dominik
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23 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Looks like Windows is missing some options that Mac has in that dialog:
Hi @walt.farrell,
most likely you are right. It must be due to a difference between Mac and Windows.
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Thanks for the screenshot. I do not see this. I'll have to check my update.
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3 minutes ago, fde101 said:
A new version of the beta was just released today and it was added to the new version - it is not on auto-update yet, you need to manually download from the link in the announcement thread.
In the new version, it is immediately below the "Show grid" checkbox.
Hi @fde101,
thanks for the quick reply. I am on the latest version already.
Below the 'Show Grid' checkbox I see 'Use automatic grid'. I am confused.
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11 minutes ago, janndk said:
...but how to get rid of it again?
You can see the path to the document by hovering your mouse over the Tab at the top. It displays the filename (sorry, no screenshot).
In my system it is 'C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\1.0 (Beta)\Samples'
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58 minutes ago, fde101 said:
enable "Show axis editing handles" in the Grid and Axis manager
Hi @fde101,
where exactly do you find this option? I just can't see it.
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55 minutes ago, taizo said:
When you try to set up a list in Publisher, there doesn't seem to be any way to set the formatting
Hello @taizo,
you have to asign a text style to the list first (or create a new one from that as a starting point).
Then you double click on the text style in the 'Text Styles' panel and there you click in the left list on 'Bullets and Numbering'.
In the field 'Tabstop' you can adjust the space between the bullet and the text. And many other settings, too.d.
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27 minutes ago, AdamW said:
- Column Guides (Grid Guides) for master spreads and spreads have been added
Among the huge amount of fixes this is very good news
Keep up the good work!
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On 10/29/2018 at 10:10 AM, Chris B said:
You can easily reproduce the message by disconnecting from the internet as the sample downloads. Would you be able to try again once you get a new build and let me know if it still happens?
Hi @Chris B,
I'm now on APub beta .157 and tried this again.
The message box pops up in front of the welcome message if I had disconnected from the internet before I click on download.
I did not get a message box at all when I disconnect after the download has started. It just stops. I waited for about 30 seconds to see if there is some kind of timeout.
Interesting also: after I connected to the internet again the download did not continue.d.
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11 hours ago, LibreTraining said:
Well two days and I still get "Unable to connect to the remote server."
In the meantime I have been able to download the sample file at a regular speed.
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1 hour ago, A_B_C said:
This is definitely a problem with the Channel Mixer Adjustment. As soon as you disable it in your embedded Photo file, your Publisher document will export just fine. And when you re-import the PDF to Publisher, you will see that the PDF exporter has generated an additional image on top of the existing one.
This is what I have found out, too. But why is the channel mixer adjustment limited to this area? I did not find any dimensions of this particular layer.
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8 hours ago, Mr. K said:
Look at the top right side, plus the color is all messed up.
This looks strange. I think someone from Serif has to look into this.
Cheers,
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On 10/29/2018 at 11:22 PM, declan_j_m said:
I still don't see why the wand tool couldn't go alongside the selection brush tool as they do very similar jobs.
Yes it could. But I think they decided not to do it (for now) because they want to be AD different from APh.
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15 minutes ago, Mr. K said:
I will do more testing. I attached my file here if you can find another reason other than that the image is a AFPhoto file. Yikes... It's 57mb!Thrifty Cabinets Three-Drawer Dresser Plan.afpub
Hi @Mr. K,
57MB but not problem to download.
I could not find an object in your file that is causing the rectangle.
I exported to 'PDF (for print)' and the result showed the same thing as in your first post.
I notice that you are using a channel mixer layer in the APh file. When this is turned off it shows almost the difference in colour as in the output. I assume this layer has a partial mask that does not cover the entire picture of the drawer.
For a test I deactivated the channel mixer layer and exported againg. There is a visible difference but the rectangle is still there.
Where from do you have the APh image? Can you look into it and see if there is a mask on the channel mixer layer?
