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36 minutes ago, Komatös said:
Hello and welcome, @Specialist666 to the Affinity forum.
If you use Affinity Photo, you have development software!
Serif will not develop another program that contains the same functions that are already included in other programs in the suite. Rather, the development program will be expanded or improved.
If you're looking for an alternative to Lightroom, Google DigiKam or Darktable.Or RawTherapee
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1 hour ago, Intuos5 said:
Thanks for the drag tip, I'll give ot a try.
FYI I originally posted this as a feature request, but it was moved to bugs @Archangel
A new feature request may be required with a link to this thread.
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1 hour ago, MikeTO said:
You cannot cut and paste an anchor without breaking cross-references to it. When you paste the anchor back in it's a new anchor and not the same one. I don't know that this is necessarily a bug.
However, you can select the text with the anchor and drag and drop it to a new location, including to a different frame, without a new anchor being created, so this might be your workaround. It may be inconvenient if the frame is on a different page.
Maybe its time to implement a feature that will optionally allow cutting and pasting to keep cross-references attached.
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Ashampoo have a free Photos app which may be worth investigating. They also have a paid-for Photo Commander app. I think that these are windows only though. Note I have lined to the free software page only.
https://www.ashampoo.com/en-us/free-downloads?category=0&os=21&language=0&type=free
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On 11/4/2023 at 8:08 AM, husan said:
is it working for affinity photo?
I have asked the author if he will provide the app as a plugin for Affinity Photo and he is willing to do so. He just needs the Affinity team to provide him with the information necessary to write the appropriate code to work with Photo. For me, it replaces the Instant Artist feature that was included with Photoplus, Serif's older graphics software.
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On 9/1/2023 at 8:50 PM, tzvi20 said:
publisher would be even more useful if it can be connected to grammarly the way that later versions of microsoft word are connected.
Absolutely, maybe Publisher could get the facility to accept plugins. Including an internal offline grammar checker would also be useful.
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On 1/20/2023 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Connor said:
Serif are definitively not implementing PagePlus import. Sorry if that was not clear. IDML import was simply a bigger (and ongoing) market so worth the programming effort.
This is very sad news indeed, but one has to go where the market leads, Pageplus and the whole Plus range were always seen as a toy set of products by most professionals and only useful for the home consumer and small charity outlets. It is a shame that they missed out on some very good software. Maybe linking Affinity to their Plus range would be to brand their new software as inferior to the Adobe, Quark and Corel offerings. Something they do not wish to do.
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On 3/29/2023 at 8:12 PM, Goofy said:
Thank you for replying.
That is not entirely true. In case the user (like me) wants a QR-code in svg-format, most website are not free, or you need to register. The latter I want to prevent. In addition, I prefer a tool from a trusted source.
I use QR Code Generator Pro available on Microsoft Store (The Pro version is paid for but allows SVG export.)
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On 10/2/2023 at 11:25 AM, KrazyPetes said:
Serif, you are clearly an Adobe competitor. So why won't you listen to your customers and release a Lightroom alternative? With AI now one of your biggest requests you have a golden opportunity to create a photo management/storage/database/photo development app with AI features that will bring a ton of customers to your platform. Offer this with a discount to V2 bundle customers and you can make enough money to fund the development of that single app. I want local processing speed, and I want local management but with the smarts being offered by Google Photos search. GPhotos has super powerful search, I can type "fruits" and will bring results with photos that contain fruit. Could be paintings of fruits in a bowl, a street market stall, or a fruit tree. If I say "fruit trees" it is smart enough to narrow it for me. That would be incredible in a photo management app. To have auto-tagging, geolocation from merely analyzing the picture, I think this is called reverse geocoding. You are missing a massive chance here.
I agree that Serif would benefit from creating a media manager Lightroom alternative, another option would be to allow Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher to link to an already existing alternative such as Faststone viewer, XnViewMP, Darktable or Digikam. Of course, this might be difficult to achieve with Serif's software development policy.
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On 7/29/2023 at 5:57 PM, William Overington said:
Alas, no replies yet, maybe there never will be.
Yet 318 views of the thread, and 27 downloads of the poster.
William
Perhaps, if you post a thumbnail of the poster so people do not have to download and open it to see it, you will get more responses. That way more people will be able to react to it without downloading.
Maybe like this?
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5 hours ago, MikeTO said:
An updated version is now available with 30 more pages on printing, exporting, colour settings, and more.
Thank you @MikeTO You are a legend.
