[Need some info about AFFONTs]

Hi, I would like to hear from A-Team:

1. do you have in plan to offer more affonts?
2. do you plan to add cyrilic (and other) languages support?
3. how can we edit these fonts? Any font editor that supports them?

[How to add additional "Dictionaries" for Publisher V2?]

[Running headers]

13 hours ago, MikeTO said:

I recommend choosing a style for running headers to pick up and you won't have this issue.

Using styles must be optional, not obligatory. InDesign and Quark don't ask you to use styles.

[Affinity (Word like) vs. CorelDRAW font preview]

9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Preflight shows it, but the font display is supposed to, also, I think.

Retail version or beta?

[Affinity (Word like) vs. CorelDRAW font preview]

10 hours ago, kenmcd said:

Users want to know: which of my fonts can I use for the Cyrillic script, and then which fonts support specific languages such as Bulgarian, Serbian, or Ukrainian, etc. (which have differences from the basic Cyrillic script).
The Corel font picker can at least filter by script (but not by language).

Yes, that is exactly what I want.

9 hours ago, kenmcd said:

I like the way ID and QXP immediately highlight the unsupported text the moment it is typed. You know instantly, and exactly where your attention is focused. Not something you may notice later.

This would be even better. Lets see if Affinity is going to do something about this in near future.

[Affinity (Word like) vs. CorelDRAW font preview]

Hi,

there is a problem with code pages preview in a font list. There is an attachment. Select the text (written with cyrilic support) and you will see, if you scroll through fonts list the all fonts "support" cyrilic, whicih is not true. That is because Affinity decided to adopt Word like font preview (same problem there, too). As you can see from the example only interpunction signs are with Bauhaus font, not the whole text, because Bauhaus do not support cyrilc.

But, CorelDRAW has top notch way of showing the fonts list. Simply, fonts that do not support the proper code page are shown in the list but are grayed out and can't be applied to the text. I like Affinity to choose his way of fonts list preview rather then the one we have now.

Cyrilicg text.afpub

[Brush panel improvements]

Hi,

I can't deselect "Show as List" in Designer's 2.1.0.1730 Brushes panel to see "Nozzle Preview". But, it is OK in Photo.

Win 10 Pro, latest update.

[Running headers]

Great! It was a long-waited feature.

Just a suggestion. For me, it is very hard to find, which also leads to slowing the workflow. Wasn't it more logical to be located where the other fields are -- under "Text > Insert > Fields"?

[Crop Tool improvements]

On 2/17/2023 at 11:51 PM, loukash said:

Draw a blank vector shape of your choice and clip (not mask) any layer(s) you want with it.

So, why do we need crop tool, if we can achieve the same results with vector shapes?

Crop tool in Photo should work the same way as in Publisher and Designer. For now, you can crop the image only to the document size and after that it is unusable at all. You can't crop any other object if you need to.

[Crop Tool improvements]

13 hours ago, TomAng said:

Thirds grid is very yesterday. The way to go is Golden Ratio or Phi.

You can talk for yourself only. Everyone has it's own rules that follows and it is OK.

[Adjusting margins on master pages by drag'n'drop]

24 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

To the best of my knowledge Publisher doesn't pay any attention to the Margins when I adjust the the size of the text frame. Make a document with text frames the size of the margins, alter the size of the margins. The text frames will remain the size they were before.

Thanks, Bruce. Because of you I will change my way of thinking regarding this matter. I will work this way from now on:

1. margins will always be set to 0 when creating a new document;
2. I will create a grid on master pages;
3. draw linked text boxes that snap to the guides of my choice;
4. import the text on the main pages.

[Adjusting margins on master pages by drag'n'drop]

19 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

In this case I would do away with Margins

And how would Publisher know what are the boundaries for adjusting the text frame?

[Adjusting margins on master pages by drag'n'drop]

7 hours ago, GarryP said:

Can you explain how you created the grid, what sort of guides you are using, and give an example of a use-case for what you are trying to do?

As first, I created this example in InDesign because there is no option in Publisher for creating grids that span the whole page or spread -- only to the margins. The grid color is Cyan, the margins are in magenta and I drew the green rectangle to show where I need the margins to be repositioned. Repositioning them by entering numbers is too slow and not so precise.

Why I do need this? Maybe for interior part of a book design?

[Adjusting margins on master pages by drag'n'drop]

Hi,

let say I created a 9 x 9 grid on master pages. Now, I would like margins to snap to any of the guides and doing that by changing numeric values needs much more time than draging them to the desired positions.

[Guides improvements]

19 minutes ago, Ash said:

I should say we also have a different kind of guide feature in our minds for the future - effectively guide layers which would allow the creation of any guides from any objects, and could be manipulated like any other object (grouped, power duplicated, anything else you can think of). But that's probably quite a way off...

Great !!!

[Guides improvements]

10 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Vertical ruler guide(s) are created by dragging from the horizontal ruler and vice versa

Sorry, It had to be "should be".

[Guides improvements]

How about revert creating the ruler guides?

Vertical ruler guide(s) are created by dragging from the horizontal ruler and vice versa. This way we can easily position the guide according the ruler.

[Guides improvements]

Hi,

it would be very useful if you made these changes into "View > Guides" panel:

1. different gutter settings for rows and columns;
2. guides should be page (and spread) related, too -- not only to margins.

[Crop Tool improvements]

22 minutes ago, Ash said:

you are not starting with a specific document size

Of course I start with a specific document size in Photo, just as in Designer and Publisher. After that I place images and adjust them except that I can't crop them.

[Crop Tool improvements]

Hi,

when you select the crop tool in Designer or Publisher it matches the selected object(s), but in Photo it selects the whole canvas. Why it doesn't work the same way as in AD or APub?

When you create a new document it should be the size you wanted for that document. And if you want to change it later, you can do it by changing the size of the document. The same way you change the size of the artboard in AD or the size of the page in APub.

[Alt / Option - drag to duplicate in layers panel]

On 2/27/2023 at 5:10 PM, dominik said:

I think everyone will come up with their preferred file format to be included in the menu, too. But OTOH I think the idea is not too bad if you take it a little further. Make it a command like 'Quick export to predefined in preferences format'. This way your suggestion would remain a one menu entry thing and could improve personal workflows quite a bit 🙂

d. 

Maybe a list of all available formats with checkboxes to select the formats you need?

[Measure tool now available in Photo and Publisher]

It would be nice all missing tools from Toolsbar to be included in it by default, otherwise how we (and new customers) could now if such a tool exist or not?

[Official Affinity Publisher (V2) Tutorials]

Hi,

is it possible v2 tutorials to be placed in a playlist -- as the v1 -- so they can be downloaded faster?

[Ability to combine multiple text frames.]

1 hour ago, Leo1 said:

it can be solved via copy and past in Notepad:

This way you can lost all local formating (bold, italic...).

[Personalize documents]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=publisher+data+merge