Daniel Gibert
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Issue is still ongoing in latest 1.2.7 update.
If fact, it seems worse, as point misalignment is worse and in some grids, as 2:1 triangular, the guides itself are misaligned as you zoom, not only the anchor points but the guides.
I want to use my ipad for isometric illustration but this is refraining me to do it.
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On Publisher and Photo, the string "Open in publisher…" is not translated to spanish. Don't know for other languages.
- Patrick Connor and Pauls
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Hi.
I'm having a strange bug in a table. Any time I touch anything or do anything on the last row the row height increases by aprox. 10mm
If I delete the row, the new last one starts to behave the same. If I create a new table there is no issues.
Never mind I set the height manually, it reverts to the last + ±10mm
Also, if I insist on solving the height issue on that row (modifying attributes or deleting the row) the app end crashing after some trials.
I saved the table copying cells and pasting on a new table, so the issue is with that particular table.
I've attached the document for your analysis. Hope you could find it useful.
Publisher 1.7.2 (Bug appeared under 1.7.1)
MacOs 10.14.6
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Well. After much trying and testing, I'm sad that, despite how much I love Publisher, the first to works I have half-made on it have to go back and be remade on InDesign. Simply for table managing. All other features had worked superb, but not having tables reflowing is a nightmare.
First, it forces me to do tables once all elements and layout have been set, because you need to know where things start and end on the layout to split tables
Second, is a nightmare to add multiple pages tables, because you have to be segmenting them, and this is slow error-prone procedure.
And third, and worst, a simply correction or change sends layout to go nuts.Each time you do some change or correction you need to review all tables for cropped or misplaced rows.
Documents like those two mentioned, with tables that spread for 15 pages, are simply a no-go on Publisher. Yes, it could be done, but is not profitable and customer will not pay for the extra time and risk. A single three page spread table has take me around one hour more than on indesign, due to continuos layout adjustments on each tiny correction made on the previous content.
Looking forward to when tables have the basic flowing that other apps have since years ago. Will use Publisher for works with no table or single page tables (Half of my work)
Still love Publisher, and will use it a lot, but for a time this will be an open relation with InDesign. Mpppfff.
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Publisher, by default, saves files with file extension hidden. And the save dialog doesn't have the option to show/hide it. It should have. Some people want to save files with extensions and is a pain having to set/show the extension on the finder. Is a basic on almost any software.
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Thanks. Nice to know is getting logged.
Unfortunately File > place will not work for me on this document, as it has so much complexity (Complex tables that don't flow on publisher and complex charts to be redone and undesired formating and styles) that will add excessive work to clean up.
I Will work with opening in Pages and copy+paste.
Thanks to you and the team.
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19 minutes ago, Jon P said:
Can you attach a word document that you are copying from?
Thanks
Not the whole document, but an extract, as the original contains info from customer that i'm not allowed to share. You could test the issue with it anyway.
Also, I've attached a Publisher doc with the text pasted, in case you can't reproduce the issue. At least you will watch how the text gets pasted.
As mentioned early in the thread, the issue happens when the copied text includes end of paragraphs.
As temporal solution, we are opening the docx files with pages, that allows us to copy and paste with no issues.
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9 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:
Actually, Old Bruce gave a very good suggestion. You can swap the key commands for paste and paste without format. I just tried it, and it seems to work perfectly (I tried on Mac). I am actually surprised we can change a command as universal as paste.
Interesting, but it will affect to text copied and pasted from Publisher itself as people here are so used to command+v for pasting. Changing conventions is hard. By now i'll assign command+E for paste without format. At least it will be a two keys shortcut. It will work, although I'd love to have that setting to define the paste text behaviour.
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44 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:
There is already a command in the Edit menu for "Paste without format." Is that not what you need?
Yes. As I said on the post, there is that option, but is slow, with a complex keyboard shortcut that doesn't come naturally to the hand as simple old command+v. What I talk is an option to set command+v to paste without format as a default. The actual paste without format is a cool feature to be used sporadically.
