[V2 is a downgrade]

17 minutes ago, François R said:

Publisher never took off.

Oh, it did take off in a big way, all right. It's just that you are too blind to see it.

[Performance issue using text styles]

1 hour ago, dddddd said:

Any operation (hitting OK) or even opening the Text Styles window makes me kill time watching the Spinning Wait Cursor. Annoying.

Could this be related to fonts you are using? I am on MacOSX Ventura and I don't have that problem.

If you can attach a file you are struggling with I can have a look at my end.

[Communication and Secrecy at Serif]

3 minutes ago, monzo said:

However, there is a reason why companies reward existing customers for their loyalty. It makes them feel their support has been valued.

I hope you have read the response of Ash from Serif who said:

However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 

We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.

[Communication and Secrecy at Serif]

1 hour ago, monzo said:

You could still then offer the Universal License for new (and existing) customers, without alienating those of us who feel we’ve been pressurised into paying again.

I don't really understand what you are on about.

Serif has not pressurised us in any way to do anything. If you are happy with v1 stay there. If you are happy with the new features released in v2 they have offered us an extremely generous upgrade path to v2.

Are you upset that new customers get the same discount as you? Why? If Serif are so generous to do that what's that to you?

[Affinity Publisher Import MS Word with footnotes not too hot]

20 minutes ago, Rory Mole said:

In my opinion, Adobe InDesign was much better at importing MS Word documents with minimal footnote adjustment after import.

I'm surprised to hear that.

To me the Footnote/Endnote/Sidenotes implementation in Affinity Publishers is one of the best in the industry.

The fact that we have Sidenotes not available in inDesign is already one up on inDesign.

I usually import text from Word to either inDesign or Affinity Publisher for further processing. I don't leave that text as is.

So, in the case of Publisher, if I have defined a Style for Footnotes Text and Footnote References, then to apply those style to the whole text is only a matter of 2 clicks and I'm done.

Obviously, you may have encountered a bug or something, but in general this process should be very smooth and quick.

[Section Manager can't be resizable?]

23 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Section Manager is resizable horizontally and vertically on macOS.

While we can resize the Section Manager on the Mac, I wish we could resize the left and right side of the panel independently. As it is the right hand side is not resizeable at all and we can only see a fraction of the section name we type in the Section name text field. I think this really needs to be improved.

[Affinity Apps for Mac: How can I "unlink" my Apps from my Apple account and link them to my Serif account?]

Just now, Gaul said:

I think it's more a question for Mac experts 

This is nothing to do with Apple or apple experts, I'm afraid.

You need to ask for a refund from your Microsoft Store and then buy the license directly from Affinity.

[Affinity Apps for Mac: How can I "unlink" my Apps from my Apple account and link them to my Serif account?]

3 minutes ago, Gaul said:

Question:  How can I "unlink" my Apps from my Apple account and link them to my Serif account?

So, you bought the Universal License from Apple Store, then, I'm afraid, you can't do much about it. What you can do though is to ask Apple Store for a refund (within 2 weeks of purchase, I believe) and then buy the Universal License from Serif store.

[all three 2.0 versions: Preference panes almost unreadable]

10 minutes ago, Thomas_U said:

Please make it clear black on white!

It looks that you have selected a dark theme.

Try to change it to Light by going to Preferences ->User Interface ->UI Style Light.

[Suggestion: GoTo a page number in Publisher]

2 minutes ago, HarryMcGovern said:

If it’s already there… I can’t find it

You can assign a shortcut to Document -> Go to Page…

or type your page number where you see 1 of 1 in the screenshot below.

Is this what you are asking for?

[Three things you like about version 2]

1. Footnotes

2. Books

3. Universal license

[Endnotes replace footnotes]

2 hours ago, danzefirelli said:

There a more issues. Why does the footnotes aren*t continuous from one page to another?

Please open Help -> Affinity Publisher 2 Help and find help on Footnotes. This will teach you all you need to know about the Footnotes, Endnotes and Sidenotes.

[Endnotes replace footnotes]

30 minutes ago, PiXXeLwahnsinn said:

Publisher 2 turned all my footnotes into endnotes and all my footnote texts were disappeared!

