Print Monkey
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In windows if I copy a TSV text from a file then select the whole table with the move tool and paste, it does go into different cells almost as expected but there are a bunch of blank rows between the rows possibly due to the \r\n newline ending or something. If I select cells in a table and use Place then I can place a TSV file without this empty extra rows problem, but the Place file selector won't let me select CSV or TSV file extensions. I have to rename the file to .txt to get it to let me place it. Thanks everyone for the help. It seems like Affinity has lots of little issues with tables and they really need some sort of general overhaul..... -
Hmm.... wonder if the french string was left out of the string library. Do you see it under Settings->Shortcuts?
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Every one ive tried crashes on me frequently. Do you know of a decent one that works in win 11?
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Publisher 2 and ICML files
Print Monkey replied to PaoloT's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
I'm interested in this as well. I don't need ICML specifically, but I want to be able to create a page layout in Publisher and import XML marked up text which has tagged stuff like "this is a chapter", "this is a section", "this is a paragraph in the section". That is, logical document layout markup imported into Publisher which then decides what styles and masters to apply. -
Please re-evaluate table improvements
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Yes, this. Some of us don't use excel either and don't have it, don't want to buy it.
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Same here. Tables need work on some basic functions like this.
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Copying data into tables
Print Monkey replied to riball's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
1 year later.... yes this seems like a major oversight in Publisher -
Copying data into tables
Print Monkey replied to riball's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Still running into same problems here. Tables need some work. One idea is for Paste Special to have options for how to interpret the clipboard data as multiple cells rather than a huge blob of text pasted into one cell. Perhaps try to make Paste in tables "smart" by default, make "paste without formatting" force everything into one cell, and allow Paste Special to have options like CSV/TSV/RTF table data to force a particular interpretation when the default "smart paste" behavior doesn't interpret the data as intended. -
Yes, this feature. Need proper pasting of data into multiple table cells, not just in RTF but also CSV/TSV. One idea is for Paste Special to have options for how to interpret the clipboard data as multiple cells rather than a huge blob of text pasted into one cell. Perhaps try to make Paste in tables "smart" by default, make "paste without formatting" force everything into one cell, and allow Paste Special to have options like CSV/TSV/RTF table data to force a particular interpretation when the default "smart paste" behavior doesn't interpret the data as intended.
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I was hoping to avoid that kind of extra step but I'll give that a try. I tried this but it still didn't work. With plain text using newlines, everything still ends up in one cell. Paste Special is just under Paste in the edit menu. It's there even when there's only one "special" option and I don't remember having to enable any special features to get it.....
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It looks like your CSV doesn't using quoting, but it contains quotation marks and you have "Quote" set to '"' in the data merge manager. That could be confusing something. Try setting Quote to "None" in the data merge manager. Rainbow CSV (VSCode CSV extension) didn't read the file properly for me until I removed the quote character from the read options. Edit: actually I'm wrong, it's still not reading the file properly. maybe it does use quoting? This file is a little hard to figure out. Perhaps there's just a bug in the import related to the large number of fields/columns.
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I had tried Paste Special, but the only option i get is "unicode text". So I pasted the list of words into a word processor, then copied it back out so there should be RTF on the clipboard, then tried "paste special"ing it into the table as RTF Text (the option did show up this time), but no luck. I tried this with selecting a whole column, and with creating a new table and selecting the whole thing. It seems like Publisher is extremely picky about what it considers to be table-format data in some unknown manner. I also tried copying a few rows of TSV (tab separated) text and no luck. There should be an option for "CSV Text" and "TSV Text" in "Paste Special" but it seems this doesn't exist.
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sounds like it could be a bug. how long is the csv?
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This was working for me, except when I had something set wrong like CSV/TSV delimeters etc. Which input format are you using? (CSV, JSON, XML?)
