dkibui
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25 minutes ago, dominik said:
To be clear, I am not against your suggestion of some more automatic assistance from the software itself. I think your example of the artboards in AD illustrates the idea very well. But I assume to make this work really well for all kinds of situations this has to be thought out very well.
Maybe I am asking too much, I don't know! This is just feedback of an in-consistency I noticed across the software suite, if AD has it I don't see why it should not be in Publisher especially if it increases efficiency of the software. Hopefully the developers agree this is a good thing to have.
25 minutes ago, dominik said:What I stumbled across is your claim that the layers are chaotic per se (no offense, just a comment). There are tools to work in a less chaotic way if one wishes to. It's just a manual way at the moment. But working neat and with a plan always takes longer at first. In a workshop, in a kitchen, in art
Just to be clear, I am in agreement with you, mostly. Prior planning goes a long way. The best designed software hides the most mundane activities from the user. Creating facing pages in Publisher is probably the most obvious thing you will do, assuming organisation of layers is important to you then you have to deliberately plan to do that for every single page, it's okay if you are creating a few pages. Publisher by definition is used to create many pages though. My question is why not automate this activity especially because it already works automatically in AD. The pursuit of better or improved is why we keep progressing as a society.
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9 hours ago, dominik said:
What you suggest is more likely layers to organize things within only one spread
My suggestion is for organising layers per spread.
With the tools at hand plus a little planing and practice it is possible to create a layer structure that is not chaotic (same goes for paragraph styles and master pages).
You are absolutely right but as I have mentioned in my replies above it is really about improving the way the software works by default. I don't think you would deny it would be better if Publisher automatically created the said folder and placed content into those folders according to where content resides in the pages. Open Designer and create 2 Artboards, create any object and drag it across the Artboards, see that?? That is what I want but also allowing for spanning content. Logically speaking that is the best implementation plus it is consistent across the 2 softwares from Serif
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10 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
Quite correct, I think it has more to do with when an item was added to the spread as opposed to where. Think of the layers' ordering as the time axis.
Actually the current layer order is based on the layer you have selected before creating a new element which can seem to follow a time axis because you create progressively across time. This can result in good order for the layers for people who don't tweak and refine the composition as they go, I tend to tweak and refine my pages as I go and I feel that is what most designers do. You end up with elements from the left and right pages allover the layers panel.
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15 hours ago, Murfee said:
Hi @dkibui if you add a new layer using the icon next to the trash can at the bottom right of your layers panel, you can use these as a master layer, as long as you have the correct layer selected when adding things. They can also be renamed ... I think
I am not near a desktop at the moment so can’t test any of this for you. I haven’t used it much, so not sure if it will help. Try it and see if it does what you need.
Thanks Murfee for the suggestion. That works like a charm but as on my reply to Pebowski the idea is for the software do this automatically for you. You would be surprised how much time it takes to manually organise these layers if you have a document with considerable number of pages.
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19 hours ago, Pebowski said:
I think, on facing pages, the left and right page are treated as one spread. And you can have an element (i.e. a picture) that spans over both pages.
You are absolutely right about some content spanning over the pages, with that in mind I have this expectation that the software is intelligent to classify content according to which page it resides or is created on. Perhaps it can be ordered into three folders, left page, right page and across spread. The idea here is for the software to takeover the task of creating order in the layers panel so that the designer can concentrate on creating, I hope I am not expecting too much from the good developers at Serif
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Works like a charm. I don't believe I missed it. I like you can reset the curve after messing with it.
Thanks!
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Thank you Paul for your reply. Cropping the image is a possible solution but it is very inefficient for work that needs art directing. What if I receive feedback that says I enlarge the image to cover the full right side of the page? Which by the way I just did!
As you can see, this is not an easy image to key from the background because of the hair so you certainly don't want to crop the image unless you absolutely have to. In this case I chose to duplicate the lower text, sent one copy to the back and converted the top copy to curves. It's a work around but I would rather there Serif implements a way to exempt some text covered by the image from wrapping around the image. Without it, it will create a lot of headache for a lot of designers. In Adobe's world you wrap the text and not the image so this problem never comes up.
