Presets Not Showing Up in Affinity Photo

[Presets Not Showing Up in Affinity Photo]

Also Samantha you should change your user name to something other than your email address to avoid the dreaded spambots 

[Problem using the NIK collection]

1 hour ago, Lagarto said:

I suppose temporary changing of app scaling is possible on macOS

Not that I'm aware of, trick or no trick 

[How to Uninstall Publisher Beta and Keep 1.84 release]

There's a risk that anything you've created and/or saved using the 1.9 beta won't be openable using 1.8.4.

[opening photos]

How to capture a screenshot. (Apple Support website)

The file should be saved to your desktop. On this forum, you can then click choose files, and add it to your post:

 

[opening photos]

It sounds to me as though you're trying to edit the images directly from the Apple Photos database. This is a bad idea as it can corrupt your Apple Photos database and make it unusable. 

If you need to edit pictures in Affinity Photo without using the "Edit in Affinity...' command in Apple Photos, then either export the images from Apple Photos to your Documents folder (or elsewhere) first  and then open them in Affinity Photo; or don't import them into Apple Photos but drag them from your SD card into Documents (or elsewhere) and then open and edit with Affinity Photo.

Also, if you can't see "Documents" etc when you try to export, you may need to click this button:

Hope this helps - post back if you need more info.

H

 

[Page Number Sub-Sections e.g. 5A]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

The TOC and Index won't know about the A suffix, and will use the real page numbers

I feared as much.

[Problem using the NIK collection]

I don't think Affinity/Serif has any control over the size or layout of the NIK interface. And there's nothing in the NIK interface settings that lets you increase the size of the text or the panels:

Perhaps click the "Improve the NIK Collection" button and make a suggestion to the NIK developers? The only other thing I can suggest is experiment with different monitor resolutions, but that will affect all your other apps as well so it's not an ideal solution.

Cheers,

H

[Publisher file organisation - book chapters]

6 hours ago, SubTric said:

lack of style syncing

You can import styles from an existing document via the 'hamburger' menu in the Text Styles panel:

 

[Publisher: can you combine a text frame into a master?]

27 minutes ago, weegiegrum said:

what could go wrong...?

Nothing if you've got a backup. But don't hold me responsible 

[Page Number Sub-Sections e.g. 5A]

You can, but it will be somewhat complicated, and I don't know if it will carry over to the TOC.

I can only see it working if your original document is not set up with facing pages.

Suppose you have a 12-page document, and you insert a new page after page 3. It is actually page 4, but you want it to be page 3A.

Edit the page number for this page - change it to Previous Frame Page Number and type an A after the number. 

Now use Document - Section Manager to create a new section starting on page 5. Restart the numbering sequence at 4:

Page 5 of the document is now numbered 4, page 6 is numbered 5, up to page 13 which is numbered 12.

You can repeat this as many times as you want, remembering that every time you create a section the difference between the number of pages in the document and the page number on the last page will be increased by one.

I don't know what effect this would have on the TOC or index. At the end of the day, if you increase the number of pages the underlying page numbers will also increase.

[Publisher: can you combine a text frame into a master?]

My suggestion would be first to make a backup copy in case things go pear-shaped.

Then open the document, zoom quite a way out, drag all the unwanted frames off the pages into the pasteboard area, and make sure you've flowed the master text frames:

Then click into one of the unwanted text frames, Select All the text, Cut the text, click into one of the master frames and Paste:

You can then delete the unwanted text frames.

Hope that helps,

H

 

 

[Brushes disappeared]

Hi @pkmanuel and welcome!

First possibility is that she may have closed the Brushes palette. Has she tried View - Studio - Brushes?

 

 

 

[Cmd E crash APhoto]

It may be down to hardware specs rather than OS or application version. I selected all the layers (click on the top layer, shift-click on the bottom layer) and then ran Merge Selected (Shift+Cmd+e), and got a SBOD for about 30 seconds, but then it did merge:

 

Lieutenant Commander Scott has been there before you:

[Moving frames between pages]

2 hours ago, Callum said:

allowing you to drag content between them

You can drag whole pages around the Pages panel to re-order them, but AFAIK you can't drag individual content items between pages in the Pages panel, as it appears the OP requested.

