AlanPickup

thanks for the reply, I am aware of the drop down but it is a list of the standard point range or percentage range and often has quite a jump when you get past 20pt and you have to try typing in 22pt or 23pt etc until you get what you want. In the before and after paragraph you can go up or down by 1 point increments and see the effect as you go.

Not sure if it is deliberate or an omission, in Paragraph spacing the Leading option does not have an icon at the side to indicate the purpose until you hover, also there is no arrow to increase the size as with the other settings

It may be helpful if you could attach a copy of the file so someone can look at it. Also this would have been better posted in the Affinity Support & Questions Forum rather than the tutorial as this thread is quite old. If your file is private when you post in the other forum if the answer is not obvious Support will give you a secure link to upload your file. I cannot answer your question as my first thought was that you did not have View>show bleed ticked, but in that case you would not see the bleed lines. The only other thought was if you were meaning image extending the bleed i.e on the background. which pressing the \ key would turn this on or off. Hope this helps in anyway, I just happened to scroll to the end of this thread by chance

Thanks Mike some great styles there for text One of the things I find confusing is the naming structure with affinity files, when people say text styles and it is obvious what type of style the are best for yet affinity has a separate section for text styles which does not recognise styles files if you try to import from that tab, it is for the typographical format of the text itself and has its own file format presumably? The other thing that would be good is when a style file is saved having been applied to text you could have the option to not include the font and point size or if there is an option when applying a style to retain the font and point size of the text I have not discovered it yet and would be pleased for any enlightenment. Once again thanks Mike for the great collection

I used to get this in various Affinity and other products and found that in some I had to right click the file and run as administrator, just a suggestion.

thanks Callum, good to have in it in Publisher though so happy, but the facility to add sites would be welcomed I am sure Regards AlanP

Many of us using Affinity Publisher have the need to use a more professional program than offered by word processors that have design capability, and this is because we have done our time in learning the basics of layout and design, there are no shortcuts, I am a dinosaur having learnt my craft in the days of hot metal and typesetting with a tough mentor, when a computer had to have it's own air conditioned room and Apple was something that grew on a tree. There are many sites that give information about designing, a good one I have found, although it is aimed at Indesign users, is http://www.indesignskills.com/ but the basics of design are universal. Search the web for samples and try to analyse what makes one design stand out above the next, look for the use of white space and how designs make something stand out to attract the eye. Sites like https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/ and https://dribbble.com/ can keep you informed about trends. You can download samples from https://www.freepik.com/ to use for ideas Do not be afraid to show your work and accept criticism, because with the wealth of talent on this forum it will be beneficial. Good luck for your learning path, but accept obstacles as a challenge.

There does not appear to be paste special option when right clicking to paste text over higlighted text. If you select this from the Edit>Paste Special the full options are separate below but it is confusing that they are listed separately as the paste special option do no allow paste without format. No doubt will get use to this but the options in right click would be useful

I had no problem with installation and just opening the other product when the message came up solved it right away, this worked on both my desktop and laptop running Windows 10 that gave me not installed for AfPhoto. So far Studio link working great. May be because I did not have all your experience I looked for the simple things first

Just some updates after trying different scenarios The Cheri Liney font had a style added so tried a few options deleted the text that did not have the fonts installed and it still crashed Installed the Cheri Linney and Breamcatcher fonts to the windows fonts and everything was OK and I could activate new fonts from Font Base. Created a new document and added text from fonts from font base closed saved and closed fontbase, opened again and substitute fonts loaded, when I opened fontbase the correct font was added to the text. I next applied styles to the fonts (different to the first problem) saved and closed. Opened AFPub again and loaded the file which showed the substitute fonts with the style, went to start Fontbase and as soon as it fully loaded Publisher crashed. So looks like styles may be part of the problem

Installed the new GM version and opened a poster previously created using fonts activated in Fontbase. The poster comes up with substituted fonts and when I load Fontbase Publisher crashes. If I launch Publisher after fontbase is running it picks up any activated fonts, but if I try to activate another font publisher crashes. On the first method a message came up in Publisher whilst Fontbase was initializing saying the Font Cache was being updated - then crash. This had worked fine on previous versions If you want the crash report please advise location and place upload a copy of the poster as this is confidential at the moment. The fonts in question are Cheri Liney and Breamcatcher

working fine on my windows 10 with Publisher 1.7.0.384, also gives refines results as you type

