Bryce

I was a PagePlus user back from 1993. I find the the new apps very refreshing. not much changed throughout the years with Serif other than small upgrades here and there for Windows OS. It's nice to see Serif saw the future and took it. It was not with Pageplus. i had moved to the Mac and the only way was to use Parallels. Now I can use it on anything and it's tremendously more powerful. I would sacrifice all templates - I don't need them. I want tools to get the job done and Affinity has put Serif on the right path. 

I was a PagePlus user back from 1993. I find the the new apps very refreshing. not much changed throughout the years with Serif other than small upgrades here and there for Windows OS. It's nice to see Serif saw the future and took it. It was not with Pageplus. i had moved to the Mac and the only way was to use Parallels. Now I can use it on anything and it's tremendously more powerful. I would sacrifice all templates - I don't need them. I want tools to get the job done and Affinity has put Serif on the right path. 

I was a PagePlus user back from 1993. I find the the new apps very refreshing. not much changed throughout the years with Serif other than small upgrades here and there for Windows OS. It's nice to see Serif saw the future and took it. It was not with Pageplus. i had moved to the Mac and the only way was to use Parallels. Now I can use it on anything and it's tremendously more powerful. I would sacrifice all templates - I don't need them. I want tools to get the job done and Affinity has put Serif on the right path. 

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @krasnit.
First comment: Publisher is what you would probably use, as a PagePlus user, not Designer. If you buy Publisher it comes with several templates, but probably all are more complex than you would want for a newsletter.
Second comment: If you have a template in PagePlus that you like, you can probably export it as a PDF, and Open the PDF in Publisher. That will get you something close, though not perfect. But the adjustments you would need to make would be straightforward.
Next: You do not need to be a "web programmer" to do this. None of the Affinity applications involve web programming.
Finally: The purpose of the Affinity application suite is to have a set of applications that work together, sharing a common data format, and available on Windows, MacOS, and iPadOS (rather than just on Windows as the Serif "Plus" applications were). It is a completely new set of applications, designed from scratch to allow the common data formats, interoperability, and multi-platform support.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.
No, there is no mechanism to import .ppp files, and if I remember correctly Serif have said they do not plan to provide one. It would be a lot of work to develop an importer/converter, and due to functional differences between the products it would not be perfect.
You can either keep usiong PagePlus in parallel, or use it to export all your .ppp files as PDF files. PDF files can be used with Affinity Publisher, and may transfer better than an importer/converter would if it existed. It still won't be perfect, but it's probably the best you can do other than using PagePlus for those projects if they need to be updated.

I just uploaded the files.
@Anto - all pictures are the same size 5x7@300. I want them to shrink to put on buttons. 
@walt.farrellI was using picture frames. I'm not sure how to data merge pictures without frames.
 

I used to use the 1 bit bitmap tiff an awful lot as an Adobe user. I can't find a simple way to drop a bitmap into a document and colourise it within the document, and also have a transparent background. I know I can create a png with transparency and drop that into a designer or publisher file, but this is no good when working with line art. You simply can't do it with the same quality.

Thank you for the nice talk. I'm out for good.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @volker epting.
The Affinity applications provide only a subset of the available Pantone color palettes. The Affinity Store documents the ones that are included at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/full-feature-list/ which shows:
I see all of those in my copy of Designer (on Windows), and they should be present on yours, too, in the Swatches panel. But if your printing company wants a different one than those you will need to obtain it somewhere else, and add it to Designer yourself.

@Bryce You have to add Layers (e.g. with the Add Layer button in the Layers panel) and move the Elements into those Layers and use an export preset that has the option to include Layers (hiding under the More button). For demonstration purposes I attached two files for you to look. And don't worry, you can open the afpub even in ADesigner.
layers.afpub layers.pdf

Neither InDesign/QuarkXPress/VivaDesigner have a document dpi. If this old bug is still there it needs fixing. 

Unlike the most recent Adobe Apps icons, the Affinity trio has enough contrast in that regard.

