tillulen

This feature is from illustrator (i used cs4).
this is very powerful features which allow to re-color any part of an object: symbols, shapes, groups etc'

It shows the user all the color used, and let him modify any of them.
saves the user time of selecting objects and sub object individually.
Attaching pic.

also the ability to make  a keyboard short cut to it is vey important.

I'm very miss this thing.
 
Thanks,
Rotem.

 

@Callum I’m not sure I understand. In my test file, both commands give the same results and are both displayed in the History panel as “Reset text formatting”. Are they in fact two ways to invoke the same operation?


Reapply Text Styles vs Reset Formatting.afpub

Hi Tullulen,
Reapply Text Styles re applies your chosen styles to your text which will over write any changes you have made to the text. Reset Formatting should just clear all formatting applied to the text.
Thanks
C
 

Dear Affinity team,
I really like the software, the Publisher really has the opportunity to replace the Adobe package in typesetting and graphic design. I've already started making youtube tutorials for friends in Slovakia to make their transition to AP as easy as possible. On the other hand, I would like to ask about the availability of some features (or if you plan to add them in the near future).
The text underlining is currently limited to functionality that is not absolutely usable for typesetting (crossing out decenders/loops, different line width comparing to stroke etc.). Adjustment of the offset and line thickness are missing. Typically, the typographer will simply set them up to avoid these visual problems. Since these are essential requirements for using this tool, do you plan adding them?

Is it possible to offset the underline of text, change the stroke type too, maybe dotted, or dashed? 

The interface for Text Decorations is looking like this. 
 
Confusing Dialog
You'd think adjusting the stroke weight would affect the weight of the underline - but this isn't the case - it adds a stroke around the text. 
 
There is no way to adjust the stroke weight of the underline - that or I'm missing something.

Hello team,
I would like to see more features for the underline function of text like controlling of the underline position, underline thickness and stroke style.
Thank you!
Best, Karl

Hi @tillulen,
I wonder what you mean by ‘fix’ when you say you want to find and fix the local formatting. Your list of things to find includes different fonts and sizes as well as italic and bold formatting.
We can go and fix all the italic by searching for it and applying a Character Style called Italic, same with bold text. If you have text in Gill Sans 16pt and a few characters/words in Courier 14pt. We can search for that if we know that there are instances of Courier (with or without specifying the size). But what is the fix in that situation? Do we want to keep the Courier or change it to Gill Sans? Same with colour of text or superscript or subscript numbers or baseline shifts.
Essentially we need to know, or at least suspect. that there are instances and we can search for them but what is the fix required?
I would set up Character styles for the things I wish to retain (Bold, Italic or Changed Font (to indicate something important)) and search and apply then go and reset the Paragraph style for the rest getting rid of local formatting which is not a character style.

Thank you! Sure, I knew that. I wanted a way to quickly pan and go back to editing text. I didn’t realize though that after pressing Esc the text frame remains selected, and pressing Enter activates the input cursor at the same position where I last left it. So for now I can use Esc, Spacebar+pan, Enter. I would much prefer one shortcut, perhaps Ctrl+Spacebar (Cmd+Spacebar), that would work consistently whether I’m in the text editing mode or not.

Issue:
In my Affinity Publisher documents, I tend to use the same text styles. When copying and pasting text between the documents, the styles get duplicated with a number added at the end. This happens even if the styles are identical. Example:

^ These are all the same style which have been duplicated when copy & pasting between documents. 
Solution:
When copying and pasting between a document, Affinity should ask the user how handle duplicate styles rather than just numbering them.
 
Here is an example of how it could work:

This dialogue box would pop up whenever copying and pasting text in situations where Affinity would currently just duplicate the style.
This dialogue box would be optional, activated first via an option in preferences, so users who like the current handling of style can chose not to activate the option. 
Merge Styles - Keep incoming definition This option will cause the two styles to be merged. All values will follow the source document. 
Merge Styles - Keep local definition This option will cause the two styles to be merged. All values will follow the local document. 
Create new style - This will create a new style (which is how Affinity currently handles it by duplicating the style and adding a number to the name).
Additional options:
Clear Overrides - Any differences between the local and incoming style will be discarded. 
Keep Overrides - Any differences between the local and incoming style will be kept as overrides. 
Save Overrides as character style - The differences can be saved as a character style. 
Example:
I have  "Document A" which has  text that has a style called "English translation". This is just Helvetica, bold text 12pt. 
I copy and paste this text into "Document B" that already has a style  called "English translation". If I select "Merge Styles/incoming" then the style from Document A will be used. If I click clear overrides, then any differences between the text in document A&B will be lost. 
 
Who would this be useful for:
This would be useful for users who regularly copy and paste text between Publisher documents.