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Seneca

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  1. Apologies if this was started already as a suggestion.

    I think that Export Persona should be very useful in Publisher. Imagine trying to negotiate various PDF export options.
    Being able to PDF only certain pages or exporting pages in other formats would really be great.

    I know that we have Export command but Export Persona would act as some sort of Presets for a variety of exporting options.

    This should be a low-hanging fruit for the dev. team as most of the functionality already exists in Export Persona in Designer and Photo.

  2. I've just posted a similar request a few minutes ago without noticing this.
    Towards Spine and Away from Spine is extremely useful in Styles. Imagine you want a Heading that is always away from Spine on each facing page.

    This is useful in annuals like Calendars, etc. I use it quite often in Church documents as well.

    It's very useful in master pages also.
    You only need to create a style for that  - Folio for example (I create style for everything) and by dragging the text box to any master page it automatically switches to appropriate alignment.

    One could define a style for left hand side heading and right hand side heading but that's a workaround and it involved 2 formatting styles instead of just one. The software should deal with that situation automatically.

    A big strong +1 for this feature.

     

  3. 16 hours ago, gaspar_schott said:

    InDesign has the ability to add character-level styles to strings/patterns in paragraph styles, which is an extremely powerful and time-saving function. I would love to see this implemented in Publisher.

    I would like to add my strong +1 to get this feature added to Affinity Publisher. This is especially useful with character styles as seen in inDesign. I completely agree with the quote above by gaspar_schott. I use this feature all the time and it's just great and an incredible a time saver. In fact the problems shown above in the Polish and the Czech language could be solved by one grep rule in the paragraph style.

  4. 30 minutes ago, MikeW said:

     

    Better, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Your's is a special use case example. I got one, too...

     

    There are things that Q can do that cannot be natively done in ID, too. For instance, running headers/footers that are tied to longish paragraph or character styles. Q can wrap running headers, ID still cannot without jumping through the hoops of scripting, plug-ins, or formatting multiple character styles and running header instances.

     

    BTW, (Oh, Alfred's reply came in...yes, Alfred, that's what is meant. A style can be set to begin in the next frame.), I nearly always use tagged text as a source no matter what the original comes as (which is generally Word files anyway). In Q (and I do this in ID as well) when I want text to be forced to a new frame, I insert the tagged text command to do so. All automated of course.

     

    As regards calendars/date books, most of mine are pretty automated. I do a fair amount of Leporello calendars. I rarely need to touch the files once ran in. I would do the same with your style of date book.

     

    I think the list of features one can do in one application versus the other is somewhat a red herring (exception being core features...). There are often, even within one application, various ways of accomplishing things.

    I didn't mean this to become a beauty contest. I too love certain features in Quark that are not in indesign.

    My point was that for long documents I still favour inDesign over Quark.

     

    What I love in quark is the Ticket system where you can set up styles and all and know that you comply with the client requirement specifications.

    And of course there are other things in Quark that are not in indesign. I'm fully aware of that. :-)

    Best regards

  5. 36 minutes ago, Alfred said:

     

    In other words, the paragraph style can include a frame break (forcing the text to be placed in a new frame, in much the same way as a column break forces the text to be placed in a new column). Is that what you mean? :/

     

     

     

    Precisely that. Thank you.

  6. No, I don't mean that.  

    For example you are working on a diary. You create a paragraph style called Date. This date entry, say 25 May 2018 and each consecutive Day entry should start in a new frame.  It doesn't matter whether this frame is on the same page, the facing page or the following page. It doesn't matter whether you have 1, 2, or 4 of these frames per page. What matters is that this paragraph style acts like a sentinel that tells the program to stop filling the text in this frame and move on to the next frame because it has encounter Date paragraph style. I realise that my explanation may not be adequate. Sorry.

     

     

  7. indesign is able to thread text into text frames according to paragraph styles. In other words it uses paragraph styles as sentinels to stop filling the text in a given text frame and automatically moves to the next text frame. You can also instruct each text frame to apply paragraph styles to the text as it's being filled. As far as I am aware you cannot achieve that with QXP (I may be from of course).

