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    E9B6 got a reaction from walt.farrell in Dictionary   
    Thank you, I have found it and transferred to new pc.
    what a hunt.......
     
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    E9B6 got a reaction from PaulEC in CURIOUS PRICING   
    If I buy from Jersey Serif pocket an additional £15 which is not warranted.
     
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    E9B6 got a reaction from emmrecs01 in CURIOUS PRICING   
    If I buy from Jersey Serif pocket an additional £15 which is not warranted.
     
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Jenna Appleseed in PagePlus ppp any way to import or convert for use in Affinity Publisher   
    I was also a user from Version 1 pf PP. I had an awful lot of PP files, including a 332 page book, many newsletters, flyers, you name it.
    PDF worked in some cases but often it did not, and the text produced was a mix of frame text and artistic text, not what I wanted.
    So where a lot of text is involved, set up a new document in pub, open the old one in PP and copy and paste the actual text across. This preserves the formatting. Much more accurate.
    I too was cross at not being able to open PP files in Pub, but having spent a weekend or so converting,the files across, it was well worth it.
    PP was good, but PUB is excellent. The data merge is so much better and being able to open the document and work on it in designer and photo without leaving the document is magic.
    I am totally converted like all my files. Worth persevering with this because everything is so much easier, and there are so many more things you can do in Pub.
    I sign myself off as a very happy Pub user. And I keep PP on my system in case I need to go back to the old files/
     
    CRG
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Archangel in PagePlus ppp any way to import or convert for use in Affinity Publisher   
    I was also a user from Version 1 pf PP. I had an awful lot of PP files, including a 332 page book, many newsletters, flyers, you name it.
    PDF worked in some cases but often it did not, and the text produced was a mix of frame text and artistic text, not what I wanted.
    So where a lot of text is involved, set up a new document in pub, open the old one in PP and copy and paste the actual text across. This preserves the formatting. Much more accurate.
    I too was cross at not being able to open PP files in Pub, but having spent a weekend or so converting,the files across, it was well worth it.
    PP was good, but PUB is excellent. The data merge is so much better and being able to open the document and work on it in designer and photo without leaving the document is magic.
    I am totally converted like all my files. Worth persevering with this because everything is so much easier, and there are so many more things you can do in Pub.
    I sign myself off as a very happy Pub user. And I keep PP on my system in case I need to go back to the old files/
     
    CRG
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    E9B6 got a reaction from emmrecs01 in PagePlus ppp any way to import or convert for use in Affinity Publisher   
    I was also a user from Version 1 pf PP. I had an awful lot of PP files, including a 332 page book, many newsletters, flyers, you name it.
    PDF worked in some cases but often it did not, and the text produced was a mix of frame text and artistic text, not what I wanted.
    So where a lot of text is involved, set up a new document in pub, open the old one in PP and copy and paste the actual text across. This preserves the formatting. Much more accurate.
    I too was cross at not being able to open PP files in Pub, but having spent a weekend or so converting,the files across, it was well worth it.
    PP was good, but PUB is excellent. The data merge is so much better and being able to open the document and work on it in designer and photo without leaving the document is magic.
    I am totally converted like all my files. Worth persevering with this because everything is so much easier, and there are so many more things you can do in Pub.
    I sign myself off as a very happy Pub user. And I keep PP on my system in case I need to go back to the old files/
     
    CRG
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    E9B6 got a reaction from PaulEC in PagePlus ppp any way to import or convert for use in Affinity Publisher   
    I was also a user from Version 1 pf PP. I had an awful lot of PP files, including a 332 page book, many newsletters, flyers, you name it.
    PDF worked in some cases but often it did not, and the text produced was a mix of frame text and artistic text, not what I wanted.
    So where a lot of text is involved, set up a new document in pub, open the old one in PP and copy and paste the actual text across. This preserves the formatting. Much more accurate.
    I too was cross at not being able to open PP files in Pub, but having spent a weekend or so converting,the files across, it was well worth it.
    PP was good, but PUB is excellent. The data merge is so much better and being able to open the document and work on it in designer and photo without leaving the document is magic.
    I am totally converted like all my files. Worth persevering with this because everything is so much easier, and there are so many more things you can do in Pub.
    I sign myself off as a very happy Pub user. And I keep PP on my system in case I need to go back to the old files/
     
