bgarrant Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Will Affinity Designer and Photo get Studio Link options? It is an amazing feature when inside Publisher. It makes it so easy to jump from one app to the other. Can we please get these in Designer and Photo so we no longer have to use the "Edit with Designer" menu option? 2989 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 So far Serif is saying that StudioLink is a Publisher feature. While you wait to see if they decide to add it to Photo and Designer, you could simply start your projects in Publisher You can open .afphoto and .afdesign files there, or even save them. If you create a new document using the Designer Persona you can even create it with Artboards instead of Pages. Mandu 1 Quote -- 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...
Mandu Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Like Mr. Walt said, you could simply do it in Publisher. But now this begs the question, what's the point of having 3 apps if they could simple merge them in one? I mean they have been essentialy merged into one with Publisher. Is there a reason for us to open other apps beside Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Mandu said: Like Mr. Walt said, you could simply do it in Publisher. But now this begs the question, what's the point of having 3 apps if they could simple merge them in one? I mean they have been essentialy merged into one with Publisher. Is there a reason for us to open other apps beside Publisher? Good question. Note that Publisher includes only the Designer Persona from Designer (not the Pixel or Export Personas), and only the Photo Persona from Photo (not the Liquify, Develop, Tone Mapping, or Export Personas). So there may still be a need to use the standalone applications if you want functions implemented only in those Personas. Also, at this time, the Photo Persona in Publisher doesn't support plugins, nor New HDR Merge, New Focus Merge, and New Batch Job. Those may come, but only Serif will know when they might appear. Mandu 1 Quote -- 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...
bgarrant Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 All good points. Separate apps makes more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyan Cooper Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 It's not practical using Publisher when you need to use multiple artboards of different sizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Cyan Cooper said: It's not practical using Publisher when you need to use multiple artboards of different sizes. Can you explain that further? If you create the document using the Designer Persona, you have the option to create an artboard in the file creation dialog. You must first uncheck the option for "Default Master". (There is an issue with this in the beta that I will report, but it works in 1.8.0 (and probably 1.8.1 on Mac). Then you can create additional artboards using the Artboard Tool. Quote -- 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...
Cyan Cooper Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 On 3/13/2020 at 3:54 AM, walt.farrell said: Can you explain that further? If you create the document using the Designer Persona, you have the option to create an artboard in the file creation dialog. You must first uncheck the option for "Default Master". (There is an issue with this in the beta that I will report, but it works in 1.8.0 (and probably 1.8.1 on Mac). Then you can create additional artboards using the Artboard Tool. My man. 😎🔥🙏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 On 3/13/2020 at 5:54 AM, walt.farrell said: If you create the document using the Designer Persona, you have the option to create an artboard in the file creation dialog. You must first uncheck the option for "Default Master". I was playing around with this & created a custom preset with an artboard via New in the Designer Persona. I thought that would allow me to choose that preset via New in the Publisher persona to avoid having to switch to the Designer persona, but instead it just creates a single page document the size of the artboard. However, if I create a document with artboard(s) either in Publisher's Designer persona or in AD & export that as a custom template, I can select that template in APub's Publisher persona to create a new untitled .afpub document with the artboard(s). It is displayed as page 1 of 1 in the Publisher persona, which can look a little weird in the Pages section of the Pages studio, depending on the arrangement of the artboards & what is in them but aside from that it works fine. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 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...
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