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It would appear from many comments that the "different set of users" it is aimed at want and need endnotes and footnotes. Which different set of users does not need it and what percentage of users of the Affinity products do they represent? The fact is that the footnote/endnote function is so fundamental that from what I see NOT having it driving many users away. Is there a timeline for when we can expect it? I'm about to start another major project but without the footnotes the graphic designer doesn't want me to use AP because it means he'll have to manually do all the footnotes. And there are a lot.

Yes, it seems Affinity attracts new users who then realise these (especially these but other problems as well) footnote/endnote functions are lacking and not even at the level of beginner-level apps like Pages and so HAVE to move on. Our own production team were excited to start using Affinity products before a major project last year but one by one went back to Adobe because it seems Serif have got their priorities terribly wrong or just refuse to address this elephant in the room. It is not possible that Serif don't see this factor is a primary priority that needs addressing immediately. Work seems to be continuing with development and so perhaps this is on the 'to-do' list but seriously, some of the developments that HAVE come out over the last 18 months are so irrelevant and absolutely not important compared to these glaringly obvious omissions. At first we were excited and would recommend Affinity products but now we actually tell people to steer away from them until they get this sorted.

Just finished a major book project: 272 pages with loads of illustrations and loads of footnotes. The proofing and re-editing was made incredibly laborious (perhaps four times as long) because of the need to go back numerous times to fix the footnotes. Especially, depending on the font used it can be really hard to see the footnote reference numbers in superscript in the body copy. Got there in the end but this and a couple of other issues with the text were the main reasons why we have decided to go back to InDesign until Affinity Publisher sorts out a few issues. One workaround may be to compartmentalise the body text into small units. When changes are made that pushes the text to the next page's text box, two more pages can be added there. At least that way the endless changes to the footnotes are contained within the space of a handful of pages.

Together the help of a graphic designer with 40 years experience we are in the last few days of a nine month project (thanks Covid lockdown!) for the reprint of a book I wrote in 1987. It's a big project: 272 pages, English and Japanese, 32 page colour section, 300+ illustrations and photos. In 1987 we did the lay-up with expensive colour seps, waxed bromides, layout boards and pencils. This time we did it with Affinity Publisher and Affinity Photo. Will, the designer, has used InDesign since Quark Express days but before this one I suggested Affinity Publisher. It has been a real time saver for many reasons and we both fell in love with many of the features, but boy oh boy we had some issues. Just thought I'd mention them for Serif's perusal. The footnotes problem has been covered elsewhere so will leave that. We found a useable workaround despite it being time consuming. I wrote and illustrated the book and had a lot of input with how I wanted it to look so used Affinity Publisher to get the bulk of it ready. Will added his experienced touch to tighten everything up and prepare it professionally. We were mostly working in two locations and i was constantly making changes so firstly had a lot of problems embedding the many images. Just wanted to say thank you as I am going to be using the Affinity suite and Will wants to as well but will continue with AI, PS and InD for a while yet. We just had too many head-scratching moments. The 1987 version became a big hit and second hand copies still sell for $1,000 a copy. We reckon this one is going to be even better largely thanks to Affinity. But the issues are real and worth mentioning, only because we want things to be easier for the next book (next year). Here's a conversation with Will just this morning:

Have created a book in Affinity Publisher. To prepare everything for print I am wanting to make the B&W illustrations at 400dpi and greyscale and the colour pics in 300dpi and CMYK. Yet I don't know enough to do both. It seems from what I have discovered so far it is either one or the other? Any advice?

I'm interested in this thread because I am also having a lot of trouble organising leading. I make adjustments as above but nothing changes. If I keep reducing the leading down to 1pt, still no change, then at 0pt it just turns into a jumbled as can be expected. So I know where all those adjustments are but they don't effect anything in the problem text. Then Dalan_fsu' suggestion worked. The problem then became that I want to use baseline grid. But it forces excessive leading in the footnotes at a smaller font. When I turn baseline grid off I can adjust the leading in footnotes as required but it screws up leading elsewhere. So how do I override the snap to the baseline grid b=for one particular text style?

Thanks!

Even basic apps like Pages have a robust footnote capability. I hear the point about releasing the product first then continuing development. Footnotes is an incredibly key fundamental for DTP. So I expect it will be added one day. BUT, what is the priority Serif have given it? DO we have ANY idea of the order of upcoming functions? Footnotes is so fundamental that I bought Publisher fully expecting it to be implemented. If it markets itself as an InDesign beater we need to see it ASAP.

I can't seem to make an adjustment to the leading override setting. I make the adjustment in the text style panel Paragraph > Spacing > Leading but the change I make doesn't do anything. The leading in one paragraph style is different to a second paragraph style even though the leading setting is the same. The Leading Override setting is different but I can't seem to adjust that so they are the same.

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