MickRose

Have a look at the Flow Options section in the Paragraph panel. If the "Keep with next" is set to zero the problem seems to go away. If the "Keep with next" has a non-zero value then ticking the bottom 3 boxes also makes the problem go away. I agree that you should be able to select text regardless of these settings but at least the present arrangement shows the user something isn't quite right and maybe that in itself is a good thing.

Publisher Layers can have a Tag Colour, Publisher images can have a Tag. That's not a great user interface. I'd suggest renaming Tag Colour as Layer Colour in the Layers panel. It probably won't happen because Serif has always called Objects as Layers so that would confuse things. Or maybe Layer Marker instead of Tag Colour.

@Giorgia Just re-reading the printers comments, their 150% limited applies to text - presumably that is because of the thin lines in some fonts - particularly at small sizes. I'm not convinced you can make a dark green with that limit. Or a rich red or many other intense colours. Having said that I would say that using digital printers can be problematic with some spidery fonts because of the resolution of the machines.

I find it hard to believe that their maximum coverage is 150% though I don't know what machine they use for printing the wedding menus. On most paper/cards the maximum would be nearer 250 or 300. I wonder if you chose a stock that was very delicate and couldn't take much ink. Also, it is not good if some sheets were okay and others were not.

To me, it's partly the existence of this forum which has engendered a sort of loyalty to Serif in it's attempt to make decent and cheap software in a market dominated by Adobe. Big companies have bought small companies since companies existed and I have no ill feeling towards Serif for allowing itself to be bought out. I can see why they think it's a good thing for them (not just the money) and only time will tell if it turns out to be a good thing or not for it's customers. Presumably at some point a super-duper subscription only version will come out and users will have to make their own minds up about that. Thanks for the ride.

You need to make sure that when you select the placed PDF, the PageBox setting is set to BleedBox.

I'd like to be able to convert multiline paragraph or art text to separate lines of paragraph text or art text, while keeping the position of the text.

Hi @waterworks draw 2 overlapping circles of different diameters, then geometry subtract, convert to text frame. I don't know what the "form tool" is.

Hi @FelixKThe cropped page size (using Acrobat Pro) is 145.04 x 211.08. I am surprised version 1 was better than version 2. If you still have version 1 you could always export as PDF and then import into version 1. You could even try reducing the size of your AD file to 210.94 (or similar).

The text frame is locked. Select it with the Layers panel - then unlock it with the shortcut Ctrl Shift L or use the mouse). Maybe you selected the object and then used a shortcut (Ctr L) by mistake.

If I was using a large format printer I would always make a PDF first and then print from Acrobat or InDesign. I would do that with any software. You don't want to be printing for several minutes and then have something go wrong. Just my opinion.

The Data Merge Layout Tool is worth looking at for Step & Repeat. A file is attached here. It's a bit clunky but maybe Serif could tweak the code a bit and have it as a separate Step & Repeat feature. I agree that the InDesign Step & Repeat command is very useful but the Affinity one has the potential to be much better - i.e. live rather than static. Data Merge Layout Tool.afpub

Hi @Noah 79585 It's easy enough to do not using a table. I've attached a file. Not a table.afpub

The problem with the linking text frames method is that you lose the look of the original content because all the spacing between the frames gets lost. A nicer way might be to export the selected text frames as a PDF and then open that PDF with "Group lines of text into text frames" selected. Then copy the required text frame back into the original document.

I agree that the Styles panel is half baked. Tagging objects with a colour in the Layers panel can be useful because you can then select all objects with the same colour and change fill, outline, insets etc.