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Petar Petrenko

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  1. On 11/18/2021 at 6:52 PM, artnok said:

    Hi, I've just found a strange way to integrate placeholders into Affinity Designer.
    I was working on Affinity Publisher on a catalogue document. I wanted to iterate layouts on Designer. So I pasted some placeholders from Publisher to Designer. I was very amused and surprised to see that those placeholders were functional in Designer... Worked like a charm. And they are much more convenient to move content around and use different solutions for layouts as they keep the good ratio for all pictures included in the placeholders. So here is my question, why not integrating them as permanent tools in Affinity Designer? Is there a potential issue I'm not aware about yet in Designer? 

    I hope this was clear enough...
    Hope so ;)))
     

    Hi,

    can you explain better what you mean by placeholders? What happened when you pasted them into Designer? Maybe some visual example to see it in action?

    Thank you.

  2. 11 minutes ago, GarryP said:

    I’m not sure what you mean.
    If you export from Word as a PDF, and then place the PDF into your Publisher document, the images should resize proportionally with the text as the whole PDF document should be resized proportionally. Or am I missing something?

    If I export from Word A4 size to PDF it will be still A4 and the book is usually smaller like A5 or B5 size. So, nothing changes. The images (and the tables) have to be resized manually.

  3. 26 minutes ago, GarryP said:

    1. What do you mean by “resize proportionally”, given that not all images have the same proportions?
    2. What do you mean by “big images”? How big and who chooses how big? Big in dimensions or file size?
    3. Why do you “import to fit text frame”? How do text frames come into importing images?
    4. Why mention “tables” for this? How do they fit in with what you have already said?

    This "problem" occurs when importing text files from text processors with embeded images. The authors always enter their text in A4 format and include the images into Word and resize them to fit the margins. Now, when they are impoerted in B5 or A5 format, images are wider or higner than the margins (text frame). The same problem is with the tables. They are also wider than the margins and they have to be resized, too. So, I would like images to be resized by size, not by changing their resolution.

    1. Not to be distorted i.e. not to be resized by width or by height only.
    2. Big in dimensions, if their width or height is bigger than the text frame wwidth or height.

  4. 10 minutes ago, J@HWC said:

    I never would've purchased the software if I had known.

    There is a trial period for any Affinity software. Why you bought it before trying it first?

    11 minutes ago, J@HWC said:

    For many of us here, it IS an issue. 

    No, this is not an issue. Real issue is that I am waiting for years Microsoft to add complete video capabilities into Notepad, which makes me really nervouus. :)

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