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    Hilltop reacted to Lee_T in Publisher crashes when adding topics to the index   
    Hi hilltop, 
    as MikeTO mentioned, if you could send a crash report and document to this (private) dropbox link we can take a look:
     
    https://www.dropbox.com/request/yHleKApjounKoMERb2Ow
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    Hilltop reacted to MikeTO in Formatting an index   
    To create an index with bold entries and not-bold numbers:
    If you edited the index styles and added initial words, undo that because that will be confusing. Update the index so there is no overriding formatting. Edit the "Index Entry 1" paragraph style and make it Bold. Edit the "Index Entry Page Number" character style and make it not bold (normal, regular...) Cheers
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Brian_J in How to bold first line of numbered list without bolding the number   
    Seeing the section with the pink numbering, the penny dropped: Initial Words! That solved my issue. Thanks so much!
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    Hilltop reacted to Alfred in How to bold first line of numbered list without bolding the number   
    Does the following post help?
     
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    Hilltop reacted to Brian_J in How to bold first line of numbered list without bolding the number   
    Here’s a video on the Affinity Publisher YouTube channel that may be helpful. I think the entire video is worth watching; see time 9:13 for formatting the first sentence of each list item.
     
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    Hilltop reacted to Alfred in How to start bullet list from specific number?   
    Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Jacek. 
    From the Help on Bullets and numbering:
     
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    Hilltop reacted to Old Bruce in Text Flow   
    In this case yes, multiple text flows would be best in my opinion too. I did my usual leap to the wrong conclusion and offered up bad advice.
    The way I would do this is to make a Template, include the text styles you'll want to use. Include some Master Pages you'll use and lay out each article/chapter in separate documents, just do a quick and nasty layout so you know how long each article is. Nine pages, or twenty two and a half or six and a quarter. Then you'll know the total number of pages required.
    Then do the actual layout with all the fine tuning. If you need to move the articles around I would think it would be much easier than trying to insert text into a single text flow as I had suggested. Be aware that moveing pages using the Pages Panel is apparently finicky. So check and double check after doing so. Save often and do the occasional File > Save As... after moving pages to have backups.
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    Hilltop reacted to Brian_J in Text Flow   
    Ingenious. That sounds like a good way to go about it.
    I tend to save a backup of a file before making any drastic edits just in case things get hosed up. If you work your way back from the last chapter as you mentioned, saving a backup copy prior to the edits would be optional.
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Oufti in Text Flow   
    Thanks! Actually, I just went through the whole document and it was easier than I thought. I selected the text of a chapter, cut it, unlinked the first text frame and pasted the text back in again. Now there's no problem when adding extra pages somewhere in the middle of the book. 
    I do a 'save as' after, at least, every chapter, so that I can always go back when things go AWOL.
    Brian_J and Old Bruce: thanks again for your help!
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Brian_J in Text Flow   
    Thanks! Actually, I just went through the whole document and it was easier than I thought. I selected the text of a chapter, cut it, unlinked the first text frame and pasted the text back in again. Now there's no problem when adding extra pages somewhere in the middle of the book. 
    I do a 'save as' after, at least, every chapter, so that I can always go back when things go AWOL.
    Brian_J and Old Bruce: thanks again for your help!
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    Hilltop reacted to TrentL in Frame Text Tool - Tutorial for Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher   
    The Frame Text Tool in Affinity products is great for large amounts of text such as paragraphs. This video is relevant for Affinity Designer, Publisher, and Photo. However, Publisher has a few extra special features that we’ll cover. 
     
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    Hilltop reacted to jmwellborn in Frame Text Tool - Tutorial for Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher   
    @TrentL Your videos are wonderfully clear and really helpful! There is just one thing in this one that you might not have found. At least on MAC it is possible to Insert filler text and edit it if you go to Settings>Text and check Insert filler text as text. The default is unchecked. This option is available in Publisher, Designer, and Photo.  When this is checked, one can change fonts from word to word, split the filler text into paragraphs, experiment with tab settings, etc.  Very handy and not immediately discoverable☺️! 
     

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    Hilltop reacted to TrentL in Artistic Text Tool - Tutorial for Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher   
    The Artistic Text Tool in Affinity products is great for short amounts of text such as titles, headlines, and logos. This video is applicable to Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Photo. 
     
