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Hello, 

From within Publisher, I am able to crop a photo but not straighten (rotate within the crop). This feature works in Photo but not Publisher. I contacted Affinity and they said that it would be fixed asap but it's still not there. I'm running version 1.7.1 of Publisher.

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If you have an embedded or linked document (e.g., .afphoto) as opposed to an image (JPG, PNG, TIFF) then you can do that today. Select the image using the Move Tool and choose Edit Document from the Context Toolbar, or double-click on the image with the Move Tool.

It will open for editing in a new document tab. If you switch to the Photo Persona, you'll have Photo's standard Crop Tool, including straighten.

When you're done:

  • If it's an embedded document, just close the tab and the updates are saved locally in your Publisher document.
  • If it's a linked document, use File > Save and the changes will be changed to the original .afphoto document. Then if your Publisher preferences are set to automatically update linked files that have been modified, Publisher will update your Publisher document, too. Or you can manually update it via the Resource Manager if you're not setup to update automatically.

If you have a linked or embedded image (JPG, PNG, TIFF) you have to do your editing on the Publisher page, and you only have the vector cropping tool available. There you would have to use a combination of cropping the image and rotating it manually. Drawing an appropriate Guide can help you get the proper horizontal or vertical properly aligned in the image. Then just Crop it using the vector crop tool that Publisher provides. Or if you've placed the image in a Picture Frame, just resize the frame.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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What would be very convenient would be to have a way of using Edit Image on an embedded image file (JPG, PNG, TIFF) so we could open them in a separate tab/window and use all of Photo's tools via the Photo Persona, including the Crop/Straighten Tool, to make changes that are local to the Publisher document.

That is not possible today. Edit Image works only for linked images, and then the changes are made to the original file, not locally to the Publisher document.

-- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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I see the vector crop tool but that is very inconvenient and seems to never actually make an image straight. A straightening tool from within the standard crop tool is so fundamental for any software like this, it should be there.

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12 minutes ago, dgenuth said:

I see the vector crop tool but that is very inconvenient and seems to never actually make an image straight. A straightening tool from within the standard crop tool is so fundamental for any software like this, it should be there.

No, the vector crop tool doesn't straighten.

Again, though, except when you're editing an embedded or linked document file, you're editing the entire page. By definition, the page is straight. If you need to straighten an object on the page, you just rotate the object. The page doesn't move.

The Crop Tool in Photo is different because when you use the Straighten option you're rotating the contents of the canvas, not the canvas itself, and then cropping the canvas to match the contents of that object.

If you were to crop a Publisher page using the Photo crop tool you'd lose all the rest of the page content.

So it has to remain a vector crop tool, though I suppose it could have a straighten function added at some point.

However, if you put your images in Picture Frames, you can rotate the image within the frame, and use the frame's edge to see if it is straight. You don't need to actually use the crop tool. That might help you.

-- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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