Thus, at least for this case, the icon shown doesn't really tell you what will happen, nor what may work. They support drag/drop, or you can import from the Styles panel, but Open will fail. If I actually double-click on the file, Windows starts Designer, not Designer Beta.Īnd, of course, Designer (and other Affinity applications) can't actually Open a. There are several Affinity applications that can process. There we can see that Windows identifies a. idml file, but Publisher is the one that Windows will try by default (because it is the only application on my system that has said it can handle it). There might be other applications that could open the. Or, at least, one of the applications that can open the file. Okay so the Type is not actually the file type but might tell me the application that can open that file type with that particular file extension. Upload your files to convert and optionally apply effects. Now I'll go and start my own thread on another confusing file type subject, which I'd like to understand. Convert your image to JPG from a variety of formats including PDF. On the other hand if Affinity didn't know they had done this, its a bug, which is hard to believe.īut anyway I found this interesting and I've learnt more. A: Upload you file by drag and drop it to the upload zone with label 'Click or drop your files here' or click on it to select file using file explorer. It's clearly a decision by Affinity to allow this to happen, as M1000 points out - not all programs do this File Extension is by default hidden away in some extra options whereas Type is shown as standard in a column. Maybe they should have named it program type. Now I see how Windows has confused me in the past - it is in fact showing what program opens it and not necessarily what file type - although I use the icon change to see visually and then it's obvious to me what program will open it. Showing File Extension is what I have been assuming what Type has been showing me all along. txt file is a text file, and what it is opened by can change for sure, but we see Windows has a column called Type (note its not 'filetype', but is there a difference? maybe in some far fetched semantic definition) AND also a column called File Extension. Surely these should by definition be the same, For example, a. ![]() ![]() I wonder why Microsoft chose to have options for both Type and File Extension. I think M1000 is making a good point and for me personally I've never seen that windows has more extra options to display such as File Extension.
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