Petar Petrenko
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On 4/17/2025 at 4:52 PM, Iztok said:
We have different export format in Publisher but not .idml. I suugest to include that format, if we could open it whisch is fantastic, why not export for InDesign users. It is practical in some colaboration work.
IMO they will have first to complete .IDML import for the features they have in common.
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18 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Both Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo support layered TIFFs, but neither app retains the layers when opening files created by their competitors.
That's OK, but I still think they are better choice than .PNG.
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2 minutes ago, 2ddpainter said:
Since we're waiting anyway, why not wait for a 3D feature too.
Sure, but it goes to the end of the list.
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2 minutes ago, loukash said:
@Petar Petrenko: Use a good old plain blank vector shape as a clipping object. The result will be the same.
(Or vice versa: That's what I'm also using in ADe and APu anyway. I've always found the Vector Crop tool pointless. But that's just me…
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I work with clipping objects, but IMO crop tool should work the same in all apps.
In Photo you should define (final) document size when creating a new document and then use crop tool to fine tune the elements on the layers.
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It would be nice if crop tool in Photo works the same way it works in Publisher -- to crop the selected object, not to resize the whole document.
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On 6/23/2024 at 1:08 PM, Juhani said:
I also think the bitmap aspect seems to be quite well implemented inside Designer, in much better way than in Illustrator, and quite often we need to work with images as well, right. But it does not replace vector pattern fills in any way.
It also does not seem too difficult to implement. Now I can take a seamless vector pattern, make it a symbol, duplicate it along the horizontal and vertical axes as many times as I need, group the whole thing and get my vector pattern that I can scale, rotate, etc in any way I want. Updating the symbol updates the pattern. Sounds good right. But it is clunky and requires too many steps to achieve it. It also produces a whole lot of vector paths, which are all the same, adds unnecessary complexity to the file, and there’s no way to save my patterns in a neat fashion within Swatches panel to be used as instant fills for any shape.
How do you know?
Are you a programmer?To implement a new feature, you have to find a suitable algorithm or design your own. Do you think it's that easy?
It also depends on how skilled the programmers are. Do they know how to do it? Maybe the code will need to be restructured?
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In this video, David Blatner explains some nice features in InDesign which will be great to have them in Publisher, too. You can skip first 8 minutes (Intro) and the part about animation (IMO really not needed). Of course, there are features already in Publisher, but it is still worth of seeing it:
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I placed an IDML file (created from InDesign) into Publisher which contained an anchored image with text wrap enabled (right edge). But the text wrap wasn't applied into Publisher, so I selected the image and saw that the text frame was locked (small 'X'es on the corners). When I tried to delete it, only the image disappeared, but not the picture frame. If I try to move it, only the the moved inside the frame, not the frame itself.
So, I had to unanchore the image in InDesign and create another IDML file. Now, everything was OK.
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1. Open the .AFPUB document from the attachment;
2. Select the text frame;
3. Start scrolling through font list.You will see that ALL fonts you have installed, "support" Cyrillic. This is because Publisher uses Word's engine for displaying fonts' preview.
Now, if you open the .PNG file, which is an example from InDesign, you will see that fonts supporting Cyrillic have a portion of the selected text as an example and the other ones display "Sample".Please Affinity, correct this "bug" (or what else it can be said), to be more professional.
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Beside adding more artboards at once, it would be nice to have an option how they have to be placed (rows, columns).
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8 minutes ago, Markus Plutonika said:
Regarding number 2: Are you aware you can toggle fill and stroke with the X key and switch fill and stroke colors with ⇧X just like in Adobe apps? Not quite what you wish for, but maybe your desire stems from clicking to select either one.
If you read it carefully you would notice that I am not interested in switching colors but applying them.
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6 minutes ago, thomaso said:
or just two strokes, with differing alignment.
As my example.
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5 minutes ago, thomaso said:
Instead of creating a new document with the new page dimensions you can change the format of the existing document via the document setup, for instance without scaling the objects and with the anchor aligned to a page or spread edge or centre.
I opened his document and it is all messed up. Tried to do something but I am not sure if it is going to help him at all. Your suggestion won't help him either. It is much better to start from scratch.
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Is this OK to you? Of course, you will have to continue with working on it.
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Starting from InDesign and InCopy 2025 (20.3.0.42)
Adobe says:
• Paragraph and Character Styles are now supported.
Note: InDesign will not create Paragraph and Character Styles if during the PDF conversion process, it detects that number of unique styles in the document exceeds 80. -
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If you prefer LaTeX or MathML then why don't we ask Affinity to redefine all three apps to work like this (instead of clicking on ellipse -- or any other -- tool and draw ellipse or circle):
'insert elipse on coords(x, y) with dimension (x, y) with fill = None and stroke width = 1 pt and now insert rectangle on coords(x, y) with dimensions(x, y) fill = None and stroke width = 1 and merge them'.
So, we won't need mice, tablets... Just entering formulas all the way.
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Include AI as an option, too?
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9 minutes ago, Soul Glitcher said:
The point is... we need GREP Styles in Publisher. At least some of us.
I need them too. I use them heavily in InDesign.
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7 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
* I am fairly certain that the font needs to have Small Caps in order for this Text Style to work.
Yes, that's true. No other way.
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7 hours ago, ThatMikeGuy said:
but I don't remember what you are describing about straight lines and curves with one tool. Can you remind me?
When you left click the mouse and start dragging you see a straight line. When you click another time the line is fixed and it is a start point for another line.
If you press the left button and drag the mouse you are drawing a curve. When you unpress the button and keep dragging the mouse you draw a straight line again.
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Does creating template include the changes done in "Edit > Settings..." or only changes you made on your workspace?