Gerard O
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I have a master page with a number of tables. I now find that I cannot select the table for formatting. I select and it appears to outline the table but the table formatting is blank and will not work.
Am i selecting the table wrongly ( with the select arrow). If i click on the table tool it tries to recreate another table over the table already there.
The file is attached
Thanks for any help or pointers
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I would be interested in this too. And will it have affect on working between Photo and Publisher or Designer?
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I think Artboards are only available in Affinity Designer
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Re-applying the master, in the beta, will often delete text fields so be careful!
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I wonder has anyone advice on this problem. Without feed back from Serif I feel I am stuck
It appears that Affinity Publisher cannot apply Master pages consistently when pages are inserted or deleted, and the fix in the beta causes deletion of content.
Wonder if anyone has found a fix for this, or alternatively is there a place to report bugs like this?
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I don't have a solution for you .
But I have been playing around with formats for Web and print export and you might want to consider a landscape format for the web/computer screen.
Viewed on a computer monitor, a page in portrait format is not ideal. If you expand to take up the width of the screen then the whole page cannot be seen. Id you reduce it to see the whole page then you waste a lot of screen space and possibly make the text too small.
As, I say, no solution just some observations from trying to do the same thing as you suggested.
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Hi Stokerg
Just wondering have you read my reply and opened the edited file?
Does this need to be reported as a bug?
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Hi Stokerg,
Thanks for your reply.
I downloaded the beta and reopened the file( a copy!).
I selected page 7, right clicked to Clear masters. The background colour was removed.
I then clicked on apply Masters, selected master A again. This corrected the page number position bur deleted all the text on page 7. !
( "replace existing" and "migrate frame content" were both selected, as default. )
edited file attached. Perhaps you could have another look.
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WJC, I have the same problem, but in a smaller , simpler, book/document of about 40 pages. And , importantly, no deadline.
I did try to correct the left/tight application of master pages "A" by re-applying the master but this deleted some content. So be careful even correcting it manually.
I started a thread before reading yours ( there were no replies ).
Needless to say , I hope you can get a solution, from which we can all learn. For my own document I am thinking of exporting the text, using cut and paste, into Word . creating a new document in A Publisher with the layout I want , and reimporting the text and images. It is an option for me only because the document I am working on is so simple.
I will watch this space for a solution too so I hope Serif will post here when a solution is found
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I have a simple document in Affinity Publisher. I have a master spread "A" applied to the spread of two pages. Essentially the default Master as the document is created. I have added a section name and page number to the master "A" pages. I also have a second master page, "B", which is applied only to the first page in a section and shows a heading text frame at the top.. The document contains about 10 sections.
Each page consists of text frames with the occasional image , linked, added . So a very simple document.
My problem comes with deleting pages. By default I have the page number at the bottom left of left pages and bottom right on right side pages but with pages being deleted or added this is occasionally reversed on some pages.
If I try to correct this, by selecting the page and selecting "Apply Master" I sometimes get the desired result and sometimes I get the text frame and all the text deleted.
I there a way to correct this without starting over again?
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On 8/24/2019 at 4:06 PM, atlrob said:
Being a fairly new user to the Affinity programs I have a suggestion. It is time to have separate headers for Affinity Support Questions.
It is a big time waster to see a subject which seems to be an area of interest in one program to be addressing some issue in another program.
Please separate the three products under the Support Questions header.
Thanks
R. Burns
One of the pieces of information that allow me to see if a post is relevant is the title.
That's why your title of "Why in the World" is so helpful !
Not to worry, I didn't waste too much time
- Alfred and Jenna Appleseed
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On 7/30/2019 at 11:28 AM, LongtimePhotoshopUser said:
Well, after posting the previous message, I posted the following message on the Filter Forge support forum:
So based on what they said, the problem seems to be that Infinity Photo does not strictly adhere to Adobe's plugin SDK format. That is why some plugins -- such as Filter Forge -- will work in Adobe Photoshop, but not in Affinity Photo. So apparently, the problem needs to be fixed on the Affinity Photo side.I am not too sure you expect Affinity to comply strictly with an SDK they have no control over?
