cyberlizard

let's compare the prices as well... quark express: £559 indesign: £1318 (over five years) affinity publisher: £67.99 xara page layout: save your money scribus 1.7.1: if you're broke, best value - NIL

I know Affinity will hate me, but if RTL is an essential requirement but Adobe is a no-go, consider downloading the SVN version of Scribus. The big problem with Scribus though is footnote implementation. However, it fully supports RTL. A lot of the time I use both Scribus and Publisher together to achieve a finished product. (my language choice is hebrew (as well as some normal LTR Greek).

After many a long year I have started painting with water colors, but my sketching skills are still pretty rubbish. Is there any possibility that future releases can include a print with grid option. This will mean I can print an image and then use the grid to build my watercolour. Thanks very much.

Here’s a potential way for affinity to approach the Linux issue. cast your minds back to when Lotus123 was the dominant spreadsheet. Windows 95 came along and Lotus dragged their feet and what happened? Excel happened! Where is 123 now? Same thing happened with Quark. They dragged their feet and InDesign came along. Now, next to know one uses Quark. Same with Corel. Sure they all have a niche following, but in the great scheme of things, these giants, these behemoths have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Adobe is bleeding users and Affinity is on the rise, but nothing lasts forever. If Affinity don’t want to release a Linux version due to perceived minority need someone else may step in. The other option is to consider Affinity for the web and have the software within browser technology like a progressive web app. (For people who say it’s unrealistic and you can’t run heavy software in browsers, they’ve clearly never used the CAD package OnShape). Affinity only have one shot when it comes to Linux as someone will eventually fill the void as they always do. It’ll be Affinity or someone else. Steve

I used to be a windows user but switched to Mac. I would have switched to Linux but alas no Adobe or affinity. there seems to be a thinking that Linux users only want free stuff but it’s not true. If something is worth using it’s worth buying. i would definitely make the purchase. affinity have the opportunity to corner the Linux space when it comes to pro level applications. hopefully they will consider it an option after the recent global debacle caused by Microsoft software.

If we don’t continue to request it frequently it will take the same amount of time that it took for footnotes and endnotes to be implemented and that was a very long time for what should have been a required inclusion.

If most of you are like me, you create your text in your word processor of choice, import the contents of the file in a set of linked text frames and then spot an error and so go back to your word processor and repeat the process, rinse, dry, repeat. can we have a mini text editor in Affinity so that we can import our text and make any changes directly within publisher without the need to constantly switch out to external applications. this way we can effectively have linked text assets in the same way we can have linked graphics. thanks very much. Steve

Personally I would like to see an Affinity text editor which has inbuilt support for affinity’s text styles that could function in the same way as linked graphics so that text frames automatically update when changes are made. doesn’t need to be a full blown word processor just enough to get the job done without having to switch over to external word processing applications.

I'm currently working on yet another long form project which is expected to run to at least 200K words. I don't want to be distracted with all the bells and whistles of Microsoft Office, but I still need a format which can provide features such as references, particularly footnotes/endnotes. I'm more than likely going to be creating the text of the document using markdown, as do so many other authors for it's simplicity and clean editing style. Given that markdown is a generally simple text file, an import filter for this would be far simpler than an import filter for filles such as DocX which already exists. In a move away from only supporting closed file formats and in a bid to support more open standards, could we please have an import filter for both markdown and html. Many thanks. Steve (a long time user from back when PagePlus used to have a beautiful tiger on its packaging)

This is a major drawback of using Publisher. While Publisher is good for layout and short form text, it's not so good when you have very long documents which may be amended over time. In its current form, Publisher requires importing of the underlying text for text frames from scratch, which in turn requires re-working styles and layout. What we really need is some form of linked text files in the same way we make use of linked graphics. change the file, the system automatically updates the Publisher document. (I suppose unless you are working with long documents (+20,000 words) you may not need such a feature, but it's a missing feature for many users.))

I must say I concur with the idea of being able to link text files, particularly as I work with long form text. As someone said earlier, we can link graphic images but not text, which begs the question why not. Can this be added to the list of requested tools in the current or next beta releases. I'm pretty sure anyone using Publisher for working principally with text (rather than images) will be very grateful for the addition.

I don't think the problem is Affinity related per se'. I have a Raven scanner and for the life of me I cannot get it to scan in color (sort of). When scanning from my old 2012 Intel based Mac everything works as it should, black and white, greyscale and colour. However when plugged into my M1 Mac, I get the garbled colour scans, but greyscale and black and white work perfectly. Now on my M1 I use Sonoma and on my IntelMac I use Monterey. Now here's the kicker. If I use the Image Capture app on my M1, I can scan in all three. I'm beginning to thing the problem lies somewhere within the Rosetta translation lay, but I have no way to prove it.

I have a brilliant javascript for InDesign which flips text which is ideal for shorts burst of RTL text. Hopefully sometime soon we'll get scripting support and then I can hopefully modify it to work with Publisher.

As there is no sign of a text editor for editing long form text linked boxes, hopefully scripting support will be added soon so we can develop our own. Indesign had a story editor, heck even Scribus has a story editor, but Publisher, nope!

still no text editor and none in sight. hopefully if we ever get scripting support, one of us can develop it. as someone who works with long form text, it cannot arrive quickly enough.