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GaryLearnTech

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  1. If you don't have a trusted third-party convertor to hand, don't worry. Try opening the PDF straight into Word. I've seen some impressive results, even with older versions of Word.
  2. Sorry - I should have double checked that. There goes my credibility! 😁 This should work: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Text/frameText.html Bad news - it does not appear to support the conversion of text frames in a linked series to Art Text, though I'd be happy to be shown to be wrong. Again. 😁
  3. I've just had a quick tinker with that and it appears that it does accept space characters - even simply typed manually. The only thing is that they are positioned on the outside left of the frame. Try turning on Text > Show Special Characters to see them. (NB the file you uploaded has more than just space characters at the start, though I'm not sure what they are.) If that doesn't quite give you the solution that you're after because of the inside/outside aspect, cheat. 😃 Use whatever characters you like to get the spacing right. Once you've confirmed that it's basically giving the result you want, undo as far as required, set the spacer text that I've highlighted below in orange to have opacity=0%. That'll hide it when you do the rect/polar distortion.
  4. I wonder if it's the "To convert frame text to artistic text:" section at the bottom of this page that you're thinking about? https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_frameText.html
  5. Yes, I remember that well. And the current 365 version of Word still does it. Is that modern enough for you? 😃
  6. @StewartTower - since you're a Mac user, there's another possibility that you could look at for converting .doc to .docx - Apple's very own Pages, which you'll already have. I've just done a quick test to create a .doc file in Word that was opened quite happily by Pages. Pages is unable to Export back out to .doc - but it has long been able to produce .docx files. File > Export To > Word…
  7. I'm sure a lot of us would agree that it's better to have a question that's easily explained like this than, say, an intermittent problem or a bug that we have to wait to be fixed. I'm pleased we were able to get you sorted in the end.
  8. Just to get it out the way, have you by any chance turned on the Ignore Modifier checkbox? I know that sounds like a dumb question, but I don't think I've ever noticed that until now! (To cut myself a little slack, I normally use the dark mode, where it doesn't stand out quite so much.) Doing a quick test with that option enabled seems to provide the experience you've described. Turning it back off returns it to expected behaviour.
  9. The same Affinity Publisher 2.1.1 and macOS 13.5 (Ventura) also export it it okay. We're talking about the occurrence under the Governing Board section, near the top left, yes? Beside the Editor? (Not the one in the second bottom line on the first page, which appears to be fine in your PDF too…) The upper left version is set in Time New Roman Italic (while the other version is in Georgia Italic). Previous experience with font misbehaviour would initially make me question the version in use. What version is it? Possibly more likely - do you have more than one version installed? Here's what Font Book says about the sole version I have installed: What version(s) and how many are on your Sonoma beta? If there are multiple installs, I'd be inclined to at least temporarily delete any not at the path shown above and try your export again. Actually, quit Publisher first, delete any surplus versions, relaunch Publisher and then try the export again. (You definitely should not try deleting the version in /System/Library/Fonts - that should be left well alone. But it would be … curious … if you had a newer version installed at another location.)
  10. Hi @hmshms and welcome to the forums. I can't account for the duplicate settings, but may I point out that your first screenshot shows a scrollbar on the right that suggests there's quite a few settings not shown. (I'm afraid I don't have a printer at home, so can't double-check before making this suggestion.) It wouldn't be the first time that I've seen an Affinity dialog box that "masked" some settings until you either scrolled or even resized the dialog box to make it a little taller from the default size.
  11. Hi @Poorukko and welcome to the forums. Try this: select one of the objects you want to recolour then choose the following menu command: Select > Select Same > Fill Colour Many other criteria are also available apart from Fill Colour and may suit better, but have a play with that option to get the hang of it. https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/selectByAttribute.html The related help page may be worth a review too: https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/select.html Hope this helps!
  12. It's difficult to tell from just the screenshot, but I wonder if part of the problem might be that you have somehow got two text frames - one exactly over the other - on page 25. And the upper has been linked to the lower (or vice versa). That might account for the text flow line flowing from lower right back up to upper left. Check the contents of your Layers panel…
  13. How about if you right-click (having first selected the Move tool) on one of the other cells? One with regular text? Just a single-right-click…
  14. Unless you have reorganised your Tools panel, it's the arrow at the top. https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_move.html In your screenshot, you have clicked inside a cell. Here's what you get if you right-click once you have clicked the Move tool.
  15. Indeed there is. Use the Tab Stops section of the Paragraph panel and the third control along from the left. Alternatively, the … control just to the right of that provides a composite controller for the three individual options to the left. In addition, it allows you to set one or more custom leader characters, as illustrated below.
