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Sounds reasonable. I'm just a complete dummy in terms of master pages and lots of other possibilities Publisher might offer but needed to be understood. Never mind.

This kind of document I can do with Apple notes. Dependencies as in "glossary", "index" and cross-referenced links. Thanks for your time, I'll look elsewhere to do it with tools I'm more familiar with.

Posing my question "How to create a template for manuals in Publisher" led to no results. I'd like to see either a kind of a template to download and modify or to watch a more strategic tutorial video on how to put my own template together. Step by step, what is the most important to start with? What is depending on what? Tables in publisher appear to be a box of surprises, but admittedly I simply don't understand the connection between text formats and table formats. I'm no native English speaker, which makes the whole process to learn a bit harder. No, three bits harder, linguistic ignorance of Affinity is not always helpful. I don't know much about InDesign. I'm working as technical author and always had templates for FrameMaker and for a big CMS, did also some modifications on them. But I never had to create one from scratch. And even now, I do have two final products (two manuals from two camera manufacturers) which lack some informations, some better translations, sometime even only cross-referenced links, but I could use some of their layout ideas. So far I imported the PDF in Publisher, which worked sort of well enough. Started to create paragraph and text formats, but the longer I do that, the more I wish for a template to limit my format deviations. To be clear: I don't want to publish the final results else than send some example pages to the manufacturers to motivate them to do better. Although I'm fully aware of how complex the whole process is – but if I could handle it in a small company and 12 languages to translate, they also should be able. Any suggestion would be welcome, sorry for not doing a two hour search through all topics.

Thank you Walt, I've been looking at them, but since templates are a thing of Publisher, I found "Affinity" a bit to general. No, I haven't posted such a question before. Honestly I tried Publisher few times and found it as complicated as InDesign remained for me. Too much little screws to adjust and influence things. There's a relation between screws and "screw up" and with my lack of solid knowledge about that I better stick with a text processor like pages. And notes can also do sort of short manuals, surprisingly well, enough functions and with less effort. Edit: I started the new topic here:

This might be the entirely wrong topic, but posing my question "How to create a template for manuals in Publisher" led to no results. I'd be more than happy to get an information to which of the many topics my request suits best. I'd like to see either a kind of a template to download and modify or to watch a more strategic tutorial video on how to put my own template together. Step by step, what is the most important to start with? What is depending on what? Tables in publisher appear to be a box of surprises, but admittedly I simply don't understand the connection between text formats and table formats. I'm no native English speaker, which makes the whole process to learn a bit harder. No, three bits harder, linguistic ignorance of Affinity is not always helpful. I don't know much about InDesign. I'm working as technical author and always had templates for FrameMaker and for CMS, did also some modifications on them. But I never had to create one from scratch. And even now, I do have two final products (two manuals from two camera manufacturers) which lack some informations, some better translations, sometime even only cross-referenced links, but I could use some of their layout ideas. So far I imported the PDF in Publisher, which worked sort of well enough. Started to create paragraph and text formats, but the longer I do that, the more I wish for a template to limit my format deviations. Any suggestion would be welcome, sorry for not doing a two hour search through all topics.

Wingdings? Times New Roman rules...

THANK YOU! The important part was "choose the ... tool" – not "use the ... tool" The other important part was to not use the "Text > Textstyle > Save Textstyles as Standard" command. Bad reading from my side, sorry.

🌐E but I think, it's not Affinity's fault alone: I just tried to activate it in Publisher, searched for the globe symbol, added it to favorites and closed the panel. Then switched to Safari to type this post and had to use 🌐E twice to get it started. And I don't think, Affinity uses any shortcuts with the 🌐 symbol as it has to be sooooo compatible with Windows – I don't recall it on the PC's keyboard I've seen last time 6 months ago and am very happy to not have to work with this any longer. In fact, I had a Mac keyboard connected to it which served 16 years well and free of glitches. I loved to see Admin's faces when they were trying to find @ on it 😁

No success, Arial remains the standard font. I tried to follow every step - which is a bit complicated as my Mac is set up in German and sometimes I'm not sure what you're talking about. Honestly, I miss screenshots! No matter what I do and how often I choose the font family: after saving the text style as new standard and opening a new designer, photo or publisher document, Arial remains on the throne. I think, I'd need more understanding of publisher's workflow and basics and I also believe there might be just a small setting or two different in my Affinity suite to yours and soon the whole process of setting a better font as default is about to fail. Apparently it is not simple enough for me and needs DTP experts to get around. My workaround now is, using the test document I saved out of Publisher and importing text styles from there in any new ASh, ADe or APu doc. After that Arial is still ugly to look at first but selecting the text tool and choose one of the styles is easier. Problem is the [Kein Stil] (=[no style]????) paragraph, which completely ignores the settings of Grundlage (=basic?). There's no such thing as "no style" if a default font is preselected, this makes also style. I have to say, I'm rather disappointed of Affinity. This default font is such a basic thing, and according to your post one has to work with tricks to get a simple default change done.

Who wants to become annoyed about an ugly font every time I start up any Affinity app? No, it's not. That is as if you enter a restaurant and first thing happens after sitting down is the waiter coming and emptying the kitchen waste bucket over your head. Just to remind you, the food will taste better than the scraps. Nobody needs that.

