MikeTO
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I think it's a bug, too, but you can avoid it entirely by using Inline instead of Float. That's the way I created my manual for Publisher.
The leading in my document is set Exactly but I have a text style for inline images named Inline for which I set the paragraph leading to Default. That allows the leading to adjust to the height of the inline image. There's no need for text wrap with this approach and it works very well.
Sometimes I will want a caption to the right of the screenshot. To do that, I draw a small frame for the caption and then group the image and caption together. I cut them to the clipboard, place the text cursor in the Inline paragraph, and paste. If the image is already inline you'd need to cut it out and make it a separate layer first because you can't group anything with an inline object.
I've set Next Style for my Inline text style to return to the Body style when I next press Return.
Cheers
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If there's a limited amount of text that you want to underline with a different offset or thicker stroke, there is a sneaky way to do it. Just draw a separate text frame and type the words in the same text style but set paragraph leading to match the font size and set space before/after to 0. Double-click the frame mid-point handles to scale the frame to match the text. Then set the bottom border in Paragraph > Decorations to create whatever sort of underline you want. Cut the frame and paste it inline, replacing the word(s) in the main text. I've contrasted regular underline here with multiple strokes and dashed lines in various colours. Your readers will never know you resorted to a trick. 🙂
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On this page it states: When replacing placed content using the Replace Image or Replace Document options on the context toolbar, clicking Options on the file browser window that appears allows you to choose a placement option for your replacement file. The placement option you select will override the document's Image placementpolicy in this instance.
Is this Windows specific? There's no Options button on macOS because it's a standard file dialog.
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It could be an issue with Document-Wide vs. Custom settings because it is so difficult to know which settings are applied to which notes. It's possible you did set Restart Every to Document (or whatever you wanted) but it wasn't applied to all notes because some of them are custom.
With nothing selected and the text cursor not in a text frame (click a blank area of the page with the Frame Text tool to remove the cursor from a frame), choose Revert All Footnotes to Document Settings from the Notes panel menu. This will eliminate any custom settings. Then ensure Restart Every is set to Document or whatever you want.
For the issue with doubling (11, 22, 33), that sounds very odd and I can't imagine what would cause that. I'd like to see a sample of that.
Good luck.
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This is really minor but if you drag copy, duplicate, or copy/paste a frame with a footnote, the position of the footnote may be initially incorrect. Modifying the frame in any way or editing the note will cause the note frame to be redrawn in the correct position.
I've also seen this problem when linking a blank frame to a frame with notes - the note frames are in correctively sized in the new first frame until the frame or note is tweaked - but I don't have a simple demo for that version of the issue.
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I think this is a great idea although I wouldn't want it on by default unless index ranges were added, too.
For example, if I index "apples" and the book mentions apples on pages 17-19 but I just want to index the start of that topic on page 17, this feature would flag more mentions of apples on pages 18 and 19. Each time I enabled the feature it would flag pages 18 and 19 even though I'm never going to want to index them and I'd probably have to think about it each time I used the feature because they'd be highlighted in the panel and I wouldn't remember that 18 and 19 were a continuation. For a long book this might be a feature I'd use just once instead of leaving it on.
If Publisher had index ranges (index from the marker to the next style change, next use of a different style, X number of paragraphs, etc.), then I could insert an index marker for "apples" on page 17 and Publisher would never suggest indexing all the mentions of apples on pages 18-19. Then I'd be happy to leave this feature on all the time and have Preflight suggest indexing opportunities to me. That would be ideal.
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I'd need to see a sample of the document to figure it out. I created this test document using the multi-level list feature of Word and it imported perfectly into Publisher.
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55 minutes ago, philipt18 said:
Okay, but doesn't that then apply to the entire index? Is there a way to create a style with the Between Items option, so you can change it for specific items by changing the style?
I'm sorry, I misread your question, you wanted to add a semicolon between entries and I thought you meant between page numbers for a single entry.
No, there is no "Between Entries" option in Publisher and no way to automatically stack child entries. You'd have to manually remove the paragraph breaks.
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2 hours ago, lbohen said:
MikeTO; The tech sheet only applies to Affinity Photo. Correct?
Does the addition of HEIF with depth map (as a separate layer) to Photo mean Photo will be able to work with / import HEIF images or will Photo be able to export as HEIF?
While that page is for Photo, there are equivalent pages for the other apps and all of them have the same core features. You'll find the same HEIF information on the pages for Publisher and Designer.
I believe this means that Affinity will be able to open HEIF images from your phone without issue. I don't think it can export to HEIF though. Somebody else might know better than me.
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4 hours ago, lbohen said:
My iPhone 15 Pro allows photos in the HEIF extension. Will Affinity be able to work with the HEIF extension?
Yes. The tech specs page (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/full-feature-list/) states:
- HEIF with depth map (as separate layer)
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test3.afpub (I created this with the 2.4 beta but I experienced this bug in 2.3.1, too.)
