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10 hours ago, mac_heibu said:
@grapher, did you ever see a version 1 of an application having all the features, which are present in similar, but substantial higher priced applications, which are on the market for many decades?
If yes, name them. If no, why do you expect and demand this for Affinity Publisher?
Stating, the actual beta, isn‘t even alpha, but pre-alpha, is really hard to understand, and in my very personal opinion quite insulting for the developer team.
"Serif - Professional creative software". Its statement on their pages. Its not fun free project. I must insist on what i said. At this stage its not suitable for professional work. (i mean, by the functions , not because it may fall / die / delete your data). To me its like betatesting car with square wheels. You CAN move forward. Yes. You can make rich publication, but when you change two sentences in the beginning, you have to manually move all the images, elements, tables etc. Fun in 50 pages publication with more than 100 images, icons. But, yes, you can.
Another thing is, where i just simply dont understand it, Serif have long term development of other DTP products, like pagePlus. How its even possible they release (even to "beta") such incomplete version? When they know, how people work with their products?
If you will start telling me that they may add the features... I asked about inserting objects into text, anchoring. Answer was - not in distant future, not in version 1.7 Too complicated. If this is true, serif didnt change their mind, and i didnt understood it wrong, than we have months, maybe year+ of development till first usable version for professional use. (.1 version in designer is 1y+ as far i follow the builds)
I dont think that im insulting the dev team. Im very impressed by their work. They work hard. Im still thinking, that this project is needed as salt.
Still, if there are not such basic things , its maybe alpha testing. really not beta testing of software for professional use. -
its more and more to me, as if you released (to beta testing) some pre-alfa version without tons of very needed functions for professionals.
Well in my opinion, if you aim for multi page layout, this is must-have no matter what. Same, as the anchored images / objects, adding objects into the table, aswell anchored and data merge.Without these things its not much usable for larger professional work.
This is not about whining or demanding things, its just that im a bit disappointed from the result, im waiting for over 2years. I hope that this software will one day replace the indesign, as i dont want to use it just because of adobe's philosophy.
But sadly not today, and sadly, not in distant future
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ok, understand, is it in todo list?
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On 10/12/2018 at 6:23 PM, DanParsons said:
LMAO I know exactly how things work sunshine... and FYI I AM NOT "DEMANDING" ANYTHING... if you dont want to add it to the list for future implementation that is up to you. and its not only my £50 it will be the many other professional designers who won't bother switching because your software can't even do the most basic of tasks. so jog on
...and I might not have a clue about "SW DEV" for Affinity Publisher but clearly you dont have a clue about customer care. Personal attacks against people trying to help your business is VERY unprofessional. Good day Sir.Erm, well, maybe you missed one little thing
im not from Serif...
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thanks guys. To be honest, if there is no graphics (dont need images but graphics generally) inside the tables and text, then its sadly no-go for many many people.... Just have done 50+ pages manual, and changing one sentence was nightmare, as all the icons / images were in the minute off their place and had to be manually positioned. Try to do some serious work in it. You will be so pissed off, that you will just add the feature ASAP
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On 9/21/2018 at 4:01 PM, 001 said:
Wow. That is an awful lot of attitude towards an audience who you are asking to give their time for FREE to help you evaluate your software...the fact that data merge is not included in the initial version of Publisher suggests that you may not really appreciate the needs of your market.
Well 001, DEMANDING something is not good towards software devs. Some functions are implemented, some are not, some are on todo list.
On 9/21/2018 at 3:59 PM, DanParsons said:mate, my wife is a software architect so I do know what is involved. and personally I don't care because I have full licenced Adobe products and will continue to use them until its implemented but clearly I am not the only designer asking for this feature, if you don't want to listen to your potential customers that is your prerogative.
Dan - that your wife is software engeneer is good to know. On the other hand, you dont have a clue how things work in SW DEV, as i read your posts. If you want to pay monthly fee to adobe, its your right and decision. But demanding something in FIRST beta release, well, i think that affinity will not miss your $50. It costs more to pay time for someone to react on your posts, and on coffee spent on healing the nerves...
Have good day
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another problem is, when im using alt-space for the NBSP, the cursor will jump to the main menu
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result crash allways. If i change in each style of paragraph, its OK.
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After place of large PSD - had info message - something like "Your document contains many embedded documents, to decrease file size, link them ". Problem is, everything is linked, not single document embedded.
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have text flow, inserting icons into text, with some wrap settings.
if i copy-paste from affinity designer (simple icons with 5 layers at all, all vector) then after +-10th icon publishers cryes in flames - each operation takes over 20s.
if i export same icon to SVG, place icon via pictura frame tool, with exact same wrap settings, voila, zero slowdown. -
+100 to this. creating 50+pages documents. This is really killer feature. And not for few people, but for people who intend to use it in profession. If you change one sentence in middle of the document, you have to manually reposition all photos, images, icons. Omg. Either use end of page as workaround, or i have to kill myself in agony
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And, as i have few programmers under me, and im also programming, i dont really think simple anchoring in text is for months development...
Dont want to be negative, just, please, give it priority, since this software is really great, but at the moment just for few-page documents without much graphics in it.
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Trying to make shortcuts for custom text/paragraph styles, but they are not working...
forexample - Ctrl-Alt-1 to Ctrl-Alt-9 for custom paragraphs. The style accept the shortcut, but does not respond to it... -
omg fast as hell solution
thanks... finally can open old 6h work
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cannot re-open file created in beta 58... allways will crash
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may i kindly ask you for response?
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Hi, Trying now to rewrite my 70pages catalogue into publisher, and came to tables
+ 3mm on left/right isnt same 3mm on top/bottom as you can see on first screen. And, if you are clicking to change the number, traces of the borders stay on the screen.
Now to questions - i have table here, it is having round corners - did i miss some setting... again? or is it not possible?
and, i would like to add objects in the cells, and have them behave like text - adjust aligning, margins, etc. Ideally same as in indd - like custom check icons, or just circles. To make easily something like you can see in the next screen. Is it possible? The inline pasting of the objects is simply great in many cases - like if you are writing manual and have some icons that you like to flow with text and behave like text...
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My question is, if there is a way to define a heading style, that will draw a line allower the paragraph size. At the moment, if i use decorations, the line is drawed only where is text. Another great possibility would be, if i can define the underline line margins to left and right, even in negative numbers. The result what i want to achieve is in attachment - the gray line is generated automaticky with the headline, and its over borders of text flow box, from side to side of the paper...
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1 minute ago, MikeW said:
So thanks to you and the rest of the Serif people.
Yepp, +1, im really greatful for first fair competition to adobe subscription.
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2 minutes ago, AuthorAuthor said:
Oh, absolutely! That was "creative hyperbole" (for those can't say "exaggerate). I use inventive non-rational accounting to cover my software expenses. Software X is less than a set of snow tires, Software Y is 4 gallons of Haagen-Daz, and so on.
LOL 4 galons of Haagen Daz - definitelly sweetest post of the day!
thats huge difference. 
Tables across more pages
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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Alfred, i think you missed the message by the way. "Not making clone" doesnt mean, its not competition that will replace the indesign. It means simply it will not be 1:1 with the functions, which i fully understand. Own strategy and own way of doing things, yes. Thats why i switched from illustrator to designer long time ago. And still, its not clone (and im happy for it).