MikeTO
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This is great, thanks!
2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:The Scope pulldown for the States panel in Designer (Windows) shows Document, Spread, and Selection. Spread seems appropriate for Publisher, but odd for Designer in a document without Pages.
It's this way in Photo, too, because all of the apps can edit multi-page docs.
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1 minute ago, EmT said:
Hi @MikeTO
If you double click on the stroke rather than the segment line, then the Node tool will switch to the Move tool
I didn't notice that so I should have written path instead of stroke above, but if it's a thin stroke there won't be enough pixels to double-click on.
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I couldn't get this to work with Publisher but did with Pages, so perhaps it's not a supported feature. I wouldn't expect it to work unless Phone were listed as an option.
It worked fine with a PDF I created with Apple Pages. With Publisher, the PDF worked fine in Apple Pages and hard crashed Acrobat Reader. I couldn't find a syntax that didn't crash Acrobat.
Note that with Apple Preview, you have to right-click (Ctrl click) the link and choose Open Link or it will just give you a system beep and not make the call. With Acrobat Reader it wil just make the call after alerting you that the document is trying to do that.
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This is great, thank you.
The only thing I find odd with it is an inconsistency with unfilled paths. With the Move tool selected, you must double-click the stroke to switch to the Node tool because double-clicking the fill deselects. With the Node tool selected, you must double-click the empty fill to switch to the Node tool because double-clicking the stroke adds a node. You have to change targets to toggle back and forth.
Perhaps it would be better if double-clicking the empty fill always deselected and double-clicking the stroke always switched tools?
With an unfilled shape:
- Double-click on stroke with either tool switches tools
- Double-click on empty fill with either tool deselects, as apps always do
With a filled shape:
- Double-click on stroke with either tool switches tools
- Double-click on solid fill with either tool switches tools
With an unfilled path:
- Double-click on stroke with Move tool switches tools
- Double-click on stroke with Node tool adds a node
- Double-click on empty fill with Move tool deselects, as apps always do
- Double-click on empty fill with Node tool switches tools
With a filled path:
- Double-click on stroke with Move tool switches tools
- Double-click on stroke with Node tool adds a node
- Double-click on solid fill with either tool switches tools
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11 minutes ago, matw-web said:
Saw the latest Affinity Suite updates are available. Great! As I was looking over the release notes, I didn't seen anything that indicated this bug had been fixed, but maybe I'm missing something?
It's not fixed. I believe this was just a very small update to fix some new bugs that were introduced in 2.3.
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Here's what I've written for the next manual update. This illustrates why it's confusing—changing the Language for text frames and text objects at the same time requires selecting the language, changing tools, and selecting the language a second time even though it's already selected.
To change specific attribute(s) for the current default formatting:
- Create a temporary new document; its settings are unimportant because it will be deleted when you’re done.
- To change the defaults for text frames, choose the Frame Text or Table tool. Change any attributes you wish to change.
- To change the defaults for text objects, choose any other tool such as the Artistic Text or Move tool. Change any attributes you wish to change.
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To change the default value for an attribute for both text frames and text objects, you must choose the attribute separately for both of them. For example, choose the Frame Text tool and change the attribute and then choose the Artistic Text tool and reselect the same attribute, even though it will already show that value.
- For a list control such as Font Family, select the option from the list a second time by clicking it twice.
- For a text field control such as Font Size, click in the text field and press Return.
- For a checkbox control such as No Break, click it twice to select/deselect it again.
- For a toggle control such as Underline, select another option and then select it again.
- Choose Edit > Defaults > Save to save the changes you have made.
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16 minutes ago, amcd said:
The Time/Date fields in latest version of Publisher 2.3.1 - DEFAULTS to UK GMT.
Unfortunately with your new standard, I have lost my ability to easily format date/time fields that I had been using for years.
I am in Brisbane, Australia which is Australian Eastern Stand Time (AEST) i.e. UTC/GMT +10 year round . Sydney is currently Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT=AEST+1) i.e. UTC/GMT +11 during summer.
I tried using Ash's table (26 June 2023) for some hours with no luck.
Please can you direct me to a tutorial or easy instructions that shows me how to edit the time/date fields.
