Stoney
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I agree, Old Bruce! Where does one go to disable that? I find a “reset default type styles” option.
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Thanks for the replies, Walt and Old Bruce.
Walt, yes, I made the expected edits to my text in the Context Toolbar. No matter if I set the leaded to 9pt it would remain at 12pt. Possibly creating a style BEFORE making a text box and BEFORE typing would do the trick. I’ll try that tecnique.
Old Bruce, no the ‘space after’ setting is “0” in all settings. “Shift > return” is not quite what I’m looking for.
Turns out the only solution I can find is the “Character” setting “Postioning and Transform”. The default seems to be 12pt. Changing that made the difference. I think I can make a style from the settings at that point. If not I may post again.
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Came across this year-old discussion today as I am a new Affinity user and have a similar issue with setting and/or editing the leading on a paragraph.
I’m doing a business card. I create a text box, set my font, size and leading and get an automatic “no style” in the “Text Styles” window. No matter what leading numbers I enter (in this case 8pt font size, 9pt leading) the default continues to remain at 12pt leading. I can try editing the style, creating a new style, entering 9pt in the upper bar but nothing will change the leading. If type the words in the text box the text style is automatically set to “No Style) regardless what I create in the beginning.
How can I simply place a text box, chose my font, size and leading and start typing? Why am I forced to use the “No Style” default settings and then try to edit them?
Is there a better way?
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Hasn't happened to me yet but I'm new to Affinity after many years with Adobe apps. Maybe it's a Mac thing but it's logical to expect an action as common as "select all" would look and work the same across platforms and apps. With Publisher, if I click on the text in a single page and 'select all' only that page in the document becomes highlighted. If it's a two-page spread only those two pages become highlighted. The remaining linked text on other pages in not highlighted. Granted, all the text will be copied whether highlighted or not - as I discovered - but it's normal to assume text must be highlighted in order for an action to affect it.
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This actually works, as I discovered. I would never have realized it worked, however, because the other text in the linked text boxes on the other pages in the file DO NOT BECOME HIGHLIGHTED!
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I'm new to Affinity Publisher and finding the transition from InDesign to be quite frustrating. For example, the simple process of highlighting all the text in a 6 page document so I can copy and paste into another application. It seems I can only copy text on a two-page spread even though all the text boxes are linked. What's going on here that I'm missing?
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Sorry, I only mentioned I was in trial mode as a way to say I'm new with Publisher, too, so I'm still working out the differences from InDesign. This is an odd one.
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Melamers, I'm using Publisher v1.8.3 on iMac in trial mode. Are you the same? On the Mac the Language & Region options includes a setting for "Preferred languages". You can add language options there from the pull-down list. English and English (U.S.) are both available. Try that.
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On 6/8/2020 at 11:57 PM, walt.farrell said:
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.
Do you have a plain "English" available for a Spelling Language?
FYI, the suggestion to change the computer's "Language & Region" works. I changed mine from Greece (where I live) to U.S. English (where I'm from), restarted Publisher and the language is now automatically set to U.S. English. Not sure how that change in the computer settings is going to impact anything else, though.
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I've done all the forementioned steps for the spell check options and still see only English UK in Publisher. No English US. My Mac system language setting is U.S. English, keyboard setting is also U.S. English.
Could the problem be that I'm still in "trial" mode?
I'm on an iMac running Sierra 10.12.6, live in Greece.
Publisher: Leading Override
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Thanks, I’m going to print that procedure and tack it up above my computer!!!