[Importing text styles]

Miaoooo rrrrrr!!

[Can't get autoflow working (copying text from LibreOffice)]

Sorted, ta muchly. What was making the frame elongate (slightly) was the red eye outside the frame. It turns into a sort of flying saucer banking steeply when the frame extends. It distracts one's attention from the tiny triangle which is the important thing. Maybe it's just me (quite possible - I am an awkward sod), but I think that triangle could do with enlarging. (I'm not the most awkward sod around - what I'm importing is an article by someone who wants it publishing as he created it. In a mix of Calibri Bold and Times Roman in the heading, and Helvetica for the text with the first page paragraphs starting with a space, but flush on p2. Our house font is Calibri, and we don't normally do centering by eye or the underlining of titles, and normally use justified text. I'm wondering if he will notice that his Helvetica will actually be Arial or Liberation Sans - as I don't have Helvetica on this machine and am not proposing to get it (over the road may have it on her Mac). They're both the same as Helvetica in area occupied. I've given him sample pages his way and our neat and clean Calibri house style. He prefers his. He can have it...) Again, thanks. I wish all support forums were as quick and to the point as this one.

[Can't get autoflow working (copying text from LibreOffice)]

It's just the same with a piece of text from a PP X9 document, BTW.

[Can't get autoflow working (copying text from LibreOffice)]

I'm copying two pages (1188 words) from LibreOffice (I don't use MS Word) into a Publisher document (. I get one frame on one page with a little red thingy at the right hand side. I've read Help, and other info, and I've pressed Shift and clicked it. All I get is a slight lengthening of the text box with the text becoming invisible a short way below the page. I've tried doing it with Alt and click, and even Shift-Alt and click. I'm doing this on Win 10 with the latest update of Publisher (yesterday). I know there's invisible text because I lengthened the text box and slid it over the page below. After copying and pasting five times... Bringing text in from contributors is essential. Why does it seem to be so hard to do in Publisher, when it was so easy in PP (and, in my case PageMaker before that...)? Or am I not doing it right? Publisher Help is not the easiest manual I've come across,especially without an index. But having an index that can be browsed through is a bit old fashioned now, I suppose.

[Importing text styles]

Sorry, can't find the manual. It was only an idea. Just discovered that when you press the button, you can advance from one green flash up to four green flashes.  What that means is beyond my ken. Not noticed any difference in anything yet. Probably won't if it's a gaming thing. Just been searching and worked out that it affects mouse speed. Thanks for that. I now know why my mouse speed drops occasionally. It's quite easy to catch this button, and I hate working with a slow mouse.

[Importing text styles]

I had a bright idea this morning, remembering that my mouse has a dpi button. These are apparently for gamers, but as I only play FreeCell not much use to me. Seems to come with it being a 7 button mouse. I insist on at least 5 buttons (there don't seem to be 4 button ones) as I copy and paste a lot and having two preset buttons saves time. Unfortunately, in a test this morning, the dpi button doesn't seem to change the dpi setting of Affinity Publisher. If I do find out why this happened, I'll post here.

[Importing text styles]

Yes, all Publisher docs. I didn't bother trying to import from PP. (Just looked - you only get the option of Publisher files.) No overrides. No actual text in the doc being imported to. I set the text styles myself in the doc the pdf was opened in.

I never thought to look at dpi as I've never changed it. It's always on 300 for laser and copier work. But, I've just looked at the dpi in some dummies I've set up now and they were on 144. The template I've used is on 300, and is set to our text styles. (Originally my colleague's styles designwise, but actually set as text styles when I took over about 5 yrs ago finishing up on PP X9). Migrating two projects now to Publisher via pdf - one quite successful and the other just getting sorted. I've binned the dummies with 144 dpi and imported successfully to the others.

Thanks to both of you again. I still don't know how this happened, but I'll be keeping a careful watch on it.

[Importing text styles]

It's that Luddite again. I'm trying to import text styles from one document to another. In the source document, they are fine. Leading is set to %, and sizes are right. When they come through, something that was 16 pt is now 5.3 pt (and simillar weird alterations to other sizes), and leading is back to 'exact'. The look of the style is OK - caption is italic, and HEAD LEFT is bold. But a heading in 5.3 pt is not very much good. Except perhaps on A8 for pixies......  BTW is there an easy way to delete in one go all the styles that are provided? I don't use any of them in normal work (I have my own HEADINGS) and the only one I might like to use is 'box' (but I can always always draw one). When I've got mine in, it's hard to find them if I just import without clearing first.

