[[Implemented] Hyperlinks for Affinity Publisher]

11 hours ago, GreatSouthernBear said:

Boy am I glad the Links are being worked on now!  Took a chance and ditched and my QuarkXpress and Acrobat Pro DC to work with this wonderful new software. Inasmuch as I am nearly 70 and big time retired I do not have a business to worry about. Still, I do work on reproducing16th-18th century English texts with links to sources etc for fellow scholars. They DO want the links.

Wow, fantastic, @GreatSouthernBear! Nice work! Must be really interesting. I cut my DTP teeth on QuarkXpress on big Macs in the 90s.. memories!

[Garbled text on PDF export]

Hi JFisher,

I've actually tried a few presets (and none) with the same result. I attach the files (.afpub and PDF output) - a c.100 page ebook. Thanks!

Catalonia-messed-up.pdf

Catalonia.afpub

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Have an issue with exporting to PDF, some of the titles and lots of segments of text are garbled (random characters). The body text affected is in italics. The document is an imported PDF (from InDesign, I think) and I had to replace the fonts; it may be related to my trying to use "different" fonts instead of all sub-styles, as I couldn't find a set which contained the whole lot and had to add from another source (and I'm not a font management expert!).

Not sure why some, but not all titles are affected, though.

Any thoughts?

[[Implemented] Hyperlinks for Affinity Publisher]

Any news on this? Neeeed! Otherwise, love the addition to the Affinity family.

[[APu] Text wrapping]

On 7/31/2014 at 5:57 PM, Dave Harris said:

You can get a sense of the speed in Designer by:

• Create a Pie shape.
• Layer/Convert to Text Frame.
• Edit/Insert Filler Text.
• Justify (so you can see where both edges are ).
• Resize, or adjust with the node tool.

Any shape or curve can be made into a text frame. You can draw a large letter 'a', convert it to curves, convert the curve into a text frame, then fill it with text.

 

Neat solution, Thanks Dave. I needed to wrap text around a globe, so I used the Pen tool to create a shape which followed the curve of the globe then extended to the rest of the section. Marked as Text Frame and hey presto, you have a text box in the shape of the negative of the object you want to wrap. 

 

What I'm still trying to work out is how to add padding, as I drew the shape to the edges so the text is right up against them. Adjusting the baseline neutralises the effect of the shape as it just knocks it straight downwards. I'm sure I worked out padding once, but I've forgotten!