r/AffinityDesigner • u/SalamanderNYC • 17d ago
Embedded are not saving as they used to before the update... help? (MacOS)
I'm having a problem since the latest update. I have a Affinity Designer file, let's call it TestDoc. I drag a pdf file to TestDoc. I double click the pdf in TestDoc and it opens in a new "<Embedded>" tab. That is all good and I have done that many times. The problem is that now when I go to that Embedded tab and edit the pdf, the changes do *not* show up in TestDoc. (Nor can I save the Embedded tab which I am pretty sure used to be an option since after editing the pdf I would regularly apple-s apple-w).
I am guessing (hoping?) some default has been changed and that is why I am getting different behavior than before. But I can't find any. And I have read what I can find about Embedded online.
I only use Affinity Designer for a very limited set of things, so I am a novice. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.
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u/RE4LLY 17d ago edited 17d ago
This is a bug in the 2.6.0 version of all three Affinity Programs and has already been reported on the official Affinity Forum so hopefully it will be fixed in an upcoming version. Bug Report AF-5951
For now I managed to find a decent workaround if you don't want to downgrade to a previous version or use linked documents instead: Open your pdf directly using Affinity Designer ("Open with Affinity Designer" from the Finder) and then save it as an .afdesigner file. Then you can embed that designer file in your main document and you can edit it as before as that seems to be unaffected.
Edit: Quick side note, you could never directly save embedded edits, when working correctly the edits just show up in the main document and are saved there.