Quorra Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 When I place an image via picture frame, I see I can update it with "Replace image". I guess this is like linking a picture in Indesign? But is there an option to update all or selected linked images which have been edited/changed in another tool, like I can update links in Indesign? I tried and painted in an already linked image, saved that and looked at it in Affinity, and it wasn't updated. So I'm wondering how this is supposed to work. I also tried right click on the image in the picture frame (or it's layer) and looked for an option like "edit..." (in Photoshop, Affinity Photo or whatever). But I didn't find anything like that. Maybe I looked in the wrong places? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 4 minutes ago, Quorra said: When I place an image via picture frame, I see I can update it with "Replace image". I guess this is like linking a picture in Indesign? But is there an option to update all or selected linked images which have been edited/changed in another tool, like I can update links in Indesign? I tried and painted in an already linked image, saved that and looked at it in Affinity, and it wasn't updated. So I'm wondering how this is supposed to work. By default, "placed" images are embedded, not linked. Changes made to the image externally will not show in the Publisher document. But look at Document > Resource Manager... which allows you to turn an embedded image into a linked image, and do other things. Philippe Roy 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 For linked (not embedded) images You can try... Edit > Preferences > General and tick Automatically update linked resources when modified externally Philippe Roy 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quorra Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 Ah nice, thank you both! That worked for me. Since that picture frame doesn't mean "linked" image then - how can I use linked images instead of first placing them and making them linked afterwards? It's not a big problem to link them afterwards, I'd just like to know if there's another way to do it besides the placing (with or without picture frame), which looks rather obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horseflesh Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I'm actually having a big problem with this. A linked Designer file won't show an update until I quit and restart Publisher. And now Publisher is in a very weird state where I have gotten the linked Designer file to appear correctly on screen... but when I export the file as a PDF, the PDF output is clearly using the originally linked version of the file. I'm actually going to have to delete/replace the asset to get around this. For me, linking is pretty borken. (Windows 1.7.3.481) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Gang Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 On 12/12/2019 at 4:51 PM, Horseflesh said: I'm actually having a big problem with this. A linked Designer file won't show an update until I quit and restart Publisher. And now Publisher is in a very weird state where I have gotten the linked Designer file to appear correctly on screen... but when I export the file as a PDF, the PDF output is clearly using the originally linked version of the file. I'm actually going to have to delete/replace the asset to get around this. For me, linking is pretty borken. (Windows 1.7.3.481) I resolved this by merging (or flattening) the layers in my Photo docs and saving them out as PSDs. The PDF then wrote correctly. I don't know if this is the correct method, but it's a janky workaround and not efficient. It seems that Publisher was reading the affinity Photo file with the lowest layer active, and not including all of the top layers. Strange. Don't know if this behavior would exist if I just used PSD file formats instead. Horseflesh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand13 Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 Hey there, It's been a while since the last post, but I'm still running into the same problem in version 2. I've got an Affinity Photo document linked in a Publisher project and even though the Photo file is updated and saved (I even get a pop up inside Publisher telling me that the file has been changed), the linked image inside Publisher won't update. Really frustrating, since everything else inside the Affinity Suite seems to be working as expected. Would be great, if this could be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeGeeBee Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 Re Document > Resource Manager referred to above. Is this feature now somewhere else in the Affinity Publisher Menus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 19 minutes ago, PeeGeeBee said: Re Document > Resource Manager referred to above. Is this feature now somewhere else in the Affinity Publisher Menus? Window > Resource Manager As indicated in the Help, by the way, if you put Resource Manager into the Search field: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Media/resourceManager.html Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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