    CRG
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Joachim_L in Pink outlines   
    That is what is was. I would never have found that on my own.,
    Thanks for the help.
    It just shows how much is in the program, which the novice has no concept
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Affitoom in Feature Request: Custom Font Categories   
    I would echo this request. If I want say a script, I have to search through all fonts to find the scripts, because they will not all be recent or favourites etc.
    How great to be able to set a folder, and name it "script", then add all the script fonts to it, same for serif, sans serif, design etc etc
    Please Serif, place this in the to do list
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    E9B6 got a reaction from kenmcd in Missing Fonts   
    Thank you Libretraining for your full explanation. Nearly all the fonts I have came with earlier editions of Page Plus etc and from font packs supplied by them.
    Based on your response, I used Printers Apprentice to view all the fonts. About 30 or so came up blank. I set to uninstall them and got a message saying that it couldn't be done.
    But immediately the font became visible, so the action I took must have reset the font cache.
    After reloading Designer and |Publisher, the missing fonts all reappeared.
    So many thanks for pointing me in the right direction
     
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Alfred in Missing Fonts   
    Weirder and weirder said Alice.
    The design opened OK and said that the font was present.
    Publisher still refused.
    So I saved the package in Designer, then reloaded the font from the package.
    It said font present - do you want to replace it, answered yes and installed.
    Went to Publisher which bythen was behaving.
    There must be a weird bug in there somewhere.
    But ALFRED, I must say a sincere thanks to you - you have now answered and solved several items I have posted, so my gratitude to you sir.
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    E9B6 got a reaction from jmwellborn in Missing Fonts   
    Weirder and weirder said Alice.
    The design opened OK and said that the font was present.
    Publisher still refused.
    So I saved the package in Designer, then reloaded the font from the package.
    It said font present - do you want to replace it, answered yes and installed.
    Went to Publisher which bythen was behaving.
    There must be a weird bug in there somewhere.
    But ALFRED, I must say a sincere thanks to you - you have now answered and solved several items I have posted, so my gratitude to you sir.
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Alfred in Missing Fonts   
    Thank you, that seems to have cleared the blockage. Yes designer opened it fine, and when I went back to Publisher, there it was in the font list.
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Alfred in Printing photographs   
    I think I had started by incorrectly selecting from print ready
    I have now made my own presets and I will. ensure they are all set to RGB
    Thanks for the help
     
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    E9B6 got a reaction from h_d in Data merge is excellent   
    I have just finished converting my pageplus files with mail merge, into publisher files with data merge.
    I have to say I am very impressed with this feature. It outperforms the old version in so many ways. In both cases I used an excel spreadsheet as the data source.
    But with the latest version, you can change the source on the fly and it appears in the data merge. Serif, I have always been a fan of your old plus series, but you can add multiple feathers in your cap for the latest set of programs.
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Leigh in AFFINITY 1.9 CONGRATULATIONS   
    As a long time user of Page Plus (since version 1 !!) and photo plus and draw plus, I have over the years produced a 356 page book, numerous booklets from 4 to 80 pages, countless newsletters, agendas and menu cards and table plans using mail merge.
    As of 1.9, I have set up booklets in Publisher, menu cards etc using data merge., Apart from a hiccup using facing master pages, I now have a set of programs which not only match the plus series, but far surpass them. The ability to modify designs and photos using the studio link, whilst working on a publisher file are nothing less than brilliant.
    Plus series - sorry but you are consigned to history.
    I did not use pdf to transfer the documents to Affinity. I set up the new document, inserted the graphics and text frames, then copied and pasted the text from page plus. They transferred with all the markups, and took far less time that having to modify the pdf input.
    All in all one happy bunny
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    E9B6 got a reaction from jmwellborn in AFFINITY 1.9 CONGRATULATIONS   
    As a long time user of Page Plus (since version 1 !!) and photo plus and draw plus, I have over the years produced a 356 page book, numerous booklets from 4 to 80 pages, countless newsletters, agendas and menu cards and table plans using mail merge.
    As of 1.9, I have set up booklets in Publisher, menu cards etc using data merge., Apart from a hiccup using facing master pages, I now have a set of programs which not only match the plus series, but far surpass them. The ability to modify designs and photos using the studio link, whilst working on a publisher file are nothing less than brilliant.
    Plus series - sorry but you are consigned to history.
    I did not use pdf to transfer the documents to Affinity. I set up the new document, inserted the graphics and text frames, then copied and pasted the text from page plus. They transferred with all the markups, and took far less time that having to modify the pdf input.
    All in all one happy bunny
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Alfred in Expand text to fill frame   
    Thanks Alfred
     
    I do hope it is the list of "TO DO" projects
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Marcos Silva in Affinity Publisher - mailmerge   
    I have Page Plus X9 (both 32 and 64 bit editions), having been a user of PP since version 1
    The 64bit version cannot use Excel spreadsheets for its data source, whilst the 32 bit can.
    I use the spreadsheet to be able to visually place table plans which are then merged to provide menu/place setting cards. I cannot do that with the sdb serif databases.
     
