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vonBusing reacted to Gabe in locked object moves when aligning
Hi both,
Sorry for the delayed reply.
I have logged this with our developers.
Thanks,
Gabe.
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vonBusing reacted to RM f/g in locked object moves when aligning
In a document I have two objects, one of which is locked in the layers panel and cannot be moved. As is to be expected.
When I select both objects (in the layers panel), then apply an alignment, the locked object may move, depending on the applied alignment.
The same happens in Publisher.
Not exactly shocking, but not how I think it should be.
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vonBusing reacted to abarkalo in Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.7.2.422
posted on a new thread per your location recommendation and hid here. thanks,
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vonBusing reacted to walt.farrell in Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.7.2.422
It may well be a bug, but this is not the appropriate topic to address your concern, and posting here will not get your concern properly tracked by Serif. As AdamW mentioned in the first post in this topic, to report problems using the beta you need to create a new topic in Report Bugs in Publisher Beta on Mac.
(Also, if the problem exists in the retail version it may be better to report it in Pubisher Bugs Found on MacOS rather than in the beta forums.)
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vonBusing reacted to Hangman in text bug please fix
Hi MagicPooper,
In order for the Affinity Team to help you with the issues you are experiencing you need to provide some additional information otherwise there is no way for them to identify what the exact causes of your problems are. Simply saying things like...
helps nobody, especially when MEB has already said...
As far as I can tell your first post seems to relate to a problem you have when using 'Styles'. You say you can't upload the file because it is a work-related file so instead could you either:
Create a non-work-related file that exhibits the problem you have with the green background or Create a Quicktime video that shows us what you are doing that creates the problem you are experiencing This will then give the support team a chance of understanding what you are doing and what might be causing the problem.
You then go on in your second post to list other issues you have, namely...
As far as I can tell...
Point 1 - Again relates to not being able to change the fill colour when a style has been applied to an object?
Point 2 - I'm not really sure what you mean by "the preview pictures don't load many times"
Point 3 - I assume relates to 'Snapping' when you have objects in a group
Point 4 - I don't understand what you mean by the "Colour Workaround isn't changeable, fixable, deletable if you work with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo together"
Point 5 - Makes no sense without some details
Point 6 - If you sent the crash report to the Affinity Team they can take a look at it with a view to trying to help you.
If you want the Affinity team or other members of the forum to try and help you resolve the problems, please either demonstrate the problems or provide sample non-work-related files showing the problem so 'we' can help identify the causes. Saying things like "please fix it INSTANTLY!!!" is really not helpful when you've not provided sufficient information to allow anyone to help you, that's like going to see the doctor in a lot of pain but not telling the doctor where the pain is or what you were doing that led to the pain in the first place.
We all want to help you but please help us to help you...
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vonBusing reacted to Patrick Connor in [Implemented] Data merge
@SirAnoke, @paull, @GWLT_LCD, @Peter Pan, @IgorRock, @Antioche & @R_G
Welcome all of you to the Serif Affinity forums
With so many people, like yourselves, enjoying Publisher but joining the forums to specifically request this feature and others like it, be aware that we very clearly aim to add this . Delaying launch of Affinity Publisher until it performs all the features of competitors' products (that have been around in some cases for decades) would have meant an unnecessary delay to Publisher to those for whom the current feature set is sufficient for their jobs. Be reassured the developers understand what is required of this product. Thanks for your valuable input and your patience while the addition of this important feature is addressed.
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vonBusing reacted to Jeremy Bohn in Round Corner on a graphic
I just tried this with a PSD file and it worked exactly like InDesign for me.
First draw a rectangle picture frame, then in the contextual toolbar choose the corner to be rounded and set your size. Then go File > Place, choose your graphic and you're done.
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vonBusing reacted to AdamW in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.384 (RC1)
Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Improvements and Fixes
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Download: No longer available
Auto-update: No longer available
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 384 (RC1) is now available as a download from the link above. To be notified of further updates please press follow on this announcement thread.
We are very happy with Affinity Publisher 1.7 and are moving towards the final stages for launch, but would still urge some caution with respect to using this version for critical work as it is still possible we may have missed something that may cause you issues.
That said, please note that we aren’t done yet - we are still working through reported bugs and hope to fix as many as possible before launch. After launch we will start a new Customer Beta for those who wish to have early access to on-going updates and fixes.
