Placed Affinity Designer document turned into TIF?

[TomGerritzen]

I placed a rather large PDF into an Affinity Publisher page. The PDF was created with Affinity Designer. After placing it I decided to use the original Designer document, and replaced the PDF with the original. The Resource Manager now tells me it's a TIF image. See:

At first I thought Publisher turned the complex vector document into a bitmap for efficiency reasons, but zooming in excessively made it very clear that it still was a vector image. After cropping it, I tried to move the content around within the frame, but double-clicking the image opened a new tab with an Embedded Document. Apparently moving around an image in a frame is only possible when you first create the frame and then place the image inside it.

To summarize: (1) there's something wrong with the replacing-an-image functionality, and (2) Cropping an image should -- in my very humble opinion -- result in the same as placing an image in a predrawn frame.

[Steps]

Similar problem with Publisher.

There is some magic involved. For example if the ICC profile or color space do not match it's turned into a TIF.

Currently I struggle with the problem that my "pixel layer" turns out as TIF everytime no matter what I do. Pretty frustrating.

[walt.farrell]

On 10/1/2018 at 4:15 PM, TomGerritzen said:

To summarize: (1) there's something wrong with the replacing-an-image functionality,

That seems more like something you should have reported as a bug, in the appropriate (Mac, or Windows) Publisher bug forum. Feedback is better for suggestions or feature requests.

On 10/1/2018 at 4:15 PM, TomGerritzen said:

(2) Cropping an image should -- in my very humble opinion -- result in the same as placing an image in a predrawn frame.

That would be an appropriate feature request, but deserves its own post here, and perhaps more explanation.

However, if that's related to your experience with double-clicking opening an editing tab, yes, that's what a double-click is supposed to do for a linked image file. If you simply wanted to move the image in its frame you would single-click on the image and drag it.