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Yes, but MAY is the thing here. I mostly layout books (yes, with multi-page-text! ;-)) and small newspapers (also lot's of text). For this use case (one-page designs with little text i do in designer, not publisher) i need word and character counts. Especially for the newspaper where i have to tell some of the contributors "your text is too long or short by xx characters... Since you can mostly count on lots of text in a multiple page layout program, i think it's essential. I used InDesign for a long time and think this feature is there for many reasons.

Sadly not everyone can freely choose here. See, in my case, i get texts from about 20 editors/writers. They do not have a word count as a goal, sometimes its 2 paragraphs, sometimes a whole page with pics. So the page layout somewhat follows the content. If you have to fit 3 articles on a page, you sometimes have to tell one or all three writers to shorten or lenghten their articles. And this goes only by telling them "shorten about 240 characters" or "lenghten by 1.200".

I really don't think, it's getting complicated. This is a feature, that industry leading programs like Quark and Adobe InDesign deliver. I don't care much, how this is integrated as long as it actually is integrated. But at a basis a character and word count on a textframe basis (connected or not) is a must if you're aiming for semi- and professional users, especially those, who are willing to leave the market leaders...

Fair enough, try that with an entire newspaper (a little one, to be fair) but 20 pages with around 100 articles. Sums up every week. You're right. But since virtually NO software i used to layout magazines and newspapers in the last 20 years did have either word OR character count (they all have this feature and count both, if not more (paragraphs etc.)) , i think the focus here is COUNT. Maybe i should update the topic, thanks for that. 🙂

Hi there, i just installed the latest version (Windows is up to date) and evry single time i open the export window, my cpu is going up to 100% (closing the window brings it back to normal). If i dare to click the export button, designer or worse the whole sytem is crashing. Anybody else experiencing this?

Hi Sean, thanks for this. I looked into the driver and windows told me "newest installed". I then copied the preferences you kindly provided - no change. BUT: i then went to the Intel-page and let it do an online scan for the drivers on my machine and voila - new drivers! So now everything works (at least it starts... 😉 even with enabled OpenCL) and i can carry on. Maybe it's a helpful information, that you can not count on Windows 10 telling you, that your drivers are up to date or old (it told me everything is up to date), you have to go to intel and check for yourself. So, thanks again for your quick support! Cheers

Hi Sean, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, i did try this multiple times (knowing of the "graphic fallback"), but to no avail. Just getting the splash screen and then the program exits. I attached the whole 1.0 folder, right? Hope that helps. 1.0.zip

Hello everyone, i just updates my Designer from the trustworthy 1.85 to the 1.9.1 offered to me today via "Update available". I skipped 1.9.0 due to the forum entries here. But: All i get is the short splash screen and then nothing. The program just exits and no more. Reboot, beta install, etc. nothing helps. I'm on the latest win10 pro 64 bit - if that helps. Any help is very much appreciated.

Not everyone! I miss this every day in my work and have to work around this usinig text editors (yes, simple things as these can actually count! ;-)) and Word (say nothing!). Personally i think it's quite embarassing for an publishing software not to care about word-counts. But nobody seems to care (a lot). For those of us who interact professionally with authors etc. it's quite annoying not to have this feature. But as long as Publisher relies not on Quantum Computing, a "traditional" counting should not be a bis problem. EVERY other software in this field can do this (not to mention EVERY other "work with texts"-software.. Come on, Affinity, you can do this. Don't want to use AI anymore

Yippie, i can confirm that it works (again)! :-) Thank you very much, dear Affinity-Team!

This is a usable workaround, but it worked before 1.8. Slowly, but it worked. Now it doesn't anymore and it should (in my opinion :-))

i just wanted to mark some text over 2 columns in my layout (newspaper). The Problem is: If i have zoomed in, so that i see the bottom of column 1 and do NOT see the top of column 2, i am not able to mark a text of, say the last two rows in column 1 and the first two rows in column 2. What is gone missing is the scrolling of the zoomed page, if i move the corsor/mouse to the top ore bottom of the page during marking. Anyone else experience this (on Windows)?

Ok, did some testing with my output settings. My custom preference (based on pdf/x-3) worked until some weeks ago. I now started the customizing over (again based on pdf/x-3) and now it works as expected. My "old" preference still gives me rgb images, the new one (identical settings) is working as expected. I carried the preference around for some versions now. Maybe it got compromised or Affinity changed something over the course of the last versions of Publisher. Could be, that this was even a preference i did during beta versions... However: Thanks @MikeW, you got me experimenting and redoing my preference :-)

Thank you @MikeW, i already tried that and the resulting pdf still has the rgb images embedded (testet with preflight in acrobat). As you can see in your screenshot, there is the grayed out "convert image color spaces" right underneath the color space flyout. This only becomes active when i choose an non x-... pdf and then works as expected. But i do need to convert these for an x-3 or x-4 output during the export.