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Petar Petrenko

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  1. 25 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

    Yes, the outer handle (scalinghandle) scales the text while resizing the frame, but there's a disadvantage using it that way. In Publisher, it will make the text flow into another frame with an unpredictable font size. It's then difficult to get the text in the new frame to the correct size. It's best to avoid using that handle on a text frame.

    But if someone want to use it as an Artistic text frame, he wouldn't link that frame to another.

  2. 21 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

    Yes, but only if the entire book is one big story. I recommend creating a separate story (series of linked text frames) for each chapter. In a nutshell:

    1. Create masters for your chapter titles and for regular pages
    2. Apply the chapter title master to the first page/spread of a chapter.
    3. Add one more page/spread and apply the regular master to it.
    4. Paste the text for the chapter into the first text frame.
    5. Shift click the overset text indicator on the last text frame and Publisher will create as many pages of linked frames as required.
    6. Add another page/spread at the end of the document for the next chapter title and apply the chapter title master to it.
    7. Add one more page/spread and apply the regular master to it.
    8. Paste the text for the next chapter into the first blank text frame.
    9. Shift click the overset text indicator on the last text frame and Publisher will create as many pages of linked frames as required.
    10. Repeat 6-9 as required.

    If you later add or remove pages in a book configured this way the assigned masters will stick with the pages they're applied to.

    Hi MikeTO,

    I have 30+ years of experience in DTP. Does it qualifies me of knowing this "trick"?

    I've done hundreds of books, magazines, brochures... Single story, multiple stories books, multiple files organized as "book"... PageMaker, QuarkXPress, InDesign (last 10+ years) and now Publisher, but nothing seriously because last few years I'm orinted toward books and Publisher lacks foot/end notes (waiting for them to appear in v. 2.0, hopefully). I think this enhancment I am asking for will speed up the process a little bit.

  3. Hi,

    I’ve just got an interesting idea of “removing” headers and footers on an opening chapter page. As you can see in the attachment picture, there are 2 black stripes defined in “Text Styles > Paragraph > Decorations” used to cover headers/footers (of course, the color has to be replaced with white) and text “Chapter 1” lowered down with “Space Before”.
    But, there is a small “problem” which I would like to be solved if possible by Affinity Team. If client wants to reposition the chapter title (with space before) then decorations follow the changes and the headers/footers become visible and they have to be adjusted, too. So, the question is:  would you be so kind and make decorations position to be independent from Space before/after changes?

     Just to mention, there is a “bug” in Text Styles. As you can see there is selected paragraph style in “Text Styles” panel but its name is not displayed because of the “Use Space Before > Only At Column Top”.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Ron P. said:

    To access the Arc tool, you need to select the Ellipse tool. Then on the context toolbar at the top, you have 3 options. The Ellipse, Pie, and Arc. However you can create an Arc with any of them. With Shape tool selected, click on a node and drag the node around the circumference. If your mouse is on the outside, an Arc is created, ie; it's not closed. If on the inside a closed shape is created.

    That is what I said in my initial post.

  5. 12 minutes ago, Dalibor Puljiz said:

    I used to work in InDesign like 10 years ago last time and it had the most effect and tools just like Photoshop

    InDesign baš i nema neke posebno interesantne efekte, posebno ne za obradu fotografija (kad ga već upoređuješ sa Photoshopom), a sigurno ne toliko kao Photoshop. To znam jer koristim intezivno InDesign već više od 10-tak godina.

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