Goran62

I am working with pdf's for 30 years, so ... . Topic of this post is not if pdf's are any good or not, but how to place them quickly if one has to.

Frankly, I don't know what are you talking about. We are doing fine with pdf's in our workflow and I am sorry, they are not working for you.

Pdf's are the essential corner stone of our workflow. We can't recreate all ads we recieve for publications or retype certain articles with complicated graphics, formulas etc. so we have to deal with them as good or bad they are.

Sure I am ... but this way, you get pdf pages interpreted and paragraphs broken into strings, which you can not resize, not to mention fonts are changed if you don't have them on your system.

I am familiar with that solution, but it is not "quick". Pages from multipage pdf's (50 pages, 100 ...) should be placed on Publisher's pages automatically in autoflow style, as it is done in ID. There is a lot of clicking involved in your solution, when you have to combine few 50+ page pdf's into one publication. IMO one should also choose the range of imported pages and type of background (transparent or white) ...

Sure - we use Acrobat pro all the time as well, but I am not talking about "serious pdf editing" - just assembling various pdf's into one publication with basic editing i.e. move or stretch imported pages or artwork, functions we had in Pagemaker decades ago, without font issues. Publisher is app we bought for merging creative materials in the first place - creative work in Publisher came second as that is done in Designer, Photo or 3rd party apps. I develop some workarounds for quicker placing multipage pdf's into our publications and job is done but it is not as easy and quick as it is in our old copy of InDesign, sadly.

Unfortunately, pages placed into document this way are interpreted into strings of text and you can not shrink them or manipulate in any way. One can make group out of text strings on all pages and shrink / expand pages that way, but that is not quick solution if you have bunch of long pdf files to merge. And ... fonts are changed if you don't have them on your machine.

@Designer1: Conversion of Pantone inks to limited CMYK colour space should use ICC profile of your specific printer or standard, defined in Colour Management of your DTP app. CMYK numbers of certain Pantone colours should be slightly different when printing device is your PS laser printer or PS ink-jet printer or offset press etc. Therefore, CMYK definitions of inks on Pantone site - without mentioning for which CMYK printer or printing standard values are made for, are more or less informative.

When working on monthly Municipality bulletin I often have to place several multi page pdf documents into one publication, usually with 20+ pages. With current official release of Publisher it is very time consuming to do that, but in current Beta I found feature "Add pages from file ..." which does previous (labor intense) manual inserting automatically and I can add master to all of them afterwards at once, which is great. Unfortunately during adding pdf pages, Publisher convert them into editable pages, so one can not resize added page without affecting content. It would be great if upon "Adding pages from another file ..." there would be option for pages to be placed as regular pdf pages. Added bonus would be to be able to choose background (white or transparent).

Thank you!

Hello! Are there any news regarding this topic? Are there any plans to implement importing multipage pdf into affinity publication in one or two steps? If I am correct, the only option in retail version is still to create multiple frames of same pdf on different pages and select visibility of individual pdf pages in them, which is painful if there are dozens and dozens of pages to place from different pdf's. Is there a solution for this problem in upcoming Publisher update?