siafok

I know I'm 2 years late, but still no accessibility features in Affinity Publisher. What are you waiting for, Affinity??

Adding another voice of support for this being a feature in Affinity Publisher. Accessibility features are critical to PDFs for many companies (as a designer, I am watching this become more and more of a requirement for my clients). Alt text for images is one of the most basic ways to support these principles.

Web is not the kind of Alt tag I need, although they are essentially the same.  I need the at tags in PDF output for a screenreader because we are now required to make all PDF documents, including page layout documents, screenreader accessible.  
Microsoft Publisher has a nice tool, but was hoping to find an alternative to MS Publisher on Parallels, which supports image alt-tags, but if Affinity does not then I guess I am going back.   Or I will need to buy something like Acrobat to add them in post processing. 

Dear Affinity Team
 
Is there any chance for Polish translation of your (our) excellent software?
 
Sincerly yours
 
Olaf from Warsaw, Poland

Visit any university library and you'll find that endnotes replaced footnotes long ago, perhaps in the 1950s. In the era before computers, endnotes were far easier to typeset. In todays world, their appearance at the bottom of a page is seen as clutter by most readers.
While this might be true up to a certain point for academic publications in the English-speaking world (and while there is a certain international convergence in recent years), there are also cultural differences. German academic publications are still heavily using footnotes for reference purposes as well as for comments and clarifications. And while footnotes might be perceived as clutter from a typographic point of view (it can be incredibly difficult to typeset certain sorts of academic texts in a visually pleasing way), they are much more practical for readers. Personally, I don’t like reading a book from two ends.

Yes please to foot notes, end notes.  Any even slightly academic work will use these.  Publisher without these will lock out and academic use.  Keep up the good work development team.  I really like Publisher. 
Chris
(ex InDesign user)

In defense: It is technically still version 1 software. Adobe illustrator is like version 29 or something like that, the features will come, give it time.
In not-defense: I find it weird that they implemented a bunch of complicated but overly niche isometric perspective tools that maybe 1 in every 100 designers will even experiment with, before fixing expand stroke and adding envelope distortion and a vector eraser...
But it’s their roadmap... and nobody is forcing us to use their apps, so it’s probably just best to nicely keep drawing attention to it, versus getting hostile. You’ll  catch more flies with honey than vinegar, haha. 
 

Did you pay for your web browser?
 

Then you should not trust paid software like Affinity or many others either, because they include open source "backend" software code that is distributed under a variety of no-cost licenses. Inkscape is one of the many apps that uses the Potrace algorithm for auto-tracing -- if you would find that algorithm more worthy of your trust if you had to pay to use it, there are several paid apps that use it for that.

And yet there isn't anything to lose trying InkScape except a little time.
 
Or, because Serif has stated they only plan on releasing a trace routine if it meets expectations and is comparable to what can be considered the best, you could always go plunk down the cash for Vector Magic. At least it isn't free...

It is not a war. Just simple logic. It is much easier for the user who wants help to make an effort and translate the text into English, instead everyone who would like to help him.

Во ред. Бидејќи англискиот јазик не е мој мајчин јазик, а со цел подобро да се разбереме, отсега ќе пишувам пораки само на македонски.
Ви благодарам на разбирањето.

Still no footnotes and end notes. They are a must have. Product useless without this, IMO.

Without footnotes it is a POC.

Yes. but not in 1.7.0

Unfortunately Affinity publisher doesn't support footnotes.

Are footnotes and endnotes currently possible (besides manually creating them, of course)? I haven't found them so far.
If not, this is a feature that I think would be widely used. I suspect it may take some time to get right if it is not yet under development, so I would understand if it is not a day-1 feature.

I'll add my vote for footnote and endnote support.
> Hope you can implement it in a similar way like in InDesign, . . .
Please, Affinity, whatever you do, don't look at InDesign's notes. Footnotes are at the document level in InDesign, they should be at the level of the story. That way each story can have its own numbering style and start number. It should also be possible (as it isn't in InDesign), to set the first footnote in a text as an uncued note. And users should be able to define their own sequence and appearance of note symbols (asterisk, pilcrow, dagger, double dagger, paragraph symbol, etc.).
> Visit any university library and you'll find that endnotes replaced footnotes long ago, perhaps in the 1950s.
Complete nonsense. Academic publishers prefer footnotes.
> In the era before computers, endnotes were far easier to typeset.
That's why notes were set as endnotes at some stage. Endnotes hung on for non-academic texts and in texts published by penny-pinching publishers, but nowadays footnotes are preferred by many. Footnotes are still more labour-intensive than endnotes, but the difference in effort is not nearly as big as it used to be.
> In today's world, their appearance at the bottom of a page is seen as clutter by most readers. 
In my experience, readers just get annoyed by having to go to the end of the book (or worse, to the end of the chapter in multi-authored volumes). 

A proof of concept.

Hello
My problem is that the NIK filters install fine, I see them in my filters list but they just refuse to open within AP. I have checked to be sure I have selected a layer and bring the filters 'into play'...but no joy. All the NIX filters load fine independently by the way, but of course it would be much better work-flow wise if I could do it within AP.
 
I have Version 1.6.1.93 of AP on a Windows 10 PC.

Hi MEB
Yes, I have ticked it. I actually see them in the 'Filters/Plugins/Nik Collection' menu within AP and that's what seems odd. I load a photo in AP, duplicate it (as people suggest), click on the layer, choose a Nik plugin from the 'Filters' menu.........and nothing.

Dear Affinity Team
 
Is there any chance for Polish translation of your (our) excellent software?
 
Sincerly yours
 
Olaf from Warsaw, Poland