Inspirimental

Hi Affinity Team,
thanks for this great App Publisher. I use all three Affinity Apps professionally and they work like a charm. I never missed adobe products since I switched over to Affinity.
Since I need to produce several catalogues with similar content, I would love to either produce versions of different content or just make a master Publisher File, where I can hide pages before I export to PDF.
YES I know there is an option to export specific pages in the export dialog. Problem here, page numbers are still counted as if I would export the whole document. But this would be incorrect if I want to export only first page, last page and a few pages in between.
Why won't I just duplicate the publisher document? Well I have complex graphics, which need to be changed regularly. If I have 10 different versions of a document, I would have to change the graphic 10 times. That would be awful. So hiding pages or changing them to inactive would be great. Maybe it is even possible to add "versions" for each page in a future release of Affinity Publisher. This and the Hiding feature would really help to administrate complex catalogues and manuals with partly similar content.
 
Kind Regards
Inspirimental
 

If your graphics are done as linked files, rather than directly in the Publisher document or as embedded files, you would just change them once and they change in all the copies of your Publisher document when you next Open it.

Would it work to make a copy of the master file for each version you need, then just delete (rather than hide) the pages you don't want, then convert to PDF?
(I do something similar with a phone list that needs to be produced in various versions.)

Until there is a better way I would suggest you set up your Big Catalogue file with absolutely every thing in it except the page numbers then you can export the pages for the Saskatoon edition as a PDF and the Moose Jaw edition gets its pages exported etc all the way to Medicine Hat. 
Now for the page numbers... 
Make a document with only page numbers and import the PDFs into it and then export it again.

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the file. I've been playing around with it and can confirm it is being caused by the (Curve) layer with an FX on it in the Fahrzeug 4 layer. I believe it is attempting to render the shadow from this with the other layers which is why they're appearing white.

@GabrielM Some of the exported attributes in the <svg> aren't even nececary and redundant. Could your developers look into that too please as we like to keep our online svg's as small as possible?! Thanks!

@wigglepixel @Inspirimental
https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/
Use this for any svg you have problem with. It cleans, simplifies, minifies, prettifies and whatnotifies xml code
Never had any problem with importing to AS after running svg throuhg it
 

Hey there. Sorry for the delayed reply.
We looked into this and the issue seems to be half on our side, half on Android Studio's side. 
So. When we export as SVG, we declare all the attributes in the <svg.... > tag, and Android Studio seems to ignore them.
<svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 128 128" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" xmlns:serif="http://www.serif.com/" style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:1.41421;"> On the other side, Illustrator declares them in a <style> tag
<svg id="Ebene_1" data-name="Ebene 1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 612 612"> <defs> <style> .cls-1 { fill: #004182; fill-rule: evenodd; } </style> </defs> I have logged this with our developers to see if we can do something similar in the future. 
I have moved this to feature requests. 

I am having the same issue on Affinity Designer 1.6.
 
On zoom level of 150% with a border around an object of 10pt, the difference between expanded stroke and normal stroke is hardly noticeable. But the circle in my case is not perfectly circelish  any more. If I am working at a zoom level of 800% with a border around the object of 2pt, the difference is getting more obvious (please check the attached files).

Kind Regards
Tim

Hi MEB,
thanks for the quick answer. I was already looking for an option like that, but I guess I did not look closely enough.
 
I understand the idea of the automatic aspect ration. But the problem is the human mind. When you work on a project, you do not look on the layers palette to understand what kind of layer is selected. The intuitive perception only tells your mind: Object selected and now scale it.
I don't have it intuitively in my head, what layer type has what configuration in terms of aspect ration, even though it makes sense as you describe it.
 
This a typical problem of what might make sense and what is the human mind ready to understand.
As an interface developer I am always facing this ultimate question.

Dear Affinity Team,
first I have to let you know, that I am really happy about AD and AP, since it is the first really alternative to Adobe PS and AI. I am working as a UI- and Graphic-Designer for more than 10 years now. In the last years I tried many alternatives, but none of them really hit the fence. So I am doing the switch today and from now on I will work with AD on a daily basis. I know that many details will not be perfect, they have not been perfect in PS or AI as well. But since AD is newly developed from ground up and it was fitted to the current needs I am very happy with how far you developer have come. Great Work and Thank You.
 
