walt.farrell

For me, double-clicking selects the Master and makes it active (that is, it then displays as the active page in the Publisher main display). Once selected, a single left-click on the title enables editing of the title. Note the change in highlighting in the following two screenshots: Selected: Enabled for editing of the name: Perhaps too subtle for immediate notice.

If they add an option, I hope they don't refer to "sense line". I'm reasonably well-read, but I've never heard that term except in this forum topic, and searching for it via Google or in Wikipedia gives nothing relevant. I wonder what they're really called

Not true, in general. Some compression methods are truly lossless. LZW, for example, which is the standard for TIFF compression. Edit: it may be true that compressing from 50MB to 25MB without loss of quality is not possible, but that's a specific situation.

I had forgotten that possibility. Thanks.

Again, Tom, I would expect a drag and drop to be adding a new object not replacing one. As MickRose suggested, Replace Image is the way to do what you're trying to do. If I draw a rectangle, I get a new layer in the document. If I drag a rectangle from another document and put it on top of that original rectangle, it does not replace it. I now have two rectangles, on two layers. For consistency images need to work the same.

No, you can't apply a Master to a Master.

Does not work at all, or works but improperly in some circumstances?

What do you mean by "distinguishable stanza"? To me, that means visually, which implies greater spacing between stanzas than between lines. As I mentioned above, you can accomplish that by using 2 different paragraph styles. (Or, though less amenable to further analysis by a computer program, by simply inserting a blank line at the stanza break.)

No. While you can type in the box in that situation, you're changing the ratio if you do it.

I don't think it's available in Publisher, either. Personally, though, I just don't make transformations that change the aspect ratio, so I don't have a need for something like that.

Not that I know of. However, when the 1.7 versions of Designer and Photo are available (and assuming you own those apps) you should be able to click on the Designer or Photo persona from Publisher and work on that color picture in-place to make it B&W. That would eliminate the need to replace it. (Alternatively, you might have success simply changing the Publisher document format to Gray from RGB, or using a grayscale color profile when printing.)

Thanks for trying to help, @R C-R. Speaking as a Windows user, if he tried the wrong method, he would have gotten one of the following instead of the message he got: Via Drag and Drop: A message like "This file is not an Affinity Document." Via double-clicking: A popup from Windows asking him to choose an application. (And, I presume, if he chose Affinity Photo he'd then get the message just above. As he does not have the Macro panel showing, only Library, I think he must be trying to do it correctly. However, I just downloaded those files, and imported them into the library, and they worked fine for me. I would suggest a faulty download, except that they download as a .zip file, and if that download were bad he wouldn't be able to unzip the file. I see there is no "Default" category in his Library panel. That seems odd, but I don't know if it could be related.

I think you're referring to this preference:

Perhaps (without the actual text it's hard to test ): Select the text. Click the Create Paragraph Style button or the Create Character Style button at the bottom of the Text Styles panel?

You can use the Picture Frame Properties from the Context bar to determine whether the image will be scaled, and if so, how.

That's not new in .133; it was there in the original public beta version.

What's the problem with each being a paragraph? We're basically talking about presentation (how it looks, and flows), not semantics.

Not all of them, Chris. Files that that Publisher considers Image files (jpg, tiff, png, ...) show as (Image), but files that it considers documents (psd, eps, svg, .afdesign, .afphoto, ...) show as (Embedded Document) in the Layers panel. It's a different meaning of "embedded" (the original meaning, from Designer), and unrelated to whether the document file is referenced by a link or is truly contained within the Publisher document. That is, it's the Layer type, not a description of the file location. Any changes will need to affect Designer, too, for consistency.

I can only guess that Text > Insert includes the fields that are considered more commonly needed, and View > Studio > Fields has ones that are less frequently needed. Only the Affinity developers would know for sure.

You could, perhaps, define 2 new paragraph styles. The first would have a normal "space before" setting, so when it was used it would be separated from the paragraphs preceding it. Call that "First". Then define another one called "Other" that would have no spacing between paragraphs. Both would be defined to have the first line not indented, and other lines indented. Then assign First to your first "line". Use a return (paragraph return) after the first line, and then assign Other to the next line (and subsequent lines in the verse). Use a return between each line. (I hope this makes sense without a picture.)

I don't think that Affinity ships any Greek dictionaries. Have you installed one? If not, you could install one yourself. Further details in this forum post. You would want to be sure to install the hyphenation dictionary, too. Also, of course, you need mark your text as Greek (Character panel, or via a text style you could make) and choose Greek for the spell checking. And you might need to adjust your hyphenation settings in the Paragraph panel, as (I think) hyphenation is turned off by default. Someone on the Serif staff mentioned there is a bug that causes incorrect hyphenation for some Unicode characters, that should be fixed in the next beta. But that would cause incorrect hyphenation, I think, not total lack of hyphenation. That sounds like you may have not enabled it in the Paragraph panel (or don't have the dictionaries installed).

True. The Tab hides the page navigation buttons, too. However, ctrl+PageUp and ctrl+PageDown will work, as will scrolling by the mouse wheel if you have one, or holding the space bar and dragging with the mouse.

It sounds like you're talking about Publisher, but posted in the wrong forum. Publisher suggestions belong in Discussions and Suggestions for Affinity Publisher Beta on Desktop. You're right that, so far, Publisher will not insert text from doc/docx/odt files directly. You would have to copy/paste or use rtf format instead. However, it already supports large amounts of text inserted into a text frame, and flowing into automatically created frames on additional, automatically created pages. And it supports wrapping that text around images (or other objects) that you subsequently place over it.

There's already a field that will give you the total page count. View > Studio > Fields. In one of the document sections of that panel you'll see Total Pages. Just double click on the field name and the field will be inserted at the current text insertion point. Just put "Page " and the current page number field (from Text > Insert) and "of" in front of it, and you're done.

But that shouldn't be necessary, in general, should it, @GabrielM? I find the same problem on occasion. I will select a crop preset, and try to delete it, but I find that it won't remain selected. And this can't be deleted. But others will select and delete just fine.