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Wosven

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  1. De rien.

    Ça fait des siècles que l'on écrit avec une faute "évènement", car le premier dictionnaire ayant été imprimé avec les premiers caractères accentués n'avait pas assez de "é" et a utilisé un "è" (pas le temps d'en faire refondre), pensant que personne ne s'en rendrait compte 🤣

    Peux-tu... pas la peine, ça plante aussi chez moi, spécifiquement avec "Évènement", pas "évèmenent".

    Si je supprime la ligne dans les préférences d'autocorrection, ça ne plante plus (et ne corrige plus non plus !). Donc il y a bien un bug dans la correction auto, en Fr-fr et Fr-ca (?) .

     

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    No problem.

    It's been written with an error "évènement" error for centuries, because the first dictionary to be printed with the first accented characters didn't have enough "é" and used an "è" (no time to recast it), thinking no one would notice 🤣

    Can you... don't bother, it crashes with me too, specifically with "Évènement", not "évèmenent".

    If I delete the line in the autocorrect preferences, it doesn't crash anymore (and doesn't correct anymore either!). So there is a bug in the autocorrect, in Fr-fr and Fr-ca (?) .

     

  2. 4 minutes ago, Wosven said:

    can be the fastest

    … in some other app in which each entry of the right-click menu can be done hitting the underlined character representing its shortcut ("f" in this example).

    But Affinity apps lack this simple functionality on Windows.

    2022-03-01_162623.png.b9f594164ce703f3223646d930ed7a45.png

     

    In this case, it's the 1st option, so it's easy to click, but it would be better to have this for all the options.

  3. 11 minutes ago, Alfred said:

    Well, only 4 in this particular scenario, Carl: A+B in your screenshot can be a single column, as can E+F. Then the middle two cells can be merged together for rows 1 and 3, and the left-hand one of those two can be merged with the leftmost cell for rows 2 and 4.

    That's the logical way, but for people who had to struggle and try to win against columns's width living their own live, in term of spend time, @carl123 's way can be the fastest :)

  4. I missed your earlier video, and if it was a corrupt font, I suppose the crash would occur earlier when loading the document and the fonts.

    Can you try typing directly the word "évèmenent" or "événement" to check if it's the problem? Is there an autocorrection for this word?

    Is it about this word, or typing this lengh of text? (What happens when you add 5 lines, for example? Perhaps something happening when reflowing the text on other pages).

  5. 15 minutes ago, nawkboy said:

    Affinity is still the underdog and can’t assume printers will provide Affinity specific settings

    Today, people mainly send me files made with ID, after I send them technical informations. They can either download and install the provided colour profile and a joboptions (or follow the manual steps and screenshots), and easily export with the right settings.

    They are mainly agencies, so they should be use to this... but really, they are not better at following instructions than smaller shops 🙄

    At least, smaller shops are happy to learn to manage profiles and export settings, so they won't have to pay someone to convert/correct their files.

     

    Most coworkers use ID, so no problem with them and their files. Some marketing people use Affinity apps. We had to set up a specific workflow to correct and convert those files and finally get acceptable ones, we can use in the final tools.

     

    We woudn't mind adding specific "how to" and preset files if the apps were able to export correctly from the start.

    Others company needing correct files wouldn't mind either, since spending time checking files, and trying to give the necessary explanations to get the correct result can be tricky.

    As you can see is those forum, people use and think of as many pathes as possible to do the same things! But for debugging, we always need to redo the full path, and search for the problem...

    If I hadn't to check 3 versions of the same file when the graphist doesn't pay attention, instead of using the same process/preset as last time he send me a file, I could do more interesting tasks. I'm sure I'm not the only one that find sharable presets/profiles can help.

  6. 1 minute ago, immeemz said:

    I did not uninstall them because I need them for the project. Can you explain why I should do this or why it would matter?  Am I supposed to uninstall them and then immediately reinstall them

    Perhaps the installed ones are corrupted.

    Uninstalling, clearing the font cache, rebooting, etc.  and reinstalling the fonts can solve the problem… or not!

  7. 29 minutes ago, nawkboy said:

    I would suggest a fresh install should always include whichever RGB color profiles are preferred by LuLu, Amazon KDP, and other major print on demand book printers who prefer RGB.

    Major profiles used on the different continents sound nice, and it's what is included today.

    But you can't ask Affinity to do a survey to check and include profiles for different companies, major or not. 

     

    It would be better to ask for:

    • exportable presets that we/printer/etc. could share (and also easily use in the differents apps, without needing to open an app, display the preset and redo the same in another Affinity app).
    • some _print_preset_package_ we could also share, and this would contains an export preset, color profile, some file preset (?)...
    • …any useful idea we can come up with :)

     

    • The ability to export a specific colour profile included in a file (for now, you can see it if a document using this same profile is also open in the app, but it will disappear once the original document is closed).
  8. 11 hours ago, kazrbutler said:

    why do I get a black rectangle when I try to place the SVG image in a document in the latest version of Publisher?

