[Using fonts in Publisher]

2 hours ago, garrettm30 said:

One thing to note when using auto-activation in conjunction with Publisher is Publisher will report missing fonts in a just-opened document before Typeface has the chance to activate them. Then after a couple seconds Typeface will make the font available. Another issue is that if you link an aPub document into another document, and the linked document has fonts that are not activated, Typeface won't activate those fonts. The solution there is to open the linked document separately so Typeface can know to open them, and then those fonts will also be available in the other document containing the linked document. (I hope that made sense!)

Exactly as it worked with InDesign and FontAgent.

[Bug? Keep tint and opacity values when selecting another swatch?]

I agree with Wosven. Swatches need a lot of work in Affinity.

[Using fonts in Publisher]

I used to use FontAgent but ditched them when my old version no longer worked in 64-bit. Newer versions are 64-bit but it seems the features they remove outweigh the benefits of them rewriting the app to modern standards. I checked out both RightFont and Typeface and found RightFont to be closer to my needs but not quite there, or enough to actually buy it, but I did send a few suggestions to the developer. I think it needs a more professional list of fonts, just the names without previews, and you see the preview in a separate panel only when you click on the font. This is needed when you have thousands of fonts to scroll through. The previewed view takes up too much room, slowing you down. Also the ability to have auto-activation happen without the app open (FontAgent can do this).

[double-click word selection skips the first word.. sometimes]

Yikes, that would be annoying. I use that trick often as well.

Side note: I'm also used to triple-clicking to select a whole paragraph, which also works in Publisher. But I've had to untrain myself from triple-click-drag and moving the cursor up or down to select whole batches of paragraphs. This is because Publisher moves the paragraph text instead of adding to the selection. I wish there was a way to disable that so it matches the behaviour od the double-click-drag.

[Documents Units light in dark mode]

Actually now I see it's the other popup menus too.

[No document-wide replace font?]

Unfortunately it's still the case.

[Hide foreign language fonts]

Talking with some Apple developers and a comment I received was:

Apple provides a complete architecture for sorting and filtering fonts by either language or collection. But 3rd party apps just ignore all that.

[100% image viewers support by using .af.png file format]

I'd also like to see larger Quicklook previews on the Mac. I posted about it here before being directed to this thread.

[Hide foreign language fonts]

4 hours ago, garrettm30 said:

I have long thought this is a macOS deficiency, and the very suggestion you have made for Affinity is what I have wished could be possible at the system level. I don't want to disable fonts that the system—or, for example, music programs—might use, but I don't want them cluttering the font menus.

My opinion is it's only a recent deficiency because you used to be able to remove the foreign language fonts. Recent versions of macOS were more restricting. In Mojave I could remove most of the extra fonts manually with the admin password. Just some asian ones remained. Now with Catalina, the fonts have all been moved into the System Fonts folder, and that folder is now on a locked system partition. I also don't recall ever seeing Noto prior to Catalina, so I wonder if it's new for Catalina.

[Hide foreign language fonts]

I wasn't 100% sure on this either garrett until I noticed 1 million "Noto" fonts clogging my font menu in Publisher. I had to Google that font to figure out what it was only to find out I can't remove them. The fact that Noto doesn't show up in many Apple-built apps suggests there's a way to hide those kinds of fonts.

I also put in a request with Apple regarding this subject. Either let us disable those fonts in FontBook, or provide a way for developers to hide them so each developer doesn't have to work on their own solution.

[Hide foreign language fonts]

Another couple of thoughts...

- instead of disabling the fonts, just give the option to hide them from the list? That way when a document is opened that uses the font, it'll still work.

- also note that Apple's FontBook only displays the Noto font as 7 families. I think Affinity apps should at least do the same thing:

[Hide foreign language fonts]

I understand, but why do other apps hide them? Why does your iPad app hide them?

Was it incorrect when it was said in the other thread "We have now resolved the problem and will make the fix available in the next iPad & Mac release."? 

[Hide foreign language fonts]

Any word if this is going to be fixed soon? It's a big slow down scrolling through the font menu with all those extra language fonts!

[Top 3 things I want from Publisher 2020]

Travis, instead of just pasting in text from another app, choose Edit > Paste Without Format.

[Feature Request: Make Studio more flexible]

I miss the feature from Creative Suite where you can make a panel into a collapsable button.

[Turn lines into Guides]

5 hours ago, allaboutdolph said:

Are you aware of View –> Guides Manager? 

Yes I'm aware. But working directly with guides on the page would be a great addition.

[Top 3 things I want from Publisher 2020]

No it doesn't work like that. I just tried it. When I select the new text, Past Style is greyed out.

UPDATE > ok I tried it differently. It only works by selecting the entire text frame, not the specific text. So it's partially helpful but not the same because you can't just grab from one part of a text frame and paste it onto part of another.

It also seems to just grab the formatting from the first line of text, so if the formatting you want to copy is lower down then you're out of luck.

[Top 3 things I want from Publisher 2020]

16 hours ago, Bryce said:

Can't you do that now with Paste Style?

That's layer styles which the OP isn't asking about. He's talking about styled text. In InDesign there's an eye-dropper tool - click on one block of text and then click onto a second block of text. That second block then takes on the attributes of the first.

[Turn lines into Guides]

I agree this would be handy. I've seen it mentioned before and gave my 2 cents as well. It would be way better if guides acted like objects. The main one for me is clicking on a guide and being able to type in the exact position it needs to be in the control panel like in Illustrator/InDesign.

[Documents Units light in dark mode]

In the New Document window (all 3 apps) the Document Units popup menu is light even when in dark mode.

[Flip in the toolbar]

Am I missing something? Affinity Photo doesn't have the Flip options in the toolbar. It's in the other apps. I'd like to click to flip horizontally or vertically instead of using the menus like I can in Designer and Publisher.

[Undesired Recognition of a Held Click on Toolbar Icons/Buttons Publisher Beta 1.8.0.531]

I can confirm this is in all 3 apps, so it causes problems when customizing the tool bar. A couple of times when I was dragging a tool to remove or reposition it would end up moving the window around instead.

[Color balance changing all layers]

Thank you for your assistance with the assistant.

[Color balance changing all layers]

Yes, it also throws me off a little as well. In photoshop you have both live adjustments and destructive adjustments which sometimes would be nice to have. But currently I find it a little cumbersome to make an adjustment layer and then drop it onto the layer I want to adjust - an extra step. Unless I'm missing something, it would be great to select a layer and chose an adjustment, and have that adjustment automatically be linked to the selected layer.

[Merge 2 Publisher documents?]

Version 1.8 has been released today which includes Document Merge.