jmwellborn

Thank you, Patrick!! You are grand. I will just rely on the Wellborn work-around for the meantime. Take a photo of the Help page on the iMac screen with my iPad. Print. Slightly wonky, but legible.

Thank you so much!! And just to be a determined (if possibly annoying party pooper) could we please have pica measurements, as does InDesign? Please forgive me for being a nag. I keep tossing this in wherever possible, in high hopes.

Not only not fair, but not accurate. Yes, there are a lot of comments, but they are to be helpful, not to impugn the quality of Affinity’s products. After all of the howls of anguish from all of us who wanted Publisher last year or last week, or . . . the developers have shared their beta with us at no cost. I’m willing to bet that there are a whole bunch of people who are already producing some pretty nice stuff with their free Publisher beta downloads. And there must be gazillions of us who truly want Publisher to be a howling success. “Patience is a virtue.”

There is a little icon at the top of each Help page which — when clicked on — offers Print as an option. But when I click that, I get a print dialog box showing a completely blank page. I am the sort of dim bulb who likes to refer perhaps more than once to the information on a Help page important to me as I learn new software, rather than searching for it online each time. A dinosaur, no doubt, but I would like to be able to print. Am I missing something? Thank you, in advance!!!!

I’m not disappointed! I am as happy as a clam, and honored to be able to “try out” the first run of what is going to be a fabulous product. If I could, I would purchase the beta right now and just wait for updates. Chins up, Affinities!!!!

There is another way to get these accents. Go to TEXT>SHOW GLYPH BROWSER and you will get a panel that you can drag over onto your workspace near your document. You can choose your font face, etc. and then scroll through all available type alternatives -- including necessary accented characters. In your document you type until you reach the accented character you want, find it in your Glyphs panel, double click on it, and it will show up on your document. It will also be included as a greyed out character at the bottom of the Glyphs panel. The next time you want to use the same accented character, just move over to the Glyphs panel, and double click on it. Works like a charm. Hope this description is not as clear as mud. But it works!!!

Yes there Easiest thing in the world! Go to the last page, use the Rectangle tool, draw a little box around the page number, keep the box highlighted, go up to the box beside the word "Fill" (next to "Rectangle") above your desktop ruler , click on "Fill" and you get the color wheel. Click on the box above the wheel "None" and then select the white box (rightmost of 4 little boxes) next to the box inside which is the word "Greys:". The rectangle will now be opaque and "paper colored" and your page number on that page only is gone. Actually it is under the box but anyway, for printing purposes it is no more. (At least this works if the background is white. I suppose if your background has been selected for a special color, you would have to fill your little rectangle with that color.). By the way, as long as you don't change the settings for your Rectangle tool, you will have the same setup for anything else from the Master Pages which you want to obliterate (hide) on any one of your Document pages. Hope this helps.

Thank you!!

Even the German software people who produced ICalamus until just recently included picas as a measurement option. And so many of us who have published several books haven't really moved on either. We would just be thrilled to have the measurements we have used for everything we have already done in units that match. Like much in the current world, it might be a losing fight, but that is not to say that it will be an improvement.

Arrogant? I don't think so. Seems to me that the Affinities are highly-intelligent people with a sometimes very dry (and very funny) sense of humor. They appear to me to be really responsive to suggestions and comments coming in thick and fast. It must be rather disheartening for them to have come this far with this lovely beta, after all the howling and yowling about "when is it COMING" and then have a flood of "this isn't a finished product!!" I think we should be honored that they care this much about what we are finding.

It has actually taken InDesign a whole lot longer because Adobe bought out Aldus, the original creators of Pagemaker. InDesign had to change some features in order to claim the copyright, but InDesign was just a retooling of Pagemaker, with some additional bells and whistles thrown in along the way. And not all of them either necessary or very nice, I might add. I was using Pagemaker v.3.0 (I think) back in 1988 or 1989. Approximately 30 years ago. I am stunned that some are so impatient with this beta and have a sneaking suspicion that the person who made the video on UTube (see entry above) was conceivably an Adobe employee. Nothing like trashing the prospective competition!!!

