[Serious issue with drop caps]

Has this bug been fixed yet?

[Support Colour Fonts]

Colour fonts work in web browsers. How hard can it be to implement?

Anyone who wants to test this can find some coloured fonts on my website. 

Odana is an example with multi-coloured glyphs.

If I remember rightly, they use the COLR format, not SVG. 

[Intelligent Ligature Settings]

I downloaded the Linux font pack from Source Forge. 

I did not find a Linux Biolinum Caps font

The Linux Libertine Initials font contains small capitals, but no lowercase. I got the desired result by applying small capitals to Linux Biolinum and using Linux Libertine lowercase with Linux Libertine Initials. I use PagePlus X9, but Publisher would do the same. 

 

[Serious issue with drop caps]

The issue has been logged.

[Importing Downloaded/Google Fonts]

All installed fonts are available to Affinity Publisher. There is no need for it to do anything to make them available. What you need to do is download and install them.

I presume that MacOS is no different to Windows regarding this. 

[Open office publisher (.pub) files]

I see. I was not aware that the program was called Office Publisher. I thought it was called Microsoft Publisher. 

[Open office publisher (.pub) files]

On 3/20/2019 at 10:19 PM, coasterdude said:

It would be great if you could open office publisher (.pub) files.

What is an Open Office publisher file? Do you mean an OpenOffice *.odt document or a MS Publisher file? 

[Paragraph Styles]

Is this font really so important to your work that you cannot find a better one? 

Find and Replace might be used to select the punctuation and apply a character style, a different point size, or a different font, but this kludge will surely cause problems. 

[Super/Subcript position]

3 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

Could you name me one or two fonts that have these typographical option?  

My free fonts have superscripts and subscripts.

• Superscripts are aligned with top of Cap Height
• Subscripts are aligned with the baseline
• Scientific inferiors bisect the baseline 

[Drop Capitals Misaligned]

Clearly a bug in Affinity Publisher. CapHeight is a metric that is known and line-spacing is known for any font.

The Drop Capital size is incorrectly calculated.

[Margins not respected for flowed pages]

Viewing the master pages and changing the margins there fixed the problem. I was somewhat surprised to see that the master page was still set to A4, after I hand changed the page to A5. 

This could be made more user-friendly, e.g. a checkbox to change spreads for master pages when changing them for the page. 

[Forms: Feature to fill in symbols (eg. underscores) to end of line]

Just set another ordinary left aligned tab stop

Type Name, Tab, Tab, Type Next name, Tab, Tab

Type Anschrift, Tab, Tab Type Anschrift, Tab, Tab

Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab for the third line with just empty lines. 

[Margins not respected for flowed pages]

I changed it for the All spreads (but it's only a one page document).   

[Forms: Feature to fill in symbols (eg. underscores) to end of line]

The proper way  to do this is to set a dot leader tab, not by using underscores. 

[Margins not respected for flowed pages]

I changed the default margins for the attached publication to 0.5"

Flowing the story with Shift+Click on the link icon flows it to 126 pages, but the margins are not carried over. 

Dependent Origination.afpub

[Excesive document size]

I see no change after using Save as. I do see a huge difference between before and after flowing the story to 126 pages.

1 page = 172 Kbytes

126 pages = 14.41 Mbytes

[Accessibility Issues]

Yes, I am using the latest beta. Try with the light interface, and you will see what the problem is. Pressing Tab does not highlight the next field for input. 

[Accessibility Issues]

When setting margins in the spread setup dialogue, the Tab key does not navigate between fields. 

[Very Poor Contrast on Startup Assistant]

The text on the startup screen “Show this panel on startup,” is now fine.

The About Affinity Publisher splash screen text is unchanged. 

[Drop Capitals Misaligned]

In Affinity Publisher, the top of CapHeight of the Drop Capital is below the top of CapHeight of the Initial Word in All Caps.

In PagePlus X9 the alignment is just about spot-on. 

[Letter/Glyph Tracking/Spacing and invisible signs]

Why not simply point out that Affinity Designer uses per mille instead of percent? That clarifies without being a sarcastic PITA. 

[Letter/Glyph Tracking/Spacing and invisible signs]

I don't understand what your problem is with always fault-finding. In PagePlus 1% condensed = -8% of tightening in Affinity Designer. 

Maybe that would be -10% if the frames were exactly the same width. I did not measure it, I just resized it to get the same line breaks.

[Letter/Glyph Tracking/Spacing and invisible signs]

Affinity Designer seems to use a different measuring system. I am not sure I am comparing like with like, but I can get the desired result with -8.0% of tightening. 

[Letter/Glyph Tracking/Spacing and invisible signs]

Agreed. The current steps are far too large. 

In PagePlus X9, the default stop is 1% for Alt+Left, and 0.1% for Ctrl+Alt+Left. 

I frequently use the latter for fine control applying it to the entire paragraph to prevent widows and orphans. Any negative kern value exceeding -3% is too tight, and should be avoided as far as possible. Often, I can reduce a paragraph by one line with just 0.1-0.5% of negative kerning. 

Default Spacing

1% Condensed

3% Condensed (Too tight)

[Drag Guides]

I see the double-headed arrow cursor as soon as I click on the ruler.

If I hold down Alt then click the horizontal ruler, a vertical guide is created at once.