3Dshark
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Yes they were live documents I'd saved before.
No. The only thing which had changed at the time was the Affinity Designer update.
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ALL the files I was working of HAD meaningful file names when they were created or opened first! Client, date, version etc.
I then worked on the files, went to save them and was met with the file names being replaced by Untitled. Even when I'd saved as a new file name.
It has made file management very difficult.
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Thanks Callum, I couldn't get a screen recording but here's a screen grab. AD seemed to just forget any file name when you went to Save or Save As.
iPadOS 16.6.1 on iPad 9th Gen
Updated the iPadOS to 16.6.2, which became available just after your reply and it seems to be back to normal for now.
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On the iPad version of Designer, since update version 2.2.0.2005 when I go to Save or Save as a document, Designer forgets the previous file name and changes it to "Untitled".
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If Affinity Designer can import an IDML file, so I'm pretty certain it should be possible to reverse the process and export an IDML file too. There will always be new features which aren't exactly rendered as they should be, but it would be a good halfway-house.
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Update, if there are only two anchor points left in the path from your rectangle then you get the same Y axis issue
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Unless I'm missing a setting somewhere, objects created on a page will have the Y axis in relation to the page you are working on.
The exception is unclosed paths / shapes, including straight lines, created by the Pen Tool which seem to have their Y axis in relation to the origin of the very first page in a document.
This means that on p10 of my document the horizontal lines are showing an Y axis of 3044.8mm instead of 101.8mm!
Oddly if you convert a rectangle to paths and then remove two of the nodes to create a straight line you get the correct positioning.
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22 minutes ago, nicolasfolliot said:
Well I was with you all on this… until I realized I could do what I need with Designer artboards. So now I'm curious, are people here still asking for that feature (which, I recognize, should definitely exist in Publisher) haven't tried artboards yet, or does it not work for your needs?
Interesting, I hadn't tried your method before and it was looking good until I exported.
When I exported a PDF made of 6 artboards with bleed and crop marks I ended up with 6 single pages rather than 2 pages with a combined bleed and crop marks. Is there a step I'm missing, or do you then move everything onto a single artboard as part of your pre-press flow?
My Publisher solution was to create a master template with guides and create groups for the pages which need to shuffle.
Having a gutter would also be super helpful for fold marks and notes to the printer etc.
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46 minutes ago, Clayton King said:
I just purchased V2 and haven't fully explored the new capabilities which I'm sure are extensive. While I don't want to be a fly in the ointment, I was disappointed that 3+ page spreads are still not implemented.
+1
I too was really hoping that this had been sorted out.
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18 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
I believe that @3Dshark is talking about the space after the word Quote and the input box. So perhaps it should be 'black' space.
Indeed, I was referring to the space between the space between items.
https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/principles/web-design/what-is-white-space-in-design/
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I love that you can modify the shortcuts, especially if you're migrating from another product!
There can often be rather a lot of whitespace between what you're modifying and the shortcut, and they can look similar. I appreciate that this follows the same order as within the menus, but it doesn't need to be.
If the shortcut modifier was moved to the left then there's less white space to navigate.
It would also be really handy if the search function picked up the shortcuts, rather than having to navigate through lists!
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I'd been holding off to upgrade to Big Sur until now and didn't come across this thread until too late (after updating). It's always a punt upgrading too soon to a new Apple OS.
Designer, Photo and Publisher take an absolute age to open the first time, not quite going to grab a coffee but certainly no way near as nippy (almost instant on Catalina). Admittedly it IS faster once it's been opened the first time.
It's frustrating as all my other software is speedy, but I use Designer on a daily basis.
Is there any timeframe on when / if this is going to be fixed?
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Fingers crossed it will be implemented soon
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I know that Designer and Publisher are two different programs, but in Designer you can now have multiple pages (artboards) all at completely different sizes.
So, Serif, please can we have more than two pages next to each other in Publisher
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On 7/15/2020 at 2:05 AM, Beacon Publishing said:
I REALLY want to get away from Adobe's world of greed and drop Indesign, but I have a small list of issues that I'm jotting down that are adding up to our having to swallow the bitter pill of keeping with InDesign, I fear. I bought the Affinity Personas, but I am worried I won't be able to witch over to Affinity full time because of my list.
Hi Beacon, I've been using Designer for a few years now. It's great that Publisher has finally been released. It was a bit of a learning curve as I'd been using Adobe software for decades (since 1992). I was an early adopter of InDesign (CS1) over Quark so have been through this process already. There were a few mental leaps to me made on the Affinity way of working, but after taking the plunge on a couple of live projects it's now become as second nature as Creative Suite was. Some things are easier, some things are counter-intuative at first (personally I feel the whole colour system needs a bit of a review). It's well worth the initial pain, plus no subscription. The nice thing is that Affinity do seem to listen to their users, and the forum is friendly and supportive. Good luck with your switch over!
