), Apple introduced the new Quick Look Preview and Thumbnail Extensions, encouraging developers to migrate from the older Quick Look Generator plugins. This marked the start of a transitional phase where the legacy API was deprecated, but not yet removed, giving developers time to adapt their applications to the new framework.

However, the formal announcement that the old Quick Look Generator plugins would be fully removed came in June 2024 during WWDC, when Apple unveiled macOS 15 Sequoia. This gave developers a clear deadline, as they were informed that starting with macOS Sequoia, which was released in September 2024, the deprecated Quick Look plugins would no longer function.

In summary, developers have had a window of approximately five years from the introduction of the new APIs in 2019 to the confirmed removal of the old plugins in 2024. However, the final notice of their complete removal was only officially communicated around three months before macOS Sequoia’s release.
 
So despite the approximately three months' notice from Apple, there is no excuse for falling behind if you're a professional software company that stays up to date and keeps its product and code preparations at the forefront, both for your own sake and for your customers.
Serif, did you foolishly fill the usability specialist role you advertised internally? If so, be transparent with your customers. Continuing without proper UX expertise insults your entire user base.
 
Posted

I can understand if there is a new interface from Apple for the new Quicklook function and it takes time to implement it in the software.

I have other programs that run on macOS Sequoia, where the preview graphics
including Quicklook are always displayed perfectly.

Even with Affinity Designer 1.10.8 there was always the problem that the Quicklook graphics for files with the extension .afdesign were always displayed very small and pixelated.

Now with Affinity Designer 2.5 I am really annoyed that it is no longer possible to see the preview images at all and a Quicklook function is also not possible.

It's a shame, I was always very happy with version 1.10.8 and the new functions really convinced me to switch to version 2.5. But at the moment everything is not running so well.

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Affinity V2 Universallizenz 2.5.7 + always latest beta

Posted

Hi @deepblue, it may be that Serif engineers have coded this Quicklook feature for macOS with their own framework... which would validate that even since version 2.0, this feature still displays such a ridiculous thumbnail with a low resolution (but, I could be wrong of course)... Using Apple frameworks and following Apple's recommendations for software development to the letter “certainly” ensures more compatibility when updating macOS.

Hi @Deperditus Cliens, I just read your post and it confirms my feelings about Serif's "lightness" towards these "wonderful" customers. What a shame and waste of time, for everyone.

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Posted

When error, wrong, and late become three simultaneous trends over a decade, the time for rationalizations is over. 

Serif, did you foolishly fill the usability specialist role you advertised internally? If so, be transparent with your customers. Continuing without proper UX expertise insults your entire user base.
 
Posted

Just now I wondered if Serif should not have warned these many customers who purchased licenses for its software THAT the current version 2.5.5 was not fully compatible with macOS Sequoia on the first day of its release AND that these same customers should instead hypothetically wait until October (without giving a more precise date) to be offered a version 2.5.6 or 2.6 that is compatible and free of the most visible bugs (Quicklook)!...

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  • 4 weeks later...
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Posted

The issue "[macOS] Native Affinity files not generating thumbnail previews in Sequoia" (REF: AF-3857) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2805). The fix 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 @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

Posted

Thank you very much for the information... but will users also have with this version 2.6.0 a display of Quicklook in larger format for the three software of the Affinity suite as well as their full compatibility with macOS Sequoia v15.1 which will be made available very soon?…

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Posted
3 hours ago, sansnom said:

but will users also have with this version 2.6.0 a display of Quicklook in larger format for the three software of the Affinity suite

The announcement only says that they're fixing this bug: Native Affinity files not generating thumbnail previews in Sequoia.

Size of the Quicklook previews is not a bug (as far as I know), so that would require a feature request or code improvement. And that's not related to Sequoia, is it?

3 hours ago, sansnom said:

as well as their full compatibility with macOS Sequoia v15.1 which will be made available very soon?…

This announcement also says nothing about any other compatibility issues. Are there some you know of that concern you?

-- 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

Posted

Once again @walt.farrell, thank you for your valuable feedback... 😉

Concerning Quicklook, since what is involved is to completely review its code, I hope that the programmers will take advantage of it to offer a complete function with a wide preview...

Finally, concerning compatibility with macOS 15.1, I would humbly like Serif to factually demonstrate its full commitment to its software suite and to have certainties about the future, especially since the announcement of the acquisition with Canva. So, delivering software “quickly and at best updated” (macOS was released more than a month ago and the first beta was delivered 4 months ago)...

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Posted

You're welcome.

I suspect the size of the Quicklook Preview might involve actually embedding larger thumbnails in the Affinity files, which affects all 3 OSes, and would affect file sizes. And that would make it substantially more difficult than we, as users, might envision.

-- 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

Posted

Humm!…

The generation (rasterization) of a preview thumbnail, which could be compared to a kind of screen copy which should not pose any technical problem to any programmer, once saved in .jpg should not consequently generate a heavier file. And even if it is the case, I think that the time saved with a generous preview (and therefore more precise information on the file) would help users a lot on a daily basis...

If you invoke Quicklook on a .afdesign file, with a contextual right click on the thumbnail, you can copy the image of this preview: whatever the dimensions and proportions of the file's editing plan, this preview (.png) is blocked at a ridiculous dimension of 512 x 512 px.

Below is a simulation on a 27" 4K screen with the 3 preview sizes: increasing this thumbnail by a factor of 1.5 should not increase the file size that much... and this already brings a little more comfort to the user. 😉

image.thumb.png.4949a5c73b0e64c83c94109a4c2a1bce.png

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Posted
On 10/22/2024 at 9:06 AM, sansnom said:

If you invoke Quicklook on a .afdesign file, with a contextual right click on the thumbnail, you can copy the image of this preview: whatever the dimensions and proportions of the file's editing plan, this preview (.png) is blocked at a ridiculous dimension of 512 x 512 px.

I am not following the Quick Look issue. How does one make use of this? I did a Quick Look of the Application and the image shown cannot be saved. Same with a Quick Look of a Publisher document... the image generated by Quick Look was a miniature version of the first page. Now I could use that in some communications, but there was no way to capture the image ... only copy the text. 

So how and for what purpose are you wanting to use Quick Look?

iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020/ Sonoma OS 14.7/ Affinity newbie /

Posted

Hi @bici, I owe you some explanations and apologies, because I was not specific enough...

I wanted to know more about the image displayed with the Quicklook function. So I looked for a way by digging IN an Affinity Designer file on the principle that the file MUST include a low-resolution image: the thumbnail. You can open a file with a text editor or by changing its extension: with a .pages file, you can thus recover the images which are simple independent encapsulated files. Unfortunately, I did not find an effective solution for this case.

In the end, I only found a way to right-click on the QL thumbnail of an AD file (.afdesign): after several tests on different files, I came to the conclusion that the thumbnail was always 512 px maximum.

If you invoke QL on the .app icon of the AD application, you will not be able to copy its image with a right click. My example was about an AD file in which I (re)draw macOS icons.

For my part, the QL function can be a great (and fast) way to SEE the essentials of a file WITHOUT HAVING TO OPEN IT. I seem to remember that with Indesign, QL can display as many pages as you define in the .ind file. Finally, other QL plug-ins add additional functions, such as preflighting.

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  • 1 month later...
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Posted

The issue "[macOS] Native Affinity files not generating thumbnail previews in Sequoia"  and "Quick Look on Sequoia isn't showing the full thumbnail preview and is instead showing it as a 'folder' preview" (REF: AF-3857 & AF-4749has been fixed by the developers in the latest release build (2.5.6.2887). The fix is available from today in  the 2.5.6 customer release .


If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

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