Best regardS

I find that I need different types of Capitalization from the menu each time, so a right click after selection is better than making four or six shortcuts. I am fairly certain that this has been asked for previously.
 

I would like to submit a feature request for Capitalization:
Right clicking on selected text bring up the menu with a "Capitalization" from the "text menu" as an option. Then the text menu capitalization submenu to follow. It would be much easier to change some of the text that people send me in their emails without having to go to the menu each time.
I could probably make that a keyboard shortcut.
thanks!!

Hi Mike,
I think it was that particular ethernet cable. We have not experienced any of the glitches, corruptions or the random slowdowns since replacing the cable. The thing that is probably the easiest thing to change is probably also the easiest to overlook. The computer has been running much better. You don't really think of a cable as wearing out or causing random glitches.
if anything reverts back, I'll inform, but so far it seems very fast.
The first clue that this was a unique issue was no one responded. If M1 was a problem there would be many people saying they ran into something similar.
thank you for getting back with me!
bryce
 

Hi Mike,
I think it was that particular ethernet cable. We have not experienced any of the glitches, corruptions or the random slowdowns since replacing the cable. The thing that is probably the easiest thing to change is probably also the easiest to overlook. The computer has been running much better. You don't really think of a cable as wearing out or causing random glitches.
if anything reverts back, I'll inform, but so far it seems very fast.
The first clue that this was a unique issue was no one responded. If M1 was a problem there would be many people saying they ran into something similar.
thank you for getting back with me!
bryce
 

working for me now also. Thanks!

The FAQ below will help you find the "user" folder where the various files (assets, brushes, presets, etc.) are stored and which files are relevant. You should be able to move each file that you want from one Windows machine to another, or one Mac to another. The file for that one is doc_spread_presets.propcol, @Bryce.
 

I do believe this may be fixed. The first time a did a "Save As" the Publisher did not crash. that is the first time in months that it has not crashed performing that type of save. Let's hope this is good permanently. 

One thing to think about is if you have Presets (where circled), I have had the OS deleted them at times - Very frustrating. I lose them out of all apps.

Thank you. The artboard was preventing me to see the bleed. But since I almost always work with multiple artboards for a promo, I would like this functionality even with artboards.

How about a feature for a file timer. It could be reset, have a list of times and dates when it was worked on.

Thanks for the document provided - quite honestly there is a wide mix of colours being used in this document, as well as multiple colour profiles.
Your Affinity Publisher document is set to CMYK using the ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) profile, which is the same profile being used for the Embedded logo in the top right corner of the document.
However, if you open this embedded document, you can see the colour values being used are 96,76,0,0 (CMYK) for this logo - this has not been converted by Affinity as far as I can tell and these values were imported into Affinity as such.
The 'Picture Frame' with a Fill applied below this icon has the correct colour fill applied, but as mentioned this does not match the logo above, nor the icons below.
The 4 blue icons below this box are using a different colour profile, (U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2), and also have the incorrect colour values, the same as the logo, before being exported. This will be caused by the colour profile for the document not matching the images placed, so the colours are converted to match the document.
I recommend making sure all of your images used, both embedded documents and placed images are using the same ICC profile, and you also need to check which profile is in use in Adobe, to ensure the same profile is selected in Affinity or the colours will not match. 

Ahh the one bit images. There are some years of experience poking through there. 

@schmidt9 As far as I see there is no "opinion of the Affinity team", just a very polite statement of facts.
Considering how long it took Adobe to bring this to InDesign and that Publisher is currently at version 1.9.3, I find the fact that such big changes are not planned for version 1 anymore reasonable.
My guess is that "spread options" is somewhere on the list of future features, but that things simply have to be prioritised.
Be patient and use other software -- no one is forcing you to use Publisher ifnit doesn't meet your needs. I myself have two regular jobs that I still do in InDesign because no other software can do it the way I need it.
Sending a feature request and giving reasons is fine, complaining is not necessary in my opinion. People from Serif read this forum and I'm sure every feature request is considered and noted down somewhere (except for proper support of 1-bit images). They'll do it when there's time for it.