jmwellborn

Oh yeah, this is my kinda group!! Lolol!

Karmann Ghia

One if my all time favourite cars
 

18 months ago I bought Photo. Never seen it before. I had lots of help at the beginning and now I am considered a bit more knowledgeable, I pass that knowledge on.
A 'circle of life' type thing.

Excuse me, I know I'm a newbie, here, but …
In spite of the declarations of not getting into a spitting war of WinDozers vs. MacAholics, that seems to be what this thread has developed into.
Can we please move back to discussing the development of Publisher (and other Affinity products) as they relate to real-world usage and start a different thread for Mac v. Wild, 64-bit v. 32-bit, and company politics? 
I, for one, will greatly appreciate it.
Thanks to MEB for the actual Publisher updates on p. 12!
 

As someone who used InDesign from 1.0, I remember how buggy and the same complaints that people are expressing about Publisher were there as well. While it would be nice for the import compatibility it is not a deal-breaker (for me). If anything new I use publisher and anything old I can either rebuild the file or edit in InDesign 

There aren’t any silly questions as far as I am concerned.   These beautiful Affinity apps do have a learning curve, and the most beautiful part (I think) is that the Affinity moderators and technical support staff are here to answer anything and everything with such helpful pointers.    Many other people with several  years experience also reply in these forums with helpful solutions.    So ask away in these forums if you need help!    I have learned so much this way!! 

Answer:  R C R.   

I so agree, no silly questions! 
But I've been in other forums where newbie questions aren't so well received
I'm glad to see this isn't like them. We all have to be new at some point, lol. 
And humor I do enjoy as well 

Quite right, always ask. Never struggle.
Warning !
You might get silly answers sometimes. We like a bit of humour on here (most of us) anyway 

There aren’t any silly questions as far as I am concerned.   These beautiful Affinity apps do have a learning curve, and the most beautiful part (I think) is that the Affinity moderators and technical support staff are here to answer anything and everything with such helpful pointers.    Many other people with several  years experience also reply in these forums with helpful solutions.    So ask away in these forums if you need help!    I have learned so much this way!! 

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.    

Again, I would like to thank toltec and firstdefence for their graciousness in carefully demonstrating how to solve the issue at hand in this topic.    I have learned that the best way to use these three lovely Affinity applications is to follow the advice of the Affinity technical staff and persons with long experience and demonstrated ability to help, when I need sorting.   Meanwhile, for fun, I have attached a screenshot of one of my favorites from President Ronald Reagan.   With the added comment that Affinity Publisher -- in my opinion -- is not a pony.   It is a future winner of the Grand National.   And now back to work.
 
   

I have produced my own custom interface for the iPad.

Purchase inquiries directly to me please.
p.s. I am also selling replacement screens 

Hi @Philip Thorpe
Documents, images etc can be made up of several objects on layers, like resting on sheets of clear film. This makes it easy to move things around.

If you flatten the layers, all the objects are moved onto one layer, but you can no longer move the objects individually

No. 

sloths don't sit up, they'd fall over, I think he's having a rest after a hard days slothing,  he looks pleased with himself and rightly so, slothery is a hard skill to get right without making it look like hardwork. 
He also looks like his name is Poncho  

Now you've said that, ole slothy is lying down and the white space is the gap between the arm and the head, but it really should be pink, the shadow at the bottom makes it confusing as it appears to be standing. 
Remove the bottom shadow and change the white to the pink background.
A good first try though.

FWIW, I sometimes have Safari plus all three betas & both retail apps running at the same time on my old iMac (specs below in my sig). I don't usually have projects open in all five Affinity apps at the same time, & none of my Affinity Publisher projects are very large, but aside from some things taking a little longer than usual, it all works surprisingly well.

