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Neat little video!!! Looks as though “the consultant” didn’t check the box “Preserve width” when setting the 5 columns. Seneca has it checked and the columns and gutters are identical.
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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
Strange. If you go to the Menu, and choose Select, what shortcut shows for Select All? (Or, if you open Preferences, and look at the shortcuts for Select, what do you see for Select All?)
Command + A. Also looked at Preferences>Shortcuts. Command + A. Just doesn’t work. Tried all that before I wrote the entry.
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18 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
If you want to be able to see it you must then click in the frame in which you placed your Index and select all (cmd + A) the text and enlarge the point size. As I said I have some tiny default for it which I cannot for the life of me fix.
Cmd + A doesn't seem to like my MAC. Never mind. The workaround works. When I am in a very expansive mood, I will try Walt's Paragraph Styles defaults. So far, I have left "styles" for last. But my 302 page transcription of an 1823 "history" book running from page 1 to page 302 without a section or chapter break, with 5 footnotes, a bibliography of 2 entries, and an index of 23 lines, is now safe to enter in its PDF version into the commercial Publisher version -- when ready. I had made a 2-column, 54-page index for this particular book, and was NOT a happy camper in the "if all else fails" department. Thank you both!!
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17 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
And she also said "I'll always have Tara"
Well, blow me down! (As Popeye used to say, I think.). The curse worked. I tried enlarging the tiny dot by zooming 800% and it was still a tiny little dot. Clicking on the text tool got nowhere. But I changed to the Move tool, poked at the little dot, and then opened the Character Panel. Yup. 2 pt type. So I enlarged it to 16 pt just for laughs, and BINGO! An index. Did all that before trying your Cmd+A solution. So I will do a Save As (something else) on this thing, and then try your method.
Thank you! The men in the white coats have vanished.
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1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:
And she also said "I'll always have Tara"
True.
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9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
That screen shot in my second post is an enlargement of your screenshot, there is a minuscule blue smudge there so you put it in for sure. Just use the Text Frame Tool to make a Text Frame for your index. With the text cursor active in that frame click on the fourth little icon (maybe it is a page, I don't know.) from the left, it is to the left of the recycle arrows in the Index Studio. That will insert/place/paste your Index into that frame. If you want to be able to see it you must then click in the frame in which you placed your Index and select all (cmd + A) the text and enlarge the point size. As I said I have some tiny default for it which I cannot for the life of me fix.
Oh, THAT tiny little dot. My word!!!! It is so tiny that I didn’t even see it. Tomorrow I will have to try the thing again with a zoom level of about 8. Thank you. I was ready to check myself in to the men in the white coats. After all, “tomorrow is another day,” said Scarlett O’Hara.
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Not me! I use Apple products only, and am already a huge fan of Affinity Photo. Affinity Publisher is going to be equally wonderful. I am willing to bet that in a few years it will be another Apple product of the year. Meanwhile, it still has a few growing pains, but a wonderful group at Serif who are ironing them out at the rate of knots. I cannot wait to buy the very first commercial version and will be very happy to see it grow.
1 hour ago, Joansz said:That's what Serif is going to have to do in order to produce a product that I would want to buy.
Meanwhile, I am delighted to have an already very workmanlike replacement for InDesign and their extortionate price gouging. Hooray Beta!
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3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
This is a maddening thing but but try this: insert the "Index" into the Text Frame. Then use the Edit command to select all the text in the Index Text Frame and check the size of the type, I bet it will be minuscule 0.2 pts is what I get, change it to something real.
But HOW did you get the index inserted in the text frame? That is the problem.
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I may have lost my mind, but something seems to be missing -- either with me or with the Index panel, or with TEXT>Index>Insert Index. I made a very tiny set of index entries from a document, using the Index Panel, and the Insert Marker icon. Worked. Then I went to the bottom of my document, added a new page, drew a text frame, and clicked on the Insert Index icon in the panel. Nothing. So I went to TEXT>Index>Insert Index. Got an Affinity Message explaining that I cannot have two indexes in one document. So I put all of the index entries into the junk box, and started all over again. But just clicked on the Insert Index icon in the panel. Nothing. I have looked at the Publisher Help, and am still as foggy as before. (By the way, trying to work with the Index panel yesterday, I had a crash. Using MAC Sierra. Going nuts.
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I suggest you start a new topic in the Bugs in Publisher section of these Forums.. Either Bugs for Mac or Bugs for Windows. That way, the developers will be able to help you right away. They may miss your entry here, and it would be a shame. They should be able to get you up and running!!
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39 minutes ago, akop said:
I can't even download Beta (145) it fails install every time, what is wrong with it?
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Oops. I clicked on the wrong thing. Please look below!!
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2 hours ago, MrsPeel said:
Thank you guys.
Now I wish I had come here before I downloaded... I did (download) because one of the scrappers friends wrote to me saying it could be used in place of Craft Artist... I should have looked through before.
I don't think there is a chance I will know if I will be able to use it in 10 days, even if I could use it every one of those 10 days.... I am not good with tutorials, I'll have a look, but not much hope, to be honest.
Do you know if I need to uninstall the Publisher? or just move it to the trash can will do?