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One thing I really love about Designer Artboards is how content is grouped into "Artboard1", "Artboard2" and so on. The outcome of this arrangement is you end up with really clean layers that makes it easy to understand what you have "going on" on your canvas. Sadly that's not the case in Publisher when you have facing pages. Anything and everything on the left and right pages goes anywhere on the layers panel and the outcome is lots of chaos in your layers. I suggest implementing the same technique used in designer so that anything created on the left page is automatically grouped under "Left Page" and "Right Page" for content created on the right page.
I have 2 simple pages to illustrate
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I am using the new aPub release and I love it. I have however run into a frustrating situation with Test Wrap Setting. I have 2 sets of text on a page and an image, I want the first set of text to wrap around the image but not the second set of text. Is there a way to exempt one or more sets of text from having to wrap around the image? If there is I don't know how I missed.
I have attached 2 images below to better illustrate my issue. Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks!
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As far as I know there's no way to disable it but I have already gotten used to it, I don't notice it anymore! I came from using Illustrator which I still use and love but if you compare the way the two software handle zooming, it's almost exactly the same especially below 100% after which Illustrator seems to skip 50 units after the first 3-4 zooms as AD maintains 25 units. I think the smoothness is affected by the speed of the processor as well as the video card though their utilization is quite minimal.
The other thing is zooming using Ctrl+Spacebar or just holding the Ctrl key alone achieves the same effect at least as far as I can tell. I am using version 1.6.5.123. For panning, I no longer use the Spacebar instead, I use the middle mouse button to pan which is the standard in most other design and animation software.
That said, I would still really appreciate iPhone level of smoothness while zooming
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Hey is it just me or does AD and APh rasterize text when you export to Photoshop file .psd? Is there a way to retain text editable for animation in After Effects. Surely there has to be a way
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Up voting data merge here. It is a must have. I use it to populate certificates every other week for a training company I work with.
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I am having this exact issue when I double click the bottom of the text frame to snap to the bottom edge of the text.
The annoying thing is how many times this bug sneaks up on me because I keep double clicking on the text frame to snap it to the end of text. By now double clicking is basically muscle memory I keep forgetting not to double click. Rolling my eyes, so hard
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16 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:
In this particular case it’s obvious from the context that your first reference to ‘AP’ means Affinity Publisher but your second reference means Affinity Photo. However, since it may not always be obvious it’s a good idea to get into the habit of referring to the former as APub or APu and the latter as APh.
The 1.7 beta versions of AD and APh for Windows will be with us soon, and we will then be able to open our APub documents or copy and paste from them.
Makes perfect sense. I will observe this next time around
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On 11/15/2018 at 7:02 PM, dominik said:
I believe this has nothing to do with the number of people working on APub. APub is already part of the 1.7.xxx version of the software while AD and APh are still at their 1.6.xxx version. It is very likely that this is the reason why it is not possible to copy anything between the apps. I am guessing here and someone from Serif has to confirm this.
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I hope that's the case in which case I hope they update designer and photo so that we may use the three apps seamlessly
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Not to worry, at this stage the software has so many bugs! Hopefully they have enough time/resources to push through to the final version soon. They seem too focused on the iPad apps more than the desktops right now. The frequency of updates for AP and AD is all but stalled now. I wish they at least managed some good level of integration between the three apps by now. Right now you can't even copy anything from AP to AD or AP.
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18 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
I'm sure I've done it before, but I can't now, and perhaps that's why I can't recreate your problem. Can you describe what you did there?)
I would need to see more description of what you did, or see a sample .afpub file, to understand what you're seeing there. Sorry. Perhaps someone else can comment.
When you have overflowing text, there's a red triangle that appears on the overflowing text frame. If you click on that triangle and drag out a new text frame AP will copy the overflow text into the new text frame (Adobe InDesign does the same only instead of the triangle it has a square with a red + inside) That's what I did there. The problem for me is that the new text frame has very different text style and I don't seem to be able to change it's formatting even manually. I hope that helps.
