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This was actually already logged, I just missed it on the known issues. It actually does sort, but you need to refresh the table to see the sort (which can be done by changing the target type between anchors/paragraph). Should hopefully be fixed in the next beta
I'll look at getting this added as an improvement

Thinking about it a bit more, the most appropriate solution to this would be to option double-click the asset to place it on the page/artboard.
That wold leave the current behaviour as is.

This post is not strictly about the Asset Panel Reordering but related to the Assets Panel.
What I find unintuitive (I know very subjective) is the fact that if I double-click any asset in the panel I don't get any visual feedback that the pointer tool changed into a loaded pointer. That feedback is only visible when you move the mouse outside of the assets panel. So one would keep double-clicking assets thinking that nothing is happening.
Secondly, I would expect (very subjective but present in other applications) that if I double-click an asset in the panel that asset would be immediately placed in the middle of the open document.
Edit: Also, it would be very helpful to have visual feedback in the form of an outline over each asset you mouse over.

Apps: Affinity Publisher
Platforms: Windows and macOS
Cross-references are a field inserted into text that refers to another object or piece of text. If the current document is a chapter of a book, cross-references can refer to objects or text from other chapters.
You can insert a cross-reference by using Text > Cross References > Insert Cross-Reference, or by using the right-click menu on text. If a cross-reference is already selected, these options change to Edit Cross-Reference instead. Either way brings up a panel to set the cross-reference properties. The first group of properties are about the target of the cross-reference. This can either be an existing anchor, or a text paragraph. (If you cross-reference to a paragraph, it will automatically create an anchor at the start of the paragraph.) The second group of properties are about how the cross-reference will be displayed. These include as the target page number, section name, and the content of paragraphs. By using several cross-reference fields you can build up text like, “See footnote 2 on page 12, below”.
The Window > References > Cross-References menu option will display a Studio panel that lists the cross-references from the current document. From here you can go to the cross-reference itself, or its target. (This will open other book chapters if necessary.) You can also update cross-reference text from here — they don’t update automatically.
Settings > Cross-References has options for controlling the text used for showing relative positions “above” and “below” (these will use the language of the text they are in rather than the UI, for support of bilingual documents).

Hello @ernst.w,
I hope you realise that Publisher is not going to open inDesign files with 100% accuracy.
For smaller documents this may work but for long documents you are going to run into a lot of problems.
It might be much quicker just to start from scratch in Publisher and import files from in Design as you go along.
There is no 1 to 1 translation between these 2 programs.

The standard use case for any app that supports rich formatting is that when you copy text from one document to another it should look exactly the same after pasting. This is how apps like Affinity, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, and so on all work.
The most common way it's done is if you paste in text that uses the same style with different attribute definitions that the result should be that the pasted text will have individual character attributes applied on top of the style to make it look like it did when it was copied. If Body Text is Helvetica in the source document and Times in the target document, you'll have Body Text + Font Family:Times after pasting.
The way Affinity handles this produces a similar result but it doesn't do it in the same way, and in my opinion there's room it's backward and inconsistent. Publisher will give you two results that are visually identical but defined differently depending on the style setup. In most cases, instead of the pasted Heading 1 text having individual attributes applied to make it look like the source document even though Heading 1 is defined differently in the target document, Publisher will update Heading 1 in the target document to match the pasted text and then apply individual attributes to all existing text styled with Heading 1 to retain its original appearance. I believe this is backward.
But if your styles are set up in a certain way, you will instead have two definitions for the style instead - for example, Custom Style and Custom Style 1. This inconsistency is likely leading to some of the confusion.

Hello @MikeTO,
Your quote above made me realise that this actually works in Publisher.
Just import the styles of a new template over the old one overriding the old styles. Problem solved.
And all done in one step. Thanks for that hint. 🙂

That's not workable in a situation where you have to move hundred of files to a new template.
I would like to hear from the "management" what the expected behaviour of this scenario is as that would be a real show stopper for people working with long documents constantly repurposing and updating it to new templates.

Hum… so, this explains why they didn’t implement the features I ordered them!
 

Other users may find it useful though.
Rather than killing it I would advise you to post your suggested improvements to the beta forum so the team can evaluate your suggestions.
That way you get improved export preview and we all will benefit from your suggestions.

Other users may find it useful though.
Rather than killing it I would advise you to post your suggested improvements to the beta forum so the team can evaluate your suggestions.
That way you get improved export preview and we all will benefit from your suggestions.

Other users may find it useful though.
Rather than killing it I would advise you to post your suggested improvements to the beta forum so the team can evaluate your suggestions.
That way you get improved export preview and we all will benefit from your suggestions.

Hello @WesPx,
Welcome to the forum.
You have created an artboard. In order to change the artboard dimensions enable the Transform panel and you can input your new dimensions there (using the width and height fields).
If you created a page in the New Document panel (untick create the artboard) then you would be able to change the page dimensions from within the Document Setup panel as shown in your picture above.

