Seadog

I can barely believe Aff Publisher has no Word Count, when even Apple's Pages has a perfectly usable version visible all the time (if selected) and able to provide either total wordage for the document or a sub-total for any selected text, both of which are easily and prominently displayed.
Work-arounds that involve going in and out of other applications, copying and pasting and goodness knows what else, miss the point completely.

Clayton put the problem so neatly.  'It would be helpful if one could hold down the CMD or CTRL key to toggle-change from a text cursor to a move tool and back again at an instant'
This is the one big frustration I have with Affinity Pub and AffD, and the only place where Adobe scores, hands down. Really!
I'm really surprised that Affinity hasn't solved this after several years of development (NB this thread and request was started in 2016).
PLEASE Affinity!  I'll send you a nice bottle of gin (or wine if you prefer) if you'll just do this little thing. 🙏   Here's hoping!

I can barely believe Aff Publisher has no Word Count, when even Apple's Pages has a perfectly usable version visible all the time (if selected) and able to provide either total wordage for the document or a sub-total for any selected text, both of which are easily and prominently displayed.
Work-arounds that involve going in and out of other applications, copying and pasting and goodness knows what else, miss the point completely.

I note that that these requests are more than two old and yet there is still no conversion tool in Aff Designer. When can we look forward to its definite inclusion?

1.   For the text Inset controls (Text Frame>General>Insets) why not have a logical interface design where 'locality' controls are placed in a 'logical' layout?  See attachment for roughed-up design.  This is in contrast to the existing illogical placement of Left Right Top Bottom.
There are several other parts of the UI where this logical placement of controls could be implemented. For example, in the ill-designed pop-up Text Wrap window, which not only suffers from this illogical placement of locality controls but also very inefficient use of UI space.
2.   Is it possible to have user-selected negative (-n) values in the text inset control fields? This effectively creates a text outset  control which is very useful in certain circumstances.  (Negative values are allowed in Text Wrap, so here's hoping for the same with text inset)
Thanks for everything done so far. 
Seadog

Well said Peter. Thanks for your positive repost to the some of the nay-sayers. Word Count remains one very good and vital addition that could be made to AffPub. If some didn't wish to use the feature, they needn't!

In these forum pages I have noticed lots of good proposals being 'torn down' by others for no good reason, almost before they had the chance to see the light of day. 
What is the point of negative comments in this forum, especially when they are responses from people who have no use of a proposed/requested feature, or those who cannot understand the utility of a particular feature or control?  
As a reaction to those who prefer to knock very worthy proposals, I offer this suggestion: isn't it better to be positive and support anything that will help program developers produce a superior product? If one cannot be positive, why bother saying anything?  
Being supportive of good ideas, rather than trying to knock them down, can only encourage a win-win. Better software (thus, happy users) and happy developers who will be encouraged to greater heights.

In these forum pages I have noticed lots of good proposals being 'torn down' by others for no good reason, almost before they had the chance to see the light of day. 
What is the point of negative comments in this forum, especially when they are responses from people who have no use of a proposed/requested feature, or those who cannot understand the utility of a particular feature or control?  
As a reaction to those who prefer to knock very worthy proposals, I offer this suggestion: isn't it better to be positive and support anything that will help program developers produce a superior product? If one cannot be positive, why bother saying anything?  
Being supportive of good ideas, rather than trying to knock them down, can only encourage a win-win. Better software (thus, happy users) and happy developers who will be encouraged to greater heights.

I can barely believe Aff Publisher has no Word Count, when even Apple's Pages has a perfectly usable version visible all the time (if selected) and able to provide either total wordage for the document or a sub-total for any selected text, both of which are easily and prominently displayed.
Work-arounds that involve going in and out of other applications, copying and pasting and goodness knows what else, miss the point completely.

Without sharp corners there wouldn't be much of a point.

I really hope there are plans for print export with page Imposition. That is, automatic or semi-auto page imposition for print, at final output. 

Due to an issue discovered with the management of placed documents e.g here, here and the fact that document corruption can occur, we have chosen to remove the download links to Build 330. We will post another update to rectify this issue as soon as possible.
If you have already downloaded 330 you may wish to consider reverting to Build 312, but be aware that due to new functionality in the later build, documents saved in 330 may not load in 312.
Thank you for helping us find this issue.
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Please note Build 330 fixes the following issues in Build 326. Build 326 has been withdrawn and we encourage you to update if you are using it.
- Converting an Embedded resource to Linked could delete the original resource
- Replacing Image on a placed PDF could leave Resource Manager in an inconsistent state
- Crash copying and pasting embedded document resources
Thank you for reporting these.
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10  (>=1607)
We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 330 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. 
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fixes and Improvements 
A Note about Linked Images
Backing data and hi-res previews are now discarded for linked images when the containing document is saved, resulting in a drop in Publication file size. Please note that unfortunately this will not apply for linked images in existing documents, they will have to be replaced in order to see an effect. When a document with linked images is opened you may now momentarily see a low-res preview before the full image is loaded and 'pops in'. This is expected behaviour.
Other Fixes
Menus / Studio
(Win) Docking Pinning Panel to the left/right causes crash on next run up
Deleting global colours could cause crash
(Mac) OS accented colour set to Graphite now works correctly for font controls etc
Fixes for Expression Parser
Tools
Fixed selection of Picture Frames from Masters
Vector cropped object in Picture Frame now scales correctly
Text / Tables
Fixed noticeable text lag under some circumstances with Character Panel visible
Fixed auto-correct crash e.g. typing (a)
(MacOS) Ctrl+Alt+Tab in a table inserts a tab and switches document
Prevented deletion of entire cell range with non contiguous selection
On converting a shape to a text frame the context toolbar now shows the correct text tools
Fix for Find / Replace All when found ranges were adjacent
Resources
Improved locating missing resources on file load
Fix for Resource Manager incorrectly reporting resources as modified under some circumstances
DocX improvements - fixes for lists, colours and paragraph run properties
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 312

Hi Seadog,
Re: __text_pages_1-36_(original).afpub
I'm afraid I can't recover anything from this file, either the internal tables are corrupt or the file is missing a significant amount of data from the end. I'll pass a link to this thread to one of my colleagues who is very knowledgeable about our internal file structure, but I am expecting him to come to the same conclusions as me.

I really hope there are plans for print export with page Imposition. That is, automatic or semi-auto page imposition for print, at final output. 

Any plans for an import facility for Apple Pages files to Aff Publisher? Or ability to safely open Pages documents in Publisher?
This would be a great transition tool, making Publisher even more attractive among those with standingPages documents.

Suggest very early fix for this persistent bug:
slider controls in User Interface preferences (eg for selecting no of dec places) persist on screen even after Prefs window is closed. They even persist at top layer on screen above other application windows. Am attaching screenshot of Publisher sliders visually interfering with this Safari window.

Hi jprescott,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
There will be a light interface in the next version (1.6).
Meanwhile you go to to Preferences, User Interface section to change a few parameters.
Size of UI text, canvas backgound colours etc.