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16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
For your first problem, it sounds like you may have used the wrong node to resize the second text frame. The lower right corner has two nodes. The one that is disconnected from the frame resizes the frame and scales the text. You should use the other one. But, really, the easiest way to deal with flowing text is to create one frame on a page, put all the text into it, then after it overflows, shift-click the red link icon (triangle next to the red eye icon). Publisher will duplicate the page, including the text frame, and put the overflow text into the new frame.
For columns, with the text frame tool selected the context menu will let you specify the number of columns for that frame. Or, using the Text Frame studio panel you have even more control, including gutter size.
Regarding "something being applied to paragraphs", once you have made a change it may be remembered by either the text frame tool, or as the current character or paragraph style. So after making a change to some text you may need to reset the character and/or paragraph studio panels to remove the changes you made, or they will apply to subsequent text.
Thanks Walt for the help.
For your first comment, I think you did not understand what I meant. See attached GIF to for what I meant.
Text frame studio worked with the gutter size even though I don't know why the gutter size is not included in the context menu. I can't think of a situation where you would apply text columns and not use gutter size so that's definitely poor design on Serif's side.
"Something being applied to paragraphs" The reason why I mentioned this is because I have defined a text style for font, font size, font colour and leading and all that. If I apply a text style, I expect it to override all the other text formatting in the text frame.
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Yesterday I decided to take a dive into AP by updating my company profile in it. While i was able to finish the job but the App has some serious bugs (as expected I guess). The moment I create flowing text, text on the second frame becomes tiny while maintaining it's leading. I tried to manually edit the tiny text on frame two but I doesn't respond. Applying the same text styles to both did not work either!
At this point I tried to use page Colums because I wanted side by side text frames but it I could not manage to have spacing between the colums even using the textual ruler. I finally simply divided the text and created two frames manually like you have to do in AD. I remember that is one of the things I did not like in AD last year.
Another thing I noticed is that text frames don't always respond to text styles applied to them especially font and font colour. There just seemed to be something being applied to paragraphs that I had not created.
All in all though, this is a lovely app I can't to have the final release to add it to my arsenal
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Another vote here, I use it all the time to auto populate certificates and business cards. Highly requested
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On 12/6/2017 at 6:29 PM, dominik said:
I downloaded at 'normal' speed as usual. But there have been occational reports in the past with earlier versions that download was exceptional slow. It always returned to an avarage/normal download time after a while.
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I guess that happen sometimes, just gave it a try and it's back to normal speeds. Thanks for the feedback.
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On 12/7/2017 at 0:41 AM, reglico said:
This time the download took about two minutes, but not long ago, for a previous update, I had a download that lasted from 7: PM to 1: AM the next day and I had to get back to it four times! And yet I have the fibre, I thought I was turned over in 1996!
Hehe, now its downloading at 2.5mb/s. It's back to normal. Last time I tried it was at 25kb/s, I had to just cancel the download. Thanks for the feedback
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This one is exceptionally slow to download. Anybody experiencing very slow download speeds?
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14 minutes ago, Sean P said:
The shape isn't actually a yellowy/orange it is a green (as shown in the Layers Panel), however unfortunately there is a bug that is causing colours to be displayed wrong using non-sRGB colour profiles. As for the smoothing I believe it is an issue with Window's ClearType. Does it improve if you go through the ClearType process again?
The font seems to improve a lot after Windows' ClearType. The shapes on the other hand remains pixilated anyway if it a known issue I am confident the problem will be resolved before final release.
Downloads & product keys
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Please rework the downloads and product keys page. I just want to access all my apps license KEYS, right now I have to scroll though the page of trial purchases that are not active anymore. This is TERRIBLE user experience. If you really need to store all the trials someone has downloaded over time, just place the paid downloads at the top of the page so that one does not need to scroll looking for the product keys.