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Dan, Walt, Seneca et al, Thanks for your patience. I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK!!! OMG! The problem appears to have been my not understanding that it is necessary to hold down "shift" while clicking the "place" tool. Thank you for clarifying that. I've tried it multiple times now and both pages flow in as desired! Such a tiny thing turned out to be the linchpin of the entire operation. Thanks again to everyone. Until next time... lettergothic

Return, Thanks for responding. "Auto flow is only maintained when using an afpub file where you already had autoflow applied." So, does this mean that when I set up my 2 pg,. APub test doc. I can create it as an "auto-flow" document so that auto-flow will be enabled? Thanks, l'gothic

Thanks, Return. So, there's no auto-flow of an imported, multi-page doc; you have to click to get each page? The Autoflow youtube vid. that Walt sent in response to my first post shows a 20(?) image sequence flowing into a document automatically. Of course, I couldn't get that to work either . . . Thanks, l'gothic

"You did not expand the top bar, above the page that is displayed, in the Place panel." This is the first I've heard of this! Others have just said to click the dropdown triangle. How do I "expand" the top bar?! Thanks, l'gothic

Walt, Thanks for responding. Well. Since I always had page selected, I had never seen the "Place Panel"! I made sure everything was deselected. Using the "place" tool, I shift-selected the file, clicked "open" and got the "place" panel! In the panel, the dropdown showed Page 1 and clicking the arrow shows pg. 2. I can't shift-select both son I chose p.1, hovered the "place cursor" over pg.1 on the 2 pg. doc. and clicked. Pg.1 of the file appeared in pg. 1 of the doc. and pg. 2 was blank—no flowing of pg.2 into my doc. lettergothic

Return, Thanks for responding. I'm afraid that I don't understand your advice. :-/ Are you saying that: after creating a 2-pg. doc. in APub, I should go to the Layers Panel, duplicate pg.1 and select the duplicated page and then use use the Place Image tool to shift-select the target file and click "open"?? lettergothic

Hi Dan, Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, selecting the "Place Image" tool, holding "Shift", selecting the file and clicking "Open" results in exactly the same outcome as shown in my screen recording: the "Place Panel" shows two pages (selected) with page 1 in the page 2 position and no page 2 content —ditto the APub doc. I'd do another screen recording but it would be identical to the one that I posted. To reiterate, I'm using a Macbook Pro M2 running Ventura 13.3.

Okay. I've tried every way from Sunday to get this to work . . . and I can't. So, as requested here's a screen recording of the process. It's my first time screen recording so please excuse the jerkiness/hesitation. The test file is a 2 page PDF of a client LOA. Thanks, lettergothic Screen Recording 2023-10-12 at 5.51.27 PM.mov

Walt, "you mentioned that the pages appear in the Pages panel. That should be the Place Images panel, instead" Yes, I misspoke. I meant the Place Images panel. I hope that slight error didn't affect your conclusions. I guess I could try a screen recording but using those steps derived from your vid. and Dan's, it would just record it not working. Still, in any case, it's not working for me for some reason . . . Thanks for responding. lettergothic

Hi Dan, Thanks for responding. Thanks for the vid. This is incredibly frustrating for me. I've used Quark, Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, profesionally, for 30 years but Affinity continually confounds me. I watched your vid. multiple times. As you point out, it follows the the same steps as the "autoflow" vid. that Walt referenced. I carefully followed the steps in your vid., as I did w/the "autoflow" vid. I've worked on this all afternoon, trying various permutations, one after another, to get it to work and it will only place pg.1 of my 2 pg., PDF test doc. Setting up the doc. as facing pgs. or vertical pages doesn't make any diff. I've ticked Master Pages on and off & it makes no difference. Is there some other setting in "pg. setup" that could be causing this to not work? All the settings seem normal and correct to me. Again, I'm using Apub. 2.1 on an M2 Macbook Pro with Ventura 13.3. 1. I create a 2 pg. doc. in Pub. and draw a picture frame over each pg. 2. I click the "Place" tool, navigate to my test file (a 2 pg. LOA PDF for a past client) and click "open". (I've tried other PDFs as well and the result is the same—1 pg. only.) 3. Pg.1 & pg.2, with little pictures of each page, appear in the pages panel. 4. In the panel, I shift-select both pages 5. I move the loaded, "place image" cursor over pg.1 of the empty, 2 pg. APub. document and click once. Pg. 1 of the PDF is placed onto/into pg. 2 of the Pub. doc.(!?) Page 2 of the PDF does not appear on the remaining, blank pg. (pg.1 of the Pub. doc.) and has disappeared from the pages panel as well. I can't get it to place more than 1 page of any 2 pg. PDF doc. I can't find any other videos on this and trying to follow the directions in the APub help file doesn't help. Thanks for helping. I appreciate it. lettergothic

