[How do I get the page numbering on the master page in front of an existing layout?]

45 minutes ago, Axhill said:

I found a solution: For each page, I select the existing layout and put it at the back. Problem solved!

For future use you might prefer @Return's hints.  

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[How do I get APu's master to count every other page (BY 1s)???]

4 hours ago, Wayne Burrows said:

In the book that I am currently putting together,

15 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Or you could just create it as pages instead of facing-page spreads which would be very easy.

Just and easy … but would a layout of single page spreads work for OP's book production / would the imposition work correctly with such spreads instead of single pages?

[Floating panels such as layers lost]

1 hour ago, Em Ar said:

There seems to be a bug where View Studio gets unchecked when you zoom. 

What do you mean by "View Studio" ?
And where does it get "unchecked"?
And in what app, version and operating system?
And how do you zoom: with Zoom Tool, mouse wheel, touchpad, menu command, … ?

As far I know there is a menu command in menu "View" -> "Studio", or a menu command in menu "View" -> "Hide Studio" … but "View Studio" ?

[red line around text]

It could be a stroke assigned to the text style, or just an interface item ("Show snapping candidates").

Unfortunately you don't show your entire screen with panels and Context Toolbar and the object selected in the Layers panel … which would indicate more clear what you have setup.

[PDF Spreads Merged into One Page]

On 2/1/2024 at 12:07 AM, JimSlade said:

I have some PDFs that Affinity merged into spreads into one page.

If the Affinity document is setup as spreads of facing pages you can simply choose the export option "Area" > "All Pages" to achieve a PDF with single pages, not two-pages spreads.

Alternatively you can use a separate app or an online tool for PDF editing to separate the spreads into single pages. Note that many offer the option to split the pages of a PDF file into multiple PDF files, so searching may be difficult without perfect keywords.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/

https://www.1000grad-epaper.de/allgemein/praxistipp-pdf-umwandeln-doppelseiten-trennen/

[How do I get APu's master to count every other page (BY 1s)???]

The page number as field doesn't offer this option, you need a workaround with "manual" numbers + linked text frames for text flow. Depending on your setup you may need to manually link the page number frames on the various spreads across the document.

[Publisher v2 - change language for a group and its nested content]

14 hours ago, truth-imager said:

about the language "not actually set to English". It was set to a non existing English variant "en-PL" instead of English. But the user interface was lying it's just English.

I hope we will have a way to set the default language

I experience especially (not only) with PDF opened in APub that Find & Replace may need to get a language re-assigned to the text to show / find results. (-> manually switch from e.g. "English" to "None" and back to "English")

Compare (btw: here some posts indicate that especially "English" may be a problem while one of the alternatives "English (…)" would not):

If your APub shows "en-PL" as default language if no document is opened than it may help to save the app "Defaults":

1. Create a text frame.
2. Set its language to your wanted default language.
3. Choose menu "Edit" > "Default" > "Synchronize form Selection".
4. Choose menu "Edit" > "Default" > Save.

Close the document. Close the app. Reopen the app and check its language. – This workflow/workaround did solve my issue of a missing "en-DE" (english with german dialect?) that APub initially used in my setup of German macOS language + English APub language.

Compare (note, this thread concerns an early version of APub):

[How to work on very large document way faster?]

3 hours ago, Anstellos said:

(I also have an M3 pro, did not try to work with those files yet).

Why not?

[Weaning myself from a long-term addiction to Photoshop]

1 hour ago, Furry said:

Is there any rule of thumb for sharpening methods,

One of them is the view in 100% (= "Pixel Size") to get all pixels displayed when setting  the values.
Your video uses 25-50% only, but it may be sufficient to demonstrate "just differences" of the various methods. If you use 25% zoom level, 75% of pixels aren't displayed although they get affected from the adjustment. Simply try yourself to experience the relevance: edit an image in 25% for a "best" look, then zoom to 100%. Compare this with an edit in 100% only.

1 hour ago, Furry said:

if it already has a lot of contrast, use method x; or perhaps, if it includes a close-up of facial features, method y is best? I just feel so out of my depth that I am unsure even what questions to ask.