Many thanks for the improvements in versions 1.7. I am interested in the stock photo panel in studio and whether there is a way to add your own photo sites to the drop down list? This would be a great feature in Designer and Publisher also, where I use more stock photos when designing material for health, not for profits and charities free of charge. When the new release of Publisher comes out and we have the Photo link may be that will enable us to use the facility? Regards

Hi I have come across a couple of anomalies which are different to Page Plus, as I have not worked in any Adobe products I am not sure if they are intended, request features or I have not yet found them. They are things I have found useful in Page Plus I quite often load a previous design into either program (PPX9 or AFPub) with the intent of replacing elements to update or move them to another area in the design. In PPX I can place the elements any where on the canvas and switch between pages. In AFPub I can only drag elements to the left or right of the design, if placed below the items disappear and if you go completely below the line you cannot see them to get them back once the highlight is removed. The other feature I have used in PPX is sizing boxes to the same size as the last one selected and I cannot see this as a tool in AFPub? This may be a bit of OCD on my part but I like to keep elements sized and inline for various reasons Regards

Hi Sean Been away for couple of days so only just picked up your post. Not been able to make it crash with other options with ticked Thanks for the good work being done at Serif Alan

Thanks for the input everyone. So following on from your observations I tried opening on my new laptop as it appeared and once again crashed. After playing about with various options the only setting that does not crash is as per screen grab. When it opens a font warning panel comes up but soon automatically closes. I the tried these setting on my PC with 8gb of ram and it opens no problem again with those settings and the font warning appears briefly. Ticking favor editable text over Fidelity makes it crash also. So one for the mods to check and see if it needs a bug report Regards Alan

Thanks for the reply Jeff. I have noticed from the forums that there seems to be machine specific differences even using the same Windows version, I had the same thing with installing prior to this build because it would not be do it unless I launched it as Administrator, yet my laptop with less spec and same windows versions never failed to update. I have a new laptop with 16gb of Ram and a dedicated graphics cards so will give it a try with that later tonight. PagePlus opened it without any memory issues on the same machine, so I would think a final version of Publisher should be able to run on 8gb or a lot of non professional users will balk at adding a lot more ram, if they have the slots. I would have to abandon my 2 x 4gb to upgrade as I have only 2 slots. That would mean an outlay of over £100 to go to 32gb, so would just keep on using PagePlus in that case. Be interesting if others could try it on lower spec machines and report their experiences Regards Alan

Hi I have just tried opening the attached pdf (which was done by a design company) In Publisher Version 305 and the program crashes. The same file opens in PagePlus X9, with a lot of warnings and font substitution but every page seems OK. This is a Charity for which I am Chair of Trustees so there is no issue with copyright other than the usual not to redistribute any modified version or parts etc as it is freely available on the web. I want to do the next issue, hopefully with AFPublisher as a start to using this as the software for new projects. Windows 10 Build 1809 64bit 8gb ram Carers Newsletter Autumn Winter 2018 web version.pdf

The link to the file does not appear to be working

The problem is then seeing images on the paste board as I have trouble with dark screens through the astigmatism in my eyes, which as likely makes the bleed guides even more undetectable for me. In Pageplus the canvas is enlarged which makes it easy to see.

Thanks Garry founded and re-instated

Hi many thanks for the update. I am pleased to report this is the first version that has not failed during the install process, however I still had to right click and run as administrator (this is also required by other installations as this PC fails to create directory). A new anomaly this time was the icon pinned to the start menu did not pick up the new version, I had to remove it from the start menu and create a new item. Another difference is the splash screen no longer appears when the program is open, cannot find option to show at start (but have not checked help out as yet) I have not done many production projects on Publisher as yet so not used bleed in practice and testing. I use the light interface and the paste board quite light as it works better with my astigmatism but the bleed guides are almost invisible, is there a setting to change the colour of the bleed guides or thickness?

Just opened the help file to read up on text on a path and got the following, which may be tied in to the j script error above?

Hi Further to my post in this thread I have just tried installing the latest version and still get the failed error on the event first time round. After restart program installs as if fresh installation, probably because the initial attempt un-installed the previous version then failed. However this time I got another error which I do not particularly understand about an element missing which I think related to J script?, I clicked not to continue but it then came up installation successful. I have saved my event logs from the start of the process but not sure if they will help, if you want them can i send direct as I am not sure if any confidential information contained in them

Thanks Walt & Typo, both good suggestions and both easy to work with. The double click in the frame seems the easy one to remember for now and double clicking outside the text box on a blank part of the document or the grey work area returns focus to the select / move tool