Old Bruce
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The Navigator pane doesn't update until some thing is placed or moved on the page. I just stays on the previous view.
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1 hour ago, Seneca said:
I don't think master pages are supposed to carry over margins to the pages they have been applied to.
You are probably correct and I think that is a silly behaviour. The big problem is that I can't get a Master Page made if I make the Master and ask for Margins while I am making it.
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We can now (1.7.0.128) lock guides.
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We can now (1.7.0.128) use the guide locking toggle on the Tool Bar. [happy-face emoticon]
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Made a new document and had no margin in the Document setup. Then I tried to set this in the Make New Master page. I couldn't make a new Master page. I could make a new Master Page without specifying margins and then with the spread setup set margins but then they didn't carry over to the pages I applied it to.
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Took for ever to download but it wasn't 2 years as the Copyright info indicates plus you are missing
Haven't done much more than open an older file, works meaning no crash.
now to update my sig with 1.7.0 [wink emoticon]
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I didn't know this was possible, thank you for finding this out and solving it for me. [smiley-face emoticon]
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I didn't know that was a keyboard shortcut (Thanks for that bit of info) but It does work okay here. I am using a MacBook so the only "enter" key I have is the "return" key. Are you using an extended keyboard?
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I would say the short answer is Aammppaa's longer answer.
My longer answer is download the beta and give it a whirl. Most of what you want to be able to do is present in the beta. I doubt you can do the Outline nor Headers/Footers either but I'm confident they will come.
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2 hours ago, Aammppaa said:
Already possible…
- 3 Pages.
- Apply one Master.
- Inset different image and text in to each page.
- Rearrange text and image frames on Master.
- All pages update to new layout.
How?
- Unlock the Master layer on each page.
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Toggle sync in the Symbols panel.
- Sync off when working on Pages. <------ WOW!
- Sync on when working on the Master.
Um, wow.
Thanks. Thanks a bunch.
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I am not getting this here, very odd behaviour. I'll try again later to replicate it.
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7 hours ago, Seneca said:
Of course the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to have styles.
You define styles for your document and then simply update your styles with the fonts you need.
6 hours ago, vonBusing said:Thanks @Seneca for the suggestions. Using styles properly is, of course, the most elegant way. But Text>Find was a powerful tool I had not tried before, and it did the job pretty well.
Thanks to Seneca and vonBusing for the tip about using the Find and Replace panel/pane to find specific fonts by calling up the Format window/panel/pane (from the Gear icon on the right of "Find" and "Replace"). I noticed that there is a Missing Font in the list of fonts in there. I don't have a document with missing fonts "in" it so I can't test it. Sorry.
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I set up a Paragraph Style setting only the Font (Adobe Caslon Pro) and a three line Drop Cap. Three different results.
All of them are the same style, the top is with nothing done, the second is with an option-space between the "T" and the "h" and the third is done with option-right-arrow between the "T" and the "h". Note the second "Th" ligature in all three.I too am not smart enough to know how to fix the problem, you seem to be streets ahead of me though. [smiley-face emoticon]
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I too used Ventura back in the DOS days, can't recall much detail about it though. I don't miss monochrome monitors and slow machines.
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I have similar experience with APub.
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Sometimes after quitting the program a crash report will be generated. Sometimes the program will crash if I quit without saving the document I have open.
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2 hours ago, ONSO said:
WOW! Just found your post — Im experiencing the same. I select a body of filler copy — then I goto Text > Expand, as soon as I hover of the word "Expand" aPub quits. I re-restart, attempt again & the same result.
v/r
Same thing here, real spooky. I found the Preferences pane for "General" has a tick box for 'Insert filler text as text'. So do that until they fix this.
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It sort of works for me. I can get the numbers to increase using the arrow keys and with the arrow keys and the shift for larger increases. The fun starts when decreasing the inset. The down arrow key stops at .07, .14, .28 and .56 then if I try to increase it will only go up by 0.01 and gets stuck. Shift and up or down arrow key will kick the value up or down to the nearer tenth. Oh and tabbing from one field to the next doesn't work, you just exit the field.
Plus the fields for the Columns section are as you describe.
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Turning off "Standard Ligatures" in the first style did it. Thanks all. Not a bug after all.
Also just use the "option right arrow" key combo to loosen the letters while the ligatures are on. That would be better for the edge cases.
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Here is a very specific killer bug, Drop Cap won't work with a particular letter combonation with certain fonts. The "T" in "The" stays normal but the "H" in "Here" will have the drop cap applied.
I made a style based on 'no style' I changed the font-face, weight, height, leading, first line indented to 10 mm and justification (full with last line left). I called it "Bulk Text" then I made a second font and called it "Drop Cap" based on "Bulk Text". I changed the first line indented to zero mm and set the drop cap to three lines. Worked fine unless I used an Open Type Font from Adobe. Most of them were okay. The "T" would not become a drop cap if it was before an "h" as in The, This, That, There Thursday etc. All other letter combonations worked a treat with any and all fonts. Okay I didn't check ALL possible combos I'd still be working on checking if I tried that.
Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro and Adobe Jenson Pro are the ones I noticed it most with. -
I kept meaning to getting around to organizing the styles but never did yet. Now that I've tried to I realize we can't, this is a feature I would love to see in the final version.
So this is seconded.
As to say how they influence each other, the short answer is that it depends on the job and how you work. For long form stuff like books I like to work with plain text and import it then apply predefined styles to the paragraphs. For a leaflet or poster I just choose fonts sizes etc and don't use styles at all.
Basically if you are going to use a font with leading, size, weight, justification, spacing etc etc more than just once I would suggest that you make a style, then if you make a couple of variations of it later on make a style based on the original and just make the little changes to that second style.
Text Styles is just a pallet/panel/pane which holds the Paragraph Styles and the Character Styles in one place and it is the place where you make new ones. It is covered quickly in the tutorial videos and I think we still have some bugs in it. I just haven't been able to figure out whether or not the behaviour are bugs yet.
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I would think this is a solved problem, I am intrigued. Just so I am straight on this what you want is something like the second image from the text in the third image? I assume you arranged that with tabs or spaces. It should be doable, I shall apply my powerful brain to the problem, don't hold your breath though.
How to Uninstall & Delete All Prefs?
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I am running Sierra and what I do is double click the Affinity Publisher icon and immediately hold down the control key until the ‘Clear User Data’ dialog appears.