PMan
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6 hours ago, VectorCat said:
To me, the explanation in the help file is as clear as mud. Compounding, on an iPad, the styles edit dialgue snorks up the entire screen. Can someone kindly explain how to set up hanging indents in Publisher?
Many thanks!
on Windows, an alternative, as explained in the Help text, is to drag the markers on the ruler to the position/s required. see video below. This method allows you visually see the effect as you drag the markers.
You do need to turn on Text Rulers from the view menu to be able to do this
Don't know how that works on IPad, never used one.
Hope that provides you with another way to set indents.
Pman
Computer System used
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.0, Photo2 V2.5.0, Publisher2 V2.5.0
Affinity Designer2 Beta V2.5.0.2471, Photo Beta 2.5.0.2471, Publisher V2.5.0.2471
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342 -
15 minutes ago, Hangman said:
Hi @PMan,
The Blue dot in the rescale handle (bottom right) in your first screenshot indicates that you've manually resized the text frame...
In the first one, I had saved the asset with the text frame too small to display the word 'point' so when I dragged the asset back onto the page I had to drag out the text frame to include the word point. That particular asset always came back as 114.6 pts high text, even without resizing the frame.
I've since videoed the way I did it and, to be honest, I have never noticed the blue Resize circle to the bottom right of a text frame before. As you say, if I click on that and resize it, the blue circle becomes a blue dot to show the frame has been resized, affecting the text size. I'm still learning!!
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I've just opened a new document, created a text frame with some text at 100pt, dragged the text frame into Assets panel, dragged this new asset back onto the page and the text in that has become 114.6 pts high..
However if I drag a text frame with multiple sized text in it to Assets, than drag this new asset back onto the page, everything is still the correct size.
I then tried making a new document, inserted a text frame, typed in some text at 100 points high, pressed <Enter> and reset point size to 10 points but didn't type anything, saved this as a new Asset. When this is loaded back onto the page, the 100pt high text is still 100points high
There does seem to be some sort of bug which only affects the first text frame in a new document, with a single size non-standard point size (i.e. not in the standard drop-down). It also doesn't always occur, I've tried several times since first experimenting and can no longer get it to repeat
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note also the post by Dan C (Staff) [17/06/2024] on what people should try if their Affinity apps crash when opening files; glad to hear @Envy_'s tip worked for you
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2, Photo2 V2.5.2, Publisher2 V2.5.2
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Photo V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Publisher V2.5.2.2486 (Beta -
1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
If you look in the Account dialog in the application, you'll see that the full name of the retail version is also 2.5.2.2486.
Thanks Walt, I stand corrected as I've never clicked on My Account to find version number, just on the About. I now also note that on the Latest Affinity V2 Release page the .2486 is in brackets and after that Serif is only referring to latest build as 2.5.2. My apologies to Alfred, too. I've learnt something!
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14 hours ago, Alfred said:
Why? This crash is being reported against the latest release version, not the beta.
Because version 2.5.2.2486 is the beta, whereas the full latest is version 2.5.2
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Respectfully, you should be reporting this on the Beta page.
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12 hours ago, bbrother said:
App: APub 2.5.2 (windows)
Theme: Dark
UI issue in Paragraph panel → Decorations:
- no gap between [Add][Remove] decorations buttons. Glued together
I have no problem as can be seen here
I have found (in the past) that re-installing may solve problems
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2, Photo2 V2.5.2, Publisher2 V2.5.2
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Photo V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Publisher V2.5.2.2486 (Beta) -
2 hours ago, Linkyop said:
As shown on video. Rescaling document is breaking text position, even after undoing changes. Sometimes adding enter fixes it but not every time.
I can concur that this error does happen.
