GaryM Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) I while ago I purchased the Affintiy Photo Workbook and have been happily going through the exersizes - downloading the DPIs/Resources as I go along (using https://affin.co/<resource name>). However, today (30 Oct) i am unable to download any resources. Internet etc is fine and I am working on 100MB connectivity. Ive never had any problems before. Does anyone have any suggestions. Edited November 2, 2018 by GaryM Spelling error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted October 30, 2018 Hi GaryM, Welcome to Affinity Forums There is an explanation of how to get the resources at the start of the book, on page 9 on the right. Each chapter's files are provided on the beginning of each chapter only. You can easily locate the link looking for the two overlapping files/documents icon on a blue background. For example take a look at page 140 on top: that link contains all the files needed for the entire chapter. Enter the full URL as appear there on your browser's URL field to download the zip file, unzip it to a folder then use each file as referenced on each page (the purple file references on the top of each page within that chapter). You can find all links/subchapters on pages: 86, 140, 156, 174, 188, 200, 226, 248, 266, 290, 314, 340, 366, 388, 406, 424, 448. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryTa Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 The URL https://affin.co/<resource name> does not load from the US. Is there another address to use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 1, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 1, 2018 Hi LarryTa, Welcome to Affinity Forums The resource name is usually the name of the chapter (not the file names provided on each page inside the chapter - these are just for you to know which file you should be using/looking at) and the full url is provided in the beginning of each one (on the pages 86, 140, 156, 174, 188, 200, 226, 248, 266, 290, 314, 340, 366, 388, 406, 424, 448). Are you sure that's this url that you are inserting in your browser and not the ones inside the chapter's pages? See my reply immediately above for more details. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 4 hours ago, LarryTa said: The URL https://affin.co/<resource name> does not load from the US. Is there another address to use? The URL's on the page numbers listed by @MEB download fine for me. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 The URL https://affin.co/photocoreskills works here to access the (341.1 MB!) ‘photo_core_skills’ zip archive. I would expect the similar URLs for individual chapters to work equally well unless there are connection problems. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryM Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) Just in case anybody else has this problem: when I tried downloading the Affinity photo workbook resources, it failed when I set the download option to auto open the file. The download works fine when the save option is used with the download. This could be a strange config problem with my PC but it’s worth taking note if you have a download problem. Edited November 2, 2018 by GaryM Grammatical error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 5 minutes ago, GaryM said: it failed when I set the download option to auto open the file. What program did you tell it to use to auto-open? 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...
R C-R Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 1 minute ago, GaryM said: when I tried downloading the Affinity photo workbook resources, the it failed when I set the download option to auto open the file. The download works fine when the save option is used with the download. AFAIK, you should not have to set any download option -- as long as you enter the URLs exactly as displayed on the workbook pages & do not select anything suggested by the browser's web search feature (usually by just tapping the return key after entering the URL) then the download should start automatically. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryM Posted November 2, 2018 Author Share Posted November 2, 2018 I used both Chrome and Edge to download. Both work fine when Save or no download options are selected. They don’t work with auto open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 The download is a compressed ZIP-Archive and there are chances that there is no unzip program automatically associated on your OS side with an auto-open option for that file format. You should check if ZIP-Archives (their file extension) are as default associated with some unarchiver for that file format on your OS. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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