AlanPickup

It is definitely famine or feast with the info, not too bad with the health work as I tend to write most of that myself anyway.

Hi Gary All good suggestions, a lot I may have picked up without the time constraints, but good to hear them, sharpens the mind for picking up the tweaks

Hi Gary thanks for the info and will look at the suggestions later, with Charities it is a bit like the saying a Camel is a horse designed by a committee. I get 3 pages of A4 text and they say this is for page one, plus can you add some photos, I end up doing about 5 versions of that one before getting it down to the required number of pages and meeting the deadline for getting them printed. I continually keep altering to fit the info and more images which they forgot to send in before the deadline for the AGM. I have tried giving them a template to restrict the amount of wording they send, but to no avail. That might be because there is no cost for revisions, but \I like a challenge.

Posting this to encourage those who do work for community groups and charities, we have some good forum members who post their works, but hope this will encourage more to submit their work and learn from the group by the many good suggestions or improvement of a design that has been submitted I started my career in Printing in the 60's in a small jobbing print shop, at that time there where at least 5 other print shops in a town of about 140K population. I saw the writing on the wall for the smaller printers. Fortunately I had done costing / estimating plus bookkeeping so was able to find another career, eventually ending up in senior management in health care. I never lost my passion for design and did the odd newsletter / poster in MS Publisher. On retirement I got involved with Charity work and offered to do newsletters using Serif Page+ this grew with more charities asking me to do leaflets and I have done at least 2500 Publisher designs since the launch of Affinity suite, all for free to the charities I support, plus some NHS initiatives where I am on the steering panel. I put many on a flipbook website, and I have added the links below if you want to look at the publications, these are all in the public domain so are available on websites. I use Freepik for designs, but hope with the Canva link there will be a way to use Canva's asset library direct in Affinity as some stage. https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4cd9d1931a.html https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4cd9d1931a.html https://heyzine.com/flip-book/c0355e582f.html As said previously I am open to suggestions for improvements as some of forum members give some very useful advice.

I have been converting a flowchart in afpub latest release and used lines to make the arrows. The join looks fine on the screen but when exported it shows a gap at the joint.

Definitely made me feel old there Garry, I remember when they came round with Dandelion and Burdock and Sarsaparilla in stone jars, in the winter you kept the jars and used them as hot water bottles to warm the bed. Ah the good old days

I thought it may be apt to show how I would have done to ensure the audience I aim at could see it clearly, not as trendy as many, but should be easy to read.

No mainly Times Roman and Gill Sans, only had about six faces and that filled a room with the type furniture and proofing press.. We were a small jobbing printer so learned all aspects, compositing, machining, camera work and platemaking for the litho presses, simple binding, guillotining, not to mention costing and estimating. At the time in a town with a population of 140K there were at least 6 jobbing print shops, I think there is only one now, but that would not be classed as jobbing. Did not take me long to find there were ways of earning more money, but never lost the desire to be creative.

Been a busy week, just to come back on the readability aspects, there are two fonts I mainly use which are Roboto and Atkinson Hyperlegible both available from Google, there is a lot of info on the web for type pairings for these fonts. Mencap and a lot of NHS Organisation use the FS Me font which was commissioned by Mencap and designed in conjunction with people with a learning disability, but this officially needs a license. Font size I never use anything smaller than 12pt, if the audience is Learning disabled I go for minimum 14pt. (I shudder sometimes to think I set 6pt by hand in the 1960's, these days I would struggle to see it) One of the main things on colour is to ensure there is contrast as this causes problems for many eyesight problems if type is overlaid on a background of similar colour, so contrasting colours rather than complimentary. Hope this gives some insight in to what I posted earlier

It would probably be better if you uploaded a copy of the Affinity file, save having to retype it all when the idea is to get different layouts with the same text. One thing I am aware of when doing designs is the problems for those with sight problems and making sure that any text overlaying images is easily readable. I am more involved in designing for people who have disabilities, mainly neurodiverse, and ensuring they can read and understand it easily. Quite a chanllenge sometimes

Thanks Mike, the pdf was clicked as I had not used anchors. It seems to all revolve round txt styles, somehow it did not pick up the correct text style. Also this was copy and paste from a word document use the current format but must have picked up the wrong body style. Deleted the whole section and reinserted and things now as expected. Rarely use ToC and now see how dependant it is on text styles, so probably need to review my text styles for anomalies Alan

Hi Decided to use a TOC for the first time, everything looks OK in the TOC page, but when I export to PDF it includes the whole section rather than just the heading in the PDF export content s panel All the settings seem to be the same as the other headings and in the TOC panel. Any guidance gratefully received

for info you do not need to do the whole text, but can just highlight the line you want to reduce the space on

it is the character menu, from the top menu bar select window then go down to Text then select character

Maybe this is not the correct answer, but back in the day when we set justified type by hand we would just alter the spacing to balance out. I suppose this could be done by adjusting the tracking, if you did not want the words hyphenated