Leslie Richelle
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Well non-destructive sounds good.
Rasterize after cropping, I assume.
Thanks.
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When I crop something, I want it to go away. The stuff outside the cropping frame, that is. In AP something else is going on: every time I try to do something with the supposedly cropped portion, like resize the canvas, all this other stuff comes tagging along. I feel like I've wandered into an alternate universe where the laws of physics are very different. Or maybe I'm just in Britain.
Can anyone explain?
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Finally, in the right forum (I hope) thanks to walt.farrell:
Converting a book from InDesign to Affinity Publisher (ID to PDF to AP) I discovered that some images, small pngs with a graphic, wouldn't word wrap while other similar files would. Even more interesting, when I grouped a graphic with a frame-text caption and dragged the group around the page, the text on the page ignored the graphic overhead but jumped out of the way of the caption.
Comparing a png that did wrap with one that didn't, I could not find any rhyme or reason until I opened both in Affinity Design: the rebel had "Transparent background" checked in File>Document Setup, the cooperator did not. Easy enough to fix—uncheck box, export again—but the question remains: bug or curiosity?
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Good call, but no. A graphic and some text on a transparent background can be dragged all over the page with all kinds of wrap settings and the text on the page doesn't even notice the graphic, the graphic's text, or its transparent background.. Soon as I take off the transparency in AP, save the file and relink or embed it (doesn't matter which) word wrap works as advertised.
I can even group the transparent version with a text-frame caption, invoke word wrap, and the caption pushes text around while the graphic goes unnoticed. Remove transparency and everything works.
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Converting a book from InDesign to Affinity Publisher (ID to PDF to AP) I discovered that some images wouldn't word wrap. Comparing a png that did wrap with one that didn't, I could not find any rhyme or reason until I opened both in Affinity Design: the one that didn't had a transparent background. Easy enough to fix, but it left me wondering if this was a bug or just mildly interesting?
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Might have found a little tab bug. In the facing-pages master page below I have a center tab set to the left of the book title (blurred so no-one can steal my ineffably creative idea) and to the right of the page number. The available space is 4.25" and the tab is set at 2.125. But the title text is not centered.
So I entered a right tab to the right of the title, at 4.25", and it worked out fine.
Is it me, or should this be an unnecessary step to make a center tab work?
While on the subject: it would be convenient to have little rulers appear over the text when setting tabs, instead of one's having to peer at the main rulers and attempt to do higher math.
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15 minutes ago, dominik said:
I suggest to look at the History Studio if you are not familiar with it.
I shall do that. Thank you.
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You may have put your finger on it: other programs seem to offer Undo limits in the hundreds, not thousands. I suppose Affinity is trying to be more clear and more thorough than the bloat-monsters with whom they compete. But there's no way I'm going to scan through 8K+ lines of Undos without suffering brain freeze myself!
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Is it just me, or is History recording each and every teeny thing I do? I don't remember InDesign, QuarkExpress, Pagemaker or Corel being so anal about showing all the sordid details. Is this configurable? How many megalines can History record before "brain freeze"?
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I find that making each chapter a separate file prevents a lot of confusion. For example, scanning through 150-200 pages at a preferred viewing size (big) can be tedious.
All the "Book" utility in InDesign does for me--aside from allowing focus on one chapter at a time--is keep track of page numbering across chapter files, as well as some TOC and index stuff. It would be nice if Publisher had something similar.
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Hear, hear. They've been bombarded with this request for years now. I don't know what the problem is--shouldn't be too difficult to "save the state" of the program. But we can hope, they can wish, and disappointment's a dirty lowdown dish.
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Wonders never cease: I'd quite given up on Publisher and gone back to InDesign and other fine Adobe products, but beta is here and I'm more than a little impressed with it. Is it true that "extra space only between paragraphs" is more-or-less out front where we can find it? That's so cool!
But...this "shear" business, for slanted text or distorted graphics, (1) is a problem, one which one might wish Affinity wouldn't pick up from Adobe (2): "shear" is for sheep, not for script. A far better term is "skew," or maybe "slant." Even Corel (3) knows that! Any chance you could revise that? It would be a finger in Adobe's eye, always a good thing.
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12 hours ago, Hokusai said:
To be fair, Illustrator was first released in 1987, Designer was release at the end of 2014 so Illustrator has quite a head start.
That's totally fair. Add to that the fact that 30+ years is plenty of time for Illustrator (and Draw) to get bloated, kludgy and slow.
I get the impression that the Affinity team is smart, original and working with a vision…which is more than one can say about the Establishment. I just hope they haven't bitten off more than they can chew.
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On 9/4/2015 at 8:33 AM, Stephen_H said:
Just bear in mind that Designer is a drawing/illustration/design application. Powerful text & paragraph tools should be expected from the Publisher app which is set to be released later this year.