Not to sound like an old fart, but I'd say that that “other more serious problem” you've mentioned is the least of Serif's worries, and not very serious at all if you really think about it.
The whole Designer/Photo Persona thing *is* quite overrated in Publisher, especially for professional users who own Macs and PCs powerful enough to have all three apps loaded simultaneously and are already used to have their linked stuff on a separate folder and to open it up manually. In fact, I don't even know how those Personas will behave; kind of like a “lite” version of each of the other apps, and also like how when you double click on an embedded or linked file in later versions of CS and CC the corresponding app loads up?
As for the other apps, I personally use Designer and Photo, sometimes in the same project, and I rarely if ever use the Pixel persona in Designer. Yes, it surely can come in handy for illustrators, but it really wouldn't bother me personally if that feature wasn't there… As a regular old graphic designer, I like keeping my vector and pixel editing apps as separate as possible, thank you very much. On the other hand, I can appreciate the fact that said Persona exists probably segregates pixel editing features further than in Illustrator, thus simplifying the main Vector Persona by comparison, which is a great thing in my book, so I know I'm definitely reaping the benefits of a feature I don't even actively use that much.
I know I may be in the minority here when it comes to Designer, but I can assure you that when it comes to Publisher, an app squarely aimed at the InDesign and QuarkXPress camp, I'm not. Editing stuff inline or having a nice little shortcut is most definitely *not* a serious omission, and it's not what's holding Publisher's release back, either. I'd gladly trade that feature over the other missing ones I've mentioned time and time again (proper master page support, anchored object support, global layers, etc. – not to mention a multi-line composer clone, but I fully accept that to take multiple years to be available), because being able to do your projects in a less-than-super-elegant but timely way beats not being able to do them at all in a cutthroat environment with crazy deadlines, stupid clients who drag their feet and whatnot, and I'm betting the Serif guys are hard at work on those features as we speak.
That doesn't mean that said marquee feature, a seamless and elegant continuum between apps and file formats, won't come to pass sooner rather than later. But yeah, if they quietly dropped it, no one in the DTP community would bat an eye. As long as the files were fully compatible and rendered correctly (and I believe they already are), we would be just happy.

And precisely what gave you that idea?   Or where?    I wrote "book" not "booklet."    Publisher is doing a splendid job so far.    On a BOOK.    
 

Many, many pages, fellas.   It is a book.   Going splendidly.   It is a free world so we can each use what we choose.   I choose Publisher.

I am using Affinity Publisher beta v. 206.   Knowing that we are advised to use it with caution for finished products.   It is working beautifully.    I am adding borders to the selected illustrations — which I have already spruced up — using Affinity Photo.   Then saving the  new images both as JPEGs and as .afphoto files, so I can go back later if I still need to adjust something.     As a former long-time user of InDesign and Pagemaker, I am alreadly extremely happy with Publisher.  It will get better and better!

Thank you both toltec and firstdefence!    You are so kind to sort me out.    Stupid me.    I placed the image directly on the workspace, rather than creating a document and placing it there.   So no wonder Clicking  on the background layer didn’t do anything useful.    Tomorrow I am going to regroup with your very thorough instructions.     I am rewriting a book with many illustrations ranging from printed copies of ancient drawings from the 1300’s,  paintings from the 1400’s to 1700’s, and 20th Century photographs.    I want to create a uniform border size and color to tie all these disparate images into a cohesive pattern, so this very elegant solution is a Godsend.    Then all I will need to do is crop and export to jpeg.    Thank you again so much!!!

Why can't they be Image layers 
 

@jmwellborn You are missing the resize canvas step, you cannot add a border outside of the document bounds, what HVDB shows in his video is resizing the canvas with enough space to create a border, as long as the canvas is resized more than the border you want to add it can be clipped back as a final step.
So...
Make sure your background layer is a pixel layer not an image layer. If it is an image layer, right-click and select rasterise. Now you need to resize the canvas so select Document > Resize Canvas and if you want to make a 20px border just add 100px to give you enough space to play in, this will give you lots of transparent canvas but thats fine. Now you can select the background layer and select all and then do outline: outside and the "marching ants" that indicate a selection will show outside of the image.