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2, Photo2 V2.5.2, Publisher2 V2.5.2
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Photo V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Publisher V2.5.2.2486 (Beta)
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I can't seem to able to replicate this, I've tried lots of different compression ratio JPEGS opened in Publisher and then gone to Photo persona and can select any part even using Rectangular tool. I've even opened some straight from my phone again with no problem
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2, Photo2 V2.5.2, Publisher2 V2.5.2
Affinity Designer2 V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Photo V2.5.2.2486 (Beta), Publisher V2.5.2.2486 (Beta) -
Have you tried opening a document in Publisher, then switching to Designer persona, design in that then switch back to Publisher persona?
Computer System used
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer2 V2.4.2, Photo2 V2.4.2, Publisher2 V2.4.2
Affinity Designer2 Beta V2.4.5.0.2463, Photo Beta 2.5.0.2463, Publisher V2.5.0.2463
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342 -
13 hours ago, Alex_M said:
Hi. I've reported this bug 5 years ago. Please refer to this thread. Is this ever going to be fixed?
Don't know why you have problem, it's always worked for me see video
Computer System used
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer2 V2.4.2, Photo2 V2.4.2, Publisher2 V2.4.2
Affinity Designer2 Beta V2.4.5.0.2463, Photo Beta 2.5.0.2463, Publisher V2.5.0.2463
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342 -
12 hours ago, CM0 said:
The attached document will crash immediately when attempting to just click on the background.
Windows 10 / Affinity 2.4.2
I meant to add that there is a message when I open the document
but I haven't converted, simply clicked on the background, no crash!
Computer System used
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.4.2, Photo2 V2.4.2, Publisher2 V2.4.2
Affinity Designer2 Beta V2.4.2.2371, Photo Beta 2.4.2.2371, Publisher V2.4.2.2371
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I can't get it to crash, whether clicking on background or artboard.
My system
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.4.2, Photo2 V2.4.2, Publisher2 V2.4.2
Affinity Designer2 Beta V2.4.2.2371, Photo Beta 2.4.2.2371, Publisher V2.4.2.2371 -
At first I'd missed the instruction 'hover over the erase blend mode' and had simply applied erase blend mode. No crash appeared then but when I tried to undo the action Publisher crashed.
However when I carried out the instruction to hover over the erase blend mode first the top 1/3rd of the picture partially disappears, then when the cursor is moved away without clicking, the busy icon (hourglass) appears for a short time then the program crashes.
Since this I have tried it with other pictures since,and the erase function works perfectly, I can only assume that something within your art work is creating a conflict. Maybe it's because you are trying to apply a blend mode to a group of layers (if you expand your group 'crash when erase' there are about 40 layers each named Curve; any of these can have the blend mode erase applied without any crash occurring or you can select a number of these layers together and then apply the erase blend mode without Publisher crashing). see attached file below
The Help function on Blend Mode says
"Any layer or object can have a blend mode assigned, including mask and adjustment layers. The default blend mode is 'Normal'—no special compositing is applied. For a group, the default is 'Passthrough'. When set, the group itself has no special blend properties of its own, and passes on the blend mode of its parent layer.I then found that if you select the group 'crash when erase' and apply 'passthrough' first then the problem you outlined
- Select the group named 'crash when erase'.
- Click on the blend mode drop down
- Scroll down and hover over the erase blend mode, but do not click.
- Move the mouse away from the erase blend mode and application crashes.
does nor occur when you hover over erase blend then move away. It only occurs when the group 'crash when erase' has been set to blend mode Add (as in your file) and then you attempt to reset it to erase
Pman
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 1.10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 V2.1.1, Photo2 V2.1.1, Publisher2 V2.1.1
Affinity Designer2 Beta V2.2.0.1931, Photo Beta 2.2.0.1931, Publisher V2.2.0.1931 -
downloaded your test file and it exported to PDF from both Publisher and Designer with no problem even when I placed a picture to almost fill it [resultant file 2156kb in size]. Exporting to jxl produced a file of 2845kb so I don't know what's causing your problem [jjonker and Hangman]
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 2.0.4, Photo2 2.0.4, Publisher2 2.0.4
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I don't have any problem placing a single page PDF file in a Publisher document, nor if I place multiple single page PDFs BUT I try placing a multi-page PDF file then Publisher crashes
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I can't replicate that. If I have several tabs open and I close the rightmost one, then focus simply changes to the tab which was previously the last but but one, exactly as I would expect. Have you tried re-installing Publisher 2?
