bobdobbs

I'm using Affinity Photo on mac. I'm trying to figure out what macros are and how they work. Where is the macro panel? The official guide describes the macro panel but doesn't describe how to find it. I can't see if if I'm examining the Photo UI in its default state with my eyeballs.

Thank you!

Ah, sorry. I didn't quite understand your question. I'm looking for it in the submenus under 'Filters'.

Yes. I'm looking for it in Photo, version 2.4.0.

I'm looking for the Halftone Filter. The documentation describes the filter. But the documentation doesn't describe how to find it. Thanks.

I'm looking for the Adjustments Panel. I'm following a tutorial which directs me to the Adjustments Panel. The documentation tells me what it is, but doesn't say how to find it. Thanks.

@NotMyFault I'm just using the tooling that my desktop mac provides for printing. Within finder, if I double-click on the pdf file that publisher has exported, a pdf preview appears. I think that this app is called 'preview'. I then hit ctrl-p to print. (I'm not using a mac standard keyboard) This pops open mac's normal print dialogue. Yes, I'm relatively certain that this is the case. I think the solution is *somewhere* within the print settings dialogue. But I haven't been able to find the right bit.

Hey @NotMyFault I'm using Publisher on Mac. Attached is the publisher file and the exported pdf. Below are screenshots of the settings when I export to PDF. If I open the exported pdf in Publisher, the document fairly closely resembles it's counterpart in Publisher. In the imported pdf the object appears correctly: flush both with the page edges and bottom. test.afpub test.pdf

I'm aware that this is more likely to be a printer / printer driver UI issue than a Publisher issue. But I imagine that the experienced people here might be able to help. In Publisher my document has a rectangle object that spans right across the width of the page. The edge of the object is flush with the edge of the document. The object is right at the bottom of the page, and is flush with the bottom of the document. When I print directly from Publisher I get the desired result: the object is printed completely across the page, and is flush against the edges and bottom. If I export to PDF and then print that PDF, margins are visible. There are margins between the object and both the sides and bottom of the page. How do I get the PDF printable to more closely resemble the document printed straight from Publisher?

Another noob question from me, I'm afraid. While I'm creating my booklet I hit an issue with the default behaviour of Publisher. Every Pge is A4 sized. After creating the first Page in the Pages panel, I go to create a new page. Pages after Page 1 are created as spreads (I might be using the wrong word, sorry). That is, they are created as two affixed pages. It's most likely that I'll printing from a printer that only does single-sided printing. Just so I don't get confused, I'd like every newly-created Page in the Pages Panel to be a single page rather than a double. I get that this is probably not the kind of behaviour that Publisher is built for. But is there a way to do this?

Sorry - this is probably a very noob question. I don't know anything about commercial print, and I'm new to print design. So I'm not sure how to think about this. In summary, I'm wondering how I should be laying pages out across a multi-page document. Details: I'm creating a small (8 pages) booklet at A5 size. I've been creating the pages in order within Publisher: the first page is the cover, the second page is 'page 1', and from there I do pages 2,3,4 etc. My home printer does not do double-sided printing. At home I will do print the document in order to test things. The pages are printed in the same way that I've layed out the document within publisher. So the second A5 sheet that gets printed contains pages 2 and 3. For some things in my test, this is fine. I get to eyeball the font size, images, page layout and so on. Of course I can't really assembled the document without cutting up the pages. But makes me wonder about what happens when I send the document to a commercial printer. If I send the document as-is (pages layed out in linear order) to a commercial printer, then does a commercial print process simply re-order the pages automatically in the sane order, so that the physical document can be stitched together without problems? Or is it my responsibility to lay out the document within whichever desktop publishing software that I'm using so that their process can print in order... ... implying that on my end I'll be laying out the pages in Publisher in a way that isn't linear?

@Brian_J Thanks - your directions enabled me to find those text frame settings. This is where things get more confusing: There is no fill set. But if I set the fill, then the entire text frame gets a fill. It seems that the background color that that is bothering me is independent of the text frame background fill. The background color that I want to remove only appears behind text characters, and not the entire text frame. -- edit before I submit this reply -- I think I had selected the 'box' text style rather than the 'body' text style. Setting the text style to 'body' sets things aright.

Sorry, I'm not sure what the Text Frame panel is. Is it the bar at the top that becomes activated with the Text Frame Tool is selected? The only UI element I can see there that indicates for color is indicating for font color.

I'm starting to get an undesirable behaviour when I add body text. When I add text, the area occupied by text has a background color. How do I prevent this from happening?

@MEB Thank you!