Trackman Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Is is possible to scan an image directly into a document? Rather than having to scan and save an image and then import it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 14, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 14, 2018 Hi Trackman, Welcome to Affinity Forums Currently no (Publisher). If you're running macOS and using Designer or Photo, you can do it going to menu File ▸ Acquire. There's no scanning functionality on Windows due to poor 64-bit scan driver support. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jknott Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I'm a big fan of both Designer and Photo. I too would like to be able to scan directly from this software, specifically from 'Photo'. The 'poor 64-bit scan driver support' sounds like a weak excuse to me, although I'm no programmer. If others can do it, why can't Affinity? Trackman and BuzzBuzz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 26 minutes ago, jknott said: If others can do it, why can't Affinity? Hi @jknott, most likely because there had been no time to program it and a decision was made that this is not of high priority (yet). I personally prefer to use workarounds if there is a good solution that does it for me. There are so many different well working solutions for scanning with an external program that I don't miss it in any of the Affinity programs. I'd rather see the team work on things that are not easily replaced with something that is there already d. Trackman and wobmann 1 1 Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobmann Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 It is not the job of a publishing software to scan images. Before layout, the images should be processed with software like Affinity Photo. This is the usual workflow. In version 1, the simple switch from publisher to photo will be possible. We will then see if it makes sense to scan images in Publisher. Fixx and PaoloT 2 Quote www.wobmann.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackman Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 Affinity Photo will not direct scan either! This means reduced functionality compared with Page Plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 37 minutes ago, Trackman said: This means reduced functionality compared with Page Plus. But Affinity Publisher is not meant to have the same feature set as the old line of Serif's Software. This has been stated several times. d. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Trackman said: Affinity Photo will not direct scan either! This means reduced functionality compared with Page Plus. Setting aside the fact that Affinity Photo should be compared with PhotoPlus, not PagePlus, it’s always been better to scan to a separate file. If you scan directly into your PagePlus project, the scanned image is embedded in the project file, thereby making the file unnecessarily large. Bloating is a primary cause of corrupted PP documents. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keystylz Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Change to the Photo persona and go the acquire image route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 32 minutes ago, Keystylz said: Change to the Photo persona and go the acquire image route. The OP wanted an equivalent of File > Place, only using the scanner rather than a separate image file. This would scan an image and put it into the current working document as a new layer. 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Twain import is sadly not supported by the Affinity suite in Windows even though it was available in an earlier Serif equivalent product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Catshill said: even though it was available in its predecessor. There was no predecessor, we are on Version 1 of a totally new product PaulEC 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...
Catshill Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 21 hours ago, carl123 said: There was no predecessor, we are on Version 1 of a totally new product Fair enough. Wording suitably edited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 On 1/16/2022 at 4:06 AM, carl123 said: There was no predecessor, we are on Version 1 of a totally new product Not that this really matters, but I feel like "predecessor" is a good term to refer to an earlier product that has been superseded/replaced by a new product by the same company. To me, predecessor would be a less natural choice it it were used for an earlier version of a current product. The general idea of your comment is still quite welcome so that people are aware that Publisher is a completely fresh start rather than a new iteration of an old product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 8 hours ago, garrettm30 said: Not that this really matters, but I feel like "predecessor" is a good term to refer to an earlier product that has been superseded/replaced by a new product by the same company. To me, predecessor would be a less natural choice it it were used for an earlier version of a current product. The general idea of your comment is still quite welcome so that people are aware that Publisher is a completely fresh start rather than a new iteration of an old product. Actually on reflection I think after reading your comments I think I was right the first time and wish I hadn’t changed my original text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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