[Merging several afpub files]

Yes. This was what I was looking for. But I was looking at the File menu, not the Document menu.

[Merging several afpub files]

I have been trying to use an afbook to edit individual chapters of a book, but I am having many problems. The last being that I can no longer export it to PDF since upgrading to v2.2.

For that reason, I would like to merge all the individual chapters from the book into a single afpub. I currently have a dozen afpubs.

Each of them contains a variable number of stories and individual elements. So I can copy and paste one by one all the contents of each afpub into the new.

Is there any effective way of merging two afpubs into one?

[Table of Contents update messes up the layout in Publisher v1 and v2 + workarounds]

I can confirm the same behaviour and the proposed solution using v2.1.

Now that I have a working solution, it is less urgent to solve the problem, but it would be nice if the bug could be eliminated.

[Understanding colour models in Affinity applications]

I have been very happy designing my documents using the RGB colour format and the default sRGB colour profile.  I can use the RGB values in websites and other applications (such as Office) and they work. If I need to print the documents, I generate a PDF using CMYK and a suitable color profile, and Affinity takes care of the conversion for me.

But now I need to create a visual identity manual and need to refer to the colors both in RGB and CMYK. What I have discovered is that the CMYK values provided by Affinity are completely different than those used by other applications.

So what is the deal with RGB to CMYK conversions in Affinity applications? I am sure there is an explanation for the differences, but I just can't understand what is happening.

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

I am also very annoyed by the fact that Affinity has decided to go the Windows App route, so I want to add my comment here.

Please consider that many of your users like Affinity because it is not an Adobe/Microsoft/[Insert other big software company names here].

We want to retain some control over the software we own and we install in our machines and do not like the route computing is taking.

I am very happy to see that I am not the only one concerned.

Annoy your customers, and you might find you lose them.

[Hyperlink added to the definition of a style causes very strange behaviour]

I have discovered a very strange issue with a publication in which I am working.

Somehow, the body style became "infected" with a hyperlink reference causing that all paragraphs with the body style or any descendant would pick the character style of the following paragraph whenever they were edited.

The issue is described on the following post:

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I have been able to solve the problem by removing the style and reformatting the whole document, but it would be nice to know why it happened.

 

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Good idea. I have done it.

Thanks for your help.

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thomaso,

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how did you detect that there 1.) in fact is a link nested in the style definition and 2.) how that's in particular to page 4 ? Is this link clickable for you?
To me there is no recognizable link in your .afpub besides this mentioned text "Hyperlink" only.

You were the one to point out the hyperlink in the style definition. After you pointed out the hyperlink bit, I have investigated a bit. On the test publication, if you right click on the first test text box you will notice that there is indeed a link defined.

If you click on "Edit Hyperlink ..." you get:

But it does not seem that the link is actually created if you export it to a PDF.

So, all in all it is a mistery.

Thanks for your help again.

 

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Old Bruce,

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Good to see someone getting a problem solved and reporting back how they solved the problem.

Hey, it's the least I can do ...

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Except it's not just the Heading style, it's all the paragraph styles. If you do the same action on any paragraph in the top text frame in the file, you get the same results.

 I have the same experience. I have replaced all the Next styles to [Same style] and the problem persists.

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So I wonder what makes the "Hyperlink" appear which is currently mentioned as property of "Base 1"?
@momsoft, were hyperlinks used in this .afpub or its objects, either as link or style at any earlier stage?

I had not noticed it, but it seems to be the cause of the problem!

I don't remember having used hyperlinks on the original publication, at least consciously. And I surely didn't in the test document. It seems that somehow a link to Page 4 of the publication (???) became part of the definition of the "body" style (renamed to "body 1" on the test document when I copied the text from the original publication).

So, in the new test, I have done three things:

• Added a real link to create the "hyperlink" style. This did not solve the problem.
• Redefined all the styles that were based on "body 1" to be based on "base 1". This caused the problem to disappear on all of them, thus proving that the culprit was the "body 1" style.
• Created a new style from scratch, "new body", and recreated the text box used for testing to use "new body" instead of "body 1". The problem is fixed!