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On 6/17/2015 at 11:06 AM, MattP said:
Hopefully I can explain this one... Basically, your screen is notionally 1440x900 points at 144 dpi. It may have 2880x1800 pixels on the device but Apple discourages designers from thinking about pixels (if you read their guidelines on creating high resolution artwork) and encourages you to think about points at an arbitrary dpi. If you create a new document of 1440x900 points at 144 dpi you should find that 100% zoom is correct.
Thanks for this Matt, I'm a latecomer to the whole retina display thing. Having just opened up my AD files to edit them I was rather surprised to see them at half the size I was expecting. CMD+9 did the job of making the designs appear as they should do, but if I change the document settings from px to pt 100% works as it should
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1 hour ago, RM f/g said:
In the free version you can ‘save as > idml’ and ‘export > document > idml’.
I've only been playing around with the – somewhat crippled – free version of Vivadesigner. Never used it for a project, so never got the commercial version.
Thanks for sharing this. It was interesting to do a quick conversion comparison with Viva free and IDMarkz on a 20pp CC2019 InDesign brochure I was given. Neither was perfect, but both gave a good starting point to tidy things up from, always helpful to have a PDF as reference. Although after a successful first run, Viva then crashed each time I tried to re-open the original INDD file.
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1 hour ago, Raff said:
Thanks,
I no longer have Indesign installed, and I work on Windows 10 ...
In that case I'd download a trial version of Adobe CC, convert as many old InDesign files you can get your hands on to IDML and cancel the trial.
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29 minutes ago, Raff said:
Sorry, I don't know if there is any answer in the previous posts, but I can't read all 28 pages!
I have several old Indesign (Adobe) files.
I tried to open them but Affinity Publisher today doesn't allow it.
Would it be possible at least to have the possibility to import them in some way?
Do I really have to buy Indesign back?
I don't use them for work, it would be an excessive cost for me.
Thanks!If you still have InDesign on your machine you can Export them as INX or IDML ( depending on what version of InDesign you've got ). You can then open that file in Affinity Publisher. If you've no longer got InDesign then take a look at IDMarkz ( https://markzware.com/products/idmarkz/ ) which does a pretty good job at creating an IDML file which can be opened in Affinity Publisher.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks Sean. I figured it may be something like that, but worth putting out there just in case. Somehow Adobe did it in the versions of InDesign I've run, but it's not a deal breaker. I'm really loving working across all three Apps.
Got the new version and the Toggling is working again - good work!
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This is more of a niggle than anything else.
When working in separated mode, when you ALT + click on the green Mac traffic light to expand the window, it expands to the full screen size. This means that the Toolbar covers the rulers, and more importantly the open / save / export dialogue box.
Yes I can move it down 70px each time I open or create a new document, but it's a bit of a pain.
I've just noticed that using Tab to hide all tools in separated mode hides the toolbar forever! You can see on the screenshot it's selected to show the toolbar. When you go back to non-separated mode everything comes back!
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On 3/2/2020 at 7:23 PM, Eddie Aguirre said:
Yes, thanks, Mike. IDMarkz can convert InDesign files (INDD) to IDML, without InDesign present. It is a macOS only product (currently). But if you have InDesign files that you need to open, and don't have an InDesign license, IDMarkz gets the job done. I've discussed with my team, and we've gone ahead and reduced the price on both the subscription and perpetual products by $50, starting immediately (now $99 and $149).
Opening INDD files in Publisher could be completely automated, double click the InDesign file in the Finder, and within seconds you can be editing in Publisher.
Here's a link to a video showing the Open in Affinity Publisher feature in action (https://markzware.com/idmarkz/open-in-affinity-publisher/).
If you have any questions or would like a file converted by IDMarkz for testing, please feel free to reach out to me.
I've used IDMarkz and it's predecessors for years now. Great products!
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On 9/17/2018 at 10:40 AM, 3Dshark said:
+1 for importing INX / INDD files
The ability to import Quark files is one of the reasons many of us made the jump to InDesign. I really don't fancy having to recreate all of my old documents if I'm going to be switching.
Looking forward to making a bit more time seeing what AP can do
Just wanted to say thank you to the Affinity Team for continuing to listen to your user base. I'm sure adding the InDesign important wasn't a walk in the park, but the finished functionality is worth the wait.
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iPad Affinity Designer v2 forgets file name when saving
in V2 Bugs found on iPad
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I only updated to 16.6.2 BTW.