Touchstone

Thanks Walt. Have a nice day or night

Hi Walt, Thanks for the quick reply. The reason why I open in AF Designer first, is to turn off the ligatures all at once through the character panel. It is quick and easy. I delete headers and pages numbers also. For the notes in the margins which I have to get rid of as well, I prefer doing it in Publisher because some of it can be done through find and replace. The reason why I don't do everything in AF Publisher is that I did not figure out how I can do the same in AF Publisher: selecting all pages all at once and turning off ligatures. If it can be done I would be glad to know. I tried selecting all pages in the Pages panel on the left, but it seems that it has nothing to do with the character panel or vice versa. Why an idml is not an option, is because we use a pdf trough a pdf editor to get a conversion in simple xml. That xml file is handed to a CAT (computer aided translation) (like Trados and in this case LogiTerm). We never tried an idml file through LogiTerm yet. So, I provide herewith extracted pages from the textbook I've been working on. The problem lies with "ti" ligatures. They are there in the pdf supplied herewith. So do it the way I have described. Open in AF Designer, select all artboards. Go to character panel, and deactivate standard and alternates ligatures. Save under a new name. Open that file into Publisher. If you open as spreads, the ligatures come back. And otherwise, texts remain the same without ligatures. What is desired is no ligatures. Please confirm your results and let's see if Serif can fix the problem. Thank you very much for your interest. Extracted pages from 12-22 -B210 2018 - Book Fr .pdf

Hi, I would like to indicate a buggy and annoying behavior when opening an AF Designer document in AF Publisher. It can be reproduced, at least with the kind of documents I have been using. So here is the context: I have an InDesign textbook of 350 pages. There are about 80 styles in it. And the styles have alternate ligatures ticked in the styles. I have to get the textbook converted in XML and exporting straight from Indd in XML is not option for our purpose. Here is what I do. I prefer to work from a textbook pdf instead. I open the textbook in AF Designer. Select all artboards, go to character panel, go to Typography, tick off Standard ligatures and Alternate ligatures. And voilà, all ligatures are turned off and converted immediately as standard texts. Bravo! To AF Designer! It is fun and easy and very pacifying to the mind of an operator who worked very hard for two weeks before getting to solve the problem that way. But the business is not over yet. Since I have many texts replacement to get done, I cannot do these replacements in AF Designer. Therefore I open the AF Designer in AF Publisher. No problem to open the file. However, as I want to open the file I am greeted with a dialog box asking for a choice: to have the pages turned into spreads or not. If I choose to open as spreads, —without my knowledge in the beginning—, each AF Designer artboard is turned into regular pages in AF Publisher — and here is the bug — the ligatures that were off in AF Designer, all come back on as if they had never been turned off in AF Designer. I tried afterward not to transform the AF Designer artboards into spreads and, to my delight and relief, the ligatures were respected without any changes. So it worked out that way. So, my request to Affinity team, is to solve the problem of loosing the ligature settings when opening an AF Designer file into AF Publisher as spreads. For those who would like to know, once a new pdf is generated from AF Publisher with all wanted changes done, that pdf is opened into FlexiPdf and exported as simple XML. It works fine for our purpose of preparing the ground for computer aided translation. Thanks many, many times for the fabulous pieces of software all staff at Serif's have put together over the years and for the future improvements as well. AF Publisher is a pure delight to use. AF Designer and Photo are very nice too, but I prefer by far AF Publisher since it is the central piece that give the other two one their full shine in terms of integration. Studiollink technology is great!

Hi, I work in French. French keyboard. In any other software, the keyboard keys are recognized properly. However in Publisher the apostrophe is not recognized properly. It is a a greater sign character > instead, and preceded by a caret for a space. Very annoying. So, please fix. The auto-correct feature is faulty also because of this.The automatic correction for typographic quotes does not work for the French language. Instead of " l'amour " you get " l^>amour ". Thanks a lot.

Export from Publisher a selection (namely a chart containing text and up and down lines) as WMF/EMF does not give the same result as per Affinity Designer doing the same export. Affinity Designer export is successful whereas Affinity Publisher's result does not render the graphic lines properly. Just meager lines instead of wanted thicker lines as per originals. Would be nice to fix that. Exporting as SVG seems to work OK. But since I need EMF actually, it is a problem for me. Thanks a lot. Congratulations overall, the program is very promising. Testing Touchstone.afpub

Thanks Affinity for all the efforts put into Publisher. It will be a great piece of software to work with, especially in tandem with Designer and Photo. I would like to report a limitation with the function of Ctrl + F for Find and Replace. Replace All tab in particular. On a one page document Replace all works. Find next and replace one by one OK on a one page test. Where Replace All does not work is as follows. Here is what I did. I imported a pdf made of 1031 text in Publisher. A whole book I worked on in the past. Could import OK. Then I tried a Find and Replace, hoping to test successfully a global Replace All throughout the document. One word for another. The result was weird. 1) On the last page where the cursor was, that page had all words on it replaced by the intended replacement word. The word was only a four digit number. The rest of the document, on all previous pages, that is 1030 pages, no replacement whatsoever. Thanks for your attention to this problem.