Don't like to compare, as I love affinity apps much more than Adobe's, but for my workflow, Indesign solution is elegant, easy and best of all, optional. It pastes directly any text from external apps as simple text, and is an option that you activate if you need it. When you have complex tables, texts and multiple sources on the same document, all loaded with nonsense format that the customer though it was cool (surprise, is not) the option to paste all as pure text is very important. In some works I could be copypasting more than 30 times per minute, and the difference from command+v and command+alt+caps+v is around 200% more time for the second, less hand effort and less thinking about it. Also, on my team not everyone cand do that complex shortcut with a single hand and going to menu is slower.
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Yes! thats exactly as I've posted a couple of hours ago. Thanks for the video, it show it pretty well. Is very weird and only happens when coping whole paragraphs. If you copy anything from the middle of paragraph it pastes ok. As if the end of paragraph from word is being interpreted as a box.
By now i'm opening the words on Apple Pages to avoid the issue.
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InDesign has a feature in setting that I love and use so much. Is the options to paste text from external apps without format. I know that you can do a paste without format, but with this option active, all text coming from external apps pastes as basic pure and pristine text by default, with the old, trusty command+v.
Not every one need this, some wants to have all the bold, cursives, tabs… but on some works, you need to get ride off all of incorrect formating, and, in my case, almost all of my work consist on eliminating customers format (people love to use bold and cursives and colors freestyle with no criteria). To get your text pasted directly without formar and without having to do finger yoga to use command+alt+caps+v is a desirable option.
This option, on InDesign, is in the settings pane, under the pasteboard managing section (When pasting text and tables from other apps). As is an option, is there for the ones who needs it only.
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After further research, i've just refined when is this happening.
Is the start/end of paragraph from Word what is creating the issue. If I copy and paste part of text not including start or end of paragraphs, is paste without problem. As soon as I copy including the first or the last letter of a paragraph then is pasted as a text box. Is pretty weird.
Also, this is exclusively a Copy from Word issue. If I copy in Word, paste and copy on another app (Pages, Text edit…) and then paste on Designer/Publisher, the issue disappears. So is clearly the Affinity apps conflicting with some hidden format in the Word copied code.
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Crap! Now it happens in Designer and Photo as well!!!
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Hi. This is getting me nuts and I don't know whats happening.
When I copy text from Word and paste it inside a text frame on Publisher, what I get is a bunch of in-line text boxes (One for each original line of text).
It doesn't mind if I paste directly or if I use Paste without format. The output is the same. Pasted text is not even in the paragraph style.
I don't remember this happening on the betas. Any suggestion will be pretty well received.
By the way, I'd love to have a preference setting for "Paste text as without format" on the preference pane so we can optionally use command+v directly without bringing Word garbage and without having to do finger yoga with the keyboard, but that is another story.
Mac OS 10.14.5
Word 10.26
Publisher 1.7.2
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I, too, beg you to consider this. I do a lot of technical certification reports with tables that spread on multiple pages. I'm gonna use Publisher for as much of this works as I can, but some table heavy ones must remain on InDesign only because of this single subject.
Also, I tried placing a table as an inline object and yes, the table aligns it's bottom (And only the bottom) with the insertion point, but it not adjust the text under it.
I think that, as the object/flow/insert workflow on Publisher goes, the right way to work could be something as this:
- Place a table and adjust it as in-line object
- Option to align the top of the table/object with the insertion point (Now it aligns only with bottom of object, and you usually want to go down when adding new rows.)
- Option to allow the in-line table to adjust and flow the text behind (Now there is no apparent way and in-line objects cover the text under it as you can't adjust and be in-line at same time)
- And finally, if in-line table reach the limits of the text frame, continue following rows on next page.
I know, I know, it is easy to do in my user mind that what really it cost to implement, but I think this is really a must.
I trust you.
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5 minutes ago, Wosven said:
2 different panels would be easier, it's a pain to search for a character style while apllying paragraph style at the same moment: you scroll down until you find it, and can't remember which or where is the Paragraph or sub-paragraph style you need for the next frame…
It's difficult without folder for grouping styles, but character and paragraph styles together doesn't help too.
I support this option. Two panels would be much better and much more friendly for complex documents with lot of styles.
