[Glyphs Browser Bug]

Same problem here. All my fonts that show no glyphs in the glyph browser appear to be PostScript Type1.

[Indexing of Images & Tables]

If it's similar to how a table of contens works, can't you just make a second and third table of contents refering to the captions of images and tables?

[Handling placed PDFs with embedded fonts]

An ‘ink trap’, that little wedge.

[Scripting]

Thanks for your hint.

Myself, I'm Mac only too. I'll have a closer look at BBedit. Who knows?

[Handling placed PDFs with embedded fonts]

4 minutes ago, udrabo said:

I think that’s a matter of how accurate the curves are calculated.In a typeface. 

Possibly. Haven't had to go that way for years.

[Scripting]

5 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I would use these sort of scripts in something outside of Publisher, then import the text.

Old Bruce, could you give a hint towards what this ‘something’ would be?

I have been thinking of this solution. ’Something’ would have to support footnotes, so most likely a word processor.

[Handling placed PDFs with embedded fonts]

I was migrating one of my projects to AfPub but gave up when I found out PDFs aren't placed as an image – as expected.

It looks like benwiggy workaround (thanks) – convert the PDFs to EPS before placing – makes  it possible to use AfPub for this project (with placed ads, like topic starter) anyway.

Still, if I remember correctly, fonts converted to curves/outlines don't print as well (somewhat ‘bolder’) as the glyphs they represent.

[Scripting]

On 6/21/2019 at 1:33 PM, evtonic3 said:

This is such a lengthy topic that I can’t help but wonder what are people’s goals here to have scripts added to the app? I mean what can one do to better the app that the devs aren’t already doing? Just curious.

Scripts can really speed up the process.

Working with large bodies of text, the first thing I do after importing text (in InDesign) is run a script which deals with a lot of sloppy typing. It searches and replaces for example double spaces, double tabs, tab + space, carriage return + tab, tab + carriage return, carriage return + space, space + carriage return, space + ")", "(" + space.

About 40–50 find/replace actions done in a seconds. Imagine having to perform those one by one yourself.

[Where do I add custom ICC colour profiles ?]

In ‘document setup’ I see all the profiles which I added myself.

Have you tried both ‘library/colorsync/profiles’ folders? In system and your home folder?

Just guessing.

[rtf with tables]

Thanks for explaining.

Another one for the wishlist.

[ID Effects-Multiply function in Publisher]

Have a look at the layers panel.

[Exporting Magazine to Pdf shrinks it]

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.

 

[Exporting Magazine to Pdf shrinks it]

Are you sure 500 pixels is the height of the actual pdf?

Or is it the height of the preview/icon in finder?

[Drag & Drop into an existing file]

I noticed this:

Drag and drop image on document = place

Drag and drop image on pasteboard = open

[Publisher crashes after re-opening a saved file]

Downloaded your file. Made a minor change, saved and saved as ...

Both files opened without problem.

 

MacOS 10.13.6, APubl beta 348 on this end.

 

[Preflight Checklist]

Not yet, I'm afraid.

You (we) are not the first to ask.

 

[rtf with tables]

1 hour ago, Jeremy Bohn said:

Publisher can't do inline table at the moment. It's not a bug but a limitation.

It does work when I place a docx file, though. Inline tables and all.

[To all illustrators: Can you do it all with Designer?]

Could be off topic, but maybe there is a plan B. Have a look at this: https://lunadisplay.com/

[rtf with tables]

When I place a rtf file containing tables, the tables are imported as tabbed text.

I tested rtf files written by MS Word (PC), NeoOffice and Pages (Mac).

Not shure if this is to be considered a bug, but InDesign, Vivadesigner and even iCalamus do import tables in a rtf file as tables.

 

[visibility of text cursor]

I would appreciate a different text cursor, that is the cursor within a text frame. Thicker maybe or with ’serifs’. Or maybe even the option to have the choice from different text cursors.

The thin vertical line becomes hardly visible when it is at the beginning of a line and coincides with the blue line indicating the margin. A behaviour I tend to find a wee bit annoying from time to time.

[PDF clickable table of contents]

Only the page numbers in a table of contents are clickable.

That is not what I would expect. And I think in general one would expect the whole line to be clickable.

Still some work to be done here.

[Vertical alignment in table not working]

Works fine here.

Could there be another setting overruling the vertical alignment? Like checkbox 'use baseline grid' checked?

[[ADe] Select same color / fill / stroke / appearance]

Hear, hear!

[[ADe] Select same color / fill / stroke / appearance]

I too second this request.

With the ‘select same ...’ feature I would have fased out Illustrator by now. It is a vital feature in my daily work.

I often get files (pdf) exported from GIS applications, containing dozens, sometimes hundreds, of lines that need to be worked on.

Imagine selecting them one by one.

[Footnotes/Endnotes]

I know. And I'm not asking for scripting support in at this stage.

But now I'm toying about with APublisher (and Viva Designer) I've come to realise how much I use scripted tasks in my workflow.