jmwellborn

I have several hundred fonts -- most of which are free fonts -- ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, which I also use "daily" which are completely usable with all three Affinity apps. But if I decide to use something wild and wooly like Amal Demo or Fajita or etc. I expect to have to work at it a little bit if I want to fiddle with their appearance. In the meantime, and just personally, I prefer garrettm30's approach to kerning. I suspect that there are others who may also find your "nothing works with Affinity...this is crucial... and a deal breaker" just a wee bit much.

It was the teachers, by the way, who said, "BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!"

Perhaps this will help. First, you will need a separate Master Page(s) for each section. If you are using facing pages, then each set of Master Pages will be facing Master Pages. Do not put page number placeholders on the first Master page spread. That will be used for the first unnumbered pages in your document. For the second Master Page spread, apply the page number placeholders, and choose the font type and size you wish to appear for your page numbering. Then go to DOCUMENT>Section Manager. You can then set your parameters like the examples I have included. The first one shows how you will set Section Manager for the unnumbered pages. The second example shows how to set Section Manager for your numbered pages. In order to be sure that the numbering sticks, be sure to click on the left portion of the panel, highlighted in blue, so that your page numbers actually show up there.

Another slow day at the Affinity Forums. Beats other sections busy dreaming up another new wrinkle that the apps MUST HAVE, NOW!!!! As for Alfred, I'll bet his school teachers thanked their lucky stars when he graduated to the next grade! "How?" "Why?" "Why Not?" "'BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!"

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Somebody said that. Maybe The Venerable Bede?

Agreed! I actually have an old DELL keyboard with the proper raised keys, which I use when heavily into writing () something. For daily fiddling and trying to find CMD or CTRL or whatever when testing something out, I use the "thin thing" just because it takes up less room. Unfortunately made up for in frustration for the countless typos. Old-fashioned touch typing is almost impossible with the darned thing.

Not if you have an Apple keyboard!

I subscribe to the old navy saying, "Full speed ahead and d*mn the torpedoes!" Oh, well.

My investment advisors asked me the same thing several months ago. I said, I hope not. I can't imagine Serif letting itself be hornswoggled into an Adobe trap -- millions of customers trapped in an increasingly expensive rental, millions of investors wanting a return, and tech "support" from Southeast Asia.

There is always EDIT>Undo in case it doesn't work. Replacing each line would be one whale of a tedium, based on 35 poems!

So what's the matter with feet?

Strikes me that it isn't up to "the user" to design the software. It is up to the user to decide whether the software, designed by brilliant professionals, suits his or her purposes. If it does, then use it. If it doesn't, then find something else that does. Same thing for computers. Fed up with Windows, Adobe, and spam? Move to Mac. Hopefully, nobody thinks himself or herself qualified to tell me how to write my books. He or she is free to read them. Fine. But not to write them. Same for software. Personally, I haven't found anything as splendid as the three Affinity products in the last 30 years. And they are just getting started. We have been given the opportunity to try the Betas and to offer suggestions/find glitches. The Affinity developers are incredibly helpful, receptive, and unfailingly courteous. It must be a bit tiring to be presented on a regular basis with a chorus of Debbie-Downers.

Could you try "Find and Replace?" Cut and paste the special character symbol for Paragraph (the return key symbol) into FIND, and then cut and paste the special character symbol for Line Return into the REPLACE box, then hit Replace All. Worth a try!!

Oops. Meant to say I link the text frames after opening the .afpub resulting from the PDF. Chalk it up to spring pollen!

Since I cannot open the PDFs in v. 305 with "Favour editable text over fidelity" I cannot check here, so would be glad if you would use either PDF I sent you to check. I am trying to open PDFs exported from former work (usually text-only but some with images) done with InDesign, Apple Pages, or that rather unsatisfactory iCalamus (very temporarily used) in order to edit them with fresh material. So the first thing I do after opening a PDF with both options checked, is to do a Find and Replace to change all line breaks (and there are thousands!) with a single space. I use the "Line Break" option in the FIND box, and then highlight the REPLACE box and enter a single click on the space bar. That seems to be more uniformly successful than the Non-breaking space option. Then I click on REPLACE ALL. It had been working perfectly. After that is done, I next link all the text frames -- very tediously! -- so that the material will flow properly, then save the document as an .afpub file. I then open it, set up master pages, reset margins if I need, and I am ready to go. It has been working beautifully, by the way!!!! And many thanks to you all!