     
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    Hilltop got a reaction from William Overington in Putting together a book   
    I want to be able to edit the text in one document so your approach wouldn't work for me. 
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    Hilltop reacted to Old Bruce in Putting together a book   
    The biggest problem is that there is the chance that each (or some) of the 25 texts will have MS Word text styles that have different fonts, sizes, spacing, etc. but the same name, for example Body. You will wind up with several Body styles, Body, Body 1,  Body 2, Body 3, etc.
    Make your Publisher Document and build the Text Styles you want for the finished product. Place each MS Word and use the Find and Replace to find the various MS Word styles and replace them with the Publisher Styles. Now delete the unused Text Styles and Place the next MS Word file and repeat the process. It is tedious but this will pay off in the long run.
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    Hilltop reacted to Old Bruce in Putting together a book   
    Then you will need to manually apply Text Styles paragraph by paragraph, making for an extremely boring and long job. And as with most boring jobs it is prone to errors happening.
    Text Styles are wonderful. Spend some time experimenting with them. Make a new Publisher document and paste some text in. When you make Text Styles start with a Group Style for the basic text and a Group Style for headings. When you make the Group Styles Reset the Formatting so you are starting with a blank slate. Set the Font family, the weight, the size, set the Spacing, leading ( I use Exact for a variety of reasons), left, right, first line and, last line indents. Set the space before and after. Everything else can be left alone for now.
    Base your Paragraph Styles on the appropriate Group Style. Then you can further base some of the Paragraph Styles on Paragraph Styles or the Group Style. An example would be having Body Text based on the Group Style BASE and then have a paragraph style called Drop Cap and one called Initial Words both based on Body Text. Then you could have a paragraph style named Caption 1 (and Caption 2, 3, etc) based on the group Style BASE because you are changing many things compared to Body Text and you don't want to mess up Captions if you change Body Text's leading.
    The way I work is to set up BASE so that Body Text can have absolutely nothing changed. Here is what I set up for BASE. Remember to Reset Formatting. It is perhaps a very good idea to also set the Baseline Grid to off while you experiment.

    Now I change things that are highlighted.

    I get fewer surprises if I set the Leading to Exact. But that is how I work, you may get fewer surprises with % or Multiple.

     
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    Hilltop reacted to Old Bruce in Putting together a book   
    Take a long look at the Word documents and make Text Styles for everything you'll need. Basic Body Text and Headers. I go so far as to make a Paragraph Style for the page numbers. Do not use overrides for text. Use a Master Page(s) and name each and every item on each and every Master Page. Use names like Left Page Number, Right Page Number, Main Text Right, Main Text Left, Odd little graphic element 1, Odd little graphic element 2, etc. Link those text frames on the Master Pages which need to be linked (Main Text Right linked to Main Text Left).
    Work with Double page Spreads, not single pages.
    If you need to have each actual chapter start on a right hand page make a Master Page for that, make it a double page spread so the text will flow from the right to the left. Have your Paragraph Style for the Chapter heading start on a new right hand page in the Flow section of the Paragraph Style.
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    Books.
    I find the Books feature to be either obscure or arcane, not entirely sure which. I would use it only if the document is too large to work with. There are so many caveats that it is difficult to find where a problem lies. There will be problems.
    If you have a single document then you have only one set of Text Styles. You can work with Chapters*  if all your Documents are setup from a Template so as to co-ordinate your Text Styles, and Master Pages, and the physical size of the pages. All your Master Pages will need to have no changes from one Document to the next. Sections will need to be starting from page one for each Document. You will need to make sure that each Document ends on an even numbered Right hand page and every Document starts with an odd numbered Left hand page. Toss in your Foot and End notes, your Cross references, and your Table of Contents and I am one hundred percent certain that chaos with a capital K will ensue.
    I am sure I am missing other problems people (myself included) have had with the Book Feature.
     
    * Individual Publisher documents, which can consist of multiple actual chapters. Meaning you can have a Publisher Book Chapter with one, three, or seventeen, chapters from your actual book in it.
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    Hilltop reacted to TrentL in Vector Flood Fill & Pixel Painting - Tutorial for Affinity Designer   
    In this video, we’ll continue looking at the Vector Flood Fill Tool and how it can be combined with painting in the Pixel Persona. This is Part 2 of the Vector Flood Fill Tool series. 
     
