[Data Merge Updated File Warning]

Hello @Callum

It seems to be behaving properly now. Maybe the problem was with the file system...I have restarted the computer since I reported the issue. hmmm...

Thank you for your help!

[Booklet Printing Rasterising Text]

Thank you for the feedback!

I was able to narrow it down to vector text in a placed PDF being rasterised.

It does not rasterise if the text is "editable" or interpreted from PDF. (But that does mean some funny changes in appearance!)

Native text is also not rasterised.

So the problem needs to be redefined as "Booklet Printing Rasterising Text in Placed Passthrough PDFs".  

[Data Merge Updated File Warning]

It is just on my local storage (internal nvme ssd)!

[Booklet Printing Rasterising Text]

Hello everyone!

I have discovered that APub rasterises text when using the Booklet output option in the print dialogue box. I am used to using Booklet > Save as PDF for my workflow but I need the text to remain vector based. (I am printing to a production printer that [Konica Minolta C3080] that does much better when rasterising text on its own.)

For my last job I imposed the pages manually to avoid this issue. Is there a way to do booklet imposition without rasterising text?

Thank you!

[Data Merge Updated File Warning]

Hello everyone!

I would like to report a minor nuisance with the Data Merge feature and that is: Every time you click Generate you get a dialogue window explaining that the data source has been modified and needs to be updated.

This happens every single time regardless of the data source file status!

Thank you!

[Invisible Fields in Data Merge (bug)]

Hello all,

I just want to report a bug I found in Data Merge (one of my favourite APub features!).

When inserting the Merge: <index> field the placeholder does not show in the document.

The results do show correctly in the merged result however so the feature can still be used. 

That is all! Thank you!

[Slow colour selection dialog when editing text]

Hello everyone!

I am seeing a very slow response when trying to select a colour when editing text. I don't know if this issue is new with 1.10.4 but I certainly do not remember seeing it before. I was demonstrating AP to a friend and I could not select the text colour during the session. (I thought it was not responding at all and multiple clicks only made it flash on the screen!)

I am using a 2016 MacBook Pro (Core i7) 16G RAM, AP 1.10.4 (from App store), MacOS Monterey.

Thank you for your attention!

 

[Shape tool will not select with single click]

Hello everyone,

Just a small interface glitch that can slow down ones work...When clicking the shape tool in Publisher it does not select, one has to hold for a moment of click the arrow and choose a shape from the submenu. AP and AD do not have this problem.

Thank you for your attention!

["delete empty line" feature for "data fusion" (in German version called "Datenzusammenführung") is needed]

This feature is called Data Merge in English. Blank line removal would be a very useful feature. I have posted about this here: 

 

[Data Merge blank removal feature]

Hello everyone,

I would like to suggest that Publisher's Data Merge feature be enhanced with the ability to remove blank entries. However, simply removing the blank line for a text merge can leave some messy things behind. I have an idea that we could use a special markup to tell Publisher what to remove with a blank field. That is, we define "field units" with double braces {{ }}. That way the whole "field unit" can be removed if a field is empty.

Case 1: "<field1> <field2>" 

Simple blank removal results for empty field1 (note the space before field2) : " <field2>" 

Proposed "smart" solution using special notation: "{{<field1> }}<field2>"

Results: "<field2>"

Case 2: 

{{<field1> }}<field2>{{
<field3>}}
<field5>
{{<field4> or if you prefer: }}<field5>

Here we have the option to choose to remove some text adjacent to a field (field4) and remove a line break before a field (field3) and preserve the line break (field5).

A simple "Remove blank lines" checkbox would not take into account cases where you might like a line break preserved when a field is missing.

I hope this makes sense!  

[Affinity Photo for macOS - 1.10.0]

Much, much faster! I noticed when opening documents with hundreds of layers, what used to take a few minutes is now down to seconds. Thank you Serif!

[Snapping when duplicating]

Oh, simply releasing the option key after dragging but before releasing the mouse button! I hadn't thought of that...perfect solution!

Thank you all!

[Snapping when duplicating]

Hello!

When duplicating an object by option+dragging snapping does not work. One has to release the object and then drag it to activate snapping. (This problem occurs in Photo and Publisher too.)

It would be a nice timesaver if the snapping would work when duplicating via option+dragging.

 

[Precision of Levels Adjustment]

I encountered this problem today. 100 steps is really not enough for levels. (I was trying to match two images.)

As a reference Photoslop uses 256 steps...

So I am adding my vote for this enhancement.

[Presets not applying]

Thanks for the feedback! It is good to know that this is being fixed. 

As long as I have a workaround I can be very patient!

Please thank the development team too, I really appreciate their work!

[Presets not applying]

Hello Dan, 

Thanks for the update!

I tried the new beta and the behaviour is the same.  
However, I did discover that the problem seems to be related to Separated Mode. (I need to use Separated Mode because I have to refer to other applications while I am working.)

When Separated Mode is off, the presets apply pretty consistently.

[Presets not applying]

Hello Dan,

I do not notice any difference in behaviour when the second monitor is unplugged.

[Presets not applying]

Thank you for the reply.

Yes, I am using two monitors an LG 34WK95U-W (5120x2160) and an LG Ultrawide (2560x1080).

[Dropcap funny with centred text]

Thank you Bruce, that is useful. But I still think that drop caps should work with centred text without having to use workarounds. Anyway, life goes on...

[Paragraph indents should be independent]

Yes the last line was in fact a separate paragraph, oops! The behaviour still seems a bit strange to me though. In other DTP programs the line indents are relative to the paragraph indents such that you need to set a negative value to have the first line move "outside" the paragraph. Well, maybe I will get used to it...

[Dropcap funny with centred text]

Here is a document demonstrating the issue:

 

dropcaptest.afpub

[Paragraph indents should be independent]

Hello all,

Paragraph indents should be independent of the first line indent and last line outdent settings. Or the first line indent and last line outdent settings should be _relative_ to the indent settings. The existing behaviour is rather strange and led to some comically quizzical facial expressions this morning.

Thank you!

 

[Dropcap funny with centred text]

Hello everyone,

The dropcap feature doesn't work with centre justified text. So this is a bug report or feature request, however you would like to see it!

Obviously, the dropped capital should be flush with the text and not pushed to the edge of the text frame.

Happy new year!

[Presets not applying]

6 hours ago, Dan C said:

I found it slightly more consistent when double clicking the preset thumbnail - could you please try this for me and let me know if it applies?

Double-clicking does not change the behaviour for me. If I quit Photo and launch it afresh, the preset will apply the first time I click it but subsequent attempts will have no effect.

Thank you for the feedback!

[Presets not applying]

Unfortunately, my Wacom tablet no longer functions in MacOS 11 so I am using a mouse and a Magic trackpad. (Both do the same thing with presets BTW.)

Attached is a video of what is happening.

Thank you for the help!