Old Bruce
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1 hour ago, mikeLRBG said:
I have a defined grid and I add a picture frame tool within the first cell (0,0 or upper most left let's say). Then I double click on the first field and it does indeed populate however the remainder of the cells populate with the same image I have mapped.
I was under the impression that the tool will iterate through sequentially through the rest of the data set and fill in the remainder of the cells accordingly. Maybe I'm wrong in how I understand this works.I think what you are doing is Previewing the result. Now try and Generate the document. You should see the expected result. Preview only uses the first, or chosen 'record' to preview it.
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There is a setting in the Context toolbar, should be the last one on the right. It is called Keep Selected.
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Make a text frame and choose the [No Style] Paragraph Style. Write something, set it up like you want. With the text caret still in the text (which is [No Style] go to Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection and then imediately go to Edit > Defaults > Save. Now your default [No Style] will look like that for all new text. Or you can just take care to always select the desired Paragraph Style before typing.
Also you should maybe go to the Text Styles panel and choose Save Styles as Default from the little three line menu indicator.
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5 minutes ago, IanBarber said:
...Out of interest, what font size do you prefer and leading size
Ian
11 on 12 or 12 on 13 or 14.
I also use First line indents instead of an actual Tab for the start of a paragraph and I tend to use no space between paragraphs for the bulk of the text. Unlike this setup for the forums where there is no first line indent and a line space between paragraphs. Again this is just how I work, choose your own look.
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48 minutes ago, IanBarber said:
I am finding it confusing writing directly into Publisher. The distance between the lines of text always appears too small, making it cramped. I always have to use the leading override to increase the distance, which leads me to another question: is there a standard distance one should use?
Please do not use the "leading override" to increase the distance. Text Styles, in particular Paragraph Styles will be your friends. Choose your Font, choose the size, set the leading to be between 10 -20% of the size*. I use exact for the leading, not % or "default" or At Least or Multiple. It is just how I work, I am old school and a bit of a control freak. Use what you want.
Do not use Overrides to fix things, redefine the paragraph style. Overrides should be used rarely if at all**.
44 minutes ago, IanBarber said:Is it better to create the main text in something like Word and then paste it into Publisher or is it the norm to write the text directly into Publisher using Text Frames?
This really depends on the amount of text, a few paragraphs totalling a couple of hundred words, sure use Publisher. A dozen pages with a few thousand words, use a Text Editor or Word Processor.
* Not a rule you have to follow, you will not be set to prison if you don't follow this.
** A rule you should try and follow.
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If you are using the <section name> field to fill in Part One, Part Two, etc or Chapter Names then you may be better served using <Running Header> fields. Choose the Paragraph Style which has been applied to the Part Names or Chapter Names. Then when you alter the number of pages the <Running Header> won't care or even notice.
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Welcome to the forums @Stuart Frisken,
This "box" is the container for the text. It is how Designer, Photo and Publisher work. There are two types of text frames. The first is called the Art Text text frame and it will be the size of the text you type, no larger, no smaller than the text you type. The second is a Frame Text text frame, it can be whatever size you want it and will hold several paragraphs worth of text. Depending of course on the size of the font you have chosen.
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3 hours ago, Alex_M said:
It would be nice if we could invert the layer selection. This could be useful, for example, with documents with hundreds/thousands of layers/objects where we want to delete all of them except for the few objects we've selected on the canvas.
Once you have your selected items hit Edit > Copy. Now Edit > Select All and hit the delete button. Now Edit > Paste. Should work.
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You could try using the Character in the other off the page text frame like so;
I do agree that the extra End of Story glyph is annoying. And I cannot for the life of me figure out why the two End of Story characters are resulting in an extra line.
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15 hours ago, Chris Bartlett said:
I was testing my settings for true black and white in the adjustments tab and found all pre-sets are showing as sepia and is also doing it when you select B&W in the layers panel. I checked my normal affinity photo 2 and it is not doing this.
I am assuming you are using a Black and White Adjustment Layer. The only way I can get a sepia tone is by having the Document in CMYK and the Blend mode for the Adjustment Layer set to Colour instead of Normal.
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There does seem to be a problem with Publisher 2 beta 2.5.0 not clearing the unsaved documents from the autosave. Like MikeTo I cannot definitely point to a recipe. But I see it happening a lot. I don't see this with Designer or Photo.
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There are some things like Adjustment Layers and Filters which can be recorded in a Macro then applied all at once to files.
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Welcome to the forums @Lee8181
You are most likely in the Develop Persona. You may have opened up a raw file and so Affinity Photo 2 (if that is the actual application you are using) is automatically using the Develop Persona for raw files. Hit the Develop button and you'll be in the Photo Persona with many more tools available.
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Wild stab in the dark here... Are you perhaps using Photo 2 (or even version 1)? I don't see it in the list, just Publisher 2 and Designer 2.
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11 hours ago, Ryan Clarke said:
I have spent weeks reformatting a book in Word as Affinity is not compatible with Pages.
I would try using Pages to Export to DOCX file format.