  16. Change to the Move tool Single click your table to select it (ie don't click back into one of the cells) Cut (or Copy) Paste
  17. I know I'm going off at a slight tangent, but have you looked at the new-in-v2 Measure tool? It's in both Photo v2 and Designer v2. I've not had need to use it myself yet, but I remember seeing it (and an Area tool) featured when v2 was originally released. https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_measure.html https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_measure.html
  18. Hi @Julie Dalton Document and Application palettes are stored/only available within your Affinity app. System palettes are stored along with other macOS system-wide palettes and are therefore subject to slightly different rules. You can find a bit more about palettes here: https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/swatchesPanel.html As a test: Create a System palette and give it a distinctive name for the purpose of this demonstration. Go to, say, TextEdit and select Format > Font > Show Colours. Click the Colour Palettes icon (highlighted below) and click the drop down menu that currently shows "Web Safe Colours" - and you'll see your Affinity System Palette listed and available. Regarding your experience with sorting Document palettes actually doing anything, I'm getting the same as you. The option is offered but does nothing. However, it seems to work fine for an Application palette. (If it helps, you can export a Document palette and then reimport it as an Application palette.)
  19. Hello @Bootsy and welcome to the Forums! Since you didn't mention setting it explicitly, is it possible that you have simply overlooked the "Include entries before the TOC" option, shown below? The other one that might be affecting this would be the "Look in" setting, which probably needs to be set to All Text Frames.
  20. Hmmm. I can reconstruct your line breaking on my UK English machine if I set your text to "Suomi" under Languages in the Character panel and type the quotes. If I delete the quotes and set the Language to English UK and then retype the quotes, I get the expected "66" and "99" style of quotes and they do not exhibit this line breaking behaviour. If I go back to Suomi formatted text and change the Publisher preference Settings > AutoCorrect > "Change straight quotes to typographic quotes" to OFF - and then retype the quote marks, they come out straight (as you would expect) but there's no line break, even though we're still using Suomi for the language. So something about having "99" quotes at the start, as opposed to the selected language? Have you tried experimenting with the Mac's double quotes settings? I'm not sure if that will fix it, but it might be worth a bit of experimenting. Under Ventura, go to System Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources > [Edit]. (The same settings are there in older versions, but the path in to them might be slightly different.) A number of different styles are available there and you might find an acceptable solution? I know this isn't a solution, but maybe there's something that will give you inspiration?
  21. Hi @HeadStart It's not the text frame itself, it's the properties of the paragraphs within the frame - you've accidentally added a large Left Indent. Set that back to 0mm and that text will be back to being centred within the frame. Reset the Left Indent and it will automatically reset the First Line Indent at the same time. (When I say "reset", I mean simply enter a zero in the field - there's no actual reset button for that.)
  22. It's actually quite simple - but horribly subtle. Only reason I looked for it is that a colleague recently did the exact same thing. The main text frame on the page has had your 1/4" Square Text Wrap applied to it - I assume you've been using this on elements on your page and you had a momentary lapse of concentration when selecting your target (been there, done that, got the tee-shirt) - and that's knocking the page number down a little. Set it back to None (the same as the other pages) and the page number instantly goes back to its expected location. Baseline grids may be involved too (I didn’t check for that) but the accidental text wrap is the main culprit - and is fixed by a single click.
  23. I believe I know the workflow you're talking about, @ziplock9000 and have used it in the past myself a little. In my case, it was in Reallusion's Cartoon Animator (CA) before they dumped Mac users a a year ago. I could right-click an object and select something like "Edit in External Editor". That object would be sent straight to Photo (or Designer if I preferred), I could make my edits (probably flattening any newly created effects layers) and simply hit Save - not Export - at which point the edited graphic would go straight back to CA. No intermediate file required. (Well, there almost certainly was an intermediate file, but that part of the process was dealt with automatically in the background.) This workflow depended on CA being able to designate the external editor in its preferences and then setting Photo's General > Enable Save over imported PSD files setting to be ticked. I don't remember exactly but think this feature was introduced in both Photo and Designer at least three or four years ago. Does your game development software have a setting for the external graphics editor? I'm guessing it must since you were previously using it with Photoshop. If it's hardwired for Photoshop, then that's not Serif's fault. Still, in the absence of Photoshop, you might be able to rig up a workaround with file aliases or whatever the equivalent feature is called under Windows - shortcuts?
  24. I wonder… Font files can be stored in various locations. I have come across PDF export issues in the past when there have been multiple versions installed in other locations (Montserrat in my case). Probably not because there were multiple copies, but because they were not all at the same version. This can arise with these popular free fonts when some apps decide to install their own version for your convenience - over and above a version you have carefully installed manually yourself. If you're not familiar with the different locations to check manually, take a look in Font Book. Select an individual weight and check the properties - that lists the install location. It should be clear if you have multiple versions installed. Hope this helps!
  25. Hi @Jiri Skryja and welcome to the forums. I've just compared your list with the entries in my own firewall (Little Snitch). I'd suggest that you try creating an entry for "seriflabs.com" – in addition to the three you've listed. If that doesn't do the trick, there must be something else - and I'm sure one of the more experienced regulars will be along soon and put us right if that's the case. 😀
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