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Please, add a visual separation between paragraph and character styles on the studio panel. Maybe a separation line, a blank bar, a blank space or a segmented scroll/window. The ¶ and a symbols are very subtle for a quick look at the panel. I think is easy to implement and is a silly but useful aid to identify styles.
When you have a long list of styles is hard to detect where one end and another star while scrolling. Add this to the "Daniel asking silly things" bucket.
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Using command+b to get bold in text works pretty well. But using it a second time to quit bold does not revert the text to its original font weight, but to regular.
I´ve discovered this on a document on which i'm using Open Sans Fine as body text (using paragraph style). Undoing bold with command+b results in Open Sans Regular instead of Fine.
The logic should be to revert to what the style demands, as you are not always using regular as default weight and also because this cause extra work when cleaning bolds.
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25 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Must be a language/localization because what I see on a new 'Based On' style is not Default or Blank but [No Change] and that is truly different from Default. No Change means the values from the original style will be used, not Default values.
OPS. Yes. You are right. It says it, but this is an horrible option. So if I need to make changes, on the editor, I must reinsert any setting that is supposed already there. Problem (in this case at least) is that I if I select bullet on the menu it replaces automatically all the default bullet settings, destroying the already in use cloned ones, forcing to reconfigure all. Also it force you to remember what the original settings are because it doesn’t show you the on the cloned ones.
on indesign, the “based on” styles inherited all settings and show it on the editor, and if you change the original, it applies on the copied. I prefer to believe this is a bug and publisher is simply having an error on the editor, not showing the “cloned” settings. If not, it will be a nightmare to change copied styles with the editor. Time will tell. Meanwhile I will change settings on the studio and later updating the style.
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36 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Just choose the bullet from the top menu, that will retain the bullet and allow you make the changes.
I know, but is not the solution. Selecting bullet on the top menu only activate the default bullet, but don't show the changes already applied. Doing this does not retain the bullet formatting, only activate the basic bullet. Also, not only happens on bullet. All sections of the editor (size, character, spacing, tab stops…) appear as blank/default despite not being the case.
The bug is that all the style character/paragraph settings appear blank/default on the editor, despite being correctly applied on the layout and showing correctly on the studio panel. I can apply the style perfectly, but the editor shows nothing on it. I cant make changes of the style on the editor, only on the studio panel and later update the style.
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Trying to assign keyboard shortcuts to my character styles, I've discovered that the numeric keyboard input is interpreted as regular numbers. This has been checked against different keyboards (apple and 3rd party)
This greatly reduces the availability of keyboard shortcuts to use with styles, as most of numbers are already assigned to other functions, specially on command+number combinations. Command+numeric keyboard is a great way to arrange shortcuts for styles.
If this is not a bug, I suggest to allow Publisher to detect the difference between the two types of numbers, as is the case on InDesign, where numeric keyboard numbers are identified as such. (I know, i know, comparisons are not the point here, but…)
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Not sure if this is a bug or if it should be a suggestion for improvement.
I created a new paragraph style based on one already existing. In this case a Bullet paragraph. I want to edit it, but all fields in the edit panel are blank/default with no indication of the current paragraph settings. On the paragraph studio panel the correct settings are shown.
The error doesn't prevent you to work (You still can make adjustments on the paragraph studio panel and then update the style. It simply prevent to use the editor panel to make the changes.
This happens on all the edit panel sections (spacing, bullets, font…)
Procedure to reproduce the error
1 - Create a paragraph style for bullets and customize the settings.
2 - Apply to some paragraphs to check it.
3 - Create a new paragraph style, based on the former.
4 - Apply and add modifications on the layout, then update the style to preserve the changes made.
5 - Edit the style to make fine adjustments. The fields of the edit panel are all blank
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Thank you very much. Effectively it was difficult to see from the tutorial. And effectively I was missing something.
this is why I love Affinity. Thanks again. Tomorrow will try.
App does not come to front at document opening
in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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This is a fail common to the three Affinity apps.
For any reason, when double clicking to open any Affinity document from Finder, the app does not come to front. The document opens, and then you must go to the app to watch it. I can't remember of any other app that does this. All apps on my mac come to front at document opening.
Is not a life threatening issue, but is only a bit of frustration each time I open any document. Also, don't know if it is a general issue or if only happens to me.