That's interesting. I don't see that problem when I create footnotes and endnotes in the same document. 

I hope you don't mind me asking you to describe what you do to create endnotes after you've created footnotes?

Do yo mind attaching your document here so I can have a look.

[Footnotes/Endnotes]

1 hour ago, Will Wallace said:

"Nonsense" doesn't even begin to describe just how painfully idiotic it is.

I love the video. It's a wonderful teaser.

[Scripting]

5 hours ago, TonyB said:

Affinity will support Javascript and also have a 'C' based API binding interface that people can use to write plugins. We will also have the ability to create UI to support their scripts and plugins with dialogs and panels. 

We have a team developing this but the amount of work is very large so unfortunately users will need to be patient.

Thank @TonyB for that information.

One thing that I'd love to know, if possible, is how you are going to deal with automation which remains platform specific.

Apple during the last Year WWDC announced that the future of automation on MacOSX is Shortcuts (replacing AppleScript). I have no doubts that on this year's WWDC, just next month, we will see a bigger push towards that.

Windows, no doubt, have their own technology. 

Are there any plans to take advantage or each platform unique automation technologies?

[Bold style with regular underline]

56 minutes ago, L Markus said:

How can I make text bold but keep the underline regular(non-bold)?

It may have something to do with the font you choose.

I tried that with the lowest common denominator font – Arial – and the thin underline in LibreOffice became a thick underline in Publisher.

I then tried Adobe Caslon Pro and the thickness of the underline hasn't changed in Publisher.

So my suggest is try various fonts and see what you get.

[Mockup with automatic warp adjustment?]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

If you are testing with a macOS beta version, it might be a good idea to mention that whenever you post a comment about an Affinity app crashing!

Hi @R C-R,

You are absolutely right.

I should have mentioned that in my post.

[Mockup with automatic warp adjustment?]

2 hours ago, MEB said:

Can you attach the crash report please?

Hi @MEB,

I'm on MacOSX Monterey (Version 12 Beta (21A5506j).

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017)

Processor 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

Memory 64 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

 

Attached screen recording and crash report.

Affinity Photo-2021-09-13-154604.ips

[Mockup with automatic warp adjustment?]

12 minutes ago, MEB said:

It should be there now if you refresh the page.

Hello @MEB.

Just tested the file you've attached above.

Photo crashes as soon as you double-click the first (blue) icon in the Embedded document layer.

It crashes all the time. Sometimes in crashes on the first double-click other times on subsequent double-clicks.

[Affinity Photo for macOS - 1.10.0]

12 minutes ago, peters1950 said:

Thanks for any tips

You may find this video helpful.

 

[Export to IDML]

8 hours ago, JonaIrais said:

I love Affinity but do need to be able to share my files with Adobe clients. 

This topic has been explored ad nauseam here.

Please check the forum for the pros and cons (mostly cons) of sharing IDML files between inDesign and Affinity Publisher.

[startup crash]

1 hour ago, typeglyph said:

Version 1.10.0.1109

I would suggest to report problems on the latest betas.

That beta has been superseded by 1.10.0.1115 (RC) on 21 July.

[RC1 HSL HSV Missing]

2 hours ago, Gary Dunning said:

DG = max(SR,SG.SB) - min(SR,SG,SB)

DB = max(SR,SG.SB) - min(SR,SG,SB)

I'm sure these are just simple typos. Dots should be replaced with commas in max functions.

[Soft Return Search Crash]

2 hours ago, Pauls said:

Do you have a particular sample file we can use ?

Hi @Pauls,

I checked the latest beta and I am unable to reproduce the crash I saw in my initial post. It seems that the problem has gone away. If I come across this crash again I will attach the offending file here.

[Soft Return Search Crash]

Unable to reproduce it all the time but when searching for soft returns and then double-clicking one of them in the found list crashes latest Publisher beta.

I can only attach crash reports here.

Affinity Publisher Beta_2021-07-20-200854_Middledot-iMac-3.crashAffinity Publisher Beta_2021-07-20-201217_Middledot-iMac-3.crash