I would be very grateful if you would send me specific examples of Field Formatting for Brisbane and Sydney.
Many thanks amcd
Hi, are you using macOS Sonoma? There's a known issue with Sonoma and time zones. Serif has it on their list but it may be something Apple has to fix.
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3 minutes ago, mogsie said:
No. When it's endnotes, the wee red triangle never appears. Each endnote seems to be in a text box of its own, and the usual method of flowing text doesn't work.
Ah, this is a known bug but there's an easy workaround. You're using the End of Story position for your endnotes and you have more endnotes than will fit in the final frame of the story. When that happens, the Text Flow Out control is covered up.
Open the Layers panel. Click in an endnote and you will see the layer selected in the panel. It is a child of a parent layer so select the parent by clicking on it. This will select the parent text frame and now the Text Flow Out control will be visible.
Cheers
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Installing an update shouldn't change your user interface so did you install a second copy by mistake? Did you install msix when you had exe or vice versa?
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15 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Don't you need to type some text with those characteristics, select it, then Edit > Defaults> Synchronize from Selection?
That's how I always do it.
You don't need to type text or even draw a frame. And you don't need to use sync from selection - that command is only to set a document's default formatting to match some existing formatting.
But it's very confusing because there are two sets of default text attributes and saving defaults saves both sets of defaults at the same time. Publisher has one set of text defaults for text frames (text frames, shape text frames, and tables) and another set of text defaults for text objects (art text objects and path text). I did not explain this well in my manual so I will update it for the next version.
This example might clear things up:
- Create a new document
- Choose Edit > Defaults > Factory Reset
- Choose Edit > Defaults > Save
- Close the document and create a new one - you will now have Arial 12 as your default for text frames and text objects
- With the Move tool still selected, change font from Arial to Times and size from 12 to 24
- Choose the Frame Text tool and change font from Times to Garamond and size from 24 to 36
- Choose Edit > Defaults > Save - most users would now expect to have Garamond 36 as their only default but that's not how it works - you saved both of those changes at the same time
- Close the document and create a new one
- With the Move tool still selected or if you choose the Art Text tool, you will have Times 24 because that's the object default
- Choose the Frame Text tool and you will have Garamond 36 because that's the frame default
I imagine it was designed this way on purpose but IMO there should be only one set of text defaults.
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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
That's the way that the Affinity applications have always worked (V1 and V2), and it's apparently by design. If you have a Text Tool or object selected, the assumption is that you'll want to Place a .txt file.
Only in Photo and Designer, right? Publisher allows you to place anything when the cursor is in a text frame.
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10 minutes ago, bobdobbs said:
I know - this should be pretty simple.
But for some reason, I'm unable to do this when text frames are linked.
I have three text frames spanning across three pages.
The text frames are linked: when the text exceeds the capacity of one frame, it resumes on the following frame.
I figured out that I didn't leave adequate space for page footers, so I attempted to resize individual text frames.But if I select any of the linked frames, the corner and edge handles do not appear on most of the frames.
I can see them appear on the final frame. But not any other frames.
How can I resize my individual text frames?Hi, there should be handles for any frame that you select. If you see x icons where the handles should be it's because the frame is locked and can't be edited. This would happen if you locked the frame using the Layers panel (or through a keyboard shortcut by accident) or if the frame was inherited from a master page in which case you need to go to the master page to edit the frame.
Good luck
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This has been requested many times but the more requests the better, multiple indices are sorely needed. In the meantime, I've written instructions for how to hack the index feature to create multiple indices. The workaround has some limitations but it works fine. Please see the "Creating multiple indices" section of the free Publisher manual I've shared in this forum - the link is in my signature below.
There is no way to create a definitions or glossary in Publisher. It's a feature missing from MS Word and InDesign, too, although MS Word does have its table of authorities feature. You could manually create the glossary as you go along and then when you're done laying out your book search for each term using Find and Replace and link the term to the glossary entry.
Good luck.
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Hi Mogsie, what do you mean by it won't let you flow the text to the next page? If you Shift+click the Text Flow Out control on the right side of the endnote frame toward the bottom, will Publisher not create additional pages of frames as required?
