MikeA

There's also this, from the online help. Might prove useful at some point.
To use plain text as filler text by default: From the Affinity Publisher menu, select Preferences. From the Edit menu, select Preferences. On the General tab, check Insert filler text as text.

Several times I've tried to set the ruler's "zero" position (spread origin) away from the default location and have the change apply to the entire publication. But the change seems to apply only to the page where it was made. I tried it on a master page, thinking the change might be "inherited" by all document pages based on the particular master page. That didn't work.
Is there a way to set the spread origin position globally so that the "zero" position is set for all pages or spreads—until you reset it manually?
 

New here — not much luck yet with forum search. If there's a discussion about this, apologies for not having found it.
Back in the Neolithic I used QuarkXPress, which supported a tagging method for text import: Simple codes embedded in plain text were transformed into complex formatting during import. The competition didn't have such a feature at the time. It was among several reasons for QXP's becoming the program of record for book pagination (until InDesign came along).
Even years before microcomputers took over the world, the typesetting systems I used had tagging and translation-table features. Same purpose: Prepare text containing simple codes, then get complex formatting during text import. The machines' CPUs ran at glacial speeds compared with what we have now. But the text-import systems were fast and efficient.
It's orders of magnitude faster than importing plain text into a design/pagination program and then hand-formatting it. Search/replace is not efficient unless a program supports complex search/replace enabling it to find starting and ending tags and formatting text located between those tags. Even at that, having to do it repetitively is tedious and time-consuming. (If search/replace can be controlled via scripting, that certainly helps.)
Manipulating text outside the pagination program is inherently more efficient. It can be done with powerful and fast tools ideal for that purpose (Python, Perl, Ruby, and so forth). 
Affinity Publisher looks like an excellent contender. It too needs this kind of feature. If the company has no such plans for the near future, I hope the program has a plug-in architecture enabling a third party to add this functionality. To anyone importing a lot of text, that kind of automation is worth paying for.

There's also this, from the online help. Might prove useful at some point.
To use plain text as filler text by default: From the Affinity Publisher menu, select Preferences. From the Edit menu, select Preferences. On the General tab, check Insert filler text as text.

There's also this, from the online help. Might prove useful at some point.
To use plain text as filler text by default: From the Affinity Publisher menu, select Preferences. From the Edit menu, select Preferences. On the General tab, check Insert filler text as text.

I puzzled over this for a moment. I find the anchor display in the Properties dialog a bit hard to see, but peering at it closely now I understand what you mean. Clicking the larger anchor point toggles it back to the same size as the others, and then it works as I described in the first comment—getting entirely around the workaround of changing the size minutely. Thanks—it produces the desired effect even faster. I don't think I'd ever have discovered that one except entirely at random...

Another up-vote for this feature, which could be a huge time-saver fortext-heavy projects .
This isn't a workaround to be thrilled about, but it seems to work and if there's a lot of format-copying and -pasting to be done, I might use it in the future. First, style the text to be copied/pasted as need be (within Publisher). Copy the text needing additional styling changes to the clipboard. Paste it into a Word or Word-like program (I use TextMaker).
Do the copying and pasting of the formatting there. I assigned those editor features to Shift+Control+C and Shift+Control+V so that the operations would be similar to those in other programs I use (Capture One, for example—same keystrokes for copy and paste image adjustments).
Copy the styled text in the editor to the clipboard. Paste it back into the Publisher document.
My test of the idea is only brief for now but it appears to work, and without introducing junk into the Publisher document that I don't want there. The other text styling is preserved and the Publisher text style names aren't altered in any way after the updated text is pasted into the Publisher document.
It certainly isn't as fast as a dedicated command within Publisher would be, no question.

I am looking to copy the formatting of typesetting from one paragraph to another. It is easy in InDesign using the eyedropper tool, not so easy in Quark. Does anyone have a suggestion please how to do this in Affinity Publisher? I can not find it in the help dropdown. Thank you.

Hi @MikeA 
Unfortunately I don't believe there's an option currently in Publisher, either to bulk update all of your spread origins at once, or to create a document with an offset ruler on all spreads, my apologies.
I'll move this post to the Feedback section of our forums, for our devs to see and consider adding in a future version.
I hope this helps!

A recent video about removing backgrounds points out a web-based technology that would be outstanding if it could be licensed by and incorporated into Affinity Photo or available as a plug-in. The video link is below (screen shot is from the video). It would be very, very useful for images with complex foregrounds.
https://youtu.be/_N5EIn90bWw
 

Echo. I think this would be a great feature for version 2.
Could even be a sky replacement!😉

A recent video about removing backgrounds points out a web-based technology that would be outstanding if it could be licensed by and incorporated into Affinity Photo or available as a plug-in. The video link is below (screen shot is from the video). It would be very, very useful for images with complex foregrounds.
https://youtu.be/_N5EIn90bWw
 

Great idea. I will put in a feature request for this combination command as well. It's surprisingly laborious to centre and middle a lot of objects at the moment.  Also, it would be a godsend to be able to float the alignment panel. 

