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I agree wholeheartedly with you wonderings; ImpositionStudio seems an excellent piece of software and not too badly priced - seriously looking at this one! The Montax software software seems to be Windows only Hilltop - so a no-go for me... One more seems to be the ImpositionSoftware for InDesign plugin.

There doesn't seem to be a similar feature to InDesigns 'Print to Booklet' - or something like that! I mention this, not because Publisher lacks it but, that InDesign, not only cobbles the thing but, the fact that when I go to look at 'Pagination' software they are somewhat obtuse in use and relatively expensive. Cannot the art of Pagination be made simple to use, and useful for most people? 🧐

Brilliant - both of you! Publisher is close to Prime Time as far as I'm concerned; if I could just make those pesky 'invisibles' larger 🤣 Then there's the Index to deal with... but I'll save that for another day.

I've searched for the answer in this forum and on Youtube to no avail... In Indesign you can right-click on a text box and change the text's ability to stay at the Top, or Centre in the box or alternatively align to the Bottom. Can this be done in 2.5.2 Publisher? All intelligent answers are welcomed!

Nice to see this Ash but... when will the 'invisible characters' issue be fixed 😀 It's still a no-brainer for me to be honest. Well done though for this little surprise! PS. Good luck with the merger.

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Clever!

Nice work! I think I remember, way back when in the 80's, originally doing something similar to create the original version I did. The problem is: why does it have to be so bloody difficult; it should be pretty obvious how to do this. You live and you learn! Once again thanks for your help; it just goes to show: a problem shared is a problem halfed 😀

Hi Bit Arts, The tool in both Illustrator and Designer is helpfully called the Shape Builder Tool. You can see from the attached file what I was trying to do... I'm sure this used to be really easy in Illustrator but now it's a pain in the ass! I had to create 7 versions of the double heptagram and use the Shape Builder of the seven separate sections (deleting all that wasn't needed). What a malarky. I started way back in the late 80s with this stuff, and to my way of thinking, things have just got more (unnecessarily) complicated. I like being challenged but, this is plain stupid; what happened to things just doing what they are supposed to do? 😂

The only problem now is, when using the Shape Blender Tool (I think they call it that!) to try and create an intertwined look for the Heptagram, it doesn't do a very good job at all; it leaves lines all over the place. A work in progress mi thinks. I shall spend a few more hours on it (tomorrow) and see if I find it useful. Thanks.

I tried everything but that! Many thanks for the speedy correct answer... I can now rest easy 😂

As Affinity Designer had an interesting update I thought I'd give it a try... to my chagrin I found I couldn't make an Heptogram (7-pointed star) but I could make a pentagram (5 points). For some reason the Heptogram seemed to break itself into 7 smaller triangles - this only happens when you connect the last point; before that it just looks like regular lines overlapping each other. I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason for this happening but, I'll be dammed if I can work it out! Can anyone shed light on this? Thanks in advance.

Hi, just a simple one here; is there a way of breaking the locked status of a text box created on a Master Page setup? It would be useful...

Just a quicky here... I've been giving Designer the once over (again) to see if anything has changed. I find when I copy and paste text, from InDesign, it seems to carry over text regarding any Index markers I've made; obviously I don't want or need that so, is there a 'correct' way of bring ing text in without the Index marker text?

I thought as much!