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Martin S Taylor

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  1. Is there any reason why Designer won't allow you to add a border to a text frame? It seems to be a curious omission. Martin
  2. Aha! Thank you. It was the option "Superscript ordinals as they are typed" which confused me. It seems that this option forces faux-superscripts in appropriate places. Thus when I type "18th", it uses the faux-superscript 'th'. But If I select the option under typography, I get weird results because Garamond has a 'proper' superscript 't' but not a superscript 'h'. Martin
  3. I'm having trouble getting Ordinals to work properly. In my chosen font (Garamond Pro) , if I type a phrase like "19th Century", the t of '19th' appears as superscript, but the h doesn't. In Times New Roman the superscript goes very weird, as you can see from the screenshot. For what it's worth, "Superscript ordinals as they are typed" (in Settings) is switched off, but "Ordinals" (in the Character Palette), is on. Martin S Taylor Sonoma 14.0; Publisher 2.2.0
  4. My point exactly. Better still, if Next Style is set to '[Same Style]', then don't strip the character style or local attributes. But if Next Style is set to the name of the paragraph style itself (not currently an option) then do strip them. MST
  5. That's the problem. The style I'm working in is called 'Listings'. If I could set Next Style to be 'Listings', this would probably work, but I can't do that – 'Listings' isn't there as an option. All I can choose is '[Same Style]', and this doesn't strip out local formatting, as I've explained. MST
  6. Yes, you're right and your workaround is good. I'm just a little surprised there isn't a way to start the new paragraph and automatically begin with a fresh text style, as it were, with no local formatting. MST
  7. I have a Text Style (called 'Listings') set up exactly how I want it. The text is in Garamond Regular (ie. not italic). However, I need the last few words of each paragraph to appear in italics. Easy to do, either with a Character Style or a local Italic override. But now I hit <Return> to start a new paragraph and the text continues to appear in italics. I'd like all that local italicising to be cancelled, so that the new paragraph begins, automatically, with the text style 'Listings', exactly as I've defined it – without italics. It's easy enough to cancel the italics manually. Or there's a stupid workaround, where I can define two identical text styles, 'Listings' and 'Listings 2', each of which is followed by the other. But this is a bit daft. Am I missing something here? Is there no way to clear local formatting automatically when I start a new paragraph in the same Paragraph Style? Martin
  8. Seems straightforward enough to me: if you buy in Jersey, the price is £89.99; if you buy in mainland UK, the price is £74.99 + VAT. Serif can charge what they like in different countries. If you prefer your extra £15 to go to Serif, buy it in Jersey; if you prefer the £15 to go to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, buy in the mainland. Martin
  9. It is baffling that Affinity are letting this drag on so long without resolution, or even comment. If it's Affinity's fault they should fix it. If it's Apple's fault they should keep pestering Apple until Apple fix it. Martin
  10. Certainly you need a driver, but I'm pretty sure there's a driver for Canon printers built into the MacOS. I never installed anything from Canon onto my Mac – I just plugged in the printer-scanner and it works (except with Affinity, which is why we're here). You certainly don't need Canon's tools for scanning – Apple's work just as well, though you can use Canon's if you prefer them. I don't understand what you mean here. MST
  11. Better still, use Apple's "Image Capture", which comes as standard with all Mac software. Martin
  12. Turning hardware acceleration off makes no difference. I get a similar result to Wilfred Hildonen, but only scanning in Black and White at 200dpi. Other resolutions, and colour scanning are fine. However, it won't scan at all if I set the scan to 'Text': "Scanner reported an error An error occurred during scanning." No problems using Image Capture. Martin
  13. I don't know if this is the same bug, but scanning at 200dpi doesn't work – or rather, it produces weird results which other scanning programs don't produce. See the attached file. Martin Scanning bug.afphoto
  14. For some reason they used the control key for this in Affinity Photo. The option key works as you described. Yes, it does. But one of the huge strengths of Macintosh has always been consistency between applications. For example, in 1980, to Quit a program sometimes it was Quit, sometimes it was Exit, or Stop, or Leave, or QQuit.... Apple put an end to that by saying it had to be 'Quit'. Similarly, all programs use Cmnd-X for Cut, Cmnd-V for Paste, etc. This consistency is worth maintaining, and I, too, would prefer it if Affinity marquees used the same keys as every other Mac program, sc. hold Shift to add to a marquee, Command to subtract from it. MST
  15. Hi: I have a Canon TS8350 printer-scanner. If I use it to 'Acquire Image...' in Affinity Photo I can scan documents directly into Affinity. However, the box which allows me to control the parameters of the scan (resolution, image size, etc.) has an option for Image Correction. If I use this box to correct the image using the scanner software (or possibly MacOS), Affinity scans the image but then immediately crashes. Consistent and repeatable. Martin S Taylor iMac Pro, MacOS 10.14.6; Affinity Photo 1.9.3
  16. I set up a document with A5 pages and print it as a 'booklet', ie. two-up onto A4 paper. In the Print dialog I set 'Document Layout' to be 'Booklet'. If something is selected in the documents, then under 'Range and Scale' I have the option to print just the 'Selection'. If I take this option and then try to print, Publisher crashes. Consistent and repeatable. I'm on an iMac Pro running the latest Mojave. Martin S Taylor
  17. Thanks, done. Also, there's an advantage in having a pop-up menu if you right-click the title of the document: you can see where the document is stored in the Finder without actually having to open a Finder window and leave Affinity. Only a small advantage, but it's there. MST
  18. What's the protocol here for saying "I agree"? Do I say "Me too"? Or "+1"? Or post a graphic of a thumbs up? Whatever, I strongly agree with WestSlopeGuide. Please allow right-clicking on the title of the document to reveal the current file in the Finder. Consistency across all Mac apps is (well, used to be) one of the biggest advantages of using Macs, and we really should do all we can to maintain it. Martin S Taylor
  19. Thanks, haakoo. We knew all this. The problem is that moving the line segment repositions the handles at both ends of the line segment, and that's not what we want. anon2 has shown how to do it.
  20. Yes, I'm sorry, you're right, of course. I forgot to hold down the option key. I find it a bit weird that the pen tool works in such a totally different way if a node is selected. I still think it would be more intuitive to have this function devolved to the Node Tool (isn't this exactly the kind of task that the Node Tool is for?), but you've at least shown me how it's possible to do what I need to do. And between us, I think we've corrected a lot of misapprehensions on the part of others in this thread. Cheers, Martin
  21. Yes, and thank you anon2. That, at least, is a way to do it. But you first have to use the Node Tool (to select the node), then go the Pen Tool, then possibly reverse the direction of the curve (is there an easy way to see which way round the curve goes?) then opt-drag out the selected node, then (very likely) go back to the Node Tool to make some fine adjustments. The other awkwardness is that if the node currently has no handles, you have to add two handles and then delete one of them, which seems a bit ridiculous. I'd simply like a way of using the Node Tool to add one handle, and since opt-drag doesn't currently do anything different from ordinary dragging, it's available for this purpose.
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