[Wanting to default set line spacing (leading to me...) to % of height and 120%]

I'll give it a go on Win 10...  Thanks again. I know I'm a bit reactionary. Then again, I've never been setting big glossy magazines and strange paper sizes and fashionable layouts. (sigh)  I did do a very local newspaper once - on 'Mac OS 2' with PageMaker 3. I find this forum great for the speed of replies.

[Wanting to default set line spacing (leading to me...) to % of height and 120%]

Yes, I know many people want the exact setting. For what I do, %height is way the easiest. How can I set this to be the default instead of tthe current default of 'exact' which has given me (and the colleague I'm passing all this on to) headaches? I now know how to change to %height. What I'd like is to have it the other way round. I can always change to exact if I find a need (which I haven't so far...). What I don't want is to have to set %height every time I start something new.

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

Thanks to all. The split line problem is just one of those things that have to be lived with, I think. The restoring of some missing faults has cured the rather weird appearance of the file. Sorry for delay in replying - have spent past two days 'driving' imaginary vehicles along obscure back lanes looking for road signs, etc, so that other people will know where to turn when they visit certain camp sites - or at least they can't blame up when they satnav their route and it takes them the wrong way... When this thing is out of the way, I'll look into other methods of transferring data. I've only really used pdf, but in my PageMaker days there was something else I rarely used as most of my stuff was printed in house. Thanks again.

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

A lot of furious clicking at the other end of the line reveals that it appears to be cloud based. She did have a major job done not long since, so we will probably have to reinstal. And several other fonts too, no doubt. I don't go for cloud based things. Or things like Microsoft Office that you have to rent. I paid for X9, and the Affinity suite because they are reasonably priced (but hard to find things in...), and I use LibreOffice for the things it's good at, like spreadsheets and labels from a database (and it's free...). Will be back at it tomorrow. Both out tonight.

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

The pdf was published last year from PP X9 for a group emailing. It was opened this year in Pub and tidied up as in the screenshot with the map in it. The saved afpub file was sent to my colleague, with problems that only show on the Mac (both full size and laptop). I have just discovered that Affinity on the big Mac seems unable to access the Calibri font. This is present on the Mac, and Word accesses it with no trouble. In Pub, it's shown as ?Calibri on the font indicator when text is highlighted, but Calibri does not show up in the font list. I don't know what it is displaying in, but it's a heavier looking font. Calibri works well on this Win 10 machine, and used to on the Mac (can't speak for the laptop, though). But apart from that, in the Mac display lines of text are split as they were when the pdf was opened, but these were corrected by me on Win 10 before saving as afpub. I'm used to that happening when importing things - I once had an article from someone typed on an iPad or similar that had three words on each page. (It was a three A5 page article when I'd taken it into LibreOffice, removed all the page breaks, and reimported it...).

To Dazmondo: I have never come across 'package' as a way of doing things, never having had need to find out what it was. (If you're a carpenter, you seldom need a spanner, and mechamics have even less need of planes...)

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

I'm sure I only put those on once...

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

The Screenshot (2) one has some info blanked by a white(ish) box - that is deliberate. Otherwise, that is as it should be. Both should be two A5s up on A4 Landscape. On the Mac one, the map page has the bottom legend on two lines. Margins are set to 1 cm all round and a central gutter of 2 cm. This is because there may be printing on domestic printers of uncertain (to us) types.

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

Yes, they have the Affinity suite, and the fonts are installed on both. I would send screenshot if I knew how - on both systens...  It's a few years since I did one on XP, and haven't needed to on Win 10 up to now. and haven't a clue on Mac. (I used Macs at work up to OS8.6, when there was a change in policy because someone couldn't connect the office Macs onto the new network. A bit of empire building, I thought...

[Problems with affpub file sent from Win 10 to Mac]

I've transferred the contents of a PP X9 file to Publisher via pdf, tidied it up as I expected to have to, and saved it as affpub. When emailed to the Mac user over the road, it comes out looking like the untidied up straight from pdf file. When mailed to myself, it comes out in the tidied up version. My colleague swears at her Mac frequently, but in a case like this, it's obviously a Win 10 fault. (sarcasm...) Any ideas, please? The file in question was originated on XP, and transferred to Win 10 quite successfully where I have both Publisher and PP X9 installed (masses of previous work). I don't want to have to set it up again. Especially if I have to do it on her Mac with that horrible one surface does everything mouse. (not sarcasm...)