Don’t give up the ship on Publisher yet! When you first see the workspace, it is pretty daunting. But the first thing you might try is to go up to the very top, left-hand corner of your workspace, and click on the words “Affinity Publisher”. You will see “Preferences” and if you click on that you will get some choices. There will be a little box marked “Tools” with an arrow beside it. Click on the arrow and scroll down to “User Interface.” Then you can change your screen from Dark to Light. (At least I hope these are all the right words. Doing this from my iPad.). For me the easiest way to find my way around was to have a lighter screen. Black is rather intimidating. Then when you start trying out the various tools, use the command HELP up at the top where you can enter questions. It isn’t a complete HELP section, but it is very useful just the same. And don’t forget EDIT>UNDO. There isn’t anything you don’t want that you can’t get rid of.
If you stick with it for a while, I’ll bet you start thinking about writing family stories, etc. to go along with those pictures!
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I am also on MAC OSX Sierra. Wireless printer. Printing works perfectly. But it must be maddening for Fixx.
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46 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Been years since I had to jump through all the various hoops but... I would need the original serial number from the original version of whatever it was I had upgraded from to begin the process... and there were other things I had to do too. Plus this was several operating systems back and the required flavour of Java was baked into those versions. I doubt I could do it today without a major headache. So I feel your pain.
No pain here now! I’ve got the commercial Affinity Publisher right around the corner, and am learning it with the betas. Love it!!!!!
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AND the InDesign CS6 serial number. And when I entered the serial number I got a “tough bananas” message. I gave up on those rotters years ago.
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3 hours ago, Eugene Tyson said:
Might have to switch now... CC2019 was released yesterday, and my older mac is not compatible, need to upgrade, but can't upgrade due to integrating services on the server... maybe forced to move.
Do what I did, when I upgraded to MAC Sierra and lost InDesign CS6. Before the upgrade I saved every InDesign file I would ever need again as a PDF, and then “waited for developments.” And here is Affinity Publisher, which handles those PDFs like a dream. Import them, and save them in .afpub and you are on your way!
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I used Pagemaker for years for my 1200-page monthly publication, then InDesign for a few more while writing books based on historical research, and then one book while floundering hopelessly through iPages grim and extremely elementary interface. I cannot wait until Publisher is commercially ready so I can begin re-editing several LONG books using this lovely new publishing software and completely redoing the iPages clunker. Affinity Publisher has a learning curve, but that is fine with me. There are magnificent options tucked away in the Studio panels and the context menus. Keeps one’s brain from atrophy. Meanwhile, as I chug along with these betas, I am noting all the “bugs” and “suggestions” that relate to my work, and am creating my own Help document, mostly comprised of screenshots of questions and helpful answers. I am up to 103 pages (lots of white space in those screenshots!) and use them to learn all kinds of things it might have taken me ages to learn on my own.
Thank you, Affinity, for these forums. And thank you most of all for this grand Publisher-to-be.
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The video works beautifully now. And what nice things to learn!!!!
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9 hours ago, Seneca said:
I'm not sure why that is. Try again. The video plays for me no problem.
Won’t play. I am using an IPad Pro. Think that is the problem? Although I have been able to run other videos in this forum.
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43 minutes ago, Chris26 said:
So all I need right now is for some smart geeky know it all to tell me that he can move frames independently of the image in a couple of clicks and I have wasted an hour.

Still laughing. Now know what I am doing this Sunday. Yesterday my dog nearly murdered me while I wrangled strokes around text frames converted from shapes. In the end, it was so simple! And as usual, when I had it figured out, I thought “Stupid me. Hooray Publisher!”
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6 hours ago, Seneca said:
It's quite well baked if you asked me.
Presets are additional shapes that can be created from the standard shapes, except that you can save them rather than recreate them from starch all the time.
Have a look at this short video.
That was the shortest video on record. As in — nothing. ????
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1 hour ago, tjpanda said:
Actually, one of the most important changes to the rulers would be if they would look more like the top image in all views. They currently (beta) show long gradation marks in 2-pica increments with lots of tiny same-size gradation marks in between. This means many zooms to 400% to place guides where they need to be, especially for books with many images. Still, WE HAVE PICAS, which is absolutely wonderful!!!
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V. 145 updated perfectly from v. 140. All previous settings, preferences, docked panels, and default font settings right there where they should be. I opened several files, fiddled with them, and saved. All perfect. Thank you!!!
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4 hours ago, Dave Harris said:
There's a bug with the default Ignore Text Wraps setting. It was never supposed to be on by default. We'll fix in a future beta.
Changing the setting automatically would not be right, because the object whose text wrap settings you are editing is different to the object you want to wrap around it. It shouldn't be necessary when the Ignore setting has the right default.
Thank you!!! I am so glad that this will be fixed in a future beta. Meanwhile, "patience is a virtue." As usual, you Affinities are splendid! Gentlemen and ladies par excellance!



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Don’t want a discount! Just thrilled to have commercial Publisher on the horizon!! I am giant steps ahead in the learning process through the opportunity to participate in testing the beta, and am so grateful for the courtesies we have all received from the Affinities.