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5 hours ago, kentsor said:
The title says it all, that's definitely not reasonable behaviour. I had an image frame where I wanted to replace the image, the text frame tool was selected and when I double clicked on the image, it disappeared and I could see in the layer list that the layer was now a text frame. I really don't think it should do that.
I can't see it as a fault because that is exactly what happens if you right click on an image frame (with image) and select Convert to Text Frame. Therefore it would seem that [as fde101 suggests] a useful shortcut.
Additionally if you have the text tool selected then if you move the cursor over an image in a text frame the cursor changes
to a PENTAGON with a T inside
and if you left click while this cursor is over your image,
you can draw a text frame and insert text
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Once you happy with the text, style and position you could go to Layers tab, select and group the layers so that your image and text move together.
Pman
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In my earlier reply I said "It would be great if one could produce a formula that could calculate which page you wanted to jump to". I had a little play and found that you could put a hyperlink on a page and enter in the hyperlink type Page target box a page number + 1
but as soon as you click OK that number becomes 4 (in this example).
I thought then maybe a hyperlink could be seton a Master Page and in the target box enter the page number field + a number
eg
hoping that this would allow the document to jump forward 3 pages when viewed in PDF
BUT this always creates a hyperlink to page 1.
Somebody somewhere might be able to show a way to do that, then you could set hyperlinks on your master page(s) which would then let the user jump to Business I or Business II or Fitness etc from the first page of the week you're looking at
Pman
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At a quick look at Before.pdf and After.pdf, my feeling is that Business I, Business II, Goals, Fitness and Budget would have to be on different pages for each week so I cannot see a way that they could be applied from a master. The months CAN be set as hyperlinks on a Master page and set to jump to the first page of a month. From there you would need to set a hyperlink for each week of that month, and then from each week you would need to set hyperlinks to Business I, Business II, Goals, Fitness and Budget for that week. Now by my reckoning, that would mean at least 52 * 5 hyperlinks that would need to be manually set.
Like Old Bruce, I've done a roughout, for Jan to March, with only links for Business I and Business II set up manually. Months can be jumped to from either the cover or any open page and these were set as hyperlinks on Master Pages to the appropriate page representing the first day of the month. For January Bus I is on page 2 and Bus 2 is on page 4.To get from Bus I page 2 to Bus 2 (page 4) , I had to set hyperlink from Bus 2 text Page 2 to Page 4, then a hyperlink from Bus 1 page 4 to jump back to page 2. This has to be done for each month.
Here is my trial Planner.pdf which shows the links working. The actual Publisher file is here trial planner.afpub and it does include some anchors which I originally used but realised it was easier and better to simply set hyperlinks to jump to pages.
Is this the sort of thing you are trying to achieve?
It would be great if one could produce a formula that could calculate which page you wanted to jump to so that if you were on the first week of January and wanted to go to Fitness for that week, then clicking on a symbol (such as one of your red squares) would jump forward to Fitness
Pman
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Just to add that Beta icons are NOT the same as the actual program icons so since Publisher is still only in beta stage, we (ie those outside of Serif!) do not yet know what the final icon for Affinity Publisher Full version will be, but an educated guess is that it will be triangular just as Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are whereas Beta versions are square
Pman
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Having read Carl123's comment above, I looked at A couple of errors and recommendation.afpub again. This morning I had simply loaded it, made a new text box and typed with no problem. However if I click on text frame 1, then try editing it, there is a 2 second delay. After doing that I then created a new text frame as I had done this morning and now there is a 2 second in that too until, as Carl123 said, you delete or rasterise the image in text frame 1
Pman.
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On 3/29/2019 at 5:20 PM, micornelius said:
Hi, release version 283
On printing A5 document on A4 as 2UP doublesided-short for perfectbind output, having saved as a custom setup on next print cycle on calling the saved setup I find that the settings have reverted to single sided from double sided-short, and the collate check box not accessible until doublesided-short reinstated then can tick the collate box.
At first I thought I'd done something wrong but the issue manifests over and over.Thnaks
Michael
Ditto, and not only does it revert to single sided from double sided but page size reverts from A4 to Defined by Driver ie it seems that the Custom Save reverts to defaults instead of what we set before saving.