Wow, I just came on board the Affinity train to get away from A-DOH-be, and still not sure if that plan will work. Seeing a post forecasting the release of Publisher three years ago does not make for optimism.
BTW, CorelDraw and Illustrator have been able to warp text on a path for aeons, as here:
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On a 2-monitor setup like this, life is good.
Trouble is, there are so many ways for things to go wrong, in Windows or with the display driver, resulting in all those panels dumped willy-nilly on the main display. With Adobe apps (or, for that matter Corel) all their faults aside, one has only to click on a saved workspace and all is right again. Is it that hard to code for this, given that the program is saving the configuration anyway? Just throw a couple Save and Restore buttons in somewhere?
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Seems to me, in my not-so-humble opinion, that if one of Affinity's programs is named Designer, and another (someday) Publisher, then the third should be Photographer. Of course it isn't, no doubt at least partly because that would sound like an online magazine or something, and also because many more people than just photographers use it. So try this idea (I know it's too late but humor me): Affinity Photo, Affinity Design, Affinity Publish. (The last would have the added benefit of avoiding any confusion with Microsoft's pathetic attempt at DTP.)
Smart, huh? You guys should give me a job…
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According the the Help utility, Serif had a Better Idea and forced styles into hierarchies (paragraphs under Normal, characters under Default Paragraph Font) so that modifying a style high up the tree will automatically change those under it. I personally find the setup creates far more confusion than it cures, and hope it won't be in APub.
In any case, once I created "Body" (based on Normal) and used that for all my derivatives it seems to be not-yet-broken.
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9 hours ago, MikeW said:
Though I generally do not use the Normal paragraph style for anything in a publication (there's a reason I don't), I just created a new publication and modified Normal to use the hlig, osf and other OT Features and they work as expected just fine here.
But you have to use Normal as the "top" of the hierarchy, correct? I mean, you can't get rid of it and all other styles are ultimately derived from it. (I wonder if corruption in that style is the root of my troubles.) BTW, might I inquire the reason you don't apply Normal to any paragraph in a pub?
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26 minutes ago, MikeW said:
I just about never copy/paste directly from one doc to another, especially if one document has funk. Instead I'll copy to a plain text editor, then copy that to my working document. That can remove bugaboos.
Oh yes, I like that. Copy to Notepad++, then to the new doc. Thanks for the tip.
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5 hours ago, MikeW said:
May I ask what font you were using, Leslie?
Libertinus Serif, from Philipp H. Poll; Adobe Caslon Pro, from Adobe; something from Bitstream; and couldn't-possibly-remember-it-was-4:00 am from Microsoft. All current standard Open Type and all had full OT features, like historic ligatures.
I finally un- and re-installed the program; no change on the problem document. Took your tack and started from scratch--so far so good. At some point something will break, or I'll end up importing text/images from the delinquent doc (which will probably break something but might be educational).
This would all be fascinating and entertaining if I weren't trying to write something!
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On 4/11/2018 at 4:58 PM, Alfred said:
Standard, discretionary and required ligatures are certainly supported in PPX9, and I think historical ligatures are as well.
Alas, would that that were true. I've just spent most of the day trying to get PPX9 to save historical ligatures to styles to my great frustration. They just won't "stick." The "Normal" paragraph style will accommodate standard ligatures just fine, but when I base a "Normal OldStyle" paragraph style on it and specify historical ligatures (and Old Style numeric figures) they won't work. The only workaround is to create a new character style based on "Default Paragraph Font" (called "OldStyle Paragraph Font" for what that's worth) with the historical ligatures and old style numerals set, pick either Normal or Normal OldStyle for the paragraph, then select all the text and set it with one of the two character styles. Every time.
I did notice at the very top of the Text Styles dialog a "Styles" link that takes me to a dialog where I can match Paragraph Style to Character Style…but it doesn't work.
I tried with four different Open Type fonts, one by a private party, one Bitstream, one Microsoft and one Adobe. All slightly different configurability, but all with the same results.
I sure hope Publisher does better.
Please, add a "save workspace" function. Please...
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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I have a three-monitor GPU, though I normally use only numbers 1 and 2, and it's happened again: bringing the third monitor online temporarily has sown confusion amongst my display settings. Programs that open on the default, left monitor open on the right; spreads of palettes and panels that should be on the right are now on the left in a jumble. This is not a problem only with Affinity—all my Adobe and Corel apps are affected as well—but in the others I can simply load a saved workspace and all is well; with Publisher, Photo and Designer, it's tedious at best putting all the pieces back together.
Am I unfair, naive, annoying and stoopid in saying it can't be that difficult to save a workspace state? After all, something along those lines is saved or APub couldn't restart with everything where it was on exit. Just add the ability to save those parameters as a separate, user-accessible file?
In other news, Publisher is shaping up to be a serious contender, IMHO.