[Data Merge: Possibility to toggle layer visibility]

I don't think this is possible yet (correct me if I'm wrong), but I would love to be able to toggle the visibility of certain layers with the data merge feature.

This is possible in Photoshop, where you could add a boolean type field in your excel sheet with "TRUE" or "FALSE", which was linked to the visibility property of a certain layer. Hope this is understandable.

Would open up some nice possibilities...

[[Solved] Bug? Can't find page flip buttons anymore...]

Yep, managed to recreate exactly this. This finallys solves the issue, thanks!

[[Solved] Bug? Can't find page flip buttons anymore...]

Ok, thank you all, and sorry, you're right, I was referring to those buttons from the status bar. But somehow I managed to hide the status bar but show everything else:

But Walt was right, after hitting TAB two times, everything went back to normal. Sorry for the fuzz and thanks!

[[Solved] Bug? Can't find page flip buttons anymore...]

Hi,

my old Publisher had two little arrows at the bottom of the "pages" panel, where I could flip through all pages in the active document.

Those seem to have gone in v2. Is this on purpose?

[Can't start "Data Merge Manager" anymore...]

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You're totally right, a beamer is attached to my PC. Since it was turned off I didn't come to think of this simple solution.

Thanks a lot for your wit!

[Can't start "Data Merge Manager" anymore...]

Hi,

both strange and annoying problem:

All of a sudden, I can't start the "Data Merge Manager" anymore. When clicking the menu entry under "document" nothing happens, besides the "document" menu closing.

I've already re-downloaded the latest version and tried to "repair" my installation, but the problem is still there.

Any clue what I could do?

Cheers
Christian

[Data Merge with fields in a table -> Cell overflow]

Hi @SPaceBar Sorry for the delay, too, been out of order.

Unfortunately, this is still an issue. In the meantime I did a completely different file which produces a perfect output when using DataMerge, but the preview is complete rubbish. If possible, I can send you the file, it's actually quite basic (I think).

[Photo Persona won't draw everywhere ...]

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Damn, my bad. I'm still not used to Affinity switching tools by simply clicking the hotkey a second time, in PS I had to hit Shift additionally.
Thanks for the explanation, sorry for dumb question.

[Photo Persona won't draw everywhere ...]

Hi,

I've encountered a strange behaviour when using the Photo Persona within publisher. Can't reproduce the same thing whithin Affinity Photo!

I add a new layer and select the brush tool with a simple black brush.

I click and hold to draw a fancy house with one stroke. Fine. Works.

But now: After this I want to completely cover the house with black by drawing over it again. On the same layer. So I click and hold the mouse button again an start drawing all over the area with the house. Photo Persona leaves a fine white seam that I can't draw over! Don't think it's supposed to work this way... Or is it?

Cheers,

Christian aka SirWillibald

[Data Merge: Preview problems while switching data sets]

EDIT: Sorry, wrong forum, talking about Publisher...

 

Hi,

the wonderful data merge feature seems to have a little visual problem. It's working fine, but has problems showing it. See video.

In words: When switching data sets in the preview not all data merge fields change their look immediately in the document view. But when I resize the view sligthly, all fields change their content according to the chosen data set.

I suppose not all instances are redrawn correctly. Again, it works fine for some fields, but nor for all. Wasn't able to figure out if there's some kind of pattern.

But as I said, the feature works fine, just a visual problem.

[Can't replace missing fonts globally]

Sounds reasonable, thanks for the explanation!

[Data Merge window accidentally enlarged, can't resize it.]

You're a genius! Thanks a lot for this workaround, even though this shouldn't be needed at all...

At least I can work again...

Vielen Dank vom Niederrhein! 😊

[Data Merge window accidentally enlarged, can't resize it.]

Another one:

I accidentally double clicked on the title bar from the data merge window, causing it to maximize.

Problem: I can't undo this, no resize pointer appears when hovering over the border of the window! Closing the window and re-opening it doesn't help, neither does restarting Publisher. This is kinda annoying...

Cheers
Christian aka SirWillibald

[Can't replace missing fonts globally]

Hi!

When opening old psd files Publisher tells me that some fonts are missing. I get a nice list and an option ("Substitution") to replace all instances with another font of my choice (see picture). At least I think this is how it is supposed to work.

But: After I chose a substitution font and hit "close" Publisher still tells me about the missing font! Even though my document view shows the new font. I have to manually replace each instance by hitting "search" in the window with all checklist problems. This works, but its a bit tedious.

Am I using the feature wrong?

