jmwellborn

Since you have announced over and over again in various parts of these forums that you do not plan to use Publisher, would it be too much to ask why you are continuing to post questions about how to use it? It seems that you might be wasting a lot of other people’s time. Just a thought.

I find - like Walt - that JUSTIFIED LEFT works very well. If you have JUSTIFIED ALL as your initial setting, you may need to highlight the entire paragraph to change settings.

When I was working with v. 192 I had not yet purchased Designer. So when I clicked on "Edit in Designer" I was politely informed that it wasn't in the cards. Now that I have both a working Designer, plus the beta for Designer, and click on the "Edit in Designer" in v. 206 of Publisher, it trots me over to Designer v. 1.7.0.3 where my Publisher document is ready to fiddle with. Doesn't matter. It is STILL a lovely surprise.

Now I am confused!!

It could have been a case of "Never Volunteer." Instead, it was "Always Persevere," and you have an extraordinarily elegant first catalog. Well done!!!!

And if I am not vastly mistaken, one can now edit Publisher beta stuff in the Designer beta. At least that is what happened around here just now. SURPRISE!!!

Like the hat!!

Smooooooth. And what a nicer 3-D icon! And fresher colors too!! And a nicer size!!! Lovely Christmas surprise!!!! Thank you, Affinities! With best wishes to all of you for a happy holiday season.

Am I looking at the same thing? Is SirPL trying to create a document with facing pages for duplex printing? If so, here is how I set up my master pages, and the margins hold for every document page. No need to use guides and then draw text frames. Possibly I don't understand, because otherwise, if SirPL wants each page to have the exact same layout as his example shows, wouldn't it be easiest to have a single Master Page, and then just add pages in his document as single pages, not facing pages? Anyway, here are shots of what I do.

Why are you bothering with the Affinity software at all? If all you want is photo albums and you have something that works for you already, why not just stick with it? Seems like an enormous fuss over something with a simple solution. (Just to throw my oar in. Unasked, I might add.)

" Thank you! The strangest thing was that the imported .afphoto file was used to replace a jpeg which had come in with the original PDF, which had then been saved as an .afpub file. Somehow, when I opened the saved .afpub file, removed the existing (ungrouped) jpeg and placed the .afphoto, it managed to group itself with the two text frames on the page, rasterized the whole thing, and then would not permit any editing. Or any changes. Nor could I create a text frame outside of the entire grouped affair. Or on the workspace. I hope it was a one-time issue. Anyway, I think Publisher is grand!

Ver’r’r’r’y funny. Thanks, fellas! Actually, I do seem to manage to get into all sorts of muddles — all related to imported PDF’s! But since my several 300-500 page books have all been stored as PDF’s, waiting for Publisher so I can revise them, sometimes I am a wee bit not-quite-laughing when I have to manually link the text frame on every page. All the same, Publisher is wonderful. Mrs. W.

So I solved it. Rather. I went back to the original PDF, opened it in Publisher, saved it as an .afpub file, then laboriously linked 66 pages of text frames together -- again. Page by page. And then I saved it as an experimental .afpub file. I then went into Photo, and exported each freshly revised .afphoto image as a .jpeg. Back into the .afpub file, and placed each new .jpeg where the old image had been. Worked. Saved several times in the process. Then I permanently trashed the offending .afpub and PDF files. Whatever caused the problem, I no longer have it, because the files are gone.

I recently spoke with a tech support person at Apple about something else, but when mentioning a possible upgrade to Mojave (I have Sierra) and potential interface problems, was sincerely advised not to do it if I am happy with what I now have. Which I am. Photo, Designer, and Publisher work so well with my OS.

Sorry. Forgot to add the pixellated type image before I sent the above. When I edited it to send that too, it appeared at the top of my comment. Ugh.

I have been editing a pdf which I had saved in InDesign a few years ago and which I have saved as an .afpub file. Everything was going swimmingly Saved, and Saved As several times. Today I decided to adjust one of the photographs in Affinity Photo. Worked just fine. Imported it into the .afpub document. Fine. Saved it. Made some more adjustments to the photograph. Placed that into the same .afpub document replacing the previous image. Suddenly the placed image automatically grouped itself with the title of the book and my "by" line, and the type is badly pixellated. I cannot ungroup this thing. There is no indication under LAYER>Ungroup that it has been grouped. I can place a text frame outside the group, but cannot insert text. Nor can I create a text frame on the desktop and drag it into the page. So I added a new page to the document just before the page with the mess on it. I created a text frame, typed a T (for the word "The") and got an enormous T (shown below) but with the text size shown in the context tool bar as 11 points. Not only that, but the rulers show that the 8-1/2 x 11" page is just over 1 pica wide. When I used the zoom tool , I got a series of tiny icons on my desktop (even when I zoomed at 800%). So I used the Control +Open and restarted Publisher - naturally losing all my settings -- gr'r'r'r. But that has not helped this problem at all. I have opened other documents which I created in Publisher, and don't seem to have the pixellation problem. It is also not evident on other pages in the offending .afpub document. So somehow or other, the .afphoto image must have gummed up the .afpub page. HELP!!! !

Just a quick note as 2018 comes to a close to say thank you for everybody who has been so helpful in these Forums. Most of all to the wonderful developers and staff at Affinity who have been so unfailingly gracious in answering our questions, responding to our pleas for help, and accepting our suggestions - in my case, most especially the lovely new Publisher. With Photo, Designer, and Publisher in our futures, how can 2019 be anything but a Very Happy New Year!! Jennifer Wellborn

Precisely.

And what about people who want 2 columns, or 3 columns of tools? I agree with fde101 that a potential "small"/"medium"/"large" might be a nice future option. Future. Just now, I am glad to have ANYTHING that isn't Adobe.

Thank you so much for your kind reply. That is exactly what I did after a night of troubled dreams and a grim determination to keep those assets. I opened the beta version of Designer, told it to behave itself, and opened each document file containing the downloaded assets rather than using “Import Assets.” The beta asked me if I was quite sure about that and I made the suggested copy of each file. And then I methodically created new categories and added selections, one by one. GOT ‘EM!!!! And on quite another note — thank you, too, for creating the glorious smoke and cloud brushes. They are spectacular!! Merry Christmas!

For starters, Affinity Publisher is not going to rent the socks off of us. For another — having used Pagemaker and later, InDesign for many years, and having found that if and when I had a question it was tough luck, Publisher — plus Photo and Designer — comes with these Forums where the staff and developers at Affinity/Serif are extremely helpful and exceptionally courteous in an otherwise generally unhelpful world. Experienced users also respond very kindly with answers to “how to” questions. Truly great features!!! I will leave it to everybody else to enumerate all the good stuff Publisher can do.

Actually, all the brushes imported beautifully. Some of the assets I found in the Resources forum and which imported perfectly into the Commercial version of Designer, refuse to import into the Beta. They just shoot back and open the commercial version, where they already exist. This is disappointing, but not unexpected. I hope that the designers of these lovely things will upgrade their files when v. 1.7 is ready for purchase.

Thank you Dominik! You are a true gentleman.

Yep. I am officially an idiot. Or maybe just learning all this layers stuff. Anyway, I will try it tomorrow. Thank you!!!!!!

I guess I am a total idiot, but where is "Mask to Below?" Here is what happens when I put a rectangle on top of an image, and right click.