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rubeekon

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  1. Thank you for your further interest. I solved the problem following your first advice: made a RGB-file and took RGB-gradient. Then I transferred the result as text box in my actual document. Sure it changed colours due to RGB-CMYK-change, but the gradient was consistant and even. See screenshot of the small line with hand-coloured writing as attachment. As you have deeper interest I reconstructed the file from yesterday with time machine and attach here the publisher-file as well. CLB5-6-2023verlauf.afpub
  2. Danke für die schnellen Hinweise. CMYK wird verwendet, da die Zeitschrift gedruckt wird. Aber ok, ich werde mal RGB probieren und auch die Transparenz fortlassen. Thanks for the quick tips. CMYK is used because the magazine is printed. But ok, I will try RGB and also leave out the transparency.
  3. How can I create a consistent, even colour gradient? I have a colourful gradient and the gradient palette shows me uniformity, but the real gradient has mainly the blue colouring from 0 to 50. However, it should change to green at about 20 (see screenshots attached). In addition, the colour representation does not match the designations in the colour palette (see another screenshot).
  4. Hallo Lagarto, I finally finished the book. The automatic numbering of titles and subtitles with your method really worked well and generated a nearly perfect content list (see file here or http://www.bioinspiredcomputing.com/). Thanks again. There was one major problem with Affinity Publisher: It reacted unstable if it had to move lots of text in the book. But mostly it was ok. I am looking forward to the next version. Best regards. BioInspiredComputing-Inhalt.pdf
  5. What is that for a strange behaviour? Wnen I copy text from one open Affinity Publisher document and want to insert that into another open Publisher documents, the program jumps back to the first open and changes it instead of the one where I want to insert text. So I have to close the first document if I don't want to change it. AP 1.8.3, MacOS 10.15.5 Tnanks in advance.
  6. Sluggishness: I will tell you. The typical CLB-magazine has 100 A4 full 4c-pages, without problems. I remember the sluggishness of InDesign in version 1.0: terrible... And I made a prevention: Working on a Macbook Pro 16" with 8-Core Intel Core i9, 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB, 4 TB SSD This was more or less the reason to change the production process. In our little company, I used to have the most recent updates for Mac OS (working with Macs since 1990, as there was no publishing program for Windows at that time) and also for the publishing software – until Adobe changed to the leasing-model. But InDesign CS4 (our version) could not work with more modern Mac OS-systems, especially not with 64 bit. But there was from other side (video cutting) a wish to update. So now there are some restrictions caused by AP, sure. Hope, they (Serif) will succeed in the market and with developing – and not go down. As far as I know that are only something about 200 coworkers at Serif – compared with 23 000 at Adobe... What I wish is cross referencing for figure captions and references. For the current book (the first with AP, 152x236 mm, full 4c (we had similar books with InDesign) which will be printed with hard cover and in print on demand, I choose a not so comfortable and elegant solution: references in the text are not numbered, only first 4 letters of name and year of publishing, then ordered alphabetically at the end. And photos or graphics have a key word, also alphabetically ordered at the end of the book in a list with copyright references. And the document will be a single file. Concerning different text frames I asked for help If you should have a similar need: I am very happy with a print on demand-printer in the Netherlands, excellent quality. I visited the company: all processes automatically, even the hardcover binding process... In Helsinki, I have been three times, very nice. But I don't want to live in Finland during winter
  7. Norway, Sweden, Finland? Here is what I do typically: http://www.clb.de/ and more general (and history) http://www.rubikon.de/Home.html 🤗 using AP since CLB 2020; Adobe is too greedy...
  8. Thank you so much, brilliant. Although I thought that I repeated all necessary settings in my layout, it didn`t work exact as intended. Maybe there were some not fitting pre-settings, because the original layout comes from a magazine which I publish every two month. So I deleted all formatting concerning titles and subtitles, imported your solution with heading1, heading 2... and it worked I come from InDesign (and earlier QuarkXpress and even Pagemaker). Serif did a wonderful job; but in some aspects, Affinity Publisher reacts "sensible", not easy to control (e.g. if you changed contour, it sets the letters with contour, although I did not intend to change contour globally...). But I will stay with Publisher, getting more experienced, hoping they program automatic cross referencing – and sometimes finding such an helpful User as you are By the way: Are you a night worker, or far away from Europe in a complete other time zone?
  9. Hi all, I am producing a larger book (on bio-inspired computing) with about 10 main chapters. I know the possibilities to automatically number titles, subtitles. My question: Is it possible to do that over several unconnected text frames? The book is large; if I want to insert a chapter it is easier to have in general let me say 10 connected textframes (for each chapter one connected textframe-structure). I see the point "general" and "name" in the textstyle menue. The problem: If I don't choose "general", I get several text frames all starting with 1 (which means: I have 10 chapters called 1). See PDF1 If I choose "general" only for the main title, I get chapters 1, 2, ... but the subtitles start with a leading "0", because it is another logic behind. (See PDF2) If I choose "general" also for the subtitles, they count correctly, but each subtitle style counts for itself over the document. (See PDF3) What I would like to have is shown in PDF 4. I know two solutions: Generating additional text styles, e. g. in black, blue, red, green... But with 10 chapters you get a lot of text styles. The other solution: Producing 10 single parts of the book, and at the end joining the PDFs together. Is there a more clever solution? Thanks P.S. And please: Program an automatic cross referencing... TitlesNumbering1.pdf TitlesNumbering4.pdf TitlesNumbering3.pdf TitlesNumbering2.pdf
  10. Hello all, this is more to draw attention to a possible problem; I solved it by using an earlier document version via Apples Time Machine (System: Catalina 10.15.3, Affinity Publisher 1.7.3, Macbook Pro 16 inch). I am producing a 100 page magazine on chemistry and biology, for the first time in Publisher (come from InDesign). As the magazine layout is to be re-invented, I worked with new paragraph styles and so on, also using the search function. Unfortunately "search" does not allow to search only in a text selection... Short to say: I cant explain exactly what I was doing when the malfunction occured. The malfunction was: After a time I wanted to draw a connected text frame, starting from an existing one, formatted in the right way with baseline grid, and hiding some additional text. But whatever I did: Every new textframe did not align to the baseline grid. I tried to press all necessary buttons CLB01-02-2020parfum.afpub
  11. ... and an additional vote for footnotes or cross references (automated source referencing) and automatic figure and table numbering ...
  12. Thank you, Walt, that facilitates my decision for Affinity Publisher. I am changing from InDesign CS 4, didn`t want to go the subscription model of Adobe, and now need a new computer with Mac Catalina 64 bit... And I have the impression the Serif people are very engaged and motivated. I have no problems with some program crashes, startet InDesign with version 1.0 – after using Quark and PageMaker Best regards Rolf
  13. Hi there, is it possible to create an index over 6 magazines which come out in one year? It means there is one magazine produced every two month. In the last magazine of the year shall be published an index overlooking all 6 seperated files. Each file has 100 pages A4. Thank you
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