mirabeau

Right you are!

Bingo!!! Do I really have to do this for each export or is there a way to set it permanently for this newsletter? BTW, how do reduce the leading in your signature? I don't see a button for that in the Sig Edit window. TIA

Been through the Hyperlinks panel, everything checks out, even the "go to target" button. and in the resulting .pdf, the hyperlink formatting is there. But the link is non-operative. Maybe one wrinkle is that after setting the character style to hyperlink in the Properties sub-panel, I then have to change the font to my "Body" style. (It's hard to imagine that keeping the hyperlink character style would be illegal.) TIA

Thanks for the reminder on what's needed for someone to get helped. Actually the first time this happened, I posted a .afpub file and Brain_J couldn't get to to misbehave. R C-R pointed out the column width which fixed it that time. This time, on a deadline THU evening, column width (or anything else in the Text Frame panel) couldn't fix it. The next afternoon, everything was behaving itself, and I had no trouble creating a frame for a caption to a picture. My best guess is that all the coding in the app have figured out (by my extremely limited use of features) that they're dealing an absolute nube (guilty as charged, BTW), and that I was far more confident of my skills than I should be. They asked among themselves who was going to teach me some respect and humility and the Text Frame said "I got this". As a back-up, I'm storing a blank text frame on my assets. Again, I'm grateful for this supportive user community.

I ran into the same issue tonight, and the only way out of it was to save Brian_J's provided text frame in my assets panel (tip'o'the'hat to you!). Column width, insets, none of this made any difference. I'm about ready to submit a Bug Report.

Migration Assistant was out of the question for me. I was going from an internal 750GB on the mini to a 250GB SSD on the Air. and MA did not offer partial migrations. So it was done manually, with an external HD. BTW, how did you guys get the footer with your machine info. I should be displaying mine

Moving from (and retiring) a mini6,1/OS 10/10 to a macbook air (M1/OS 11.3), the assets (assets.propcol) have disappeared. Do they have to be installed in a particular folder to show up again as assets in the files where they were originally created? How can I find them on the old mini? TIA

Yep, your asset behaves in my app the way it does in yours. (Open your asset, make my own asset from it, delete yours, place mine.) I was even able to drag a 2d asst in (an "open quotes" at 96pt. which I use for my pull quotes), and the text wrapping between the two kicked right in. The effect I was describing was identical to a .pdf import WITHOUT "group lines of text into one text frame". And while this glitch wouldn't let go, even copying new text to a new frame, earlier MON, I had trouble getting it to misbehave to make the file I originally uploaded. I get the hint <G>: Publisher wants me to upgrade to the minimum 10.12 (this machine is 10.11). That'll happen when my new Mac Air arrives (…been on order for a month, and Apple is still looking for the chips to make it with).

Just to clarify, 1.) yes, this is an asset from the Asset sidebar (which I love), and 2.) although a text frame asset is fully editable, what asset-izing does is to take the single text frame going in and converting it to multiple, separate text frames, one for each line in the original text frame. Then when the asset (graphic/headline/copy) gets placed, balky behavior occurs when you try to edit (ie., replace the asset's text with new text) any of these one-line text frames. Again, thanks for your helpfulness.

Bingo! Any idea how that column width got knocked back to 0.0", and how that should have held steady for ANY new text frame? If it's something more than the screw-ball pitch of copy included in the making of an asset, it would be nice to know how to avoid. Thanks to you, I know how to fix it.

As I read up on the various schemes to translate half-tone to a grayscale (not the original), each of them have characteristics appropriate for certain uses. It seems that the best possible would only be a sort of "posterizing": the size of each dot would be the strength of the grayscale centered at that point, and then a gradient would be formed with any of its immediate neighbors. I'd be happy with that. I think this needs talking up. <G>

Thanks for the replies, guys… It's a peculiar problem which may have to do with an asset I had placed; it had a graphic a headline and a few lines of copy. It took me awhile to repeat it, but it has to do with clearing the asset text and replacing it with current text. (A text block in an asset will show up as separate texts blocks for every line.) Using the space inside the first line of copy (now, its own text block) as a starting point, if you paste the current copy into that one-line text block, it shows up as a single line for each character. There's some thing Publisher doesn't like about adding additional text to a text block, when the dimensions of that block have been locked by the asset-izing. And as you can see, the text frame is plenty wide. TIA for your ideas. Bill FA.afpub

That's right folks, whether typing or placing text the letters run vertically, one character and then a hard CR to the next line. I can't find anything out of order in either the character or paragraph settings. TIA

How about a filter to convert these old newspaper photos to a grey-scale the Affinity Photo can work with.

Beautiful! Muchos Thanquos

Each of the tools has a single-character keyboard equivalent for rapid switching among them. Does anyone else have a problem with switching out of Text [T]? Unless you're off the page, it'll think you're just inserting a "t". Is getting the curser off the page the only way around this? TIA, mirabeau

The fastest way for me to switch design apps for a newsletter to Publisher would seem to be to import a .pdf as a template. Unfortunately, each line of text (delineated by a CR) is its own boxed element. Is there any way to join separate, boxed line together so that they become hole paragraphs? (I'll also comment that I'm surprised to still see this Forum jumbling discussions of all three of their apps together, instead of creating a sub-forum for each. Tags is a poor work-around.) mirabeau

In the email announcement of the Publisher Sneak Preview, there was an offer of a free set of paint brushes for Photo (DAUB brush pack). Was that strictly for those who bought the app from the Affinity store or is it also available to those who bought through Apple's App Store? TIA

… to those pertaining to Photo (the one app I have). The Forum index will be less cluttered. (Yes, I did search before I posted.) Maybe this site needs to have separate forums for Photo and Designer.