Christina Klaffinger

@Alfred Beschle You are so right! What COULD we do to make ourselves heard with the developers? Is there any voting possibility for example? I'm retired now, doing only occasional design work, and mainly for a charity project in Nepal. I have been working for a gifted education organisation for more than 10 years, doing all their print and web design for them, and for 25 years I taught layout and graphic design at high school. We always used Adobe software in both institutions, and I loved Adobe- until they introduced their cutthroat obligatory software-abos. Now both institutions are THINKING about changing to affinity and they asked for my experiences. I tell them, it is very promising indeed, but I have to make them aware of the problems I still face in using affinity programs. (There are some more issues I'd like to know what other people think about - I'll need some spare time to check out if they are already covered in some thread)

Thanks, Bruce. And sure, I do that too: find and replace. But it is an annoying workaround and, if something has to be added later on, I have to find and replace again. As for the need to have the whole style identical: I don't want to have to change the word styles according to the affinity file before including the word text - I always use the same word template to write the text for different affinity files which use different designs, Just the names are always the same. I want it to work with the style names - it always did in Indesign. And this is what I ask from affinity-developers: To give users an option when importing formatted text.

Same thing with me! I REALLY REALLY miss a possibility to make publisher use the style already in the document if the style name is identical. I miss the possibility to replace a style with a different one, when deleting it. Same with colours. These problems consume all the time I saved with other well working features.

So what? Are there not enough windows users out there? WHY would Mac Users not need or want to save into the source folder?

Just to strengthen the request: I totally agree. It takes me lots of times to export into the source folder. Opening the files from Affinity isn't much help: It only means that the unnecessary browsing is in the beginning of the session instead of the end... So, please 🙂

I really need this too. In Publisher, not online. Please! 🙂