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2 minutes ago, PaulEC said:
It just depends how you choose to work.
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". -
13 minutes ago, PaulEC said:
I can see this starting to get a bit complicated! It seems that what is really needed is the ability to count words and characters in a single text frame, a story in linked text frames, the number on a page and in the whole publication. Not necessarily a bad thing, but a bit more work to implement it than just a word count. Maybe a dedicated tab for information about the contents of a publication would be a good idea?
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... -
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if you really need a word count, it's easy enough to copy and paste the text into a text editor, like LibreOffice.
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.
QuoteFor example a count of ten words could either be:
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. 🙂
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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?
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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)?
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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 :-)
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4 minutes ago, MikeW said:
Did that too.
And i also ticked "convert" in the document setup.To no avail...
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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.
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Hi everyone,
perhaps someone can help me here.
I vave a newspaper layout in cmyk with placed rgb images.
after finishing everything, i want to export the file to pdf/x-3 and in the process convert the images in the given cmyk profile.I know, pdf/x-3 and x-4 are accepting rgb images, but my newspaper printer's preflight is mocking about it.
In InDesign i could "force" the output to covert images to CMYK, in Publisher this option is greyed out as soo as i choose pdf/x-3 or 4.Am i missing something here? How can i convert these images to CMYK during the export of my document?
Any help is appreciated.
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Hi there,
first of all a big thank you for all the effort you put into this.
I bought each and every bit of affinity software and using it for my professional work (transferring from adobe cc).What i actually really miss is a word/character count tool or info panel that states theses numbers.
I use this to see:
- character count in an article
- character count of marked text
- character count of overflowing text (in InDesign this is stated as xxx + yyy (visible and overflowing)This info is then used to tell writers (of a newspaper) how much they need to shorten or prolong their articles.
i do not want to discuss if and what for this is needed (there are threads about this) - it's just a feature any software that is working with text should have.
Almost any other layout software does have this (not to mention word processors).Is this feature coming or planned or is it in there (and i just cannot find it)?
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I too need this on a daily basis and am missing this feature a lot while transferring from InDesign to AP.
My use case is layouting a small newspaper and getting the texts from about 6 different people.
I have to go on a layout after content principle. This means the writers don't care much about the correct length of their articles and after the first layout run i do have to tell them "this could be xx characters longer" or "this have to be 234 characters shorter" etc.For the last years there is the handy "info tool" in indesign which i use for:
- See the total count of characters in the text's columns (linked)
- See the count of characters in marked text
- see the count of overflowing text (that's for me the most helpful part)As stated above, this whole counting is a feature in almost every software that deals with text and should be in AP as well.
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I too need this on a daily basis and am missing this feature a lot whie transferring from InDesign to AP.
My UseCase is layouting a small newspaper and getting the texts from about 6 different people.
I have to go on a layout after content principle. This means the writers don't care much about the correct length of their articles and after the first layout run i do have to tell them "this could be xx characters longer" or "this have to be 234 characters shorter" etc.For the last years there is the handy "info tool" in indesign which i use for:
- See the total count of characters in the text's columns (linked)
- See the count of characters in marked text
- see the count of overflowing text (that's for me the most helpful part)As stated above, this whole counting is a feature in almost every software that deals with text and should be in AP as well.
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Ah, tried this before and got single pages (at least i thought so
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Now it works as expected, i must have gotten something wrong.
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Sorry for asking, i did not find an answer so far.
I'm transferring an InDesign newspaper layout to Publisher.
In the past i could jut export single pages for the printshop and a second run with complete printing sheets (the 2 facing paces on one pdf sheet) for overview and presenting it online at the web.
That second part seems impossible in AP or am i missing something?
In InDesign it is an obvoius option at the export page, in AP i do not see such thing.Any ideas or help with that is much appreciated.
Carsten
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I second that. If not a correct preflight checklist then at least a hint on what pages what error occured.
Text overflow on one page (out of 68) is kind of not nice if you don't know on which page to look for it :-) -
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Hi Chris_K,
thanks for getting back to me.
i did setup a paragraph text style that i use. Its font is Adobe Caslon pro.
There are no custom spacings defined, pretty much everything is default.Greetz, Carsten
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Hi Affinty,
for some versions now i cannot get the dropcaps working as intended (at least in my case ;-))
What happens (on a newspaper layout i created from scratch - used this for years in InDesign):
- got a 5 column layout with a baseline grid
- write an article in a textframe, activate dropcaps (in the paragraph portion of the studio)
- Dropcaps set to 3 lines - works a intended (starts at line 1 and is 3 lines high)
- now activate "align to baseline grid" (also in paragraphs) - nothing else is changed, just activate "align..."
- suddenly the same dropcap is 5 lines high with an additional empty line above it (making it 6 lines total)Am i missing something here? This keeps bugging me, as it would be an essential feature for my work with newspaper layouts.
Thanks for any advice,
Carsten
Word count in Affinity Publisher
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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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.