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  1. That has been my observation with many other softwares over the years. Standard vs Pro. For pro features, well you have to pay more. Apple is very smart in this area with the way they market their products. The focus will be on Pro edition (for more money and serious professionals), while the standard is just for hobbyists, forcing people to go Pro or find an alternative.
  2. I bought both AD and AP when it first came out. Then later got all three directly from them (outside of the appstore). Honestly, I RARELY use Photo/Designer and Publisher. Much of what I need to do I’m sure can be done with open source apps, but I just like the clean design of the GUI and like having well-made apps just in case I need to do stuff with it later. It’s only recently that I start to explore and seriously use Publisher. Also, I just like to support companies that care about their users, not forcing them to go the subscription route. Even though I don’t use the Affinity Suit professionally, but I’m sure I will upgrade all three to V3 later on if the price is reasonable. From a business standpoint, I can understand why “limiting certain functionalities in one program and making them available only in the other is to Serif's advantage.” But I’m also of the opinion that “All this is considered as basic stuff for text editing in a vector program” and should be made available. Once you hit a certain point, you’ll eventually move on to Publisher. Having Text Frame in AD/AP won’t replace Publisher (I think). But not having it in AD can be a bit troublesome when I need to do basic stuff without having to switch to Publisher. Another option would be to make AP/AD detects the presence of Publisher and if found, enable Text Frame in both AP/AD. If Publisher doesn’t exist on the system, then disable Text Frame. Anyway, I don’t want to get this thread going off topic. Just want to share a few thoughts.
  3. For a while I had no idea why searching for texts with a specific color wasn’t working. Today I found out that Publisher gets confused with RGB/HEX? Finding RGB vs HEX.mp4
  4. For the benefit of those following, Expand Field works and will affect all pages EVEN when you’re doing it on the Master page. The only problem is that if the Field such as a Running Header is depended on a style to get its value, then Expand Field on a Master will output <RUNNING HEADER> (for example) for all pages with that master. If the Field is not depended on any style, then Expand Field works as expected. In my case, I can bake the Book Name, but not Book CHAPTER. The chapter number has a specific style and baking the Field will give a blank (if doing it on a regular page), or <RUNNING HEADER> (if doing it on a master page). I have no problem baking the Book Name because the Field is not looking for any style. It’s just a static string (variable) I can easily change in the Fields manager.
  5. I just downloaded the file and tested it out, and if the file is closed while exporting, it appears as running header. Good to know that it’s a problem and that I’m not the only one experiencing it. > Now I just need to wait for it to get fixed, not sure how long. Currently using 2.3.0
  6. I’m with you on this. I know you can disable it, but I still get paranoid that AP might accidentally auto-correct a word. There should be a check somewhere in the setting that completely shut it off for peace of mind. Now I have to make sure that Check spelling is unchecked, and "Replace text while typing" is unchecked in the Settings etc… When you’re working on thousand of pages of text with archaic words, you’ll understand the paranoia. The preflight scares me.
  7. Looks like this is still a lot of work to do it manually. I was thinking of letting AP does its thing(s) with the running header, once AP calculated then it convert them all at once but baking isn’t a feature yet. Expand Field seems to work only for the page that it was expanded on.
  8. on Windows you have AutoHotkey (very powerful tool for mouse/key modification). I use it back when I was on Windows. It can do much more such as pixel detection etc.. almost like programming. on macOS, you have Karabiner . Not as powerful as AutoHotkey but good enough for most modifications. For example, I use this combo a lot in AP: Backspace, Enter. To save me the hassle of having to use my right hand to reach these two keys, I map them into one button on my mouse with Karabiner. One mouse click = Backspace, Enter. And you can make it so it only activate when AP is active. Very cool app. There’s a bit of learning curve so it’s not user friendly at first but there are plenty of examples out there you can use to modify. This is my example, showing you what can be done: EDIT: Didn’t know I was replying to a year old post. Not sure how I came across this post in the first place.
  9. I have a masterpage with the <RUNNING HEADER>. I right click on that and Expand Field. Every page now has the string <RUNNING HEADER> instead of numerical value. Looks like AP converts the Field <RUNNING HEADER> into actual “RUNNING HEADER” string for all pages?
  10. Come to think of it, why doesn’t AP have an option to bake the running header? This way people can get the number to be exactly as it is. This of course means that they need to have a backup of the original file if they need to change/modify it in the future, but I assume that people back up their stuff just in case, so turning Running Header into actual values (baking it) can a void a lot of hassles.
  11. After messing around I finally found that Running Header is actually very effective for what I’m trying to achieve. This saves me from having to manually adjust the Section(s) when I start to pad the page via Enter key, so I’m no longer using Section. It works perfectly as a standalone PDF export. However, there is something that is confusing me a bit when it comes to importing each file into the Books. Let’s say I import 3 separate pub files into Books to be exported as a single PDF. What will happen in the final PDF export is that it shows <RUNNING HEADER> instead. Yes, that exact string. I decided to have all three pub files opened and then export them as one via Books and the running header is as expected. Does this mean I have to have all the pub files OPENED before exporting them via Books?
  12. I have scanned through posts talking about editable fields in PDF, and currently none of that is possible in AP. I’m hoping that future AP will have it. Right now I wonder if there’s a workaround. Is it even possible to design just a page with checkboxes in another app and then have that PDF imported into AP and then having it exported along with AP pages afterward? Also popups would be great. Here are practical usages: 1. For checkbox, this can be helpful with Bible Reading plan, where readers can read the Bible within the PDF and then check what they have read. 2. Popup: Can be useful if user click on a word and a popup appears with definition or any kind of information.
  13. I’m on macOS Ventura. On my side, it shrinks when there’s room to shrink and that the panel is detached (floating).
  14. Came across this strange behaviour while renaming a lot of anchors. Basically, I normally start renaming it by clicking on it once and then wait, and then enter whatever. I repeat this as often as I like and BUT if I forgot to press ENTER after many anchors being renamed, then the last one IF I accidentally press ENTER then everything will be reset. renaming anchors.mp4
  15. Is this a bug or it’s normal? Since I’m working on a small screen, this is one way I organize my panels. But it keeps on shrinking when I go from one tab to another back and forth. ap panels.mp4
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