Cheers
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2 hours ago, Chills said:
Thanks for that.
I think I am going to have a bit of a rationalization and re-read the manual on master pages.
I think I have solved it using the suggestion from, but@Old Bruce a rationalization of the masters is still a good idea.I create one master page for the basic stuff like footers and headers and then create other master pages with the layout stuff like text frames. Then I apply the basic one to the layout ones.
You might want to consider using custom fields (aka user variables). You could create one for your volume and issue numbers, insert those into the header or footer, and then just change the custom field for each issue.
Cheers
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3 hours ago, dehskins said:
Saving a new default works. Unfortunately, that has to be done with every new document. Not ideal.
That's not how it's supposed to work. The default is saved and used even if I quit the application. I just tried it and it worked fine for me. You can save the default for any character or paragraph attribute by following the steps I provided above.
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8 minutes ago, Dirk_Germany said:
I have now actived it. After reading the manual I was looking for a "document statistics panel" everywhere.
FYI I've also written an unofficial manual for Publisher available free as a PDF from this forum - see the link in my signature. It covers all of the text features like document statistics.
Cheers
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Try starting Publisher with Ctrl held down (press and hold it immediately after clicking the icon) and then selecting Reset Document and Window States.
Good luck
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5 hours ago, undercovergypsy said:
Gee, sorry, I think I may have answered but then did the post thinking I did it wrong. Windows 11 AFPUB 2.3.0.
I also tried turning off and on Open CL, to no avail. I also reinstalled.
Do you have any third-party mouse drivers or utilities installed, such as the Logitech software?
What type of mouse do you have? Is it a high DPI mouse? If it's wireless, is it fully recharged? If you have a trackpad, too, try disconnecting your mouse and seeing if the issue also happens with your trackpad. Or if. you're using the trackpad already, try using a mouse instead.
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25 minutes ago, dehskins said:
I did save a new default and it didn't change what Affinity does with new documents. They go right back to my location defaults rather than my preferred American English.
I left out a step.
You can set Affinity's default language by first creating a document, drawing a text frame, selecting the language from the Character panel's Language > Spelling list, and then choosing Edit > Defaults > Save.
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Are you saying you are making a hyperlink from a table of contents entry to a heading's anchor? If so, that's not a good idea, the TOC is replaced each time it is updated which is why you would need to keep recreating them.
You don't need to do create hyperlinks from a TOC to anchors, Publisher will do that for you automatically. Select the "Include as PDF bookmarks" option in the TOC panel and include bookmarks when exporting to PDF and Publisher will convert your TOC entries into hyperlinks. If you want to make them look like hyperlinks, you can do that by editing the TOC entry's text style. But never manually select text in the TOC and make it into a hyperlink.
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I can reproduce this bug on macOS. Here's a screen recording. It doesn't happen with the regular baseline field, just with the text style one.
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9 hours ago, undercovergypsy said:
It seemed to happen at upgrade. Weeks ago.
Can you please answer the other questions so that I or somebody else can help you? More information is needed.
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Those are end of paragraph marks (U+2029) but Publisher is showing you the wrong special character symbol. They're showing as paragraph marks for the rest of us.
You can't fix this with Find & Replace because the right characters are there.
- Does this problem occur with all documents In Publisher, including a new one?
- Does restarting Publisher solve it?
- Try opening the file in Designer if you have it - which special character is shown in Designer?
- If it works correctly in Designer but not in Publisher, quit Publisher and restart it with Ctrl held down. Clear your user data and see if that solves it.
If worst comes to worst, reinstalling Publisher should fix it. These special characters are hardcoded within the application somewhere.
Good luck.
Size / Rotate objects to same
in 2.4 New Features and Improvements
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I see Ronny's point, alignment is a form of transformation, but as Walt pointed out, it seems like an odd place for the feature.
That being said, I'm currently creating a lot of family trees in Designer which is tedious. I aligned and changed the width of rectangles many times yesterday. While I might expect these to be in separate windows, it would actually save me time to have them grouped like they are now. I just tried it and it worked great.
But the placement of the controls does feel off.