PMan
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12 hours ago, JonasTH said:
The 1.7.0.283 build seems to be a step backward from 270 ........./It seems to take 5-10 seconds to process a simple 10-word input in a text box.
It is not something new in beta 283. I have had a similar problem (though only a short delay of about 1/2 to 1 second sometimes when working in a 60 page document from early builds onwards. Since it only occurs infrequently and never when Publisher has just been opened, (and JonasTH says that he didn't close Publisher down, just did a File New operation), and I tried his sample document [which comes up with this error message
when loading but clicking on No let document load]
When I set up a new text box, the parsing was working perfectly and could keep up with my highest speed typing, maybe there is some problem with his system's caching. My system has only 4 GB RAM and that is most likely why it appears to be slow at parsing sometimes especially when working on photo editing at the same time.
Pman
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Hi,
Going back to the start of this thread about the size of Beta 1.7.0.270 being (on my Windows system 375,237kb) version 1.7.0.283 is also 375,237 kb though it hasn't got any major changes, just fixes to some stability issues and my download took just 6 minutes. Interesting to me is the final part of the version numbers which would indicate how many times it was re-written between published updates! Update to 1.7.0.283 went seamlessly for me
Pman
Windows 10 64 Bit Home Edition, Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.283, Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.7.0.258. Affinity Photo Customer Beta 1.7.0.258
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Hi soundmanbrett,
Following my post above, it is interesting to note that if you set the Down value to 3 but leave the Repeat at 1 then a) the preview pane shows ONE copy of whatever you are going to print, AND a dotted box (not immediately obvious until you know it appears), showing how much space on the page would be used. Printing at this setting only produces one instance on the print out. b) if you set the vertical gap too large so that the resultant printout wouldn't fit on one page, then the preview turns red.
When repeat is set to more than 1 then the preview shows what the printout will look like but again if the resultant settings mean that the printout won't fit one page, the preview turns red
Repeat set to 3 and V gap to 0.5 in
V gap set to 0.7 inch results in last image NOT fitting on page ERROR
Finally if you set Repeat to 4, 5 or 6 then you would get two pages of printout, set to 7, 8 or 9 you would get 3 pages, etc. Hope you sort out your original problem of not being able to see/set gaps - have you tried resetting Publisher Beta by holding down CTRL whilst starting Publisher until a prompt box appears?
Pman (Windows 10 64 bit Home Edition Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.257)
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Hi soundmanbrett,
Like Typo988, I have no problem with N-up though i) I change the paper size from defined by driver to the actual paper size I'm going to print on and
ii) I changed from Range Document to Range Selection as I'd simply drawn a rectangle of the size you'd triedWhat version are you using I'm using Beta 257, and text is clearly visible using Light or Dark modes
Finally I set up a spread of the required size, drew a rectangle on it then set N up to use Document as the range and that works too
Pman (Windows 10 64 bit Home Edition Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.257)
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Hi gumbo23,
I don't quite know why your page numbers are being moved down 1 line with your reduction of width shown. I have found that that only occurs in my table of contents when the text frame is reduced in width to LESS THAN THE WIDTH OF THE TEXT as shown in these three examples
Original TOC in text frame TOC text frame width reduced TOC text frame reduced to less than text length.
Perhaps someone more expert than me could suggest a remedy for you.
Pman
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22 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:
I'm sorry; I have a document with that very configuration, but so far I have never experienced that kind of crash. I am using an iMac from 2011 with High Sierra.
I can also state that I have no problem linking text frames in the way Kdog3682 wanted ->
and I have a booklet of 32 pages with a total of 78 linked text frames without any crash occurring. As garretm30 requested earlier could you attach a document with the layout you are having trouble with
and also which beta you are using? Hers is my publication shown above linked text frames.afpub
Pman
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Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.249, Windows 10 Home Edition (64 bit)
Since posting the above, I' ve played around some more and have found that if you write some text and assign it as a hyperlink source to a URL and the hyperlink assumes the text as it's name. Once this hyperlink has been assigned you can re-position the text onto an object and group them and the hyperlink remains as a name.
If you group the text and an object before assigning the hyperlink, then the hyperlink is named as hyperlink nn when you assign it.
