Raymondo
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Interesting Adobe are refusing to let you reinstall CS6. I’m assuming you have the physical disks, right! I recently bought a new 27 Inch iMac and reinstalled CS6 complete with no problem. What was the reason given and how did they stop you? I’m currently using the most up to date High Sierra. I have CS5.5 disks and CS6 upgrade disks. I had to install CS5.5 first and follow up installing the CS6 upgrade. Have you done the same or is your CS6 a full edition and not an upgrade. Either way it should still install.
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Ernie-f, you’re last paragraph sums it all up and echoes what I have said in the beginning of this topic. You can’t start out in a mature market as an infant. You have to be fairly grown up right from word go. The marketplace for digital software development now is quite different from 20 years ago when the pace of development was slower.
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Wow! Typesetter, haven’t heard that word for a while. I started in good old paste up moved to digital design in 94. I too started with quark and moved to InDesign in the 2nd version because version 1 had banding problems with gradients which printers were reporting. Maybe there’s not much difference in our ages after all.
Patience, yes I have plenty but Publisher in my opinion has been rushed and I suspect they are spreading themselves too thinly trying to put out too many products too soon with too few staff glossing over many important omissions in a casual way on release. I will say its not a button that’s required here, it’s an established creative functionality so please don’t trivialise the issue as a button. I’m not bothered how long whistle and bells take to implement but I would like acknowledgment from Serif that they recognise this issue as valid and needing some attention. Ashes response didn’t fill me with confidence. Still I’ve more than made my point and I’m leaving it at that.
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Mac_heibu, are you a graphic designer or a publisher? No good releasing software just because some can’t wait. Commercially best to wait and get things right than to release something early and get things wrong damaging the credibility of the product.
Thank goodness I’m not alone here in my thinking. I have Adobe cs6 and don’t have a subscription model so I will continue on as before until Publisher grows up a bit.
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Ash, it’s not some people, it’s the design community which should be very important to you for growth of Publisher in the industry. This feature should have been there in the beta launch! I feel that if not added before commercial launch that there is a real danger Affinity Publisher will be construed as nothing more than a basic publishing tool, of which there are already many on the market, by the design community.
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Yeah I know that Walt, that’s exactly my point! It’s too restrictive for professional designers. This is something that can’t wait months or years to decide to add. Professionals won’t wait around, why would they when they are already ok with the industry standards. It will only lead to a negative response from graphic design agencies and freelancers, (publishers maybe not so much as they are more catered for in this beta) which as I understand it, are who Affinity are trying to attract to the platform when Affinity splashed onto the scene. I know these are early days but this feature should be there now not as an afterthought.
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Ah, that’s seriously disappointing to hear that. Sounds like you’re not consulting with professional graphic designers during the development of this program. If Publisher is to have limitations like this I cannot see Publisher making much of a dent in the professional market. I assume the professional market is who your aiming at. Is it a definite that Publisher will not be handling more than a two page spread and have the ability to change individual page widths like you can in other page layout programs?
Yes having been a professional digital graphic designer since the early 90’s, I am aware that you can pull out rulers and accomplish it that way but that’s a backward way of thinking to creating what is supposed to be a new forward looking layout program when other layout programs have had this important feature as standard for sometime.
Maybe you have done this already, but I think you should not have released this beta yet and instead thrown it out to a number of design agencies, the people who use layout programs on a daily basis for their feedback first.
Don’t get me wrong, I have been supporting you and in fact I have invested in both AP an AD even though there are features missing. With Publisher, I’m not sure what you’re target market is and I’m not sure if you’re response is across the board within the development team or whether it’s your own personal view when you say “We do not support spreads of more than 2 pages”.
If it is definite decision by the dev team then to quote Dragons Den, I’M OUT! (Reluctantly).
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What kind of improvements Ash? At present its not possible to layout a spread for more than 2 pages which means you can’t layout for a book jacket or brochures where you want custom folds. In the case of the book jacket etc you would have the front and back of the jacket with the spine centre. At present it seems you can’t adjust individual page widths to create the spine or custom fold as in InDesign or Quark. Can’t understand why this basic functionality was not included at launch, it’s so important for creativity in layout design. I do hope this will be included before final commercial launch otherwise it’s going to be next to difficult as a professional designer to adopt Publisher. If this functionality is already available and I’m not seeing it, please advise.
I’m surprised no one else has raised this yet unless I’ve overlooked a post.
Still Ash, good first view.
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Just tried with the mouse, still no go....zilch! Strangely though your screen shot shows a bleed tab, I don’t get that.
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Funny Walt don’t remember mentioning anything about a bug. Whilst you are a very experienced man as a developer, I too have been a professional graphic designer for many years working with design software since the early 90’s. Whilst page layout may not be that important to a developer, it most certainly is as a graphic designer. If you’re not able to layout your designs in the most basic creative way then no matter how clever you are as a developer, if the end users experience is limited then so does your design become the same. Anyway Walt I agree its not a bug but it is a function that should have been there from day one, not as an add on.
still the boys and girls I’m sure are working hard on what I’m sure will eventually be a great piece of software.
Regarding the last post, are you using a mouse or tablet? This may have a bearing on things. Haven’t used a mouse since year 2000. I think I will resurrect it and see if anything happens different.