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    Hilltop reacted to AffinityRonald in In “Levels Adjustment“ use radio buttons instead of drop down for channels   
    When manually adjusting the tonal values of some thousand pictures I am grateful for every single mouseclick I can avoid.
    In the levels adjustment dialog I frequently switch between the red, green und blue channel. To do so, I need to open the drop-down-menu, move to the correct entry and click again. This works in about 90% of my attempts.
    If the dialog would use horizontal radio buttons, a single click would suffice:
    ( ) Master ( ) Red ( ) Green ( ) Blue ( ) Alpha
    or, if there is not enough space:
    ( ) Master ( ) R ( ) G ( ) B ( ) ⍺
    I would very much appreciate that!
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    Hilltop reacted to bnd.lettering in One of my first Affinity Designer creations   
    Hi everybody 🙂

    After recently buying all 3 of the Affinity programs, this was the 3rd thing I made with Affinity Designer. The other 2 were a Christmas post and a new years post for Instagram. My first impression of AD is that it has potential, but to me it still has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Adobe Illustrator. But of course, it's very difficult to get to the Adobe level, since they have so much experience and money 😅

    I bought the Affinity programs to hopefully get less dependent on Adobe software, because I really don't like the 'subscription only' principle Adobe has adopted. I don't like to pay Adobe 'ransom money' to be able to have access to my own documents. And since using Adobe Creative Cloud I've had several bugs that have never been an issue back when I had Adobe software that I bought. So even Adobe isn't as good (anymore) as it should be for that price.

    Most of the things I design are T-shirt prints for my webshops and since I'm addicted to designing letters (typography) most of my designs contain custom made text. This 'L' was made for Instagram only. From time to time I design single alphabet letters, to have something more to post on Instagram. I post far less than the algorithm wants, but I don't want to be a slave to the algorithm, so I follow my own rithm 😋

    Is anyone else into designing typography?

    ✌️ Luc
     

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    Hilltop got a reaction from mopperle in Older person moving to Affinity Suite?   
    If you tried Affinity Photo with the dark user interface you might want to try the light one. In my experience it increases legibility. Go to Edit/Settings/User Interface. There you can find also some other options to suit your preferences.
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    Hilltop reacted to v_kyr in Protractors - Back to school   
    Let's go back to school, with some of those common and well known school protractors for measuring in degrees.


     

    ... etc.
     
    The protractor assets shared here ...

    ... are all vector based and do have printed on degree scales. You have to adapt/size the default assets protractor sizes to your document needs and thus scale them up/down so they nearly match your doc measurements.
    Note that all protractors are just a bunch of grouped/layered together vector parts (curves and text) thus they can be modified in colorings and the like. Also you should always move & size etc. a whole reused protractor group/layer when needed!
    Here is the associated assets file:
    protractors.afassets Have a nice school day!
     
     
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    Hilltop reacted to BlueLiner in Vintage Vector Text Effect recreated in AD v2   
    I have been playing around with styles lately making a bunch for different email marketing campaigns I have been working on. I started off here on the forums to see what others have done and what is possible. In doing so, I came across a post from the pre v2 archive section of the forums from someone looking for a style to recreate an effect in Affinity Designer. See the original post here.
    I think I have come close just casually playing with it and I thought I would share the style here (See attached v2 AD Style). Here is the original:

    When I make styles for use with text, I like to design it with the text but then apply to a shape then save style from the shape so the font is not saved with it unless I typically use that font with the style.
    Below is a single v2 style applied to a font I have called "yellowtail" (Not sure where I got it, probably w/CorelDRAW). I then added the border around the text and the tail. I will show both.
    Just the style applied:

    With added tail, just drawn with the pen tool with same style applied) and an underlying layer under the text.

    I have attached a copy of the tail as well for those who are not comfortable with the bezier pen tool.
    I hope someone finds this useful. With In AD v2 more is possible in "styles" than v1 and I encourage more "Styles" creation and sharing
    Cheers!
     
    Blueliner Vintage (AD v2).afstyles
    Tail for Vintage Txt.afdesign
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    Hilltop reacted to MikeTO in Unofficial PDF Manual - Expert Guide to Affinity Publisher   
    New version! I have uploaded a new version of this unofficial Publisher manual to the first post of this thread. In addition to being updated for the changes in Publisher 2.3, this version covers character and paragraph formatting, text styles, and all the other text-related features. It is 120 pages longer than the original version.
    Although it's written for Publisher, most of the text features are the same for Designer or Photo so you may find it useful for the other Affinity applications, too.
    Cheers
     
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    Hilltop got a reaction from henryanthony in Older person moving to Affinity Suite?   
    If you tried Affinity Photo with the dark user interface you might want to try the light one. In my experience it increases legibility. Go to Edit/Settings/User Interface. There you can find also some other options to suit your preferences.
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