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I thought as much!

Just thought I'de try Designer 2 and came across a bit of a problem straight away... In the Glyph Browser window (having installed a Hebrew font I'm working on) I noticed just how small the fonts looked (it was set on the largest viewing size), so small in fact, that I found it difficult to distinguish which letter was which. Is there no way to make these larger? This is a reason not to go to Designer and stay with Illustrator (which has problems of its own!)

GarryP I think you make my point exactly... if you zoom into the Publisher section you will be able to make out some tiny little marks between the words; whereas, the InDesign section seems perfectly clear to me. quod erat demonstrandum!

MikeTO: So you haven't put identical docs side by side then! I'm using an 2017 iMac and when I put the docs side by side it is quite obvious that the 'special characters' are not the same size; in fact they don't come close. It's not until I go to 400% in Publisher, and InDesign still at 200%, that they look relatively the same. If you can't replicate what I did accurately don't bother making baseless comments; I'm trying to find things out and help others who may be suffering the same problems and I don't need or want your pointless comments thank you! GarryP: If I say something is 'too small', guess what, I think it's too small and I would like it to be 'bigger'! The Publisher 'Show Special Characters' feature is 'too small' compared to the one's used by Adobe InDesign, which to my sight, is just about right; the one's used by Apple Pages are a tad too big for me. As I say above, the InDesign characters are about twice the size of the one's used by Affinity Publisher. If you think the size in Publisher is fine and dandy, then that's OK for you but, for me they are just 'too small' to be useful. I hope this clarifies things. Good day... For those who feel they have to have 'proof' I append a useful pdf. Special Characters.pdf

The 'Invisibles' in Apple Pages may be large but, at least you can see them!

I've just tried this and now the text comes in with 'Final Forms' turned on! I suppose I should be happy that it doesn't bring in 'Ordinals' anymore! 😖

IMO you should go to Specsavers! InDesign's 'Hidden Characters' are at least twice the size of a similar Publisher 'Special Characters'. They are no where near to being useful for me and I deal with a lot of text (for books) etc. Nowhere near! 😀 Get an InDesign doc side by side with a Publisher one and go to 200% view, then you'll see; and it's not just because I use a Mac!

Adobe Illustrator – 'ai' file. It's always done this for me...

These are still far too small in Publisher v. 2.1 – just about unusable to be honest.

This pallet really should be lockable in v. 2.1...

In v. 2.1 (and before) of Designer when I bring in text (Hebrew in this case) that was run around a circle it breaks all of the words apart; would be nice if I didn't have to recreate this sort of thing all again.

When I copy and paste InDesign text for some reason Publisher wants to turn on 'Ordinals' even though it wasn't turned on in InDesign; sounds like a bug to me?!

Text Frame – Baseline Grid – Use Independent Baseline Grid: I find that the option only works on an 'per frame' basis; if the text frames are connected you still have to go to each connected 'frame' to turn it on; it doesn't flow/cascade down through the 'connected' text frames, which is what I would have expected...

Not 100% sure if this is a bug or its just intended but... in v 2.1 (MacOS) if you go to: Text Frame – Baseline Grid – Use Independent Baseline Grid: I find that the option only works on an 'per frame' basis; if the text frames are connected you still have to go to each connected 'frame' to turn it on; it doesn't flow/cascade down through the 'connected' text frames, which is what I would have expected...

Bringing text over from InDesign and finding new Paragraph styles; what would be nice if I could change more than one of these at a time in Find and Replace - that would really save time!