Option to keep scroll bars open

[jmwellborn]

Thought it might be a plan to include this here in the Publisher suggestions portion of the forums, because it is possibly more applicable to this App versus Photo and Designer.    I have been thrashing about with missing scroll bars, and find it exceedingly fiddly to have to go from a working tool (i.e. Text or the Hand Tool) to move a document up or down.   When writing with the text tool and then placing and text wrapping images, sometimes one wants to move up or down a bit -- if even on a single-paged document -- to decide where to place or move something, or to add a word or phrase.     It would be so nice to be able to check or uncheck Show Scroll Bars in the VIEW menu, just the way we can show Frame Text Rulers, etc.     Could this be possible?   I gather the only other way one can have them right now is to simply add a bunch of blank pages in the Pages Panel,  whether needed or not.

Anyway, truly impressed and thankful for Photo (22 months ago), Publisher Beta (since August) and Designer (two days ago).    Such elegant creations!!  

Edited November 24, 2018 by jmwellborn
typos and clarification

[A_B_C]

3 hours ago, jmwellborn said:

I gather the only other way one can have them right now is to simply add a bunch of blank pages in the Pages Panel,  whether needed or not.

On the Mac, you will control scroll bar visibility in Publisher through System Preferences > General > Scrollbars. 

[Screenshot by osxdaily.com]

[jmwellborn]

Thank you.   That is the way my MAC is set.   The first thing I checked.  Doesn’t change anything with single-page Publisher documents.

[A_B_C]

Hmm … that’s strange. It works perfectly here, even with single page documents. Not that this would help you. But I have no idea what could be the problem on your machine. Do you use any plugins or pen tablet drivers that might interfere? 

[jmwellborn]

Nope.    But I am glad to hear that it works for you.    It used to work for me too.  Are you on  MAC or Windows?     In another area of these forums I was kindly advised that I was confused.  The only  thing that changed from the days when I had scroll bars was that I purchased and installed Affinity Designer three days ago.   The scroll bars disappeared from all three apps.   But I am sure that they must be intended, because all three apps include “scroll bars” in their HELP sections.   So discouraging. 

[A_B_C]

I am on the Mac. This is how it looks on my machine. If it doesn’t look the same on yours, that must be a bug. 

[jmwellborn]

8 hours ago, A_B_C said:

I am on the Mac. This is how it looks on my machine. If it doesn’t look the same on yours, that must be a bug. 

 

That is exactly the way the Affinity Preference on my MAC is set.    "Immer” is “Always.”   And Always has been set as Always from the end of August, when I downloaded the first Publisher beta.   I now have v. 174 downloaded separately from v. 162.   Also the commercial versions of Photo and Publisher.   I have been sure from the start that it is a bug, and have been saddened that I cannot find a cure,   Thank you so much  for your video!!!!    It proves exactly what I have been posting.

[jmwellborn]

Apparently, according to Apple, one has to zoom unless there is more than one page.   Makes whipping up or down on a single page for "around the rugged rock a ragged rascal ran" a whole lot harder.    Oh, well.