DiZastor
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Satta's work around worked for me. I'm still patiently waiting for Serif to sit up and take notice though! -
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Thank you Satta. I've just found this topic. I've been wrestling with this issue for over a year. Your work around solution is great. I'm surprised it's still even an issue in Affinity Publisher 2.
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I'd also like to know if this has progressed as we are now in mid 2023.
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walt.farrell reacted to a post in a topic:
How do I move plug in from Affinity 1 to Affinity 2?
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Thank you. I've sorted it. I got Photo 2 to select the ON1 Plugins directory, then restarted Photo 2 and it appeared.
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Hi, I've tried to add my ON1 plugin to Affinity 2 by copying the plugin file from directory 1.0 to directory 2.0, ticking unknown plugins box, and restarting Affinity 2. But no luck. I've also tried reinstalling the ON1 plugin but it only asks to be added to Affinity 1 and not Affinity 2. Any ideas?
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DiZastor replied to ConnectCreative's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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lacerto reacted to a post in a topic:
Change cell background based on cell content in Data Merge from Excel using Affinity Publisher
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Thank you for all your help. I've tried both the emoji route and jpg route. They both work well. In my instance where I only need two variations, one black and one grey, the better option is to use the black emoji in both instances and reduce opacity for the grey instance. Cheers DZ
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I've just created a light grey jpg in Affinity Designer. It was very easy and quick. I'll see how it works on the merge master and merge tomorrow. Cheers DZ
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Sorry, I meant dynamically select...
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Thank you Old Bruce. Does the "\1" open up the ability to dynamically create paragraph styles in a text box in the merge master file or is this a process I would have to do manually after creating each individual merged calendar?
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Thank you. I'm on my mobile now. I'll do that Monday afternoon when I'm back home. Cheers DZ
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I'm not sure. Excel I think I can handle, but I'm struggling with Affinity Publisher DML settings. Playing with emoji fonts and jpgs has so far led me nowhere except for the moon phases font. My Excel sheet has 372 records, which should exactly fill 12 pages with 31 DML fields. I can preview any record correctly in the Data Merge Manager but on merging get a weird fill. The grey fill and line separators are correctly triggered by the merge but I haven't yet worked out how to depict them in Publisher hence the struggle and discussions on emoji fonts and jpegs. Can you suggest how I can use find and replace interactively with my triggers to get a light grey filled text box and not have an underline on blank records at the end of short months? Cheers DZ
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Here is a screen shot of the master showing the DML settings. Cheers DZ
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I've been playing with DML and have successfully created a merge master which when I scroll through the fields for preview everything works well. Lines and shading is yet to be resolved, I've had a few goes but couldn't merge these even though they seemed to work when the correct record was selected. However... when I perform the merge, I get strange results. See attached file. It only produces some of the pages and starts around May and the days are out of sync with page layout. The merge master (below) has made the main merge feint thus difficult to see. I can't find a way of clearing this. It was fine but changed for some reason. I'm learning lots, but it's a bit semi-educated trial and error. Cheers DZ slim calendar mess.pdf
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Just a thought... I'm going to make a few small jpg files of different colours and then use them instead of the emoji. If it works it opens up colour choices. Cheers DZ