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fixes / Improvements
Open / Import / Export
Publisher now offer to convert Artboards to spreads for Photo documents as well as Designer documents
Warn before Export / Print if there are linked resource issues
Fixed PDF Export issue with zero height lines
Fixed RTF Export issue / crash when copy pasting text from Publisher
PDF Export - Fix for Greyscale export of RGB documents / placed RGB images
(Win) Fixed "Export text as curves" for EPS export
(Win) Fix for documents with facing pages always showing Page 1 when opened
Tools / Panels
Better handling of Convert To Curves for text frames
Fix crash with localised swatch names
Fixes for TOC Panel layout on windows
Text
Selecting text with keyboard would switch between pages at the wrong point
Fix crash when deleting path of Path Text
Tweaked attributes for text inserted after line break
Fixes for updates to Global Colours used in the StyleSheet
Fixes for Baseline Grid and Vertical Justify when text Baseline Grid text attribute is not set
Fixes for Bullet / Numbered List text UI
Fix for duplication of Pinned Text nodes
(Win) Font traits aren't always correctly highlighted in dropdown
(Win) Fixed Detach Paragraph from Text Style
Tables
Fixed hang editing Tables due to rounding errors when fitting text
Decorations fixed for rotated text in Table Cells
Fixes for Cell selection issues
Resource Manager
Better management on selection in Resource Manager when working with resources
Images
Fixes for Posterize adjustment
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 376
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vonBusing got a reaction from Alfred in Round Corner on a graphic
Really, this is not so difficult. It works with the same logic as Designer and Photo and is quite intuitive. You may have developed an alternative intuition with InDesign, though.
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vonBusing reacted to AdamW in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.376
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Download: No longer available
Hi,
First of all, I (and the team) would like to thank everyone for your fantastic response to the Affinity Publisher pre-order. If you feel that you should have received an offer email and you haven't I suggest you contact affinityorders@serif.com with as much information as possible.
We've released this update mainly to fix the issues reported in Build 371 with the Text Tool and Select All / Copy / Paste etc. We will issue a Release Candidate next week and take things from there. After launch we will start a new Customer Beta for those who wish to have early access to on-going updates and fixes.
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 376 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread.
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents.
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fixes
Menus / Studio
(Win) Fix for Adjustments thumbnails in Layers panel not being updated
Document
Document transparency property now applies correctly to all spreads including masters
Import/ Export
Fix for crashes exporting with missing linked images
Fixed Font Manager locate not working on fonts used by list glyph styles
Tools
Fixes for the Measure Tool and Master Page items
Text
Fix for text selection range issue, Select All / Copy / Paste crashes etc
Fixes for conflict with the Measure Tool / Text Tool when selecting
Fixes for multi-click expanding ranges in text selection
Selecting a Picture Frame now highlights the content resource in Resource Manager
Resources
Fix for missing Resource Manager thumbnails on document open
Fix for incorrect placement in Resource Manager when embedding linked resources
Hyperlinks
(Mac) Add hyperlink button was inappropriately enabled under some circumstances
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 371
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vonBusing got a reaction from MEB in I cannot open Publisher on Mac after finished install
I believe this is a UI requirement for better cat compatibility in the forum.
(I may use it as well )
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vonBusing got a reaction from A_B_C in I cannot open Publisher on Mac after finished install
I believe this is a UI requirement for better cat compatibility in the forum.
(I may use it as well )
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vonBusing got a reaction from Alfred in I cannot open Publisher on Mac after finished install
I believe this is a UI requirement for better cat compatibility in the forum.
(I may use it as well )
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vonBusing reacted to Patrick Connor in Publisher to be released in (less than) 3 weeks time.
Absolutely. Ash's placeholders will be replaced on launch
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vonBusing got a reaction from ramonbuzon in Grid/Table tool
If you save a table created in Excel/Pages/HTML as pdf, you can simply open/import it in AD for editing. Then you can adjust fonts, sizes, colors, make smaller text edits.
Looking forward to the table tool in APub.
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vonBusing reacted to AdamW in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.312
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 312 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread.
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents.
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fixes and Improvements
Menus / Studio
Stock Page improvements
(Mac) Removed default Convert to Curves shortcut to prevent accidental conversion while typing
(Win) Added 'Create Style' to the Edit Menu
(Win) Removed Create New from Clipboard shortcut
Loading / Saving
Fixed failure to save document after arrowheads applied and reset to 'None'
Import / Export
Fix for PDF Import crash when selecting 'Favour editable text over fidelity'
Added support for TIFFs with old-style JPEG compression
RAW files can now be placed using File > Place. To fall in line with the other apps
Prevent multiple spurious warnings when placing several files at once
(Mac) Fix for setting of 'Scale with Object' affecting Print output
DocX
Fixed crashes importing bogus DocX files
Added Drag Drop of DocX to populate Text Frames
Fixed / added DocX import features including:
- Formatting Fixes, leading fixes
- Negative right indent
- Basic group support
- Linked text frames
- Paragraph attribute priority fixes
- Incorrect object alignment
- Gradient fixes
- Table borders, vertical cell alignment
- Documents without styles (created by PDF converter)
Images / Resources
Added per axis DPI and Scale controls on the Image Context bar DPI / Scale dropdown
Fixed and renamed the '1:1' button to reset the aspect ratio and scale to original size
Cropped Image conversion to Picture Frame handled better
Fix for undo of Set K-Only
(Win) Improved locate procedure for missing linked images
(Win) Fix for auto-update of linked documents not working
Text
Fixed crash pasting text with the Move tool active
Fixed OpenType lookup rules which resulting in features not being found dependent on 'Typography Script' etc
Hyperlink attributes are now always stripped when creating document text defaults
Improvements to Autoflow when overset text is involved
Improvements to Autoflow when shaped frames are involved
Pinning Panel - 'Advance' has been renamed 'Offset'
Pinning Panel - Added Top and Bottom borders for objects pinned inline
Scaled pinned nodes now remember their original scale and restore it when unpinned or unscaled
Fix for unwanted text scaling when text objects were pinned
Can now only pin one node at a time, fixes crash attempting to pin multiple
Allow direct selection of pinned objects that are the children of stories in master page frames
Fixed crash pasting text with pinned text objects (with pinned text objects)
Fixed crash pasting index mark into Find and Replace. Currently unsupported in Find and Replace
(Mac, Pre-Mojave) Pinning Panel - Fixed white background
(Win) Fix for inoperative Text Context bar controls with selections including pinned images
(Win) Fixed Scale capping in Pinning panel
Tables
Resizing a table causes the headers to become mismatched
Indexes
Improved index sorting for topics that don't start with alphabetic characters
(Mac) Fixed Index Panel Separator field drop arrow menu
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 305
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vonBusing reacted to Aammppaa in Dash line ?
