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  1. big smile initiated this topic well over 2 years ago, and still no action from Serif. It's not a huge ask, in my view, since a solution appears to require an extension of a facility that already exists. Come on, Serif: you can do better!
  2. Just received the AP 1.9 update, hoping that things might have been improved there, but as far as I can see, there is no change.
  3. I have tried something like that (although not with a IDML file) and it did not produce the right results. When you paste into the template, AP will probably add the collection of styles from the IDML document to the collection of styles in the template. Therefore you will end up with lots of new styles, including lots of similar names like Body Text and Body Text 1. That is, in my experience, a big mess. The critical thing is to do the import in such a way that AP will present you with a dialog box (called "the Imported Text Styles dialog") giving you choices about how to manage the styles as you import them. I think this dialog box appears only when you are importing from one afpub document into another afpub document. The 4 steps I describe above are designed precisely with this in mind. Have another go - hope it works!
  4. So my original point still holds: Having been forced, in the absence of proper style-mapping on import, to look for a workaround, here is what I have come up with: 1. Create a afpub document containing all the style-definitions you need: this document will be used as a template. It does not need to contain any text. 2. Create a new afpub document and delete all the styles that it contains by default. 3. Import into this new afpub document the required text – this can come from another afpub document or from a Word document (eg. by copying and pasting) or anywhere else. Text-styles will also be imported from the source-document: it is not important at this point that the styles are imported accurately. note The Normal style seems not to get assigned on import, so it is best to rename it in the source document before importing. 4. Import into your new afpub document the styles from the template document mentioned in step 1. Because both the source and the destination documents are afpub documents, you will be given the opportunity to choose how to manage the styles: choose to replace all the styles in the receiving document with the same-named styles from the template document. For me, this gives the desired result. Of course, the method does require that you have a document with all the required styles, to use as a template (step 1). I appreciate that if you don't already have such a document, it could be quite a big job to create it. Hope that helps.
  5. In the absence of a proper solution I have been using the following workaround when copying and pasting from Word: In addition to my target Publisher document, I create a second, empty Publisher document and delete all the style definitions. I import into this second document the styles from my target Publisher document. Then I copy & paste my text from Word, having made sure in advance that all the style-names match up. It's not important that the style-definitions match. Repeat Step 2. At this point I get the "Imported Text Styles" dialog and replace all the conflicting style-definitions with those from the target document. Finally I copy & paste from my second Publisher document into the target Publisher document. There should be no style conflicts and no new styles (like Title 1) should get created: mostly that works. Is this tedious? Of course. But it's a lot less tedious than the manual merge big smile had to do. (If you still lived up to your name after spending 40 mins on that, big smile, then hats off to you!)
  6. Thanks again for the quick reply. With regard to "Add pages from file", which I get when importing a Publisher file -- I just tried again the third of the things you mention here, and it works as you say. Thanks. (I find that it is important to uncheck the boxes for just the conflicting styles: if you do so for a non-conflicting style, the result is that that style is not imported and all the text associated with it in the source document is imported with no style allocated.) So this enables me to do what I want when importing from another Publisher file. Unfortunately, there still seems to be no straightforward way of managing the styles when importing from a Word document. (I think it would be quite difficult for me to ensure complete identity of styles between Word and Publisher documents given that the style-definitions can include different parameters.) What I probably can do is: (1) create a new Publisher document with no styles; (2) bring into it all my Word text - this will also import all the styles from the Word document; (3) save that new Publisher document; (4) use Add pages from file to bring the text from the newly created Publisher document into my target document and use the Imported Text Styles dialog to merge the styles correctly. I think that should bring the desired result, but it is not exactly quick and easy. So it would be nice - as I said in my original post - if a future version of Publisher would make it possible to use something like the Imported Text Styles dialog when importing text from Word. Thanks again for your help, Walt - it helped clarify things for me.
  7. Hi, Walt - thanks for your reply. I have tried various things - all I can think of, in fact: Add pages from file I can use this to import Affinity files; it brings up the Imported Text Styles dialog, but that does not give me the option I need. Place I can use this to import Affinity files and Word documents; it does not bring up the Imported Text Styles dialog so I have no options for managing styles during import. Copy and Paste I have used this, for example, to import a large quantity of text from Word. I obviously get no options for managing styles in this case. Publisher creates new styles based on those in the Word text and that often produces duplicates (eg. Normal and Normal 1; Body Text and Body Text 1). Andrew
  8. I know this topic has been addressed quite a few times before, but I'm using the recently-released v1.8.4 of Publisher and there is still a problem for me when I import text from another AP document or from a Word document, which I do a lot. What I need is really quite simple. I have an AP document in which I have defined all my required styles. I want to import into it text from another AP document or from a Word document which has styles with the same names but different definitions. What I want is simply that the imported text should take on the style-definitions of the receiving AP document. Not complicated, then, but I cannot see any way to make AP do this. There are, of course, various options available through the Imported Text Styles dialog. These include replacing the styles in the receiving document by corresponding styles in the incoming document, renaming the incoming styles and so on. But there is no option that I have found for replacing the styles in the incoming document by those in the receiving document. If this option exists and I have overlooked it, please someone point it out to me. If it does not exist, please, kind Affinity developers, include it in a future release of AP. Thanks for any suggestions.
