jscriba

Hi, I've seen this issue through multiple versions of publisher on different printers: When text is sitting next to pictures on a page I find that parts of words of whole paragraphs appear bolder when printed out directly from Publisher. When I export a pdf first and print the page from Apple preview, the the problem disappears. I'm printing on the same printer (Xerox Versalink C7120) using the same printer profile. I've seen this in a Versalink C405, too. Look at the scans of a pdf-printout and the direct print from Publisher. On the bottom right the type's boldness changes in the middle the words "shade" and "for". The whole paragraph in the bottom third of the page appears semibold compared to what it should look like in the pdf. Does anybody have any idea what is causing this and how to avoid it? Round-tripping to pdf for printing is somewhat cumbersome and shouldn't be necessary, should it? Xerox Scan_20230418155527.pdf

Yes, please, please, please. As a long-time user of InDesign, step/repeat ist the one feature I really miss after moving to Publisher. All references to existing transform or alignment options miss the point. With step/repeat and the preview-option enabled you can quickly create 2-D arrays of text frames (or any object) and interactively see how any changes of offsets and horizontal/vertical repeat counters turn out on the page. Often, it's fractions of a mm for individual offsets that make the difference on how things fit at the bottom of the page. It's a great tool for certain types of design, and doing labels without it is a royal pain. I regularly need to do small stickers for firmware versions and the like, which might have 100 Labels on a page. No, you don't really want to do this using individual transform commands to first build a row and then duplicate rows. Please just steal it from InDesign instead of coming up with seemingly more elegant work-arounds. A simple dialog for entering the parameters is much more effective. (And those other tools you already have won't be spoilt.)

I love the fact that there seems to be no limit to the number of sampler you can observe in the info panel! But how do I tell them apart? In PS the 4 available samplers have little number 1..4 attached to the crosshairs in the picture. Hopefully, I'm just too blind to discover how to label these guys. Otherwise, a dozen samplers are pretty useless if you can't remember which is which.

I miss the ability to numerically edit the coordinates of control points on curves (adjustment layers). In PS, the input/output values of a control point are displayed and can be entered numerically, or - even better - precisely adjusted with the scroll wheel. Especially when working in LAB for detailed color correction, this precision is a must, as manipulations of the a/b-curves allow for great control of subtle color shifts but also wreck havoc on a picture if only slightly misadjusted.