Check that your line doesn't have a pressure profile assigned.
At present lines can't have a dash pattern and a pressure profile.
Pressure overrides the dashed option, but doesn't show any warning.
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vonBusing reacted to AdamW in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.305
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 305 is now available as a manual download from the link above and on auto-update. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread.
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents.
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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New Features
Pinned Objects for Text
It is now possible to 'pin' objects to a specific location in the text flow. As text is edited and reflows, the object travels with its pin.
To access this feature you can use the 'Float with Text' or 'Inline with Text' buttons on the main toolbar. Further control of the object's placement is available via the 'Pinning Panel' (View > Studio > Pinning)
DocX Import
DocX is now offered as an option for import wherever txt and rtf were previously available (for example File > Place). It is chiefly designed with import of text content in mind.
Due to the wide variety of docx documents out there we will inevitably encounter issues and indeed there are features we won't initially support, for example:
- DrawingML
- Fields
- Footnotes and Endnotes
- Multi-page tables
If you have docx documents that are failing to import we would encourage you to share them with us if possible.
Updates and Fixes
General
(Win) Fixes for Thumbnail Handler
(Win) Fixed document grid for documents not in pixels
Studio and Panels
Allow navigating master pages with page buttons
Fixes for master layers and masks
Fix for 'Add swatch from Fill as Global' not always working
(Mac) Fixed possible crash on closing documents
(Mac) Preferences, Auto-Correct section layout issue
(Mac) Fixed dragging selection into Assets Panel
(Win) Fix for crash if Paragraph panel undocked in non English and Display DPI is scaled
(Win) Fix for crash on Reset Studio with no document open.
(Win) Fix for Fields panel not updating on document change
(Win) Fixed grid colours not being saved correctly
Import / Export
Can't change page for certain PDFs when specifying 'TrimBox'
Importing an RTF can cause app hang if RTF is invalid
Better handling when closing documents
Resources / Resource Manager
Resource Manager reports images as Document Colour Space
Fix for Replace Document always converting to Embedded
Text / Tables
Fixed 'Find' based on Format only
Spell check on double page spread master page appears on 'empty' page space
Fixes for Style Attributes that reference other Styles not updating correctly, e.g. Drop Caps, Initial Words
Allow toggle overflow on frames from master pages
Table selection fixes in instances where table has been scaled
Table row / column header fixes in instances where table has been scaled
Fixed crash attempting to apply a Table Format to a text frame
Removed auto-convert Picture Frame to Text Frame. Explicit conversion is still available.
Numbers highlighted as spelling errors when language set to German
(Win) Changed precise increase / decrease leading shortcuts as they interfere with text navigation
(Win) Character Variants failing to show up in Typography panel
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 293
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vonBusing reacted to MikeW in [Implemented] Data merge
InDesign can, of course, import Romanian (or nearly any other language).
I don't use comma separated value files (CSV) but instead use tab separated, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is that the merge file be UTF-16 with no BOM.
Mike
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vonBusing reacted to MikeW in Book Cover Design
Print establishments calculate the spine thickness. It's easy to take that dimension and create a cover.
As for ISBN codes, when I purchase one I generally receive the file for it. The couple places that do not provide the actual file, I use a separate application to create it in vector format and place it in the cover file.
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vonBusing got a reaction from cubesquareredux in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.270
Not silly at all if you ask me. Affinity beta versions have 4 levels, i.e. current APub is 1.7.0.270. It is displayed as such in the About window. that's great. But it's displayed with 3 levels only in the Finder info window and the auto-update dialogue, i.e. 1.7.0. At least in the later place, it's slightly frustrating, because the potential changes are in the level not displayed. I do not know how challenging it would be to align that, but that would be great (I know, I've already said that... ).
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vonBusing reacted to cubesquareredux in Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.270
The following may be silly but …
Can you please update the version string with each new beta build?
Version strings are not limited to three numbers. For example, the version of Google Chrome I'm posting from is numbered 73.0.3683.86.
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vonBusing reacted to orvillem in Table Cells Heights adjustment
Table cell heights size now works after updating to latest beta.
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vonBusing got a reaction from fde101 in Assets Panel completely broken
That's why it would be helpful if the auto-update showed the the full beta version number, not only a truncated one.