[How do you use masks in Publisher?]

On 7/16/2019 at 3:33 AM, Wasp11b said:

Assuming you don't have Photo and Designer installed (if you do you just need to use StudioLink to access a whole variety of pixel tools including brushes), you could create a mask as follows:

(1) use pen tool to draw the area you wish to retain in the photo or just use a shape tool eg Rectanguar Tool. This will give a new layer.
(2) fill with black, white or any other colour (doesn't seem to make a difference  - a bug?)
(3) right click and select 'mask to below'. Only the photo included within the shape will be revealed.
(4) you can adjust the mask by right clicking, selecting 'edit mask' and then use node tools to amend nodes. Best to do this by releasing the mask so that the photo layer is also revealed and then remasking.

(5) you can also move the mask around, just select the mast layer and use the move tool.
 

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[Cannot Create Hyperlink]

I have successfully created a hyperlink in one of the betas.

But now the email link did not work. Only after ten quick clicks or so the email would open.

I re-created the link and now it doesn't work at all.

 

What I did:

Write the text g.g. email@mydomain.com

underline it

select text

Go text-interactive-hyperlink

 

I accidentally clicked in the hyperlink panel "go to target" I don't know what this means and how to set a target.

When I click the email address in the pdf it takes me to page one of the magazine instead of opening up the email application.

How can I fix this mess so a click on the email link opens the email?

 

thanks!

[How do you use masks in Publisher?]

As I have Photoshop, Wasp11b, I don't have Affinity Photo installed.

Thank you carl123 - so you are not masking off, but creating a shape through which you view what can be seen.

[How do you use masks in Publisher?]

I went to the help files first - there it states, yes, there are masks. But it doesn't tell you how to use them?

I have used masks in Photoshop for over 10 years. 

Obviously, masks work completely different in Publisher.

The problem I'm facing: I have inserted an image, and I want to mask out a part of it. In Photoshop I'd use the rectangular tool or the paint brush and in seconds the feat would be done.

But in Publisher I don't know how to mask anything out. All I could do is create an empty mask that now sits attached to its layer. 

How can I get anything on that mask so it can actually do what its name promises?

Step by step info would be much appreciated!

[Disastrous PDF/X-4 compatibility with new Affinity Publisher 1.0]

On 7/11/2019 at 2:10 PM, walt.farrell said:

Were you placing a PDF document into a Publisher document and then exporting as a new PDF?

If not, you were not performing the same kind of operation as mentioned in that blog post.

No, Walter, I sent a pdf of my magazine to my rep and she put it on her google docs and noticed all images had disappeared.

The magazine's first issue that I had created with a beta version did not do this.

 

[Pdf created by Publisher not opening with images in Google Docs?]

So there is nothing wrong with the pdfs output by Publisher?

Is there an explanation why Publisher-created pdfs lose all images when opening them in Google Docs?

[Size Disappeared from Document setup - how can I check size of open document?]

Thank you, Psenda!

[Disastrous PDF/X-4 compatibility with new Affinity Publisher 1.0]

Could this also be the reason why a pdf created by Affinity Publisher loses all images when placed on Google Docs?

[Pdf created by Publisher not opening with images in Google Docs?]

With the recent version of Publisher, the pdfs created by it do not show any images when opened in Google Docs.

This is the pdf of the second issue of the magazine I created.

The first issue opened with all the images in Google Docs.

Could there be an issue with the pdf creation? 

Both times the pdf was created "for print" with all images rasterized.

[Can I make a group of favorite fonts?]

Thank you, kazrbutler!

This helps a lot!

(this wasn't in the help files)

[Size Disappeared from Document setup - how can I check size of open document?]

I had done several versions of a document and wanted to check on the size.

I clicked "document setup" and the size information was not there any more.

How can I check the size of a document before I send it off to the printer?

 

Thanks!

[Color Page Background without using the Rectangle tool?]

Thank you, Walt! 

This saves me to select each and every item in the design to move them together!

Locking the rectangle layer will be it!

[Can I make a group of favorite fonts?]

I'd like to create a selection of "regularly used fonts" so I don't have to always browse the whole list.

I looked it up, but the sparse help document only gives you font manager as a reply, which is not the right thing.

I'd also like to delete ugly fonts like Comic sans, chalkduster and other horrors. 

 

I'd like my favorite fonts being grouped before all the others so I can quickly access them. How can I do that? 

Thanks!

