[[Implemented] Data merge]

Another +1 for data merge. IMHO absolutely essential feature for Publisher and I would actually love if Designer can do that as well.

Absolutely amazing would be also option to do it from script. E.g. run publisher similar like following `Publisher.exe -input my_publisher_file -output data_merged.pdf -data datafile.csv`. This way the processes can be hugely automated.

 

[3 BUGS : Regex Search and Replace Skipping, RegEx Publisher Crash]

Yep basically I have 3 kinds of situations when working with such regex replacements:

1. skipping some occurences

2. affinity publisher crashing

3. maybe worst of all (because it is silent failure) duplicating some occurences. Example:

<chapter>Chapter 1</chapter>
<chapter>Chapter 2</chapter>
<chapter>Chapter 3</chapter>
<chapter>Chapter 4</chapter>
<chapter>Chapter 5</chapter>

becoming (after using Replace All button):

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

This is even more dangerous for me as it can be easy to miss mistake if you are running the regex on longer texts.

[3 BUGS : Regex Search and Replace Skipping, RegEx Publisher Crash]

Hi,

 

i just tried to reproduce the issues on completely new file. Just create 2 column master and paste the same text in. I am able to reproduce the issue 3 and 1. So it doesn't seem to be related to the file I am opening.

[3 BUGS : Regex Search and Replace Skipping, RegEx Publisher Crash]

 

Regex Search and Replace Skipping occurrences randomly

Best illustrated by attached Video. I have seen Publisher also randomly crashing when working with regex Search and Replace. Hopefully you can find the problem as it is essential feature for me as I often have to edit huge texts where this kind of 'automation' is necessary.

Thanks for help/solution.

 

EDIT: I just found how to crash Publisher when working with RegEx in reproducible way. See the second video attached with name "ReproducibleCrash.flv". If I repeat steps in that video Publisher will crash every time.

And EDIT2: Bug when using Replace All instead of replacing one by one. This way somehow Chapter 2 gets duplicated. As input i have Chapters 1 - 19. But after using regex replace I endup with = [Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 3-18]. As always I am attaching video to show the problem which is also reproducible.

[Publisher - Long Text import]

Hmmm I am investigating the Search and replace route. And so far it seems to be working. It even supports RegEx in what by trial/error seems to be Ruby like syntax. Therefore I can export my text with my own tags e.g. "<make_this_book_paragraph_style>Name of Book<\>"  and then search with RegEx  

In Find text box (the cog wheel icon has RegEx option in the drop down):
	<make_this_book_paragraph_style>(.+)<\\>
Then in 'replace with':
	$1
and in cog wheel for 'replace with' there is option to apply style.....

That correctly applies style and removes my custom tags :) (as i mentioned i can format my text as i want as i have it in database and I can program)

I will play with it a bit further but it seems I can use Affinity indeed with semi-automatic text import

 

By another words... Thanks to nice regex support in Find And Replace I can basically create my own "format" for import

 

Hopefully i will not hit some dead end as i would love to move all my workflow to Affinity

[Publisher - Long Text import]

Well what i need is a way to import text with some formatting.... subscript, styles for paragraph so i do not have to go trough entire book and apply manually.

 

as per format i can modify my data as needed (i can program) the XMLlike thing in my original post is just an sample

[Publisher - Long Text import]

Dear Affinity/Serif,

I am longer time owner of Affinity Photo and Designer and now I bought Publisher as well to try it out. However I found an problem which currently makes it difficult to me to move to it.

Description:

I have a bible with all the verses in database. With my current software I created small program which automatically marks everything: Chapter name with "Chapter" paragraph style, marks verse numbering as subscript, adds tab between subscript number and actual verse text, book names as "Book name" paragraph style. Therefore I am able to import entire text automatically (without manually going to every single verse and one by one doing it myself).

 

I opened the file generated from publisher in editor and I see it is binary format... therefore i do not know how to add text to it myself.

 

Is there any feature which allows me to programmatically add big texts? If so how? I am able to modify my generator to produce any output as needed. But i do not know currently any way to do it. Is there some text import format? Example:

assuming affinity-document-style-chapter and affinity-document-style-01 are already created in my affinity document. Can i import something like:

<p style="affinity-document-style-chapter">Chapter name 1</p>

<p style="affinity-document-style-01"><subsript>1.</subscript>test of the verse</p>

...

 

Thank you for help and hopefully you can understand what i mean (as english is not my native language).