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Yes it looks like this is a necessary development the Affinity needs to embrace. So +1 from me,
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Cheers, Mike. This is excellent
On 9/19/2023 at 12:26 PM, MikeTO said:Learn how to publish books and other long documents with Affinity Publisher 2.2. This in-depth manual is filled with steps, tips, and recommendations for:
- Books and Chapters
- Documents, Pages, Master Pages, Sections, and Baseline Grid
- Text Frames, Text Flow, and Stories
- Cross-References, Table of Contents, and Index
- Notes - including Footnotes, Sidenotes, and Endnotes
- Fields - including Page Numbering, Running Headers, and Custom Variables
- Anchors and Hyperlinks
This manual does not cover text formatting, graphics, printing, and many other core features. It is intended to explain the advanced features that you’ll need to publish a long document, especially the Books feature introduced in version 2.
Publisher Manual Sep 18 2023.pdf 12.8 MB · 1,296 downloads
Q&A
- Is there a full manual I can purchase? No, this is all there is.
- Is this really free? Yes, I'm making it available free of charge. It's copyrighted to prevent others from publishing it as their own.
- Is there an iPad version? No, the steps and screenshots are for the macOS and Windows versions.
- Why does it use a print layout if it's a PDF? It's a demonstration of how to use the features it describes to create a print book.
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On 7/6/2023 at 7:50 PM, stevkyt said:
Ebook publishing is becoming very popular. Amazon for example insists on the epub format, yet Affinity Publisher has no such export. If you want to call this publishing software surely this is a necessity. I thought it might appear in this version but looks like I'll have to pay for 3.0 to get it
Serif is concentrating on print publishing and not e-publishing in any form, at least not in the foreseeable future. They provided support in their previous DTP software but I believe they are more focussed on printed output hoping to get that done to the best of their ability.
I do not know if they have e-publishing in their distant road map. You will have to wait for a staff member to comment.
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Here is Freetone, a PANTONE alternative if anyone is interested.
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Someone has provided a Freetone Colour Palette which may interest you..
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We have to admire the spunk of the OP in bringing this to our attention. (P.S. It also means pluck.)
At least it isn't German filler text, there could be far too many sixes in that source text.
- David in Яuislip and PaulEC
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2 hours ago, fde101 said:
This is already being developed, as per the pinned thread on "Scripting".
In the meantime many types of barcodes can be done using special barcode fonts and there are 3rd-party tools that can be used for QR codes and the like.
Cool. Personally I use QR Code Generator Pro on Windows. There is a free version without the Pro label.
https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PB220Q9NZZR -
Green Street Publisher also had this functionality.
Maybe Publisher could support plugins/extensions which could add extra functionality like barcodes.
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On 11/11/2022 at 10:56 AM, Hakim-Au said:
Greetings from a brand new user to V2. I bought V1 but never really used it, not investing the time to learn. Perhaps that is an asset now as I don't have anything to unlearn.
MS Word and Endnote don't work well together on my machines and seeing the What's new in Publisher V2 video on Youtube demonstrating the new capacity to include footnotes was enough to justify an upgrade.
I have searched the forum for info on bibliography and read some suggestions for V1 using master pages but basically saying APub was useless for academic work.
Does anyone here have advice for a newbie on setting up something for uni assignments which require a cover page, the body of the assignment with page numbers and footnotes, and a bibliography?
Many thanks,
Hakim
I don't want to put you off using Publisher but have you looked at using either Only Office, or LibreOffice instead?They may gave the facilities you require built in or enabled with extensions.
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On 11/12/2022 at 1:05 AM, MikeTO said:
MS Word has a citations feature for doing work like this. Neither InDesign or Quark have a feature for this so Affinity is not alone in this regard.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/ab9322bb-a8d3-47f4-80c8-63c06779f127
Do you think the Data Merge faculty could be co-opted to provide a flexible bibliography if the information had been entered on a spread sheet and exported as a csv? Or has data merge not got the required flexibility? It's not something I have used myself.
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On 5/18/2023 at 11:59 PM, Red Sands said:
You sound like one of the right people to monitor the beta versions of Affinity 2.2, which as Walt says is intended to be the version that finally gets cross references, which I consider a critical feature.
Even better if you can give Serif feedback during the beta process.
I think they would need someone more professional than me. I only use the layout software for my own creative content which I can only do part time as I look after my father. You would need someone with a more dedicated work flow and probably access to broadband. All my internet is done over LTE functions on my phone. Broadband is far too expensive. Downloads are not fast and uploads are even slower, reminiscent of dialup I would think.
However, I will keep it in mind. If things change then I may join the beta testers.
Autofit
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I think it is about time Autofit (text to frames) functionality was added to Publisher, and possibly Designer and Photo. It is a quick fix for many people who wish to knock up quick layouts and make them look reasonably professional very quickly. PagePlus had impressive functionality in this area and it would be a boon to Affinity.
Mind you some may find this feature a little bit (amateur) in use as well thought out publications would not rely on on-the-fly text size adjustment.
It should definitely be developed before V3 becomes a reality.