However as stated above, hyperlinks created on the Master Page are accessible and usable to all pages created at the set up and extra hyperlinks from objects (as shown on Hyperlink Studio tab) only get created if extra pages are added
There is another thing I have noticed. When you create a hyperlink from some text, the next text frame you draw inherits the hyperlink style UNLESS one remembers to go to the Style tab and set it to [No Style] and to set the text style to, say, Body.
overall I'm impressed by the amount of work that you have done and look forward to the launching
Pman
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Hi,
Following my earlier comment about reporting a possible bug, at first I couldn't replicate getting extra hyperlinks appearing. Here I've got a 20 page spread with just two hyperlinks on the Master Page yet every page has a 2 working hyperlinks on it when exported as PDF for Web
Adding extra pages made no difference, there were still just 2 hyperlinks in Hyperlinks Studio
One link was my name simply positioned on a filled circle
and I simply selected my name when setting up the Pman hyperlink, and the other was simply text at the foot of the page. However I then thought I'd group my name and the circle so that I could easily move them together. Now when I selected this group and set is as a hyperlink source, i) it was now simply called Hyperlink 1 and ii) when I added more pages, the same number of extra hyperlinks appeared on Hyperlinks Studio tab.
I have now reported this as a possible bug.
My conclusion would be [until Serif have found a solution to links from objects being replicated) set up your spread to more pages than you would need, set your hyperlinks up on your Master Page/s and then after completing your work, delete your blank pages (or leave one or two in case you have to add a a little extra), then you will have minimal number of hyperlinks.
Pman
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This post relates to Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.249
Following discussions on the topic 'Show Hyperlinks indication in Edit Mode' I thought I had solved a problem for someone who wanted two hyperlinks to a URL on every page, so I tried putting two hyperlinks on the Master Page of a 20 page (non-facing page) spread. Brilliant! Only 2 hyperlinks shown in Hyperlinks Studio tab, but 20 pages with working hyperlinks when exported as PDF for Web so I posted this information.
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However the correspondent claimed to be getting more hyperlinks appearing in Hyperlinks Studio tab, which at first I couldn't replicate. However what I have now found is that if you select text on the Master Page and create a hyperlink from it to a URL, then adding more pages does NOT add more hyperlinks to Hyperlinks Studio tab. In my answer I had simply selected some text positioned over a filled circle. However if you select a GROUP [in my case a circle with text inside ]
then creating a hyperlink to a URL from that leads to 1 extra hyperlink being added to the Hyperlink Studio tab for each page added, so the example below shows that when I've added five new pages to the spread, 5 new hyperlinks have been created.
Conclusion - hyperlinks from text source on master page don't lead to increased number of hyperlinks when pages are added but hyperlinks from an Object source result in new hyperlinks being added when new pages are inserted
Pman
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Hi Mr K et al,
At first I was puzzled as to why you had more hyperlinks than I did when I tried putting two hyperlinks on a Master Page, attached to a 10 page spread, so I tried again by setting up a 20 page spread with a common master. Once I'd added 2 hyperlinks on the Master, I still got only the two hyperlinks showing in the Hyperlinks Studio tab and on publishing the spread to PDF, the hyperlinks on all pages worked yet only 2 showed on Hyperlinks Studio tab UNTIL I added more pages. As soon as more pages are added then that number of hyperlinks is added to Hyperlinks Studio. Deleting those new pages reduced the number of hyperlinks back to my original 2. It would seem that you would be better to set up your spread with more pages than you know you would want and then to delete all the blank pages before you publish.
I will report my findings on this as a possible bug.
Pman
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Hi Mr K,
on closer examination of your Credenza Plan, you'd actually need two master pages, one for the first page where your logo is larger and in a different place and there is no web address at the bottom, and then the second for the rest of the pages. However, this still means that you'd only need to set three hyperlinks for the whole spread.
