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Eugene Tyson

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  1. I totally agree. you can start working on folder template for a client and sign it off, and turns out that a new die has to be cast to make the folder, driving up the cost of the print. Most printers have templates and die casts made already - which they can use at no additional cost. A die can cost up to and if not more than €100 a go. Although, a lot of places use laser to cut to shape these days - but still. Your shape has to work with what the printer can work with or you will incur extra charges. Please please please Affinity do not go way of folder templates - there's a lot of templates out there already.
  2. I agree - it would be a nice feature - as too would be the book file. But point taken - yes, having a paragraph style linked to a master page makes a lot of sense!
  3. Can you share the files? Feel free to PM and I can take a look if you can't share publically.
  4. Working on Books could be answered by having a Book file, both Quark offer this (for years and years) and also offered by InDesign. You have Master A for start of chapter, then Master B for the rest of the chapter. You add the chapter files to the book file via a Book Panel. Working with a Book file alieveates this request and also many other things like 1) File coruption, losing all the book as it's all in one file 2) Easy to rearrange chapters as you can have Chapter/Section markers, for example, Chapter 7 needs to move to be Chapter 1, you move the file in the book and with the correct numbering automation added, Chapter 7 automatically changes to Chapter 1 and the remaining Chapters all renumber correctly. 3) Saves having large files of big file size count that can slow down the application and your computer 4) Book files are a must for a serious contender to Quark/InDesign or other page layout application.
  5. You need to create a separate text frame, and make it the same width - insert the text - and use the text wrap icons in the top left of the screenshot. You can thread this text frame if you wish - or group them. But spanning columns is not supported.
  6. This is actually a great area for Affinity to explore though. Are Affinity open to people creating plugins? An external plugin for creating Folded Templates and Impositions would be welcome.
  7. I certainly hope they don't. Will they use American sizes, or European sizes - will be be A, B, C sizes, German Din, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, American Loose, Ansi, Arch, Notebook Sizes, Office Sizes, photograph sizes, post sizes etc. The reason I say it is because, for example, a direct mailer, would have different post size requirements per country, so having a default folding size that folds to a size that does adhere to postage requirements could cause an increase in posting prices. Plus, different countries have different paper sizes, therefore, creating something on a larger size "A4" that has to be printed in a country with a different size "A4" would cause increased printing charges. If you want folding templates I can certainly help you create them for the specific purpose you want - but heck no - I don't want to see "folding templates" added to the software. I definitely don't want to see Publisher become a "bloatware" with add-ons that are not necessary, this and impositions are not required for this type of application. That of course is my opinion, sorry for rambling on.
  8. There's a quite a few if you google them - some do more than others.
  9. Yeh it's a feature that's mildly useful, after 15 years of using InDesign I have used it only a handful of times. Printing to your own desktop printer is fine. Printing to a PDF or a PS to make a PDF is a bad workflow to begin with. You lose a lot of information, ICC profiles, Live Transparency, and a few other delicate bits of information required in a professional workflow. I operated a RISO myself and shot film to be imposed on plates too, and I used to do a bit of paste up with bromide. But times have moved on - printers like to receive single page PDFs and impose themselves. If you're self publishing there's a few free imposition software or some for a small fee. I'd be on the side of a well-formed PDF and then impose - rather than the other way around. If you want to impose you could make a sheet the size you're printing to and Place a PDF in the imposition. Probably a better way to learn how to impose - impose on paper first, replicate that on the screen. I've imposed 1000's of books, some up to 3,200 pages, and I've designed and imposed books with fold out maps, crazy fold outs like 12 pages long in the middle of a section and all sorts. And not once did I start imposing a single file on the computer. I'd certainly create the imposition in specialist software, like PREPS. Hence, why I would be hesitant to start adding imposition needs to the application. But hey - that's just my opinion.
  10. You're certainly welcome to your opinion - but I disagree with you on this one.
  11. My experiment shows you can copy tabbed text. Draw a table (any size) Select multiple cells (doesn't matter how many) Paste If you only have your caret(as Affinity call it) in the cell then it pastes the whole text in one cell.
  12. I'm not sure why you feel it's necessary you can print a booklet using Acrobat Reader https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html Acrobat Reader is free. You create the PDF from the application - then use a 3rd party to impose - whether that's specialist imposing software - or Basic like Acrobat Reader then that's it. Quick note - creating a postscript file and generating a PDF in distiller is killing your file. You lose all sorts of great information. Make the PDF directly from InDesign - or in this case Affinity. Distilling a PDF only uses a subset of the full PDF imaging model. You lose a lot of information, including and not exclusiveto, ICC colour management, any live transparency, layer information, and I'm probably missing about 10 other things I can't think of right now. Impositions should really only be done at the printing stage - I don't think there's any point of Affinity adding an imposition level to the software. 1) Most people don't know how to impose properly - and will make an arse of it - is it going to work/turn, work/tumble, perfect, sheet work... etc. 2) Probably every printers don't want you to impose the job - they have different machines, and they might put 16 pages on 1 machine and 4 pages on another, for example, so they want to setup for their machines the way they want to work the job. 3) You can use basic imposition in Acrobat to print your job on your own desktop printer. 4) Specialist imposition software is better at the job and developed already - why would Affnity spend time on this?
  13. With Acrobat you can use File>Print and choose booklet. Not the answer you were looking for - but a workaround.
  14. Just curious - if I make a text frame and make the Fill blue with a stroke, and insert text to the text frame. Can I had an effect to the text only - or the stroke only?
  15. I can't find a similar feature. There are features for total page count and such in View>Studio>Fields. But they are a bit wockedy. According to the Help File there should be a More button - but I can't find it.
  16. Yeh definitely - had many a post not responded to at all and had to bump after a few days. Just want to get the idea seen, as it's important to a good workflow to have the tools that react as expected.
  17. Yeh - your UI is probably bad at displaying the icon on the right there - it must be bright on your screen or something -but there's an unlink button to the right as above.
  18. When inserting text into a custom shape - the text frame has a align to center - but it doesn't actually align it optically centered. Would it be possible to include Alignment options for "Optical" - and also x-height, cap height, fixed, leading etc.?
  19. When inserting text into a custom shape - the text frame has a align to center - but it doesn't actually align it optically centered. Would it be possible to include Alignment options for "Optical" - and also x-height, cap height, fixed, leading etc.?
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