Maybe I then should dive in my spectacles museum . And expect every user to have a collection of some sort of reading aid... 🤓 noooo, there must be a reason for user rhymes on loser. 🤣 You didn't mention "Arial 9 pt and CAPITALS..." else t and i and f and l or 1... all the same, who cares? 🥳

That happens to me, too. Good, but they have high resolution screens. I'm not sure how widespread these pixel densities are. And I'm also not sure about the readabilities of fonts this size in standard distance of reader and screen. Not everybody likes to work in latte-glass distance 😁 Nonetheless, even Windows itself uses Segoe or Calibri these days. And at my age and after 35 years working with computers, the definition of "easily readable" does not contain 9 pt text-sizes – that is used to hide EULA content, cookie-usage or other user disturbing stuff 😎 at best light grey. Fun aside, I understand your use case, but I also see it as very specific and a default font should not cause physical pain or scream attacks when starting an app. Plus, what's the point in forcing Mac users to lousy standards responsible for Crowd Strike failures?

I was in Photo and Designer and selected "Emoji/Symbols" from the "Edit" menu in Affinity (last entry). I just checked it before and today it was working as expected. I just noticed a couple of times, it's not always opening up the symbols panel and I can't see why at the moment. No other dialog box was open (which can block the appearance of the symbol palette)

Thank you Loukash and MikeTO, I'll give it a try. Does the change remain constant or do I need to repeat it for each new version?

That was my guess. And also my fear when Affinity went Windows...

I see. I'd prefer using the global Mac replacements additionally and for the users typing in different languages, the Affinity replacements would help better. I could not find any "AutoCorrect" in Photo or Designer, in Publisher it is more of a typo correction. Some of my replacements would simply get lost and the overview is not exactly helpful. Plus, the problem remains in Affinity Designer where I need Ø, × and ± often in technical drawings. I'm not a fan of unnecessary workarounds, just because Affinity, coming first for Mac "forgot" about the Mac Text replacements... APu = ? Aah, Publisher? APh and APu... Sorry, I was not familiar with this abbreviation. Oh, and sometimes I wanted to open the Emoji/Symbol Panel - but no panel appeared. Which I consider another bug.

Always refreshing, these Windows trolls... 🙄

I know it's no bug, but I also know I cannot slap the person responsible for choosing this ugly Arial font as default font in the face. On a Mac is the genuine Helvetica available so pleeeeease give me a decent font rather than a bad copy of it as default. Every time I start up an Affinity app like Designer or Publisher I face an anger attack, completely needless. Or, if you want to be extra nice, tell me how I can change this stupid font as default once and forever.

Why are my customized text replacements (in System prefs> keyboard > text replacements) like x*= × or o/= ø or +5*= ★★★★★ or -infn= - ∞ working here in this forum in Safari, but in no Affinity app? Other Non-Apple apps accept this text replacements with no problem.

Dein Skript hat 54 Zeilen. Ich hatte das 2. von BrightShadow kopiert, das kommt auf 105 Zeilen. AI Version hier ist 26.3.1 (bei CS habe ich die Nummern nicht mehr präsent, aber die aktuellste Version hat schon 27 davor. Dahin werde ich jetzt updaten) Dein Skript funktioniert prima! Vielen Dank!

I tried to run the script, but no result so far. I'm sure I'm doing something wron. I first copied the text out of the forum post you liked to. Opened a new editor file and pasted it in. Saved the file as "artboardnames.jsx" Tried to run it in a AI file. So far no textboxes with names became visible.

Good morning Loukash, merci vümo for your link to the script, it looks promising and is a better workaround than copying and pasting names out of screenshots of the drawing pane table in AI. Although while I now see my mess of layers in still growing AI files and also see that the shapes are imported, just not grouped as symbols it might be better to start the project completely over. I already used Bridge to create contact sheets of all exported illustrations and I already re-created the symbols of AI as AD symbols (just better ) I start hesitating to bring old AI's mess into fancy new AD files. (Gruess z'rugg üs Soledurn)

For sure you're right. But then I really have to consider carefully to recommend the change of a main app. Last time I recommended the change from EPS to SVG (at a time Affinity was not even around, maybe 2010). Shortly after, Adobe skipped SVG support which already never was close to "easy to edit". I'm not collecting embarassments... 😔

Hello Affinity Designer users. I'm starting to introduce AD and AP in the company I'm working for. One of my jobs is drawing some illustration of various parameters for our UI of our grinding-machines. Currently I like to find out how seamless the transition for AI to AD would be. So I opened a couple of source illustrations, which contain between 20 and 160 artboards / drawing area (I'm not familar with the English term). So far all graphics are visible. But: in AI I named the drawing area for the IDC (Item Description Code) they are used for to illustrate what's going on. The AI file in Designer just shows "page 1, page 2...". I really don't want to rename all artboards from scratch. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting in either app I need to change? Also, the guides from Illustrator do not appear after importing the file in AD. Same for the symbols / icons - neither name nor the full symbol is shown. I also had to use two different drawing areas for each illustration as the purpose is not only "exporting into UI database" but also "exporting into asset management database for documentation". But the 2 drawing areas on top of each other now appear as two different artboards, neither aligned nor connected. It looks like a lot of manual work, so maybe I need to draw back my recommendation of AD as replacement for AI.

I really want to convince them. But the first reply is not too promising and worse, apparently its' not even under company license which I find awful. None of the decisionmakers works for free...