[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

[Changing color on speech bubble]

It looks as though you've converted the original call-out to a Text Frame. That's why the layer, when selected, is labelled Shape Text. (There's no text in it, the white text appears to be in a separate frame.)

You'll need to use the Text Frame panel (View-Studio-Text Frame) to change the colour and stroke settings of the speech bubble:

Alternatively, don't convert the call-out bubble to a text frame at all, just keep the text floating over the top. That way you can change the colour settings of the bubble in the way you're trying to in your video.

Cheers,

H

 

[Publisher - white (irritating) border]

Like @Joachim_L I am old and need glasses, and like him I too cannot see a white border around the rectangle. Could you upload a screen grab?

[How to create woodcut print effect?]

It's not an ideal subject for vector art, but one possible way is to use an image of a paper texture as the bottom layer, then draw shapes with the pen tool for the green areas above, choosing a vector brush for the stroke to give the slightly uneven effect. I set the blending mode of the green areas to Average, and I had to adjust the opacity of the fill colours (not the layer itself) to match the opacity of the brush I used for the stroke.

This is by no means perfect, but could give you a start.

Cheers,

H

 

[Pubisher - Page Numbers - How To Change Sequence?]

Hi @Azarna and welcome!

You would need to create your document as single pages, by unchecking Facing Pages in the new document dialog, with the page size equivalent to your desired spread size, rotated 90º. For example, a publication with double spreads of A4 portrait would need to be set up as A3 landscape.

You would then place a page number field on the left and right edges of the master page(s).

This is the result:

Hope it helps!

H

[What Age and Experience are Affinity Users? (–> Poll)]

Retired people...

[What Designer features do I need to replicate this look?]

Here's one way...

The font isn't a perfect match by any means - I've used ACaslon because it's got that classic look, although it's not as distinctive as the font in your photo. Ideally you'd need finer and more tapering serifs to match the weight of the underscore.

The initial 'M' is in 30pt, the remaining letters are in 24pt, given a baseline adjustment of 4.3pt in the Character Panel, Positioning and Transform:

The rule is not a text underline but a line drawn with the Pen tool, set at 0.5pt and positioned to align with the baseline of the initial 'M'.

Depending on the font you might also want to adjust the letter spacing.

Hope it helps,

H

[Page Break --- Need one, where is it?]

6 hours ago, SheilaL said:

I don't see anywhere to add one

Click into the box (highlighted blue below) and type the shortcut that you want to use:

You'll get a yellow triangle as a warning if your chosen shortcut is already in use.

(This function is only available in Affinity Publisher, as it's the only Affinity app that allows text to flow from one frame to another.)

[How can I create this style Angle Gradient?]

Hi @ambcreative and welcome! As far as I'm aware there is no way of setting the angle of a Conical (or any other type of) gradient to precisely 30º using Affinity Designer's Fill Tool alone.  You'd have to set the angle by eye, or for absolute precision, switch to a Horizontal Triangular grid layout, snap the centre point of the square to one of the grid vertices and snap the gradient divider to the diagonal:

Cheers,

H

 

 

[Image/Object Styles in Publisher]

The closest thing I can see is to draw an empty image frame, click the Properties button in the Contextual Toolbar, and choose scaling and Anchor options:

Click Done, give the frame a stroke if required and save it as an asset.

You can now drag the asset onto the page, Place an image inside, and the scaling and positioning of the image will match the settings you gave the original frame.

Not sure if it's a complete solution, hope it helps.

H

[Cut out only on both sides]

A slight variation...

Rasterise if necessary as @Alfred says. I then used a fairly strong Levels adjustment, dragging Black right and White left to even out any colour variations in the red:

Then click on the red area with the Flood Select tool. (When I initially tried on uploaded image, I was getting a lot of half-selected pixels - hence the step above. It may depend on the Tolerance settings for the Flood Select tool.)

From the Select menu choose Outline. Set the Alignment to Inside and adjust the Radius as required:

Click Apply, go to Select and choose Invert Pixel Selection.

Press the Delete key.

Deselect.

Cheers,

H

[moving an object]

You can alt-click on an individual object within a group to select it independently, and then move and edit it without modifying the other grouped objects. This avoids having to select it in the Layers panel.

[Creating neat Geometry with transform origin]

One way is to duplicate the shape, set its fill to empty, give it a dotted stroke and make it slightly smaller than the underlying shape:

The above is a bit rough and ready, but can easily be refined. I've attached an .afdesign file.

Cheers,

H

stitches.afdesign

[Layer over a photo so I can read the text on top of it]

One quick and simple way to make the entire image paler is:

Draw a rectangle over the top.

Set the colour of the rectangle to white.

Set the opacity of the rectangle layer to whatever you think looks right.

You can then export the image in your required format, or choose Flatten from the Document menu to make the changes permanent and destructive.

If you want to run text over the whole image, though, you're going to have a problem with the tonal range of the original. The fence, the trees and the front of the locomotive are all very dark, and if you make them pale enough for black text to be visible on top of them, the lighter areas like the sky and the ballast are going to become very bleached out.

Cheers,

H

[How to constrain overlay shape from extending beyond base shape]

Hard to describe in words, but group the red lines and drag them over the orange shape as shown below:

 

Check on the highlight in the layer panel. It's not intuitive or straightforward but the highlighting from just away from the left-hand edge all the way to the right-hand edge of the orange layer means you're doing it right.