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The View From Here reacted to a post in a topic: Additional PDF standards on export
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Additional PDF standards on export
elipsett2 replied to elipsett2's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
You want the last one, where each page in Publisher is the size and shape of one page (one side of the piece of paper) in the final book. Every book begins with a right page in English, so if you want a blank page first, then your first page in Publisher will be blank. The second page (the other side of the paper that the first page is printed on) is usually also blank, so make it blank in Publisher. The third page (the front side of the second sheet of paper in the book) then has your title on it. That sound reasonable? -
The View From Here reacted to a post in a topic: Additional PDF standards on export
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The View From Here reacted to a post in a topic: Additional PDF standards on export
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Additional PDF standards on export
elipsett2 replied to elipsett2's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
I have submitted PDFs using that standard in the past, and some were accepted, others not. LSI evaluations are not uniform. For the ones that weren't accepted, I converted them as above in Acrobat Pro, and resubmitted. They were accepted that time. LSI and Spark have removed almost all of their human assistance from production, leaving everything up to their automated print system. Which is not the brightest system I've ever dealt with. If they refuse it, I would be happy to fix the PDF for you (yes, free of charge, and I won't even keep a copy). -
The View From Here reacted to a post in a topic: Additional PDF standards on export
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Additional PDF standards on export
elipsett2 replied to elipsett2's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
You mean, how do I convert it to make it compliant with Ingram specs? You need to use the Print Production tools in Acrobat Pro, which allow you to use check compliance with various PDF standards, and make a file compliant. When I make a PDF in Publisher and then use Acrobat Pro, there are usually only one or two very minor changes needed. In most cases all it seems to do is change the declaration of the standard in the PDF header, with no actual changes to the content of the PDF at all. -
I would love to see additional PDF standards offered as output options. Some clients (Ingram Lightning Source and Ingram Spark, to be precise) only support older specs, which means I have to pass files through Acrobat. I'd vastly prefer to generate print files right the first time and avoid over-massaging the data. The only PDF standards currently supported by those two firms are PDF/X-1a:2001 and PDF/X-3:2002, but there are probably other people with their own needs. Why not support a whole slew and let the user choose?
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Variable text field in running header does not export to PDF
elipsett2 replied to elipsett2's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
This also suggests that Publisher does not pass page size information to the printer driver when an external driver is used. At least, not reliably. I normally print using A4 paper, so my Mac drivers are all set to A4 most of the time. The document I'm trying to print is a 5x8-inch book, so it's set up with facing pages. -
Variable text field in running header does not export to PDF
elipsett2 replied to elipsett2's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
Nope, didn't have any effect. All Print and Export commands are for the book, not individual chapter files. Trial 1: Opened the afbook file, and opened the chapter files. Running headers are displayed correctly. Saved chapter files, then saved the afbook file. Closed all files, including the afbook file. Opened afbook file, no chapter files open, Export “All Chapters as Pages” PDF/X-1a:2003 The output PDF showed the <Running Header> at the top of every page. Trial 2: Opened ONE chapter file with a running header, confirmed it displays correctly. Export with same settings. Running headers are correct for the chapter that was open, still wrong for the other chapters. Trial 3: Closed all files again. Selected Book > Print, > Save as PDF using the Mac default PDF driver All headers are wrong, and the page size has been changed to A4 with the text block centered Trial 4: Same as Trial 2, using “Save as PDF” option Same results as Trial 2 Trial 5: No Chapters open, Print > PDF > Open in Preview All headers wrong Trial 6: One chapter open Same results as Trial 2 Trial 7 No chapters open. Print > “Save as Adobe PDF” using Adobe CC driver All running headers wrong I have a few more options I could try but it seems pretty cler that either (1) this Mac has a problem (possible but unlikely, since PDF output from Adobe and other software works normally), (2) there's some weird collision between Publisher and something running on my system, or (3) Publisher has a problem. -
MacOS 10.15.7, Publisher 2.1.0, Adobe CC subscription, BitDefender and other background stuff. If the layout files are closed and the book is exported to PDF, the running headers are exported as RUNNING HEADER. If the layout files are open and the book is exported to PDF (no other changes, just open all the book files), running heders are exported correctly.
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dominik reacted to a post in a topic: Where are the help files located on the Mac?
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elipsett2 reacted to a post in a topic: Where are the help files located on the Mac?
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elipsett2 reacted to a post in a topic: Where are the help files located on the Mac?
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Thank you for the various responses, most of which would solve my problem neatly. I was especially pleased to see thomaso's and v_kyr's comments that I can just use a browser to link directly to the pertinent help file... something that had never occured to me. Now that I know where the help files are located, I can do all sorts of things. I've been manipulating lproj files for years, but it never occured to me to actually look inside one! Learn something new every day etc. I appreciate the quick and very useful responses!