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    lmarcos reacted to MikeTO in Unofficial PDF Manual - Expert Guide to Affinity Publisher   
    Updated for Publisher 2.4 (February 2024)
    This free in-depth manual is filled with steps, tips, and recommendations for:
    Documents, Pages, Master Pages, Sections, and Baseline Grid Character and Paragraph Formatting Text Styles (paragraph and character) Text Frames, Text Flow, and Stories Images and Picture Frames Books and Chapters Cross-References, Table of Contents, and Index Notes - including Footnotes, Sidenotes, and Endnotes Fields - including Page Numbering, Running Headers, and Custom Variables Anchors and Hyperlinks Printing and Exporting Settings This manual does not cover objects, drawing, photo editing, or the other artistic features.
    Download:
    Publisher Manual Feb 26 2024.pdf
    Q&A
    Is this really free? Yes, I'm making it available free of charge. It's copyrighted to prevent others from publishing it as their own. Is there a longer manual I can purchase? No, this is it. Is there an iPad version? No, the steps and screenshots are for the macOS and Windows versions. Is there a version for Designer or Photo? No, but many of the features are the same so you should still find it useful. Why does it use a print layout if it's a PDF? It's a demonstration of how to use the features it describes to create a print book. Previous version for 2.3:
    Publisher Manual Nov 29 2023.pdf
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Snapseed in A Picasa Successor from Affinity   
    Another option would be Nikon NX Studio. if you're a Nikon user. Otherwise is jpeg and tiff.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Snapseed in A Picasa Successor from Affinity   
    For image browsing I've recently settle with ImageGlass.It can show also subfolders content and do slide shows. Other than that, you can only rotate and flip the images and select colors. No tagging or other editing, if that's what you're looking for.
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    lmarcos reacted to Richard S in Question: How Best to Create ePub / Kindle from Publisher?   
    Thanks for that tip about the LibreOffice extension. I hope Affininty Publisher is soon updated to at least provide a means of exporting text and stories, so that the same content can be used in other programs.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Three in Question: How Best to Create ePub / Kindle from Publisher?   
    Just a tip for you, LibreOffice can export directly to epub. If the output from the default export filter doesn't suit you, you can install the writer2html extension. You'll still need to tweak the css for some styles, but its output is rather clean
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Wosven in Tradescantia   
    Playing with the development persona and the RAW pictures taken directly with the app on the iPad, I came with this. I still have to explore how to apply a different development to a given area of the picture, but other than that, I'm pretty happy with the result.
    Anyways, if someone has tips to improve, they'll be quite welcomed.

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    lmarcos got a reaction from John Rostron in Tradescantia   
    The photo editor is Affinity Photo, and I wasn't able to find a way in the development persona to isolate an area and develop that with differente values than the main picture to recover the details on the white areas. I have to check the support forum, but wanted just to share the picture.
    Btw, looking at the picture now, I might be reframing it (tip for myself (; ).
    Which is fair, as far as opinions go. But even then, you don't learn how to use a program by only watching tutorials. For hands on learning any photo will do. And since I like the result, I share it here.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Alfred in Tradescantia   
    Playing with the development persona and the RAW pictures taken directly with the app on the iPad, I came with this. I still have to explore how to apply a different development to a given area of the picture, but other than that, I'm pretty happy with the result.
    Anyways, if someone has tips to improve, they'll be quite welcomed.

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    lmarcos reacted to StuartRc in Fallen   
    Fallen
    A return to inking....and a bit of experimentation 
    AD 1.8
    Original size 1500 x 500mm 300dpi
    Uploaded at 3543 x 1181 jpg

    Fallen:Sepia Version

     
    Fallen:Coloured Version

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    lmarcos reacted to Slammer in The girl with the dragon tattoo   
    I have always wanted to do something on the lines of Boris Vallejo, especially the one where the dragon tattoo comes out of the guys arm. 
    And by now I have weaned myself totally off Photoshop and Illustrator.

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    lmarcos reacted to Efvee in Drop caps feature suggestion   
    Hello Katie,
    Here is a video showing how to do it. Once you have it the way you like you may save the settings in a character style. (See Mike's sample document above.)
    DropCapSpeechMarks.mp4
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    lmarcos reacted to A_B_C in Footnotes/Endnotes   
    Indeed, it’s pretty difficult. In a way, I would imagine a possible solution could work along the following lines. What if we toyed a little with the concept of a subframe of a text frame? A subframe would be a text frame inside a text frame, something like a column with its own text flow options, separated from the text flow of the main part of the text frame, designed for receiving secondary contents like notes. Please have a look at the following sketch:

