jmwellborn

Did you have a question or comment? It doesn't seem to have come through in your post. Have you tried this with your Publisher V2 on your laptop?

@VJS If you have Publisher v2 you should be able to do just what you want with picture frames. I have used Designer v.2.1.1 for my example, but did the same thing in Publisher, using picture frames.

If you have not already found it, go to WINDOW>Studio>and down at the bottom, RESET STUDIO. Then click on the empty LAYERS panel and you will find that little strip of icons at the bottom of the Layers Panel. For future reference, you might like to try setting up your left and right studios the way you like them, then go to WINDOW/Studio>Add Preset and give it a name you choose. Then any time you lose some of your panels, all you have to do is go up to WINDOW/STUDIO and click on your preset's name, and you will find everything where you want it again. It is a nice time-saver!

Got it. They are actually two completely different procedures, not sequential ones. The way I read the descriptive information (screenshot above) was that after one had used the Cmd + Shift = R shortcut to rename a layer (in the layers panel), one could "quickly edit the next/previous layer's name using Tab or Shift-Tab. Not so. Actually, it is just the ability to double click on a layer name, change that, and then either Shift + Tab to go up, or Tab to go down through the layers stack and rename each layer. Semantics.

Got it! I hope the HELP instructions will include your more detailed explanation. This is a great feature!!

Here you are. Hope this helps! Screen Recording 2023-07-04 at 11.25.52.mov

It is obviously specific to opening image files. Every document I have opened in Publisher (and I have tried several) which was saved as an .afpub file opens without a background layer and without being locked -- with or without master pages. I think we have flogged this topic enough.

This is such a nice addition!! Works perfectly here.

I tried this with Publisher and found that if I set the colour of the margin in Master Pages, the color sticks. Otherwise you are right, it is back to blue on the next page.

When I first tried this in light mode, the tiny icon at the bottom of the Pages Panel was inactive and so faint that I had real trouble finding it at all. I knew where it was supposed to be, based on the screenshot at the start of this topic. I also fiddled with all of my User Interface sliders, but could never make it show up, even though the tiny Toggle Master View and Page count icons were visible from the start. Once I actually clicked on a page and then another page, it suddenly appeared in vivid black and works like a charm — with one addition. You can toggle back and forth between the two pages you have chosen as many times as you like, but if you wish to toggle from one of the pages to a different page, or between a new pair of pages, you must double click on the new page or pair of pages. Great addition! I could have used this with pure joy recently while creating some lengthy legal documents, each of which refers back and forth to numbered Articles, Sections, Subsections, etc. Being sure that every cross reference was correct as additions or deletions were made (thus moving material back and forth from one page to another to accommodate the changes), was a very lengthy process.

No, that isn't all I am seeing and I am in Publisher. Here is another example, saved as an .afpub file then FILE>OPEN in Publisher. I have attached my Performance setting which is under User Interface. As you can see, there isn't a Background Layer and nothing is locked.

Stumped again! I am trying this with Photo 2.2.0.1881, using the Paint Brush Tool and the Eraser Brush Tool, but when I release the E I do not get back to the Paint Brush Tool. Sometimes I actually get the Flood Fill Tool instead. (video doesn't show that.) And when that happens, neither the B or E shortcut works. Screen Recording 2023-07-03 at 14.59.43.mov

I am finding something for which the logic escapes me. If I FILE>Open an image file (i.e. PNG or JPG) in Publisher 2.2.0.1881, it is placed as a locked background layer even if I don't have master pages set for the document. If I FILE>OPEN an .afpub file, even with a single page, the bottom layer is not locked. The samples below are in reverse order.

Works here too. It has never not worked and is today working again in the 2.2.0.1881 Betas.

According to the information about 2.1, we can now update a layer name using Cmd Shift R. That works perfectly. But we are also supposed to now be able, on MAC, to use tab / Shift-tab to quickly edit the next/previous layer's name. I cannot make this work, and cannot find a spot in Preferences/Shortcuts/Layers where that option resides to create a shortcut. What am I doing incorrectly?

@StuartRc I have also been experimenting with the Style Picker Tool (although at a terribly amateurish level, compared with your elegant work) and am amazed at the things it can do. And so quickly! In Photo I have been delighted to find that I can even use it when a macro has been appled to text or an object which has also had adjustments, styles, palettes, and colour changes. Pure genius! Also the Vector Flood Fill Tool. The V2 apps compared with V1 are rather like reading Anna Karenina after Dick and Jane.

@StuartRc Amazing!

@Piet84 is it possible that when exporting to PDF you are choosing the option “Spreads?” If so, could you try exporting again, but choose “All Pages.” This looks very much like something that was happening to me some time ago. I hope this helps.

@Old Bruce Works like a charm when one has a clue to what one is doing!!! Thank you so much for the sample file. I had misunderstood and had made the second Master page a single page, rather than a facing page. For starters. I hope you don't mind, but I have saved your file as a template, so in case I am up the creek again, I can paddle to shore! Thank you again.

@Old Bruce Thank you so much. Stupid me. I didn't think of "naming" in the Layers Panel. Which just goes to show that I wasn't thinking. And speaking of naming layers, I really like the new Rename Layer shortcut in v.2! I will get into this again after I finish struggling with "Hide my Email" with Apple. All one has to do is try something out that one subsequently decides one doesn't want to use and one is permanently stuck with the darned thing. At least as far as the Wall Street Journal is concerned. They were unamused. But that isn't a Forum problem.

@Old Bruce I have to be a complete idiot, but I have tried and tried and cannot make this work. When I "Migrate" nothing happens. I have tried with a new blank document, presuming that the text flow would change once I started typing in text in the facing pages, and then with one with filler text already placed in the facing pages. Also, how do you "name" a blank text frame in a Master Page? At this point, I am stumped but determined, although I don't actually have a use for this. At least not now. But who knows when it could be very useful.

So .0136% of the actual viewers replied. Going to need a lot of "nice old ladies" to come to the rescue, aussi vite que possible!

@Alfred Thank you. I was floundering with trying to get that link to function with my iPad. With a notable lack of success!🤢

There is a workaround which you could try. It would be cumbersome, but at least possible. Export your document as a PDF, then use FILE>NEW>OPEN and when you get the PDF Options dialog, be sure to check Group lines of text into text frames. Your linked text frames will now be unlinked, but you will see the little marks that permit you to relink them. You can then move each unlinked box around any way you want. Naturally, it is going to unlink ALL of your text boxes in the document, so it could be a pain in the neck. The document, linked frames above, and the placed PDF with frames unlinked below

@Reggie1958 You are welcome!