Pman
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Mr K,
This may solve part of your problem - I have found that you could put your Logo on the Master Page and set a hyperlink to your URL, then you could put your web address on the bottom left of your Master Page and set a hyperlink there. If you select No Style while setting the hyperlink the text will NOT turn blue. These hyperlinks become active on every page of your spread. Therefore on your Credenza Plans for example you would no longer have to set a hyperlink to your logo and your web address on each page, therefore reducing the number of hyperlinks from 20 to just two! as indicated here
It doesn't help solve the problem of seeing if an object is hyperlinked or not but you'd be working with a lot less, and you'd only have to check these on your master page. I have tested out this idea and it works, one master page with hyperlinks which then work on every page in the spread
Love your web site by the way so hope this will make it more successful
Pman
This information may help others who have wondered if a hyperlink can be set on a Master Page
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On 2/25/2019 at 4:50 PM, Mr. K said:
Is there some way to show or indicated what text and objects have hyperlinks attached? I'm asking about when I look at a page I would like to know where the hyperlinks are on that page without having to search for them through the Hyperlinks Studio panel.
Hi Mr K ,
Your original question was about showing text AND objects. In my earlier reply I hadn't found out how to apply a hyperlink to an object. Since then I have done that to a simple shape (a triangle) by selecting it, clicking on Add Hyperlink from Hyperlink Tab, selecting as URL and pasting the URL in the box which opens. As you say , there is no way to see that that AN OBJECT is hyperlinked.
There again, unless you are going to tell the reader to click on that object, how will they know it is going to be a hyperlink or where it will potentially take them?.
I've attached the relevant PDF file to show that the link in the triangle works. hyperlinks.pdf
Pman
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9 hours ago, Mr. K said:
I mean
So is there a way to show in my AFPub file what object and text on the page has my hyperlinks attached?
Hi,
I've been 'playing' with hyperlinks for a few hours now. To answer your question about showing what text or object has your hyperlinks attached - it seems that you cannot put an anchor (the point to which a hyperlink will jump) onto an object but if you right-click an object and select Convert to Text Frame, then you can select this text frame and select Text -- Interactive -- Insert Anchor. As Walt Farrel has said, if you create a hyperlink then the hyperlink will be shown as Blue (CMYK values C 88 M 77 Y 0 K 0).If you select Text menu ---Interactive -- Show Anchors OR Text Menu -- Show Special Characters and also Show Fields then your ANCHORS will be displayed as blue anchor symbol and the Double S (or End of Section ) will also be displayed. This image shows
i) an Anchor in text, ii) A hyperlink which would return the reader to Page 1 and iii) a cloud converted to a text frame and then an Anchor placed in it. These two anchors are on Page 4 of my spread with the hyperlinks on Page 1
This image shows Hyperlinks tab, opened from View -- Studio -- Hyperlinks. When I first loaded beta 249, that didn't work so I was forced to do a reset (Hold down the Control key while starting Publisher and then when the reset screen appears, tick the top three items before selecting Clear) and then it became operational.
From this you can, as Old Bruce has said, select a hyperlink and then click on the Bottom Left icon to go to the Source (or start ) of the hyperlink.
Since these terms are used in Publisher, can we use Source as the point at which you want the hyperlink to operate from (ie when clicked it will jump FROM that point to a Page, to an Anchor or to a URL) (THE SOURCE WILL BECOME BLUE once made) and an Anchor is a specific point in a spread that the hyperlink will jump TO when selected?
Hope this helps you and finally here is the PDF file I generated whilst playing. In two text frames I converted from shapes, I actually put text in BEFORE finding you only needed to convert to text frame and then simply add an Anchor. hyperlinks.pdf
Pman
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Hi
Old Bruce says anchor symbol appears when you select Text - Show Special Characters. On my system (Windows 10 ) the anchor symbol appears when I select Text -- Interactive--Show Anchors.
The other symbol at the end of a hyperlink appears when I use Text -- Show Special Characters and both will appear if both of these commands are checked. Maybe that is a difference between Mac and Windows systems
Pman
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Congratulations Serif on your continued hard work on implementing improvements and fixing bugs in Publisher whilst still working on Designer and Photo betas. I downloaded v238 on 18th Feb (automatic download flagged up) and today (22 Feb have found the link to manual download of V249. Download (Windows 10) fine, install worked. Help now available on Hyperlinks which I found very useful .
Pman
Windows 10 64 Bit Home Edition Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.249 Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.7.0.243 Affinity Photo Customer Beta 1.7.0.243
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On 2/17/2019 at 5:21 AM, occasionalpiece said:
I wrote the text myself, in Publisher, two beta versions ago. Each time we do a new Beta, it scrambles again.
