Assets Not Appearing in Designer and Publisher

[amcd]

?WHERE HAVE MY ASSETS GONE?

I have been trialling Publisher Beta 1.7.0.292 and notice that no default Assets Categories are present.  The same applies in my Designer Installation... (Designer 1.61)..

I have tried the "Import Assets" option in both Designer and Publisher and cannot find any Asset folders/files to import.  Can you tell me where they are located, or alternatively how I can download them.

If I create a new Asset Category I cannot create my own Asset images?... any png/jpg/ or Affinity format images are grayed out?

Please help on both above Asset problems

Many thanks

amcd

[v_kyr]

See:

•  Assets (tutorial video)
• Using Assets
• Assets panel

Usually you can create your own assets and export those for external storage. Of course you can also import assets files. - You can find some user contributed assets among the Resources section postings.

[amcd]

Thanks for your response.. the links were very helpful....

I have now created a "test" custom Asset file in Designer and that is just fine, no problems using that in any Designer file.

But.... When I import this into Publisher, the scaling of images is wrong and text frames also appear with different font sizes when compared to using the Asset in Designer.

So......

In Publisher, I tried to create a new custom Asset.... but I cannot drag ANY images or text frames into the Assets panel ( this was no problem in Designer). so I am unable to create any new assets in Publisher.

I wonder what I am doing wrong.

Many thanks

 

amcd

 

Edited April 15, 2019 by amcd
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[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, amcd said:

In Publisher, I tried to create a new custom Asset.... but I cannot drag ANY images or text frames into the Assets panel ( this was no problem in Designer). so I am unable to create any new assets in Publisher.

I wonder what I am doing wrong.

Rather than dragging, select the object, then click on the Hamburger menu on the Asset subcategory, and choose Add from Selection.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, amcd said:

I have now created a "test" custom Asset file in Designer and that is just fine, no problems using that in any Designer file.

But.... When I import this into Publisher, the scaling of images is wrong and text frames also appear with different font sizes when compared to using the Asset in Designer.

Document DPI differences, perhaps?

[amcd]

Thank you Walt...

Now able to create Assets in Publisher as you suggest. Many thanks.....

Checked for dpi of page in both Designer and Publisher, both 300....

I created new test Designer Asset with image and text fields...  Import into Publisher still same problem... ( the scaling of images is wrong and text frames also appear with different font sizes when compared to using the Asset in Designer. )

Then tried to import Publisher created .afassets into Designer .... Failed..... Designer Error Message see attached file.

Maybe cross compatibility problems exist between Designer and Publisher Beta in respect of .afassets ??????

Cheers

amcd

 

 

 

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, amcd said:

Then tried to import Publisher created .afassets into Designer .... Failed..... Designer Error Message see attached file.

Which version of Designer? I haven't tested it myself but it could be that 1.7 version assets are not compatible with 1.6 versions, similar to how documents created in the 1.7 betas are not compatible with the 1.6 retail apps.

[amcd]

I have Designer 1.6.1 as 1.7 is till in Beta.

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, amcd said:

I have Designer 1.6.1 as 1.7 is till in Beta.

And so is Publisher, but you're using it (And you can use the 1.7 Designer beta without disrupting your work with 1.6.)

Seriously, though, don't try to share data of any kind from 1.7 to 1.6. Sharing the other way (1.6 to 1.7) should work.