Jeremy Bohn

What you're asking for is a separate feature from the underline option, which is a text style like bold or italics. What you're looking for is what InDesign calls Paragraph Rules. I see no evidence of Publisher having this feature which seems like it should be a basic necessity.

I've never seen a newspaper ask for picas either and I wasn't saying that they do. I've only had newspapers ask me for something in inches, like for an ad submission. That doesn't mean they can't WORK in picas. When I first learn graphic design, it was in picas but the page size was in inches (QuarkXpress). This is one thing I miss in InDesign - the ability to keep the page size measurement separate. It would be very interesting to switch to metric for printing. The page sizes are a bit different!

One possibility is because the U.S. is still using inches for paper measurement. In fact, even though Canada is metric, paper sizes and the printing industry are still in inches likely because of proximity and reliance on the U.S. Using inches means you end up with a lot of decimals of 3 or more numbers. Picas are more precise and generally less typing (i.e. 0.125 inches = 0p9) and also they convert directly into pixels and points (both inches and picas are 12-base) used for typography, so p9 is the same as 9 points.

You're looking at the items on each layer, not the layers themselves. It looks like "Ebene 1" is the actual layer in your file. Since you have different items on different pages, those items will be different but the layers themselves remain the same across all pages.

You remember incorrectly. Layers are at the document level, not per page.

Wow, musiberti. I had no idea because I only fiddled around with a one page document. One of my main uses for layers at work is to turn a template on and off. For instance, the template turned on for the customer to see a proof, but it's not needed when printed so I turn it off. I know you can toggle the items and Printable, but using a layer is much quicker. Also, often in a new job if I am copying the layout of something, I will scan it in and stick it into my layout on a separate layer so I can try to line things up as close as possible to the original.

Ya I really think they need to look at how InDesign and QuarkXpress do it.

My document is using CMYK and the colors palette is still showing an HSL breakdown. I don't see an option in the Palette to change the mode. Shouldn't it just use the same mode as the document? However, it's still backwards. There should be a separate palette for Swatch Books and a separate one for Document Swatches. Swatch Books are where you look up colors - so there would be Pantone ones, then a CMYK swatch book and an RGB and HSL one as well. Only the swatches that you are using in your document would be in the Swatches palette then. I don't need to see all those color swatches all the time. I just want to find ones I need, move them to my document and then close the palette.

I was taught to use Picas, and it is indeed much easier to type in and use than inches.

Okay, so Publisher needs an actual Preview mode that toggles all these things on and off with one command. And can you explain to me what "Text Flow" has to do with frame edges? It seems oddly named.

There is a bleed option in Document Setup, but there is no apparent way to actually see this area in the document. For example, in InDesign when the bleed area is set there is a red box around the document area showing the bleed area. Also related: Publisher doesn't appear to have a page edge or guide. For example, I draw a rectangle and fill it with orange, then bleed it off the edge of the document. I can now no longer tell where the edge of the page is because the orange rectangle is on top of the page edge. In InDesign, each page has an edge that is "always on top" so you always see the boundaries of the page. The bleed guides work the same way.

Sort of. It hides the guides and frame edges but it's all or nothing. There is a toggle to show and hide guides, so there should also be one to show and hide frame edges. It is also no substitute for a real preview mode as it doesn't hide objects that are on the pasteboard.

I was a little confused with the Layers palette at first. This is because it didn't actually have any layers. Each object I created in my document was listed in the Layers palette instead and there were no layers listed. I could create a new layer, but it wasn't clear that I could move my existing objects onto the new layer because when I drag an object onto the layer, it highlights a line either below or above the layer and not on top of it. Eventually I figured out that dropping the object "below" the layer was actually moving it onto the layer. I think a new document should have a default starting layer.

I don't see a way to hide the object frame edges and/or otherwise preview the document without all the extra guides etc. like InDesign's preview mode. Unless I missed something, this should be added.

I agree about the color and spot inks. I think the Swatches palette is the wrong function. It should be showing swatches in your document only. What it is currently showing are Swatch Books which should be a different palette like with Adobe. Then you can move a swatch into your document. Note that you can see which swatches are in your document in the Swatch palette's popup menu - choose Document. The Affinity color swatches that are there aren't very useful in a print environment either. Since you're working in CMYK, the swatch breakdowns should be in CMYK when you view them in list view. They don't though, they are in HSL. Then there doesn't appear to be a way to move a swatch from one of the swatch books into the document swatches.

Hello. The beta doesn't appear to support picas as a unit of measurement. Will this be added? I work in picas most of the time.

It doesn't matter anyway. If I undo it, or redo in crop, my choice of zoom is reset each time.

Yes but if you are undoing cropping to get it just right and tweaking so essentially doing it over and over it becomes annoying real quick. It's little things like this that make me go back to using Photoshop. It's counter-intuitive. If I pick a view size, I don't want the app to change it by itself.

Who would ever want or need this? It's really frustrating when coming up with little website graphics, it keeps automatically filling my window with a pixelated mess.

Hello. In Affinity Photo for Mac... when I resize or crop a photo, each time I do this the zooming changes. For instance, I have the zoom set to Actual Size, then I crop the photo, and once the crop is complete, the zoom is changed to fit the window. This happens each time. Is this a bug or a setting I can change? It's quite annoying, thanks!

Okay, makes sense. Thanks Walt. At least I can change it, but the word Anti threw me off for a moment.

Thanks, it does change to "counter" if I change the language to US English from Default. So what is default? Is it using the System default? Then my system default is Canadian English and it should have been using Counter.

In Affinity Photo, in the menu under Document > Rotate 90 Anticlockwise... Just a suggestion, but the term anticlockwise is not used in Canada and the US. It's a primarily British English term. The term should be counterclockwise at least for American and Canadian English. There might be other uses of this term in your apps too but it should be changed. I'd also like to see Rotate 180 added.

Okay, but I'm talking about Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo's Perspective = Photoshop's Skew. I think it's a misleading name. I'd like to be able to do actual perspective like in Photoshop:

Ya, that animation is just skewing. In Photoshop, the Perspective Tool would move the opposite corner in the same amount, so it would look like your graphic is going off into the distance.