[Designating one item in group for snapping etc? (Publisher)]

41 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Took me a while to figure it out. That is the Control key being held down when the four way arrow is shown close to the "centre" mark. Look at the bottom left of the window and you'll see a bunch of useful options.

 

I haven't even got to that point, I'm stuck at that bit right at the start. What's that circular thing that's clicked on?

[Designating one item in group for snapping etc? (Publisher)]

Thank you! That's exactly the info what I needed ☺️ Just to clarify, what is that first step where you have a small circle? Sorry for the noob question

1 hour ago, lepr said:

 

 

 

[Designating one item in group for snapping etc? (Publisher)]

I'm probably explaining myself badly.  The upload image gives you example, it is a group that consists of text boxes, shapes etc. I want the text box to be centre on the page (for example) but at the moment it uses the whole group as it's point of reference rather than the text box. Is there a way in publisher you can nominate an item in a group to be the thing it uses for such operations?

[Designating one item in group for snapping etc? (Publisher)]

Hello!

Is there a way I can select an object in a group to be the object that will be the thing that  will snap or align on a page while still keeping the other objects in the group in the positions relative to that key object.  i.e if I have a text box with an image etc next to it but want to centre that text box on a page while keeping that image in the same position in relation to the text box

 

Sorry for my convoluted sentence structure!

 

Paul 

[Publisher not compressing PDF export]

2 minutes ago, Alfred said:

If it hasn’t been converted to curves you’ll be able to select and copy the text in your PDF viewer. In Publisher, make sure you haven’t applied any filter effects such as a drop shadow, and review the settings displayed when you click on the ‘More…’ button in the Export dialog.

Oh okay, I'm with you now! No, no text has been converted to curves.  I've been playing around with export setting and checking the Rasterise Everything box and that seems to have halved the file size to a more respectable 7mb at 96 dpi

Thank you for getting back to me!

[Publisher not compressing PDF export]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, Paul.

Check that the text isn’t being converted to curves on export. That’s a common reason for ballooning PDF file sizes.

Thank you! And thank you for replying 🙂

Excuse my ignorance but how would I check if it's being converted to curves?

Cheers

[Publisher not compressing PDF export]

Hello there,

I've just finished an impact report for a charity I work for and when I've come to exporting to PDF the file size is @15 mb which is a bit big for emails etc. It won't compress any further no matter what settings I use. Usually these reports I produce will compress to about 2 or 3 mb quite happily when selecting small size PDF on the export menu but not in this case and I'm stumped as to why. I tried it in a trial version of Publisher 2 with the same result. The document is 28 pages long and not image heavy. Can you help?!

 

Paul

[Affinity Publisher keeps saying document is modified]

Thanks Dan, I'd also tried different compression settings with no luck or difference in file. A few of the images have really high DPI (over a 1,000 DPI). Could those be throwing a spanner in the works somehow?

Thank you for time and help!

[Affinity Publisher keeps saying document is modified]

6 minutes ago, Dan C said:

No problem at all, thanks for confirming that for me - if you open the Resource Manager, select your linked document and then click Update Resource you should hopefully find this toast stops showing.

I'm going to need a copy of your .afpub file and any linked resources in order to investigate this - can you please use the File > Save as Package option from Publisher into a new folder, then upload this folder & contents to the below link for me:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/8f4g2489zwGIcvyu5C5J

Once uploaded, please reply here to let me know - many thanks in advance

Hi Dan,

Thanks for looking into this for me! I can confirm I've uploaded the relevant package

Paul

[Affinity Publisher keeps saying document is modified]

Thanks for the feedback! It turns out a linked image was being reversed in the document, so I'm guessing that was causing the modified message every time? Still trying to work why exporting with the small digital PDF preset is giving me a large file (22-27mb) rather than the usual 1 or 2 mb files I usually get with this option on other documents?

Cheers,

Paul

[Affinity Publisher keeps saying document is modified]

Hi,

I'm running the newest version Publisher. It keeps telling me certain documents are modified even if I've only just opened them which doesn't make sense. Also, when exporting these as a small size PDF (72dpi images compressed etc) they are 22 mb in size which considering the original images aren't that large is ridiculous. Any ideas?

Paul

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