[Turning off superscripts in ordinal numbers]

Thanks for that! And it's not just a doc by doc thing, either. I've now only got straight to typographic quotes left turned on. (I do need that one - most incoming material here is from people who wouldn't know one from t'other, but straight quotes look so typewriter these days, don't they....) 8-)

[Turning off superscripts in ordinal numbers]

I am trying to turn this feature off. When I type 23rd, I want 23rd (all the same size) not 23rd (superscript position) like Word prefers. How can I stop this happening? A lot of people seem to like this style. I hate it. When I try to alter it, it returns immediately. In PP X9 correction was possible. I've had to migrate a document from PP to Aff Pub for a colleague to work on with a Mac. There must be some way of stopping this feature.

[Default Margins]

Thanks for the speedy replies. In my post I didn't really mean locking guides _ , but the margins in the Guides Manager. Lock guides was the only thing I could find and I knew that that was something else. In my Guides Manager (from the View menu), I get the four boxes and nothing alongside other than the up and down arrows on each box. There's a colour box underneath. I think there's another place that I found once but can't again for setting margins. (I'm getting a bit confused at present as I'm having trouble with leading and am trying to sort that out as well.)

[Default Margins]

" it makes it quicker if you enable the "uniform margins" lock so you only need to enter the size in one box. " - OK, I've looked everywhere I can but I can't find a 'uniform guides lock'. Either in the Help or on Bing. I found 'Lock guides', which as I expected locked the guides on the page. This is on the Win 10 machine, in case that makes a difference, and version 1.9.2.1035.

[Default Margins]

Thanks very much. We've been having a brainstorming session and ended up creating a flock of templates (one of which got away, and was discovered roosting in the cloud...). The labels I refer to are ones for pasting onto things, not the self-adhesive Avery sort. (I use LibreOffice for those as I have to print most of them from a database.) These are printed in sheets on A4 and either hand guillotined by me or scissor cut by whoever. We can't print to the edge of the paper, and to allow for older machines we use 10 mm as a basic setting. (I'm still using an HP LaserJet 5P from the 1990s - I've had it nearly 20 years now). 20 mm gutter gives a safe 10 mm all round. We're feeling pleased with ourselves at the moment because we've taken a PP created file from XP and moved its contents into AP on a Mac and updated the info in it, and created new versions for new people (this is a double sided business card which was a bit of a b to set up in the first place for assorted reasons). Once again, thanks.

 

[Default Margins]

Sorry about being late in replying. Thanks for your answer, but I've already discovered that help feature - and found it unhelpful. (I've continued using PP X8 on XP in the mean time.) Now that I've got a bit more time to myself, I've got to get my friend into working Publisher on her Mac. She, like me, wants a 10 mm all round margin, and wants to set it as default, as do I. The standard default is useless to us, and resetting every time we create a publication is a damn inconvenience. We both know how to SET margins and fonts. We want to know how to KEEP the settings for all documents we open, be it on A4, A5. or A6. We don't want a string of templates - we just want a ready to use 10 mm every time we open. (And which we can ignore when doing online posters that don't have a printer/copier edge requirement). BTW we could do with setting a default gutter as well - 8.5 mm is not much use when printing A6 labels 4 up on A4. We know we're not up at the high end of the market. We're not producing glossy magazines because the societies and charities we do work for can't afford glossy magazines. But they want something better than they can produce for themselves on MS Word etc.

[Default Margins]

I'm wanting to set my A4 / A5 (and indeed all) my default margins to 10 mm all round as my work is mainly for laser or photocopier printing. 25/25/25/30 may be OK for book set up or something, but for 32 page A5 mags that only need open end trimming 10/10/10/10 is fine. I started out on PageMaker 3.0 on Mac and taught it for a time on Mac (with plug in hard drives...) and then on PC with PM 3.0 on Windows 3.1. I finished on PM at 7.0, and then taught a colleague how to use PagePlus (without having learned it myself). She has PP X9, but I've got PP8 (on XP), and recently acquired Affinity Pub 1.8.5.703 (or thereabouts...) on Windows 10 and am now getting my head round it. I never found out how to change the default margin on X8, but I cheat by using previous issues as templates. It's still a damn nuisance having to reset when I do single sheet work. I know that margins are only a guide, but they make life so much easier. Back on PM, these defaults could be set. I'd like to change the defaults for text wrap too. (I also acquired Photo, and had Designer on a Win 7 machine but never did much with it. Having the three together side by side is great as I can tidy up the pics sent in before they go to press.)