Ok gang. Please look up Pica (typography) in Wikipedia. In the meantime, here is a handy-dandy conversion table for all of us fossils. Picas on the left, points on the right. Inches and millimeters are irrelevant. Maybe it will help, in the meantime. Hopefully just "meantime."

I am sorry that we in the USA are not yet part of the “civilized world” but unfortunately we have a population of 330 million or so. And those of us who have graduated from Pagemaker to InDesign have used picas for donkey’s years versus inches, because picas are so precise. Inches are not. Millimeters are apparently jolly, but when planning any special layout of a particular book page, who honestly thinks that facing an horizontal ruler with 612 tiny marks on it is going to help anybody get to 306 (the middle) in short order to find a new center? Not to mention that there isn’t any way I can discover to find 306. Although I must confess that I haven’t yet tried zooming out to 1000% or so. Millimeters/inches are fine for Photo. But many of us are hoping desperately to move permanently from Adobe InDesign to this lovely new Publisher. Pica measurements would be a lovely and extremely appreciated addition.

Definitely agree.

I may not quite understand your request, but have you tried the FILE>PLACE option? I tried it and was immediately connected with my entire PICTURES library on my MAC. I chose one photo, and it immediately came into my Publisher document. Hope this helps.

Please also enter your request on the first page of this Suggestions Forum. There should be a Picas topic there. We are trying to get everybody who needs Picas to also put their request in one spot so the developers will see that it is really important to so many of us. Thank you!

Yes, yes, yes!!!! That is a feature I have been hoping for ever since the first time last year we were asked for suggestions. I am sure that everybody who has ever used InDesign (and before that Pagemaker) has found that particular feature a godsend. Particularly now that we are (I hope) temporarily stuck with gazillions of points, being able, for example, to drag a new zero point to 306 (25p6 picas) would be a huge help. There must be thousands and thousands of fed-up Adobe victims waiting for the first commercially-ready version of Affinity Publisher. I do so hope that they will consider this. Meanwhile, we can import and edit InDesign documents if they are first converted to PDF. Not ideal, but very workable in the meantime.

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Hi. There is a Picas suggestion on the first page of this forum. Hopefully everybody here will add their names to that suggestion. We REALLY NEED THOSE PICAS!

Rachel, please be a little bit more patient and a little less judgmental. Anybody who has used both Pagemaker and InDesign for "word processing" and book publishing as I have (30 years) has probably been as frustrated and hobbled as I have with Pages. That is just about the most frustrating "word processing" software known to man. For starters, who needs to be presented with Helvetica, 12 point Regular, every time he/she opens the darned thing, no matter whether the document was formatted in, say, Cochin 11 pt? Or whatever. This is a BETA. Affinity Photo is superb! I tried for days to draw out an eye from a faded, orange, and grainy 1870 photo of an ancestor with Photoshop. No luck. Still Popeye. Affinity Photo got to work and bingo!! Two beautiful eyes. And not shaded sepia, either. I predict that Affinity Publisher will be equally wonderful when the finished product is ready. We are just being given the opportunity to try it out to help catch the bugs. And the very polite opportunity to suggest things we might wish to have in a perfect world. Not to write "War and Peace." And by the way, have you ever tried to reach anybody about a problem with InDesign or Pages? You-Know-Where would freeze over first. The Affinity people are grand!!

I agree wholeheartedly with Louismac!

There is a special entry in these forums on this issue. Could you please add your comment there too? We need VOTES.

Please, can’t we be a bit patient? This download is a Beta. It is not commercially-ready software. It is supposed to give us the opportunity to try stuff out, to see what works, what doesn’t, and to suggest to the developers what we would like to have, or add, to make this software really superb. In my humble opinion, the developers are being incredibly gracious — especially when comments are coming in a mile a minute. It is understandable that anyone brand new to desktop publishing would be somewhat confused right now, but take it from somebody who started with Pagemaker, way back in the 1980’s. This is going to be SUPERB.