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Thanks @MikeTO, You are right, I realized after posting this that you can do it with the left and right paragraph spacing of the main text and/or the footnotes for the desired effect. It does what I try to do. The only downside is that if I add spacing to my main text, if I also use Sidenotes, then they look too far from the frame. There is no option to have the Sidenotes’s position “Beside text” of maybe more simply to allow negative values in the “Distance from frame” field. Just that option would solve this issue. But yes, I think it would work in most cases, as the only edge cases I am thinking of would probably not be done in the real world—to have two columns that would have tighter margins than the main text on the left and right, as I think the “Spacing” field would act on the text within the columns. Only the footnotes column number being different from the main text frame column number would be nice to have. I will try to update the original post. You got me curious. How can you do that one? (I am looking to do the reverse, one column, and two or more for the footnotes. But I am curious how you can do this one.) Kind regards.

Hello @Oufti, Thanks for the hint, I will check that and see if this can be a working solution. This is a nice hack, but I am working with long texts and many footnotes; I fear this will not exactly behave as well as standard footnotes, and it looks like it calls for more manual work and possible layout issues if the text changes. But still, it could be useful. 😊 Kind regards.

Hello @walt.farrell, Well, I have seen that here and there. One place I see it a lot is in many pages layout for Bibles. For example I found that one. You can see (not very well on this picture) two sets of notes. The first one with numbers, the second one with letters. Both are all on the same line and properly line-wrapping. This is very efficient to save a lot of space when there is a lot of notes. Kind regards.

Hello, If someone wants to have footnotes in two columns, with different margins than the main text area which could be single-column and have different margins, this is currently not possible at all. There is not even a way to instruct the footnotes to be displayed in another Text Frame. This feature request is to give the “footnotes area” the ability to have its own layout options, just like any other Text Frame. Define the number of columns, for example. Define the margins, etc. (So it is possible to have a text area with 1 inch margins, but a footnote area with 0.5 inch margin, for example. This gives nice design flexibility.) Kind regards.

Hello,I would like an option that works better than “Pack short notes”, which does not behave as one would wish. In summary: “Always pack notes and line-wrap them.”It might not be possible due to the way footnotes are implemented. But would it be possible to add a new option that would simply chain (concatenate) the notes one after the other, add a separating character (or string) between the notes, and simply take that long string as the footnotes wih the standard line wrapping? This would make all the notes look like in a paragraph, with the specified “string” separator. It it would be possible to have very compact footnotes all the time. Kind regards.

Hi MEB, Thank you for the answer. I probably do not know how to use the software properly because this is not doing what I intend it to do. What I try to do: —Let say I am in Designer making a 1080p artboard, and I have a 4K image sized down inside a circle shape (to make a mask). —Then I realize that there is a little something I want to touch up the picture (I want to remove an electricity line I did not see before). —Then if I do as you suggest (thank you, I was manually opening the file in the past, it will save me time). —But the problem is that Photo lets you work on an actual 1080p image (the rasterized equivalent of the final Designer composition), not on the actual 4k photo object with all its details. What I would like to do is working directly on the 4k version of the picture that is hidden inside the mask. Invoking Photo to actually work on the selected photo inside Designer. Maybe this is possible, but I do not know how. Thank you very much and best regards, Alexandre Leclerc

Hi, When working in Designer, it would be very nice to be able to instantly switch to the Photo Persona (when installed) so to do some photo retouch that are part of a composition. Right now, when using Designer, and a photo in it, I must manually call Photo, do the touch up I need, and reload in Designer. Maybe I am not using the tools as it should, but that would be fantastic to be able to call the “Photo Persona” when in Designer for quick touch-ups. Kind regards, Alexandre Leclerc

Hello, Support for the AVIF file format would be nice to see as web browsers will start supporting it. It would be nice to read and write images in that format. Best regards!

+1 for this suggestion. It would be very handy to be able to prepare many export scheme to a publisher document: —Define export method and parameters (PDF config, etc.). —Define different export file name. —Specify which pages to export. —A single click could export all desired documents at once. —Even better allow certain layers or effects to be active or not for each export config. (i.e., if the layer item is checked or not.) Thank you very much and best regards!

I hope to see this integration too! Best regards!

Hi! I would be very happy to see these features too. I also miss these features from Inkscape. Also: make the alignment tools a panel (as in inkscape), so it can be docked on the screen as immediately available, instead of always reaching to the tool bar and click on the alignment tool. Thank you and best regards.

Version 1.8.2 fixes the problem. Thank you very much!

Thank you very much Patrick for this information. 🙂

Thank you for your answer. Indeed, I have this problem with or without hyphenation, and only with justification mode. Then, should this thread be moved somewhere else in order for this bug to be verified? Kind regards.

Hi, Is there a way to force Publisher to always use ligature in words when using "justified" text alignment? Even when tweaking "Word spacing" and "Letter spacing" in the Paragraph/Justification section, there are always cases here and there where Publisher decides to use letters with no ligature. I would like to tell Publisher to always use ligature, whatever he thinks looks the best. Thank you very much for your help!