Walt, Thanks for responding. "Which version of Publisher do you have, and what OS do you use?" AfPub. 2.1. MacBook Pro M2 ; MacOs 13.3 Ventura Again, thanks for sending the video. I watched it several times and wrote down the steps that he followed. It still didn't work. It only imported page 1 of my 2-page test PDF document. I have many 30–40 pg PDFs that I need to get transferred. 1. I prepared a 2 pg doc. in APub. with the layout set to vertical and with an image frame over each pg. 2. Using the Place Image tool, I located the test file. He says "select auto-flow and click open". I didn't see any "auto-flow" option in the finder file window so, I clicked "open". 3. Two pgs. frames appeared in the "place images" panel BUT only pg. 1 of my 2-pg. test doc was shown in the pg.2 position in the "place images" panel. 4. I selected both pages in the "place images" panel and single-clicked in "receiver frame" 1, as the vid. said to do. 5. As stated above, this operation placed only pg.1 in the pg.2 frame of the receiver document. So, following the video's as closely as I could, it didn't work. Please tell me how to get this to work . . . Thanks, lettergothic

Thanks, Dan. Unfortunately, I can only get it to work with single-page PDFs. I have multi-page contract PDFs and 30 page PDF slide shows to bring into Affinity. I set up a four page document in Publisher, thinking that it would then have 4 "containers" to fill and "placed" a 4 pg. PDF contract. It only placed page one! How do I get this to work?! Thanks, lettergothic

When I import a PDF with embedded fonts—the same PDF that I would/do send as a print job document to a commercial, offset printer—into Affinity, the document fonts are stripped out of the PDF and other fonts are substituted. This problem is eliminated, of course, when the font/s in question are resident in the Affinity app but this defeats the whole purpose that the PDF—Portable Document Format—exists: to maintain document integrity when viewed/used by a reader (or commercial printer) who does not have the authoring app or typefaces contained in the document. When I d'load a PDF doc. from the web, it doesn't make any difference if I don't have the typefaces or images used in that document—the document integrity is maintained. My commercial, offset printers that I use have no trouble opening and printing complex documents that I send to them as PDFs. The Preview app, on the Mac, seems to be able to interpret PDFs correctly. So, how about adding PDF fidelity to imported PDF's with embedded/subset fonts? I have a lot of PDFs, originally authored in InDesign and Quark, that I want to move from my Intel Macbook Pro to my M2 Macbook Pro AND, at the same time, open and export them into (my new) Affinity ecosystem. 🙂 PS: Can I open PPT presentations—with total fidelity—in Affinity and resave them as PDFs from Affinity? Thanks, lettergothic

Walt; Tomaso; RC-R, Thanks all for responding. I'm trying to attach a screenshot of the APub window with the resource window overlay showing that when a document object line is highlighted in the Resource window, the name at the bottom of the screen shows just the document name, not the object name. Unfortunately, nothing happens when I press SHIFT-COMM-3 or SHIFT-COMM-4—no screen grab is produced. When I open the Grab app—which is my usual screenshot solution—the Resource Window overlaying the Pub. window disappears. So, I don't know of any way to grab the Resource Window to show it to you. Obviously, R C-R does . . . 😕 What's the solution? Thanks, lettergothic

Thanks for responding, Walt. I had found "Resource Manager" prior to posting but I didn't/don't see any file path info or how to invoke same. In fact, all it shows is the Document name, not even the names & info of each file on each page—which is what I want. Thanks, lettergothic