Open Postscript files ?

[Michel Goldberg]

Hello everybody,

I use Finale music to export musical scores as postscript (.ps) files that I opened in Adobe Illustrator to work on them.

Now, when I try to open them in Affinity designer, it opens a blank page.

Did I  miss some settings ?

Sorry for my clumsy, frenchy English !

All the best !

 

 

[joe_l]

7 minutes ago, Michel Goldberg said:

Did I  miss some settings ?

Could you upload a sample ps file?

[Michel Goldberg]

Sure !

1e structure harmonique - FDT Vierge (1 système).ps

[joe_l]

No problem on my side. What OS and version of ADesigner are you using?

Perhaps an online converter from PS to EPS might help? But this is an unnecessary step IMO.

[Michel Goldberg]

I see !

AD 2.5.6 and Mac OS Sequoia.

I certainly missed something in the settings !

[markw]

For what it’s worth your test file also opens OK for me on my Mac running Monterey. It might be an OS version specific problem?
I know it’s “old school” but have you tried a system restart to see if that clears it?
I can’t think of any specific Affinity settings that you would need enabled for it to open correctly on your system.

[Michel Goldberg]

Thank you,

As amazing as it seems, when I copy these .ps out there original emplacement (DropBox) on the (iCloud) Desktop, I can import them !

Can you believe this ?

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Michel Goldberg said:

As amazing as it seems, when I copy these .ps out there original emplacement (DropBox) on the (iCloud) Desktop, I can import them !

Can you believe this ?

"Yes, we can". – Affinity is known and often reported to dislike* documents stored on non-local volumes (USB stick or external HD/SSD, NAS, cloud etc). Those may work but don't have to.

*while especially (exclusively?) Affinity's Stock Image feature seems to find a smooth way to copy and import image resources stored in the web. Can you believe this?

[Michel Goldberg]

Thank you,

We learn something new every day !

This might be solved in the future by an update…

Do you think it could be useful to report a bug to Affinity developpers ? 

[thomaso]

1 minute ago, Michel Goldberg said:

Do you think it could be useful to report a bug to Affinity developpers ? 

Serif doesn't seem to consider problems with non-local volumes clearly* as a bug, so another bug report about this annoying or even destructive oddity probably wouldn't help.

*although the additional "lock files" implemented a few app versions ago seem to indicate that Serif are thinking about internal OS <-> app communication with non-local drives.

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, joe_l said:

No problem on my side.

Same for me running Catalina (& everything else my sig mentions) -- file opens fine, although it is composed mostly of short curves.