Joachim_L

My thesis: If Serif stays on the road making imported PDF editable with no other option, plus what is obviously on their roadmap working with embedded fonts, a 1:1 rendering/display/print/changing content of a PDF will fail at a rate of 50% (guessing). Unless at Serif are working magicians. Why? Can anyone explain at this simple example how IT could work: A simple PDF is created elsewhere with the word DOLLAR in it, Font is Swiss BT 921 and this font is subset. Now I import the file in Publisher and want to change the word into $ or SIX DOLLAR. In theory these signs are not part of the PDF as the font is subsetted. So how can Serif render these characters without knowing them? I have no idea how the competitors work with the PDF by just importing just like an image. I am very interested how Serif will solve this dilemma. Placing PDF as-is is vital for e.g. magazines placing foreign adverts and so for me.

First I would say Create Palette from Document, but although all colours from the document are now in the palette, clicking on any element will not show the colour in the Swatches panel. Also making a colour global and changing the colour afterwards has no impact on elements in the document.

In the current round of the contest of who will be the next Master Chef layout application the jury sent Affinity Publisher into the infamous Pressure Test. Ingredients: - 432 pages PDF, Greyscale, 6 merged manuals all made in Indesign - about 240 embedded images inside the PDF - ca. 100 tables - ca. 1.200 vector graphics, some of them from a time when Windows 3.1 was the top notch operating system - 12 used fonts Aim: - Making a Master Chef worthy manual Observations from the jury: + Import lasted about 5 minutes, about same time for first saving - Rearranging pages, like inserting and deleting pages takes too long + Most text frames looked like the original - Tidying of recurring unwanted objects very time consuming - Tables not 100% the original with misplaced text. Tables are not reconstructed, but destroyed to its every single stroke - Text sometimes strangely combined. Means headlines combined with flowing text combined with captions - Linking text frames and formatting leads to unexpected results as overflowing text in next frame suddenly shrinks although correct formatted - + From time to time application not responding, but coming to life again after some time. Contents shown blurry, but can be revived mostly by sending the print keyboard shortcut - + Very seldom crashes ++ Small file size. PDF 17 MB, Publisher 67 MB. Jury expected a much bigger file - Snapping has to be completely disabled, otherwise very laggy + Vector graphics 99,9% looking as the original + Working gets faster the more you tidy the document Overall rating from the jury: Although some drawbacks and extra work, Affinity Publisher has to take place on the balcony for the next round. Overall speed could be better, but the jury is heavily impressed with abilities of this not mature application. I hope you enjoyed the meal.

Without knowing this file, I guess the content in table 2 is aligned top. Have a look at the Table panel.

... leads to strange results. 1. Create a picture frame and place an image inside. Increase the image inside the picture frame a bit, so that the image is bigger than the picture frame. 2. Switch to Photo Persona. 3. Add a Live Filter to the image inside the picture frame. 4. Add a Live Filter to the picture frame itself. Result: Rest of the image that should be cut off by the picture frame is visible. Try to zoom in and zoom out. Parts of the complete image are shown and vanish. Windows 10 Pro, Intel UHD Graphics 630. 2-live-filters.afpub

No text count available in the current version of Publisher, but an often demanded feature. Maybe this will be included in a later version?

Does it make sense and how could this be programmed? Let us say Serif can import PDF with attached fonts (right now attached fonts (attachments) will be simply ignored). The attached fonts have to be installed manually anyway on your system or should Affinity read the attached fonts and install them? As long as the fonts are embedded inside the PDF, this should be enough for archiving (not for editing). And who grants, that font formats like ttf, otf, type1 are made for eternity? Maybe one day noone can install the "ancient" fonts. And maybe I am not getting your point here?

Is No break assigned to the text frame? You find this option in the Character panel.

Noone? I will tell you anyway, because the below told procedure saved my lower back a few times. 1. Go to mupdf.com and download the command line tool. Currently only for Windows and Linux, but there is also an old version for Mac (don't know if it still works). 2. If you want to convert a PDF to SVG keeping the text (there is also an option for converting text to curves) you have to type the following into you command line: mutool convert -O text=text -o nameofoutputfile.svg nameofinputfile.pdf 3. Still we have a little work to do, as the converted SVG has too many curves and groups inside. 1.12 seems to produce fewer curves than the latest 1.16. Remove the unnecessary curves / groups, otherwise the SVG will be rasterised. A lot of work I know, but in the end you get a file that plays nicely. So this is just a workaround until import of those "weird" PDF gets improved by Serif.

@WJC Maybe you could post the whole Publisher document here or at least the page in question. To me it sounds as if the image is pinned to the text. But this is just an assumption, as we can not see what happens e.g. in the Layer panel.

It was just a little joke, did not want to annoy you, as I am also eager to see a new Beta. BTW dict.cc has another American English translation for hoe. That was indecent part of the title.

Although the question is indecent, I also would like to know when we get our new toys?

When you look into the PDF, the font is called Cambria Math. Illustrator complains about Cambria%20Math missing. Attached you will find a SVG with the equation and editable text. Someone interested on how to convert the equation? Maybe interesting for those having only the PDF. equationtext-designer.svg

Calibri? You mean Cambria Math? And your PDF has only curves in it.

Partly true. The double-click only works if the file is handled as a document like PSD, SVG etc. For all other file (image) formats there is the Replace Image button (Edit Image button in Publisher) in the context toolbar.

There seems to be no option for unhiding posts?

Yes, sorry read this later on, so I hid my post.

@Oval What dimension has the circle? From my own testing I would say, that a 5 mm circle is the limit. If the circle is smaller than 5 mm I can clearly see distortions. Maybe a workaround could be scaling up the elements, expanding the stroke and afterwards scaling down? <- Sorry, this was told before in this thread.

As part of my workflow over the years I place elements outside the spreads (what is the correct wording: workspace?) and quite fond of the fact, that this space is big not to say HUGE in Affinity Publisher. I wonder why it is so huge? But this is not the point here. If I place an element outside of the spread and I zoom into this element at about a zoom factor of 210% the scrollbar moves to its end on the right side and I am not able to scroll to the end of the element anymore. If I want to get to the end of this element I have to zoom out/in or use the pan tool or use the Navigator panel. So my question/s is/are: Is this huge extra space really needed? Or could the "workspace" be limited, that we get faster to elements placed outside? Just an idea.

Making a new document in panel Colour C0M0Y0K10 is preset. This is what I mean with initial.

Publisher 1.7.2.471, Windows 10. Perhaps Petar and I are brothers in mind? See attached file. Second image from left Lab slider moved to 0. Third image shows the colour when moving back to 93. If you select an image, there should be no colour preset, of course reverting the colours will fail. Still unsure where this initial colour comes from. P.S.: No recording possible, I am not allowed to. P.P.S.: Same problem in APhoto and I guess in ADesigner ... overread the tag of this topic.

Petar is right. There is a difference in colour. Where do the Lab slider gets it initial value from and how it could be related to the image? Reverting to default it is L93 A0 B0 in my (everyones?) case. Same "problem" with the CMYK slider which starts only with K10. Moving C to 100 and back to 0 make the image look like greyscale. To revert to the original colours for the image you have to select the transparent fill.

What do you mean by larger? The document area itself or everything including crop marks. If the bleed is fine and the document (layout area) you do not have to worry. If you are still worried post the PDF here.

Really? What have I done all the years without?

Am I doing something wrong here? How do you set an indent on a paragraph, when the text is wrapped around an element. Indenting first line works, but not if there is more than one line in the paragraph.