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  1. Hi Nathan, Thanks for the heads-up re 2.2.1. I usually update as soon as a new version is offered. Checked – I have all three apps on the latest 2.2.1. To follow your latest note, I opened the book master file. For a couple of seconds the images appeared in a low-res form – soft/fussy – in the correct colour then as they 'linked' and the full quality images appeared in the document they reverted to the dark blue versions. I duplicated that book file to created a new version of the file, closed Publisher, reopened Publisher, and opened the new copy of the book file. The images appeared in all their glorious correct colour?!? Went back and opened the previous file that had presented the dark blue versions of the images and that too opened with the images in their correct colour. Not sure why? As the issue was intermittent when it first appeared, I closed everything down and worked on another machine/project for several hours. Have just returned to the Studio, fired up Publisher, and opened the original file that had paused the images then presented them as blue-cast images. The file opened instantaneously, displaying the images in their correct colours. Have left this for a couple of days. Reopened Publisher and the subject files to check. All still working correctly. So, fingers crossed all is sorted. Thanks for your assistance and persistence. Cheers Mike
  2. Hello Nathan, I have sent six raw files from the second chapter – the area I highlighted in the original request. Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide. Cheers Mike
  3. Hi Nathan, Apologies for the radio silence. Things have been a tad hectic. The premise of this project is to present photos from a digital archive created in 2005. The originals were raw photos from Pentax cameras set to the Pentax raw format PEF. For subsequent shoots that setting was changed to DNG, but the archive has sets of images in the RAW PEF format that will, hopefully, end up in other Publisher projects. I can provide a few 'undeveloped' PEF samples 'off line' if that helps. I can't be sure how all the picture files were 'developed', but the two main paths were using Affinity Photo and Luminar Neo – the latter has great AI masking capability that allows for application of quite intricate mask adjustments very easily. A few were also run through Topaz Photo AI. Does this help? Cheers Mike
  4. Hello Nathan, I have packaged and sent the files. I have also done a bit more experimentation, and sent screen shots of a sample image in RAW, DNG through Topaz AI and JPEG and TIFF through Luminar Neo in an Apple Pages book file spread and a second screen shot of the same material in an Affinity Publisher file. These appear to narrow the issue. Shout if you need anything else. Thanks. Cheers Mike
  5. Having an ongoing issue with colour management in Publisher – this issue has been occurring randomly in the last couple of versions of 2 including the latest. While a restart would usually clear the issue, with 2.2 that no longer seems to be effective. Running Publisher 2.2 on Mac Studio with M1 Max chip on Monterey and now Ventura 13.5.2. Colour space is set to CMYK – this is a print project – and US Webcoated (SWOP) v2. The images are linked Tiffs of pretty high quality. The randomly acquired blue casts is not consistent, and in past instances scrolling down rendered new images in the correct colour for a second before the cast appears. While this cast appears on the main work space, the pages thumbnails mostly appear with the correct colours. Though changing the colour space in the Document Setup panel to RGB 16/sRGB did result in the blue cast appearing on the pages thumbnails. Exported files, using the document colour or when specifying the colour space, now also have the blue cast. Help!
  6. A HUGE thanks to the team for this upgrade. Have been wrestling with my first large Affinity Publisher book project – since moving from InDesign – for a couple of months. The file is north of 400 MB with hundreds of illustrations across 317 pages. Just moving through the file by scrolling in the Pages panel took several minutes, and threw up more beach balls than a record attempt in Florida. Updated to 1.10 this morning. Completed an author's correction that would have taken several frustrating minutes in less than half-a-minute. This update is a game changer for those of us working with large files. Ten times faster – seems an understatement. So well done. And now we know where all that developer effort has been directed for the last several months. With that work done, can I put my hand up for some developer attention to supporting variable fonts? An increasing number of new fonts, such as through vendors like MyFonts, include a variable option as matter of course. In the works?
  7. The trick is that the tab shortcut to toggle the UI on and off does not work when the cursor is set for 'text', but if it is set for, say, move (v) or node (a) the shortcut works.
  8. Hi, The key is status of the cursor when you try to use the 'tab' shortcut. If the cursor is in text mode the shortcut won't register, but if it the cursor is in the Move or Node status the shortcut works.
  9. Another vote for including SVG support. There is a growing pool of this format of fonts. It's one of the rare things I miss from Illustrator, along with a whole lot I don't.
  10. One can only hope. Or maybe the 'enhanced' elements could be picked up by Serif. Will really miss the iPad preview capability that was just a click, and publishing to Apple Books was also much more streamlined that with Pages.
  11. With iBooks Author you can can create books that are an order of magnitude better in look and interactivity that is possible currently in Pages. There is a suggestion that some iBooks Author 'enhanced' capability may be transferred to Pages, but speaking with an Apple Books team member yesterday they have no idea if that may happen. More may be revealed during WWDC starting on June 22. Having created several titles in iBooks Author for sale on Apple Books, comparing the design/publishing capability of Pages and iBooks Author is a bit like comparing Apple Photo and Aperture. One is essentially a consumer program while the other is geared for professional use – Apple's spin not withstanding.
  12. Hi Paolo, There are 'enhanced' book features in iBooks Author that cannot currently be created in a Pages generated ebook. Those include a fixed layout that can become a flowing read option through 'scrolling', a unique navigation system, higher levels of interactivity, and a powerful glossary function that allows for simple creation of linked pages that can then be applied anywhere through the main text, with glossary entries also being able to be linked. Probably the best way to get a handle on the difference is to look through the Apple Books store for those publications marked with a blue rectangle with 'Made for iBooks'. One I have been involved with is Treason Claus von Stauffenberg and the Plot to Kill Hitler.
  13. With Apple announcing the demise of iBooks Author this morning, and a very unhelpful suggestion to use Pages instead, could a future Publisher roadmap include adding key iBooks Author functions such as widgets, links and the glossary function? I guess this could be part of an ePub capability that is proposed for Publisher? It appears iBooks Author will not be available on the App Store from the 1st of July, but will be supported by at least by MacOS 10.15, so we have at least a year’s grace.
  14. Hi Gabe, Thanks for that advice. I will set a window size that gets me close to 100% when working on these types of projects. Would be great, as garrettm30 has suggested, to separate navigation from zoom so the zoom level remains a last requested/set when navigating through a long document via the pages panel.
  15. Found this thread while looking for an answer to another 'view/zoom' issue I'm having. Experiencing this issue as well – command 1 or command 8 bringing up the same size document, but that document being larger on the screen than the finished print size (custom 155 by 218 mm pages vertical, facing) on my 5K iMac, but not on the companion 4K Dell monitor (older iMac that can only take a 4K second monitor). Followed R C-R's lead. Reset Preview preferences to 'Size on screen equals size on printout', restarted Publisher and now the iMac is also displaying the document at the correct print size when I use either command 1 or command 8 – seems to be no difference between the two. I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 – just about to finally dump InDesign and update to 10.15, Yah!
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