The motive (face, nature, technic) is fully irrelevant, just its texture matters (light & local contrast + size & number of details + image size). For experiencing move the sliders separately between min and max values, first with 1 slider only, then combined with the other sliders (=parameters) of this adjustment.

BTW: you seem to use this thread (with its unclear topic) as a general, personal thread for any question/task. This makes the entire thread confusing over time and less useful for later forum users. – Could you instead for next topics either create a new thread for different topics or add your question to an existing thread with an according topic? Thanks!

[What is appropriate to post in the Share your work forum please?]

48 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Reading this I immediately thought of a first yean art student who, having produced a so-so painting which he is quite pleased with, using techniques new to him, but well known to most other artists, petulantly complains because the local art gallery is not interested in hanging his painting along side some of the great masters! 😁

"art student" ?

 

[Automatisierte Exporte und Dokumentendimensionen (deutsch) [split]]

2 hours ago, bpm296 said:

Die Ausgangsdatei ist in diesem Falle 255 mm breit, 12 Zeichen, sie dient für alle anderen Schriftarten, kommt eine neue Schriftart dazu, lade ich Ysabeau, benenne sie um und überschreibe sie mit dem neuen Inhalt,

Okay, demnach existiert als Layout-Datei immer nur 1 Schrift mit ß in div. Schnitten – und nicht, wie ich angenommen hatte, eine Layoutdatei mit allen bisherigen Schriftmustern auf verschiedenen Dokument-Seiten. Aus meiner Sicht ist das eine ineffiziente Arbeitsweise, weshalb ich bisher Probleme hatte den Wunsch nach "Automatisierung" nachzuvollziehen.

Affinity stellt beim Export die Ausgabe-Größe immer "automatisch" ein. Dabei gibt es verschiedene Optionen. Grundsätzlich scheint es sinnvoll, die unterschiedlichen Varianten möglicher Ausgabe-Größen als Ebenen im Layout anzulegen … und ihnen bei Bedarf auch die gewünschte Ausgabe-Farbe zu zuweisen.

• Export mit dem Export-Dialogfenster: Die Ausgabe-Größe entspricht "automatisch" der Größe des aktuell ausgewählten Objekts, zB "60 mm":

Alternativ gibt es die "Export-Persona", die m.E. dann Vorteile hat, wenn unterschiedliche Objekte gleichzeitig oder ein Objekt gleichzeitig in unterschiedlichen Größen oder Dateiformaten exportiert werden soll.

• Export aus der "Export-Persona": Auch hier definiert eine Objekt-Auswahl (+ Zuweisung als "Slice") automatisch die Ausgabe-Größe. Hierzu wird vorher die Text-Ebene in einer der möglichen Hintergrund-Ebenen eingebettet. zB "150 mm":

2 hours ago, bpm296 said:

dafür hätte ich gar keine Zeit, mir sind andere Dinge wichtiger. Es wird mir ohnehin zuviel kaputtgelabert,

Ach, ja?

[What is appropriate to post in the Share your work forum please?]

3 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Yet it is a good example of using Affinity Designer

Nonsense, supplemented by a lie. – Neither your post in this thread of the Affinity forum … nor your linked post in the external forum is related to Affinity.

[Meer ruimte tussen de regels bij de inhoudsopgave.]

6 hours ago, AvdB-Netherlands said:

Ik bedoel daarmee dat ik de regelafstand wil vergroten. Dit lukt mij nog steeds niet. Kan iemand mij alstublieft helpen door uitleg te geven met een schermafdruk.

If you want to maintain the baseline grid you can just increase the leading. Since leading is a paragraph property it is useful to have the Paragraph panel opened. Additionally it is required to have the according object or text selected: while your screenshot above shows a leading of "15,6 pt" in the Context Toolbar it is unclear what leading is applied to the shown text frames and their paragraph style.

As mentioned in one of your other recent threads the leading can conflict with the baseline grid, so setting the leading larger than the baseline grid will cause the text to use every second grid line only. This can be a wanted setting and match a requested result ("regelafstand wil vergroten"). For clear, unambiguous help by the forum it is also required to let us know a.) what exactly you want to achieve and b.) what the current settings are.

[What is appropriate to post in the Share your work forum please?]

14 minutes ago, William Overington said:

We are indeed fortunate

"We" ? – Obviously nobody else than you enjoys this thread.

