walt.farrell

Thanks for the clarification. Document > View Masters will be grayed out until you have created a Master Page. You do that from the Pages panel (if it's not showing, View > Studio > Pages). View Masters is a toggle. When it's off (or grayed out), the "focus" of the Pages panel is on document pages, and the displayed page is a document page. When it's on, the Pages panel focuses on the Master pages, and the displayed page will be a Master page.

Very interesting. Thanks, that does indeed work. Any changes (size, location, fill, stroke, etc.) made to the text frame on page 1 carry through to all the others derived from it via the auto-linking process. Things get a bit weird if you duplicate a page containing that text-frame symbol, and after doing that, and trying to delete 2 pages, I crashed Publisher. Edit: Also a bit weird if you drag that symbol onto a new page. You get a frame containing the text from the first page, but in the Layers panel it's labeled as an "Empty Text Frame (Symbol)" even though it has content. And if you change its content on that new page, it changes the content on all the previous pages.

Steps to recreate: 1. File > New, "Prefer Embedded" for the image option, and press OK 2. Use the Place Image tool to put an image on the page. (Do not use a picture frame.) 3. Document > Resource Manager... I get: Note that it appears that the file is selected, but the action buttons at the bottom are grayed out. Note, too, that the "original size", etc, are blank, so maybe the file is not really selected. So try clicking on the file, even double-clicking on the file, but that does not help. Click outside the Resource Manager dialog, and the file highlight goes away. Then clicking on the file causes the file to be really selected, the buttons become active, etc. Cause: What is happening is that the file is highlighted in the Resource Manager because the picture is still selected on the page. But it is not really selected in the Resource Manager dialog. If you click outside the Resource Manager dialog you unselect the picture on the page. That makes it un-highlighted in Resource Manager, and then clicking on it in Resource Manager will select it. Additional notes: This happens only if you place exactly 1 image, and do not use a picture frame. If you place two images (without a picture frame) the second one (being selected on the page) will be highlighted in Resource Manager (though not really selected there). However, because you have two images, you can click on the other one which will select it for use within the dialog. If you use a picture frame, even with just 1 image, it will not be highlighted when you go into Resource Manager, and the problem does not occur.

At the marked step, the symbol changes and acquires all the text that was pasted in. Perhaps that's not really a problem, but it's odd. No, changing the dimensions on page 1 did not change anything on page 2.

You can see something similar in Publisher, too. With the cursor in the text whose style was modified, in the Text Styles panel, you'll see: Expanding it, you'll see:

What do you mean by "it doesn't show the file you are trying to link"?

It's still there on Windows, but one Mac user has reported that it's missing after the .133 upgrade. I'm not sure why it's missing but you should be able use View > Customize Toolbar to put it back.

An interesting idea, but a couple of problems, I think (or I don't understand how to do it properly). If I make that frame a symbol, and then put any text into the frame, the symbol acquires the text, too. If it would work (without the symbol acquiring the text) that would cover aspects like size, fill, stroke, etc. but not placement on the page. So if one decided that all the frames needed to be 3mm lower, that would be manual adjustment of each page. It does not seem that shift-clicking on the link icon for the frame (once it is made into a symbol), gives a new instance of the symbol. It merely gives a new instance of the text frame, on a new page.

We need to be able to put text frames (for document text) on Master Pages, but that's not the reason. Even without it, you don't need to layout and link each text box on each page. You can use a Master Page for the text that should be on every page (headers, footers) and apply that to a document page. Then you can put a text box on the document page and start filling it. When it overflows, shift-click the "link" button and you'll get a new document page with the content from the Master and an identical text box (same size, position, and characteristics). Or, if you're pasting text into the box, you'll get as many new pages as needed to handle the overflow, all with identical text boxes. Thus, you only layout the text frame once, and Publisher lays out and links the others for you. What this lacks, though, is the ability to later change the layout of the text frames (position, other characteristics) and have those changes propagate to all the pages. That's really why we need to be able to put document text frames on Master pages, in my opinion.

More details, perhaps? What size did you specify? What size did Designer use? Any screenshots to illustrate the initial specification or the results so we can see if anything looks wrong?

"Open Source" does not mean "freely usable by anyone for any purpose." Open Source programs are provided with specific license terms attached to them, which place restrictions on how the source code can be used. Potrace is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2, which includes usage restrictions that I believe would not be acceptable to Serif, which means that they cannot simply obtain and modify the Potrace source code.

I have no problem with Capture NX-D and JPG files saved by Affinity Photo. However, it seems that Capture NX-D prefers TIFF files to have a filetype of "tif" rather than "tiff", so the .tiff files that Affinity Photo creates are ignored by Capture NX-D. You would have to rename them to use them there.

More correctly (or completely): If you go back in time and then take any new action that adds a history entry the steps after that are deleted.

Again, that seems like an appropriate topic for the bug forum (probably a separate post from the one I suggested making above), so the appropriate Serif staff can see it and track it. For that, they may also want your .afpub document. If you can't share it publicly, they an provide a private upload link so only their staff can see it for debugging purposes.

Thanks. I didn't think to check there. As for "how" it could do it, with a horizontal scroll bar (or by putting a line-break in to put them on multiple lines).

Sorry, no

That is where they have it on permanent display (But, technically, the context bar is needed for tool-specific information when you have other tools selected. There's no room for the zoom context stuff there in general, and many of us would complain if they took up space somewhere else in the window.)

Then you should probably post in the Bug forum for Publisher beta on Mac.

Right. And without the Outline view mode I think you'll only notice a difference in Split View with some kinds of vector drawings and high zoom levels (even in Designer). But to show that it works in Publisher, here's a screenshot of a simple ellipse, at extreme zoom, in Split View mode (vector on left, pixel on right):

Thanks for the screenshot. I never noticed that in the context menu for the zoom tool. If you want one that's always available, you might consider using the one in the Navigator panel. It's available regardless of the tool you've selected:

In your Preferences, Tools, what do you have set for the nudge distance?

I don't know if it's always been like this, or if something has happened in .133, but the right side of the "Default" set of icons is cut off in the Customise Toolbar dialog:

What OS are you on?

Perhaps you're not scrolled down enough in the Configure Toolbar dialog? They're at the bottom.

I get 1pt increments if I use the up/down arrows on the dialog box, or if I hover the mouse over a box and use the mouse wheel. I only get 10pt increments if I use the mouse wheel while holding shift.