Jim Slade
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I bought Publisher but have not been able to use it due to the lack of footnotes and separate files. I did not ask for a refund. Even though I could not use it, I figured I was making a small investment in the future. It sounds like my investment has paid off.
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2 hours ago, Seneca said:
I love the video. It's a wonderful teaser.
I had no problem with the video. It simply says there will be an announcement next week.
If the announcement is lame ..... we can savage it.
If the announcement is good news, we can celebrate. That is what I am hoping for. These folks at Affinity have done some impressive work.
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I bought publisher as a small investment in the company, knowing that I would not be able to use it. I that was was a little something I could do to help people get off Adobe as soon as possible.
Adobe has demonstrated why the public should never fall for the subscription model scam. There has been virtually no improvement in Creative Suite in 20 years.
Of course the same could said about M$ Word which is trying to sell the subscription mode as well. I had to upgrade from Word 2011 to Word 2021 when I got my M1 Mac. I have yet to find any feature improvement that benefits me. Word still cannot justify text with any degree of reasonableness. Word still can't hyphenate property. Word's style handling is still atrocious. The only thing new I have noticed is the "read aloud" command where the OS did (and still does) the same thing for you.
I am looking forward to Nov. 9th.
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Is there any news on potential updates? I bought Publishers in the hope that books spread across multiple files would become available soon. I have not been able to use Publisher at all because, when I try to load the 400 pages with illustrations, Publisher says it's out of resources and crashes.
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Spoiler
Thanks much. Worked. I should know by now not to follow the instructions.
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I would like to stretch part of an image to form the spine and back of a book cover. I just want to have a rough color match with the cover photograph.
This video appears to do what I want.
I says select the area to stretch with the rectangular marquee tool. CHECK
Press "Q" Check
Select Move Tool CHECK
Resize the selection CHECK
Press "Q" @@#$#@#$
At 5:35 where he presses "Q", the eight circular indicators for the Move tool remain on the screen so that he can resize the selected area.
For me the selection indictors just go away when I press Q and I cannot resize.
What I am missing?
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Thank you very much. Suspected that would get the general approach but did not know which one(s) to use. That seems to fix the problems.
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I have some photograph scans that come out with striations when I export in Indesign. On the screen I can see the striations at certain zooms (as in the top) and at others the disappear (bottom). I don't see the striations in the PDF but they reappear when printing. This makes me suspect something funky with the image.
I was wondering if there is something I can do (e.g. filter) in Affinity to correct this problem. I have never seen this before.
I have some scan
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12 hours ago, fmommeja said:
Footnotes are the last frontier to reach/overcome InDesign features !
Go for it guys !
And if you implement this as cleverly as you did it with other features, I'll leave Adobe for good.
I add couple more:
1. The ability to split books into multiple files. My books I have exported get a resource error when I try to import them into Publisher. (as urgent as footnotes).
2. Paragraph composition.
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I have 800 files in a directory. I create a new batch job.
I try to add the files. It took about 10 minutes for Photo to allow me to select the files.
Now I have them selected and the OPEN button is highlighted but it took about 5 minutes after clicking for the dialog box to disappear and the files to be added.
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Here is an example. I have drawn some blue lines that make the correct spots for some of the grid. At you move to the top the image falls short of the grid lines. At the bottom, the image falls to the left of the grid lines. The towards the bottom left, they are shifted to the left.
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I have blueprints that have become warped in the scanning and microfilm process.
The blueprints have reference lines that should be vertical and horizontal but they are neither and they are not straight.
Is there some kind of transformation where I can identify lines that should be horizontal and vertical and adjust the image with different amounts of rotation by area?
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1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:
Do you mean stretched out in one direction only? Twice as wide as the original but the same height?
Yes
1 hour ago, David in Яuislip said:New Batch Job
set H as h/2
Untick A
set Resampler as Bicubic
This seems to work with w/2
I cannot find any documentation for it.
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I received 1000 documents that had been scanned 2 pixels x for every 1 pixel y making them stretched out.
I tried Document>Resize Document and the image does not change.
I tried Document>Resize Canvas and the image gets cropped.
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Here's another one that works with Photoshop but not with Affinity Photo.
Almost always it's the other way around but in this case .......
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I have 1.10.5
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I am getting a no panorama found message when I click "Stitch Panorama." Hmmm.
This is my Photoshop version.
I do thousands of these and it is extremely rare for Affinity to fail and Photoshop to succeed. It is extremely common for Photoshop to fail and Affinity to succeed. Plus the output from Photoshop is not nearly as good.
Sounds like something funny may be going on with my sustem if you folks can do it.
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Here is an odd example where Affinity fails to find a Panorama but Photoshop does. Usually, it's the other way around.
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8 hours ago, kfriis said:
In my case: Why continue to waste time on maintaining software no longer in actual use on several platforms? Software lacking key features for many if not most of my use cases.
I find Affinity Photo to be better than Photoshop. So Affinity has crossed one of my Adobe products off my list.
I have bought Affinity Publisher but cannot use it because of the need for footnotes and to be able to break large documents up (Publisher gives a resource error and crashes when I try to import all my book chapters). I keep publisher around in the hope that I can get rid of my 15-year-old copy of InDesign. I view the Publisher license fee as an investment in the future. (But I wish you folks would hurry up on those.)
So I am 50-50 on Affinity, which makes me pretty happy at the moment.
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To merge from several separate source files; not to combine files into one big one. When I try to import my separate book files, I get a lack of resources dialog box then publisher crashes.
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If there is a charge to upgrade V2, I hope there will be come inexpensive upgrade path.
I have not been able to use V1 at all because of a lack of footnotes and the inability to merge separate sourxce files. I bought V1 in the hope that these deficiencies would be fixed soon.
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A customer's bug is a vendor's feature.
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But if PhotoSh&* reads it and Photo does not, which is the superior product in that regard?
There are all kinds of things that can be read rationally that do not strictly conform. Think of the JPEG file format morass.
Strict conformance on output does not require strict conformance on input.
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Attached is a TIFF file that apparently has issues. If I try to open it in PHOTO I get
"Failed to Open File
The file type is not supported."
However, going to to the generally inferior photo program from the company in San Jose that likes to sodomize pigeons—I mean customers— I get:
"The embedded ICC profile cannot be used because the ICC profile is invalid. Ignoring the profile."
From there I can manipulate the image—but I feel dirty afterwards.
It would be an improvement if Photo could handle such an issue in a TIFF file.
Footnotes/Endnotes
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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That would be layout (largely justification) based upon the entire paragraph, rather than line-by-line. LaTex has done that forever. InDesign does it. But most don't.
Justified Word documents look funky because it justifies by line by inserting space.
Beyond better look, a benefit of paragraph composition is that relatively small paragraphs do not cause the paragraph length to change much. If you have a document with manual references (e.g. legal work with a table of authorities), fixing a few characters in a document does not cause much text shifting to pages that throws you references off.