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The content commands are already available: Fill Frame Proportionally = Scale to Max Fit Fit Image proportionally = Scale to Min Fit Centre content = set Anchor point to center Menu Picture Frame Properties:

In macOS the system uses F10 to show an overwiew of all application windows. It's no wise/nice idea as application to use a system key command. Apple macOS: "Reserved and Expected Keyboard Shortcuts" ... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/xcode_help-command_shortcuts/SystemAndOther/SystemAndOther.html https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/user-interaction/keyboard/

Was? Did PP die? As far I remember PP does mask only white background areas of images. InDesign does not mask itself, there you either import a mask with the image and define it as cropping mask - or you use a particular shape of the image frame as mask. In APub you can simply drag an image layer onto a mask layer to mask the image in the shape of the mask. To create the mask you can use a ready-shape or draw one with the pen tools.

Here's another .afpub which crashes on "Replace All" ...f & r crash.afpub And the crash report: Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-11-24-030244_mbp1.crash

The triangles work, too. Type the new wanted amount of rows and press enter.

Menu View > Show Text Ruler. There set your tab. With control-click on tab this options appear: p.s.: "(...) hunting for everything in areas that make no sense" https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/65-discussions-and-suggestions-for-affinity-publisher-beta-on-desktop/ There is more How to ...

In the options window for Text Wrap it appears not to be possible to jump with tab-key from one text-field to the next to enter the wrap values. With the cursor in the first field press tab does not jump to the next field but triggers the Toggle UI command instead. (compare: the tab-jump perfectly works in the options window for Spread Setup > Margins)

Auto-flow creates new pages + text frames when needed, while skipping pages where already text frames are placed. How can I manage auto-flow for overlapping text frames? I have two layers: one full page sized text frame and one smaller as footnote text frame. The footer frame has text wrapping applied to displace text in the full sized frame. Also this footer frame should be auto-placed with auto-flow on top of the existing full page sized text frame. In my trials the footer frames become auto-placed on additional empty pages – and not, as wanted, on the existing pages. Is it possible, to auto-flow the smaller footer frame on the larger existing frames?

I noticed first the switch of odd / even pages in your 2 pdfs. The line indent issue occurs on the odd pages only. I can't rebuild your issue but I guess it happens in the left and right intends for the odd pages. (just curios: Why do you use two styles when you want same look on even/odd pages?) not neccesserily. Instead you can use switching styles, for instance with nested styles: one main for the first paragraph (with line), and a second for all following paragraphes (without line).

(I have no extended keyboard) – Command-key plus Arrow-key do work: Command-Up: Moves text cursor to the begin of the text. (– is this what you mean by "home"?) Command-Down: dto ... to the end of text. Command-Right/Command-Left: Moves text cursor word-by-word forward or backwards. Control-Right/Control-Left: Moves text cursor to the end/start of a line. (p.s.: those shortcuts mostly work systemwide, for instance here in the browser, too. They are barely releated to or programmed by an application.)

In this help text are two resolutions mentioned for some presets. I just tried them and noticed that the first value in the help text is the one which ends up in the PDF. – But what is the second resolution value, which says "downsampling to ..." ? – Might it mean "downsampling if larger than ..." ?

See: Affinity Publisher Beta Help > Publishing and Sharing > PDF Publishing > Publishing PDF Files: Choose a PDF Preset and a Raster DPI to set the resolution for rasterization of effects on export. Presets include: PDF (for export)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at document resolution, no image downsampling, overprint on, embed all fonts and use (and embed) document profile as colour space. PDF (for print)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at 300 DPI, image downsampling to 450 DPI, overprint on, embed all fonts, use (and embed) document profile as colour space, allow advanced features. PDF (for web)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at 72 DPI, image downsampling to 108 DPI and sRGB colour space. PDF (for flatten)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at document resolution, rasterises all content, no image downsampling, overprint on, embed all fonts and use (and embed) document profile as colour space. PDF (PDF/X-1a:2003), PDF (PDF/X-3:2003), PDF (PDF/X-4)—Exports using pro print PDF presets that conform to specific CMYK print standards.