However there are a few things that bug me and that slow the creative process down. The first things I have noticed so far:
1) Magical Repositioning when copying a group of text objects
If you have a few text objects selected and you move them around (align them for example). Then you drag copy these objects (ALT-Key+MouseClick+MouseMove). The selected text objects get copied and moved to the new position. BUT: When I also hold the SHIFT-Key to align the copied text objects to the original ones, the already existing text objects magically move away. IMPORTANT you have to move the original text objects with the cursor before copying. I suppose the movement before the copying process is being reverted.
 
2) Rasterizing Layers doesn't work on selected layers
If I select several layers and hit Layer / Rasterize only the last selected layer gets rasterized. I have to group all selected layers to have them all rasterized together.
 
3) Text to Path
Really annoying is the Converting to Shapes function (CMD+ENTER). Before exporting a print document I want to convert all text to path. So I hit CMD+A, everything gets selected. Then I hit CMD+ENTER but all Text that is grouped or hidden in other layers doesn't get converted. So I have to open every group and sub groups, select any text layer and do the conversion again and again. This takes way to much time, if you have to produce every day.
 
4) Exporting blended layers to PDF will cause wrong color
Attached please find two Screenshots. No1 is from AD, No2 is from Preview after exporting to PDF/X-3. I used different blend modes on the cars, this is probably causing the wrong color. Maybe the rasterizer on the PDF export can be reviewed. If I rasterize the blended objects including the background before export, everything is fine.
 
If I can provide more information, please let me know.
Tim
 

 

Dear Affinity Team,
first I have to let you know, that I am really happy about AD and AP, since it is the first really alternative to Adobe PS and AI. I am working as a UI- and Graphic-Designer for more than 10 years now. In the last years I tried many alternatives, but none of them really hit the fence. So I am doing the switch today and from now on I will work with AD on a daily basis. I know that many details will not be perfect, they have not been perfect in PS or AI as well. But since AD is newly developed from ground up and it was fitted to the current needs I am very happy with how far you developer have come. Great Work and Thank You.
 
However there are a few things that bug me and that slow the creative process down. The first things I have noticed so far:
1) Magical Repositioning when copying a group of text objects
If you have a few text objects selected and you move them around (align them for example). Then you drag copy these objects (ALT-Key+MouseClick+MouseMove). The selected text objects get copied and moved to the new position. BUT: When I also hold the SHIFT-Key to align the copied text objects to the original ones, the already existing text objects magically move away. IMPORTANT you have to move the original text objects with the cursor before copying. I suppose the movement before the copying process is being reverted.
 
2) Rasterizing Layers doesn't work on selected layers
If I select several layers and hit Layer / Rasterize only the last selected layer gets rasterized. I have to group all selected layers to have them all rasterized together.
 
3) Text to Path
Really annoying is the Converting to Shapes function (CMD+ENTER). Before exporting a print document I want to convert all text to path. So I hit CMD+A, everything gets selected. Then I hit CMD+ENTER but all Text that is grouped or hidden in other layers doesn't get converted. So I have to open every group and sub groups, select any text layer and do the conversion again and again. This takes way to much time, if you have to produce every day.
 
4) Exporting blended layers to PDF will cause wrong color
Attached please find two Screenshots. No1 is from AD, No2 is from Preview after exporting to PDF/X-3. I used different blend modes on the cars, this is probably causing the wrong color. Maybe the rasterizer on the PDF export can be reviewed. If I rasterize the blended objects including the background before export, everything is fine.
 
If I can provide more information, please let me know.
Tim
 

 

Theoretically, you should be able to select the "Text as curves" option for the fonts in the actual export setting rather than to have to manually convert all text to curve before export.
 
But, I agree - I've been there too - there should be some kind of "apply to all embedded/included in selection objects/texts" option when performing actions.