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54 minutes ago, Mr. K said:
Hi @Mr. K,
it would be good to have the APub file, too. Then we could look if something is in there.
If I open 1.pdf in APub I find a rectangle shaped image in the area of the light area that is grouped with the image of the furniture.
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11 minutes ago, Nina Ghanbarzadeh said:
Is Affinity Publisher for Desktop is like InDesign? I've been using Adobe Suite for the past decade and I am wondering how different your softwares are?
Hello @Nina Ghanbarzadeh,
wellcome to the forum.
InDesign is a program that was developed over several years by now. Affinity Publisher is currently in the beta state of its first release ever. This means there are big differences in the feature set of APub compared to InDesign.
Both programs are made to layout and publish documents for print. And APub is already quite capable.
I want to suggest two things. 1) read a little in this forum, especially the fixed topics at the top. There you will find some of the features that are still missing. And 2) go and download the public beta version from here. Then you can find out yourself how well APub works for your needs
Cheers,
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On 10/28/2018 at 12:53 PM, Grauzorn said:
This is just a minor complain, but do you guys have the same issue with scrolling the pages menu and scrolling in general.
It is just super slow(like 1 line at a time in terms of win 10 mouse settings). Not even my mouse settings changed it and I cant find any setting in publisher either if there is any that is.
When you have several pages in work and gotta navigate the slow speed gets really annyoing
Am I the only one?
Hi @Grauzorn,
for some reason you posted in the Affinity Designer forum
Maybe you should post again in the Affinity Publisher forum over there.
BTW, I have no problems scrolling in the pages panel or anywhere else.Cheers,
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4 hours ago, declan_j_m said:
I just thought as Designer has a pixel persona and a 'selection brush tool', it wouldn't be unreasonable to also have the magic wand as an option, even if not as part of the default toolbox.
I think this is one way of Affinity to distinguish the different programs. Photo has a more elaborate toolset for pixels, while Designer has more of them for the vector. I constantly switch from one app to the other for certain purposes. It did not take long to get used to that workflow.
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8 hours ago, declan_j_m said:
I'm looking at alternatives to Photoshop as it's very expensive and have enjoyed using Designer during the trial period, but have realised how often I used to use the 'magic wand' tool or the 'flood select' tool and am getting frustrated trying to select particular objects as it isn't available in Affinity Designer.
Even if it wasn't in the default toolbox and you had to add it for yourself, I think it would be a good idea to put it there for anyone else who may need it as I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Hello @declan_j_m,
welcome to the forum.
Are you aware that Affinity Designer is a vector drawing program and as that not an alternative to Photoshop, which mainly works with pixels.
You might look into Affinity Photo instead. It does have various pixel selection tools, including a 'magic wand'.
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2 hours ago, Panchdara said:
Hi Dominik. I just tried this and the download worked absolutely fine for me.
Win 10, AP 1.7.0.145
Hardware: Vaio laptop i7, 16gbHi @Panchdara,
I'm not so much worried about the download itself. I will try that later again.
I posted this here in the bugs forum because of the hidden error message, as @αℓƒяє∂ allready pointed out. It may be a minor bug but certainly worth fixing it
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Cheers,
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I tried to download the APub sample file 'Affinity Brochure' from the welcome screen > 'View samples'. This took very long and after I did not see any result after hours I closed this window. There I discovered a pop up message (see attachment). I think this message should show in front of the 'View samples' window instead behind it
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So I let it sit for a couple of hours with no success. After closing the welcome a.k.a. download window I discovered the following error message. It obviously pop up behind this window!
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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
it took under a minute.
Thank you, that's what I would expect here, as well. Maybe not that quick but less than five minutes.
Just for a test I downloaded a 600 MB file and it took about two minutes.
At least the progress circle does progress
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'Show axis editing handles' missing on Windows
in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on Windows threads
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As brought up in this thread it seems that an option in the 'Grid and Snapping Axis' manager is missing in the Windows version of APub: 'Show axis editing handles'
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