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I don’t think spread layout options should be a Matter of feature request or suggestion as it should be there by default. In my view its a must for anyone building book jackets or brochures and should be a basic function in any layout program. RCR, I’ve tried every combination I can think of but without success. I’m pinning my hopes on Serif adding more functionality in this respect before it’s fully released. I can’t believe Serif would overlook such a basic design function so I remain hopeful, otherwise it’s not going to be adopted by many professional designers.
I don’t think Serif are a company for copying and nor should they but I do think something along the lines of InDesign functionality for page layout is going to be needed if it’s going to be a success. Over to you Serif, hope you’re listening.
Would like to say finally that I have been fully behind Serif since 2014 and will continue to give my support and hopefully contribute constructive comments where possible so keep up the good work Serif, it’s a very promising piece of software.
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Wosven, you clearly get something different in Windows than we do on a Mac. Firstly there is no way to right click on the page icon and get anything to happen, secondly as you can see, on Mac you have slightly different setup. See spread setup tab which you don’t appear to have and its called spread properties for you so there are differences on both platforms. I simply want to be able to create a 3 page spread sitting side by side horizontally whereby I can adjust the centre page width to create the spine for a book jacket as I would do in InDesign. It doesn’t appear that you can do that yet on the Mac version.
I’m surprised that it’s not possible as this is such a basic function. Having said this, maybe there is something I haven’t yet discovered. Maybe the dev team can explain please.
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Don’t know if you are Mac or Windows but on Mac right clicking on page or spread does nothing. No page size choice. Hopefully this option to layout book jackets or brochure templates will be added. Without this option to specify different page size spreads makes publisher limited for the time being.
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On a Mac, you might want to look at “vectorizer 2 for Mac” not tried it myself but could be what you are looking for.
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Have been looking more into publisher and finding my way around gradually. Just a few more questions though as follows:
1) Are you able to/will you be able to place an image across several picture frames?
2) can you set up multiple page sizes ie. book jacket design including spine as in InDesign? Also for brochure design where you may want different size fold ins. If not, is this coming soon?
3) this has been flagged already but I will just confirm that the app crashes when you click on some sliders and some sliders don’t collapse when you click away.
Overall getting more used to publisher but really do need 1/2 above.
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Thanks Dave, both suggestions worked fine.
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Yeah mwhit did actually find that clip to canvas soon after I posted, great. As for what you have said Dave I will try those few things and see how I go. Hopefully all will be well. Cheers fellas.
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Having only used Publisher for a couple of hours it’s more than possible I’ve overlooked certain things but boy it’s a long way from being ready for commercial use. I have found a couple of issues as follows.
a) can set bleed but can’t see them, I think this has already been pointed out. No way to see preview without bleed edge items showing off edge.
b) Cannot set separate dimensions for pages and set them out as a spread ie. spines for book covers etc.
c) tab stop application clumsy and can’t see tap stops. As it is, you have to look at the text box then look right to the tab stop, which is quite small on a retina display, make the adjustment then look back to text box, then look right again...you get the picture. I know you can pull the paragraph tab out and move to the text frame but I think you should be able to pull just the tab out on its own. Not good, need to see those tab stops at the point of text frame and be able to adjust from there.
d) bug I think, the text frame thin blue line does not disappear when you deselect.
e) on retina screen, many of the text option symbols are tiny, hard to make out.
Just a little feedback for now.
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Hi Bones. I currently have filterforge 7 running just fine in AP. I use macs so don’t know if you’re using Windows which might be the problem.
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If you are a Mac user try “Pixave” for Mac. A DAM good piece of software to organise photos and is very customisable.
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As you are on a Mac, Try looking at “Pixave” for Mac. Works well with AP
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OK Fine, that works for me for the time being. Thanks for your input IndigoMoon.
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Hi Dev team. I have some feedback on plugin support. Since the last update of AP, Filterforge is now back and working...great!. However, I have Flaming Pear's "Flood 2" which still won't work fully, I say fully because AP has recognised the plugin and it shows in the Filter drop down menu but will not fully render Flood 2's image window. I have attached a screen shot. Any ideas about why the plugin does not fully work and could there be a discussion with Flaming Pear to make their plugins work with AP. As the plugin mainly works there can't be a lot to sort to make it fully work. Easy for me to say as I'm not a developer but non the less I would have thought a chat to Flaming Pear would be able to resolve the issue.
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Hi, I have raised this topic before, some time ago now, but I'm flagging this up again. In composition work I often need to apply multiple transparency strokes to an image as in Photoshop which I know is not yet possible in AP. If I attempt to create a similar application in AP I have to apply multiple masks in order to achieve a similar but not the same end as in Photoshop. When doing this type of application on a regular basis in composition work it gets very frustrating not having this ability in AP. I would like to know if the dev team are creatively and operationally aware of how obstructive this lack of control over transparency is. I also find it irritating that the gradient brush does not hold the last gradient selected. Can Serif tell me where we might be with this issue, which is quite important in composition construction, and if it will ever be looked at! It would be nice to believe it could be on a roadmap of improvements. I do try to use AP as much as possible but it's issues like this, which at first glance don't seem much, that prevents me from switching 100% over from Photoshop.
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Hi. Although it might be a struggle, personally I would take this further with Adobe. You’ve paid your money, legally it should be yours as it was not part of a subscription model. I think you have a case but I don’t pretend it will be easy. Good luck!