And now the Video... 😀
Pexi.mov    

This is a perfect example of how scripting can be employed to automate very particular use-cases within Affinity products.

Hi All,
We're happy to make the second build of the 2.1 beta available today - 2.1.0.1709. This should now be available for you on auto update.
Here's some of the main changes in this build:
Guides
Had a lot of great feedback on guides - thank you. In this build we have:
Added Alt-Click to delete a guide Made Alt-Shift while dragging snap to delta. We had already made holding shift snap to ruler units from page origin. What this new option gives is if you have a guide placed at, say, 35.3mm from the page origin and you want to move it 10mm - you can now drag while holding Alt-Shift to snap to that difference. Of course this also works if you have alt or cmd dragged a duplicate of the guide If guides are currently set to not visible, then dragging out a new guide from ruler (or moving an existing guide from indicator on ruler) will automatically turn guide visibility on in all OSs Crop Tool
Enter as well as return now commits a crop Escape now resets the crop Brush Panel
Generally tightened panel up somewhat so less vertical space was being used. Brush names if you have chosen to show them are now justified to left Light UI should now hopefully look correct Modifying a brush using drag shortcuts (e.g. ctrl+alt+click drag left and right) keeps brush selection in panel (and shown as modified as appropriate). Raster mesh and perspective live filters in pixel persona
Now added correctly in Windows version so the live versions of these filters are available Have now added to pixel persona in the iPad version of Designer. You will have two new options under the + button in Layers panel where you can choose to add either of these live filter layers. Vector flood fill
New icon has been added for tool to distinguish between the raster flood fill tool in Affinity Photo When you are in tool you can now drag and drop swatches directly from the swatches panel into any area the fill tool recognises from your selection If you are in "In Between" mode the additional shapes / fills which are created are automatically added to your selection so if you subsequently change the fill of them again additional shapes are not created. Bitmap fills are now supported. This means you can pick a bitmap fill swatch from swatches to use as your fill colour (or drag and drop a bitmap fill swatch into the appropriate area). Few notes on this: Currently if the bitmap fill has transparency this will be added as an additional fill (in appearance panel), so can be added as a texture over an existing colour fill. It's a cool feature, but we probably need to add a modifier / option in context toolbar about whether you want that to do that vs. replace the fill altogether.  You will notice in the context toolbar some new options for min, max and stretch to fit. These options are only relevant for bitmap and gradient fills and determines how the gradient or bitmap are scaled within the new fill being created.  A nice thing to try is when you are in fill tool you can drag from assets into your active colour on the toolbar to automatically create a bitmap fill to use - as shown in the video below.   Texture Fills.mov  
Blend mode shortcuts
Erase bend mode now available to configure on macOS and iPad Ordering of blend mode list and default keys should now be consistent between operating systems Close All
Apply to all check box now been added to macOS dialog if you have currently open unsaved / modified documents.
Various bug fixes
Of course there are also various bug fixes - you can find the list of these on the second post in the fix list thread.
Thanks again for all your help.
Ash
 

Strange. It works for me in Designer Beta 2.1.
What's important (maybe) is to deselect all artboards before changing the margins.

magins.mov    

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.

This post is not strictly about the Asset Panel Reordering but related to the Assets Panel.
What I find unintuitive (I know very subjective) is the fact that if I double-click any asset in the panel I don't get any visual feedback that the pointer tool changed into a loaded pointer. That feedback is only visible when you move the mouse outside of the assets panel. So one would keep double-clicking assets thinking that nothing is happening.
Secondly, I would expect (very subjective but present in other applications) that if I double-click an asset in the panel that asset would be immediately placed in the middle of the open document.
Edit: Also, it would be very helpful to have visual feedback in the form of an outline over each asset you mouse over.

This post is not strictly about the Asset Panel Reordering but related to the Assets Panel.
What I find unintuitive (I know very subjective) is the fact that if I double-click any asset in the panel I don't get any visual feedback that the pointer tool changed into a loaded pointer. That feedback is only visible when you move the mouse outside of the assets panel. So one would keep double-clicking assets thinking that nothing is happening.
Secondly, I would expect (very subjective but present in other applications) that if I double-click an asset in the panel that asset would be immediately placed in the middle of the open document.
Edit: Also, it would be very helpful to have visual feedback in the form of an outline over each asset you mouse over.

Hello @bajqo,
No you need this (\s\b.{1,3}\b)\s.

Thanks for this feedback - I think the auto expand of a parent item like a group when you are dragging another layer into it is a solid idea and could potentially be dealt with just after a little delay (as it does in finder, etc. when you drag a file over a folder). This might not be something we have time to add this time around but will get it on the list.

Personally, I think this is the right behaviour.

Ctrl > Open Affinity Photo 2 > Reset everything worked. So *something* (TM) profile / settings wise got corrupted.
Glad I am able to use Affinity Photo 2 again and thanks so much for your assistance.

Apps: Designer and Photo
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo now have the option to "Show Special Characters" if required. This is available from the top Text menu on desktop, and via the preview mode drop down on iPad.