[Color Page Background without using the Rectangle tool?]

It is easy to color the background with the rectangle tool.

But it totally sabotages any further work.

I just tried to move a whole composition on a black background - but I can't select them. because of this damn rectangle tool whenever I try to select the elements on the page, the frame tool gets selected and the frame moves, but not the content.

How can I get out of this? 

I'd like to fill the page with black without the annoying rectangle tool that sits like a block there and prohibits selecting a larger group of items and therefore moving them. I can only select one of two, but not eight or nine elements to move together. The rectangle tool blocks everything.

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

SOLUTION:

I did a password reset.

I reset it to the SAME password I already had (so I won't get kicked out of the forum with a "wrong password" message)

I was able to buy the software now.

 

thanks for your support!

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

Then I clicked "sign into this account" and it again did not work.

 

 

PS: system created new post instead of - as I chose - edit the old one.

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

Tried to create a new account. But when I entered my email, I got the message that there is already an account with this username - see screenshot.

 

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Remember that your Store account and your Forum account are different, and would perhaps have different passwords (as well as, perhaps, different email addresses). Are you sure you're using the one for the Store?

Ah, then I have to create a second account then - just for the store.

I'll do that and report back.

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

14 minutes ago, Alfred said:

What error message do you get? Resetting your password should enable you to log in unless you’re using the wrong email address.

No error message.

After clicking sign in I get the "signing in", it gets interrupted, then if falls back to the sign-in screen.

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

Just put the password in manually - doesn't work. Can't log into the store.

[Affinity Store doesn't work - Cannot buy the software]

I was trying to get Publisher with the link provided, but the store didn't recognize my correct password and I couldn't buy the software.

Why is this not working? I need to do work on the next issue of my magazine, but the beta doesn't open either.

So I'm stranded without software.

[Exporting Magazine to Pdf shrinks it]

18 minutes ago, toutou123 said:

Well then, just open it a PDF reader and check the size there.

 

3 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

"File" "Properties" or CTRL+D

 

1 hour ago, RM f/g said:

In case of a pdf, what COMMAND + I  in the finder shows, is not what the document actually is.

This screenshot attached gives us the information of a pdf document sized A4, containing text, vector drawings and images of 300 dpi.

In case of an image, finder info shows the correct resolution. In case of a pdf, it's allways a resolution more or less like the one shown in the screenshot. Therefore I presume it's the size of the icon that's given.

I think the best way is to open the pdf and examine it in acrobat (for example) if you want to be sure about the correct dimensions.

 

 

The pdf shows as 5x7 inch - not shrunk, in Adobe Reader.

The Get Info tool on the mac cannot read pdf dimensions properly  and shows nonsense.

 

thank you!

[Exporting Magazine to Pdf shrinks it]

4 minutes ago, toutou123 said:

Well then, just open it a PDF reader and check the size there.

How do you do that in Acrobat Reader?

[Exporting Magazine to Pdf shrinks it]

45 minutes ago, RM f/g said:

In case of a pdf, what COMMAND + I  in the finder shows, is not what the document actually is.

This screenshot attached gives us the information of a pdf document sized A4, containing text, vector drawings and images of 300 dpi.

In case of an image, finder info shows the correct resolution. In case of a pdf, it's allways a resolution more or less like the one shown in the screenshot. Therefore I presume it's the size of the icon that's given.

I think the best way is to open the pdf and examine it in acrobat (for example) if you want to be sure about the correct dimensions.

 

I don't think it is the dimension of the icon.

But there's one thing: when I Command + I with a jpeg, it says "dimension"

But in case of the pdf is says "resolution" - which doesn't make any sense because resolution is dots per inch or per centimeter and not something 360x504

Looks like the Get Image Info command doesn't work for pdf.

[Exporting Magazine to Pdf shrinks it]

1 hour ago, toutou123 said:

The pdf size will depend on width x height multiplied by DPI. The DPI is 300 for print, and 72 for screens.

You created a document at 5"x7" at 300 DPI, that's 5"x300 DPI = 1500 px of width, and 7"x300 dpi = 2100 px of height.

You exported your document at 72 DPI for web: 5" x 72dpi = 360 px of width and 7"x 72dpi = 504 px of height.

Try choosing PDF for print as your preset, if you still have the same problem, click "more..." In the PDF expert window and set it to 300.

Actually, I exported it for print, as the export for the web is of such low quality it is pixelated and unusable.