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

11 days later.

What you've added today is just clickbait again to rehash your ideas, even though it's been made clear multiple times above that they have nothing to do with the Affinity forum...

… in particular annoying with a link to a post of yours in a different, external forum that perfidiously links back to the Affinity forum:

And you still keep linking here to an external forum, and again with text without any relevance to Affinity apps / the Affinity forum:

[Basislijn met een groter lettertype loopt niet mooi op de basislijn. Hoe verhelp ik dit?]

21 hours ago, AvdB-Netherlands said:

Ik weet echt niet hoe ik dit nu moet oplossen voor de inleiding met een fontgrootte van 16 pt. 

What do you want to solve, what do you want to achieve?

Your screenshot shows the introduction text not using the baseline grid. To make it use the baseline grid, it …

• needs "Align to Baseline Grid" activated in its paragraph style
• must not have "Ignore Baseline Grid" activated in the Text Frame panel
• needs a leading set which is not larger than the baseline grid.

If the leading is larger than the baseline grid then the text will use every second grid line only.

21 hours ago, AvdB-Netherlands said:

antwoord, het liefst met schermafdrukken.

If your screenshot includes more relevant panels + an object or text selected it becomes more clear for the forum what situation and settings you demonstrate. To me it seems the Character panel in your screenshot is not very useful while the Paragraph panel + the Context Toolbar would make it more clear with some text selected.

[rasterize all vector images only]

10 hours ago, Ousy said:

Is there a way to rasterize all of them for export

Alternative workaround in 2 steps: Instead of rasterizing layers selectively for (=before) export you can force rasterization for an entire document during an according export, e.g. as raster image file type or as PDF with the option "Rasterize: Everything". Excluding text layers in this rasterization method (e.g. by hiding them in the Layers panel temporarily) may achieve a 1-click rasterization for everything except text. In the second step you would place the rasterized result(s) in your Affinity document(s) between text and vector layers and re-activate the text layers for a final export without rasterization. As Dan mentioned already, the workaround efficiency depends a lot on your layout complexity and the layers hierarchy.

[Opening a PDF with missing fonts]

To display the PDF in Affinity without missing fonts don't open but place it instead (on a page of the wanted size).

If you open a PDF with Affinity it needs to render the text as editable text, therefore it requires either the initially used font or a font substitute.

[Automatisierte Exporte und Dokumentendimensionen (deutsch) [split]]

22 minutes ago, bpm296 said:

Möglichkeit die einzelnen Breiten mit einem Klick in einer Aktion zu beschneiden.

Pardon, ich verstehe deinen Workflow immer noch nicht. Wie ist denn die Datei beschaffen, aus denen du die einzelnen JPGs exportierst? Kannst du davon einen Screenshot zeigen?

Wenn du die Beispiele pro Schriftart als jeweils eigene Datei exportieren möchtest, würde das m.E. über den Export funktionieren und dabei automatisch die jeweilige Größe ausgeben, wobei ich bisher vermute, dass du das Layout als Artboards in AD anlegst. Ich verstehe nicht, in welchem Moment du die Flächen beschneiden möchtest, da ich annehme, dass die Schriftmuster mit ihren Farbhintergründen in der jeweils benötigten Größe angelegt werden.

Und warum überhaupt ein Export als gerasterte Pixel-bilder? Wenn dein angehängtes PDF das finale Ziel ist, was spricht dagegen, die Schriftmuster als Vektorobjekte zu platzieren … oder das gesamte Layout komplett in APub anzulegen, ganz ohne platzierte Objekte oder Objekt-Beschneidung? Nicht zuletzt irritiert mich auch die Dateigröße des PDF, das mit 26 MB für den Inhalt ("eigentlich nur Text") unnötig groß wirkt, ausgelöst durch die zahlreichen 300 dpi Bilder der Buchstaben. Wenn du das Einbetten der vielen Schriftarten im PDF vermeiden möchtest, gibt es die Export-Option, Text in Kurven umzuwandeln.

[White space above the item <kopje>. (Heading)]

9 hours ago, AvdB-Netherlands said:

How can I remove the white space up to the margin edge? (…) Please provide screenshots.

