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@Digitally Fearless Thank you. I do hope you are feeling better each day! It takes an awful lot of gumption to pull out of a dreadful disease like Covid-19 and there must be dreadful ups and downs. I am sure that everyone on the Forums will be praying for your total recovery, just as I am. And by the way, these are really neat tricks to learn!

Welcome to the forums, @chymera ! Did you by any chance use the Eraser Brush Tool with a grunge selection and paint over the top and right hand edges?

@snuffleberries This is absolutely delightful. And a little girl’s dream picture! Wonderful colors, happy faces, and fabulous frocks!

Not creepy to me. Those are “signature” eyes. His Guids and people have them too. To me they represent innocence and wonder and charm. I just wish I could do that with two white circles and two black ones.

@R C-R I don't either. Using Safari 12.1.2. Everything is opening as rapidly as ever, and videos start right away. I am hanging on with my thumbs to OS 10.12.6. But I was thinking about a new iPad. Think not.

It would be laborious, but you can still do it. Here is a very very raggedy preliminary sample. Use Artistic Text Tool, enter the text on the curve (I used an ellipse), then Convert to Curves. Open the Curves group, and highlight each character's layer. Then use the Move Tool to adjust the angle of each letter. Desperate needs need desperate measures! By the way, it would be a good idea to first duplicate the layer with the ellipse, because otherwise, when you convert the text to curves, the ellipse disappears into the great beyond so that you cannot check your character positioning relative to the curve. I am a writer, not a designer. Not sure I would ever have the patience to do this.🙄

@EditingFun101 Absolutely lovely! Mornings should all be like this!

Welcome to the forums, PioPio! The only things I have discovered that need correcting after Opening an IDML file from InDesign are 1) a very occasional error in text frame linking (usually involving a placed image), 2) very occasional text wrap errors which I correct by moving the offending image outside the canvas then moving it back in and clicking on the Publisher text wrap icons, and 3) an universal inability to import InDesign text tracking values if they are anything other than the default value. Whether that is a function of the InDesign export to IDML, or the Affinity opening of the document I do not know. If you find that your text is not appearing on the exact pages it did in InDesign, you can use the Character Panel, and adjust your tracking until it looks the same. (I have one book that I wrote using InDesign with a tracking value which I now must adjust with a -20% tracking throughout. Bit of a pain, but so worth the effort!) Hope this may help.🙂

Welcome to the forums! 😊. You will get help much faster if you will change the title of your topic to something such as Switching to Tone Map Persona Locks My Computer. So often when we are brand new to the forums we think that “Title” means ours (Dr. Mr. Adm. Mrs. etc. ). It is actually meant to be something which describes our problem. Also, it would be a very good idea to change your user name to something other than an email address to prevent spammers from reaching you. I am so sorry that I don’t know how to help with your problem, but there will be those who will come to your assistance once they spot your problem. You should be able to change the title by logging in, then clicking on Edit at the bottom of your entry. Hope this helps!

If I didn't know that this is happening I would think that I had finally gone completely around the bend. Particularly when I saved the non-text ruler file "happened again" when I most definitely couldn't get a text ruler. I also downloaded my "happened again" file just now from this website, opened it in Publisher, and lo and behold, the text ruler was there the moment I chose the Text Frame Tool and clicked inside the frame. But it most definitely was not when I saved the file with history, before posting it here. I do appreciate you looking at it @SPaceBar and will try your zoom suggestion @thomaso. Meanwhile, it isn't earth-shaking to say the least, and I can get along quite happily without a text ruler when Publisher decides to refuse. Won't be much different than my dog, who often refuses to go outside when asked. Have a happy weekend everybody!

@SPaceBar I am sending you a blank document here. I had kept Publisher running on my desktop but without any file open and just returned to it. FILE>NEW and dragged out a text frame. No text ruler. File attached. I then closed Publisher down entirely, and reopened the app. I did not use the COMMAND + open the app process. FILE>NEW dragged out a text frame. Text Ruler was there as it should be. Gremlins? happened again.afpub

Thank you. Done.

