Petar Petrenko

They are not created (located) inside TOC panel, not shown even in a Text Styles panel. As you can see, 2 styles are selected, but no TOC styles created.

When I select text styles to be included in TOC, no TOC styles are created. Please, this is urgent. I have to send print materials tommorow.

IMO all categories under "Text > Insert" must be part of "Find / Replace". Many times, I found myself searching for ellipsis, dashes, white spaces... and I had to insert them first in the text and then Cut / Paste into F / R field(s). There is a need, also, for "Glyphs" category in F / R for inserting special characters that can't be found on the keyboard.

I'd be very happy, when scripting and GREP styles comes out in Affinity, to be as active in building it as well as helping us out with advices, just like you are in InDesign.

I've just done it and they work great! Thanks again.

At this moment my MacBook is not connected to the second display and in this state I updated the apps to 2.4.0. After instalation, Designer loaded correctly but, for Photo and Publisher I had to change the resolution and now they work correctly. I will connect the Mac to the second monitor ASAP and test the apps again and I will let you know. Meanwhile, thank you very much for the great support.

So, a logical question follows: when we can expect (at least) full support of this feature?

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.

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...

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.

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. If nothing else, this should keep potential problems to a minimum.

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.

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.

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.

Saving to PDF is meaningful only for apps like Adobe Acrobat, PitStop and similar. Not for any other.

Maybe the same ones Word supports: APA, Chicago, Harvard...

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.

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.

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?

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.

Do you want (and do you use) something like WordsFlow from EmSoftware?

@Peter Kahrel if you are the author of "GREP in InDesign" I must say thank you for the great book.

On some earlie Affinity's answers on the topic when they announceed it.

IMO, even if this is a case, the customer still doesn't have permission to do that. The user must download it by himself.

@tzvi20 You can be confused as much as you like, but it is not up to me.