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It can depend of the worflow. Since I don't find them usable this way, for example, I tend to use the old trick to create frames of needed measurements and aligning needed objects on them, storing those frames out of the pages for later if needed. I also use those frames to add guides easily.

"Expand variable" would be more logical, since it's not a field. Field, in French, is an input in a form, among other definitions relative to areas, but not suitable in this case (this translation is too literal, but we reported already some translation problems).

👹This request was made long ago... Or at least for the apps to memorize this option in the presets for exporting.

It's more about use of textures and some type of brushes, an giving an example, than preventing to do other type of works than comic illustrations. At least that what I had in mind writing the sentence. Like a lot of people using pencils and doing different styles of drawing.

It's like pens, pencils, brushes, etc. there's no manual when you buy them, and the result depend mostly of your skills and your ideas. The most important is to have fun.

The problem is that AD lack some features or is bugged when using masks, but opening the same file in AP won't help since it isn't able to manwge artboards well... It should be a bug, not by design, since the apps should be complementary. There are lot of problems with masks (and adjustements layers, since they are masks) in AD and APub. They can work on an image's area, but are at loss with pages' and artboards' area.

Hi @PaulA22 That's because you're opening a PDF, not an ID file (it would means opening an .idml file). When opening a PDF, you can choose to group lines of text in the options.

I would.follow @firstdefence advice, but keeping lines of text together (= less spacing between lines so they would appear as a paragraph, not independant lines, and more spaces on top and bottom of this paragraph). Perhaps using a larger font for the title/header (picnic...), little bit smaller for secondary info (hour and location), and a third size for the everything else, to hierarchy the informations.

Hi @Bob Smith and welcome! Can you explain what you want exactly, and give some example? By preset, do you mean "template"?

Not only in Words, in all apps on Windows (it's simpler, even for me that isn't able to remember numbers), and faster (but not as fast as working with a Mac keyboard that's got a better layout for accentuated and special characters). I suppose coding HTML in the years between localized encodages and UTF-8 was another incentive to memorize them). It's like when before OS 10, we had a lot of fonts I was able to reconize since I knew them from student years with Letraset... After OS 10, new fonts, similars sometimes or with different names... New company, 3500-4000 differents fonts again to memorize (when part of your job is to create adds, you should be able to recreate designs from business cards with same fonts)... At some point, you're fed up with such tasks. It's the same with code for special characters that work in every apps but those ones. It's easier to get a convertion table hardcoded in the apps that asking again users to get new tricks or compensate.

Hi @Andreas Zehender You can try naming your text frames, and look at the tutorial about smart master pages. Smart master pages are able to put contents in frames if they are named, (that's how they are able to reconize them).

Instead of flattening, you can also srlect the upper layer and do "merge visible". It'll give you a flattened layer of all the ones below.

Hi @J Frankel In this case, I would test only on 1 page at a time, perhaps with a copy of your document, and hidding/deleting elements on the page till you know which one prevent exporting. Check if it's the same on a second page, and when you know for sure where the problem come from, correct it (perhaps it's a font problem, or an image...).

Most professionnals work with a real keyboard with a numeric pad. Even my laptop can, with a combinstion of keys simulate the numeric pad so I can wrote those Alt+xxxx values instead of spending time searching a glyphes browser. And strangely (at least on Windows), each team I work with end up learning the most usefull ones and asking me for the others or a Post-it with them. (The French keyboard is really badly conceived, and I'm not sure the new design will be used a lot...)

I tested books of +/- 150 pages in the beginning of AP<ub, but it was laguy. It went smoothly on other tests. In another app, managing a +1500 pages book was really smooth, without cutting at each chapter or using the book feature (different files for each chapter). This book had a lot of notes. When I'll have time, I'll export the final text to import and test in APub (from a Word document and IDML). It can also be due to default 12 pt before/after paragraph, giving unexpected display if you don't know about it.

It really depend of how you're used to do book, but I'd rather use one chain, whith chapter title set to begin on the next right page. This add automatically the necessary pages, and you don't have to juggle when needing to add single pages at the end of chapters.

Or a paste error when copying something that end up as gibberish instead of image/object... It's like seeing extra "w" in an ID document ("w" is the shortcut to display a final view of the document -- without guides, grid, etc. --, Beginners often forget to get the cursor out of text frames before hitting the key, or they click inside another frame that can be automaticcaly transformed to a text frame with this "w" inside...).

Perhaps when we were doing a lot of photocopies... or when fax was part of the tools available (do you remember receiving logos by fax? 😱 ), but in this age of email and PDF, I'm not sure this semantic really matter. In French, we use the term "duplicata" or its translation: "copie conforme", meaning an exact copy, as when you use "save as copy" in some apps to get a copy of your file and keep the original open (different from "save as", you end up with the copy open in the app instead). All of this to say we can have, like in windows " - copy", "- copy (1)", but >I'm not fond of parenthesis, or simply like in other apps: It would be good to get the 2 options depending of the copy: appending "- copy x" when we right click and dupplicate an object/style, etc. appending only "2, 3, ..." when importing/pasting objects/styles, etc. Why? Because with this difference, it's easier to create scripts that'll be able to replace "style 2", "style 3", etc. by "style" (the original one), and delete the "style 2" , "style 3" that are only copies/dupplicates of "style", and keep the manually added "style - copy", "style - copy 1" we created at some point and modified without renaming the item. Such a script I use in another app, where I need to paste a lot of text from other documents using same styles or colors, and it was an easy way to delete those similar colors with different names.

You can search the forum or Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=affinity+photo+illustration+tutorial And if at some point a tutorial is difficult, you can search tutorials for those specific difficulties... and keep on later. It can give a purpose, when doing only basic tutorials can get boring.

Another way is to give yourself "homework". Look at few tutorials, try to do them, and/or search in your images or on the web images with similar problems to work on them. At first, perhaps you won't have perfect results, or step by step tutorial to correct those specific images... But in few weeks, when trying again from scratch to correct those images, you'll get better results -- always keep the first tries to compare -- and faster without needing to look first some tutorisl. That's when you understand you've learn things! And don't forget you can't learn everything. There are tricks we barely use, since most of our photos don't need such corrections. Each time we need them, we have first to check or find tutorials... For example, I rarely need to correct 70' pictures (those orange-red tinted ones), and it's always more work than usual pictures.

In the few times we needed to rasterize instead of keeping vector objects, we produced 600 PPI files, as asked by our printer to keep more details especially in small text.

Hi, They are like other layers, can you explain what improvements you wish?

You've got a metadata panel in AP. I didn't test if it's available from the AP persona in APub, but if it is, you can add your image in APub, add the caption text frame, and switch to AP persona to retrieve the metadata in the panel. If you're on Windows, you can also look at the properties of the image with a right-click and copy the data in the Details tab. It's better in ID where you can create live variables for image metadatas like copyright and caption, and once added to your document, you just need to replace an image to get those updated. I hope we'll get something similar in APub.

I don't know what your image look like, but perhaps you can duplicate the layer and merge it with a background, and test selecting on this layer. If it's ok, you can use this selection on the original layer with transparency.

You can.try and perhaps have better results, but each time I had, it was very frustating, the tool doesn't seem to take.in account transparency, like I said.