The solution depends on your workflow that is causing this white space. There are quite a few options and settings that can be used to achieve this look.

I doubt the screenshot below showing the desired text position will help you - instead it would be useful if you show the entire screen (not just a layout detail), including the Context Toolbar, Layers panel, Paragraph panel and Text Frame panel for instance (each with the relevant sections unfolded) ... and the affected headline selected with the Text Tool.

[Beginner]

7 hours ago, Ian G said:

help me understand the 14 instructions I have been given

3 hours ago, Ian G said:

to start my first project

Unfortunately you don't tell us about the wanted result of your first project nor about eventually workflow problem(s) you want to solve.

While you mention "14 instructions" in your first post, you then add a list of 17 (3 more) bullet points that seem to be missing the beginning or a possible introduction. The list mentions "picture frame created in step 3" while step 3 in your list says "Save and Close".

In case you want to create an illustration in isometric geometry you might like the various available tutorials for this feature. For instance:

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-grids-in-affinity-designer--cms-93818

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/how-to-use-the-new-isometric-drawing-tools-in-affinity-designer-17/

https://logosbynick.com/create-an-isometric-grid-with-affinity-designer/

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Isometric+Affinity+Designer

[saving and retrieving afselection files]

17 hours ago, RobG B said:

it saves it as a AFselection. If I then try to retrieve this to place on my 2nd image, it won't let me as the accept button is greyed out.

In case you mean the "Open" button in the "Load Selection From File…" dialog: You need to have an .afselection file selected to enable the "Open" button.

If you do not want to save a selection marquee ("marching ants") but rather the content of activated pixel layer(s) you can choose menu File > Export > Area > Selection Area / Selection Only to save it as an image file on your disk.

If you rather want to save the selected pixel layers as Affinity document (e.g. .afphoto) choose…

1. menu Edit -> Copy, then
2. menu File > New From Clipboard to create a new document of the selected and copied pixel area, then
3. Save it as an Affinity document.

[JPEG odd behaviour]

28 minutes ago, travelshooter said:

started back in october 23, 

(…) Has AF2 changed the way it writes .jpegs or has it added more code or lines what ever, because it's obvious the sever cannot read to file that's why is hang, 

Just curious: If you copy one of your APh jpeg files (before oct 23) from the server back to your computer, can you then copy this same file to the server again?

33 minutes ago, travelshooter said:

also any advice on win12 renaming all photo files as affinty designer files dah

There seem to be various tools for batch renaming: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=windows+12+rename+files+batch&atb=v373-1&ia=web
Do you want to change the name or the suffix ('.aphoto' -> '.afdesign')? Or just change the program that is associated with '.aphoto' for opening?

[Master page Affinity Publisher]

1 hour ago, MikeTO said:

With a text frame, deleting a column or changing the size just reflows the contents. With a table, deleting a master table's row that has data on a document page would require merging that row's cells with the row above. Ugh.

Apart from "deleting" a column of a text frame or a table: "just reflow" in a text frame could also be judged as harmful, for instance because it can cause text overflow and thus "disappearing" text in text frames. – Accordingly I would expect for tables a change of column width done on a master page would be transferred to the table instance on the documents page.

1 hour ago, MikeTO said:

If you re-apply the master, the table will be migrated out of the master layer.

To me in V1 it's even worse because it results in an additional table layer on the affected document page.

[Master page Affinity Publisher]

8 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Once you've added text to a table on a document page, changes to the table rows and widths on the master will no longer be reflected in the table on that page.

To me this behaviour for master tables appears to be a bug.

Note, that you may only change cell content and text style but neither column or row size without detaching the object first. Actually all object properties in the Table panel are grayed-out when a master table or cell is selected on a document's page. This locked object properties would rather indicate that they do not lose the connection to their parent master object.

Compare text frames that got edited content on a document page still react on changes of columns, frame size, frame style or position done to their initial master page object – while also the options in the Text Frame panel are grayed-out for master text frames on a document's page.

[Is it possible to recreate 3D effect without FX?]

43 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Set the opacity level of the Strokes in the layers panel (using instead the transparency tool should work too)

btw: alternatively and for future use you can
• use reduced colour opacity + save those as Swatches
• save multiple strokes applied to an object in the Styles panel.