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walt.farrell Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 This is not new with .305. At least on Widows, Publisher's File > Open dialog has always restricted the choices to "Document" files (not images): Users can override that, as you mentioned. Or Windows users can override the Open dialog and provide other names, so it seems a bit odd that Publisher has that restriction. But I think it is just intended as a hint that Serif expects one to open publishing documents, not images. Generally, in Publisher, you would Place an image into a page-oriented document, but do any editing in another application (such as Photo) or potentially some document-specific touchup in the Photo Persona. That Persona will be available later, but only if you also own the Photo application. By the way, I would not recommend opening RAW images in Publisher. It does not have the Develop Persona, and though you can open RAW files, they will be developed much like RAW files processed in Photo via Batch processing (darker, with fewer adjustments applied). So, as with Batch processing, they will open, but you probably won't like the results. -- 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Bohn Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I would expect to Place the images or drag and drop them onto an existing document and not use File > Open, as Walt mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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walt.farrell Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 35 minutes ago, >|< said: If this restriction remains, I expect many repeat questions from users of the retail Publisher who do not also have Photo asking why they can't simply open a JPEG, etc, via the Open dialog so they can apply a few adjustments to it. Yes, it may be confusing to others, and I know it has confused me several times already. And given that there are workarounds that allow opening an image file I think it would be better if Publisher relaxed that restriction. Perhaps it should simply restrict to Affinity documents as the initial setting, but allow the full list of file types in the file type pulldown (Windows) or whatever equivalent Mac has in its dialog. -- 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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