An informative article here
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On 7/27/2019 at 3:53 PM, Adobe Escapee #1000000 said:
First of all, every Windows desktop developer has to "create modifications for Windows security and permission processes and policies" when they build software, so that's just plain wrong.
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But I'd like to apologize to all the Affinity/Serif superfans who like to think their chosen product and company is perfect. This kind of thing happens on the forum of any good product, but luckily there are also people like IanSG who can just offer solutions instead of rejecting criticism that just might be valid.
If you look at previous postings from me you will see that I don't think Serif/Affinity is perfect. But it is MS policy to sandbox any apps downloaded from their store . I too have developed for MS and I can assure I have had no luck in getting MS to change their policies. Obviously you and other developers have been more successful in influencing policy.
I am not too sure insulting posters here will help you to a resolution. In any event I can be of no more help to you
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11 hours ago, Adobe Escapee #1000000 said:
Thanks, Walt. I should give MSFT a call, but I read that it's against their policy, which is why I would have expected Serif to come up with a way to verify my Windows Store license, and give me a single-seat license from their own store.
really?
Surely you would not expect Microsoft to share you personal information with a third party.
Incidentally I have the same problem but I don't really think you can expect Serif to create modifications for Windows security and permission processes and policies
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On 6/13/2019 at 7:38 PM, Richard Shaffer said:
I am having trouble with the install of all the software. When I install the Photo, Design, and the pub beta programs it will not work. ... They all did work once.
Are you saying all programs are beta?
I think the beta programs have a 10 day limit
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20 hours ago, mac_heibu said:
There is actually no other way than copy & paste or placing one Publisher file into the other using the „Place“ command.
I assume, this is a feature, which will not be present within a short time, because it is quite complicated to implement correct synchronising of
- different document sizes/orientation
- different document color profiles and resolution
- different page attributes (single, facing)
- different (or equally named) text, paragraph, graphic stiles
- text flow
- different dynamic elements (table of content, index, …, …)
- and, and, and
What really helps and prevents evil surprises: planning one’s work before layouting and using the advantages of PDF (combining documents after output)
Publisher already handles different page sizes orientations.
I agree with MacMAcMAc, this is a simple basic requirement. And the problem with Publisher handling of PDF files means exporting and combining them is not a viable workaround for many files.
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I'm very interested to know how to do this too.
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H have had a similar issue.
I tried to open a pdf file 96Mb. Appreciate it is large at 53 pages. mostly text but some photographs.
After 30 minutes , with the loading document message in top right of screen, I tried to end Publisher. However I could not and had to eventually restart the computer.
I later manages to open the document and save it as a Publisher document . I took about 12 minutes to open and about 25 minutes to save .
Publisher does not seem to be able to handle large files.
The same document opened in acrobat in less than 5 seconds.
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Will Publisher from Affinity Store work ok with Designer and Photo from Microsoft Store?
I have both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo from Microsoft Store. Can I purchase Publisher from Affinity Store and integrate them or should I wait and purchase from Microsoft Store?
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I have previously purchased Affinity Designer and Photo from Microsoft Store. And I have bee using Publisher beta.
Now that the full version of Publisher is available I am wondering if I can purchase Publisher from Affinity Store, with the beta user discount, and will it integrate fully with the Microsoft Store versions of designer and Photo?
Or should I stick to Microsoft Store versions in order to ensure full compatibility?
Any insight into potentials issues in the future would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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Link resources are treated differently and this will reduce the file size. I think there is a note on the Publisher beta forum but cannot find it right now
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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:
What browser do you use? Both Firefox and Chrome let you know when the download is complete.
And edge. At least mine does
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Having problems selecting tables
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Thanks Dan,
That was the problem.
I need to copy and paste data from a Spreadsheet 9 I am using LibreOffice but the same problem when I used Excel).
I found that I needed to format the cell contents ( they were all numeric) in the Spreadsheet before pasting into Publisher file , i.e. set italic, bold, centre in the cell vertically and align to the right.
Appreciate your time as it got me out of a big problem.
Gerard