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Thanks very much DM1. If there’s no approx date for the release of 2.1, it would be good to know if files created on the beta will be compatible with the full version? I’m really keen to finally start using this app, but it’s of little use until it can import documents to work on. Many thanks

Any idea when 2.1 might be released? Agree with DM1: being able to import PDFs, in a way which allows you to actually edit the text, will make this app useful to a great many more people. Thanks for including this important feature.

Thanks Ash. That’s incredible news, which makes the iPad app infinitely more usable now. Having lost a lot of important assets in the past, thanks to beta software, I’d rather wait until it’s stable enough to be released. Any idea when that might be? Many thanks

Thanks for your thoughts Jason. I’m sorry to have upset you. My only intention was to try to motivate the developers to prioritise a small default import preference which currently renders the app completely useless to me, and other users apparently. My apologies if you felt my words were poorly chosen. Kind regards

Bad news to everyone on this and similar threads: Serif seem to have no immediate plans to deal with the inability to import PDFs properly. For me, as someone who needs to open and edit hundreds of docs in Apple Pages and other formats Publisher 2 can’t read unless exported/imported as PDFs, it’s a total dealbreaker. While Designer 2 and Photo 2 can import, export and edit just about anything, Publisher 2 will be deleted from my home screen as a useless waste of money: a publishing app that can’t open PDFs and edit text! I’ve made my feelings known on the App Store ratings/review in the hope it might provide some motivation to fix this critical omission. Perhaps you’ll want to do the same, but for now it looks like the wait for a viable publishing app in iPad continues.

Hi Lee, No they’re not via Adobe, they’re google fonts installed directly on the iPad Pro 12.9 (via iFont application). They all work perfectly on Designer and Designer 2, and Photo and Photo 2, but not Publisher 2. My post was weeks ago and since then I’ve managed to get them to work, but the font name they display is something chinese (possibly displaying the default replacement font name, even though the correct font is now loaded and appearing in the document). Another concern is that if the font naming is wrong, what will happen when I try to export PDFs packaged with the wrong font name? This is one of a number of problems that make Publisher 2 unusable for me at this time, even though I’m dying to finally be able to replace Pages with a professional app. The biggest of these is that, as it can’t import iWork docs - which I think most people have been using - you have to create PDFs to get any docs into Publisher, and by default the app splits all paragraphs of text into hundreds of individual lines of text boxes, and there’s no option (as there is on the desktop version apparently) to ‘Group Lines of Text into Text Boxes’, making it impossible to edit text, which isn’t good for a publishing app! If I can’t see my fonts properly, and there’s no way to get documents into the app in a way they can be edited, the app is useless to me. It’s been weeks since I, and others, posted about the PDF import issue and no-one from Infinity has responded, so if it would be great if you could! thanks

AGREED!! Hamstrung is the word. As PDF is the bigggest document format in the world, the inability for Publisher to edit them properly seems like a major oversight. As others have expressed, the app is useless to me until this is fixed.

Thanks DM1 but that workaround doesn’t work for me sadly. The Designer persona in iPad Publisher seems to place each page of the PDF as a single image., which I can’t edit. And - although the page size is exactly that of the imported document, it messily fails to align each page (image) with the art board. Regardless, the text isn’t editable for me when placed through Designer persona.

Publisher for iPad turns all imported PDF paragraphs of text into individuals lines of text boxes (or text frames). This makes editing text impossible. I believe that Publisher for Mac has an option to ‘group lines into paragraphs’. I can’t find any import options for Publisher for iPad. I also can’t find any option to select groups of text boxes and tell the app that it’s a paragraph! There must be an answer or imports into this app are useless, making it only an app for new document creation!

Any response? I sent the file immediately using the link. Thanks

If I import a PDF in Publisher it creates a separate text box/frame for each and every line of text in a paragraph, making them uneditable. I can not find any import options (such as "group text lines into text frames") or find any way to select and convert all the lines into a single text box. This makes imports of documents with text completely unusable so I imagine it must be a fault?

Thanks for the response. Like others I assumed I didn’t need to manually save every single file as modern apps don’t normally require that. I also can’t see a way to identify WHICH are manually saved and which are not, so I presume I will need to still save each and every one manually to be sure!!! Frankly, it seems like a nightmarish mess which I don’t have to the time to deal with.

Tried exporting a single page and the result in the same: hangs forever

I’ve been trying for over an hour to export a 46 page document to PDF and the app just endlessly sits on “Generating Export…” (see screengrab). Tried adjusting all sorts of settings, but nothing works. The same document was exported from iWork in seconds. The document size is just over 600mb but I have been waiting more than 15 mins to do an export on a new iPad Pro M2 with 2TB. Tried a 2 page PDF and that exports quickly without issue, so it only seems to be larger docs which have a problem? Also, the Home Screen regularly has the files greyed out with spinning icon, requiring me to keep quitting the app and restarting (see screengrab). These issues, combined with font problems from other post, suggest the app is too buggy for me to use at present, sadly.

I’ve been trying for over an hour to export a 46 page document to PDF and the app just endlessly sits on “Generating Export…” (see screengrab). Tried adjusting all sorts of settings, but nothing works. The same document was exported from iWork in seconds. The document size is just over 600mb but I have been waiting more than 15 mins to do an export on a new iPad Pro M2 with 2TB. Tried a 2 page PDF and that exports quickly without issue, so it only seems to be larger docs which have a problem? Also, the Home Screen regularly has the files greyed out with spinning icon, requiring me to keep quitting the app and restarting (see screengrab). These issues, combined with font problems from other post, suggest the app is too buggy for me to use at present, sadly.

Have to agree with other users: if making users download and pay for a new app (fine in principle: work should be paid for), the inability to get their old work into the new version is very serious omission which is bound to anger people. Also, like others, I always assumed that files I created in the apps are saved and stored safely. The idea that I have to manually go to each and every one of my hundreds of files and select “save” seems like another serious design issue. Manually having to select ‘save’ was a workflow we happily lost in the early 00s!

The FAQs for V2 iPad says “You can easily transfer your existing content (including any content you may have purchased from the Affinity Store) and open all your V1 docs in V2” (see attached). https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/affinity-2-faq/ But here, an expert says no, due to sandboxing this is not possible. I have hundreds of files I will need to access in V2 and can not manually export and import each and every file (without weeks off work to do it)! PLEASE tell me there’s a workaround!

Publisher for iPad doesn’t seem to be loading system fonts, which are available in Affinity Designer and Photo for iPad. They show in the list but when selected don’t work. Attached are pics of an identical document in Publisher and Designer (PT Sans is the correct font, which fails when selected on Publisher). Anyone know how I might solve, as a publishing app without fonts is pretty useless!

I'm one of the many who have switched from Mac laptops to iPad Pro. I do a lot of DTP and this is iPad's No1 weak area as the horribly basic Apple Pages the only real player. Unlike Affinity Designer and Photo, there is NO COMPETITION whatsoever for Publisher on iPad. Any news at all on rough planned launch times would be deeply appreciated as it will be a game changer for me and so many other iPad Pro users. Thanks!