I have found "Lock Children" useful but hard to reach. I haven't found it in any menus yet. So far the only access I've found is to click a very tiny icon at the extreme upper right of the Publisher window, drop down a small menu, and select Lock Children. This involves hitting tiny icons or UI elements with the mouse, which is not what I'd call the most user-friendly thing ever.
Then, do the same if you need to toggle the setting off again. With this apparently not being anywhere in the keyboard shortcuts dialog, there's no way to assign a keystroke to the command that I know of. But is there some easier way to get to the command? Maybe I've just missed something obvious.
If not—publisher developers: Could this check-box not be available at least in the Frame Properties dialog? Or be a menu item in its own right when you right-click a frame? Or be part of the Frame Properties fly-out menu when you right-click a frame?

Hi @MikeA,
Can't draw a rule (stroke) around a pixel object* - By design. Pixel objects/layes have no concept of stroke. Can't convert a pixel object to a picture frame—not immediately. BUT: - I think it's a bug here. I don't see why a pixel layer should not work. Issue logged.  Slight crop with the vector crop tool enables converting the pixel object to a picture frame - You technically now have a rectangle(shape) that's erasing parts of the image. It's not exactly a pixel layer anymore. 

I think we may need some clarification from the team on whether we are supposed to be able to add a Stroke (or a Fill) to a Pixel layer.
If we should be able to then the software doesn’t seem to allow this, which sounds like a problem to be fixed.
If we shouldn’t then the software is fooling us unto using functionality that has no purpose (in this case) which, again, is something that probably needs to be fixed.
Either way, it looks like something needs ‘fixing’ here.
MikeA: I’m not sure what you want now – I don’t know if the first thing is related to the second thing, one was outlines the other something to do with Geometry(?) – but it sounds like you could put your image layer(s) inside a Rectangle layer and give that Rectangle layer the Stroke outline, see attached image.

With that option unchecked the fx are rasterized & no longer can be edited. With it checked, the layer retains its editable fx.

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I'll be damned. I thought I'd checked for all that very carefully and it was, I guess, the one character whose leading override setting I didn't spot. Thanks for that.
All the more reason for me to dislike — the longer time goes on, the more intensely — the leading-override feature. Too many cooks and all that. Well, I don't know. Maybe these days leading override is just all the rage in publishing software. I could happily live without it.
Thanks.

There is a new Collect function in the Resource Manager but I do not think that includes collecting fonts into a single directory. However, as long as your demo file uses Google Fonts anyone can download for free that should not be a problem.

(This appears to be the feature-requests forum, but I've been wrong before. If I picked the wrong location please advise.)
I would surely appreciate improvements to the Edit Text Style dialog, which could be made easier on the end-user.
Dropdown menu for selecting styles
Please consider adding a drop-down menu to this dialog's first panel (the one named, simply, "Style"). Purpose: select some other style for editing. It would be useful having the option to filter the display: all styles, versus paragraph styles only, versus character styles only, versus only styles presently used in the document.
UI Font size   : -)
Text throughout Affinity Publisher's UI is small enough to make things, well, a bit hard on some of us. I'm glad I don't use a 4K monitor — if I did the UI would be so hard to read that I would probably not have purchased the program after using the trial version. Even on this laptop with its relatively small monitor, there is plenty of "screen real estate" to expand a dialog like Edit Text Style if a larger UI font were used.
I've noticed that Publisher's Mac version has a way via Preferences to adjust the fonts in the UI. Not so the Windows version. So Windows version users are stuck with the small UI fonts, as-is. (I do already have fonts somewhat enlarged via Windows' own control panel. But enlarging them further using that control will not likely give good results.)
Display of specific style information
Describing all kinds of data—font, size, color (etc.)—simply as "No change" says nothing about the actual style data. This is unlike the style information displays in word processors or page composition programs I've used in the past. Even in the first ("Style") panel of the dialog, the summary information at the bottom of the dialog (in the "Style Settings" field) includes the actual typeface name only if you are editing "Base." In short: Understanding fully what's in a style has been made unnecessarily difficult. Please consider ways of improving this.
Copying style data to the clipboard
I'd hoped I could copy the information from the dialog's "Style Settings" field to the clipboard so that I could examine the style information using a more readable typeface, in a text editor or word processor. Each item in the field ends with a semicolon. So, I figured I could replace each semicolon with "newline"—voilà, more readable text.
But the information within this field cannot be selected or highlighted (let alone copied). Please either add a "Copy" [to clipboard] button for the field, or at least make the text in it selectable with the mouse (or all of it selected at once by clicking in the field and pressing Control+A) so that the user himself can copy it to the clipboard and paste it somewhere else.
Thanks.
 

Posting it in the Windows bugs forum now.