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Daniel Höpfl

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    Daniel Höpfl got a reaction from JGD in Master pages   
    I just finished a 132 page (very) simple text book … I'm not a pro, using LaTeX would probably have been faster in my case.
    You don't have to create textboxes for every page: You can Shift-Double-Click the next column triangle to autopopulate pages.
    BUT: This auto-fills empty pages (Well, I wanted to have that empty left side before the next chapter), even if non-consecutive (WHUT?), and if there are no empty pages left, creates new pages at the end of the document. (Maybe I did not understand this but that's what it looked like to me).
    When I had set up all chapters, I decided to use a different page size. That's when I had to touch each and every text frame.
    Then I did not like the borders on the new page size. Had to touch each frame (again).
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    Daniel Höpfl got a reaction from jmwellborn in Master pages   
    I just finished a 132 page (very) simple text book … I'm not a pro, using LaTeX would probably have been faster in my case.
    You don't have to create textboxes for every page: You can Shift-Double-Click the next column triangle to autopopulate pages.
    BUT: This auto-fills empty pages (Well, I wanted to have that empty left side before the next chapter), even if non-consecutive (WHUT?), and if there are no empty pages left, creates new pages at the end of the document. (Maybe I did not understand this but that's what it looked like to me).
    When I had set up all chapters, I decided to use a different page size. That's when I had to touch each and every text frame.
    Then I did not like the borders on the new page size. Had to touch each frame (again).
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    Daniel Höpfl got a reaction from Fixx in Master pages   
    I just finished a 132 page (very) simple text book … I'm not a pro, using LaTeX would probably have been faster in my case.
    You don't have to create textboxes for every page: You can Shift-Double-Click the next column triangle to autopopulate pages.
    BUT: This auto-fills empty pages (Well, I wanted to have that empty left side before the next chapter), even if non-consecutive (WHUT?), and if there are no empty pages left, creates new pages at the end of the document. (Maybe I did not understand this but that's what it looked like to me).
    When I had set up all chapters, I decided to use a different page size. That's when I had to touch each and every text frame.
    Then I did not like the borders on the new page size. Had to touch each frame (again).
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    Daniel Höpfl got a reaction from Arte in Master pages   
    @MEB please consider this message as a +1 for good master pages support starting with version 1.0.
    By “good support” I mean something very similar to how it is done in Apple's Keynote.
    I also agree with what @Seneca said, it seems like your devs envisioned Publisher as a “Leaflet-designer”.
    I will rarely (if ever) use Publisher for a leaflet but I would like to do things like (family) photo books. For this, I'd like to see great master pages with multi-master support and tree-like masters in future versions (v2.x):
    Background Master (Some fancy boxes in the background, pages numbers, etc.) Green Background Master (based on Background Master but changes color of boxes to greenish) Red Background Master (based on Background Master but changes color of boxes to redish) … Images Master (Contains 4 image placeholders but these are marked inactive/hidden) 1 Image no Text (Unhides one image placeholder, makes it fill the page, other placeholders still hidden) 1 Image, Textbox (Like 1InT, but different size/position and adds a text box) 2 Images (you get the idea) I'd like to be able to assign any number of masters to a page. Publisher should be smart enough to understand that Green and Red contain the same objects thus only one of them can be assigned at any time. But “Green” and “2 Images” do not share any objects thus they can both be active simultaneously. Of course, switching between “1 Image” and “2 Images” would reuse the first image but re-position it (as it works in Keynote).
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    Daniel Höpfl got a reaction from JGD in Master pages   
    @MEB please consider this message as a +1 for good master pages support starting with version 1.0.
    By “good support” I mean something very similar to how it is done in Apple's Keynote.
    I also agree with what @Seneca said, it seems like your devs envisioned Publisher as a “Leaflet-designer”.
    I will rarely (if ever) use Publisher for a leaflet but I would like to do things like (family) photo books. For this, I'd like to see great master pages with multi-master support and tree-like masters in future versions (v2.x):
    Background Master (Some fancy boxes in the background, pages numbers, etc.) Green Background Master (based on Background Master but changes color of boxes to greenish) Red Background Master (based on Background Master but changes color of boxes to redish) … Images Master (Contains 4 image placeholders but these are marked inactive/hidden) 1 Image no Text (Unhides one image placeholder, makes it fill the page, other placeholders still hidden) 1 Image, Textbox (Like 1InT, but different size/position and adds a text box) 2 Images (you get the idea) I'd like to be able to assign any number of masters to a page. Publisher should be smart enough to understand that Green and Red contain the same objects thus only one of them can be assigned at any time. But “Green” and “2 Images” do not share any objects thus they can both be active simultaneously. Of course, switching between “1 Image” and “2 Images” would reuse the first image but re-position it (as it works in Keynote).
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    Daniel Höpfl reacted to Seneca in Master pages   
    You are absolutely right. I can't argue with that. Inherited master pages should be part of our toolbox.
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