The best I can suggest is to reduce the view to a very small percentage (depends on your screen size, I went down to around 6.5%) so you can see all the pages, and then drag items on and off the pages, using the grey background as a pasteboard:

Hope this helps,

H 

[Publisher Single Page PDF Exports]

Are you on MacOS or Windows @Ami_M? If MacOS, it's possible (and fast, and relatively easy) to split multi-page pdfs into singles using Automator. Post back if you're interested. 

(I've worked on single-page upload systems and they work brilliantly for the printer, but not always for the publisher...)

Cheers,

H

[TOC - Table of content - numbered paragraphs]

Don't despair @viktor.pluhacek! It can be done!

Just for interest @Callum I've worked out how to add additional styles as the OP requested. 

I've attached a document which takes you down to Numbered 4, and I've described the process of creating Numbered 5:

So to create a new level, in this case Level 5:

Click the hamburger button for the previous level and choose "Create Style Based on..." 

Create a New Style Based on Numbered 4. Call it Numbered 5. (Actually this should happen automatically which is quite smart...)

Under Bullets and Numbering, set it to Level 5.

Go into the Text area. Delete the existing text.

Click the pull-down and choose Level 1, then type a full stop:

 

 Now click the pull-down and choose Level 2, then type a full stop:

 

 

 

 

Continue until you reach level 5, then insert a Tab character from the pull-down:

 

You will then want to switch to the Spacing section and increase the first line indent:

Which gives you Level 5:

 

What you can't do (which annoyed me at first) is duplicate the original style, or you have to start from scratch with the numbering text. Similarly, I don't see how you can edit the Bullets and Numbering text fields after you saved the style, which I think you should be able to. 

Cheers,

H

 

 

 

 

Index levels.afpub

Massively edited...

 

 

And I can't get rid of this:

[Plug-Ins Any Updates Due?]

I'll get on the hotline . I might have to pay for Jixipix first though, I'm still running the trial version . Although I suspect that once 1.9 goes live on the App Store, jixipix will be fast to pick it up.

Best,

H

[Plug-Ins Any Updates Due?]

@jmwellborn I'm getting the same problems you had with Jixipix Watercolor Studio when I try it with the beta version of Affinity Photo. Works fine with the release version (Mac App Store), as it clearly does now with your version purchased from the Affinity Store. It does go to show that 'plugin support' may rest with the plugin developers, not with Serif.

[Images not bleeding at center of two pages]

Hi,

It's practically impossible to answer without seeing an example of your .afpub file (not necessarily all of it, just a spread or two) and the exported .pdf, together with the settings you used to export the .pdf. It may be that the printer can't print bleed but it seems highly unlikely given that your final product looks like a perfect bound book.

EDIT: It would also be handy to have a copy of the printer's specs for pdfs.

Cheers,

H

[Where are my likes?]

Open your Profile, then click Community Reputation:

Followed by

Posts:

This will show all your 'reacted' and "got a reaction' posts.

[Publisher won't let me bring these two lines of text together.]

To add to the confusion, on some sections of text you've got a Leading Override of 12.5pt combined with a Baseline Shift of 12pt. 

This is what's causing the problem you posted about - they're pretty much cancelling each other out for most of the text, but after the word 'value' you've turned off the Leading Override and the text has jumped forward. That's why the paragraph break mark after 'value.' is floating over the 'a' of 'acres', and why you've got the odd jump a bit further on.

 

Turning off the Leading Override would probably fix it, but you're probably better off turning off both.

Cheers,

H

 

[Linking image frames?]

Publisher doesn't have Symbols, but you can do it somewhat more simply using Resource Manager. I think you probably need to have your document set to Prefer Linked, not Prefer Embedded.

Place on image on the page, then duplicate it as many times as you need.

Group the adjustments with the image frames as per @carl123's suggestion above, then from Document - Resource Manager select the image name and click Replace:

Choose another image and...

 

Cheers,

H

 

[Linking image frames?]

48 minutes ago, carl123 said:

When you change the image in the symbol it will change in all instances of that symbol but the various adjustments will remain unchanged

That suggestion works brilliantly in Designer:

[Publisher - white (irritating) border]

No white border on Preview for MacOS...

 

[Fast Precision Perspective Correction]

Hi @Harrie and welcome! You've uploaded your diagram as a Keynote presentation which means that the many PC-using members of this forum won't be able to open it (unless they have iCloud). I've taken the liberty of uploading a screenshot:

Hopefully someone will come along and help with the algebra - it's beyond me!

Cheers,

H