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h_d got a reaction from Weltende in Publisher - How to add tables to text frames.
This works for me, as per carl123's suggestion:
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h_d got a reaction from jmwellborn in Updating via Mac App store fails
Thing is that when you buy any software from Apple or Microsoft, you are their customer, not Serif's. Apple/MS transfer a proportion of the purchase price to Serif (minus marketing, distribution, tax...) and Serif benefit from world-wide distribution, marketing and sales networks that they couldn't hope to emulate themselves.
But Apple and Microsoft don't pass on customer details to the software developers, so even if they wanted to (for sentimental reasons or whatever), Serif couldn't transfer your Apple/Microsoft licence key to their own store, let alone turn you into a marketing prospect.
However, consider the case of extra content (brushes, overlays, backgrounds, macros...)
Serif could have gone down the road of in-app purchases from the Apple/MS stores for this, but right now they ask for an optional registration to their own store for all the extra goodies. And this is a smart move, because it gives them direct access to customers who have bought their products from the Apple/Microsoft stores.
For example: I bought Photo and Designer from the Apple App Store, and Publisher from the Serif Store. I thus have an account with Serif. When Photo 1.9.0 offered me free content (fog, snow, clouds etc) I logged in to my Serif account and downloaded them. Serif now know that I have Photo, even though I didn't buy it from them. And they can target their marketing accordingly.
Prime example of British ingenuity...
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h_d got a reaction from Alfred in Updating via Mac App store fails
Thing is that when you buy any software from Apple or Microsoft, you are their customer, not Serif's. Apple/MS transfer a proportion of the purchase price to Serif (minus marketing, distribution, tax...) and Serif benefit from world-wide distribution, marketing and sales networks that they couldn't hope to emulate themselves.
But Apple and Microsoft don't pass on customer details to the software developers, so even if they wanted to (for sentimental reasons or whatever), Serif couldn't transfer your Apple/Microsoft licence key to their own store, let alone turn you into a marketing prospect.
However, consider the case of extra content (brushes, overlays, backgrounds, macros...)
Serif could have gone down the road of in-app purchases from the Apple/MS stores for this, but right now they ask for an optional registration to their own store for all the extra goodies. And this is a smart move, because it gives them direct access to customers who have bought their products from the Apple/Microsoft stores.
For example: I bought Photo and Designer from the Apple App Store, and Publisher from the Serif Store. I thus have an account with Serif. When Photo 1.9.0 offered me free content (fog, snow, clouds etc) I logged in to my Serif account and downloaded them. Serif now know that I have Photo, even though I didn't buy it from them. And they can target their marketing accordingly.
Prime example of British ingenuity...
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h_d got a reaction from CatonaPC© in Updating via Mac App store fails
To delete your App Store copy: in Finder, go to your Applications folder, drag it to the Bin, confirm you want to delete it, and empty the Bin. Alternatively, in Launchpad, hold down on the application icon until it starts to jiggle, and then click the cross in the top left-hand corner.
To download direct from Affinity with product key, create an account on the Affinity Store and buy it. The 'small fee' will be the current purchase price.
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h_d reacted to StarGrazerRose in Publisher Export to PDF Section Name in the Page Information
That is an interesting solution! Thank you for taking the time to answer!
I'll have to play around and see what I can do
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h_d got a reaction from ramitche in Updating via Mac App store fails
To delete your App Store copy: in Finder, go to your Applications folder, drag it to the Bin, confirm you want to delete it, and empty the Bin. Alternatively, in Launchpad, hold down on the application icon until it starts to jiggle, and then click the cross in the top left-hand corner.
To download direct from Affinity with product key, create an account on the Affinity Store and buy it. The 'small fee' will be the current purchase price.
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h_d got a reaction from GarryP in Formatting Tables
If you don't need the automatic updates, you can also use File-Place to drop an Excel spreadsheet into your Publisher document. It will come in as a table which can then be formatted. As I say, there's no link back to the original spreadsheet, but the upside is that the content is still editable.
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h_d reacted to GarryP in Formatting Tables
Try it with a simple spreadsheet in a blank document.
It works pretty well, especially if you use “Prefer Linked” in your document set-up and have “Automatically update linked resources” set in Preferences/General.
You can also have multiple tables in the same spreadsheet and have them all automatically update, see attached video.
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h_d reacted to cutout3 in Advice and guidance for my daughter
h_d, Thank you! All kind of new to me.
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h_d got a reaction from Alfred in Advice and guidance for my daughter
Yes.
Who knows? We may get 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 before 2.0 appears.
Yes.
Yes.
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h_d reacted to R C-R in Two strange behaviors after installing v 1.9
For the adjustments that have a default that changes the object they are applied to, it is (at least to me) annoying that I have to see that change before I can change anything, be it to a custom preset I have saved or a one-off adjustment.
In fact, because the Adjustments studio panel is so large, I rarely have it open, instead using the popup on the Layers panel for everything except recalling saved presets.