    Can you provide a sample document? Did you check you don't have a black background set by default or similar? I don't have any problem importing or placing SVG/AD files in APub documents.

    And the SVG don't have any background, so the problem is perhaps not with the SVG file.

  9. 23 minutes ago, Chills said:

    MS Publisher documents have the images and text files they used to build the publisher file as seperate items.

    Don't count on this, they probably use base files, but modified a lot the Publisher document, perhaps they had it from last year or even before... and checking differences between texts can be tedious. Even with tools to automate this.

    23 minutes ago, Chills said:

    Hopefully MS wil kill their Publisher

    If they don't use it, they'll use Powerpoint… or Words badly. That's why we're here, to make things"beautiful", or at least look professionnal :)

     

    ...and, I'd rather let them use something they knew, than trying messing with something they don't. Especially if they only know basic stuff.

  10. For this kind of thing, I wouldask them to "save as" HTML (this option would give a folder with the images, since sometimes they have a hard time finding them... and it would be better than low res PDF), and try an online converter to get the PDF version.

    It's also possible (since it seems there's an MS365 Publisher version) that the file is made of compressed XML, and doing a copy, and replacing the extention to ZIP would permit to open it and retrieve the images.

    19 minutes ago, GarryP said:

    LibreOffice can open Microsoft Publisher files (1998-2010) so opening the files in there and then exporting them to PDF

    It depend of whatit look like, but you can end up with texts and frames outside of the page... Perhaps it's possible to retrieve them later when opening the PDF in an Affinity app. There's a long time since I received such files, but it was like doing a bad puzzle...

  11. 4 hours ago, kazrbutler said:

    Serif PagePlus: the vertical line labelled B disappears completely.

    When viewed in Microsoft Edge, there is a a black band across the svg image the same height as the line which disappears.

    Perhaps you need to use more modern viewers for SVG. Firefox, Chrome, Brave browser and Inkscape display my exported SVG file correctly.

    This SVG import also correctly in AD or APub.

    Lavinia-KB4.svg

    Can you provide the file you exported? And a screenshot of the preset use to export it?

     

  12. I have those heighteen fonts also.

    Usually, OS tend to hide file beginning by "." since they usually are hidden, being configuration files on Linux or OSX. OS X system will also add text file containing some datas and beginning by "._" (I suppose it's in the registry for Windows).

    So, those fonts with name beginning by a point seems strange. I'm wondering if it's the same on OS X, or if it's a way to hide them or avoid them being copied in other situations (usually, you can't copy fonts from OS X, if they are installed).

  13. Strangely, using the button did nothing (I completely forgot it was also in the menu, with a "save" option).

     

    Doing it twice using the menu Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection followed by Edit > Defaults > Save, did nothing either.

    But it was the combo: Button > Synchronize from Selection followed by Edit > Defaults > Save, that did it.

  14. I would tend to avoid possible errors, and like in the old days, work importing CMYK files only, avoiding transparency or effects  that won't be correctly converted, etc.

     

    PS. There's a typo in your text:

    Quote

    alle artikelen die op de website
    verschenen zijn, direct en hele-
    maal voor niks in uw e-mailinbox.
    U kunt uzelf heel eenvoudig aan-
    melden: ga naar www.denijmeeg-
    sestadskrant/nieuwsbrief
    en vul

    Should be something like: www.denijmeegsestadskrant.nl/nieuwsbrief

    the hyphen is problematic... can you try to get it at least cut like this:

    blabla bla blabla www.
    denijmeegsestadskrant.nl/
    nieuwsbrief
    blabla bla blab

    Or in a single line at the bottom of the article?

  15. 16 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

    You mean by the version number (?)

    Yes, the version number, not the file's size, since it can be different, like once you delete the image(s) that was/were used as template(s) to redraw something, etc.

    18 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

    When working with multiple persons (teams)

    If they think to create new version, that's already good. But they won't always think of modifying the timestamp if you wrote it in the file name. (People tend to choose the simplest or laziest way... and I do it when working on simple files that won't take hours.)

    Number version are easier, and since the time I worked with QXD, it's enough to keep files and reverse to an older one when one is corrupted.

     

    You can have servers and their backup, or/and also use oneDrive or other services/apps depending of the OS.

    All will depend of the way we're working. If we only work on a single file each day, timestamps can be added, it won't be so much of a problem or wasted time. But if you work on different files, at some point, the simplest trick do it better without error (erasing the last characters of the file name and incrementing the version is easy, it's common when creating and sending PDF to clients, etc.).

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