Catshill
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When I come across text import issues, I often find it easier in the long run to import as plain text and reapply styles manually. Also see -
I would use Affinity Designer for this very straightforward task.
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I have a similar style set but my Base is a group style with all other styles including Body style below this. One niggle is that I get heading+1 styles added by Publisher which upsets my clean Text style window. Normally this is down to using Assets that differ but I have not really worked out how to fix it reliably.
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I can understand the logic of using a template but as I reuse a significant amount of content when I produce documents, I adopt the same strategy of the OP. I delete content from publications and refill. I don’t suffer from crashes (Windows user, no graphics acceleration) but then I don't link picture frames only text frames.
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As a workaround I create lines or rectangles and use their dimensions as “rulers”. They can of course be rotated and moved to fit.
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You are correct. You cannot turn a low resolution image into a high resolution image.
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Collaboration Tools
Catshill replied to Martyn T's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
The thought of multiple editors working on APu does not appeal to me me one bit. I use the adding of comments using a pdf reader on a pdf that is on a shared Google drive actually works well for me.- 9 replies
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I would create a paragraph or character style called “label”, apply it to your objects and edit as necessary.
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I struggle with Affinity Designers printing function so I tend to export to pdf and print from that for more reliable results.
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I find selecting objects from the layers panel then using copy / paste the best way. It’s just a little trickier when you have facing pages.
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Linked Images
Catshill replied to andmocychmen's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Would this help? https://affinityspotlight.com/article/how-to-use-symbols-in-affinity-designer/ -
I could but in the context of the discussion about styles and their use in ADe you appear to making assumptions that are irrelevant. Unless I misunderstand your intentions?
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Overlaying circles…
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Thanks Russ. Collimation is so easy to do but so difficult to write about which was why I wrote the guide with images created in ADe. Similarly I created this to show the different reflections seen through the focus tube of a Newtonian reflector. I also use concentric circles created in ADe to highlight alignment errors.
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I disagree that styles in ADe are unusable. I have created a number of them in order to draw road maps. Very useful to me.
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I am not an astrophotographer (I prefer visual) but I still use the Affinity suite as part of my hobby. Just in a different way https://astro.catshill.com/collimation-guide/
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Just get that beer horizontal 😀
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I’ve used APu for years and never used symbols. I need to expand my horizons and start thinking how they might be useful to me beyond styles and assets.
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I use the asset method as above. I have a text style “caption” set up for this.
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Autofit Text to Frame
Catshill replied to kleu's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I have just had to Mailmerge 144 beers from a spreadsheet to A4 sheets of paper that are fixed to the end of the cask. I would have been flummoxed without the ability to fit the text into the frame so I use Microsoft Publisher. Beer Ends.pdf -
Assuming the bottom half is a text box and the purple rounded rectangle is a shape, I would add a margin to the bottom of the rectangle ensuring the text flow is appropriately set. Also checking that baseline is off or set approximately.
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Watching with interest as I find multiple bullet lines in the suite to be unintuitive and extremely frustrating.
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In this case, I would convert the text to curves. Select the dot above the i and hit delete.
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In the double sided printing option there will be a long side / short side setting. Choose the one that is not selected.
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Span/Split columns
Catshill replied to Eink's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
When I first set up my document template, a few years ago, I made a decision to set up a layout grid on a master frame and use multiple text frames rather than columns. I am glad I did that because spanning columns is not an issue for me. Apologies that my post doesn’t address the issue of this thread but I thought it was worth sharing the point that for me, frames rather than columns allows this flexibility.
