Joachim_L

This is very customer friendly, that you offer this solution. Thumbsup! Just a thought: How much time did you spend answering here for the third time? And maybe a fourth if you answer me. There a several things you can buy in the store, but no "premium" support?

If you can live with the possible consequences.

Has Serif ever thought about the idea to offer a service for Remote Desktop access (e.g. with Team Viewer or similar) in these tricky cases? Working with PCs can be frustrating sometimes, on one machine it is working, but not on the other machine. A helped, satisfied customer could be a returning customer. But as always a matter of personnel, time and costs.

Markzware (Mac only) has a tool for converting PDF to Indesign. Would be nice also the other way round (and on Windows). https://markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp/

It seems to be be, that all (or most) document file types are increasing the file size, when you able to use the Edit Document button in the context toolbar. Irrelevant if linked or embedded.

You can do this with any document having 0 decimal places at pixels and creating manually some elements. In the attached example the rectangles are vertical aligned to the middle with a size of 1240 x 855 px. Zoom with Retina view and you seem a bit overlapping and no sharp edges. Switch to 6 decimal places for pixels and you see why. It seems to be that at least decimal places for pixels are not a good idea? alignedrectangles.afdesign

The image from the post before was with 6 decimal units and aligning it with the transform panel. With my next attached images, I made it to the extreme, so you might see where I see the problem. Document setup 1 (image units1.jpg): Units in pixel with 0 decimal places. Created a 4 x 4 px "big" square and duplicated it. Zoom level was 11300%. With the transform panel it is impossible to top align both squares. They have indeed the same y coordinates. Document setup 2 (image units2.jpg): Same document as before, but with 6 decimal places. Have a look at the transform panel how values differ. So my personal conclusion could be: Set all decimal places to the highest level and work with integers(?) to get a maximum perfection in alignment / precision. EDIT: I have to revert my report a bit. Everything is fine as long as you are only working pixel perfect with the transform panel, but it gives you problems if you manually create e.g. a square.

I guess he/she/it wants to span a headline over more than one column which is not possible at the moment. But there is one ugly hack to achieve something like that, but needs extra work at other places in the text frame -> Mark the headline as No break as a style or in the Character panel. A proper function would be better of course.

Without having your original font I would doubt, that the capital I is really (professional) printed bold. Maybe it appears only to be bold when rendered to the display? As an alternative take Courier as the font. Or, but that was never the intention of the maker of the font, change the horizontal scale of the I to 85%. But this is just an ugly hack.

For another test I used the preset PDF/X-4 and left everything else untouched in the export options and as a result the text was 100% black, but everything with profile ISO Coated V2 (ECI). In your first post you said explicitely you wanted to export with ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI), which differs from the profile the document is set up.

There is a colour profile mismatch. The document uses ISO Coated v2 (ECI) and you exported with profile ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI). I changed the profile in document setup to your desired profile and exported. Attached is the result.

Not so sure about this. Have look at the image. Managed to align the vector elements perfectly (View Pixel (Retina). The gaps we see, seem to be rounding errors. Go to Preferences User Interface and change the decimals for Pixel to 6. Go back to the document, look at the Transform panel and you will see, that there are some strange values on position and dimension. Change the values to full pixels and so you have no more gaps. Maybe this whole too-many-decimals problem should be worked on?

Could you upload the original Publisher document here (or a sample of it)?

In the end you are right of course. When I first experienced this, it felt a bit wrong. So you can safely discard this topic now.

The capitals in general - I used the Garamond installed on my system - appear to be are a bit wider. See third line where you can compare I and L. So I think the font is to "blame".

The title is only half true, of course the curves have a colour, but it is not so obvious. 1. Write some black text (black should be defined in the Swatches panel), irrelevant if Artistic Text or Frame Text. Have Panel Swatches with fill visible. 2. Convert the text to curves. Result: The curves seem to have no fill colour anymore, as the selection of black vanishes from the Swatches panel. 3. Ungroup the curves. Result: Black is selected back again in the Swatches panel. I do know, that it could not be displayed in the Swatches panel, when there are different colours in the text, but if there is only one? In the end perhaps not a real bug, but sometimes I have a big questionmark on my face while working with Publisher.

You have to change the Colour Format in Document Setup to Grey. Interestingly X-4 gives me an error, when I try to export. Added wish: I wish Publisher would have a Print Colour Manager where I can set aliases to e.g. spot colours. P.S: You might get more attention to this topic, when you change the title to 50 shades of K

Publisher supports hyphenation for German out of the box. Make sure the correct language is selected and Hyphenation in Paragraph panel is enabled for your text.

Do not forget, that the initial release of Publisher was in June 2018. If you look at the history of e.g. Indesign some "vital" features came in a later version. In fact Indesign 1.0 was a mess compared to the first version of Publisher.

? A good way to prevent having customers. I am not a software developer, but I can imagine that consistent and stable software across three platforms could be a difficult task. Not a nice tone, see quote below. Not a respectful way in a discussion.

There is no option for this right now. Hope (sure) this will come later. But you can copy a tab and return separated text into an existing table.

No, you can not choose during import, but once the file is placed, have a look at the context toolbar with the PDF selected. There you can select e.g. the page of the PDF.

Figures can fail the spell check when there are letters or signs before or after the figure. E.g. m2 (2 = superscript) is a normal writing, but is underlined as wrong. A plus is wrong, but a minus is correct?

The movement of the content of the converted picture frame is actually based on the coordinates of the originally placed image. Example: Place an image at x = 10 mm, y = 10 mm. Make a negative crop to x = 0 mm and y = 0 mm. Convert the image to a picture frame. Now the content of the picture frame is moved by 10 mm down and 10 mm right. Now imagine what happens when the coordinates of the image are x = 200 mm, y = 200 mm.

What is the reason behind exporting a bitmap file to a Scalable Vector Graphic?