    So Serif, please ensure that the Affinity Publisher 64 bit can use Excel spreadsheets.
     
    Thank you
     
    C R Goss
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    E9B6 got a reaction from Calibinder in [Implemented] Data merge   
    I use PagePlus X9 for place settings for banquets, using datamerge. Absolutely essential for me.
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    E9B6 got a reaction from m.wieckowska in Affinity designer price   
    Dear Patrick
     
    There is a fundamental situation here.
     
    You should NOT be paying the VAT to the government on non-UK orders.
     
    You should charge it at ZERO VAT and I pay the net amount. Simple. I have copied the VAT rules to your sales dept.
     
    The 20% discount is a red herring. I am still paying you the same amount as you are getting on UK orders except on those you are paying £5 to HMRC.
     
    You DO NOT HAVE TO PAY IT ON NON-UK ORDERS.
     
    Therefore you should only charge me £24.99 and you receive all of it, instead of charging £29.99 and paying £5 in tax - net result £24.99.
     
    I am not in the UK and do not pay tax to the UK.
     
    Kindest regards
     
    C R Goss
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    E9B6 got a reaction from ifad2016bd in Affinity designer price   
    I have been a user of pageplus since version 1 and also use draw plus, photoplus, impactplus, movieplus - yes I am a Serif fan.
     
    I have been offered Designer at £29.99 which includes VAT.
     
    I live in Jersey - not in the UK or Europe so no VAT.
     
    But attempts to get it at the correct price of £24.99 are meeting with zero response.
     
    Come on Serif - you have always charged me net of VAT in the past - why the change
     
    CRG
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    E9B6 reacted to E9B6 in Affinity designer price   
    HMRC Published VAT rules
     
    2.1 What is meant by VAT zero-rating?
    A zero-rated VAT supply is one which is subject to VAT but where the VAT is at 0%.
     
    2.2 Why does zero-rating apply to exports?
    VAT is a tax levied on goods and services consumed in the EC. When goods are exported they are ‘consumed’ outside the EC and to impose VAT on such goods would be contrary to the purpose of the tax. Therefore, the supply of exported goods is zero-rated provided certain conditions are met.
     
    2.4 What is meant by ‘an overseas person’?
    This means a person or company who is not resident in the UK or has no business establishment in the UK from which taxable supplies are made, or is an overseas authority.
     
    2.7 Which countries are part of the UK for VAT purposes?
    The UK consists of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the waters within twelve nautical miles of their coastlines. Although the Isle of Man has its own VAT authority, sales to the Isle of Man are treated as any other sale within the UK.
    The Channel Islands are part of the Customs territory of the EC, but are outside the EC, including the UK, for fiscal (VAT) purposes. Supplies of goods sent to the Channel Islands are regarded as exports for VAT purposes and may be zero-rated if the conditions set out in paragraph 3.3 or 3.4 are met. See paragraph 7.12 for information about evidence of export of goods to the Channel Islands.
     
    I don't think the rules can be any clearer - so why are Serif (and Apple Mac) flouting the UK Government rules?
     
    I am ready to buy right now at 24.99...........
     
    C R Goss
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    E9B6 reacted to Lee D in Printing A1 posters on A3 printers   
    Hi E9B6,
     
    My original post was for MacOS, Windows is a little different, it can still be done from Affinity but your Printer Driver Properties usually needs an option for poster printing within it's Layout options, and some printer's don't.
     
    Another option would be to export your design as PDF and open in Adobe Acrobat, as it's Print window is an option for Poster which you can enable.
     
    L
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    E9B6 reacted to MikeW in Press ready pdf   
    There's nothing special about the pre-canned Press Ready profile in DP/PP. If you look at the settings in DP/PP they can be recreated in AD. Though it isn't as obvious as could be and some of the settings need. You'll need to press the More button to make the needed changes.
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