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The Windows version of APub lacks a browser with which you can access your own hard disk and drag and drop content into the document. In this browser it should be possible to quickly access favorite places. Actually I suspected such a possibility within the panel "Stock". Another place could be the "Assets" panel.

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Why does Publisher need something like that when Windows already provides Explorer that will do those things?

-- 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

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19 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Why does Publisher need something like that when Windows already provides Explorer that will do those things?

Counter question: Why does Publisher need "Stock" and "Assets"? This could also be made much more cumbersome ;)
- Because it's more convenient and more effective.
- Because you don't have to leave the program interface.
- Because other layout applications also have it (e.g. ID with minibridge).
- Because you can (hopefully) set up fixed directory accesses.

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Finder (with Default Folder addon) is plenty good for this. For Windows I understand there may be some need for simpler approach.

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55 minutes ago, Michail said:

- Because you can (hopefully) set up fixed directory accesses

You can do that in Windows Explorer, too.

 

57 minutes ago, Michail said:

Counter question: Why does Publisher need "Stock" and "Assets"? This could also be made much more cumbersome ;)
- Because it's more convenient and more effective.
- Because you don't have to leave the program interface.
- Because other layout applications also have it (e.g. ID with minibridge).
- Because you can (hopefully) set up fixed directory accesses.

Stock and Assets serve a different function that the OSes don't provide, so the Affinity applications need to.

You can set up specific directories for quick access in Explorer.

 

-- 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

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35 minutes ago, Michail said:

@walt.farrell

Have you ever been in situations where you had to work intensively on extensive publications?!

No, but I'm good at managing multiple windows, and using the functions of the OS that I choose to run :)

Seriously, though: Feel free to ask for a function like this, that's your right and I support it. However, speaking as a long-time software developer myself, without better justification from you for duplicating basic functions that the OS already provides I think it would be a very low priority item for Serif. They're the ones who will decide, ultimately, of course.

-- 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

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@walt.farrell

An essential reason for this thread was that it was not possible to drag&drop pictures into a picture frame using the Windows file explorer. But now it seems to work, and I haven't noticed since which beta this is the case. The Explorer stays open and I can scroll in the document at the same time :). In this respect, an integrated browser actually has no high priority anymore. Nevertheless, for the reasons mentioned above, I would like to see such an internal file browser later.

By the way: Drag&drop works as described only with images and PDFs. It doesn't work with text files (txt, rtf), and for doc, docx, xls, xlsx, odt etc. there seem to be no import filters at all.

 

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1 hour ago, Michail said:

By the way: Drag&drop works as described only with images and PDFs. It doesn't work with text files (txt, rtf), and for doc, docx, xls, xlsx, odt etc. there seem to be no import filters at all

Yes, that is well known.

For .txt and .rtf you would click on a text frame and use Text > Insert Text File....

Many users have requested the ability to import additional text formats.

-- 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
57 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

For .txt and .rtf you would click on a text frame and use Text > Insert Text File....

That is well known to me. This was about the more efficient drag&drop. But maybe something will happen in the future.

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