Petar Petrenko
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6 minutes ago, PaulEC said:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you’re not the only person to suggest having one piece of software to do everything. But, what about the people who don’t want or need all three apps? If they just want to edit photos, or produce illustrations, why would they want one big app that is full of functions that they might just find confusing and why would they want to pay for it?
I really don’t see much advantage in one app, rather than the three integrated ones that we have now. It obviously depends on how you work, but I tend to do a job in one app at a time, I rarely need to keep changing from one app to another. If I do need to do so StudioLink and “open in” work perfectly well.
I layout books, magazines and such, so I need all three apps. But, whether you work with photos or producing vector art, you will find the other 2 apps as valuable tools for polishing your design, photos, artwork...
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On 1/28/2024 at 3:16 PM, PaulEC said:
It has been suggested that Publisher should actually include all the features of Designer and Photo, but not only would this make it a very large and unwieldy app, it would also inevitably mean it would cost much more, which would not be helpful for those people who only use Designer and /or Photo.
Actually, it was me who suggested the integration of the Affinity suite.
Now, my opinion is, that starting with the universal licence, Affinity will wait until everybody accept it and then, under the hood, the integration will happen. Then we will have only one file to download to install, update or upgrade for the Affinity Suite Pro. Hopefully, they will remove overlaping features and maintaning the Suite will be easier and faster.
I think (at least, hope) that the price will remain the same.
And don't forget, it is just my opinion.
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Neither the author nor Affinity Publisher is to blame. It's our own fault because in 99% of cases authors don't know the entire process of creating books, magazines, etc. They think they know absolutely everything, even which program is best for creating them. They even insist that it should be InDesign because they heard somewhere that it is the "best" for the job.
That's why, when we conclude a deal with a client, we need to let him know what we expect from him:
- complete text that has undergone proofreading;
- images (if any) should be in JPG or TIF format with 300 dpi and the same size in which they will be placed on the page;
- color images should be in the RGB color space;
- the images must not be inside the Word document, but only captions that will tell us where to place them.
And what he have to expect from us:
- get the final material in PDF only;
- no source code, no fonts, no images, etc.;
- any further proofreading after the start of work is charged additionally and is done in PDF, not in Word or any other text processor.
After this, it should be clearer to the author that he is in charge only of the text and that he should leave it to us to finish our part of the work properly.
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1 hour ago, PaoloT said:
The alternative is someone giving you a Word document with editing, where you have to find yourself the changes.
Editing and correcting the text is the author's responsibility, or the person hired by the author to do that, not the person who does the layout.
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6 hours ago, PaoloT said:
I've the impression that the DOCX format had replaced the RTF one(s). I'm not totally sure, but it should be an open format. It's more modern. Recovering plain test from it should be easier.
Paolo
You can't trust Microsoft too much. Tommorow they can change something in DOCX code and... a new headache for the third party developers of DOCX export/import filters. RTF is IMO much more reliable. ODT/ODF is another good format that is worth to be a member of a Publisher import filters.
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1 hour ago, tzvi20 said:
Exporting DOCX files would help this situation as there would be no need to copy them.
Let's say Publisher has DOCX export filter and you exported the file to send it back to the customer to make additional changes. After that you will have to restart from zero with it because the export is not 1:1 with features.
What you really need is Publisher's new feature same as WordsFlow.
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Saving to PDF is meaningful only for apps like Adobe Acrobat, PitStop and similar. Not for any other.
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Maybe the same ones Word supports: APA, Chicago, Harvard...
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On 1/31/2024 at 3:47 PM, tarc said:
Default click on color wheel = Always fill color
Alt+click or right click on color wheel= Always stroke color.I suggested, too, left/right click for fill/stroke color long time ago and I, once again, want to emphasize how important is this as a time (and nerves, too) saver expecially when working with plenty of layers.
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It's quite obvious having in mind that Affinity doesn't have Word export filter. If they plan to do it maybe it would be better to make RTF export filter rather than Word's one.
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On 2/4/2024 at 3:32 AM, MikeTO said:
Publisher can distinguish between real and filler text very easily - filler text is a field, no different than a page number or date.
What will happen if you set the filler text to be entered as an editable text? Could Publisher be able to distinguish the real and filler text in that case?
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Like we can customize tools and toolbar I would like to have an option to customize the context toolbar. There are some icons I would like to rearrange, like bringing the leading icon next to the font size icon, etc.
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33 minutes ago, kimtorch said:
Here's a typical workflow for us (we're a newspaper/magazine publishing company). Editorial is written in a (proprietary) app running MySQL (most editorial systems do similar). The writers never open InDesign.
Do you want (and do you use) something like WordsFlow from EmSoftware?
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@Peter Kahrel if you are the author of "GREP in InDesign" I must say thank you for the great book.
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21 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
And what do you base that on, given that it is one of the few items that Serif have actually said they're working on, and provided a demo of some working code?
On some earlie Affinity's answers on the topic when they announceed it.
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25 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
It seems unlikely that the clients would have a license to redistribute the fonts that way, unless they happen to be OFL-licensed fonts.
IMO, even if this is a case, the customer still doesn't have permission to do that. The user must download it by himself.
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@tzvi20 You can be confused as much as you like, but it is not up to me.
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7 hours ago, tzvi20 said:
I am going away and then I won't really have access to affinity for a long while. I want to be able to try out scripting once before then being that there is no release date or cycle yet.
Have a nice trip.
AFAIK scripting will appear after v. 4.0 and it is about 2+ years
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42 minutes ago, Oufti said:
In my opinion, changing from portrait to landscape is not rotating but resizing.
So, will Affinity have to change "rotating" to :resizing" through out all apps?
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Master pages A i B have 6Rx9C grid. If you try to rotate any of them (right click on master page > spread properties > portrait mode) you will see that the grid is still 6Rx9C instead of 9Rx6C.
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Like MathType?
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41 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:
I am itching for the new beta as it has been more than a month since 2.3 came out...
IMO, it is not only you.
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On 12/8/2023 at 3:43 PM, NathanC said:
Provided that my footnote body is >2 lines before it splits onto the next
My footnote body has only 2 lines and widow/orphan controls are both checked. In this case footnote must be shown on the next page because there is no room on the previous page. IMO this case must be considered as a bug not as a feature request.
5 hours ago, MikeTO said:The top of the right frame is important because it will show the reference marker and how much text got moved to the next column.
Reference marker is shown on the bottom of the left page.
I can't show the top of the right page because I made some changes to the text to make room for the footnote after I started this topic. But, the bug must be corrected.
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On 12/8/2023 at 3:58 PM, MikeTO said:
It's hard to tell what is going on with your document because we can't see the top of the right frame and can't see the flow formatting for the body text.
I don't it is so important the top of the right frame. The problem is with the footnote handling. It must be placed on the next page together with the text containing the footnote reference.
JPEG XL export filter dows not support layers
in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
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Hi,
I tried to export Affinity .photo file with layers into JPEG XL, but it flattened it. Is this a bug?
https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
I found on this site that JPEG XL supports layers among other features.