I keep tripping over a bug that causes an entire story to be deleted from the document. I wouldn't normally add single pages to a facing pages document because of the layout issue, but I'm doing a quick project so I'm taking shortcuts. I've lost entire stories many times in the past month and always noticed until much later so I always had to rescue it from a backup. But here's a simple example:
- Add 1 page after page 10, it doesn't matter if you choose Master A or None.
After doing this, the last frame in story 2 will be linked to the first frame in story 3 - its overflow text will no longer be overflowing. Story 3 will have disappeared from the document.
In this test document:
- Most pages use Master A. The master frames on these pages are linked into stories and the stories have repeating text with Story 1, Story 2, Story 3 so I can see which stories are which. Each story has overlflowing text that starts with the words "Overflow" in red.
- Some document pages have no master applied. These pages are not linked together and have an independent text frame on them with story text Separate A, Separate B in them. I didn't do extensive testing but the bug won't trigger if I remove all of these separate pages without masters from the document.
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45 minutes ago, George356 said:
I've searched through the forums for some way to create a drag and drop bookplate as used to personalise old books in the "Ex Libris" style" but can't find any reference to any resource, either bought or free. I have the full package, Photo, Designer, Publisher, and have had for a long time. Can anyone help me to personalise my library?
Hi and welcome to the forums. I don't have one but you might try googling "ex libris bookplate template". You don't need to find a template specific to Affinity, just something that you can place or open.
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By not numbering, do you mean that every footnote is numbered 1 or that they're numbering within a frame but not within the story?
Look at the Numbering > Restart Every option. It defaults to Frame which isn't necessarily what you will want to use.
Also, be aware of the difference between Document-Wide and Custom. It can be rather confusing which option was used to create a footnote as the panel displays what the next footnote will be created as, not what the current footnote is. You have to click in a footnote and then look at the panel menu to figure out what type of footnote it is. I've explained this in my unofficial Publisher manual which you can download from this forum in the link in my signature.
Cheers
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3 hours ago, SallyN said:
It doesn't matter what word or page I choose, the endnote is still greyed out.
I "solved" the problem by pasting all the text into a new document!
Many thanks for your input.
That indicates that Publisher considered that text to be an endnote, even though it was body text. Copying an endnote from one document to another (or to another frame in the same document) will create regular text.
Endnotes can be multiple paragraphs or even pages long, so it's possible that somehow your body text got inserted between the start and end points of an endnote.
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On 1/17/2024 at 4:42 PM, philipt18 said:
1) Can I have first-level index items always capitalized at the beginning of the line? I see how I can format it to be small caps or similar, but there is no setting for First Cap that I can find.
Sorry no, there is no ability to change the case of index entries similar to InDesign, and the sentence case vs. title case commands are not attributes so they can't be added to an index text style.
[EDIT: There is a workaround, see https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/197483-capitalize-first-character/&do=findComment&comment=1164994]
On 1/17/2024 at 4:42 PM, philipt18 said:2) Can the text of an index item have different formatting than the numbers? I'd like Index Item 1 to be semibold, but not the numbers. I can see that there is actually a Index Entry Page Number style, so would I just set that to regular text?
Yes, the text styles are generated to let you do this. A level 1 index entry will use the Index Entry 1 paragraph style while its page number will also have the Index Entry Page Number character style applied to it.
On 1/17/2024 at 4:42 PM, philipt18 said:3) Is there a way to format index items so they're separated by semicolons instead of new lines? I wouldn't want this across the board, but in some cases where there are a lot of sub-items for a specific index item, I'd like to be able to do this to save space.
Yes, you can enter a semicolon followed by a space in the Between Items option.
On 1/17/2024 at 4:42 PM, philipt18 said:4) I'm seeing some weird things at the end of my index. Some entries are being duplicated at the very end. I think they're ones I've modified by accident and then fixed. They're duplicates. They show up in the index properly, and then again at the end. Very odd. Anyone seen something like this?
I've never heard of a problem like this but one common issue for newcomers to Publisher is there isn't a clear indication of the start and end of an index so sometimes users mess up and some index text becomes regular text. Try deleting it all and reinserting it. Until you're confident you might want to only insert the index into its own frame or frames rather than at the end of the story in the previous frames. That will avoid you ever messing up the index.
I've documented all the index functions in detail in the free manual I've shared for Publisher in this forum. You can download a PDF from the link in my signature.
Cheers
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That's odd, the command being disabled implies that Publisher thinks the paragraph of text is part of the endnotes. Are you using the End of Story note positioning? Try changing the endnotes to a shared frame.
Are you able to share a version of the document here for review? If not, you might need to wait for Serif's help.
Good luck.
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But on macOS the arrow keys don't work in the popup's field. This is the field that the spinner controls didn't work on until a recent beta. It looks like a similar issue impacted the arrow keys.
