[importing .epx files into designer very slow]

1 hour ago, Mustacha said:

the file is very complex

If the file is very complex (drop shadows, blends...) it must be flatened (broken into small pieces) to be printed corectly.

[Cross References]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

All adjustments in TOCs should be done by adjusting the automatically-created TOC Text Styles.

It can't be done automatically in all situations. Lets say, sometimes two line must be joined into one, the author is listed bellow the title instead above...

[Cross References]

35 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking for there. TOC page references change today, when you update the TOC.

Sometimes, updating TOCs is nightmare, expecially when you do some manual adjustments. In MS Word, when you create TOC and then you need to add/remove some text, some of the subheads included in TOC change their previous locations, bot the TOC page numbers are automatically adjusted without updating it. No additional manual fixing.

[3 page spread]

48 minutes ago, spinko said:

oh, well. Just paid for yet another year of Adobe subscription.

This is one of the reasons I still use ID, too.

[Cross References]

Now, when we have cross references, can we expect page numbers in TOC to be automatically cross referenced when Publisher creates TOC styles (something like MS Word) so we have auto page renumbering in TOC when text is changed?

[Change guide colour]

18 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

This is very nice feature and very usefull.

BTW, how you managed to change the guide from solid line to dash-dot in the example?

I'd like to see these improvements to this panel:

1. To change the color of any H&V guide.
2. To have separate Gutters for Rows and Columns.
3. Possibility to place Column Guides on whole pages or spread, not only inside margins.
4. Angled guides.
5. If Spread Origin is changed then Column Guides should start from the new 0, 0 point.

Sorry, I forgot one more feature:

     6. When dragging a hor. guide with the mouse cursor outside page(s) then the guide has to be positioned over the whole spread, otherwise -- on that single page (like InDesign).

[Custom date formatting for fields]

46 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:

In this category belongs all ex-YU countries except Macedonia (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro).

What is even more interesting, for 6:30 or 18:30 they literally say "half seven". There is no word that explains if it is 30 minutes before or after seven o'clock.

[Custom date formatting for fields]

3 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Then of course you have the Dutch and the Germans where half-nine means half-an-hour-before-nine-o’clock (i.e., 08:30)

In this category belongs all ex-YU countries except Macedonia (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro).

[Custom date formatting for fields]

37 minutes ago, Hangman said:

you'd be amazed how often I see people write 18:30 pm or similar when am and pm aren't used with the 24-hour clock, it's technically 18:30 hrs.

You would be even more amazed when you hear people saying 6:30 when it is actually 18:30. It is not hard to distinguish if it is 6:30 at morning or at afternoon if you live in central or southern Europe, but if you live in far north countries where they have white nights -- it is not clear at all.

[Data merge allows fields to set URLs, File locations, Emails and Anchors]

This will be a real time saving feature.

[Change guide colour]

Oh, I see. I think it would be exaggerating to ask for that feature having in mind that it would not have any practical use.

[All supported image files now available from File->Open in Publisher]

Wow, this is great.

[Custom date formatting for fields]

Sorry, but IMO it would be more logical if you switch these patterns:

1. hour in am/pm (0~11) to be H, HH; and
2. hour in day (0~23) to be K, KK

[Change guide colour]

This is very nice feature and very usefull.

BTW, how you managed to change the guide from solid line to dash-dot in the example?

I'd like to see these improvements to this panel:

1. To change the color of any H&V guide.
2. To have separate Gutters for Rows and Columns.
3. Possibility to place Column Guides on whole pages or spread, not only inside margins.
4. Angled guides.
5. If Spread Origin is changed then Column Guides should start from the new 0, 0 point.

[Running headers]

8 hours ago, Gatada said:

"Header 1" and "Header 1 + TOC space".

Are you doing this because some headers are too long and you want to break them where you want? If so, you can break it with <SHIFT> + <RETURN> and type a space before it. This need only one paragraph style.

[Affinity V3.0]

13 minutes ago, Will91300 said:

Is v3 is gonna require extra fees if I already have the v2 licence ?

Yes.

13 minutes ago, Will91300 said:

Or it is gonna stay the same price ?

Two prices -- for one product or universal licence.

15 minutes ago, Will91300 said:

Is it still gonna be one time payment ?

As they say and we hope.

[Split-flow in Publisher]

On 6/18/2023 at 2:14 PM, fde101 said:

if hyphenation is being used, there is a possibility for the split to occur in the middle of a word, in which case you suddenly have a half-word at the end of one frame and another at the start of the next frame

That's why InDesign has "Hyphenate Across Column" feature.

[3 page spread]

2 hours ago, spinko said:

😁 is this implemented now in 2.1 ?

No, it is not.

[2.1.1 Release Candidate. 2.1.1.1847 Beta to test]

2 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Well, you will next day! 

No. It is 24h after last start. If it was at 10 PM then next check will be after 10 PM the next day and I will start it at 8 AM that day.

[2.1.1 Release Candidate. 2.1.1.1847 Beta to test]

I am OK with prompting me for update, but if I start the apps 5-10 times a day I'll never know there is an update.

[2.1.1 Release Candidate. 2.1.1.1847 Beta to test]

2 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

As I understand it, the automatic check is only made once a day so that people who don't want to update immediately are not pestered to do so. However, there is nothing to stop you checking manually if you want to.

Yes, I know. But I also know that every other software prompts for update whenever you start it.

[2.1.1 Release Candidate. 2.1.1.1847 Beta to test]

On 6/14/2023 at 8:52 PM, walt.farrell said:

Do you usually run the beta, or the release version?

The automatic check happens only once per day. Thus, if you already had the .1799 beta running in the 24-hour period when the .1847 beta became available, it might have already checked and found nothing.

So, we will never prompt for update if we check more times in a day? This is not a good solution.

[Find Replace not working properly with regular expression in case of “Replace all”]

Well... something like Resources or Tutorials -- inside Learn and Share. To be easily noticeable.

[Find Replace not working properly with regular expression in case of “Replace all”]

There is an extremly usefull InDesign group on Facebook named "Treasures of GREP" with real experts Dhafir Photo and Jean-Claude Trembley. You can place your problem there and get the solution which you can use it in Publisher, too (maybe with some small modifications).

I would really appreciate if we can organize such a group at Affinity forum.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TreasuresofGrep

Also, you can find usefull this book:

https://www.amazon.com/GREP-InDesign-InDesignSecrets-Peter-Kahrel/dp/0982508387

[Find and Replace works incorrect for replace all]

Try this:

Find:        <SPACE>(\u|\l)<SPACE>
Change:  <SPACE>$1~S

where you have to replace <SPACE> with the regular space character.