And I would do all the formatting in Publisher, after I had done all the writing in Pages, Text Edit, Word or whatever. I would not bother with any formatting in the word processor.
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Welcome to the forums @Schwab,
Are you using Facing Pages? Are the "two pages" side by side or are they separated?
I use Facing Pages and I can just place the photo on the two pages.
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Bienvenue sur les forums @Schwab,
Utilisez-vous des pages de garde ? Les "deux pages" sont-elles côte à côte ou séparées ?
J'utilise Facing Pages et je peux simplement placer la photo sur les deux pages.
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Are the handles snapping to the constraints of the Grid?
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It does seem to be font dependant, with EB Garamond I see one problem and with Adobe Jensen Pro I see a different problem.
@Patrick Connor, the problem is that the fonts (EB Garamond and Adobe Jensen Pro) do have the Alternatives/Stylistic sets it is just that the blank area occurs if everything is collapsed. Once they are both expanded I see the choices. If only one choice is expanded I don't see the choices, the blank area is the proper size to hold the information.
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I see this occasionally, the All Alternates and Stylistic Sets seem to be blank unless both are opened. Close both and then open one or the other and I'll see a blank area. Sometimes it will show properly if I click somewhere else.
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1 hour ago, SandraS said:
I cannot figure out where to find out what the pixel dimensions are....the size of the individual pixels?
The size of the pixels are ... well, one pixel x one pixel. If your image is 14639 w X 20640 h pixels and your DPI is 1200 then the image is (14639/1200) inches wide. If your image is 14639 w X 20640 h pixels and your DPI is 300 then the image is (14639/300) inches wide. In the first case the pixel size is 1/1200 inches x 1/1200 inches, in the second case the pixel size is 1/300 inches x 1/300 inches.
I leave the arithmetic as an exercise for the reader.
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7 minutes ago, jackamus said:
I don't understand why you keep saying I'm trying to duplicate a pressure profile! Let me put it another way - how do I draw an ellipse, using the line width tool, to look like ellipse 'B'?
I wouldn't bother with the Line Width tool at all. I would select the ellipse with the desired pressure profile, save the profile and then apply it to the new ellipse. Or I would copy the ellipse with the desired profile and use the Edit > Paste Style to the newly drawn ellipse. Or I would temporarily use the Synchronize Defaults from Selection (the ellipse with the desired profile being the selection) to set my default to the desired profile and then draw a new ellipse.
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15 minutes ago, AvdB-Netherlands said:
Hoe kan ik het beste in een bestaand afpub-bestand de marges aanpassen zonder dat ik dit voor elke pagina met mijn muis het kader moet aanpassen? In de Document Setup staat Margins, maar als ik de outer-margin aanpas en terugkeer naar mijn afpub-bestand, dan moet ik voor elke pagina het tekstkader aanpassen. Dit moet toch anders kunnen?
De marges in Publisher zijn visuele hulplijnen. Ze oefenen nergens invloed op uit.
Wat ik doe is een masterpagina gebruiken om mijn tekstkaders op te zetten en als ik dan de grootte van de "marges" wil veranderen, verander ik gewoon de grootte van de tekstkaders op de masterpagina.
Het belangrijke concept om te begrijpen is dat je tekst wordt vastgehouden in de tekstkaders, je kunt de knipselkandidaten zo instellen dat ze de marges respecteren, zodat je tekstkaders precies de grootte van de marges hebben, maar als je dan de grootte van de marges verandert, moet je de grootte van de tekstkaders aanpassen. Vandaar mijn gebruik van tekstkaders op de masterpagina('s).
Tip: Maak er een gewoonte van om alles op je masterpagina's unieke beschrijvende namen te geven, bijv. Linker tekstkader, Rechter tekstkader, Linker paginanummer, enz. Het zal je veel tijd besparen om dingen te herstellen.
Vertaald met DeepL.com (gratis versie)
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The Margins in Publisher are visual guides. They exert no influence on anything.
What I do is use a Master Page to hold my Text Frames and then if I want to change the size of the "margins" I will simply change the size of the Text Frames on the Master Page.
The important concept to understand is that your text will be held in the Text Frames, you can set the snapping candidates to honour the margins so your Text Frames will be the exact size of the margins but then if you change the size of the margins you will have to resize the Text Frames. Hence my use of Text Frames on the Master Page(s).
Tip: Please get into the habit of naming everything on your Master Pages with unique descriptive names. e.g. Left Text Frame, Right Text Frame, Left Page Number, etc. It will pay off with saved time fixing things.
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8 minutes ago, IvashistaI said:
I am a begginer I will try these as well. But, here is the image you asked. let me know what you think.
This photo is an excellent candidate for the Hue Range Mask.
New tool behaviour?
in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
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If it isn't a utility as suggested by MikeTO then I must ask which Mac OS are you running? Perhaps there is OS level interference. Some sort of enhancement by Apple as to how the cursor is displayed.
Finally there is always Roy's advice (from The IT Crowd) "Have you tried turning it off and on again. I know that over the decades my Macs have shown various weird behaviours after several days of uptime. A simple restart of the computer will usually clear them up.