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Michael A reacted to a post in a topic: Manual absolutely necessary
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3 page spread
Richard786 replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
A couple of Mods on this thread, presumably Affinity staff (?), in this thread have said there are no immediate plans for this feature. But now that I look at their comments more closely, I see they said this quite a while ago. -
3 page spread
Richard786 replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
+1 from me on this one. Very surprised to learn it's not on the "to do" list for Pub. -
eric u reacted to a post in a topic: Eye-drop text to copy attributes
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Copying data into tables
Richard786 replied to riball's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Does saving the spreadsheet as a PDF and then opening (not importing) the PDF in Pub work? It did for me once, but the table was quite small, about four columns by eight rows, as I recall. If it does, you can then copy and paste the table into your layout and restyle it as required. -
Eye-drop text to copy attributes
Richard786 replied to redlik's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I've not noticed that myself, Jeremy, but once I've got everything into Pub I tend not to go back to the InDesign file. Would it help to re-assign text in the "new" style to the "old" one (or vice versa) and then delete the duplicate style from the styles pallet? -
Eye-drop text to copy attributes
Richard786 replied to redlik's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I am a Styles fiend and set them up for just about every document I do, but then I'll use the Eyedropper to quickly apply them around longer journals - particularly when I want to apply a Character Style on top of a Paragraph Style. I view them as two complimentary tools to allow me to complete the same process. I must say though that I am very impressed that Styles come through on IDML imports - a huge time saver. -
Thanks for your reply Garry and apologies for my delay in replying. It does help, but it seems Pub sometimes "converts" a picture frame with a placed Photoshop image into an image on its own volition. Things are better in 1.8 but it can still happen sometimes. This happens even if the "prefer linked" option is used. I need to keep digging down in the layers pallet to get to the image within the frame or sometimes I'll just delete it, draw a new picture frame and re-place the image into it. I'll also often make a copy of a photoshop, flatten it to a jpeg and then insert that instead as that usually gives a more predictable result. It would be nice if Pub treated all types of placed images, jpeg, tiff, photoshop or PDF (not strictly an image format, I know) the same way - or gave the user the choice to convert an image within a picture frame to an image of its own right when the image is first placed into the programme..
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I got hit with this at the weekend when try to display a few "linked" pages from a PDF in a Pub file and ended up with a huge file on a shared cloud-based drive with only limited storage space. It's the little things like this that can make Publisher frustrating to use: it's fine for my smaller clients but not yet something I can use for the "heavy lifting" in my day job. Roll on 1.8....
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Mithferion reacted to a post in a topic: Thanks!
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Thanks!
Richard786 replied to Jacques Toerien's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
With this being a Feedback forum, it strikes me that it's sometimes easy for these boards to read like "here's everything I think is wrong about Publisher" all the time. So messages like this from Jacques are important to remember that a set of affordable suite of graphics packages are finally on the market and being continually developed. So the above gets a +1 from me. -
Richard786 reacted to a post in a topic: Allow selected spread to shuffle feature request
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Has this been introduced yet ? If not, it's a +1 from me. I went looking for this feature at the weekend when I needed to set up a document as two double-page spreads and was surprised to find it wasn't there (or at least if it was, I couldn't find it). I realise that it can be worked around quite simply by topping and tailing the document with blank single pages and just exporting the centre 4 pages to PDF as spreads, but it is a lot neater just to have the 4 pages on their own.
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PDF Export - huge Files!
Richard786 replied to MartinHH's topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
I too have problems with large PDF files from Pub which I then need to optimise in Acrobat. The same type of files, usining the same type of imges gave much smaller PDF sizes in InDesign. It seems odd that a straightforward preset to optimise the files for printing can't be added to the Export menu. Surely all Affinity need to do is look at what is happening on the Abobe presets and then add them to their own software? -
PDF to big
Richard786 replied to larsh's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Thanks larsh - a little confession;I am actually partially sighted which means I sometime miss things that are glaringly obvious like what you have pointed out. Sadly, my Document Setup is set to CMYK/8, so it's not that which is causing the huge PDFs. -
PDF to big
Richard786 replied to larsh's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Where in Publisher do I change from RGB/16 to CMYK/8? I've looked for the setting but can't find it. I too get huge PDFs when exporting PDFX-4 from Pub, which I normally have to optimise for size in Acrobat.