  9. Printing booklet is already possible: choose Print, and, under Model, select Booklet.
  10. Hi, Tovarich I experienced a similar problem working with a long document (nearly 200 pages, mostly text, about 20 b/w illustrations). In my case, it was not just the performance of AP that was slow: my entire PC almost came to a halt and I often had to wait 30 seconds for it to respond to anything. I discovered that the PC was simply running out of useable memory: according to Windows Task Manger, memory usage would be over 90%, and most of it was being used by AP. There is a setting in AP that enabled me to solve the problem: limit RAM usage (Edit > Preferences > Performance > RAM Usage Limit). I set this to 2048Mb - my pc has 8Gb in total. That sounds like not much memory to allocate but AP seems happy with it and performance is now quite ok. Maybe that will help in your case, too.
  11. This has, I think, to a large extent been answered in v 1.8, but only when importing from another Publisher document. I regularly import text from MS Word documents (usually by means of Copy/Paste) and this tends to result in all the styles from the Word document getting added to the already existing styles in the Publisher document, which I generally do not want, especially when I have taken a lot of care with the styles in the Word document. When importing from another Publisher document, there is the "Imported Text Styles" feature, which allows the user to decide how individual styles should be handled on import: added to the existing inventory, replaced by a specified existing style, etc. It would be very useful to have the "Imported Text Styles" feature appear when importing from Word (or similar) documents.
  12. I have a problem with Publisher using an excessive amount of memory. My pc has 8 Gb in total, and under normal circumstances memory use is 30 to 40% (as measured by Windows Task Manager). But I sometimes find that Publisher uses over 5 Gb of memory, which takes total memory use on the system to about 95%. Of course, not just Publisher but the entire pc then becomes unusable. The problem occurs with one particular document, which is not particularly large on disk (about 12 Mb). It contains about 150 pages of A5 text and about 35 b/w bitmap images, each about 4 Mb in size. Until yesterday, the document could be edited easily enough. Its final frame had text in the overflow area and I autoflowed this into new pages (about 5 new pages). After that, Publisher's memory use increased to the level mentioned above. I have tried saving a new copy of the document but that makes no difference. When I close it, Publisher gradually frees up memory until (with no documents open) it is using only about 300 Mb.
  13. Hi, Lee Thank you for your response. I followed your suggestion and located the relevant Windows Logs (in the Application section). The problem generates two error entries in the log, one right after the other: there is one whose source is "Application Error (see Error log - Application Error.txt) and another whose source is ".NET Runtime" (see Error log - NET Runtime.txt). You ask whether apps are installed for dual displays or anything similar: no. Yesterday my system received a Windows Upgrade to version 1903, accompanied by an update to .NET. But neither or these has removed the problem. Thank you very much for your assistance. Andrew
  14. I have just updated Designer to the most recent version (1.7.2). When I try to run it, nothing happens (this problem also existed before I updated) - Windows just displays its "wait" cursor for a few seconds, then nothing. I have uninstalled Designer, reinstalled it, rebooted my pc, and I have tried running Designer as Administrator. The program is apparently installed correctly: I also have Publisher, and can select the Designer persona within Publisher. (Publisher is running ok.) I am running Windows 10. Thank you for any solution anyone may be able to suggest.
  15. I generally prepare lengthy text documents using Word. While doing this I am careful to create and use text-styles consistently in the hope that they will eventually come through correctly into AP. To get my text into AP, I just use copy-paste: it works ok, but with one very inconvenient feature (I assume this is by design - not a bug). For consistency across my various AP documents, I use one document as a template for creating others. This template contains all my necessary style-definitions, such as Normal, Heading, etc. These have the same names (and similar definitions) to those in the Word document I paste from. What I get, is that when I do the paste, AP creates a whole new set of styles named after the Word styles but with a 1 at the end. So I end up with Normal, Normal1, Heading, Heading1, etc. I realize I can then do a Find-Replace and change all instances of Normal1 to Normal, etc., but with many styles, this takes time. What I would like to see, therefore, is the option, when importing styled text, on a style-by-style basis to either create a new style or apply the existing AP style. (Incidentally, I had just the same problem with PagePlus and it would be nice if AP could solve it for me.)
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