Pman
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 2.0.0, Photo2 2.0.0, Publisher2 2.0.0 -
Hi I spent a little while trying to get Quick Grid to work. The help topic says Press the right/left arrow to add/remove columns and when I tried PRESSING the right key whilst drawing an object, it did NOT add a column.
What I found instead is that if you TAP the right arrow whilst drawing an object, that produces an extra column for every tap you make.
Hope this helps prevent some headscratching when you try it out. Now I've found the secret I look forward to drawing quick grids!
Still finding my way around but generally loving Affinity2
Pman
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer2 2.0.0, Photo2 2.0.0, Publisher2 2.0.0 -
Thanks Walt, I've no experience of Mac so it's nice to find some of these differences logged.
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But not on Windows as far as I can find and update is not found if you type it in the Search box
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Crashing on delete page or page1.
I can't replicate problem [see below] though someone once had similar problem when they had applied multiple masters to different pages
Pman
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1342 -
On 3/16/2022 at 10:16 PM, Wosven said:
It's nice of you to try to help, you can test the file if you want: for example, just add a background color in a cell style and hit "OK":
I needed the same style in the different files with the apps shortcuts, since I wanted to translate them in French. That's why there's this file with all the needed tables I simply needed to have the same style in the original files, anddo some modifications at some points.
It keeps on crashing the 1.10.5.1282 beta version, but not the recent 1.105.1342 release available recently.
As you note, it certainly isn't crashing on Publisher 1.10.5.1342 or Publisher Beta 1.10.5.1282 so tables should work fine for you now
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Hi Wosven,
I have no trouble with changing formatting in a table or changing a format's name or applying new formats without any crashing. I've attached a publication, made using Publisher Beta, showing some table formatting examples and hopefully this might help you in some ways.
table formatting.afpubtable formatting.afpub
If you still find your app is crashing then Serif would appreciate you providing a crash report see below post by moderator Leigh October 1st, 2019
You may have been asked to provide a crash report when speaking with our support team.
This will help them look into your issue further and hopefully allow our developers to
figure out what caused the crash. Below are instructions explaining where the Crash Reports
are stored on Windows
Press the Windows Key + R to launch the Run dialog and enter the relevant app path:%AppData%\Affinity\Designer\1.0\CrashReports\reports
%AppData%\Affinity\Photo\1.0\CrashReports\reports
%AppData%\Affinity\Publisher\1.0\CrashReports\reports
Our crash reports will have a filename that's made up of random alphanumeric characters
and will have a .dmp extension.If you can find that report and attach it in your next post, it will be helpful to the Serif developers
Another way is to go to C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\1.0\CrashReports\reports
Pman
Asus Vivobook 15 Intel I7 processor, Intel Iris X graphics, Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (64 bit), 32GB RAM.
Affinity Designer 10.5.1342, Photo 1.10.5.1342, Publisher 1.10.5.1342
Affinity Designer Beta 1.10.5.1342, Photo Beta 1.10.5.1342, Publisher Beta 1.10.2.1282
Exporting to DXF and DWG in Publisher causes Error 'Changes to the file are not allowed'
in V2 Bugs found on Windows
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Hi, I opened a new publisher frile, drew a square and tried exporting to dxf. I found it gave this error message
I don't know why it indicates three files could not be changed
I then retried the same in Publisher, drew the square, changed to Designer persona and exporting to dxf. The same error message occurred.
However, like sAnderO, when I repeated this in standalone Designer, it exports the file with no problem.