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Also, re: Vellum.app, there is a user forum which the developers monitor (https://www.kboards.com/index.php?topic=207666.) Go to last page for recent dialog.

@CleanLivin Two suggestions: www.vellum.pub (to publish to Kindle by Amazon – if and only if you have a Mac) and https://kindlepreneur.com/ (book publishing for self-publishing authors) I have no financial or other interest in either of these. Just FYI. I have never self-published, so I don't even have opinions to provide for answers to your questions.

I already have all three Affinity apps on Mac. However, I'm finding that a paid designer's file made in AfPub on Windows doesn't look the same on my Mac. So I want to try to open that file on Windows and see what it looks like. I have a Windows Virtual Machine on my Mac. So … my questions are: How long does the AfPub demo last? Are there any limitations to its functions?

@Joachim_L Thank you. I'll see what we can do. I appreciate your explanations.

@Joachim_L Maybe they were rasterized. I provided .jpeg files. I see that now they look as if they are .psd files. And when I select them, the "Unlink" button does not light up. As far as I know, he only changed (photoshopped; edited) two of the images. So I could use my original .jpeg files and just replace his .psd ones. But is there any way to "rescue" the ones he made changes to? Thank you.

How can I unembed images? I hired a designer to do a calendar. He used embedded images. I want to remove them from the actual file and put them in a separate folder so they'll be linked. That way the actual AfPub file won't be so huge. Thank you. AfPub 1.8.4 Mac OS 10.14.6 (Mojave)

I have moved on. I hired someone via www.upwork.com to do the work, since it was over my head. I did finally figure out some of the color stuff, but there was still a lot in AfPub that I didn't have time to learn. So I've outsourced it for now. Maybe little-by-little I can learn in the future without deadlines for a calendar … Thank you, everyone, for your kind help!

@Callum I never heard back from you with a link to which to upload the file. In any case, I finally had to hire someone from www.upwork.com to help me out. He was able to get the calendar to look great.

I have moved on. I hired someone via www.upwork.com to do the work, since it was over my head. I did finally figure out some of the color stuff, but there was still a lot in AfPub that I didn't have time to learn. So I've outsourced it for now. Maybe little-by-little I can learn in the future without deadlines for a calendar … Thank you, everyone, for your kind help!

@thomaso Well, I'm finally back to briefly wade into the deep waters of colors in AfPub again… Thank you for your patience. I do not even know what 100 K Black is. The calendar will be printed via offset press, and I think that means I need to supply a PDF with CMYK. Somehow in InDesign this just happened or I just set it to CMYK somewhere. (1) Do I need to know what 100 K Black is to do a good job on this calendar and not frustrate the print shop? (2) Is it OK if a file is started as RGB and later the "Color Format" is changed to "CMYK/8"? (3) Is CMYK/8 what I want for offset printing? (4) Do I need to find out from the print shop what type of paper they will print the calendar on? I assume that matters for quality of colors. At this point, I have created global colors for some of the months. One is Black, and I selected "Overprint" when making it so the swatch is listed as "Black Overprint" in my Global palette. I made it overprint for this reason: when I printed a sample page of the calendar (on a color laser printer), the text that should have been black looked strange -- faded out probably because of being superimposed on other colors. I looked up "overprinting" on the web, and learned that such things happen. Here is what the global palette looks like so far (but you can't tell it's a global one after you've made it – best I can tell). (5) I still have been unable to tell what text has precisely what color assigned to it. Seems as if I should be able to right click or something and see the "code" for a given swatch and the "code" of the swatch assigned to a given piece of text. I'm just looking for consistency of colors. Thank you!

Sorry, @SamSteele & @Lagarto , that I disappeared for a few days. Due to my work schedule, I can only come back to the AfPub project I'm working on at intervals between other work. I hope to get back to the calendar project next week and follow through and see what I can do. Then I plan to report if I was able to accomplish what I wanted to do

@Callum I'm happy to upload it to a private link for you to look at. (This time the @Callum worked!)

@walt.farrell AFAIK, I typed the whole thing. More than once. No biggie.

Yes, please provide a private link. Thank you. EDIT: I could not get the @ gizmo to work for @Callum. Here's what I saw:

Ahh, that makes sense (the ESC key). I really appreciate the help. I'm a keyboard guy and avoid the mouse / trackpad if possible.

Wow! That's great help! Maybe I can get my mind around this stuff! Thank you.

Thank you. Found it. But there are scores or hundreds of colors in there. I'm used to naming them for the months of the calendar I'm working on, since I pick the text colors from the photos on the calendar. But I don't see that the list highlights the color I'm using, and there are many similar shades. Struggling.

@dominik Thank you. I ended up doing just that - sampling the text. Not what I wanted to do, though. @thomaso Thank you. I don't understand AfPub's color stuff at all. I could navigate ID's, but this … I have just created a "Document Palette". However, it's name "Unnamed", and I can't even figure out how to rename it. I've got RGB vs. CMYK issues, too, but I've posted elsewhere about that.

I took a color from a picture and used it for text on that page. Now I need to find that color and use it elsewhere. When I select the colored text, I cannot tell what color swatch is assigned to it. Does it show up somewhere? Thank you.

@haakoo Thank you! That does work.

AfPub 1.8.4. Well, here goes with another newbie question from me. Here's what I see as far as tools are concerned. And some of them have keyboard shortcuts in [brackets] like this: But what is the modifier key to press before pressing the "T" for the Frame Text Tool? Oh, I see! As long as the cursor is not in a text box, apparently you can just press that key ("T" in this case), and the tool with that key assigned will be activated. But … what if the cursor is in a text box? Is there way to use keyboard shortcuts to get out and select a new tool? I see this in the Help: Which led me to … All that I am able to do with Shift-T is toggle between the three tools that have "T" assigned to them. Of course, I can do that without the Shift key if I haven't selected the item circled above. But I can't find any way to use keyboard shortcuts to get the cursor out of a text box and to a state of being where the mere "F" (for example) will take me to the Frame tool. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you!

This thread seems relevant to what I asked here (I hope this isn't cross-posting, but I didn't see this question when I posted my question):

@thomasoYes, I tried what you recommended and saw that I lost everything. So I am manually going back and doing it over. I can just copy the text boxes from the first page and change the text in them and the colors. Thanks for your attention to detail!

Hi, once again. Here's what I see on the screen: But when I export to PDF (for print; 300 dpi), this is what I see (note the darkened edge around the round-edged frame): The layer effects are as follows: And the settings at the top that relate to the frame are these (note that I've tried it with the 0.2 pt stroke both on and off, and I can't even see any difference): Can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on here? Thank you very much! EDIT: And I now see that in the PDF the text has what looks like a white blurred stroke around it, too, but that doesn't show on the screen. ApPub 1.8.4 on Mac Mojave (10.14.6)

I have another issue with colors. I sent a preliminary PDF to the printshop for advice. They responded saying that the black color used for text need to be changed to "K", not left as "CMYK". I would have thought the text was in RGB, since I think that's what AfPub defaulted to. And, when I printed a page of the calendar to a color laser printer, I see that the black text in the monthly quotation did not come through as real black. It seems there is overprint – perhaps the background on which it is superimposed is changing the black to non-black. Any thoughts? EDIT: possibly relevant thread: