walt.farrell
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3 minutes ago, Aammppaa said:
This forum really needs to tell you that someone else is typing!
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%.
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11 minutes ago, MickRose said:
It would also be useful to search/replace on hidden characters like paragraph return, soft return, tab character etc. (some of these are sort of in already I think)
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.)
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2 minutes ago, Pedrober said:
No luck with Spelling. I have the necessary dictionaries installed in the OS X system. Galician spelling worked with the first Beta for a few days. Then, it stopped. With the second Beta, it has never worked.
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.
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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.
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Or, perhaps, simply draw a rectangle around the artistic text, spaced as desired.
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It doesn't for me. You might need to provide more details, and/or some screenshots.
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1 minute ago, LFTV said:
I'll report it as a bug... it's got to be a bug... the controls are there... they simply do nothing as of now.
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.
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6 minutes ago, LFTV said:
it allows to type text, for example, as a title which you do not want to be part of the body of the document, or as some fancy text "floating" around the page...
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.
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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).
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33 minutes ago, LFTV said:
Artistic Text Tool already has the option to add the border to the frame,
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.)
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56 minutes ago, SebBPhoto said:
i just wonder if this kind of option have an equivalent in affinity.. i hope this time i explain better what i'm trying to do ..
I do not think that Affinity Photo has an automatic alignment mode that will do what you want, in the way you want.
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You're welcome.
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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?
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1 hour ago, Neolino666 said:
But the numbers would need to start with the number 5 then (assuming the front matter is made of pages 1-4). ...
True, but you can do that in the Section Manager.
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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?
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42 minutes ago, Stevde W said:
Formatting etc does not concern me too much BUT I still need to find out how to create COLUMNS usually 3 on an A4 page. Or am I missing something logical?
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)?
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3 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:
Our find does not act as you might expect. It "finds" only when "find" is pressed. Changing the contents after pressing find or adding more frames after pressing Find does not restart the search. The search is only done when Find is pressed and is not meant to reflect the current state of the document dynamically.
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:
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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.
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10 hours ago, Seneca said:
This obviously raises an issue of importing pages of different sizes.
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
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It doesn't look like they're on the toolbar by default in Publisher, @Aammppaa, but they can be added using View > Customise Toolbar...
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1 minute ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:
I’m not sure what you mean, Walt! If you choose the option without using a modifier key, the menu is dismissed and the operation is performed when you click.
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?
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3 hours ago, AMC68 said:
I have the same issue with ...58. I had three versions of a file which I had been modifying whilst I tried to learn a bit about Publisher. I tried to load the latest one and that crashed the programme, so did the second file. However the first file - which doesn't hve much more than text in columns and a master page did load
Any ideas, apart from stepping back to ...57?
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.
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11 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:
There doesn’t seem to be a way to do non-destructive Geometry operations in APub on Windows, because pressing the Alt key dismisses the menu.
If Alt didn't dismiss the menu, how would you do the operation?
(which you can add via View > Customize Toolbar... if they're not showing for you).
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When export in PDF (print ready) Trasparencys not show
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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