MikeTO

I think you'll need to provide a screenshot and/or sample file - I'm unsure what you mean by half the page separating paragraphs.

I'm not having any difficulty exporting to PDF from Publisher with my own files. Are you using Mac or Windows and which version? Could you share a sample file?

It's fine to embed images for small projects but for large projects, you'll want to link the images. This will keep your file size small, improve app performance, and allow you to update the images without having to re-place them into Publisher. If you need to move the document, move the document with all of its images. If you're working on a larger project, it's a good practice to put all the images into one folder. So for example, create a sub-folder in the folder containing the Publisher file and name it images, book-images, or whatever you like. If you move the document and the images folder when you next open the document you'll be told the images can't be found, but if you follow the prompt to re-link the first missing image and all of the rest are in the same folder, it will relink all of them for you automatically.

It works for me without any issues. Each page of my book has two masters assigned to it, one for the things common across chapters such as text frames, and one for chapter-specific things such as the chapter name. If I add pages (by clicking the overset text icon) at the end of a chapter before the start of a new chapter which has a different chapter master applied to it, the new pages will be inserted with the correct masters applied without impacting the next chapter. If I delete pages anywhere in a chapter, the next chapter will be unaffected. It works as you'd expect.

And I'm a page layout person but a terrible photographer. 🙂

I know this is an old post but I just wanted to say that I like the photography.

FWIW, all three of the app updates took <5 minutes each to install for me on my old MBP running Big Sur. I don't know the precise time, it could have been 1-2 minutes, it was fast enough that I didn't pay attention. But 5 minutes max.

I don't see any issues with your doc setup and your second screenshots which I believe are 1.10 is what I'm seeing with 1.10. I'm not going to be much help to you as I don't have 1.9.x any longer for testing. But it sounds like you do have it or that you've reverted back to 1.9 for now. If you have only one machine now with 1.9 then you could install the 1.10 beta for comparison testing, assuming it's still available. I'm unsure whether the issue is with min/max character spacing or min/max word spacing, but you have both set. I suggest making a three-page test document in 1.9.x. All three pages would have identical text but the first copy would have the character and word min/max spacing settings you're using now. The second version would have only character spacing set while the third version would have only word spacing set. If you could compare those pages in 1.9.x vs. 1.10 you could verify whether the problem is with character spacing, word spacing, or only both. My personal preference for your two screenshots is the 1.10 version - I think it looks the spacing looks more consistent - but I can understand how the change could be disconcerting to you at this stage in your work. Good luck!

If you bought it from the Affinity store you can sign in and retrieve the keys. Go to http://store.serif.com, click the menu in the upper right, click My Account, sign in, and then you'll see the link.

Could you share a sample file? My book project is hundreds of pages long and I did a page-by-page review of 1.9.3 versus the final release candidate and didn't see a single difference. I've also reviewed the book in the released 1.10 and it looks perfect.

I don't know if it's the same but on macOS the Check for Updates command is in the app menu and not in Help. If you bought them from the Affinity Store you can also sign in there, click the menu link in the upper right, choose My Account, and then sign in to download them directly.

On macOS, I was prompted to install the update for all three apps when opening them just now. I hadn't opened them previously today. Did you try choosing Check for Updates from the Affinity <app name> menu?

Thanks, the performance enhancements are much appreciated! I've moved my work over to 1.10 now.

Oh sorry, somebody replied to this old thread which must have been before international smart quotes were added. Since I'm working just in English I wasn't aware that the feature did exist, thanks for clearing that up. I am confused as to what the request is, too. I assume it's how to deal with text that lacks smart quotes.

I'm sure they are listening but their development priorities may not align to our personal workflows. We each have features that are most important to us and I certainly have my own, too, but Serif is a small company and has to prioritize their efforts. Those of us on this discussion board may not be representative of the current and target customer base as a whole. I think it's unfair to say that Publisher is only suitable for a fancy flyer - people are doing serious work with it. The lack of table splitting hurts productivity but it doesn't stop you from producing a document with tables. Likewise, the lack of cross references doesn't stop me from publishing a book, I just have to do leave them until the end of the process and do them manually. Tedious but it's my choice, if I don't like it I could use ID.

I'm not saying this shouldn't be a priority, but IIRC there's an additional complexity with adding smart guillemots so it's not just a matter of changing the glyph used by the code. Guillemots are offset by the text they enclose by a non-breaking space. The code needs to be adapted to automatically convert the quotation mark and the space before or after, or to insert the non-breaking space if it was omitted.

I don't work for Serif but I believe PowerPoint lacks so many of the features of AfPub that people would be frustrated when their AfPub documents look different in PowerPoint. Even for the features that PPT does support it has more limited or simplified approaches to them. Lines will end up breaking at different points which could lead to text being cut off or the text size changed automatically. You'd always have to check and edit each slide in PPT.

+1 It should at least warn you that you're about to delete a style that is in use.

This RC seems good to me as a prod replacement for 1.9.3. Thanks!

The display is 2560x1600 but that was Big Sur's default of 1280x800. I could comfortably work in Affinity at 1440x900 (see screenshot below) but I spent most of my day research and writing outside of Affinity and my tired old eyes prefer Safari at the default resolution. Also note that the widths of the left and right-side studio panels are variable depending on which panel you're viewing. For example, Index and Find/Replace are wider than Pages - the Affinity apps dynamically change the width of the panels as required.

This is what I imagined when I read "error on pie"

Note that GarryP's screenshot shows the Tools with 2 columns and the right-side panels wider than the minimum because he normally uses a larger screen and can afford to do this. I forgot to mention that if you need to keep tools open on a 13" screen then you should definitely use a single column, keep your panels to the min width, and your top toolbar should have text turned off (icons without text.

I'm using a 13" MBP. I spend most of my time in Publisher, some in Designer, very little in Photo, and the working space is limited on a 13" screen. It reminds me of working on a 1980s computer. However, I did a lot of great work in the eighties on those small screens so it's possible, the difference being that the UI takes up more room because we have all these convenient panels. I've increased the space available by tweaking the UI. I turn off Show Toolbar when I don't need it. Once my template is set up it's just wasted space. I turn off Show Tools. The only two tools I need after setting up my template are Move and Frame Text so I just use keyboard shortcuts to toggle and save the space. I turn off Show Rulers. I hide my macOS dock (the taskbar on Windows) to save more vertical space. I'm debating whether to replace my MBP with a 16" when the next one comes out but I really prefer the smaller form factor. I will likely just get the 14" which will be about the same case size with a slightly larger screen. I can live with this for what I'm doing. Here's a screenshot of the UI with the toolbar, tools, and rulers all on. And here's one with them all off - note that I've got the macOS dock turned off in both screenshots.

I don't understand your question. The applied style is highlighted in blue - if there is no style applied then [No Style] will be selected. It's very obvious which style is selected. The styles available that you could apply if you chose are shown in light and dark grey as you point out. Also, at the top of the styles panel is a "Current Formatting" summary of the styles and attributes applied.

With respect, I disagree. You can achieve identical quality for print as long as you know the resolution you're printing at and generate the TIFF images at the right size so that they can be used in Publisher without the need to scale them. I agree that using a vector format is generally preferable because it offers flexibility and reduced file sizes but he was experiencing repeated crashes with importing hundreds of PDFs.