jrkay
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Thanks for that Dave, I like the new paragraph flow options and I can work happily with them.
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To Zorica, PeteV and Merde, I feel that most of our contributors have shown a great deal of patience and forbearance with you and all your negative comments. I have been following serif forums from the earliest version (1), and I have always found the contributors courteous and helpful at all times. The situation has been explained to you correctly and I implore you to have the grace to accept what has been said. I cannot see how any of your remarks can be interpreted as helpful on this forum.
In Friendship
John Kay
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To select text in a text frame you have to have selected the text tool, it won't automatically change to a text tool as it does in PPlus, I have asked elsewhere if this could be perhaps changed as I feel that the PP default is better.
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I'm quite happy with adding columns for overflow text.
In PPlus I sometimes need to move a subtitle from the bottom of a column to the top of the next one where it is above the paragraph it refers to. I click on the frame margin to change it to a solid one and using the white arrow which appears I reduce the size of the column until I the title moves to the top of the next one to leave a dotted line where the column now finishes.
Can I do something similar in Publisher?
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I think the way it stands at the moment it is expected that you insert an asset type file (afassets). If you create a new asset category you can CTRL V any picture file into it.
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But you have to have the necessary icon available and the possibility of allocating a keyboard shortcut to it before you can add it to a toolbar it would be also good to be able to create a new toolbar.
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I've tried that and even with all pages chosen it still produces a spread PDF.
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Perhaps the ability to customise all keyboard shortcuts with buttons on a custom toolbar like PP.
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Yes mac_heibu is right I always export to PDFs with single pages, all printers insist upon it and it is the default output for PPlus.
I certainly need to know how to do that in Pub please.
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The reinstall went very well, I feel that a restart before installing a program is a good measure to stick to. I usually do, perhaps I could suggest that a little advisory box comes up when an Affinity program has been running suggesting that the same procedure is followed to avoid difficulties.
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I'd like to add that I find it unusual and rather inconvenient to find , that unlike PP which automatically adjusts to the "insert text cursor" when in a text box you have to change to the text tool before you can insert a page number. I don't feel this is an improvement.
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I'm having a lot of trouble with master layers and pages. If I change the setup of the master layer I can't always rely on these automatically transferring to the pages. Often the right click on the pages has the "clear masters" option greyed out. and the pages seem to have old settings of the masters also included. I feel that I need to have a little more tuition in master page handling.
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Having installed pub beta on my PC and been on the forum to join in the discussions I found the reference to an upgrade to Affinity Photo. Good I said, I restarted my computer to be on the safe side and after I was back to windows I tried to start Affinity Photo and it refused to start. Don't know why. Next job deinstall it and try to to reinstall it,
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I agree, I use Write in PP all the time with fonts styles showing, not only to edit comfortably as has been said before but also to see what formatting has been applied to the text but furthemore with the useful ability to export text or a selection of text to either a txt file or even more useful, a RTF one.
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I notice that if I save a publication and come out of Pub, when I go in again I find I have to reallocated the master to all the pages before the numbers show up on the pages again.
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In PagePlus it's possible to allocate rows and column guides within the area bounded by the margins, I have found this way of dividing the space very useful in designing the page.
May we look forward to something similar within the Guides Manager?
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I think that this is an improvement on PagePlus. If you haven't got an italic font loaded in your Fonts file it blanks out the option, this saves all the hassle of having the text shown as a problem when you send a document to PDF.
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Downloaded Publisher with no problems at all. I can see that I'm going to love using it.
I appreciated the zoom ability to select a chosen area and enlarge it. I did find though that pressing CTRL+8 to retrieve the full document brought me back to position halfway between page 4 and page 5. Using these options quickly and carelessly I managed to engineer a full crash out of Windows.
I particularly like the way that in PagePlus uses icons for Full Page and Page Width, I use both of these frequently in editing and I was a little disappointed to find that these weren't included in the customise toolbar icons, however I think I could get used to using the mouse wheel to zoom.
Although I set the margins of my document to half an inch all round they showed at first but they couldn't be relied upon to show afterwards even though they were ticked in the View as "show margins".
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I have used a wacom tablet successfully for many years now in Pageplus and Photoplus. They give me just the right amount of control. Now I am making good progress in Affinity Photo and gradually learning to do the same tasks as I previously did in Photoplus.
This may be due to me remaining with Windows 7 64bit and it possibly is due to other causes but I do have the inconvenience of having the stylus failing to work properly in the new application and I have to resort to the use of the mouse for selections and to make choices from the menus.
I would be interested to learn if anyone else has had a similar result with a tablet stylus.
John
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I have got used to the replicate and the align options on PagePlus X9 to produce a set of similar objects (for instance rectangles) replicating them and lining them up with the same gap between them. I find this easy to do without necessarily using layers. I am having a lot of difficulty managing the same action in Designer which doesn't seem as easy.
Can anyone help please?
John
Export spreads vs pages
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Yes happily it did work on my next using it, thank goodness. It feels strange being back to newbie status in so many things but I do love this program, already it has so many good things in it.