walt.farrell

From the Help for Affinity Designer:

It does tell me, most of the time, if someone else posts a reply while I'm composing mine. Perhaps 99% or more, but not 100%.

You can already search for those by clicking on the magnifying glass icon in front of the search string. (On Windows, at least; there seems to be a bug on Mac that doesn't show that icon.)

You seem to be saying that you now have hyphenation working (the post just before the one I quoted) but spellcheck is not working? That seems very odd.

It's very important that you control where your mouse cursor is (left to right position) as you're dragging in the layers panel, and that you watch the position of the blue highlight that appears above the layer you're moving, which will show you exactly what you're about to do if you release the mouse button.

Or, perhaps, simply draw a rectangle around the artistic text, spaced as desired.

It doesn't for me. You might need to provide more details, and/or some screenshots.

I agree there's a bug. I think we disagree on what it is. I think that none of those controls should work, but some of them accidentally do.

But you can do that with Frame Text; it doesn't require Artistic Text. Frame text can be used in lots of "non-body" cases. As I said above, only the Serif staff will be able to comment on whether Publisher is supposed to be able to create a frame around Artistic Text, or not.

The Publisher Help is not completely reliable at this point. It's possible that Layer's Insertion submenu hasn't been implemented, or that the Help is wrong. In any case, judging from the menus in Designer, and the Designer Help, all the submenu really provides is one method for you to set the insertion behavior. An alternative method is to use the "Insert Target" buttons on the Publisher toolbar: (which you can add via View > Customize Toolbar... if they're not showing for you).

Again, what frame? There is none for the Artistic Text tool. I agree with AlainP (above) that it is probably a bug that the Text Frame panel applies at all for Artistic Text. If you look at Designer, you can apply a stroke to Artistic Text but it is applied to the letters, as there is no frame. So unless Designer is changing in 1.7, I think that Publisher is simply allowing you to do something that is not intended. We won't know, of course, until someone from Serif comments. (In any case, yes, I could Google or search YouTube to get some general answers, but I wanted to know what you are trying to do, because I think you need to look for an alternative. There are some possibilities, but without knowing what you're trying to accomplish it's impossible to know what to suggest.)

I do not think that Affinity Photo has an automatic alignment mode that will do what you want, in the way you want.

You're welcome.

I'm still confused. Since you obviously want it to have a frame, why not just use the tool that gives you one rather than trying to "fake" a frame after the fact? What are you trying to accomplish with Artistic Text that you couldn't simply do with Frame Text?

True, but you can do that in the Section Manager.

As far as I know there is no frame for text created by the Artistic Text tool. This leaves me unsure what you're really trying to accomplish, or what the problem is. Can you provide an example, and perhaps a screenshot?

Perhaps I've lost track of what's being discussed, but can't you just specify the number of columns using the Columns specification in the context menu for a Text Frame, or via the more comprehensive options in the Columns section of the Text Frame panel (View > Studio > Text Frame)?

That's good to know, Patrick. However, if we ignore for a moment anything about additional text frames, and look at what happens with only one, something odd is happening. Following @MickRose's instructions for the text string in the frame, and placing the cursor at the beginning of the text, I see this after the first Find: Note two interesting points: It found the first b, as we'd expect, but that pattern of results looks a bit odd. Perhaps it's right, or perhaps not. I'm not sure. But it looks suspicious. Press Find again, and Publisher finds just what we'd expect, the 2nd "b" (both in the text frame and in the results list): If we press Find again, it finds (and highlights) the 3rd "b", and pressing Find again finds the 4th "b", just as we'd expect. (I won't show those.) But, if you press Find again (5th time), Publisher highlights entry 5 in the result list (correct), but actually finds the 3rd "b" in the text frame (wrong): If you press Find a 6th time, Publisher continues to find the actual 3rd "b" in the text, but highlights the 4th result in the list. And it remains this way for additional presses of Find:

Fractional px coordinates show for me. However: In Preferences, User Interface: Do you have at least 1 decimal place specified for px measurements? If not, you might not see the fractional part. In your Snapping options (Magnet icon in toolbar) do you have "Force pixel alignment" enabled or disabled. If enabled, all your objects might be on whole pixel coordinates.

Publisher already allows pages of different sizes, via Spread Properties. So if appending/importing were allowed, different pages sizes should not pose a big problem. (There may be other big problems, of course. I can guess at a few, but only the Serif developers are likely to know all of them )

It doesn't look like they're on the toolbar by default in Publisher, @Aammppaa, but they can be added using View > Customise Toolbar...

Your post seemed (to me, in my relative ignorance of the geometry operations), to indicate that if Alt didn't dismiss the menu, non-destructive geometry operations would be possible in Publisher. To me, that means that if Alt didn't dismiss the menu, you could somehow use Alt in combination with the menu to somehow make the operation(s) non-destructive. I was curious how that would work. Or, put another way, what's the significance of Alt in this discussion?

Or, more specifically, Show Samples.

Did you, perhaps, put an image on a Master Page, and then apply that Master to a document page. If so, your only choice as far as I know is to wait for an updated beta. Trying to open such a file would crash either 1.7.0.57 or .58.

If Alt didn't dismiss the menu, how would you do the operation?