Lutz Pietschker

Actually it is worse than that, as I just noticed. So far the objects in my document where all outside the artboard. When I move them to inside the artboard, all I see is the artboard area as a white rectangle with the objects hidden behind that. As before, I just see the selection frames when I select the objects.

v2.3.0, MacOS 13.2 I encounter this behaviour: I created a Designer document without an artboard and created artwork on it. I added objects from another existing Designer documents (c&p). Each object was an artboard containing 2 objects (ellipse + text). For each artboard I moved the objects to outside the artboard and deleted the artboard. No complaints until … … when I delete the last artboard: At that moment the screen goes black, the former artboard shows white. The artboard is gone from the layer panel, all other objects are still there but show only as blue selection frames when selected. Saving and re-opening does not change anything. spielplan 2.afdesign

Same here in 2.3.0. When I delete the artboard, everything goes black except the artboard which appears a a white rectangle. But the objects are still shown in the layers panel. Closing and re-opening does not help. I consider this a serious bug.

I would also greatly appreciate a function like "crop document to selection" or even better "Save selection as …" (i.e. as a Designer document). Everything else seem like an unnecessary workaround. In my current project I use Designer to create vector graphics that I want to use later in Publisher as linked graphics. I want to start out with rough approximations but later refine them and, because they are linked, automatically update them in the Publisher document – just as I would do it with linked photos or raster graphics. The easiest way to do this would currently be to create the objects I need in designer and export them to, say, SVG, repeating the process with every update/refinement of the graphics. What is difficult is to directly save the objects as a Designer document in the required size. But in v2 there seems a curious workaround: I can create a document that is larger than the symbol I need. Then I create the artboard that fits the object I need. Then I move the object to outside of the artboard (using the layers panel) and delete the artboard. Voila - the document immediately resizes to the object size. Funny.

Thanks for the heads-up! As I said, I know about pinning, but I guess I'll have to look into sidenotes. Always easier to find if one knows the correct term. Thanks again for the prompt reply!

Hope I got the right forum for this … I am looking for best practice recommendations to create a document with sidebars. I use facing pages and want to have a main text area (about 2/3 of the print area inside the margins) and a sidebar on the outer sides of the spread that is 1/3 of the print area minus the gutter. The sidebar is meant to comment, illustrate and explain things that are mentioned in the main text (a boardgame rulebook, in this case). Originally I tried to work with linked frames for both the main column and the sidebar but it dawned on me that then I would have trouble to keep the side bar items aligned with the main text they refer to. Currently I experiment with individual text frames that I place with the aid of the magnetic margin and then pin them to the text they refer to. I found that pinning has an option to respect left/right pages, so it looks like I am on the right track. So, just before I wander off into a blind alley: Is this the way you would do it? Has anybody created a best practice text or video for this use case? Looking for "sidebar" on the web gives me a lot of hits but all of them seem to refer to the tool sidebars of Affinity … so, useless for me right now. I think a problem with my approach could be exporting the Publisher document as text … but of course Publisher does not even have a text export option (I do not consider PDF as text, in this context) … my main reason to remain lukewarm in my enthusiasm for this product.

Thanks for all the input here. I am looking for something similar, but with additional formatting options. For example, I'd like to insert the last two digits of the current year (or "printed" year), like the "23" from "2023". In other words, a formatting option like what you have in the datetime modules of most script languages (in Python, the code I need would be %y). I saw the post that proposes to cover part of the APub date field by some opaque object, but honestly … no. It looks like a certain recipe for a lot of problems later.

Here you are. Thanks for looking into this! I added the asset "Bild mit caption" by dragging and dropping and also by "Asset from selection" – same result in both cases. afpub assets-20230531.afassets

Publisher 2.1.0 on MacOS 13.2 I create an Asset from a floating-pinned image frame that includes an image and a caption text (text frame). The icon of the asset looks funny - vertically stretched. When I place the asset in text frame the image frame is stretched vertically beyond recognition. This happens whether there is an image in the frame or not. Hofpost-2023-06.afpub

Yes, of course. But that means I have to do that every time I add a link. Hence the q. for setting a default.

Yes, I suppose it is. Sigh … but thanks for the confirmation 🙂.

I did. No luck. And how should Publisher have known that I wanted to use my self-defined style for hyperlinks?

Inserting a hyperlink always proposes the "Hyperlink" text style for hyperlinks. How can I change this default to another (self-defined) character style - for the current document? - globally? Sorry if the answer is out here, but I could not find it even after long search. "Edit/Defaults/Save" or "Synchronise from selection" does not solve the problem (and how could it?). I tried deleting the Hypertext style in the hope that I would be prompted for the style to use, but all that happens is that the deleted "Hyperlink" style magically re-appears and is proposed for the link.

I still see this bug in AP 1.10.5 (MacOS 12.4). And it would be so easy to fix … just add "No Break" to the standard "Hyperlink" text style.

Believe me, I am disappointed as well. So far I refrain to speculate what the reason could be, but certainly Serif seems to give this nil priority. This kills AP for me as a professional tool. In my realm (brochures, rulebooks) the need to translate is a given for any job, even if the author does not know it yet.