[Copying table styles in affinity publisher]

Windows 10. It looks like it might be a bug. If I clicked the three bars in the upper right and chose the options it worked. But if I right-clicked in the blank space in the box and chose, it does nothing.

[Copying table styles in affinity publisher]

I have a publisher document that I was able to get the table styles set up. Now I have a new document that I want to use the same styles. In the document with the table styles I have right-clicked and chosen "Save Formats as Default" but that doesn't carry over. In the new document, I have tried "Import Formats..." but that does nothing, doesn't open a window or anything. I have also tried copying a formatted table from the old document into the new document, selecting the table and tried "Add Format from Selection" and again nothing. How are those 3 options supposed to work? Is there actually a way to move formats between documents?

[Is there a way to lock nodes relative to other nodes?]

I have been making decorative text boxes in Designer to be used in Publisher. But when I try and resize them it distorts the designs. So I have to go into the Designer persona, select the nodes that I want to move together, move them, then repeat the process at least 3 more times. More if I add a midpoint decoration. Is there a way to group the nodes so that when I resize the whole design, they stay in position relative to each other and don't scale with the size change?

[Set coordinates for grid handles]

Is there a way to precisely enter the position of the grid's axis editing handles?

[Text Frame styles, not paragraph styles]

My products regularly have pop-out boxes holding text with multiple paragraph styles (headers, lists, etc). I would love a way to create standard text frame properties, like fill, stroke, insets, borders, etc. Currently, I have to create duplicates of all my styles, and then carefully make sure the backgrounds don't overlap. Or I have to try and consistently replicate the styles for each text area over a hundred pages.

[Is there a way to select objects within a group with mouse?]

Yeah, but I have hundreds of objects I want to delete in the group. so individually ctrl clicking is not an option. So far what I have done is lock everything but the group, ungroup them, make the mass changes, and regroup them. It is a bit messy, but somewhat functional.

[Is there a way to select objects within a group with mouse?]

Whoops, sorry Affinity Designer. I don't think I want pixel selection, I want to select a subset of the items in the group and then change their brush style/color.

[Is there a way to select objects within a group with mouse?]

In Designer, I have a custom grid in a group, so hundreds of nearly identical lines. I need to be able to mass select with one of the tools and not by walking through the layers. Is there a way for me to select grouped items with a click and drag?

[Snapping pen at curve]

I am doing a lot of crosshatching and I keep overrunning existing lines. Is there a way to snap the pen to a curve so it doesn't go past and I have to get in an adjust nodes for every end node. I am not particularly precise in my penwork, unfortunately.

[Decorating a paragraph with no content]

Where do I insert an inline image into a text frame? Or do I just place an image over the text frame and adjust the wrap settings?

[Decorating a paragraph with no content]

I have some text styles for popout text box with a background fill that spans the column. I would like to break up the content with a empty paragraph that has the background fill that spans the column and a line decoration. So I took my "box" style with the background fill, duplicated it and named it "box break". Between paragraphs of "box" I have paragraphs of "box break", but the empty box break paragraphs are not getting the background decoration.

Am I missing a trick here? I have tried inserting other whitespace characters to no effect. As soon as I do add a character the decoration fills.

[Export as booklet PDF?]

I have a Project that I can export using PDF/X-1a:2003 presets and the resulting it prints perfectly. However I set it to in booklet model on tabloid paper and print it from Affinity directly to the printer, or print it to a PDF using PDF/X-1a:2003 in the Adobe PDF print driver then print the resulting pdf, I get the ghosting from text frames and images over the background image.

Is there a way to export it into into a PDF arranged in the booklet layout model instead of going through print?

[Text Normal blend different on print than screen]

Looks like it was a miss-set on my end.  I didn't export with the X-1a:2003 preset.

[Suggestions on blending layers with effects?]

The X-1a:2003 preset when exporting seems to have resolved.  Thanks!

[Suggestions on blending layers with effects?]

[Suggestions on blending layers with effects?]

I have a text layer with an outer shadow layer effect on it and is set for multiply.  When I look at the pdf it looks fine. But when I print it the layer has a faint background lightening. It seems to only be for layers with effects on them.  Thoughts?

 

[Text Normal blend different on print than screen]

Of the two attached files, IMG_20181023_165815.jpg is the printed version and multiply.PNG is a screenshot.The text has the blend of Normal with no fill color set. And the image has a blend of Multiply.  When I take the background image and the foreground image and put them in another program, merge them to a single image with the blend of multiply and then print I don't get the ghostly square.  Am I missing a setting to prevent this? It is odd that it is happening to both images and text boxes with different blends.  When I look at the exported PDF I don't see the ghosting, but when I print I do get it.

Thoughts?

[Clicking a text frame could drop a cursor in the frame?]

I am moving between text frames on my layout cleanup pass. When I finish with one frame I have to switch to the node tool, click the next frame, then switch to the text tool to click and drop a cursor.  Would it be possible if I already have the text tool selected, when I click on a frame it just drops a cursor?  

[Changing the Based on does not fully bring decoration.]

When I create an index, I get the "Index Section Heading" style. If I edit that style and change the Based On: to one of my existing headings it pulls all the style settings from the heading.  But if I go into Paragraph->Decorations there is no decoration set, even though on the page my index section headings do have the decoration.  If I try to modify the decoration it disappears from the page.

[Linking within a document.]

Is there a way to add cross reference links in a document? I am prepping for export to PDF, and I want clicking keywords to jump to it's entry in the glossary, or open a link in a web browser.  Or is this something I will need to do in Acrobat after I get the PDF?

[Save regularly if adding index marks]

Seems to be related to keyboard shortcuts and the suggestion dropdown.

[Save regularly if adding index marks]

If you mark a second copy of a word as an index, there is a good chance Publisher will crash. Manually save because the crash recovery doesn't always make a backup.  I have crashed about a dozen times in the last 10 minutes.

[Master Margin changes not propagating.]

Unfortunately I have different margins for different sections/master pages because of header/footer decorations.  Maybe I can gimmick a solution with guides instead of margins.  Thanks.

[Master Margin changes not propagating.]

I created a master page with set margins, added a bunch of pages based on those margins. Realized the master page margins were wrong, reset them to new values, and the changes didn't propagate to the pages using that master.  I saved and reloaded the file, still no changes.  I cleared the Master Page from all pages, then reapplied it and the margins changed.  Great, I saved the file and shut down.  When I came back the next day and reopened the file, the margins had reverted back to the previous values. So I have to clear the master page for all pages again, then reapply the master page every time I open the file to get the margins right.

[Precisely set opacity of text style]

For some reason in the Text Styles-> Decorations-> Fill color picker there is not a opacity dropdown or keyboard entry field to precisely set the opacity. I can get around this by setting the desired color and opacity elsewhere to add it to the recent swatches. But having the option in the Text Styles interface would simplify things and make it consistent with other interfaced.