Cheers,
Christian aka SirWillibald

[Table panel doesn't use existing space]

Hey Pauls,

actually I've been able to solve this just before trying out your suggestion: I simply released the table panel from the left dock and attached it again. Works perfect again!

Thanks for the reply and for this great piece of software!

[Table panel doesn't use existing space]

Hi,

sorry for the somewhat bad title, it's actually a bit hard to describe. I work a lot with tables and therefore I've docked the "Table" and "Table Format" studio panel on the left side of my screen to get quick access and to have enough room in the panel to show multiple things at the same time.

However, Affinity Publisher refuses to actually use the space that's there, but instead shows a scroll bar, which is kinda annoying. I've attached a quick video to illustrate what I mean.

If this is not a bug and rather a feature, sorry, but then I fail to see the advantage...

All the best,
Christian

[Data Merge with fields in a table -> Cell overflow]

In addition to my first posting, I found this. It doesn't stop data merge from working as intended, but it looks quite awful.

If the field names don't fit into the table cell, the same overflow issue happens, visible when toggling the preview box :

[Data Merge with fields in a table -> Cell overflow]

I just used Publisher's Data Merge feature to change the content of a table.

I've encountered a problem that happens, when the text from my data source exceeds the cell size. Publisher puts the rest of the text into a new cell and pushes all following cells one cell down (including the formating). I've made a little screen capture, that hopefully illustrates what I mean.
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Cheers,
Christian aka SirWillibald
 

[(PNG) Export -> Adjustable file names based on data merge]

Yes, you're right, but that's not enough. I need different and easily recognizable names for each exported page. Photoshop handles this by using a field from my data source, which is very comfortable.

BTW, there's at least one other user, who's looking for something like this, as well:

 

[(PNG) Export -> Adjustable file names based on data merge]

Hi,

I'm totally blown away by the new data merge feature, it's really awesome already!

There's one thing that I am used to by using Photoshop's (somewhat awkward) data merge feature:

After creating the merged document, I need to save all pages separately as PNG files. It would be so helpful if Publisher offered a way to assign file names based on a specific field from the data merge.

Would something like this be possible?

Cheers,
Christian aka SirWillibald
 

[PNG export in Publisher - can't generate transparent background]

Wow! That was easy, thanks a lot!

Tried it, works like a charm.

[PNG export in Publisher - can't generate transparent background]

Hi everybody,

let me start by saying I love, love, love the new data merge feature from Publisher. I've almost managed to migrate my complete workflow from Photoshop to Affinity!

Right now there's one critical issue left for me:

I have created a new publisher document by using the data merge export. The product looks fine so far, but I need every single page to be exported to a PNG file with transparent background.

The export tool automatically creates separate pages, great, but I'm unable to get a transparent background. When placing the png into a new Affinity Photo document with colored background, the export png has a white background with the size of the original Publisher document.

Is there a way to achieve this? This would possibly allow me to cancel my Adobe subscription completely...

Cheers, Christian aka SirWillibald

[Editing cell borders within a table is... no fun...]

Hi @Dan C,

yeah, I've found a bug! Very glad to hear it's seemingly not my fault...

Regarding the borders, the issue is really hard to describe, perhaps my words were chosen poorly, I'll have a go again and see if I can come up with something more useful!

[Editing cell borders within a table is... no fun...]

Hi there,

I'm using Affinity Publisher for more and more things and I think it's already really great. But a few things are still annoying.

I wanted to create a huge time table for family member's video conferences (we desperately need this at the moment...). 

I came up with a big table, every second line highlighted in grey (took me a while to figure out how table formats worked, but got it). Then I've started to highlight different (partially merged) cells with 2pt borders in different colors. Turns out, this is annoying. It's kinda hard to describe, but the "Stroke and Fill" property window doesn't really work very intuitive:

- Each feature has to be selected very specifically, for example, simply clicking the box frame and then a solid line produces very different results, seemingly depending on what the cell looked like before.

- Choosing a specific color doesn't allow to choose a recently used color, this part of the window always shows black, grey and white

- ...

Is there a way to improve this behaviour?

If desired, I can try to illustrate this with a little screen video.

Cheers,
Christian aka SirWillibald

[Dashed/Dotted line behaviour]

9 minutes ago, R C-R said:

As you probably quickly will see, it is very 'fiddly' & not a very good solution for this 'align to fit' issue.  

Hmm... Already tried that, you're more than right. The result is OK, but very time consuming if you have multiple lines like I have.

OK, where "nag the devs to death"?