Interior Book Design

Oh, sorry, I got mixed up. Thanks, anyway. But I think, I AM in the publisher beta forum?! At least, this is what the breadcrumb navigation says: Home Beta Software Forums Affinity Publisher Beta Forums Publisher beta on Windows Margin values get mixed up

see attached image. Win 7. APub 1.8.0.502

This is what I've noticed, as well. Text import from InDesing went smoothly, even with a long text. It looks good in Publisher, too, apart from the hyphenation. There seems to be hardly any hyphenation at all, resulting in many gaps between some words.

Yes. I'll do it as soon as I have time.

Done. This example works well in PP.

Thanks for your answer, Walt, I appreciate your excellent knowledge. What a pity. I'm using the DOCX importer -- by the way.

Hi, Am I right in assuming that it should be possible to create an Index in Publisher and that Publisher should import index entries (XE fields) from Word, nicely? Because, I've been trying to import some Word documents with XE entries into Publisher but have not yet been able to create any index at all. In one case, only 3 entries out of about a hundred had been created, in all other cases, nothing had happened at all. BTW: In all those cases, PagePlus imported my index entries quickly and properly and, of course, so did InDesign. Best Johann Win 7, APub 1.7.3. 481

Hi R C-R, thanks your your answer. The Wikipedia article explains it pretty well, by the way. I'm producing in InDesign and I do a lot of printing. Some of my clients, however, are using Publisher. My takeaway is, that, in Publisher, you have to be very careful about black texts, finding your best way to export them and don't mess around. (Presently, Publisher for Window just seems to convert 100 K black into rich black merely when changing the CMYK profile! ) However, Publisher is very attractive for beginners and beginners should not have to worry about 100 K or rich black. It should be absolutely foolproof: If exporting as CMYK for professional print, black text should always render as 100 K black text unless indicated otherwise. Full stop. Rich black might be fine for covers, for some headlines, for text on an image, never ever for body copy. Not matter which profile you had selected at the beginning of the project. Well, I have Adobe Acrobat DC and Callas Toolbox, I can measure the black value, spot and fix problems, most people can't. InDesign is very complicated for beginners and does not look as attractive as Publisher, however, in InDesign, black text has always been rendering correctly! No matter if you work in RGB or CMYK mode. I wish Publisher would behave the same way. Kind regards Johann

Windows version only. If I go to Document Setup and change a document's colour profile, for instance ISO Coated v2 300% to PSO Coated v3, Publisher converts all 100 K Black to Rich Black.

Hi, I've read similar posts concerning CMYK and Rich Black versus 100 K Black. I've learned that you should start your project with CMYK settings to receive 100 K Black, starting with RGB leads to Rich Black, unfortunately. (I don't understand, why. Body copy text should always be 100 K Black, never Rich Black.) No matter whether I used 100 K black in my document or not, different settings lead to different results Exporting with Grayscale D50 without any ICC profile embedded, leads to Black with 83 % K (not 100 %), an object with 50 % K becomes 40 % Exporting with Grayscale D50 with ICC profile embedded, leads to Rich Black. Why? Exporting with Grayscale Black & WhIte without any ICC profile embedded, leads to 100 K in any case (even RGB colours), hurray, however, gray objects get 100 K, also. So, it converts everything to 100 K Exporting with Grayscale Black & WhIte with embedded ICC profile, leads to Rich Black, again. Oh Dear! Exporting to CMYK with ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) without any ICC profile embedded, seems to do the trick, however, it does not grayscale and my 50 % K object stays 50 % K Exporting to CMYK with ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) with embedded ICC profile seems to mess up everything, again Exporting to CMYK with Euroscale Coated v2 without any ICC profile embedded creates Rich Black, again. So does FOGRA39. This is not what I expect. (I'm testing with Acrobat and Callas Toolbox.) How to grayscale your document, grayscaling all images and preserving 100 K text? What is the best practice? (I remember very similar issues with PP. You got 83 % K Black instead of 100 %. Solution for PP was, to set primary colour mode to RGB instead of CMYK, don't ask me, why.) Best solution in all cases seems to be to use a different PDF printer driver, such as Acrobats PDF driver or BullZip or similar tools. Thank you!

You're welcome. Thanks for your great programme!

No, but it looks interesting. Thanks, anyway!

Well, I wanted to annotate some Words for my editor. As we keep doing in Word.

Seneca, master page. Ouf course! You are a genius. Thanks!

Okay, thanks, the "pasteboard method" I had figured out, already. It is not what I was looking for.

Thanks, Seneca.

How do I leave a note in a APUb document? I'd like to comment some Words. I haven't found a function for annotations. Thanks Johann

Hi, I'm creating a cover template for an unexperienced user. I'm preparing a Picture Frame and a Text Frame. I want her/him to just be able to drag/drop an image into the Picture Frame (and zoom/move it to find the right detail) and to replace the text in the Text Frame. That's it. I don't want her to fiddle around. (And I know how easily you accidentally move the Frame when zooming the image, this happens so often.) I know that I can lock the entire frame but this prevents my colleague from editing at all. So, I'd love to lock the position of the frames, only, but still allowing editing. Is that somehow possible? It would be a great feature! Thanks, Kind regards Johann

Right you are, for long and highly structured text documents, nested sytes, style groups and so on are a must. Together with the feature to be able to map incoming styles from Word documents to existing styles in the APub file. Is it this, you mean with interactive style management? Presently, it's a kind of "evasion strategy". Copy a new Word file into an existing APub file and styles with the same from Word are being renamed. Better than nothing, but not very elegant and not time-saving at all. (Anyway, they even let you import styles from another APub document, very nice feature.) So, for a new programme, the style handling of APub already is very good and promising. You are even able to delete the style overrides in one Go! This feature, I could hug the whole Serif community for! :-) I think, the future is going to be bright.

Yeah, I think you are right. Thanks, Walt!

Walt, I'm not convinced. Look at my attached screenshot. This is the way it should be and this is how DTP programs have been handling it for decades. simple intuitive no guesswork no bugs in displaying information The image comes from PagePlus, by the way.

And what is this supposed to be? A triple Master? Another proof that the tooltip tells fairytales.

Between front matter and the beginning of the novel, I've inserted two pages, using Master A. (see screenshot). The Master tooltip, however, displays it wrongly, pretending this were Master B. There's another problem with those tooltips. On spreads with two Master Pages, they often get the order wrong. The tooltip shows: Master B (top position in tooltip) Master A (bottom position) even though the Master on the left hand side is Master A. I think top position should be aligned with left page, bottom with right.

Volker, it's a handy feature, a baseline grid on text frame level. This was not my point, however. In the screenshot above, I haven't used the baseline grid on text frame level, just the "general baseline grid".

So, what I did is: I applied Masterspread A to page 4 and Masterspread B to page 5. I changed the margin in Master B, just in Master B. (by rightclicking on Master B and choosing Spread Properties. On spread 4/5, the baseline grid is not displayed, correctly. It still is the baseline grid from Master A. On the next pages, baseline grid is displayed, correctly. How to heal the situation? Changing the Margin in Master A, accordingly. BTW: There should be a button displaying all the Masters on the pages the way you can see in my screen shot. It is very cumbersome to mousover the spreads and decipher a tooltip. Why not taking PagePlus as a role model?