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That is absolutely okay, if it works for you. But in general, if you want to create bigger projects, you should better only import pure unformatted text into Publisher (or even InDesign- or Quark-) documents, and do all the formating in the layout software. That would be a rational workflow and would prevent a lot of problems and unnecessary work. It is generally a question of what you want to do. If you do all alone (text, photos, graphics and layout), and it is a small project, you can of course even write the text directly in Publisher.
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That would be cool. In my case, as I already said, the "Group lines of text into text frames" was already activated by standard. And it didn't work. Every line had its own frame. And depending on the content of the lines, some lines even were fragmented in several frames. May depend on how the PDF was exported. Possibly even from which software. However, you can try it, but it doesn't seem to be reliable. I tested it with two PDFs. One didn't work at all, because the text was converted to curves. The other one was probably written in Publisher, because it was an Affinity Tutorial. Edit: Just tested a third one. It's the same issue as the second one. Edit again: Tested a fourth one, I created with LibreOffice myself. This one worked better. It created text frames for every side. And, of course, no separation between Headlines and running text. So even not really normal running text, but a lot better than the other PDFs.
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Have you tried it out? In my case it was activated as I tested it. There are also some other problems as it seems. Some characters seem to cause breaks between text frames also. Will check this out a little bit in the next days. Interesting hint. But I'm afraid, not really a solution. By the way, I already had many similar discussions about PDF in other forums. It seems that there are many people out there to whom PDF seems like a kind of swiss knife or even a holy grail. Most times they finally got really angry if one clarifies the limitations. And in the end, as far as I experienced, it ended up most times with a lot of wasted time and bad results or no result at all.
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Yes, that seems to work somehow. That's interesting. But not really with normal text. As I tested it a minute ago, the text was fragmented into text frames for each line (not as bad as I experienced it soe years ago). So it is not really a normal running text. But maybe good enough for jamesgangcreative's demands.
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That's how I learned it in my apprenticeship as a Media Designer, about fifteen years ago. You can also read the Wikipedia or other sources for this issue. I made some experiments with PDFs by myself, some years ago, f.e. using PDF Expert. But I never got any usable result. Nevertheless, venturesome users may risk it anyway. But don't grouse if the result is messy printing. The verry verry least that you need to use the formated text of a PDF file for a new document would be the absolutely identic font, because every font has its own spacing and kerning, individual thickness (in german we call it "Dickte") and so on. And there is f.e. a huge amount of Garamonds, Times', Helveticas... from different Providers available. As I said, try if you really want. It's not my cup of tea.
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I'm not sure if I understand what you really want to do, but a PDF is not a storage file for content that you can "unpack" to a layout document as you like. If you write a PDF, all content on the source document will be coded in Postscript. It is not meant to work in the opposite way. As I already said, initially it was only meant to transfer layouts savely to the printing house. It was not supposed to be manipulated after that anyway. Since that days some inventions have been done that made it possible to manipulate even PDF files. But it is risky, because there can be made several adjustments on writing the PDF that can cause damaged files if you try to "unpack" a PDF, to use its content in other documents. Sometimes the text gets totally fragmented, as I experienced. Unless, sometimes it may work anyway. So try it if you want. But it is at your own risk. You should always be aware of that printing is verry expensive, and a goofed print job can't be reversed.
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You can't import PDFs into text frames. But you can import them into image frames. But you should be carefull with PDFs. For example, I made the experience, that, if I copied text from a PDF I created myself, there were more spaces in the text than I inserted. That possibly had to do with the formating and how the PDF export interpreted it. I think, this kind of experiments with PDFs is a verry good way to create damaged files and bad layouts.
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Just tested it with LibreOffice. It's true that RTF saves formatings. But TXT doesn't. So I would suggest to save source text for layouts as TXT (*.txt) file, to prevent formatings. To explain: in my old company we had people that wrote the text, others made the photographs and graphics and others had to make layouts outoff that stuff (with QuarkXPress and InDesign). I was one of the last ones. As far as I remember the text I got was always in RTF format. But I maybe wrong. It was some years ago. The important thing was that the text always had to be unformated, because, if it was formated, it always caused a lot of unnecessary work that did cost a lot of time.