    This is just one example and there are more.

     

  8. 25 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:

    QXP is much better than ID, but ID is better organized (menus, palettes, measurement palette...).

     

    Hello Petar,

    I've been very impressed by continuous improvements to QXP over the years.

    The 2018 edition appears to be another stupendous upgrade particularly because it'll finally have a cross platform scripting language.

     

    However, I wouldn't agree with you that it's much better that inDesign. I tried to use QXP for long document production but it still far behind indesign. I'm sure that in time it will catch up but as the things stand now, it's not better than inDesign, sorry. :-) 

  9. 22 hours ago, Senjaz said:

    It's probably been mentioned before in this huge thread....

    Please include scripting support.

     

    Yes, this has been asked for a numbers of times already but it's always good to hear it again. In other words we need it. QuarkXpress 2018 will add JavaScript for cross platform scripting.

    This is great news for QuarkXpress users.

  10. 14 minutes ago, nitro912gr said:

    actually I am forced to work with indesign if everybody else is working with indesign (or photoshop, or illustrator, or you name it).

     

    Hmm, I've been working with inDesign for many years. I'm not forced to do it but I like it. In fact there nothing out there in the market that comes close to that. Some prefer QuarkXpress and that's fine too.

    I completely agree that it's incredibly important for Affinity Publisher to import inDesign files if it wants to compete at the top level. I also realise that it may take time to get there but I hope we are not waiting for a toy but for a competitor at the highest level. IDML files are not proprietary. INDD files are. 

    There is a number of people on this forum for whom linking text boxes will be more than enough to make them happy but for us who have been in the industry for more than 15 years (much longer in my case since I started with MacPlus and a LaserWriter) we expect, in time, a real competitor to inDesign. And not only that, we are hoping for a new leader in this field. I hope I'm  not wishing for a pie in the sky. :-)

  11. On 13/02/2018 at 11:40 AM, Jan Gaare said:

    I hope there is a way to get a good price for publisher, I probably keep the photo and designer, and get publisher too, easier to understand the plan now, but got a bit disappointed about designer first.  In total a better deal then getting enslaved by Adobe :-) Keep up the good work, thank you for such humble response, JAN

     

    As you know, the launch prices of both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer were very reasonable, in fact, very cheap, £30-40. The same should apply to Affinity Publisher when it becomes available. :)

  12. Towards the end of the movie there was something that amounted to paragraph rules in inDesign parlance.

    I hope we will be able to set the Left, Top, Right and Bottom rules on a paragraph and most importantly that these are part of the Paragraph Style. Otherwise they will be pretty useless.

     

    Also, it would be super-cool if we were able to choose an element for Left, Top, Right and Bottom from the Assets Catalogue  that would scale according to the paragraph height and length. And why stop there, why couldn't we have Top-Left, Top-Right, Bottom-Left and Bottom-Right places to choose elements for from the Assets Catalogue.

    I see so many possibilities there.

  13. 5 hours ago, padre2 said:

    The beta being spoken of for next Summer, is it only for MAC or will it come out for Windows at the same time? In my office we currently using In-Design and PS and AI. We are counting the days we can switch over to Affinity Products, but right now all we can do is wait... All our machines are PCs bar one.

     

    Please read previous posts here. It says clearly that it is going to be released simultaneously for both Mac and Windows and the iPad version will follow later.

     

  14. 1 hour ago, R C-R said:

    How much more of an explanation do you expect than that?

     

    I agree, it would be very foolish to read too much into that.

     

    Although, an early access into the alpha version of the product would be super cool.

    I think that a lot of good feedback on features that work and features that might be tweaked coming from the community would be super beneficial to the developers.

     

    Text Styles would be one area that might benefit greatly from that feedback. We've been at for for more that 30 years so we know a thing or two about that.

    This is just one example of course and there will be many others.

    Regards

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