John Bateson

I am working through some complicated maths/physics and it would be great if Affinity Publisher had an easy way of entering these symbols within English text. Is this possible, or will it become possible. I have been using Affinity Publisher since Day 1 of it becoming available. John

The document I am working on has over 50 drawings. Doing as you suggest means over 50 additional actions and increases the workload substantially. Any changes to the text and the effect on flow around the drawings, together with the amendment needing movement of the picture means multiple changes further down the document. John

The document I am working on has over 50 line drawings (all PNG files), although I have the same drawings as Affinity drawings and get the same result. If I want to give each drawing the same flow around it for text and the same outline style, it is easier and far quicker to select them all and then do the folw and outline in one go - which is the effect I can get in PPX 9. John

I am trying to select pictures on different pages, but the moment I go to a secong page I lose the lock on the first page. Is this a bug or am I again missing something? John

I am busy trying to move some PPX 9 stuff into Affinity and so far there are so many similarities that I have not hit anything major until now. I am sure there is a simple solution which I have totally missed. I have text on a page. I want to put a picture on the same page and have found the flow mechanism. What I really need is an outline for the picture and I cannot find out how that is done and the help files are not helpful in this respect. Can somebody please point me in the right directoion? The pictures start at about Page 13 of the attached document. As far as the text flow is concerned it would be easier if a tab from each edge caused the selection of the next edge - just like in PPX 9 - not a real biggie but just a little annoying John 8G.afpub

Some progress - maybe. It seems that on all the lines that disappear the line width has been set to zero in spite of 0.8 being selected. If I select one of these missing lines by selecting an area and then click, the line width has been set to zero and setting it back to 0.8 makes the line always visible. I also found, quite by accident, that if I had a line disappear, select TEXT and click on the drawing, but don't enter any text. Then select the pen tool and 'Hey Presto' all the lines become permanent! Confused I am, but getting there. John

Hope this helps - for this picture the lines went in straight away no problems. What should I be looking for? In the past I have relied on Affinity for the pictures and words, loaded these into PPX9 and then added the lines there - quite unsatisfactory though. John

The lines are showing in the layers panel, if I select one of them the line shows up surrounded by its bounding box, then disappears again when I select something else. This sort of indicates to me that it is hiding behind a layer or something similar but no matter how much I fiddle and reset I have found no sequence yet which resets this. The line width is definitely set with a stroke width of 0.8 mm. One thing I have noticed is that when a line is going to be permanent, it seems matginally thicker when boing drawn, and then I know the system has reset! JOhn

What do you mean by a screen recording? Not sure I can do this anyway. The original drawings are created from a CAD package and screens I compose from the parts of the drawings are saved as PNG files (see previously attached picture). These are then opened with Affinity Photo and saved as an Affinity file, to which I add text frames. It is when I add the lines to go from the test frames to the part that I hit these peculiar issues. John

I do a lot of technical drawing and wish to add titles with lines pointing to the parts on the drawing. I have a lot of difficulty using the Pen Tool which in principle ought to be very easy. Most of the time, after I draw one line and then start another, the first one disappears etc etc until all I have left is the last one. After much fiddling all of a sudden it will work but it is getting the right fiddle to get to that point and so far I am just perplexed. John

Found it and everything back to what passes for normal here. Thank you for taking the time to respond - very helpful.

Afer a couple of crashes when dragging a PNG into the screen all the useful stuff such as histograms and resizing bars are now missing and I cannot for the life of me find a way to get them back. Any suggestions would be very welcome John Bateson

Just a thought I bought Qty 5 PP4 quite a while ago for distribution among a team. Although the team has effectively disbanded I am still using PP9 quite extensively for relatively minor skilled publishing work, mainly instruction books with lots of diagrams. I hate using old software and while PagePlus X9 doesn't quite reach that line, it will in the future. There are many examples of such things happening, when support disappears and the programs become unstable and unusable over time. Given the uncertainty about being able to import from PP X9 (and all the older versions) and given the expected price with all the chargeable updates as we work through the versions, it is now likely that Microsoft Publisher as part of my Office 365 suite must become a candidate. It has its critics and is not wonderful for artists, but it has very acceptable layout tools and I may as well train myself in that rather than a new package such as Affinity Publisher and save the extra pension money. After all I am rapidly, (and far too fast in my opinion), approaching my own use-by date! I fully understand and respect the decisions made by the developers and I have argued many times with software projects that it is often better to start from scratch rather than cover all the bases and over complicate the final package - there are still Windows 98 users out there unhappy because they have been cut-off but sometimes you just have to bury the old stuff, its too expensive to keep. However, if the community is large, the tears of dismay will cause a flood. I wish the developers the best of times and not the worst of times - they will get a lot of stick whatever they do. John