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I tried to search for other topics on this because I'm sure someone else has run into this problem before, but I can't seem to figure out how to paste text in such a way that it ends up in different cells in a table in Publisher. Examples: Copy a table column from a spreadsheet, select upper left table cell in Publisher table, paste, the text ends up in that one cell as different "paragraphs". Copy newline-separated list of names from a text editor, select upper left cell in Publisher table, paste, everything ends up in one cell. (In a spreadsheet, each line ends up in a different cell in one column.) Same, but select multiple cells in the Publisher table before pasting, everything still ends up in one cell. This is totally different from the behavior of pretty much all spreadsheet software or anything else with tables that I've used where text strings separated by newlines end up in different rows and things separated by tabs (and possibly commas) end up in different columns when pasted into a table. Does anyone know of a workaround? It doesn't look like you can data merge directly into a table, only a data merge grid, and that would be rather troublesome for simple cases anyway. It seems like the tables in Publisher need some improvement. I've run into some other things that make them more cumbersome than usual, like the behaviors when inserting columns and the inability to move columns.
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Probably the best thing to do if you need to output to both RGB and CMYK is just use AdobeRGB as the working profile, export to sRGB for RGB images, and either use soft proofing combined with exporting directly to the CMYK profile or like you say convert to the target CMYK profile to make manual adjustments to CMYK values for the output printer. CMYK is "fundamentally reflective" and RGB is "fundamentally emissive", and it's hard to reflect 0 but theoretically easy to emit zero, and the CMYK profiles are based on reflective measurements from the paper. I think the ICC CMYK profiles also effectively have ink limits for perceptual rendering which results in RGB 0 not being zero. This color management stuff is such a pain I don't know how anyone ever figures it out.
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Try defining a "rich black" spot color. go to swatches panel. click the = hamburger and do "add global color" and name it "Rich Black" select CMYK for the sliders set CYM and K to 100% (this is called "rich black" and isn't normally used at 400% ink coverage because it makes a mess that way when actually printing. See here https://www.prepressure.com/design/basics/rich-black if you actually need to print rich black. Something more like 40,40,40,100 is more common but different printers and processes need different formulas) Assign that spot color to whatever needs to be RGB #000000 I just tested and it seems to work, at least as the normally unusable 100,100,100,100. Not sure exactly what CY and M minimum % is needed to get RGB #000000 with which profile you're using but it's helpful to have this kind of thing as a spot color anyway because it makes it easier for the printer to just edit the CMYK assignments even if it isn't printed as a spot color. (Edit: actually 100% of everything is called Registration Black because it's used to print registration marks. Rich black is always something less than 100% C M and Y.)
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Ok, I didn't know about Edit Linked. I will give that a try. It seems to have worked though I don't completely understand it yet. Ok, but does that allow you to update pages that already have data in the field?
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This sounds like more of an HP driver/rip or acrobat issue than an affinity one. The reason I asked about the color profile type was that some drivers don't seem to like things converted from CMYK. If it's RGB/8 and sRGB then that's what most "consumer devices" expect. The "Advanced" tab of the acrobat print dialog has some options you might try fiddling with. Does it print properly if printed directly from Affinity?
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Is the PDF color profile CMYK or RGB?
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So I thought I'd try creating a master page with a table to use as a template for several pages with exactly the same sort of table, but this hasn't worked out so well. On my first page I found that I needed to resize the columns, but I had already typed a bunch of stuff. I can't resize the columns in the locked Master layer table, so I tried updating the column width in the master table, but when I tried to reapply the master it wouldn't just resize the table. instead it copied the old table to a page object and updated the master layer with the empty table. Am I going to have to use Data Merge for this?
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Thanks. That feature I had found already. It is a good feature to have available.
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Thanks a lot for the ideas @Mark Daniel and @Hangman. I will experiment with these and see what I can do. Right now I'm just printing off a few of these on a laser printer but I would like to know how to set up for larger numbers so will experiment with Mark's suggestions. (I haven't used page layout programs much and have mostly used photo editors and vector drawing programs so some of the ways of doing things in page layout software don't occur to me immediately.)
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Ok thanks, but I was hoping to find some sort of arbitrary way to define how spreads are composed for other reasons.... Any features or plans?