The only problem I have now is that the original publication has a lot of local formatting, so replacing the styles is going to take a while ...

I also attach the new test publication, if you are curious to investigate the issue.

Strange behaviour v2.afpub

Thank you all for your help. It is much appreciated!

 

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Yeah. I agree. Hopefully they will look at it sometime ... 

[Publisher. Text overriden by the style on the following paragraph]

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I can't recreate it, but seems pretty bug-like.

Have you tried the " Strange behaviour.afpub" publication I uploaded yesterday? I have tried opening it on a different computer, on the current version and the latest beta and I always get the same result.

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Prophet,

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When you place your cursor at the end of the line, does it change the selected style in the Text Styles panel?

No. It does not.

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Yes, it looks like a bug, but in this case it is a different one because it also happens if you start with a new text frame from scratch, even in a completely new publication.

I have tried to remove all the styles and recreate them but the problem reappear.

It is very odd.

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Strange behaviour.afpub

I have been able to replicate the problem in a new publication by copying the styles so the problem can be seen opening the attached file and entering any text at the end of the line before the heading style.

This also means that the problem is most probably due to some setting in one of the styles used on the publication.

Thanks in advance,

Manuel

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Hi Walt,

Good guess, but no. They are all different paragraphs.

Thanks for the idea!

[Publisher. Text overriden by the style on the following paragraph]

I have a publication that exhibits a rather strange behaviour.

I have two paragraphs with the body style followed by a Heading paragraph. All paragraphs have a style paragraph applied, with no format overrides.

 

If I continue typing at the end of the first paragraph, the style is maintained because it is followed by a paragraph with the same style. But if I type something at the end of the second, the style is overridden with the style of the following paragraph and I have to keep resetting the formatting.

 

I suppose I have done something in this particular publication, but I have no idea what it might be and it does not happen on other publications, just in this particular one.

I am using Publisher v1.8.5.703

Thank you very much in advance,

Manuel

 

 

[How to export "facing pages" from Publisher to "single pages" for Amazon/KDP paperback PDF?]

Walt,

Thank you very much. Yes, it is a tricky question.

[Generate raster PDF]

Is it possible to generate a raster PDF with Affinity Publisher?

What I mean by raster PDF is a PDF in which each page is rendered to an image (preferably PNG), so that the PDF can not be easily edited.

Thank you very much in advance!

[How to export "facing pages" from Publisher to "single pages" for Amazon/KDP paperback PDF?]

Hi Walt,

I had not noticed the "All Pages" option, so that is a great trick.

I see that you unselected "include bleed" on your screenshot. It makes sense because, of course, AP can not generate the bleeds for the inside sides of the pages when composing the single-page PDF, since there are no bleeds on the inside sides of a facing-page document. I have tried and it takes the edge of the opposite page, which can be a problem if there is any element touching the inside edges of any page.

I usually want to have digital (with no bleed) and print (with bleed) versions of my documents. Also, it is so much more convenient to work on facing-page mode when you want to have different left and right page layouts. Using your trick, I can easily generate the digital version, but the print version will not be correct.

The alternative would be to include the bleed dimension on the document size so that the print version could be generated by unchecking the "include bleed" option. But then, how would I remove the "fake bleeds" to get the digital version?

I believe that what I want will not possible until AP adds the option to include inside bleeds on facing-page documents. Am I correct or is there a workaround I am not seeing?

Thank you very much!

[Crash when editing table of contents style]

Ok. Done

Thank you

[Crash when editing table of contents style]

Sure!

How do I do that? The document is private yet.

Also, even though all the images are linked and I have deleted all text to make the file smaller, it still weights 50 Mb.

Regards,

Manuel

[Crash when editing table of contents style]

Hi Chris,

I get the error on the two documents I am working with currently, but one of them started as a copy of the other.

I have just created a new document from scratch and it is not happening, so there must be something with these two documents.

Regards,

Manuel

[Crash when editing table of contents style]

AP v1.7.0.139

I have not found this error reported.

If I select an item on a table of contents and double click on the table of contents style on the Text Styles panel, the application crashes. Same thing happens if I select Edit "style name" from the Text Styles panel context menu.