Darie Nani

Four years later, on V2 and THIS STILL ISNT available.

It's almost 2 years later and still this isnt an option.

Amazing work! Thanks Affinity The pre-flight is such a massive help, as is the IBML import 🙌🙌🙌🙌 The collect resources is also a very nice touch and just sped up our workflow even more!

9 Awesome points for adding Smart Objects I'd give 10 but you should have told us this was in the works (some of us are still paying for CC, you know)

Also found out that if I export the pdf again, and disable layers, also fixes the problem. So this definitely has nothing to do with font licensing and has everything to do with Serif not providing a simple toggle to disable editing capabilities on import.

Its ok, I found the solution. I opened the client's pdf in Photoshop (which we still need because of Smart Objects, ANOTHER industry standard btw) and exported to png.

Just so I am clear, if a client sends their ready to print ads, we cannot simply drop them in without sourcing their fonts first??? This is crazy, how do you expect users to use Affinity publisher for professional work?

Hi, I am not entirely sure if I am posting this in the correct part of the forum (if I am not I apologise but hope the community can point me in the right direction). A few months back we switched from Adobe CC (specifically InDesign) to Affinity for a variety of reasons such as the absurd subscription pricing for CC (business users), lackluster support, constant crashing and performance issues. We are a small publishing house based in London and we publish monthly periodicals on business and women's lifestyle. While we love Affinity (and it has done wonders for our design flow), we are having a pretty hard time finding freelance designers who also use it and it means we are having to keep all design work in house (which is becoming a tall order). I am wondering if anyone can point me in the direction to where I can find freelancers (I am of course hoping I can find them here if that is allowed)? I am also wondering if anyone has any tips on how to streamline the workflow for a project that requires multiple designers. With CC is was quite straight forward, as we could effectively use CC to collaborate, we would assign different sections to each designer and keep all resources centralised in one main folder. We have essentially set up the same system but this time on Google Drive and it seems to be working ok, am wondering if I am missing something or just any tips and help to improve would be appreciated! I should also say we have tried to work with freelancers who design in CC, adding their sections as pdf imports to the final master file. This works but is a massive headache as we need to go back to the designer if we need to make changes or worse yet, reinstall InDesign. Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Again, if this post goes beyond the remit of this forum I can only apologise, I simply cannot think of a better place than the actual Affinity community to get my answers. Much appreciated! Darie