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5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Yes, but what I said was you need to clear the Find field. True, it's only one more keypress at that point, but as the OP doesn't seem to want the Find field filled in, it's needed.
So the sequence they need for your approach is, I think: Cmd+C, Cmd+F, Delete, tab or click to the Replace field, Cmd+V.
Oh I misread what was suggested, I thought the OP wanted the Find field pre-filled. And of course it actually does that, I didn't check to see if it does. I really need another cup of tea before I try to do anything productive.
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Are you including the time to launch Affinity or is it already open? Sometimes on macOS it takes a very long time to launch the app due to a macOS security procedure (for which you can find long discussions in this forum, just search for slow start or slow open).
If it takes that long to open a document for an app that is already open, there must be something in the document causing the issue. Can you share the document or describe what's in it?
Cheers
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I don't understand the omission of hyphenation from Designer either. I understand the need to differentiate the products but even a photo editor like Photoshop has auto hyphenation.
Fortunately there is are workarounds. Edit the document in Publisher and turn hyphenation on. Or create your text styles with hyphenation on in Publisher and import the styles into Designer.
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8 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
But you left out a step that may be required: clearing the Find field, which the Cmd+F will have populated.
That's unnecessary, at least on macOS. Pressing Cmd+F always selects the text in the Find panel, regardless of its previous state. Does this not work on Windows?
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If you copy the image to the clipboard (whether from inside of Affinity or find macOS Finder (and presumably from Windows explorer but I don't know for sure), you can simply paste the image and it will be pinned inline at the text cursor position. So search for <red icon>, which will select the next occurrence of that text string in your document, and paste the red icon from the clipboard - that will replace the selected text and pin the icon inline.
Use a lot of small icons pinned inline in the Publisher manual I've written (you can download it from the link in my signature). All of those tool icons are done this way which is similar to what you're doing, although the layout may be quite different. Although I'm not finding and replacing, I do paste them rather than using the pinning panel. The only downside is that all of them would be 1 pt too high if I did nothing else, I always have to change the leading override to get the icons lined up nicely. So I rarely paste a new one in and just copy a previous one. I have to copy the text and not the icon, because copying the icon will result in another new one that is 1 pt too high. So If I need "Frame Text tool <icon>", I copy that whole string of text including the space following the icon and paste that in, resulting in a perfectly-aligned icon.
Cheers
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I realize you're suggesting a second command so that's a neat idea. It would be really easy to do with a script once scripting is selected and then you could assign a keyboard shortcut to it if you liked. In the meantime, if you're good at the keyboard shortcuts, just type Cmd+C, Cmd+F, Cmd+V - I've done that so many times over the decades that it's like breathing.
FWIW, the macOS standard for Find (which Serif, Adobe and Microsoft ignore) is to pre-fill the Find field with the current search text for macOS. If you search for "test" in TextEdit, "test" will be pre-filled in Notes, Pages, and Numbers, and in third party apps such as BBEdit and IA Writer. It's probably something that Serif should consider.
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7 hours ago, Pšenda said:
It could still be useful if someone could indicate here how something similar (i.e. invoking the system menu for windows/panels) is done in MacOS.
I believe you're asking for the Mac equivalent to this Windows feature:
The equivalent macOS menu appears when you mouse over the "traffic light" controls in the upper left and pause over the green one. If you hold Option the commands will change to three variations of those options.
Windows and Mac are very different when it comes to using the interface without a mouse or trackpad. Although macOS can be used via keyboard, it's not "on" all the time like it is in Windows, you need to enable Full Keyboard Access: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchlc06d1059/14.0/mac/14.0
So this isn't something super convenient for a Mac user to use to get a panel that is partially offscreen to move down and I don't know that it would work.
Cheers
- walt.farrell and Aammppaa
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Place an inline image larger than the frame overflows entire story
in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
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If you place an image inline that is larger than the text frame, you will overflow the entire story.
I'll use an example of a long book with frames of equal size. If I place inline an image that is larger than the current frame, Publisher will move to frame +1. If it doesn't fit there, it will move to frame +2, etc. Finally it will overflow the final frame in the story.
But I'm still on page 17 and the image didn't appear, and all the text below the cursor has disappeared. I have to scroll to the end of the story on page 53 where I can click the show overflow icon to see the image. Only then can I scale the image so that it fits in the frame. When I let go of the size handle the image disappears because now it's back on page 17 so then I have to scroll back to find it.
I think it would be better when placing an inline image to scale it to fit the current frame if it doesn't fit that frame or any future one in the story. This would leave the user with something they can deal with and they won't have to hunt for the hidden picture.
This happens to me regularly with my current project which has large inline images in narrow frames. I'm posting this here because I know it's an enhancement request, but to the user it really feels like a bug.
Thanks