Well here is an idea. Why not try the CURVES adjustments?????? At least that ought to gum up the works a little more.

Indubitably was my late father's favorite word to stop us in our tracks! Haven't heard it in years. Thank you!!

Pity I don't have a "way with art and design!" You are the creative one. I just mumble. Although Shakespeare I and II at the university donkey's years ago did help. Your little creatures are so original. I like Uprootius Sprout very much too. But somehow parsnips didn't quite lend themselves to limericks this past weekend.

I have tried several PDF's and here is a clue. If I click both options (Favor editable text over fidelity, and Group lines of text into text frames), v. 305 crashes. If I do not click Favour editable text over fidelity, for the most part the PDF opens quite nicely. This is definitely a change from previous builds, where I have always been able to very successfully click both options and edit away. One PDF, created by exporting from an old InDesign document, actually opened either way. The two PDFs where crashes occurred were created by exporting one from an Apple Pages document and the other from an iCalamus document. The latter oftware with its own set of problems which I used very briefly. I will send the two crashed PDFs via your link above.

I tried again yesterday and managed to open one pdf and then crashed several times with others. I will try again today and then upload both the pdf that crashed several times and anything more that crashes today. Back at my computer in about an hour. Thank you!

Many of us have been testing the Publisher Beta since August 30, 2018. It has matured in wonderful ways during that time and I think you would be hard-pressed to find many of us in these forums who would agree with you that it was far too early then or that it now “has far too many bugs.” And as ErrkaPetti said above, you didn’t have to give up your PC to use the three apps. They are available for MAC and Windows. So perhaps you are just having a discouraging weekend, trying to learn something new while trying to produce something the way you are accustomed? Although we all know that a beta is not intended for a finished professional product, again many of us have succeeded quite splendidly with just that using the various Publisher beta versions as they have arrived. Of course, if the old Serif products suit your purposes, nobody would want you to give them up, or spend your time testing software you don’t want to use. Hope the coming week is a better one for you.

Glad you are up and running!!!!!

I am certainly not an experienced user, but I also have those spectacular brushes. Have you imported the brushes themselves into Photo or Designer? Those PNG pictures are just to help you choose the brush you wish to use. (I actually printed those PNGs out in larger size so I could get a better idea of what I wanted versus the tiny images in the brushes Panel .) You use the Brushes Panel to locate your selection and with the paintbrush tool you paint away. As for the textures, I also have the DAB watercolours and Washes, and found that there is an excellent video tutorial on Mr. Limoncelli’s website, https://www.daub-brushes.com/affinity/ which shows how to use the textures. The key is to note that after you create a rectangle layer, you switch to the Fill Tool, then go up to the context toolbar and change the entry in the box labeled “Type” to “Bitmap”. That will send you to files with Textures. Select one, click Open, and it will fill your rectangle with your selected paper texture. Then paint away! The video shows all this but goes very quickly from step to step. I got the Bitmap step on the third try! I am sure that highly qualified forum members will come to your rescue at the start of the work week. Meanwhile, perhaps this will help.

Not pretending to be in the UK, just wishing to be there! What extraordinarily lovely pictures. Thank you so much.

If you are using facing master pages, the hash (not a number) on the left master page is set first, by creating the text frame, then clicking TEXT>Insert>Fields>Page number. You can then choose the justification if you want it, such as Align Left. You then need to copy that text frame with the hash tag in it, paste it back (on top of the first frame), and then drag the pasted text frame over to the right master page. You would then choose Align Right. If you are using facing document pages, your first will be a single page (page 1). So right click on that first document page and choose Apply Master. At that point, all of your document pages should be correctly numbered in proper sequence.