Here is how I learned to do this. Made a very amateurish "How to," for myself. Hope it will help. Scan 2020-9-4 11.32.08.pdf

@SPaceBar It has happened again this morning. This time I have saved the document with history, and will be glad to send it to you, but would prefer to send it privately, because it contains a number of email addresses. Would you send me a link? Thank you!

@SPaceBar No, I didn't install the latest Publisher Beta. I have been so happy with 1.8.3, and thought I would just wait for a bit. I use StudioLink so much and -- as with my OS -- I am from the old school "better safe than sorry." Which makes me a bit of a pain for raising an issue that may have been solved. (I will install the Publisher Beta.) Thank you!!!

Right you are! Stupid me. I usually keep that unchecked, because I have so many book files and don't want them any larger than they need be. So just after I closed yesterday's experiments I thought "DRAT! Should have Saved History." Live and learn.😣

@SPaceBar I have been trying to replace the glitch with no avail. I have done everything I can to foul things up, and nothing is going wrong. I have saved two files that duplicate the steps I was taking yesterday, which I will send to you if you would like. Perhaps somewhere in there might be a link which could fail once in a great while? It happened rather frequently back in the Publisher Betas. In the meantime, if all continues to function properly I will attribute it to a random glitch. If it happens again, I will save the file, note exactly what I had done the moment before it happened, and report it again. Thank you again. Affinities are THE BEST!

Thank you so much for responding!! I dumped the file I had been working on rather than save it, because it had only been created to set a new bullet style for future use. I will try again today to repeat what I did. If so, I will send you the file, but I am afraid that I am hopeless at videos. I will write down each step though, and send that along if I can recreate the vanishing text ruler. In either case, I will get back to you in a bit.

I figured this out myself and posted in the current Bugs forum. Thanks anyway.

Posted 1 hour ago Unfortunately, I put this comment in the wrong place. It went into the Pre 1.8 bug section. So here it is again. Just happened again yesterday. With the Text Frame tool, in Publisher, with Show Text Ruler checked, dragged a text frame on the canvas. Ruler turned up properly. Typed some text. Changed from the Text Frame tool to the Move tool and placed an image. No, wrong file. Used the Move Tool to open the Text Styles Panel to create a new Bullet style, then opened the Paragraphs Panel to adjust the settings Naturally the ruler disappeared from the top of the text frame. Selected the Text Frame Tool again and first tried the new bullet style in the existing text frame. No ruler. Then I dragged out a new text frame on the same canvas. No ruler. Clicked on and off several times, using both the icon on the Context Toolbar and then VIEW>Show Text Ruler (which was still checked the first time I tried that route). Went back to the initial text frame and with the Text Frame tool, again clicked inside it. No ruler. So just as I had to do back in November 2019, I had to close the document and open it again to get a text ruler. There is something strange going on which has still not been rooted out. Although I must confess that I have not tried with v. 1.8.4. I am still waiting to see whether that version is going smoothly for others before I take the leap of faith when v. 1.8.3 has been — otherwise — so lovely to work with.

Just happened again yesterday. With the Text Frame tool, in Publisher, with Show Text Ruler checked, dragged a text frame on the canvas. Ruler turned up properly. Typed some text. Changed from the Text Frame tool to the Move tool and placed an image. Naturally the ruler disappeared from the top of the text frame. Selected the Text Frame Tool again and dragged out a new text frame on the same canvas. No ruler. Clicked on and off several times, using both the icon on the Context Toolbar and then VIEW>Show Text Ruler (which was still checked the first time I tried that route). Went back to the initial text frame and with the Text Frame tool, clicked inside it. No ruler. So just as I had to do back in November 2019, I had to close the document and open it again to get a text ruler. There is something strange going on which has still not been rooted out. Although I must confess that I have not tried with v. 1.8.4. I am still waiting to see whether that version is going smoothly for others before I take the leap of faith when v. 1.8.3 has been — otherwise — so lovely to work with.

H'm'm. @Alfred "Give a man a fish . . ." Or "give an idiot Designer." With apologies to jackmac34.

"Double double toil and trouble . . . " 😈

@crayons Oh, what possibilities!!! (Particularly if I could figure out how to make a smaller screen shot.)

@nwhit You are welcome. Used to live in Southern California myself. Gotta stick together! 😎