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I'm laying out a book for a client who wants to change a lot of image sizes, necessitating reflowing the captions and text before and after the images. It seems to me that auto-adjustment of the document should happen without intervention but no such behavior happens. Is there a setting I'm missing or is mixing text frames and image frames static? Is there no way to auto flow content?

Thanks. However, that is the panel in which the problem happens for me. I have not tried the Transform tool.

Many times I have had to replace images in a Publisher document. Upon placement the dpi, though the images are already at 300 dpi, will switch to 299 and correcting it maens jumping back and forth in the X and Y dpi fields until it takes. Sometimes this means a few tries to get 300 dpi to stick. Thought you should know.

Hi all, I'm creating a book for a client in Publisher and have been unable thus far to export a PDF which preserves Grayscale as well as Adobe RGB images with their respecitve ICC color profiles. Can anyone suggest PDF export setting(s) that will retain and not convert the profiles to CMYK, which is what has been happening each time I try with various settings. TIA!

Many thanks! I'm on it! I'm virtually brand new to the program (and to book layout) so this is very helpful. Thanks everyone!

Thanks guys. I'll dig in and see what I can do about this with your tips. I'm confident I'm looking just at the fill and not stroke. These are some paragraphs and many photo captions, so not linked text. If they're going to simply revert to rich black I'm not going to waste any more time editing content until I figure this out. The things I'm working on in Publisher have so far all been B&W photo book pdf imports from Word exports. Perhaps there's something I can do with that as well. Rather frustrating, as you can imagine. There's also the chance that it won't matter to the printer but that may just be wishful thinking, that they have a pdf editor that can perform this pure K conversion with a click. A selection filter would be great, whereby one could simply filter for 'text' and 'select all' and voila. As it is, I can only select all the text on a single page and even that is tedious and time consuming if it's captions on multiple photos.

Interestingly, I just spent an hour changing the rich text to 100%K, several lines per page at a time, then Ireopened the file and it's all rich black text again. Document is set for CMYK GRACol 2006. Hmm... Ideas?

Is there a way to quickly select all text in a multi-page Publisher document and change its color to 100%K black, not rich black?

Lagarto, I'm going to refer them to you, if you keep being so helpful : ). No good deed, and all. : )

Agreed. I'm glad to have found Affinity Publisher and I think Affinity's future is a bright one. I see it playing out even now, with attracting users who take it seriously, such as yourself.

The pdf/2001 requirement is no doubt a long standing and obsolete requirement, which I plan to bring up with FCI Digital, a very popular printer for their cost in the US. I'll broach that subject after the job is printed and in our hands : P. In adhering to aging formats, I suspect they have their reasons. It probably saves them 5 bucks on their preflight routine, not having to convert, assuming their printer is old enough now that it chokes on anything but. Which is the case I imagine. I'm still using a printer at home from 2002 because I have an RIP for it. I can't really complain about outdated tech, can I : )?

Fantastic workaround you have there! I have an imported Word document to start from, the author is most comfortable in Word and far be it from me to try and change that. My approach, which I'm only half way through finding out the variables of, is to create Master pages for Left and Right, which have the gutter in place, as well as a pair of Left and Right Master pages where there is no page enumeration desired, to account for those. Then I switch the document set up to facing pages and apply after selecting all of the desired Lefts and applying Master C, and then the same for applying to the Right facing pages, it's respective Master. This avoids reformatting all pages, some of which do not need page numbers and it keeps the enumeration as intended. Two things I've noticed that could be 'fixed'. One, even after centering the content on the page originally, after applying a Master with page gutter, the centering relative to the margins is disregarded and I have to use the center alignment tools to redo that, for each page. This is one area where things could be improved upon. Retaining relationships to the page margins as they are changed and Master pages applied. The second thing I noticed is that by default, upon opening a Word doc, text frames do not collapse to fit the text, image captions, for example, imported from Word (this author can't be the only one doing so) do not fit right when centered. The additional space within the text frames causes an offset to one or another side when attempting to apply centered formatting. For every text frame I have to select and then double click the border and collapse it to fit the line of characters and only then apply center alignment to page margins. Small consolation that this is just a photo book with 56 pages and captions. I am learning a lot in the process but all of this time I'm spending is lost to me and could be better spent if so much manual labor weren't involved. One would think that page gutter is a very basic necessity and that existing formatting would be respected as it was updated/changed. Yes, I'm asking for better Word support more than Publisher development, but again, I can't be alone in the need for gutter assignment ability to documents that are imported/opened into Publisher. Many thanks, Lagarto, for the detailed and extremely thoughtful and generous response. It is not lost on me. I also think it will be of great use to others as this program is developing and the need for other features arise.

Great info, thanks. I'll see what the printer says after they get a 2003 version. I'm sure that they have Acrobat Pro or some other software to convert it if need be as well. I just don't like to knowingly submit files that are not "in compliance" with a company's file submission guidelines.

Sorry, I mean the gutter that accounts for the amount of visible page that is eaten up by the book binding process. - Mirrored, full content offset towards the out edge of each printed page.

I'm using Publisher 1.8.3 and wonder how to set up gutter for a single or two page spread. This is an imported Word doc that has been extensively edited in Publisher. I probably should have thought of this at the outset but I hope that despite no 'gutter' document option that it won't be too hard to implement. Open to any suggestions or best practices.