    Suppose we would like to have margin notes besides our main text. Then there would be a new section on the Text Frame Panel called Subframes. There we could select a layout type, in our case, Margin Notes. But there could also be dedicated footnote layouts, even a Customize … option that would allow us to place our subframes inside your text frames at will. Depending on the selection made in the layout part of the section, we would get different settings or options. In our case, for instance,
    width (height) and gutter settings for the subframes,  settings concerning the dynamic resizing behavior of the subframes relative to the enclosing text frames (important for footnotes proper: how to balance the main content and the subframe content, cross-spread text flow options for footnotes etc.), the option to select a type of content for the subframe (in our case, margin notes attached to anchors in the main text with certain numbering options), content alignment options for the subframes, etc. Following this idea, we would overcome the problem with dynamic resizing that dawned on me shortly after I had made my first suggestion. Maybe it would be fruitful to think forward along these lines. 😀
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    lmarcos reacted to Patrick Connor in Imposition   
    For PDF export, you would export "all pages" [which exports the document as single pages, rather than "all spreads" which is for reading facing pages as pairs], with crop marks and bleed, and the professional printers will/should take care of imposition themselves. More complicated impositions are left to specifically designed applications.
    If you are wanting to impose yourself then we provide for that in our print path. We offer Model: "Book" & "Booklet" that impose accordingly. (see the print preview for details)
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    lmarcos reacted to walt.farrell in importing word processor pdf help needed (Apub Windows)   
    As far as I know the PDF will be single pages when you Open it with File > Open. But at that point you can change it to use Facing Pages (spreads) by using File > Document Setup.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from PaoloT in Epub   
    My thoughts on the epub export option as of today:
    It would be ok for regular books with uncomplicated layout and formatting, without endnotes & footnotes (Apub doesn't support those yet). It's not ok if you start having more complex formatting or layout, like bilingual editions with one page in one language and one page in another. To keep that parallel reading, a table might work best for an epub, but tables have limitations when there are readers ranging from smaller than 5" screens mobiles to 13" tablets or above with PCs and I'm trying to avoid them after the results with my latest epub with tables (I wasn't able to make one column fixed width and the other variable). Another issue is the lack of capabilities in ebook readers and mobile apps to read epubs to render formating correctly. I own a board and run a test a while ago showing people a pdf with the thing as it should have been shown on their readers and the epub with the needed embedded fonts. Things like capital letters and small caps were all over the place with 0 consistency between apps. Open type support was lacking in most readers. Even with embedded fonts, those weren't being used by the vast majority of readers, which where switching to their default fonts for serif and sans serif instead. And the readers that did read correctly are used mostly as epub editors and/or a kind of library organizer and conversion tool to send to another reader (Calibre and Sigil).
    Somebody a while ago told me this was not his problem, but the readers, and that he wasn't changing the way he worked. Well, I don't agree with him and I'm trying to simplify book formating to have readers to have a consistent experience with the books regardless of the reader or app they're using.
    By the way, if the epub output is to be so crappy as inDesign, I'd rather not have it. Cleaning the mess afterwards was a nightmare. And I'm already bugging LibreOffice support so they convert properly instead of following the InDesign way. To no avail, I must say, but fortunately for me the Latex developers updated their writer2html extension to be 6.x compatible. Unfortunately, they have already said they're not going to update that in the future.
    So I'd rather have first and foremost the native endnotes & footnotes capabilities than a partial html export capability.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Petar Petrenko in Find/Replace and Alternates   
    @Petar Petrenko, I was looking for bold small caps and came across one other font mentioning specifically serbian and macedonian and I remembered this thread.
    https://www.1001fonts.com/libra-serif-modern-font.html
    Not sure if Liberation Serif, which is the font used by LibreOffice and is mentioned also in the description has support for macedonian.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from SrPx in Glad to have found Affinity Photo (:   
    Just wanted to say thanks to the Affinity team for the software and it's ease of use for people like me that wanted a photo editing tool to make basic stuff with layers and RAW development. I used Photoshop Elements and Fotor in the past and was on the verge to purchase Photoshop Elements again (the version I had was pretty old).
    I'm glad I did because for the price of Elements I was able to purchase the three Affinity desktop apps, because I found it easy to do what I wanted to do in Photo (as compared with RawTherapee for photo development, whose UI is not as friendly), because it integrates nicely with Publisher and because it hasn't created a problem so far with the OS.
    Meanwhile, I have had to uninstall Adobe Bridge (installed ImageGlass instead) because coresync was creating lots of problems when restarting the PC, CC installed itself without asking, together with CameraRaw (the lens have not been removed by the uninstall, have to check if I want to keep these), the programs refuse to uninstall and I had to run the Adobe cleaner tool several times and even after uninstall of the programs there was some Adobe crap running at start up and connecting to the internet (notifications, the program they use to check if you're running one of their programs with a licence...) left behind to be manually removed.
    By the way, the ipad app was also relatively easy to use to make panoramas
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Petar Petrenko in Find/Replace and Alternates   
    Check the specimen and contact the designer on the emaill at the end. He is Austrian and might be receptive to adding missing letters and chars.
    Btw, I see in 2.2 a kind of í with an horizontal line in between (or the forth one in the third line with an ´ on top) that is not shown in the pictures above. I'm attaching the regular font so you can check if those three chars are actually missing from the pictures or from the font.
    EBGaramond12-Regular.ttf
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    lmarcos reacted to Seneca in Affinity Word?   
    You don't have to use Microsoft Word.
    There are free alternatives to it and just as good: LibreOffice, OpenOffice and many more.
    In fact, affinity can read paragraph and character styles form one of these programs. So that's an extra bonus.
    I don't think Affinity will ever want to go in that direction. But hey, who knows.
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    lmarcos got a reaction from Dan C in Glad to have found Affinity Photo (:   
    Just wanted to say thanks to the Affinity team for the software and it's ease of use for people like me that wanted a photo editing tool to make basic stuff with layers and RAW development. I used Photoshop Elements and Fotor in the past and was on the verge to purchase Photoshop Elements again (the version I had was pretty old).
    I'm glad I did because for the price of Elements I was able to purchase the three Affinity desktop apps, because I found it easy to do what I wanted to do in Photo (as compared with RawTherapee for photo development, whose UI is not as friendly), because it integrates nicely with Publisher and because it hasn't created a problem so far with the OS.
    Meanwhile, I have had to uninstall Adobe Bridge (installed ImageGlass instead) because coresync was creating lots of problems when restarting the PC, CC installed itself without asking, together with CameraRaw (the lens have not been removed by the uninstall, have to check if I want to keep these), the programs refuse to uninstall and I had to run the Adobe cleaner tool several times and even after uninstall of the programs there was some Adobe crap running at start up and connecting to the internet (notifications, the program they use to check if you're running one of their programs with a licence...) left behind to be manually removed.
    By the way, the ipad app was also relatively easy to use to make panoramas
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