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Dave Dennis

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  1. I think you're missing the point, barbBear. We know how to add crop marks. As it is, Publisher cannot output artwork items (such as fold marks) that are placed outside the bleed area. When the bleed area is increased to allow for items that extend off the trimmed artwork, then the crop marks get moved to remain outside that extended bleed area. That is why a printable slug area is VITAL. See my attached example book cover for why this is an issue.
  2. I'm finding this thread in Feb 2024, v2.3.1 and the book functionality is still buggy. It crashes the app when trying to add or edit a TOC for multi-chapter book. Does the TOC work properly in a single document file? (i.e. entire book in one document)
  3. I've got to admit that since graduating graphic design over 30 years ago, I've never had the proper use of a baseline grid explained. So I've never used it. For appearance I've used vertical justify to make the columns even (but not the body text lines of course). I think this has shown me the point of the baseline grid, so I guess that is no part of the repertoire! Thanks!
  4. Thank you. I had not thought of detaching the text frame from the master. I still think a 'snapping' tolerance at the lower edge of the box would be a good way to prevent inordinate about of line spacing. Just automate that step instead having to do it manually at the end of a document.
  5. I am designing a book with chapters etc in Affinity Publisher 2.3.1. I want to use vertical justification but the last page of each chapter has a problem in that the lines of text get stretched to full height even if there's only a few lines. Is there any way to set an "edge tolerance" factor for the justification so that if it beyond the distance of a certain amount (e.g. a leading line), then it doesn't justify but treats it as top aligned? This seems like an obvious feature for book publishing. Is there a workaround? Like do I have to have another master page spread just to change the vertical justification to top aligned?
  6. This is now very much version 2 software, and slug option is still not here.
  7. As a former Adobe subscriber, this is a feature that I miss and the absence of which really lets Affinity down, let's us designers down, when creating images for pixel export formats. Adobe software has various options for what algorithm is used to render text antialiasing and for outputting typography within diagrams etc, the 'sharp' option is very desirable for getting clear text with minimal blurring on horizontal and vertical sections of type. When a line is horizontal or vertical it should be sharp, not blurred, as currently happens when exporting text. I'm guessing this is part of the rendering engine trying to approximate the position of a vector between pixel boundaries. However, Adobe seems to have worked out a good way to do this. PLEASE try and improve this. I hate sending images with blurry type to clients. Here's an example of the adobe options I ripped from another web page. It is so obvious that 'sharp' works well for smaller pixel text.
  8. I beg to differ... When I create a greyscale image in photoshop it is exported as greyscale tif/jpg etc. It is not converted to rgb. Single colour printing is as old as the printing press and it is bizarre that Publisher can't output a single colour file consistently.
  9. Yes, thank you for understanding and clarifying my point. What is the point of having a grayscale profile if it gets converted to rgb or cmyk? If I wanted colour I'd choose a colour profile. Perhaps the "big announcement" coming tomorrow will fix some of these basic 'duh' items. The other is slug area export for this like fold, die-cut and knife marks... (we wait in hope that Publisher might actually equal InDesign in functionality).
  10. I have tried everything to fix this issue, but my PDF files for book pages have an element that always somehow gets exported as cmyk black/grey. I have changed the document profile to grey (Greyscale D50), made sure the colour gradient is defined using only grey %, used cmyk with only black ink and numerous other tweaks. I even rasterised the shape and made sure it contained a Greyscale D50 profile for the embedded image. It keeps coming up on the publisher's system as cmyk black. I am using latest version Publisher (1.10.5) on Mac Big Sur (11.6.8) Any other thoughts about why this might be occuring are welcome!
  11. Come on, Serif/Affinity! What's the deal with not responding to basic prepress production needs?
  12. Try 30 years ago in the earliest versions of Illustrator and Freehand. It is a glaring omission from Aff. Designer and seems a bit inexcusable.
  13. Opening a pre-existing file (i.e. AP 1.8.x), the file opens okay but when I choose File-> export it immediately crashes the app. Creating a new file does not crash at the export dialogue. iMac 21.5" quad-core i5 (late 2015), 16gb ram. Big Sur 11.2
  14. Immediately after updating to Aff. Publisher 1.9 it refuses to open the export dialogue and crashes (program shuts down completely) when I choose File -> Export. All very time wasting and such a headache! I need to send PDFs to printer!! iMac 21.5" (late 2015) quad-core intel i5, 16gb ram, Iris pro 6200 graphics. Things I've tried: I have updated to latest Big Sur (11.2) and any other updates. This problem began BEFORE updating to Big Sur, and the system update is part of my attempts to solve the issue with Publisher. If I create a new document from a template it opens the export dialogue okay and saves to PDF no problem. Opening a previously existing document won't export. Turned off hardware acceleration and OpenGL. SESL Business cards 2021-02.afpub
  15. Is it possible to bump this up the list for development? I have used vector illustration software since Aldus Freehand and AI back in 1990. It puzzles me that a tool which was standard for illustration 30 years ago is not in Affinity Designer already. So many other great features but not this old staple??
  16. YES PLEASE. This is such a regularly used feature for any documents that involve folding - like almost any DL brochure etc! Not every document is designed by some preset formula.
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