It does work: a.) if you want to delete content of multiple cells: – select the table to make the gray sidebars appear – select the rows or columns to delete by simple click the row sidebars of the table – press shift to encrease selection – finally you see selected cells in light blue and the total selection rectangle with a dark blue stroke – press the delete key b.) if you want to reduce the number of rows: – select the area as described before – control-click on the sidebar (or menu "Table") > choose "Delete row(s)"

I notice irritations with color profiles when a.) placing an image and b.) after PDF/X-4 export: Document: RGB | Document Profile: "ECI rgb v2" 2 Pages, 2 Images: 1 RGB (sRGB IEC61966-2.1), 1 CMYK (ISO coated v2 ECI) a.) Placing images: – regardless of activated/deactivated convert and warn colour preferences: When placing an image no profile warning appears. b.) Exported PDF: – regardless of the setting in export profile options ("default" or "document" or "rgb"): • PDF Output Intent after export: "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 (Custom)". Where this profile even does not appear in the pulldown list of export options. • Both images got converted to RGB (the CMYK profile seems to became ignored). ___________________ Luckily in an CMYK document with CMYK PDF export: • there is the selected documents profile (and no such U.S. Web profile) after PDF export. • also both images still have their profiles assigned. But when placing an image no profile warning appears, too.

Just in case ... here's a list of Apples key usage from Apples developer tool Xcode: "Reserved and Expected Keyboard Shortcuts (...) F10 - used by system - Tile or untile all open windows in the currently active application" https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/xcode_help-command_shortcuts/SystemAndOther/SystemAndOther.html Or, accordingly, this list in Apples "Human Interface Guidelines": https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/user-interaction/keyboard/ Though the user meanwhile is allowed by Apple to deactivate particular system key functions, F10 included, it's imho no need and not a good idea to force the user for such change. ( System Prefererences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control > F10)

Export "Current Page" appears to export page 1 always. I have a 6-page document with facing pages, means 4 spreads: 1 | 2-3 | 4-5 | 6 When I hit, in pages pane, page 5 then it shows up in the document window and in the pages pane its spread gets a gray border. Then in pages pane I hit page 5 again and now it gets a blue border. Now I export "Current Page" as pdf. – But it results in page 1, not page 5 as expected. Whereas when I export "Current Spread" it perfectly results in p 4-5. A bug in "Current Page" on export of facing documents? p.s.: may I force Publisher to remember my recent page export settings?

In v.170174 the shortcut for "Preview Mode" is very easy already: "F10". But on Mac all F-Keys are prefered by the system. "Something easier" on Mac would mean no F-key at all. Why not just "w", which is known for "Preview Mode" in some designers area and not used by Publisher yet.

bgeal, to me the top row column width after bottom row merge slides charming (see .mov). – Or did I misread your issue? 170174_table merged width.mov 170174_table merged width.afpub p.s. can I reduce the preview size of the .mov above ? how?

@Chris_K, ok.: To upload the .afpub including font files: Is there a way to save the document & auto-collect its font files for sharing the complete package?

When I drag an image (jpg) from an image catalog document (Expression Media) onto a page then it does not appear as image but as text with the keywords of the image. The frame of that text gets placed at the beginning of the APub document, the text runs out of it over serveral pages. In this screenshots I dragged an image file onto an empty frame on page 2. The resulting text frame gets placed on page 1, the text appears on page 2. When I select the text frame on page 1 the text appears there.

On export as PDF/X- (-1a/3/4) I experience 2 issues: • Some text becomes curved on export, while others on same page don't. • Some text prevents export and results in a message "An error occurred while exporting to: <path/file.pdf>". Those text exports without error if it gets curved before export. The issues appear to be related to particular fonts. (f.i. Univers) The issues do not occure with normal PDF (v. 1.4 – 1.7). Is there kind of a preflight tool in Affinity Publisher to get further information?

The applications seems to have issues with text/font in your document. A PDF/X-1a export is possible with the 4 text frames in the header/footer set to invisible. Weird: in the resulting PDF all remaining text become curves. As a workaround to get a PDF with all text you could convert these 4 frames from text to curves – with the little disadvantage that you can't alter the text in the PDF (- and in your document if you save it curved). Unfortunately in the PDF all text become curves. A faster but less quality workaround is to choose the export option "Rasterise: Everything".

A.) If I select a CMYK swatch and create Chord Tints from the color pane, than the resulting tints are RGB. B.) If I select a CMYK swatch and create Chord Tints from the swatch directly (ctrl-click), than the results are in CMYK. ––> A) is a bug in my opinion. At least in a cmyk print document. Examples: Different Chord tint names from the swatch "100 k" (0c 0m y0 100k): C.) If I create tints via Chord menu (either from color or swatch pane) than the tints are named with values including their tint reduction. It is not possible to read the tint % value without additional calculation. D.) If I create tints not as Chord but as single swatch than the tint is named with the value of its origin + a tint value (%). ––> C) is a bug in my opinion. The tint value (%) is not recognizable without calculation. Example: Single created tints from the same swatch like above. ("100 k")

I'd do it shorter – IF a simple undo would not work: I'd hit command-c before renaming it. And command-v as re-rename process. No typing at all

But no, Yes, we can! However, even if a simple "undo" would not undo, I still could undo by re-rename it