So I copy and paste the offending passages into MSWord (stripping out formatting first), re-type it, and load it up in the messed up places.
Hi accassionalpiece
I've tried loading documents right from first beta into latest beta (1.7.0.238) and have not encountered any scrambling problem.
1) When you type up your document, do you use styles. If you had set the main text to Body, for instance, then when you've loaded the file and the result is 'scrambled' but you say that typing in v238 is ok, then try making a new text frame, set the style to Body, type some text, format it as you want, then select the text, and go to The Text Style tab, select Body and click on the Update symbol2) More drastically, have you tried resetting Publisher by holding down Control [CTRL] while it's booting until the reset screen appears. I normally leave the top 3 ticked before clicking on Clear, but you might have to reset text styles too or completely reset by selecting Select All before Clear to give a completely factory default Publisher. You will lose your recent files list but it might solve your problem
I know you'r a Mac user and I'm on Windows but think it's worth considering unless experts tell you differently.
Pman
Windows 10, Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.238 Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.7.0.243 Affinity Photo Customer Beta 1.7.0.243
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Just downloaded the latest Customer Betas of Designer and Photo (betas 1.0.7.243) and Personas is now available, either from Personas at the top of the File Menu, or Edit in Designer or Edit in Photo.
The Personas icons don't yet work and simply generate an error message instead I've yet to work out what I can do with them. Well done Serif for your continued hard work and I look forward to examples of use from other users
Pman
Windows 10, Affinity Publisher Beta 1.0.7.238, Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.0.7.243, Affinity Photo Customer Beta 1.0.7.243
and if you left click while this cursor is over your image,
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but as soon as you click OK that number becomes 4 (in this example).
hoping that this would allow the document to jump forward 3 pages when viewed in PDF
when loading but clicking on No let document load]
Repeat set to 3 and V gap to 0.5 in
V gap set to 0.7 inch results in last image NOT fitting on page ERROR
and I have a booklet of 32 pages with a total of 78 linked text frames without any crash occurring. As garretm30 requested earlier could you attach a document with the layout you are having trouble with
Adding extra pages made no difference, there were still just 2 hyperlinks in Hyperlinks Studio
and I simply selected my name when setting up the Pman hyperlink, and the other was simply text at the foot of the page. However I then thought I'd group my name and the circle so that I could easily move them together. Now when I selected this group and set is as a hyperlink source, i) it was now simply called Hyperlink 1 and ii) when I added more pages, the same number of extra hyperlinks appeared on Hyperlinks Studio tab.
This post relates to Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.249
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It doesn't help solve the problem of seeing if an object is hyperlinked or not but you'd be working with a lot less, and you'd only have to check these on your master page. I have tested out this idea and it works, one master page with hyperlinks which then work on every page in the spread
The Personas icons 
don't yet work and simply generate an error message instead 
Hyperlinks added on a master page don't start working in the document unless I re-apply the master.
in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
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Hi Meztli,
Sorry to hear Beta 292 hasn't cured your problem. As to getting Affinity staff to comment, on the three occasions I've started a thread in the Bugs forum, someone has got back to me within a week, telling me that they have reported it.Bear in mind that the opening section of the Bugs forums gives clear instructions on steps to take when reporting a suspected bug (4 instructions and 7 bullet points and maybe they don't manage to pick up so quickly on a simple comment as your original post was [When I add a hyperlink (go to page type) on a master page, none of the pages using this master gets updated unless I re-apply the master.
Once I re-apply the master, the links start working on all pages but it creates a Hyperlink for each page so I end up with hundreds of hyperlinks in the studio panel.]
As a further thought have you tried resetting Publisher. Sometimes when you load a new version, a settings error in a previous build can carry over. T|o do a reset, hold down the CTRL key while booting Publisher until the Reset screen appears
I too have loaded and used 1.7.0.2.292 and have encountered the crash that was outlined in red [Please note we have discovered an issue with this build whereby the application can crash after saving a document] by AdamW. I'm so glad that the warning was issued or I might have (almost!) had a heart attack thinking that I'd lost some precious work.
Pman