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If I save text as RTF in LibreOffice, I always get a message that asks me if I really want to save as RTF, because it doesn't support formatings. Possibly a feature of Word? It's long a go that I worked with Word. Really don't know. But as far as I know, it's the same with TXT files. Don't know what Word does with it, but with LibreOffice also this works without formatings. Could be worth a test. Because the really important point is to prevent formatings in source text for layout projects, that only cause problems.
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I wouldn't do any formating in Word. It's much easier and better to do the formating in Publisher than to correct all the formatings, you made with Word, afterwards. If you insert images in your layout or you change the size of the text box, the margins and so on a little, all the preset formatings will be troublesome and cause a lot of unnecessary work anyway. Because of this I learned in my apprenticeship always to save source text in RTF (rich text format), that doesn't support formatings, so it will be absolut clean of formatings anyway.
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As I already said (and you can see in the layers panel on the left of my screenshot - "Ebenen" is the german word for "Layers"), I didn't attach the curve layer ["Mega Ship (Kurve)"] to the Brightness/Contrast layer, because if you do this, its effect will only be applied to the curve layer, and everything below will be cut off. In Olivio's tutorial this doesn't happen, because his background is more greyish, I think, and it also seems that he rasterized the curve layer, so that it is a pixel layer. Edit: I have to correct myself. Olivio had no curve layer in his image, so this couldn't happen this way. I also changed the gradient of the curve layer, so that the windows are on the hight of the shadow. That gives a better effect, I think. By the way, I'm not sure if light, that is shining through a window, really would produce such an extreme lightbeam in form of a spot light. Anyway, it wouldn't be the only lightbeam if there are more windows in a row. On my image, there is a bright light on one spot inside the ship, so through the windows to the left and right of that spot is lesser light shining. Nevertheless there must be some weaker lightbeams with wider angles coming through the neighbour windows, I think. It's all a matter of how realistic do you want it.
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During the last years I met a lot of people who had strange ideas of what PDF files are for and what to do with it. Some seem to think that existing PDF files could be a nice and cheap source to extract images and/or text from it (or even fonts) - without even thinking about copyrights and that there are possibly some adjustments made that could make the images and text useless for what they want it for, and so on. Some people even seem to think that PDF is the universal file format to save everything. As a kind of storage format or so. I always tell them then that PDF was primordial made to create printready layout documents that are not meant to be processed or to extract something from it. That was in the beginning one of the big qualities of this file format, because it was a reliable format for both sides - designers and printers - that even prevents them from legal controversies about damaged print-jobs. And even if I advise them to catch up some informations about PDF by themselves (for example from Wikipedia), they obviously prefered to shoot the messenger. So I'll better be quiet. 😄
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If this should not be a bug, so it can't be intended to the best affords of usabilty. If it always needs additional space for right and center alignment, so the program should be developed to add it automatically. That should be possible and would prevent the users from a lot of confusion and frustration, it would spare valuable working time ("time is money") and make the work more economical. Even the outdent to the left of the text frame should be possible somehow, I think, because it also works with the "Optical Alignement" (Character Panel). But if you like your accustomed workflow that much, nobody will forbid you to do it this way furthermore.
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Hi! I tried to create a numbered list in Publisher and wanted the numbers to be aligned to the right, while the following text is still aligned to the left, because it would look more aesthetic. But it seems not to work. I think the option "Tab Stopp right alignment" (screenshot) should do this, but it doesn't have any effect. By the way, "align right" was predefined. But none of the three options shows any effect. There are already two threads about this issue, as far as I can see: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/92543-does-anyone-have-a-good-way-to-do-‘fly-out-numbering’-in-publisher/&tab=comments#comment-492183 and https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/139881-align-numbers-in-numbered-lists/ My version of Publisher is 1.9.2.1035 on Windows 10.
