EddCh Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I don't know if it's just me overlooking something simple or whether it is a more general issue… but one of my (very basic) macros that I have been using since the macro feature was incorporated will no longer work in v1.7.1 The macro is simply to set 2cm margins on all edges of a document, that's it – yet, I cannot get this to work any more. I have tried resetting the macro, deleting then creating a new one and still nothing. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Under which OS? Also just showing up visual margins via "Document > Margins ..." or by altering the documents dimension and thus altering sizes? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Could you describe the steps that you are recording to accomplish this?. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 55 minutes ago, EddCh said: Any suggestions? Upload the macro to the forum Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddCh Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 I’m away from the computer at the moment, so cannot upload screenshots, but I am running High Sierra on a Mac Pro. There is only 1 step in the macro – the Margins function, then entering “2cm” into Top, Left, Right, Bottom fields and then pressing return. No document/canvas size changes, no resolution changes, literally nothing other than the 1 step described in the preceding paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Works for me on El Capitan ... raender.afmacro ... simple macro (Studio > Macro) so no macro library file. In your case resetting APh itself then might help with chance. Sounds like it freezed the macro execution/processing etc. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddCh Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 2 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Works for me on El Capitan ... raender.afmacro ... simple macro (Studio > Macro) so no macro library file. There is but, as I’ve said in my previous reply, I’m currently away from the computer and cannot upload anything from it. Will do so when I am back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddCh Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 OK, so here's the macro file as requested… 2cm margins.afmacro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 @EddCh, I have tried your macro and it has no discernible effect. I do have View > Show Margins ticked. @v_kyr, I have tried your macro and the result is a blue line within the image (which remains the same size). I get exactly the same if I use the Document > Margin command myself. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 20 hours ago, EddCh said: I have tried resetting the macro, deleting then creating a new one and still nothing. The macro you supplied does not work for me but I can create a new one that does Can you try the one attached and see if that works on your system 2cm margins.afmacro Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddCh Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 42 minutes ago, carl123 said: The macro you supplied does not work for me but I can create a new one that does Can you try the one attached and see if that works on your system 2cm margins.afmacro Cool – thank you. Will try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddCh Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 58 minutes ago, John Rostron said: @EddCh, I have tried your macro and it has no discernible effect. I do have View > Show Margins ticked. @v_kyr, I have tried your macro and the result is a blue line within the image (which remains the same size). I get exactly the same if I use the Document > Margin command myself. John Thanks for testing. The oddity is that the very same macro still works fine on one of my laptops which hasn’t had Photo updated to 1.7.1 Yes, that is the problem and it is the same as using the Margin command—I just don’t want have to keep applying the command and typing in the figures every time on 1000s of images—and the result should be a blue keyline 2cm away from all edges with no change in document dimensions. John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddCh Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 7 hours ago, carl123 said: The macro you supplied does not work for me but I can create a new one that does Can you try the one attached and see if that works on your system 2cm margins.afmacro OK, so I've just had the chance to test this macro and it worked – but the margins were at 0.48cm instead of 2cm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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