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h_d reacted to Dai777 in Formatting Tables
@h_d it could be that the original brochure that I'm copying was not in a table. It just looks like a table. Who knows!
It's been an interesting learning project from my point of view.
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h_d got a reaction from Dai777 in Formatting Tables
I appreciate it's a learning exercise, but if I were doing a job like this for real then I wouldn't use a table.
The orange shape at the top is a half-depth rectangle placed over a full-depth rounded rectangle. I then used Layer-Geometry-Add to combine them into a single resizable object. The black text is in a single frame with the spacing adjusted with the leading controls. The white text is in four separate frames. The grey shape is a separate rectangle.
The three vertical rules have their blend mode set to Divide, as does the grey rectangle, to achieve the knockout effect but to allow quick repositioning. I drew a single circle with the Ellipse tool and then duplicated and aligned for the blobs. I then grouped the vertical columns of blobs with the word above, again to allow easy repositioning.
As a vet might say, it's horses for courses...
vetsbills.afpub
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h_d reacted to Chris B in Benchmark - text unreadable in Light Mode
Hey h_d,
This was reported on day 1 when we first saw the Benchmark interface—I thought it was fixed. I will investigate. Thank you.
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h_d got a reaction from Chris B in Benchmark - text unreadable in Light Mode
In Preferences - User Interface I set UI Style to Light. I then run Help - Benchmark:
The explanatory text is white on a light grey background and there is not enough contrast for it to be readable. It's marginally better when I turn to the Dark Side:
But there's still a lack of contrast.
Cheers,
H
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h_d reacted to Alfred in Advice and guidance for my daughter
With enough skill and patience, you can even use Excel to create paintings!
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h_d reacted to Norway16 in Affinity Photo not using any GPU on Mac
Thanks for all the replies! I did a couple of tests using the Live Motion Blur, and indeed, the GPU is activated up to 50% when rotating the blur. So the system is recognizing the GPU at least.
It looks like you are correct that the number of functions used by the GPU is small, and therefore makes no difference when doing an HDR merge, for instance.
It would be awesome if Affinity could chime in if this is a possible improvement for the future and what kind of functions are actually taking advantage of the GPU today. I was thinking about getting an eGPU to speed up the HDR merge process and other tasks that take much time, but after this thread I've learnt that it may not be beneficial for that kind of tasks. Thanks again.
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h_d got a reaction from Ulysses in Affinity Photo not using any GPU on Mac
Just did a very quick and unscientific investigation...
Like @Norway16 I have a 2018 MacBook Pro, albeit with a Radeon Pro Vega 20 GPU. My Affinity Photo performance settings are as follows:
You might want to ensure that "Use only integrated GPU" is turned off.
And in System Preferences/Battery:
Automatic graphics switching is on. (Same for Power Adapter but I'm currently unplugged.)
If I run Activity Monitor and Affinity Photo side-by-side and use a high-demand live filter as in the linked video, the GPU will kick in if and when it needs to (eg when rotating a live Motion Blur filter). It's certainly not on all the time, and it switches off and on pretty smartly:
Adjusting the radius of the motion blur, as opposed to rotating it, doesn't appear to activate the GPU. Which is good for my battery life if nothing else...
So it's pretty selective, and it may depend on individual system settings too.
Also worth noting that if I play graphics-intensive games then the GPU is on all the time, the laptop turns into a lapscorcher and the fans sound like a Saturn V on blastoff. Affinity Photo appears to be a bit more conservative about when it uses the GPU.
Cheers,
H
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h_d reacted to JaneKing in Newbie alert!
Hi Everyone...Jane here. Newbie... I've been lurking on the forum for some time now and I must say...I love this forum. I look forward to learn more and give my contributions
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h_d reacted to John Rostron in folded double card, page 4 und page 1 on the first spread
I would find myself another printer. My local printer will print my four-page A4 newsletter onto folded A3 with no problems.
John
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h_d reacted to E9B6 in Data merge is excellent
I have just finished converting my pageplus files with mail merge, into publisher files with data merge.
I have to say I am very impressed with this feature. It outperforms the old version in so many ways. In both cases I used an excel spreadsheet as the data source.
But with the latest version, you can change the source on the fly and it appears in the data merge. Serif, I have always been a fan of your old plus series, but you can add multiple feathers in your cap for the latest set of programs.
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h_d got a reaction from Manoj Sudhakaran in CMD+Scroll Rotation is driving me mad!
Hi @Caio and welcome!
Affinity Photo - Preferences - Tools...
Cheers,
H
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h_d got a reaction from R C-R in Unintended linked layers in Designer 1.9?
Take care and best of luck @R C-R
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h_d got a reaction from Old Bruce in Publisher 1.9.1.952 - immediate crash when editing fields
I'm not seeing it any more after logging out and in again, so it may be a one-off. I'll keep tabs on it.