Jesse Covner

HI, I'm trying to export a 218 page PDF for lightsource POD. Notable specifications below. The export hangs, with progress bar stuck around 80%. Please help. Use DPI: set to 300 Compatibility: set to PDF/X-1a:2003 Color Space: CMYK Profile: CGATS_CRPC1.icc (this is the profile you installed at the start of this tutorial) Honor spot colors: NOT checked Include bleed Embed fonts: All Fonts

I don't understand how hiding / exposing the grouped layers is different from hiding the master pages... oh you mean hide it in every page instead of hiding on the master at once? PDF/X-Change seems to be only for Windows and I'm on a mac. Oy.

Hi Lagarto, I already have a Text and Image layer in the the master; I used the text to put page numbers in master On the page (not master), in layers, I can't drag the text layers into the master "Text" layer. I don't want to hide the layers; the customer is requiring that the layers be hide-able (images, anyway) on the reader, not hide-able on a per-page basis. If there is a way to get the text frames into the master layer Text, would that put them all on one "global layer"? Once I import them into PDF/X-Change, that can then re-export as one PDF, with all fonts, etc? Is it PDF/X-Change Viewer or Editor? Editor is not free... if I'm going to spend money, would it not be better to use Acrobat Pro? Or does that lack the ability we are talking about?

The project is already in Affinity. I need to deliver this feature though. So I need to convert the PDF to be able to have a "graphics layer" the user can turn off, or I need to redue the project... which is about 40 hours of work. Adobe Acrobat, which I think is the #1 reader, has this functionality. Apple Preview does not. The customer needs the pdf to give to its customers and so this is a requirement.

OH... boy. I have a major problem then. I guess I should start researching about if Acrobat Pro can merge the layers in pdfs into a few "global layers". Do you know if that's possible? EDIT: BTW, the ability to hide a layer is in the reader. But the PDF has to have layers which cover the whole document to use this I believe.

Hi, I'm working on a graphic-intensive 200 page project. My customer requires that I have a single layer running through the document for the graphics so that end-user can turn off the images, in order that the PDF runs better on lower-spec machines (including older iPads). In inDesigh I create a layer for the whole book but in Publisher each layer is connected with just 1 page. How do I accomplish this?

Just wondering... why not do this with create a new text frame that goes across a page?

To add to this, I really REALLY hope that if they implement this feature, they make a Rich Text File export option. Already if you copy text it will also copy text styles. It seems that implementing a script that will copy all the text from a "story" (I forgot what Publisher calls this... "article"?) would be pretty easy. Linking multiple stories may be really difficult but that should be on the user to piece together.

No problem. But my question is still the same: what specifically is the use case? In Publisher, when would you ever tilt a canvas to 27 degrees? Artists don't turn their physical canvases while they paint. I'll admit the big problem with this (besides not knowing how to turn this off) is that in Adobe products, alt+ mousewheel is zoom (accept in free Acrobat Reader). Control key allows panning left-right. So for people coming from Adobe products, they have to unlearn a muscle memory. A still need adobe to make form fills, as Publisher does not do this yet. To me, allowing alt+mousewheel to control brush size in photo is really a no-brainer.

Wow. Awesome. I really think this should be unchecked by default. Or maybe it's just me. CAn you tell me what is the use of an incremental canvass rotation?

Thank you. This is quite helpful. That being said, I don't see a purpose of rotating the document by small increments; the ALT + mousewheel could be used to change brush size. (in Photo). I'm sure we can think of better usages of this.

In inDesign, alt+mousewheel is zoom. Which is good. In Publisher, it rotates the canvas by small increments, which is silly and useless. There does not seem to be a setting to change this. How about change alt+mousewheel to pan left/right?

Shit. I keep coming up on some things that inDesign can do, which seem like minor things until they are missing. Exporting text- and preferably to Rich Text - is CRITICAL. If client has too many edits after layout is done, I need to be able to hand back the text to edit, including changes done in Publisher, which includes headings, and paragraph style changes. If I do writing directly in Publisher so that I can see how it works with layout, I need to send this out for editing. Exporting as rich text is pretty necessary for this top of work flow.

I second Jayellis's point. Publishers work in teams with others. Collaboration requires sending section out. It often means creating different variants of a particular section.

Hi There, I would like to explain to Affinity product managers just why this is a critical feature, along with some better way to create "book" files. I'm publishing books. I don't write them and papers. I have to send these out to 4 different teams to work on them. The teams get PDFs. I cannot edit the PDFs bookmarkes, then receive feedback from the teams and then manually recreate the bookmarks again. Please add this feature and let us know when it will be implemented.